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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1921
Page
3
The piece argues by authority that within ten years Methodist Episcopal church might grant women full ministerial rights and ordination. It notes historical limits, cites Susan B. Anthony's era, and predicts women will lead in religious and public roles as male clergy decline and doors open to female leadership.
Fearful reports on radium supply warn it may not meet demand as the rare element fetches high prices per ton of pitchblende ore. The piece notes scarce production and contrasts a millionaire’s golf tale with a five dollar suit find, then shifts to Ireland’s violence, fearing the era 1920 21 had too much killing and too little kindness.
A health column begins with experiments by Dutch physician van Rijnberk on animal pain responses during surgery and feeding. It includes anecdotes about horses dogs and rabbits, and explores whether pain is felt or reflexive. A reader asks about lymphatic glands, asthma, and psoriasis with standard medical replies. The piece shifts to a humorous chicken ranch discussion about vast numbers of chickens and a couple imagining a world three feet deep in poultry.
Fragmentary verse fragment describes travelers toward a Promised Land with trains and airships, referencing a deacon and a warning about receivers. The text feels like ritual or sermon cadence, with repeated refrain and incongruous quotes.
Imogene urges leaving city life for country bungalow life and a poultry business. Andrew dismisses it as impractical on paper, declaring he will not cause mass harm. He calculates starting with 25 hens to yield about 200 eggs annually per hen and projects large yearly gains.
In this Q and A, experts discuss cicada singing as a warm weather sign, fish thawing in spring from winter ice, and methods to deter pigeons and hawks. They explain hare and rabbit digestion, reptile freezing responses, and why a fish hawk splash precedes its strike to catch prey, noting temporary torpor versus death in cold.
Tall Binkley, a longtime insurance agent, announces the opening of his office for the cyclone season next Monday while renovations continue. The remark reflects practical doubts about large investments like a sawmill when money is tight.
The Waterloo woolen mills and several friends planned a strawberry shortcake gathering. Gas works discussed by Messrs Swift Co with plans to build in nearby towns. The Reporter enlarged and celebrated prosperity. A strawberry festival netted $160 at Totor hall. Italian wheat headed early and Jacob Reichard won the west high building contract for $20,000. A young man, Judson Bowers, died after singing a hymn. Heat records reached 102 degrees. remarks on the oppressive summer and related conditions appear.
Forties era items note lightning killed cows on Stephen Carrigg farm in Bennington, Beck and Nauman delivering lumber for Joseph Schenck's barn, and H B Fowke filing a deed for Barclay township property at about 190 per acre. Reports from Oak Ridge describe wolf depredations near W H Brett, W W Fisher, and Sam uel Coombs with several pigs and a hen taken. a wolf hunt is urged. Also mentions Home Insurance leaders and Philip Best beer offered by F Simonson.
An espionage style serial chapter unfolds with Jack Robinson transforming into Henry Cassels at Harmon Evers to attend the Friends of Freedom meeting. Comrade Berg captivates with a speech on purification, while Comrade Wilde observes and plans. Local figures such as J.McLain and others donate strawberries as Grand Lodge and Mutual Protective association events pass in Davenport and Iowa.
A reader reviews an unusual moving picture in which a likable lumberman loves a country girl then loses her to a city chauffeur. He saves her from rapids, but she chooses the city man. the lumberman contemplates despair as captions note his inner struggle and broader questions of love and war.
A scene along a city park bridle path sets a mystery motif as Miss De Peynter strolls past. The narrative follows anarchist circles in Orchard Street’s hidden basement, Barbarossa’s fiery rhetoric, and Jack’s wary observations amid a disorderly gathering that ends with plans for supper and a looming danger.
Miss Daisy Hileman Lang and Dr Homer H Seerley spoke to La Parte City high school graduates on Saturday marking twenty years since the class of 1901. A lightning strike at Littleton injured eight pupils, one fatally, near the brickyards three miles west. Julia Alice Stead, three, was killed by a wagon at the same time. East high graduates at Chautauqua park included Roger Smith and Aura Bentz among others. Zion City founder Dowie proclaimed as Elijah at a Chicago meeting.
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