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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1919
Page
2
A Waterloo church column discusses toil as a human response to labor, then analyzes the Sixty-fifth Congress filibuster. It argues senatorial courtesy keeps debate open, imputing blame to both parties for prolonged obstruction. The piece also notes rail tariff questions, Ford’s post Washington plans, and spring timing reminders.
Iowa editorials discuss rebuilding the national guard after World War I, its potential universal service links, and a reborn guard aimed at stronger readiness. Critics debate universal training and a return to a more robust guard alongside postwar defense planning.
A historic health column discusses lumbago also called neuralgia or muscular rheumatism, its causes from weather to cold dampness, and its pattern of recurrence. It notes seasonal variation, risk with age, and urges heat therapy, flannel wraps, and minimal drugs, with home remedies and caution on self diagnoses.
An essay on why babies smile and laugh, linking tickling to touch and fear relief. It discusses the origins of laughter as a response to playful touch, the skin’s nerve complexity, and how turning fear into humor helps children cope. It notes laughter arises from overcoming anxiety and the role of joy after relief.
A reflective piece recounts encounters with “I should think” thinkers who advise delaying work after breakfast. The narrator, tired of explanations, discusses family insistence on specialists and the lure of fresh air before work while arguing about personal productivity and independence from others’ judgments. The dialogue probes self reliance and the value of morning focus versus external opinions.
Tabigal Tabikalins the middle aged puss lives in a kind home and longs for a fat mouse. She notices a thin alley mouse in the wall and schemes to fatten it by leaving crumbs behind a curtain. The tale promises a continuation about the mouse’s fate.
Minnesota reports lower prison populations reduce binder twine and farm machinery output at Stillwater plants. Warden Reed cites war conditions and liquor crackdown as causes for labor shortages. 1919 twine production set at about 19.29 million pounds with 266 workers currently. Spain vs England sunshine hours noted as European contrast.
The Washington monument foundation is an 80 feet square base set in rock, eight feet beneath ground. The interior is 25 feet in diameter, exterior 55, showing thick walls of well fitting stones. Visitors see stones from Braddock's field, Long Island, Egypt, St Helena, Carthage, Vesuvus, Jerusalem, and more, contributed by 40 states 16 cities 44 societies and ten foreign nations.
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