Third party needs amalgamation for poised political shift
A Newark Paris column discusses the potential rise of a third party in national politics. It argues farmers and laborers seek economic reform, with discontent fueling calls for price fixing and broader shares of wealth, while unions shape labor influence and public sentiment. It notes Wilder Ford La Follette and Harding as models, and stresses unity and conciliation. It ends defending the American Legion against libel as treason to national honor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Farm Bureau Federation
Waher
Irving
Ford
Minnesota Federation of Labor
Farmer-Labor Party
Wisconsin Federation of Labor
Wisconsin Labor
Socialist Party
la Follette
Republican Party
Chicago
Farmer Labor Convention
Federated Farmer Labor
Roosevelt
Harding
Lorenz
American Legion $E
Legion
America
Iti
Libel Case Sees Six Months Jail For Editor Lorenz
Arthur Lorenz former editor of the Illinois Staats Zeitung was sentenced to six months in jail and a $1 fine plus costs for a German language 1921 editorial calling the American Legion a bunch of bums vagabonds and tramps. A legion member brought criminal libel action resulting in the sentence and minor fine, with potential harsher penalties mitigated by the legion's intervention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion
Arthur Lorenz
Illinois Staats- Zeitung
The
Legion
Nevers
Inventor of the skyscraper and its skeleton frame
William Holabird, who died in Evanston, originated the skeleton steel frame that made tall buildings possible. He directed the first such structure in Chicago the Tacoma Building, shaped Chicago’s skyline with Holabird & Roche designs, and inspired the era of 50 plus story towers.
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William Holabird
Evanston
Mr. Holybird
Chicago
Tacoma
Madison and
LaSalle Streets
Holabird & Roche
City Hall
County Hospital
Altho
Holabird
Brandeur
Michigan Avenue
River
Wrigley
London Guaranty
Tribune Tower
Boulevard Bridge
Villa Gets His End in Ambush Justice
The famed Mexican outlaw Pancho Villa, long elusive for the 100000 dollar punitive expedition, is said to have been killed by enemies. The article notes Villa’s violent past and his ambush execution, framing it as retribution for bloodshed and quoting a biblical phrase on justice.
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Villa
Pancho Villa
Texas Gasoline Frenzy and Foreign Follies
A quip filled look at cheap gas evokes Texas travel for 11 cent fuel while recalling a Niagara Falls station charging 46 cents in imperial gallons. The note mocks a home advice pamphlet and quickly shifts to a newly completed statue The Modern Venus showing a provocative kneeling pose.
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Texas
Niagara Falls
Personal Health Service by William Brady
Dr William Brady presents audience health guidance on diet weight targets for age 35 to 60, meat in heat vs cold, and weight loss via walking. The column includes Q and A on sterilizing dental instruments vaccination opinions and pepper use with practical reader letters and Brady’s responses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Brady
Dr. Brady
Poker and fashion clash in a comic domestic scene
In a lively exchange between Imogene and Andrew, poker night sparks a gendered clash as he wins a hefty pot while she claims deeper value in clothes, perfumes, and status symbols. Their banter reveals different worlds of taste, money, and pride within a domestic quarrel that ends with Andrew’s sigh.
Emersons Beaten Path Quotation Echoed In Iowa News
The Des Moines capital reflects on the idea that excellence in any field brings recognition, citing Emerson’s writings about better books, sermons, or trades drawing attention. It notes a 19th century life policy comparison between Webster and Mitten, illustrating rising life insurance costs and risk over time.
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Bes Moines
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Detroit News
Emerson
Emerson “Journal
Webster Insurance
Des Moines Register
Thomas E. Mitten
Philadelphia Traction
Daniel Webster
Mitten
Webster
When a Feller Needs a Friend policy dangers noted
The contract doubled Webster's premium if he visited a city of 60 000 or more or traveled west of the Mississippi due to smallpox and possible Indian attacks. It also raided if Webster died in a duel by justice or by own action. Modern insurers pay face value under these conditions.
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Sundsx
Hartman Coy Courier
Corner Park Ave
Commercial St
John
Hartman
A. W. Peterson
Treas
Carrive
TRH
Waterloo
Iowa
Associated Press
Sere Ee Ie Eee
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Ges
Dougherty
Washington, D. C
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Brory, Brooks & Finley
Rep‘s
Eyvelyn
Webster
Mississippi
The Red Cheeked Apple and the Dusty Street Tale
The red cheeked apple boasts its beauty while a humble yellow pear offers modest appeal on a dusty fruit cart. A arriving lady bypasses the apple, choosing the pear and other fruit, as the horse nearby swallows the apple whole, ending the tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Pear
The Regeneration of Malcolm Starmount
An aristocratic man about town abandons his wild life to help a poverty struck family. He shelters Mary Devlin and her brother Eddie, sparking a complex triangle with Ramon Graves and Laura Lambert as schemes of wealth and social ascent unfold amid peril and fashion.
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Malcolm Starmount
Mary Devlin
Starmount
Mary
Eddies
Ramon Graves
Graves
Nalda Courteney
Nalda
Jenson
Malcolm
Rio
Eddie
Buddy
Tennant
Laurabert
Laura Lambert
Mary Deviln
Italy
Laura
Rene
Crete
Dick Tennant
Devlins
New York
Paris
Nice
Riviera
Potatoes and a Farewell Puzzle at Country Fair
In a potato race at a country fair contestants race along a line of 100 potatoes spaced 10 feet apart to a basket 10 feet behind the first position. A boy calculated the total distance to collect and move each potato, revealing a surprising distance. The puzzle ends with the word FAREWELL.
We Will Decide Where We Will Stay For A While
The dialogue centers on plans to prepare a house for entertaining as the social season begins and guests return from Newport. Malcolm contemplates leaving Mary and Eddie Devlin the home and its contents, sparking tension over lineage and entitlement.
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Malcolm
Newport
Stermount
Mary
Eddie
Eddie Devlin
Parker
Burroughs Nature Club Questions and Answers
A 1924 nature column replies to reader questions on eyelids in turtles, San Jose scale on apple trees, flight of thrushes bluebirds and robins, ladybugs and the nursery rhyme about flying home, snakes as rat catchers, and young birds' down development. The column cites Lutz and describes species such as Zamanis mucosus and Brandt’s cormorant offspring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nature Notes
San Jose
Lutz
Europe
Hetter
Asia
India
Save Waterloo Cemetery Faces Pressure in Waterloo
Letter to the editor urges protection of the Waterloo cemetery amid alleged moves to condemn and repurpose the ground. The writer warns that demolition would erase a memory of soldiers buried there and calls on distant readers to contact Waterloo residents and uphold the cemetery’s lasting significance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo Cemetery
Waterloo
Tia
Courier
Wipterae
Reid
Bere
Pionehr
Lemons for Soothing Skin Beauty Secret Ad
A vintage advertisement touts lemon juice mixed with Orchard White to create a skin softener and complexion beautifier. It claims the lemon cream smooths face neck arms and hands, brightens skin, and fades freckles sunburn and tan while being gentle and non irritating.
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Wateries Evening Courice OO Orientaire
Diamar
Woolworth Building
Voliva
Gamleslan
Ron Fulkerson
Andrew
Billy Sands
Imone
Willy
Mogena
Imogene
Sandman
Mrs. F. A. Walker
Idah McGlone
Gibson
John F. Ditts Co
Sam
Burroughs Nature Club
Houghton Mifflin CO
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