Congress Review Reflects Turbulent Session
The piece surveys a congress with a narrow Republican majority and a tangle of radicals and cross-party blocs. It notes passage of key bills including tax cuts and immigration shifts, major investigations into scandals, and ongoing debates over farm policy and funding. It concludes the session showed inefficiency yet delivered essential appropriations and avoided sweeping harmful legislation.
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Alboit
Congress
Altho
Lodge
Longworth
Daugherty
Rasheer
Althether
Ture
Spanier
Pittman
Immigration and Japan Tension Narrowly Avoided War Threats
In measured tone the piece argues against war with Japan over immigration policy. It cites Japanese demonstrations as retaliation and warns that a stiff policy could provoke further conflict while urging the U.S. to stand firm. It also notes Republican support for joining the world court as a peace step despite obstruction.
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Leo
Japan
Hoycott
Kato
America
Philippines
Army
Pacific
Repubblicag Party
Temperature Talk and Home Health Cautions
A reader questions home temperature monitoring and its medical value while Dr Brady explains body heat regulation, differences between warm blooded and cold blooded animals, and the small expected daily variation. He warns against self use of thermometers and notes practical advice for baby travel and varicose vein exercises.
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Simmer
Dangerous Crossing Warns Motorists Across Iowa
Iowa editors warn that dangerous rail crossings endanger motorists. A Dawn, Illinois crossing disaster killed six of an entire family after a stalled car blocked the track. Drivers are urged to take early precautions beyond stopping and listening, including engine management and careful use of safety devices.
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Sioux City Journal
Ely
Brain Tests by Sam Loyn
Puzzle teaser claiming four minutes to answer and an encoded riddle. Nonsense phrases mix with household, plant, and condiment clues. Ends with garbled output and a prompt to join in yesterday's answer.
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Sam Loyn
Emancipation of women boosts downtown eateries
Abe Martin notes that four or five downtown restaurants now thrive where only one existed before and observes that overconfidence in our own judgment is a common error.
FRIEND WIFE By ROE FULKERSON
Imogene and Andrew dispute house projects as she orders him to skip social plans. He agrees to help with indoor and yard work and asks to reserve a small garden plot for his own quiet retreat with pansies watermelons and scented flowers.
Second Honeymoons on Watermelons in the Yard
In a playful domestic exchange, Imogene and Andrew discuss growing watermelons in their yard. Andrew insists on planting a single hill to relive boyhood joy, while Imogene laments space limits and neighbors eyes as they joke about neighbor children stealing the fruit. The scene blends whimsy with garden longing.
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Imogene
Amirew
Imaene
Andrew
The Sandman Story: Mr Fox at Madam Goose Farm
Mr Fox, attempting social calls this winter, visits Madam Goose and is invited inside. He slips into the cellar after she suggests it, causing a racket that wakes the Boslings, who cry for their mother amid the farm night.
Fifty Years Ago Highlights From The Courier
Fifty years ago in The Courier, June 11, 1874, Independence residents recall W. W. Cole’s drug and menagerie receipts aiding fire victims, local youths, and early 1874 building booms. A severe storm wrecked the Eagle township Catholic church and a Leeper farm barn. other damage touched Wasson home, train dispatchers, and Cedar Falls notes.
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Independence
Hel v
Sole
Hastier
Eagle Township
J. W. Leeper
Waterloo
ID. J. Wasson
Hudson
Waterloo News Roundup From June 11 1884
A petition by W Wallace and others asks city council to remove cottonwood trees along sidewalks. Waterloo drum corps of 151 men performed at Memorial Day in Waverly. Invitations issued for the Irving House opening reception June 17. GOP nominees at Chicago convention Blaine and Logan. McKinley chaired resolutions. Friday crowd on Bridge Street cheered nominations with bonfires and bands. Waterlo o fire department sent 106 members to Des Moines for state tournament. Diagonal road tracks into Cedar Falls last Thursday. fast train run. Graduation exercises planned for Waterloo west in the opera house featuring Lizzie Gough nour, William Hess, Charles E Pickett, Clara Leavitt. Beat Em All Barbed Wire factory to move from Manchester to Waterloo.
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W. Wallace
Irving
Waterloo
Ens
Chicago
James G. Blaine
Maine
John A. Logan
Illinois
William McKinley
Ohio
D. W. Crouse
C. C. Miller
Waterloo West
Opera House
Lizzie Goughnour
William Hess
Charles E. Pickett
Clara ‘Leavitt
Manchester
Twenty Years Ago in Waterloo Area News
A 1904 Waterloo chronology notes Absalom H. Brown's 1904 death in Spring Creek township, the United Commercial Travelers convention in Waterloo, and local misfortunes including family illnesses and a child's serious accident. Crowds attended Ella Condon’s funeral at St Joseph's Church as Wallace's circus drew big crowds. local social notes mention Grace Butt’s return from Vinton and Bertha Flickinger Smith visiting family. The tale ends with a farm anecdote featuring Madam Goosa and Mr Fox, moving her brood to safety.
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Grace Butt
Vinton
Bertha Flickinger Smith
Partidow
Joseph Smith
H. E. Burt
Goose and Fox Trap in Stormy Night Tale
A family goose confronts Mr. Fox hiding in the cellar after a winter night scare. Madam Goose peers into a hole and finds the fox trapped by a sturdy board as the mother tries to keep children safe. The fox plots escape with a cousin dog watching, while the geese plan to force him out.
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Mr. Dog
Manipa
Madam Goosa
Mr. Fox
Madam
Man
Dor
Burroughs Nature Club Notes Answers Questions
Burroughs Nature Club Notes answers readers questions on bats, prairie chickens, puffball mushrooms and edible fungi. The column cites Microchiroptera versus Megachiroptera bats, prairie roosting behavior, and quotes Farmers' Bulletin 796 advising puffballs be eaten when young and white. U.S. Department of Agriculture leaflet details cooking styles and study tips.
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Megachiroptera
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