Waterloo Daily News Notice The Waterloo Courier and Reporter
Daily paper details circulation totals and pricing with routing to readers. Publication by The W. H. Hartman Company lists editors and offices in Waterloo Iowa. Special rates apply to want ads and contract pricing is noted.
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Associated Preset
Audit Bureau of Circulations
W. H. Hartman Company
West Park Ave
John G Hartman
ACW. Petarson
Sec.Trens
Gen Met
Waterloo
Iowa
New York
Philadelphia
Chicare
Hasbrook, Story & Brooks, Wern
War and Art in War Uniform Design Discussed
War era designers argue uniforms should use color theory to blend with landscapes. Suggestions cover lighting, shading, and broken silhouettes to reduce visibility. ships and wagons should adopt pale greens and dust colors. Authors warn against tying arts to munitions makers.
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Varles
Altho
North Sea
Pesca
Iowa Women Push for 1916 Suffrage Election
Iowa suffragists announce a plan to ask for a special 1916 primary election on the suffrage constitutional amendment. If approved, women would vote in the 1916 general election, aiding proslavery and temperance drives and shaping the next legislature. Federal suffrage sentiment appears to be growing nationwide.
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Iowa
House
Drvs
Worthy measure to aid poor parents children treated at state hospital
Both house and senate favor Perkins bill to allow children of poor parents with deformity or contagious disease to be taken to Iowa City state hospital for free treatment. The measure marks progress toward guaranteed care, as the senate previously passed the bill and will be asked to concur in an amendment.
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House
Senate Live
Iowa City
Iowa
Senate
Speeding cases and medical reform draw Iowa notices
Iowa lawmakers approve a reform shielding deformity treatment for children and limiting hospital experiments while the state supreme court pins manslaughter on a reckless driver who killed an 18 month old. A Reynolds poker incident and jumbled sports notes add to a chaotic page of items.
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Towa
State Supreme Court
Lowa Supreme Court
G. W. Biewen
Keokuk County
Clarissa Hamaies
Harper
Richland
Col Watterson at 75 hailed by Iowa editors in Havana rhapsody
Sioux City Journal notes Col Henry Watterson at 75, praising his vigor and wit as he writes from Havana. The piece contrasts aging with vitality, quoting his playful remark about a senorita and celebrating a life lived boldly before the war.
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Watterson
Sioux City Journal
Henry Watterson
Oreasion
Marie Henry
Halifax
Cal, Watterson
Plessy
Severitas Ag
Prado
Malecon
Morro Castle
Col
W Sdnal
Courieriangnal
Havana
Spain
Col. Watterson
Harvard University as Seen by a Curious American Visitor
A humorous portrait of Harvard University and Cambridge, noting its age, alumni, endowment, and famed library. The piece contrasts Harvard with Chicago and Illinois campuses, while touching on its campus layout, elm decline, gypsy moth invasion, faculty strength, student body size, and notable sports prowess. It jokes about geographic ignorance of graduates and Harvard’s grandeur.
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England
Oxford
Cambridge
Boston
Charles River
Parks Unitistorie
Harvard University
Harvard
United States
John Harvard
Stratford-on-Avon
Starvard
Great West
Chicago University
University of Iinois
Marvard
T Harvard
Henley
New England
To the Heart of the Matter Man and Woman
A reflective commentary on gender roles and social class contrasts with a call to end artificial standards. The author condemns professional and aristocratic pretensions and champions plain folk while warning about gambling in food futures and urging legal action against level fraud. The piece cites an Iowa judge’s stance as a sign of reform and predicts broader judicial awareness.
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Iowa
Uncle Sam
Watterson remembered as a towering postbellum editor
Col Watterson born February 1840 in Washington DC and began newspaper work in 1848. He edited the Nashville Republican Banner from 1881, served in the Confederate army, revived the Banner after the war, led the Louisville Journal from 1867, and merged the Courier and Times into the Courier Journal in 1868, guiding its long headship.
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Wilson
Courier-Tournal
Posthellum
Amarican
Col
Watterson
Washington
D.C
Nashville Republican Banner
Banner
George I. Prentice
Louisville Journal
Courier
Tthe Times
Journal
Courier-Journal
Gambling in Wheat Not to Be Paid Says Judge
A Burlington town judge ruled that money bet on wheat gambling is not payable as debt, declaring such speculation to be gambling. County authorities should arrest those who avoid debts and bring them before the grand jury for fines under the law.
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Burlington Hawk- 2
Views of the people on saloon policy in Waterloo
A Waterloo letter writer opposes a saloon petition approach, arguing the current method invites personal conflict and civic discord. The writer urges fair treatment and suggests local ballot resolves with minimal controversy, criticizing broader state laws and advocating a peaceful, steady path.
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Waterloo
Soma
Bafora
Waterloo to Restore Harmony After Saloons Debate
Residents urge end to bitter open saloon dispute in Waterloo. Leaders call for legal resolution, denounce personal attacks, and propose cross party talks to reunite the community. Voters should focus on responsible, united progress and a peaceful path forward.
45 000 Women Hear Plain Talk at Philadelphia Meetings
Philadelphia on March 1 45000 women attended three Evan gelist meetings at the tabernacle with society and poor women present. Nurses removed a fainting attendee as crowds pressed to hear the sermon about motherhood. A noonday lunch drew 2600 participants while 141 mothers left their babies at the nursery with 30 nurses on duty. Argentina’s average wool export figures are noted as 165000 tons.
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Philadelphia
Tabernacle
Iowa bill aims to abolish the dope evil with licensing
Des Moines March 1. A sweeping proposal to regulate habit forming drugs moves toward enactment. The measure requires licensing for handling such drugs, prescriptive sales only, complete transfer records, and treatment for habitual users in public institutions. It sets strict penalties and broad exemptions for licensed professionals and institutions.
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Des Moines
Elwood
Howard County
Iowa Pharmaceutical Association
State Pharmacy Commission
Father
Champion
Abandon of Lump Millage Taxes Proposed in Des Moines
Des Moines lawmakers push to lump all millage taxes into one general levy or replace with a single state tax, reducing multiple institutional levies now totaling about 1.5 mills. Proposals aim to simplify bookkeeping, cap special levies, and create definite state-wide appropriations, with support from educators and auditors.
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Des Moines
Board of Control
Savage and Larrabee
Senate Appropriations Committee
Ames
theState College
Appropriations
Iowa City
Cedar Falls
Board of Education
Iistance
State Treasury
Board of Central Institutions
Iowa
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