Road Types Compared In Midwest Travel Essay
The piece compares hard surfaced roads of brick or concrete with eight to twenty two foot wide sections and macadam middle strips. It describes varying widths across Indiana Ohio Pennsylvania and Maryland and notes cost differences and passing safety on lighter traffic routes versus busy highways. It also discusses tipping in hotels and restaurants, including legal views in Minnesota and New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Towa
Chicago
Danville
Iroquois County
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Water the universal solvent for health and life
Health Talks by Dr Joan R Kuber extols water's vital role for skin, digestion, and body function. The column weaves in folklore, scripture, and practical notes on hydration, with anecdotes on injuries and a playful aside on crime and politics, ending with a quip about golf ball mishaps.
Tipping Nuisance Persists In Service Industry
A reader notes the ongoing tipping nuisance as sporadic and uncoordinated. The article discusses hopes for reform by separating tips from service payments and cites recent legal actions where employers reclaim tips from staff, including a Chicago hotel case involving a tipped employee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Afterthoughts and Proverbial Musings on War and Life
A collection of wry aphorisms and reflections on diplomacy, luck, sport, and society. It blends proverbs with historical allusions, noting Europe’s postwar framing, the Dempsey-Carpenter bout, and the role of superstition and satire in public life.
Stray Ford Held by Ti ford Moots
A stray Ford is being held by Ti ford Moots amid local concerns of rising utilities taxes and economic shifts. The note mentions a closed sawmill and lingering soda water prices as residents seek stability and clarity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tiford Moots
Prime Feeling: Whistle Through Despair and Trouble
A fragmentary verse urges resilience and cheer amid hardship. It features refrains about whistling, facing cyclic despair, and rising after falls, with phrases about a world that doesn’t love the growler and imagery of hills, valleys, and holidays.
Nature Notes Q and A from the club column
The page invites readers to submit questions to the Nature Notes Dept with answers promised in the next issue. It lists three sample questions about skunks, minnows in ephemeral pools, and bob-white lifespan, and provides earlier responses on snow melt around trees, fish growth in captivity, and the dove pigeon relationship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nature Notes
Daylight Saving Solution Proposed Across States
Iowa editors discuss solutions to daylight saving problems with proposals from Des Moines Capital and Spencer News-Herald. Suggestions include aligning clocks with England or advancing clocks by a week and Knox resolutions addressing tight money and war debt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
England
Cleveland Plain Dealer
America
Spencer News-Herald
Congress
Knox
Jold
Adil
Mighty things from small beginnings grow
A reflection on origin and growth noting the phrase mighty things from small beginnings. It contrasts how beginnings shape history and a person’s fate as they commit goods and souls to makers, while editors correct errors by striking out faulty text.
Brain Tests by Sam Loud Puzzle
A brain teaser asks what fruit the cracked wires symbolize from a rebus perspective. It notes yesterday’s answer and gives a conversion: decimal 3492 converted to octal is 2724.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Loud
Fragmentary Bold Exclamations Hit Odd Tone
A chaotic string of capitalized phrases suggests dramatic dialogue about distress and memory. The garbled OCR reads like a quarrelsome exchange with emphasis on emotions and a confession of forgetting.
The Substitute Millionaire unfolds its shadowy plot
Jack Norman inherits eighty million from Silas Gyde, killed by a criminal mastermind. Disguised as secretary to actor Bobo, Norman navigates Miriam Cleaver and Mrs. Jeaver in a web of blackmail, romance, and betrayal as plans unfold aboard the Madagascar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Norman
Silas Gyde
Gyde
Jdack
Bobo
Norman
Miriam Cleaver
Admitted to the Bar Charles W Mullan Sets Up With Miller
Fifty years ago on June 1 1871 Charles W Mullan passed a bar examination before a three member committee and was admitted to the bar. A large group of friends joined a fine dinner at Central house and celebrated with H D Williams hospitality. Mullan begins practice with O C Miller merchant of Waterloo. Mrs Scrogy is in critical condition with a one in twenty chance of recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack
Bobo
Madagascar
Fou
Tye
the Bienvenu
Miriam
Jon
Jay
Mrs. Regan
Charles W. Mullan
George Ordway
Lewis Liehty
C. Miller
Charles
H. D. Williams
Mullan
O. C. Miller
Merchant of Waterloo
Scroggy
J. J. Cooley
G. R. Crittenden
Stree
Champlions
Yale
Waterloo
Champlin
George P. Beck, Jr
Jobn Beck
F. M. Traphagen
Second
Builders Busy As Spring Brings Substantial Activity
Forty years ace reports heavy building in June 1891 with carpenters busy in commercial and residential sectors. Obituary notes Maria M Fletcher age 72, mother of Mrs Kingsley and Mrs Kirkwood, died after 14 years invalidism. Wall paper sale at Wangier Bros offers rolls from 26 to 70 cents. Young Dr Schrack described as veteran? No, Dr J S Schrack veterinarian. Accidental pistol incident injures W H Whitney’s son in Jesup. County attorney W H McClure delivers Memorial Day address at Cedar Falls. Henry Snyder, a commercial traveler, hires on as bookkeeper and timekeeper for Sutliff Bros Cedar Rapids glucose works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maria M. Fletcher
R. M. Kingsley
J. Kirkwood
Waterton News Highlights Two-Score-Old Local Highlights
Twenty years ago on June 1 1901 Miss Bertha Ohier won the Daily Courier coupon voting as the town's most popular teacher and Miss Mary Hart followed closely. The paper covers property sales at Second and South streets and notes a Memorial Day program with Rev J Merlinjones delivering the address and local decorations committees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertha Ohier
Daily Courier
Waterton
Mary Hart
Courier
Ohier
Marriage Lessons in Vaudeville Gossip
A fragment shows a tense conversation where a man contemplates locking up hot blooded youth as a remedy, while another character plans to supervise a youth named Bobo and warns of a potential assault. The tone hints at personal conflict and streetwise caution in a vaudeville era setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack
Jon
Youl
Bobo
Mean Thing and Wealth in US Society Reflected in Notices
Sioux City Journal notes rising per capita wealth from 1914 to a new total, citing overall national riches as a main fact while acknowledging unequal distribution. A Chicago YWCA dean advises students on discreet social behavior, contrasting attitudes with typical expectations of suitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City Journal
United States
Also Mentioned on This Page
W. MH. Hartman CO
Petal
John C. Martman
AW. Peterson
Treas
Gen'l Mar
Memper
Associated Press
Audit Bureau of Feusations
Geo
Washington
D. C
Buereuil
Muneer Eis
Dougherty
New York
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Storr, Brooks & Fisley, Rer’s
Minnesota
Alboit
Joan R. Kuber
AM. MD
Greece
Rome
Huber
Health Talka
Ossining
Ortner
Black Hawk County
Lenine-Trotzky
Trotzky
Zinoviefi
Lenine
Mexico
Biris
Hardermine
Gen. Gibson
Africa
Sultan Mkwawa
John Barleycorn
Thomas A. Edison
Jack Johnson
Frank L. Stanton
Gles Club
SANT
Nature
Iowa
Tataya
Bruce
In the Courier
W. L. Allee
Israel Serogey
Cedar Township
J. G. Wolf
Dry Goods
Wangier Bros
Arthur
J. S. Schrack
W. TI. Whitney
Jesup
Ceda Cel
W. H. McClure
Falls
J. Merlinjones
Christ Episcopal Church
Fairview
A. R. Tillinghast
Anna Weare
Julia Schram
Mary Garrabrant
Mary White
L. 3. Parsons
Nellie Stilson
Elmwood
A. A. Tanner
Minznna White
Anna Kistner
A. Dunham
Ida Burkitt
Elvaabeth Williams
Mary J. Miller
J. E. Johnson
Mary McCormick
Emma Anders
Ella Stokes
Maggie Althouse
Mark Cooney
Maud O'Keefe
J. F. Densmore
Mary Cooper
A. Wood & Sons
Waterloo Ice & Fuel Co
N. Feterspiel
C. P. Feddersen
T. A. Gadbois
J. P. Kieffer
William Kurth
Order of Foresters
St. Mary's Catholic Church
H. J. Hemesathig
Chicago Y. W. CG. A
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!