Waterlo o Evening Courier ad and Senate piece
The paper carries a mix of ads and an analysis of state representation and senate apportionment. It notes unequal county representation despite population shifts involving Polk Woodbury Scott and Zann counties and discusses the political push toward redistricting and a population based bill. It also marks the Nation’s 60 years of publication and notes its historical stance on civil service reform woman suffrage and pacifism with editor Oswald Gar rigan Villard.
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Senate
General ‘Assembly
General Assembly
Mitesch
Polk
Woodbury Unties
Scott
Zann
Polk County
Jackson County
Teres White
Putz
Nation
Edwin L. Gedkin
America
New York Evening Pot
J’s
Laitter
Oswald
Garrigan Villard
Maronle
Robert Mad Follette
G. Bernard Shaw
Wilford
DANGEROUS TIMES Viewer trends spark cross border debate
The piece notes a London Morning Post view on American prosperity and British hardship. It argues prosperity brings risks from excess and luxury while Britain endures hard times fostering resilience, quoting an optimistic comparison and warning against overeating as a metaphor for abundance.
Evolution Theory Sparks State School Debate Across Iowa
The Knoxville Express cites editorials arguing the pay check power over schools rests with elected representatives and questions state authority. It notes tensions over curriculum limits including music dance and foreign language teaching and asks whether the legislature, even under constitutional constraints, may address evolution laws without judging scientific merit. The discussion references President Coolidge’s perceived agenda during a period of vacation.
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Knoxville Express
Bryan
Dreachera
Tennessee
Fragmentary note on Abe Martin and local names
Uneven OCR fragment mentions Abe Martin and Mrs Tilford Monts plus unnamed locals. Details are unclear, with jumbled phrases about money, pain, and “Lewy Dighty” surfaced in the text.
Sunstroke, Heat Exhaustion, and Goiter Advice
A medical column explains sunstroke is misinterpreted heat collapse and outlines how to distinguish heat stroke from collapse, noting symptoms such as flushed face, deep breathing, hot dry skin, and bounding pulse. It covers hydration, safe water temperatures, and iodine prevention for goiter with dietary sources and iodized salt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Odin
Doubtful Claims Circulate About Secretary Pall Money
Davenport Democrat suggests the tale of Pall receiving $100,600 in a suitcase is dubious. The Jefferson Bee comments that politicians often overestimate their own importance, while Coolidge and work are treated as interchangeable in debate.
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Davenport
Pall
Jefferson Bee
Friend Wife By Roe Fulkerson
Imogene and Andrew discuss happiness and fashion as they read Woman’s magazine. Imogene predicts women chase ahead on clothing cycles, arguing comfort yields to beauty and status. They discuss corsets, fat women, and fashion industry aims, noting women’s shift toward liberty in dress.
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Imogene
Woman's Magazine
Andrew
Atay
Verwond & Joe
Vchristmas
Inogens
Brain Tests by Sam Loyd
Sam Loyd presents a brain teaser collection focusing on logic and puzzles. Readers encounter minute challenges designed to test memory perception and problem solving.
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Sam Loyd
NIBBLE ATTIRE FADE LUNG
A vertebrate that suckles its young. A large herbivorous mammal with a flexible proboscis. Consumed. A chart. An oneid fruit. A fortified British island in the Mediterranean. A sea-going robber. A deciduous tree of many varieties. The remaining letters spell the Syrian god of riches.
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Mediterranean
Paper Towel Movie Fans? Raccoons Buy, Eat, Flourish Too
A fragment notes a comic idea about a man and a towel, raccoons consuming provisions and becoming costly yet thriving when fed and managed. It mentions desert highlands, small animals, and a hygienic shell bed for birds, then shifts to a town with no water and cut phone lines where a crow’s charred carcass lies near wires.
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Animila
Animels
Uncle Wiggily's Roman Candles
The tale opens with Uncle Wiggily slipping out at dawn to avoid waking his forty seven bunnies. His new wife asks where he is going and he signals for silence as he tiptoes away to tend to a quiet errand.
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Uncle Wiggily
Uncle Wiggily and the Roman Candles Fourth of July
Uncle Wiggily buys Roman candles for a Fourth of July celebration. A Bob Cat and Wolf attempt to seize the suspicious bundle, but Uncle Wiggily fires a candle to defend himself, sending colored fireballs at the would-be robbers and escaping unharmed.
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Wiggily
Mr. Langeszs
Uncle Wiggily
Hance
Bob Cat
Uncle
Wolf
Mr. Longears
Burroughs Nature Club Notes Answers
A reader questions column asks about bird lays eggs frequency plant names in volcanic lists and mountain growth. The notes invite further inquiries to the azure Notes Dept and promise answers in tomorrow's issue.
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Azure
Azure Notes
Red poinsettias and raccoon raisin options examined
The article explains that red poinsettias are bracts not petals and describes their central heart-like flowers. It also discusses raccoon raisin as a farm practice requiring space, water, trees, and ample feed such as milk fruit and corn meal.
Crow Sets Town Afire by Lighting on Power Wire
Towanda Pennsylvania June 30 A crow alighting on a high tension wire near Milan caused a short circuit that melted two other wires and ignited fires in most homes. Samuel Reeves storehouse and barn burned. one man was severely shocked and about a dozen homes suffered damage. Reeves drove cattle from the barn as cows were killed by a fallen charged fence while residents fought individual blazes.
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Towanda
Milan
Samuel Reeves
Reaves
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Commercial St
Jake C.lishman
Jackson Moreas
Gen's Bet
Waterloo
Towa
Associated Press
United Press International News
Associated Pitss
Webber Audit Bureau of
Ious
Chicago
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Story, Brooks & Finlay
Burm
Republic
London Morning Post
United States
Fogland
The
Post
Axury
Iowa
Mr. Coolidge
Cadar Rapids
Republican
Coolidge
Abe Martin
William Brady, M. D
Questions and
Brady
William Brady
Work
Wife
Roe Fulkerson
Tanloyd
X—worp
Nol
Wadic Gob
Head
Nick
Aeille
Wan
Sgtaars
Chily
Alli
Wes
Bree
Howard R. Garis
Sahie
Burroughs Nature Club
Houghton. Mifflin Co
Crow
Eclightfal
Meura Laboratories
Cuticura
Scholls
Lydia E. Pinkham
Cal
Lydia B.pinkham
Pinkham’s
Pinkham
Mrs. BE. Goutp
4000 East Side
Boulevard
Lydia EB. Pinkham
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