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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1922
Page
4
A historical newspaper page features editorial notes on national identity, southern industrial potential, and cultural symbols. It discusses southern contributions to U.S. progress, heritage, and the persistence of social signals like white collar status, ending with reflections on human desire for adornment.
A Cedar Rapids Republication urges erecting statues to Francis Scott Key and other notable figures to honor Iowa heritage. It questions eastern dominance in patriotic monuments and cites Gov. Sallabee Henderson and civic leaders along with towns like Waterloo and Cedar Rapids as potential sites for statues of Lincoln Burns and Key. The column notes political figures from twenty years past and reflects on the cost and value of public memorials.
Prof Francis G Benedict notes fasting as a medical tool not starvation in his Second Harrington Lecture. He cites a Wesleyan study where volunteers fasted two to seven days, showing initial glycogen depletion and fat use while strength remains adequate. He warns against panicking and stresses gradual, guided adaptation and the dangers of overindulgence.
Fifty years ago in The Courter dated June 20 1872 reports heavy rains delaying crops native peas and strawberries abundant. warmest day of season. residents traveling to Saratoga. upcoming Prohibition prayer meeting in Presbyterian church with German service. local incidents include a man bitten by a bull and a large rye sheaf. farm sale of 200 acre Orange township. list of city graduates. a three year old dies from diphtheria and scarlet fever.
Twenty years ago on Saturday June 21 1902 Davis Hurd a bookkeeper at the west mill riding a bicycle was struck by an automobile on Fourth street. His back was badly sprained and he was unware of the auto until the crash. George Miller drove the vehicle. The piece notes unusually high sickness among children and the elderly with one doctor reporting $1000 in earnings for the month. On June 18 Olivia Bachman and John D Liffring were wed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W H Bachman with Rev. Samuel Callan officiating.
A Waterloo era column recalls Capt. Edgar Pickett of Lincoln township returning home after months in federal service in Washington. The piece covers grain market drops in Chicago, price declines for oats and potatoes, and a mix of local notices including burglaries, a race excavation contract, and social reports from Waterloo. It notes a bank of dry goods in warehouses and a German trip by C. D. Wangler, plus local tidbits about street lamps, a pickpocket raid, a funeral, and a party on the river led by BE Boggs.
Col Boundaries meets Dutch dealer Mygleberg for a cache of diamonds and a prepaid package. He converts assets to American dollars, deposits cash in his bank safe, and plans flight. He notes a growing bank balance and insists on handling the deposit personally, signaling readiness to disappear.
In a domestic exchange Andrew and Imogene spar over pride and independence. He rebukes her for flaunting independence as a virtue and urges humility, comparing it to a child proud of a stubbed toe. She defends autonomy while he cautions against treating weakness as strength. The quarrel centers on social pride and mutual respect.
The item discusses a historical claim that craps derives from an Indian game where players throw three dice until a seven or eleven sums. It asks to analyze the odds of three dice totaling seven or eleven and notes this as yesterday's puzzle titled Wordsworth.
A reader asks about birds eating insects whether a mile deer is a misprint and why goldfish survive in tiny volumes without aeration. The column promises answers in tomorrow's Nature Notes.
The article lists virus discernment in game birds by groupings used by the American Ornithologists Taion. It names Anatidae ducks geese swans Rallidae rails coots gallinules Limicolae shore birds Galinae quail grouse pheasants wild turkey Columbae doves and notes they are sheluded as Fama bins. It then digresses to a fragment about a queen and colony mating behavior.
Fragmentary excerpt mixes poems and reflections on perseverance: optimistic call to press on amid sorrow, a grave illness scene with doctors counting, and a quirky note on spring woodchucks. Strong entities include Frank L. Stanton and references to woes, loan deadlines, and winged insects.
In this chapter of Jack O Judgment Edgar Wallace follows Maisie White, linked to a gang through her father, as Colonel Bound ary and associates confront a diamond theft ring. Philiopolis faces trial for receiving stolen goods after police recover luxury gems, while Jack O Judgment and Selby close in on the criminals and reveal Maisie White's true role.
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