Courier Waterles Eve Classified Ledger and Rates
Old newspaper masthead and policy boilerplate outline the Courier Waterles Eve publisher W. H. Martess Co. and staff roles, with advertising rates, postage details, and Associated Press attribution. Contains rate cards, subscription options, and printing office notices dating from 1878.
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Courier Waterles
Bute
W. HM. Martess Co
Courier Bidy
Cocnet Park Ate
Keeges Ton
Flood control wisdom from Li Ping echoed in modern rivers
A historical column urges river management lessons from Li Ping, the Chinese engineer who 175 years before the era standardised deep beds and low banks to tame floods. It argues Mississippi sediment builds levees too high, advocates dredging beds and using reservoirs on tributaries, to reduce flood risk and reclaim land.
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Atlantic
Father of Waters
Illinois
Missouri
Tennessee
Arkansas
Mississippi
Louisiana
America
Yangtze
Hwang
Li Ping
Li-Ping
Min River
New Orleans
Congress
Air Legislation Emerging From Lindbergh Era Traffic Dreams
Aviation gains tinderbox status as flights spur regulation debates. Courts say no ownership of air but allow restrictions if air use harms others. A England farmer shot at a plane, a jury acquitted on malicious damage. six hundred tri city residents flew last Sunday, signaling rising public interest and potential laws.
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Lindbergh
Chamberlin
England
Tri-cities
Davenport
Rock Island
Moline
What Do You Know About The Quiz Shortcomings
An editorial notes that recent questionnaires reveal gaps in general knowledge among educated professionals. It cites a federal debater with decades in science and economics who has never read Shakespeare or Dante, highlighting widespread ignorance despite formal achievement and urging educators to address the issue.
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Aechylus
Brahms
Bach
Beethoven
Dante
Ibsen
Ibanez
Kant
Leonardo da Vinci
MacDowell
Moliere
Nietzche
Rousseau
Tagore
Rodin
Joseph Conrad
Amy Lowell
James Townley
Shikspur
Shakespeare
Homer
August Belmont
Eleanor Robson
Governor Cox and the Hoofed Path to Health
In a humorous Health Service style, the piece contrasts Governor Cox of Ohio with Senator Harding, praising Cox's fitness and walking habit while mocking Harding's endurance. It notes Cox’s habit of walking to work, the value of health, and comments on American haste and fatigue in daily life, with digressions on public figures and societal trends.
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Cox
Ohio
Harding
White House
Gov
Ed Jackson
Indiana
Capitol
Jackson
At Fry
Questions and Answers on Health Immunity and Adam's Apple
A reader asks about lowered resistance and health impairment, and whether immunity can be reduced. The columnist avoids a direct answer, maintains that resistance cannot be lowered, and notes Adam's apple is male characteristic with fewer female responses. Letters on personal health will be answered by Dr Brady if stamped envelopes are provided.
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M. C
Brady
Willian Brady
Student Labor Union by Glenn Frank at UW proposal
Glenn Frank argues for organizing a student labor union at the University of Wisconsin. He weighs collective bargaining, educational value, standards, and university subsidies for student workers, framing it as a test of higher education’s spirit and realism. The piece explores how students would balance wages, quality, and professionalization of part time labor.
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Glenn Frank
University of Wisconsin
Century Magazine
Copyright
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Students In Justice
University
The American Home
Burlington Gazette discusses future American architecture with emphasis on individuality. It notes dominant regional styles, praises skyscraper setbacks, and argues the future home will reflect unique American character rather than mere blends of existing styles.
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Burlington Gazette
America
Aptitude for Flying Emphasized in Historic Air Trials
The Kansas City Star argues long distance flights rely on dependable motors and the indispensable human element. It notes Byrd Lindbergh and Chamberlain set records, but stresses that only pilots with unusual qualities and natural aptitude for flying can hope to emulate them.
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Kansas City Star
Byrd
North Pole
Lindbergh
Paris
Chamberlain
Germany
Synthetic lumber latest breakthrough in wood products
Omaha World-Herald reports synthetic lumber made from sawmill wood chips exploded by steam into fibre then refined and pressed into boards without glue. It can be soft or hard and has been tested on tables and panels. Specimens are at the National Museum in Washington.
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Omaha World-Herald
National Museum
Washington
Apidae
Audubon Society
Uncle Wiggily and the Strawberries adventure tale
Uncle Wiggily trips on a hillside and finds his silk hat knocked aside by a stone. He discovers a blackberry vine entwined around his ankle and believes a trap has been set by the bad chaps. The moment hints at a perilous but humorous situation as Longears reacts with wit.
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Longears
Uncle Wiggily Finds Wild Strawberries on Sunny Hill
Uncle Wiggily trips on a vine and recovers, then spots wild strawberries gleaming red in sunlit leaves. He plans to harvest them for a shortcake as berries respond playfully and vow to gleam for the feast. The rabbit gently asks permission to pick the berries for the cake.
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Uncle
Mr. Longears
Rabbit
The Track Follower World And Its Nightly Roar
In New York on June 18 1927 a portrait of ponies and their devoted followers unfolds. A coterie of seasoned racegoers drifts among New York Havana New Orleans and France living fast on chance and chaptered by luxury and loss. Overcoat Jack the famed thief freed from Sing Sing once hid $500 in a coat pocket as a conman’s trick while many init bite the track’s lure remains undiminished even as fortunes ebb and flow within the grandstand’s glow.
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New York
Havana
New Orleans
France
Shakespeare’s Reach Across Time and Tongues
A compact meditation on Shakespeare’s universal influence across nations and eras. The piece discusses Townley’s High Life Below Stairs, various attribution theories, the American Shakespeare Foundation, and the idea that Shakespeare remains vital beyond high culture, urging fuller engagement by readers and students alike.
Wild strawberries and a foxed weasel in Uncle Wiggily tale
Uncle Wiggily and his wife nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy plan wild strawberry picking with Tooter and Scooter. They gather berries on a sunny hillside while a sly weasel lurks. A ripe strawberry stains the weasel, who runs to the brook, and the rabbits return home for strawberry shortcake.
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Wiggily
Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy
Tooter
Scooter
Uncle Wiggily
Mr. Longears
Weasel
Uncle
Tinstead
Uncle Rays Corner Prefers a Summer Continued Tale
Uncle Ray travels to a cottage on Lake Chetek in Wisconsin for a vacation and promises daily Corner submissions from the camp. He asks readers to choose between an adventure story Lost in the Rockies and a fairy tale The Magic Candy and the Flying Horse for a possible summer series and invites letters to Ramon Coffman care of Courier.
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Wisconsin
Lake Chetek
Rockies
Ramon Coffman
New York City
Uncle Ray
Engineering the World
Sir Herbert Ames former financial director of the League of Nations speaks at commencement. He argues engineers shaped telegraph radio airplane and much of civilization and must apply engineering logic to political problems. The engineering mind should curb graft and waste and solve public issues with scientific method.
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Charles City Press
Herbert Ames
League of Nations
Sir Herbert
Burroughs Nature Club Notes column notice
Public notice inviting reader questions to the Nature Notes Dept. of the paper. Encourages inquiries on nature subjects and promises answers in the column. Copyright notice from HOUGHTON MIFFLIN Co. 1927.
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Burroughs Nature Club
Houghton Mifflin Co
Nature Notes
How Do Weekday Names Origin and Other Nature Notes
Tomorrow's Nature Notes asks about weekday name origins, bass feeding on artificial bait, and why chickens' beaks are sharp while ducks are flat. It also describes leaf cutter bees, rat nests, and quail domestication experiments with practical breeding details and bird rearing methods.
Day of Kindness Proposed for June 21
Mary A. Green suggests a national Kindness Day on June 21 to avoid harsh words and promote kindness. She urges everyone to refrain from cross or ugly remarks and to read Romans 12 and Ephesians 4 31 42 as a sermon idea, inviting pastors to participate.
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Bristow
Mary A. Green
The Small Circus Disappears
Davenport Daily Times notes the decline of the rural circus as costs and competition from radio roads and cars shrink tours. Only 10 big ten shows remain from 29 a dozen years ago, with many circuses downsized to smaller cars and regional routes. The shift mirrors a move away from village isolation toward urban entertainment like movies.
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Davenport
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