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Newspaper

Waterloo Evening Courier

Location

Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jun 09, 1913

Page

2

Waterloo Evening Courier Public Notice Summary

The Waterloo Evening Courier details its publication schedule and pricing, noting daily except Sunday issues, carrier delivery, and ad rates. It lists staff roles and office addresses, with distribution notes and advertising terms. It also outlines foreign travel information points for American travelers to Europe and agent locations.

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Waterloo Dry Talks and Promotes Civic Loyalty

The Courier urges Waterloo business leaders to support the city through the dry period after saloon closures. It cautions against pessimism, calls for unity, and argues education should be universal, not just for the intellectually elite. The piece reflects on economic optimism despite drought fears.

Waterloo Drouth Mqnor William 2. Wilson Jabor Force America Trent Tance Wiebh Tata Tyne

Iowa Drag Day promotes flagging rural roads

The article argues for a statewide drag day to improve dirt highways in Iowa. Farmers should decorate tractors with flags and haul to markets to showcase democracy and vocational education. Success depends on dry road conditions and future hard surfaced roads, with Waterloo cited as practice.

Towa State Highway Commission Iowa Nnearest Waterloo Rondition

Reformers propose earlier inauguration for President Congress

The article reports Senator Shafroth of Colorado backing a constitutional amendment to start presidential terms on the second Monday in January and require electors to vote in December. It argues current delays cause misrepresentation, with Congress often passing most laws in the second session and delays harming the will of voters.

Congress Shafroth Colorado United States

Charities Seek Funds Amid Sparse Local Support

The Associated Charities appeal for donations as local giving remains tight. Recurrent fundraising efforts highlight the community’s uneven support and the group’s ongoing need for funds to sustain services.

Free Sugar and Wool Echoes in Odd Iowa News

A jumble of clipped phrases from Ottumwa Courier and Cedar Rapids Gazette quotes a boy favoring free sugar, and notes Colonel James Hamilton Lewis being elected Democratic whip amid historic firsts, with fragmented references to sugar, wool, and political roles.

Ottumwa Cedar Tapids Janes Haitton Lewis James Hamilton Lewis

Ponderous Personages ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Alexander Hamilton, born in the West Indies, rises from boyhood modesty to a leading figure in early America. The article traces his education at King's College, revolutionary service, Treasury leadership, and role in shaping presidents, ending with his death at 47 after a duel with Aaron Burr.

Alexander Hamilton Hamilton Hamwilton New York Hngland King's College Columbia University Republic Continental Congress Treasury Washington Adams Jefferson Burr Congress Weehawken

Public officials and lobbyists urged to act openly

Des Moines Tribune praises the highway commission for broad duties and enforcing laws despite pushback to county supervisors. The Daly Freeman Tribune backs Unyon's lobbyist registration as proper public conduct, insisting openness for all public matters. Davenport Times downplays market jitters and asserts the economy and crops remain strong despite Wall Street fluctuations.

Des Moines Tribune State Highway Commission Daly Freeman-Tribune Unyon Davenport New York Wall Street

Obstructions in Streams Worsened River Disaster

In the hardest hit areas the disaster worsened due to local bridge conditions. Bridges with masonry abutments and midstream piers narrowed channels and blocked floodwater, with many structures having low arches too small to permit water flow.

The Floods Lessons from Ohio Experiences

An excerpt cites moderate rain causing rising rivers as debris jams form at undersized bridges. Encroachments by public bodies railroads farms and industries worsen damage. authorities failed to curb or prevent the encroachments framing a warning on flood risk and policy.

Ohio Theodore E. Burton American Review of Reviews

Prohi Fight Expected To Dominate Iowa Next Year

The Vinton Eagle reports that the fierce prohibition battle, once forecast, will unfold next year with Waterloo already dry and Cedar Rapids next. Des Moines will follow, and smaller towns are already dry, with a strong reserve poised to push the statewide drive.

Vinton Eagle Waterloo Cedar Rapids Des Moines

Local Waterloo Reaction to Simple Buckthorn Remedy

Waterloo residents are surprised by fast results from Aflerika a German remedy sold by Wangler Bros druggists at 29 E Fourth St. The product mixes buckthorn bark glycerine and other ingredients to draw out foul matter and claim instant relief from sour stomach gas and constipation.

Wangler Bros Fourth Street

Prohibition Reform Gains Momentum in Iowa Cities

Dr. Lockwood leads Cedar Rapids ministers in urging open public battle over state prohibition amendment. Reaction to the amendment and the mulct law has faded, as reformers gain broad support among prominent Democrats. Observers expect upcoming events to intensify nonpartisan pressure.

Lockwood Cedar Rapida

Easy Slippers and Witty Fragments Across City Columns

A collage of light humor items and brief anecdotes from various papers. A girl jokes about early payments as a taxi outside. a stage manager quips about act improvement. light pieces feature songs and quips from Chicago and Brooklyn papers. A Scottish farmer declines funeral civilities, and a kindly gentleman consoles a sobbing child missing a nickel.

Brooklyn

Little Girl Calls Out Thief Over Nickel Item

A Milwaukee Sentinel tale recounts an old man giving a five cent piece to a grieving child, who then accuses him of hoarding the nickel herself. The child’s bitter contempt and stamping foot reveal the moment of moral rebuke in a brief urban vignette.

Mis Waukee Sentinel

Indictment of United Mine Workers Officials

In Charleston West Virginia on June 9 the federal court indicted United Mine Workers of America president John P White and eighteen officers for conspiring with coal operators in western states to fix wages and curb competition in West Virginia coal fields. The indictment names White and vice president Frank J Hayes among the accused.

Charleston W. Va John P. White United Mine Workers of America Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana Illinois West Virginia Frank J. Hayes

United Mine Workers Leaders and a Rheumatism Ad

A list of United Mine Workers of America officials from district No. 17 appears, naming Thomas Haggerty and others as organizers with Thomas Cairns as president and James Crago as secretary. The page also includes a public health ad urging readers to try Chamberlain's Liniment, twenty five cents a bottle, to ease rheumatic pains.

Thomas Haggerty Joseph Vasey James Cantrell Charles Hatley Marco Roman George Edmonds Benjamin F. Morris United Mine Workers of America Thomas Cairns Clarence C. Griffith James M. Crago James Diana John Nutter Rome Mitchell Chamberlain's

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