The Hold Over Paper Saturday Night Read
The Hold Over Paper, the Waterloo Saturday read, is the paper that all Waterloo reads Saturday nights and thoroughly digests Sunday.
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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1911
Page
2
The Hold Over Paper, the Waterloo Saturday read, is the paper that all Waterloo reads Saturday nights and thoroughly digests Sunday.
An editorial urges readers to improve their homes with small acts like painting porches and removing tin cans. It argues a cheerful, well maintained home boosts happiness and civic life, especially for the poor, and that effort in home upkeep benefits the nation and community morale.
A Waterloo YWCA chapter advances with 2400 women in its membership and over $6000 raised, aiming to establish a new building. The effort showcases Christian faith, hard work, and plans for spiritual, mental, and physical development for young women lacking homes. Representatives praise the achievement and its impact on the city.
A critique notes Senator Bourne's fall from Taft over discrimination in patronage and questions the motive of weaponizing the issue. It mentions an amends made, calls for progress, and records House action to investigate the match trust and ban white phosphorus. It also notes Lorimer's senate cronies and a tariff board bill likely to pass amid standpatters.
The senate opposition to direct election is likened to a curtain raiser for Lorimer whitewash, with ten veteran senators voting for Lorimer amid calls of bourbonism and contempt for the republic. A Baltimore wife beater was sentenced to five lashes at the whipping post, criticized as too light.
A compilation of editorial notes from Spirit of the Iowa Press and several papers. Senator Young backed popular senate election but papers opposed its Iowa application. Marshalltown notes rising, Davenport questions praise of the president amid long standing customs.
A former Iowa candidate, Chas E Merriam, won in Chicago as the Republican nominee, hailed by Cedar Rapids Gazette for his nativity and his pledge to promote good government. The piece questions Bournes methods and the value of rehashing old debates.
A reader argues husbands should share outside interests to ease wifes burden and curb jealousy. He cites daily contact networks and contrasts with a case of extreme jealousy and insanity caused by idle hands. He urges broader male empathy and more couples sharing tasks.
Bank clearings for the week ending March 2 1911 totaled 1 507 878 70 with daily amounts listed and year over year comparison to 1 410 628 28. Realty transfers show deeds mortgages chattel mortgages and bills of sale totaling 2 8 328 051 96 6 188 199 35 10 083 11 and 150 06 respectively with instrument counts and dates.
A public drinking cup is to be removed from use amid concerns over hygiene and policy. Officials cited health standards and city rules as grounds for the change, calling for a safer, cleaner alternative in communal spaces.
A health bulletin details a push to end the public common drinking cup. It notes fiber paraffin coated cups, automatic cup dispensers on trains, and penny fed fountains as safe, cheap alternatives. Schools and cities across the region adopt private or individual cups to curb epidemics, with Kansas issuing a health order banning the common cup.
In St Louis on March 3 a 7 year old Yorkshire terrier named Tige faces death by chloroform or shooting per the will of Mrs Violet Chandler. Executrix Miss Julia Grady hesitates to kill the pet and a physician currently tends the dog while a court decides if the terms will be carried out. Mrs Chandler died Monday at Mullany hospital after expressing a wish to see Tige.
Charles G. Patten of Charles City cites forty six years in fruit growing and Iowa’s climate as superior for apples. He notes Iowa won a national silver cup at the horticultural congress in Conver Bluff s, proving practical success with orchards in southwestern towns and Sundry growers achieving strong returns.
Advertising copy promotes three grain hypo nuclane tablets made from a health germ of ordinary yeast with hypophosphites and phosphorus. It claims to increase weight and improve the nervous system by aiding digestion absorption and blood formation. The text notes physicians and apothecary shops stock them in sealed packages and mentions Pain Away Pills for headache relief and periodical pains.
A compilation of editorials from Chicago Tribune Sioux City Journal and Des Moines Capital arguing the Lorimer seat verdicts as a mixed moral and political test. They critique votes casting doubt on reform, cite Root and Iowa senators Cummins and Young, and frame acquittal as a costly victory for big business with warnings about public perception and the integrity of government.
A Fremont county orchard near Hamburg on forty acres earns well despite widespread frost losses. It produced 6000 to 7800 bushels of fine apples by applying new frost-fighting methods. The piece urges Iowans to invest locally in apple growing and warns of ongoing out-migration for better prospects. Licensed to wed: Harry L. Lowery and Bartha M. Mosley, both of Waterloo.
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