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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1922
Page
3
A city paper discusses the coal and railroad strikes with background on the 1919 20 settlement and the checkoff system. It also reports a Los Angeles murder case where a wife kills an alleged home intruder invoking the unwritten law and notes public policy concerns.
A satirical column critiques uses of the phrase Lord's will in moral scandals such as a preacher's elopement with a 13-year-old music teacher, and mocks self serving motives behind such claims. It also comments on a War Secretary Denby plane incident, a child’s fall, and Ku Klux Klan bravado, ending with a note on Chinese summer customs.
Dr. William Brady argues that true skin tone comes from blood flow and fat beneath the skin, not liver stimulants or iron pills. He dismisses popular tonics, urges sun and air, and advises simple soap and water plus modest rouge, with iron rarely helping. readers are invited to send questions for brief replies.
Andrew returns from a lodge trip with Imogene puzzled by a note in his pajamas while she teases him about poker and rest. He admits hearing a quail whistle and enjoying the salt air as they clash over who left the note and when. The domestic scene ends with Imogene accusing him of fibbing about the trip.
Wabash City Freeman Journal argues Brookhart is more radical than ideal yet praises him and Pinchot as less dangerous than conservative leaders like Lodge Hale Moses Frelinghuysen Fall Weeks and other reactionaries restraining the Republican party and risking defeat if not repudiated.
Nature notes invite questions on ecology and wildlife. Answers discuss whether eels have jaws, what a swift actually is, ostrich fright responses, fox snake odor glands, and seasonal coat changes in jackrabbits versus snowshoe rabbits under snowy conditions.
Fifty years ago on July 25 1872 items note Cedar Falls woolen mill repairs a Grant and Wilson club formed in La Porte City calls for less postage on money orders under ten dollars and reports on rye trade harvest labor demand and local trades including attorneys card sales of ice and dressmaking services.
Forty years ago on July 26 1882 Al Blough and Mary Fike of Oranges township wed a week earlier. Willie Halfon’s body was found four miles NW of Vinton after drowning in the Cedar River at Gilbertville on June 27. Instructors for the Teachers’ Normal Institute include Bartlett Rice Robertson and Hamlin with a lecturing course planned. Three diphtheria cases in J L Beale’s family in Black Hawk township. Eugene YP Sinclair and Sylvia A Crowell wed July 20 by Rev J J Austin. Smallpox case in Daniel Parsons family with eight cases total, no other illnesses reported. Waterloo brewery to become an alcohol factory employing 25 workers. J Thunnissen sells ice houses as he leaves the business. Gur Smith age 12 found guilty of first degree murder in St Louis. to be hanged. A Thomas Cascaden son injured after being thrown from a horse. brief shock.
The Courier prints photos of the Dry Run flood on July 23 with horses and buggy in two feet of water at Fifth and Commercial. Water rose to a record about 11 inches higher than July 3. Ada Carson nearly drowned after a capsized boat. George Carson and Myrtle Berry wed. Floyd Call dies at seven months. coal price rises. attorney Williams ill. Hukili returns from Waverly teaching institute.
Clement Seadon plots to find the gluemaker’s in the Sault Algonquin district of Quebec. He spots Siwash Mike, a known informer, spying near the rear yard beneath Hotel-Dieu and brushes with a dangerous gang led by Mr Neuburg while tracking a possible plot against Heloise Keys.
Eighteen squares of different sizes light up this electric sign with four turner lights. The puzzle asks for the least number of lights to extinguish so that a perfect square remains visible.
Abe Martin sketches a late night theft where a slim intruder used a fire escape to enter the fourth floor of the Safe Bud residence while Mrs. Bud tuned in. The robber’s calm climb and two crucial discoveries about the gluemaker’s back entry and a return by Smash Mike set stage for ongoing pursuit and speculation about Neu burg’s assessment. The column ends with a meditation on the reliance on petroleum products for life’s needs.
A poemical reflection contrasts daily toil with a call from home to endure hardship and seek shelter through struggle. It ties labor to faith and endurance, then shifts to a bold assertion that one may claim a royal right to share in the Promised Land and greet all at home.
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