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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1920
Page
2
The Waterloo Evening Courier discusses the Palmer Post deportation controversy. It criticizes Attorney General Palmer and Assistant Secretary Louis Post, arguing lax oversight allowed anarchists and I W W members to be freed. The piece questions appointments, justification, and accountability for government leadership.
County Treasurer W J Burbank proposed a patent like certificate securing seventeen years of exclusive use as a political gambit. The plan stunned Iowa, with no campaign staff or ads yet winning a statewide primary, while supporters praised a simple auto tax local handling idea that found traction.
The passage questions how a superintendent who hired an inefficient and disloyal subordinate would be received by stockholders when presenting an accountability report. It suggests a tense showdown and implies the manager’s own accountability for failures in leadership and oversight.
The piece riffs on William J. Bryan and Republican Chicago convention remarks, contrasts with San Francisco events, notes Lodge's salute to Wilson, and mocks Washington drawn platforms while predicting a bumper fall harvest and ongoing winter relief efforts as coal concerns loom.
A desert king and ill daughter travel with hoopoes who admire the princess crown. The birds wish for golden crowns, aided by a magician. After many days of wear, the hoops return to yellow feather crowns by a clever wish, ending the story with the birds forever crowned.
A brief literary note presents Song of the Summit credited to Frank L. Stantan, indicating a poetry or prose piece attributed to the author with a focus on a mountainous setting or spiritual ascent.
A health column by Dr John R R Huber covers summer ailments, especially infant digestive issues from artificial feeding. It warns on high fever, diarrhea, and dehydration in infants, offers cooling measures, and prescribes a strict, temporary milk abstinence with a barley water diet, plus gradual reintroduction of cow milk. It includes reader questions about stomach washing and a fictional vignette on wealth desires. The Lutheran church membership figures appear as data points at article end.
Iowa editors note W. G. McAdoo appears the leading Democratic presidential nominee despite ties to the current administration. They say he has endured controversy and may have improved since associations with Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford.
Readers are invited to answer questions about bird appearance and behavior in Nature Notes. The column outlines that female birds’ choices reflect sexual selection and that nature balances predation without favoritism. Answers promised in upcoming notes with mail-in requests.
Des Moines editorial praises letter carriers and postal workers for a pay increase, urging pay near deserved living wages. It emphasizes required intelligence and physical tests, and notes the hard weather conditions and limited promotion prospects for a dedicated, long-serving workforce.
Imogene dreams of wealth and luxury while Andrew imagines indulgences. Conversation turns to money, diamonds, and the idea of waking to breakfast in bed as a simple luxury.
A smart bank clerk asks a passerby to supply stamps and banknotes in specific ratios. The fragment outlines a puzzle about determining the denomination of the banknotes based on counts of stamps and denominations. The snippet also references a separate scoring puzzle tied to number 100 via ring counts.
City officials estimate last year’s fires reaching about 24 000 for Greater New York when unreported incidents are included. That equals roughly 2 009 fires a month or one fire every 21 minutes day and night. Most fires start in homes and produce injuries and loss of life. About 100 people die burned each year in the area and many more are seriously injured. Engineering experts attribute most blazes to carelessness and note the nation wastes nearly 1 000 000 dollars in property daily as a drain.
Marie Heisler of Freeport HI writes she suffered a long cough with throat and lung irritation and finds Foley's Honey and Tar most effective while noting it contains no opiates. The ad claims the syrup helps coughs colds croup and whooping cough and that children like it, sold everywhere.
Officials warn that failure to implement an immediate resource shock could trigger severe, cascading consequences across sectors. Experts urge rapid action to stabilize systems and prevent collapse.
Dubin reports completed returns in the county council race indicate Ginn Fein leads more than expected with 626 of 699 seats captured. In Columbus Ohio Harding and other candidates filed for the U S Senate seat two minutes before deadline. In Washington Senator Ashurst of Arizona underwent a minor operation.
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