Waterloo Daily Star Parcel lists and policy notes
Waterloo Daily Star issue details subscription options advertising rules and paper policy. Notes on rates, payment terms, and conduct standards for classified ads. mentions Associated Press United Press International and Audit Bureau of Circulations.
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Audit Bureau OF Circulations
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Representatives
Business Holding Up in Early Summer Trade and Production
The piece notes dry weather east of the Rockies boosting trade and crops per Bradstreet. Summer retail activity rose with warm spell while May auto output set a new record. soft coal output reached highs, but factory and iron steel production slowed due to heat. Grain speculation rose on dry spells and crop news. cotton goods prices stayed firm as electric power mergers and aviation shares attracted attention.
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Rockies
Som
Bradstreet
Washington
Stock Exchange
The Case for Upper Iowa University Campaign Support
Upper Iowa University at Fayette with an alumni roster over 13 000 and annual enrollment around 300 launches a financial drive. Advocates note 75 years of graduates and call small colleges vital to the US system, highlighting low tuition and regional exclusivity in northeastern Iowa and southeastern Minnesota. The campaign aims to ease faculty financial burdens and sustain quality scholarship.
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Upper Iowa University
Fayette
United States
Upper Town
Altho
Iowa
Minnesota
Tonger
Publisher Rejects Book Club "Best" Choice for Month
Frederick A. Stokes argues in the North American Review that book clubs cannot pick a single best book. He cites 21 notable volumes from the past four years, seven Pulitzer winners, none named Book of the Month, and warns that such domination harms booksellers readers and lesser known authors.
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Frederick A. Stokes
Current North American Review
San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder
Willa Cather
John Galsworthhy
Elizabeth and Essex
Lytton Strachey
Louis Bromfield
Katherine Mayo
Julia Peterkin
Stokes
Book Club
Child Marriages Survey Highlights State Laws
The Russell Sage Foundation reports a nationwide survey showing young people marry early in America. It notes that in 11 states girls as young as 12 may legally wed and that in several states licenses can be issued by mail without the parties appearing before a clerk.
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Russell Sage Foundation
Reform Suggestions to Tighten Marriage Laws Across States
A North American Review summary outlines lax marriage rules in about 57 towns where ceremonies can be performed any hour. It cites 700,000 underage marriages and many adult unions entered while intoxicated or incompetent, predicting near-certain divorce outcomes. Recommendations include raising age to 16, five day notice, regular hours license issuance, removing license and officiant fees, clergy education, discipline of marrying persons, and state bureaus for supervision.
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United States
North American Review
The X ray and medical progress in The World Does Move
Booth Tarkington writes on the x ray's impact in medicine, warning that it can lead to unnecessary operations and hypochondria while stressing that diagnosis requires medical judgment and experience. Readers’ health questions cover infra red heat, home canning vitamins, and a column by Dr. William Brady answers letters.
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Booth Tarkington
Heavens
Earth
M. G. R. Quiyer
Idris
W. E. Rn
Brandy
William Brady
A Modernist Looks at Himself by Glenn Frank
Glenn Frank argues modernism is not yet a sweeping force but a transitional stage. He warns against excessive idol breaking and urges modernism to shift from critique to constructive spiritual initiative, creativity, and positive action to sustain belief and progress.
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Glenn Frank
University of Wisconsin
Century Magazine
Copyright
McClure
Usel
Modernizat
Seventy Years Ago In The Courier 1859 items
Selections from The Courier recount political candidacy of Samuel J. Kirkwood for governor noted for integrity and ability. The column recalls Sioux City river travel, crop reports from Keokuk Gate City on southern Iowa wheat, oats, and corn, plus Horace Greeley’s Denver dispatch about gold diggings and cautionary fortune outcomes. Also mentions Waterloo and La Porte City notes, school appointments, archery club talk, and local society items.
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Keokuk Gate City
Towa
Local society and weather notes from Waterloo 1909
Twenty years ago on Saturday June 25 1909 Louis Hecklinger married Miss Dessié Wabnus and will live on First street west. Mrs ER S Gable injured in buggy crash remains in severe pain. Beloit man buys first private airplane from Curtiss maker. Strawberries abundant, spring vegetables plentiful at local markets. Vida R Keene weds Dr W H Schilling. diagnosis and care in Cedar Falls Colfax visit for treatment. Alice Bickley returns from Oakland to live with Dr W H Bickley. Heavy showers revive vegetation and pastures after hot dry spell. Rev E D Hull departs for Europe via Detroit and Montreal with Epworth League serenade sendoff. Eva Hull returns from Sornell College and spends summer in Belvidere Illinois.
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Louis Hecklinger
Waterloo
Dessié Wabnus
Washington, Ta
First Street
Louis
Clapp Clothing
Alice Bickley
Oakland
Cal
W. H. Bickley
Rebel Avenue
E. D. Hull
Detroit
Great Lakes
Montreal
British Isles
Europe
Epworth League
Hulls
Eva Hull
Sornell College
Parentts
Belvidere, Til
Women reporters and the journalism debate in 19th century press
A quirky discussion on women in journalism cites state nicknames and a club committee's style shaping a weekly paper. The piece notes the paper’s clean, newsy reputation and women abandoning a product line for a male reporter to take over police and fire beat, concluding that women excel in journalism yet some tasks may suit men better.
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New York
The Women’s Paper Glimpse in Charles City Press History
The passage notes The Women’s Paper of Charles City Press, described as highly feminine and incomplete as if 03 characters short. It references The Inquirer of Scarsdale, an all women staff paper run by a women’s club board, founded 1904 by a Sunday school teacher.
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Charles City Press
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Women’s Club
Word Similarity Test From Evening Post Series
A vintage brain test page asks readers to mark words with similar meanings to a key word. It lists groups of synonyms, time limit two minutes, and includes terms like merry weary joyful gloomy and swift rapid. Answers on Society Pages.
Summer Arrives Early as Heat Breaks Forecast
Readers are told relief is near as a heat wave ends and pleasant summer weather is expected soon. The notice hints at a rapid shift from cold conditions to warm afternoons, with people urged to prepare for a milder season.
Triolet Dreams and Newsy Bits Across A Page
A mixed clump of verse notes and stray lines on poetry contests, a wedding aside, a sports item about a golfer named Jones, social quips, and a spoof on Mount Olympus becoming a tourist site. The fragment hints at cultural puff and light miscellany.
Ghost writing era threatens American literary structure
June 26 New York Day by Day notes ghost writing’s reach across society. Writers, poets, and even celebrities rely on ghosters for success, with publishers fearing authorship is eroded and critics dismissing many works as inauthentic. Public figures and even radio figures seek fame via outsourced prose.
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New York
President Hoover style fishing trip routes built with effort
Washington Daybook recalls the 1920s planning to reach a Virginia streams camp for a presidential fishing excursion. A large force, including the Virginia state road commission and marines, cleared rough roads and built new electric and telephone lines. Maryland camp was easier, Virginia site required up hill and down dale work, many trucks and horses, and rapid coordination to provide comfort, heat, light, and telecommunication for the president.
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Herbert
Washington, D. C
United States
Hoover
Blue Ridge Mountains
Virginia
Maryland
White House
Virginia State Road Commission
United States Marineso
Organge
Madison
Electric Uprit Company
Washington
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New York Tribune
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Waterloo Lodge No. 103
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Waterloo West
Willie Logan
Alice Ferry
Mina Manning
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George Eberhart
Elizabeth Lamb
Clara Line
Alice Hitchcock
Sadie Bradley
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George A. Koff
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Philadelphia
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Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
New Hampshire
Matt A. Beck
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England
Paris
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Evening Post, Inc
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