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Waterloo Evening Courier

Location

Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America

Date

May 01, 1925

Page

12

Croce Stirs Fuss Over Liberalism In Fascist Italy

Rome May 1 Benedetto Croce Italy's leading philosopher challenges fascist doctrine defending liberalism as essential to state and society. He faults fascist culture as superficial and asserts that both extremes lack full vitality while liberalism enables free individual and social development. Fascist leaders rebuke his views as pedantic and waning with youth.

Associated Press Rome Benedetto Croce Italy Charles Maurras Maurice Barres Croce Answeis

Oxford to Name New School Superintendent

James P. F. Brows, Earlham, Iowa, science instructor at Tracer high school, will be the Oxford Johnson County superintendent of schools next year. Oxford school serves about 175 pupils.

Oxford Schools Tracr James PF. Jbrows Earlham Tja Tracer High School Oxford Johnson County

25 Cent Pieces Mined Near Gifford Pole

In Gifford Iowa Ralph Gunderson first found a silver quarter near a telegraph pole on the railroad right of way. Over the year local youths including J M Cox Tom Jewell and Eugene Howard uncovered 65 to 70 more quarters totalling inside a paper money roll. Authorities surmise the coins are bank robbery loot hidden at the site.

Gifford Jewell M. E. Church Eugene Howard Tom Jewell Tom Young Howard van Shope

Davenport Loses 4300 in State Census Figure

Davenport May 1 unofficial figures from city assessor Fred F. Finch show Davenport’s population down about 4300 since the 1920 census. The 1920 figure was 56,727, with current estimates around 52,200. The report is near completion for filing.

Davenport Davengrovt Fred F. Finch Palace Thivenport

Workforce Decline After Rock Island Arsenal Cuts

The Rock Island Arsenal reduced its workforce from about 000 employees in 1920 to roughly 500 today. Many former workers who lived in Davenport moved away with their families as the arsenal force was cut down.

Rock Island Arsenal Arsenal Davenport Tera

Baggage Tourists Favor Auto for Desert Travel

Bagdad reports tourists increasingly prefer automobile travel across the desert despite a recent death of a French woman at the hands of desert marauders. Desert cross services have logged 1,600,000 miles of transit amid a mild motor boom.

Bagdad

Beginning in Bagdad Growth Amid Desert Town Struggles

In Bagdad the arrival of new model cars from Syria boosts activity as two new hotels, English and French, rise and tourism shows promise. Yet overall business remains unsatisfactory with acute poverty among workers in town and country though warmer weather eases conditions a bit since desert development began.

Bagdad Syria

Did Not Waste Money on Food Campaign

A reader recalls severe diet limits and illness while criticizing waste drives. The note mentions Mayr's Wonderful Remedy as a cure for stomach and intestinal ailments and jokes about a supposed recovery after taking the product.

Mayr

Routes Between Syria and Mesopotamia At Baghdad

Two automobile routes connect Syria and Mesopotamia with Baghdad. One travels from Damascus via four straight jinn through the desert to Baghdad, while the northern path passes Panayra, a famed historic site visited by many tourists, then reaches Baghdad.

Syria Mesopotamia Damascus Bagdad Panayra

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