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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1925
Page
3
The Waterloo Evening Courier discusses Defense Day observance amid a pivot between preparedness and pacifism. It argues preparedness protects peace, warns against excessive militarism, and urges prudent evaluation of defense forces. It also critiques American subtlety in public taste, noting a gap between apparent humor and nuanced meaning, with broader remarks on literature and reader letters.
A discussion notes Newton’s action reaction principle and traces a cultural shift. Critics once scorned arts figures and media, now praise emerges for Irving Berlin Ring Lardner and the Saturday Evening Post as signs of changing taste. The piece links social reaction to broader trends in realism and democracy.
Editors note broad approval from the Federation of Iowa Women’s clubs and the United States Chamber of Commerce for joining the world court, with Senator Borah and several others seen as key votes still to come. Amid weathered trade routes and frontier spirit, Amundsen’s bold future gaze inspires, while oats and grain price conspiracies of last summer resurface in the Webster City item.
A reflective comment on the many responsibilities people bear in life and work, urging relief when one can focus on something beyond personal business. The speaker hints at an encounter with an agent linked to a sequence of Wilkie Callingest as Ewe and mentions France Tay in a casual, misspelled dialect.
In a comic rural vignette Imogene and Andrew recount a chaotic scene where Marie’s car malfunctions on a hill near a crossing as a train bears down. The characters quip that a red flannel Petticoat could save the day, drawing a playful moral about past heroism and women’s attire.
A reader asks how a fourperson family can survive on seven dollars a week for food with two young boys and parents aged 30 and 24. The column argues milk is essential for children up to age 12, suggests affordable staples like soup bones, vegetables, peanuts, cheese, margarine, tomatoes, molasses, and wheat as economical nutrition, and stresses using cooking water to extract nutrients.
The day notes a wage strike at the Illinois Central machine shop amid rising tensions. Rain floods the area while city road taxes await collection. A dilapidated circus draws poor attendance and a police report blames a disreputable gang. Local church renovations close Jefferson Street M E Church for two weeks. Fishers using a seine in Black Hawk creek face calls for arrest. Local ads promote a new buggy and new Black Hawk County Sunday School officers are named. A Cedar township child dies of scarlet fever. Misc notes include a mall slogan and muskrat facts noting fur value and taxonomy.
Nipper and Skipper, two of Uncle Wiggily's rabbit-boys, hear a buzzing sound by the brook. Memorial day parades, drownings, baptisms, and local happenings fill a busy town page with weather, floods, and fire company notes.
A nature notes column invites readers to submit questions on nature topics. It mentions pine timber durability camera use in studies and asks why the red corn snake is called the corn snake. It discusses misquash versus kick lex and Cree Indian usage.
Mischievous rabbit boys Skipper and Nipper plot to place a wet June Bug with Uncle Wiggily. The bug flies nowhere, but Uncle Wiggily enlists the June Bug to cool the boys with a fan like a breeze. The tale ends with the boys drifting to sleep under a gentle June Bug wind.
Purporting to purify the blood and revitalize a run-down body Tanlac is advertised as a tonic made from roots barks and herbs. The ad claims relief from nervousness indigestion rheumatism torpid liver and chronic pain with improvements seen from the first bottle and a quick return to strength after two or three bottles.
A patient recalls opposition to patent medicines until urged by a friend and physician father to try Marrs Wonderful Remedy. The simple preparation allegedly removes mucus and inflammatory causes in stomach liver and intestines with one dose persuasive enough for money back guarantee. Available at druggists.
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