Waterloo Evening Courier and Reporter header notice
A historical newspaper snippet shows the Waterloo Evening Courier and Waterloo Reporter masthead listing Jean C Hartman as President and Editor, with office in Waterloo Iowa. It includes circulation notes, pricing terms for carriers and mail, and advertising rates and offices in New York Philadelphia and Chicago.
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Associated Presa
Jean C Hartman
W. Peterson
Soc.Trens
Gen. Mar. Y
Waterloo
Imade
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
Hasbrook, Story & Brooks
Mera
Slandering the hen as typhus carrier draws doubt
A historical note cites experts and a Journal of the American Medical Association passage debating whether chickens can carry typhoid. Bacteriologists from the University of Missouri suggest chickens may contact typhoid but are not true carriers, implying normal consumption of chicken remains likely. The piece ends recalling chicken pie dinners as a popular, nonallergenic indulgence.
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Journal of the American Medical Association
University of Missouri
Mather
Protect the Birds Five-Year Game Protection Bill Proposed
Iowa lawmakers consider a five year ban on shooting quail prairie chickens grouse and pheasants urging farmers sportsmen and bird lovers to urging their representatives to support the bill. The note argues protection will prevent extinction and benefit farmers by reducing pests while stressing strict enforcement.
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Jana
Lenecker
Tower House
Iowa
Belgians propose rebuilding ruins into new cities
Business and public sentiment mix in plans by residents of Malines Termonde Louvain and Linever to preserve ruins as monuments while constructing new cities nearby. Tourists may fuel postwar capital for rehabilitation, as some urge erasing ruins and starting anew on the same sites, paralleling San Francisco’s Panama-Pacific idea after an earthqu ake nine years ago.
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Malines
Termonde
Louvain
Linever
Belgium
Eurrope
Hewitt
San Francisto
Spain Ignored in War News Amid Domestic Turmoil
A sweeping editorial page notes Spain’s strict neutrality amid global tensions while European revolutions and internal strife draw attention elsewhere. It contrasts Spain’s fading imperial reach with warnings of political maneuvering at home as gubernatorial campaigns loom. It also mentions local issues from highway legislation to garbage disposal, and light notes on Des Moines college sports.
To the Heart of the Matter About Human Bodies and Atoms
A philosopher describes human beings as temporary assemblies of atoms. Bodies are factories where thoughts and feelings form and depart, with life ending when the whistle blows at death. Molecules originate from elements and travel through the body as organs and senses.
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Delega
Oxycen County
Hydrogen River
Nitragen
Ceérbon
Earth
Air
The Cartoonist A Nation’s Humorous Political Voice
A cartoonist is a man who translates political speech into images. He condenses a hundred stump speeches into one three column picture and wields a sharp pencil to mock leaders, presidents, and campaigns with humor and insight.
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Nyse
Teddy
Secretaury
Boas
Nelas
The Value of Absolute Charity and True Generosity
A reader reflects on charity without strings, contrasting gifts given with expectations of gratitude or control. Anecdotes include a generous but meddling aunt, and a brother who funds his sister’s college with trust and no demand for accounts. The piece argues true giving yields rewards beyond money and laments the toll of conditional charity.
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Christ
Tonce
Julia
Ruth
Fow
Manuas
Protecting Food Supplies From the Deadly House Fly
Des Moines reports focus on preventing disease spread by house flies as wintered-over flies multiply. Dairy and food commissioner W.R. Barney urges cleaning, trapping, tight screens, filth reduction, and proper disposal, with housewife guidance to buy from responsible dealers and thoroughly wash produce.
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Des Moines
W. NR. Barney
Dairy and
Dairy and Food Commisssioner
What Iowa Editors Are Saying A Mistake Surely
Sioux City Tribune condemns the Rock Island looting as a mis take of judgment by financial pirates. The piece argues the wrecking of the system masquerades as error, yet enriched insiders by about 357000 dollars at the expense of stockholders and others.
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Sioux City
Rock Island
Legislative voices on roads and reform in Iowa
An array of editorials from Cedar Rapids to Des Moines critique the new road law, government leadership, and prohibition. The papers praise Governor Clarke Loren for road-building feats, urge action on state governance, and call for Horace Boies to weigh in on prohibition and the Democratic Party.
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Iowa Senate
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Heaven
Ly Uie
Odehot Chronicle
Clarke Loren
Mr. Boies
Webster City
Freeman-Tribune
Horace Boies
Prohibition
Democratiic Party
Filial Legislation Urged in Illinois
Springfield March 31 Pro pationary divorce and legitimating children born out of wedlock are two major aims of bills in the Illinois legislature. Rep T C Buxton of Decatur seeks tentative divorces allowing a 14 year separation with a potential reunion and final decree later.
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Springfield
Ilinois
T. C. Buxton
Decatur
Ainal
Buxton
George W. Lipschuleh
Chicago
John J. Gardner
Legislation Debates On Custody And Desertion Offenses
Lawmakers consider a radical abandonment act making abandonment an extraditable offense. A bill may grant mothers authority in child care during the first five years. Others discuss tying child support to the father's income, with variability by earnings.
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Taft
Roosevelt
Doublings
Kentucky
Kangsas
Rate
Fo Hse
Des Moines College
Gillette
Gray Gospel
Tammany
Viel
Arnt
Moon Saamat
Ple
Maraballtown
Hes Moines
Illinois
Star
Chewing Tobacco
Lyall
Upstat
Waterloo Savings Bank
TIN Shop
W.A. Covell & Son, Hardware
West Fourth Street
Auto Truci
Ushel
Cedar Falls Union Mill
Waterloo, Towa
Dayton
Ohio
F. H. Latier
Lafayette Street
Fourth Street
Evening Courier
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