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Waterlog Opening Courier published daily by W. T. Yartman Co. in Waterloo Iowa outlines subscription rates by carrier and mail, lists editors and officers, and notes AP and Inernational News affiliations. includes advertising rules, payment terms, and office network across major cities.
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American dentistry praised in Britain a Yankee gift
The piece notes British admiration for American dental science as American dentists advance abroad. It highlights George Eastman’s donation of a dental clinic to London’s Royal Free Hospital, welcomed as fitting for a wealthy American benefactor. Prince of Wales presides at the cornerstone, praising American friendship and the dental gift.
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America
England
France
George Eastman
Royal Free Hospital
London
Prince of Wales
Equity And The Talkies Stir Hollywood Industry
Equity, the Actors' Equity Association, may play a key role in Hollywood as stars from the legitimate stage migrate to talking pictures. Officials say protection of actors in film should match stage contracts, and producers may support extending union protections into sound studios. Competition could shift as demand for talkers rises.
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Equity
Talkies
Actors' Equity Association
Thesplan Union
Hollywood
Mysterious Antarctica Mystery Baffles Byrd Explorers
Commander Byrd and crew camped at Little America and descended 35 feet into a cleft in the ice barrier finding frigid seawater. They conclude the ice field may be floating and there may be land nearby, though uncertainty remains about the geography and wealth of the polar regions.
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Arctic
War of Speed Tightens Transcontinental Schedules
Rival railroad factions race to cut travel time with a 63 hour coast to Chicago target. Union Pacific slashes the run to 614 hours, prompting Northern Pacific and others to respond as trunk line officials align their timetables.
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United States
Northwest
West Coast
Chicago
Union Pacific
Northern Pacific
Great Northern Cuts Time to Chicago From Portland
Great Northern announced similar cuts and assumed Chicago Milwaukee Pacific would follow. New schedules effective June 10 reduce Portland to Chicago time by six and three quarters hours, with a 63 hour service that is five hours faster than any now offered. The Union Pacific faces accusations of bad faith for backing the 63 hour deal, potentially triggering a battle royale among railroads to prove the best time. The broader aim is traveler advantage if faster schedules are safe through mountain terrain, acknowledging limits on speed in such regions.
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Chicago
Milwaukee
Bt. Pail & Pacific
Portland
Unionee
Inland Empire
Pacific Northwest
Twin Gilles
Homeopathic talk and health tips in old column style
A columnist defends homeopathy as a basis for early vaccine ideas and poison ivy immunity while lampooning strict allopathy. The piece discusses dilution concepts, a poison ivy immunization anecdote, reader questions on diet and health, and brief medical trivia in a Q and A format. It cites Mrs R S and Mrs BR as readers, and references McCollum and Simmonds works on nutrition.
A Dog Or A Career By Glenn Frank
Glenn Frank argues that large scale corporations offer leadership chances not available in earlier times. He notes management as a science with training programs to uncover latent talent, promising more opportunity and fairness for capable individuals who rise by merit rather than birth or whim.
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University of Wisconsin
Century Magazine
McClure Newspaper
Ducky
Modery
Sas
Odds On Alice and the social page satire hits
A caustic Washington dispatch mocks social precedence battles led by Mrs. Longworth Jauterces and Mrs. Gann amid garbled personals. The piece parodies publicity stunts, political figures, and celebrity ads, lampooning Edith Parse and a Wichita police story, with jabs at Greta Garbo and national advertising.
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Alice
Longworth
Gann
Washington Dispatch
Brain Tests From Society Page
Intelligence tests described as a slant on mental rating are given in universities. Exercise groups show letter changes across sequences. Readers mark each changed letter as guided, with six word ladders and a final note referencing Society Page answers.
Abe Martin on Thaw and beauty doctors
A satirical note mocks beauty doctors and accuses Harry Thaw of lying to charm girls and then tormenting them. The quip frames Thaw as a would be “dry ferret” in a jab at his conduct.
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Harry Thaw
Brooklyn Bridge District Recalled In Vivid Streetlife Tour
New York observers describe the Brooklyn Bridge area as a bustling urban panorama. The scene blends newsies pretzels and ragged street vendors with open-air audiences and bustling transit below the arches. The piece contrasts past nightlife with today’s wealth and roving journalists recall Mannie Chappelle and older social scenes while noting contemporary excesses and daily city noise.
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Unveiled statue of Fighting Bob La Follette in Capitol
Washington daybook notes the unveiling in Statuary Hall of the marble likeness of former Wisconsin senator Robert M. La Follette by Jo Davidson. The piece captures his famed 18 hour 20 minute filibuster and recounts anecdotes from his son Phillip and Justice Crownhart about La Follette's uncompromising style and enduring influence.
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Wisconsin
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Charles H. Grownhart
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Waterways link Amazon to La Plata proposed by explorers
New geographic note from Washington reports German explorers revealing a water link via the Casiquiare between the Orinoco and Amazon systems. They describe a potential itinerary sailing from New York to Buenos Aires, aided by amphibious planes, reducing travel time to about one week. The plan envisions using the Orinoco, Casquiare canal, Negro, Madeira, Guajara Mirim, Paraguay, and Parana rivers.
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Washington, D. C
South America
Amazon
Tha Plata
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Brazil
Paraguay
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la Plata
National Geographic Society
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Azures
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Negro
Manaos
Madeira
Guajara Mirim
Guapere
Parana
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Orinaca
Buenos Aires
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del Prete
Paraguay River
Cuapores
Maderin
Amagon
Para
Hellei Air Service
Tesser Antilles
Pernambuco
Amerrica
Iquitos
Mississippi
Ohio
Pittsburgh
Mellon on Saving and Opportunity
Andrew Mellon argues that saving part of earnings is vital for success. Savings provide insurance against misfortune and enable seizing golden opportunities often missed due to lack of capital.
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Mellon
Andrew Mellon
Circle of Crime: Bootleggers Use Grave Bricks for Stills
Cincinnati Enquirer reports a Jacksonville bootlegger ring manufacturing illegal stills from bricks stolen from graves in a local cemetery. The more bricks they steal, the more stills they construct, highlighting a grim chain of theft and illicit production during Prohibition era.
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Cincinnati, Enquirer
Jacksonville
Super-Beacon Tried at Airport Cleveland Ohio
Fog yields to powerful beams from a new airport beacon at Cleveland municipal airport. Engineers of General Electric National Lamp Works designed a rotating unit producing red and white light to guide pilots, with high intensity beams from lower units and higher angle floodlights.
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Cleveland
National Lamp Works
General Electric Company
Cleveland Municipal
Compacts and Comics from Ancient Ur and Modern Satire
G Leonard Wooley compares ancient beauty rites in Ur to modern cosmetics noting flappers and vamps with colorful compacts. He describes clay panels showing mules drinking goblets and monkeys as bar staff, calling them antiquity's comic strips. A Philadelphia Inquirer piece mocks vegetable life and parsnip conferences as trivial yet humorous.
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G. Leonard Wooley
Sunverin
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