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Newspaper

Waterloo Evening Courier

Location

Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America

Date

May 08, 1914

Page

2

Waterloo Evening Courier and Reporter Publication Details

Waterloo Evening Courier and Waterloo Reporter publish daily except Sunday by The W I Hartman Company at 209 Park Avenue. President and Editor John C Hartman. A W Daily Park Week rates and mail subscriptions listed. Circulation claims larger bona fide Waterloo. Advertising rates available on request. Want ads sold per word with a minimum. Special price on contracts.

Waterloo Evening Courier Waterloo Reporter W. Ih. Hartman Company Waterloo

The Sioux City Journal on Third District campaign platforms

The Sioux City Journal argues against candidates shaping their own platforms before party convention. It contends the primary reveals the party will and the convention should reflect that choice. The Courier and Reporter counters, saying the candidate should seek public will through the candidate and platform process.

Sioux City Journal Gardner Massachusetts Law Third Sioux City Courier Lim Pardeulirts Didate

Down Town Tennis Courts Urged In New River Front Park

Business leaders back reserving part of the downtown river front park for public tennis courts with YMCA maintenance in exchange for member access. They urge keeping some green space for general public use while adding a city play area near shower facilities and baths.

Christian Association Paris Prospect Park New Park

Short Ballot Experiment in St Paul Heralds Reform

The St Paul municipal election featured the shortest ballot in the city’s history with twenty names. Proponents claim the shorter ballot reduces guesswork and confusion, improving voter understanding and efficiency. The Civic League of St Louis backs moving many offices to appointment, arguing fewer elected posts can enhance governance. The piece lauds St Paul as a pioneer and predicts wider adoption.

St. Paul Civic League of

Gazetta’s Quest to Prove All-Knowing Press Cracks

The Iton Gazette mocks its own omniscience by claiming it could answer any question from Ark first mate to eclipse causes. A Milbank inquiry reaches the Courier and Reporter raising questions about author names plus a Hebrew letter origin doubt in Ogreeta North Carolina.

Iton Gazette Gazetta Seine Madagascar St. Patrick Werrer Morissey Heenan Courier Milbank, & C Badie T Odom Ogreeta N. C Sadia L. Odom Tsade

Our Opportunity to Demonstrate with Mother

A poetic note invites public discussion on a deep feeling labeled as Mother. It claims some subjects defy public discourse and that only personal growth can influence them. The text promises a forthcoming demonstration next Sunday to honor this subject.

Biggs Christian Register

Fat as Fate A Satire by George Fitch

Fat is a comical essay on fat as a social nuisance and a social asset. It mocks dieting vanity while noting fat appears in society, the aging process, and the futility of cures, ending with a defense of philosophy over body image.

Love For Woman Moves the World This Thoughtful Maxim

A speaker extols the redemptive power of love from women, arguing it surpasses sermons and institutions in shaping virtue and progress. The writer cites Goethe, Dante Beatrice, and Shakespeare to claim women inspire greatness and moral action, while noting perversion harms morality.

Goethe Beatrice United States

Political talk and party alignments in early Iowa

A collage of editorials from Sioux City Journal Boone News Republic Dubuque Times Journal Nevada Representative discusses Connolly Meredith and Schenk Lee governor candidacy temperance enforcement and Democratic Republican tensions within early 20th century political debates.

Sioux City Journal Connolly Meredith Basher Schenk Boone Dubuque Nevada Grant Club Holden Aith

Accomplished Foremothers And Old-Fashioned Mother Myth

A collection of quips and reflections on old-fashioned motherhood and sturdy forebears. The items contrast myth about the mother at forty with humorous lines about gens and domestic labor across generations, citing Gilman and others.

New York Charlotte Perkins Gilman Bald Brealtfast

Fragmentary political manifesto voice with exhortations

The text offers a sweeping, abstract call to action praising patriotic work and frequent taxation as a tool, framed in grandiose rhetoric about enthusiastic welcome and cordiality. It reads like a loose, archaic political oration lacking concrete events or entities.

Things in General

A digest of scattered editorial excerpts from Sioux City Tribune Burlington Hawk-Eye Clinton Herald and Des Moines Tribune. Topics range from Upton Sinclair's influence on Rockefeller matters to educator salaries in Iowa and a critique of migratory bird protections. Also notes series on troubled wills across Lincoln New York and Denver with a proposal to abolish wills.

Sioux City Burlington Hawk-Eye Thomas H. MacBride Iowa University Homer H. Seerley State Normal School Des Moines Tribune Lincoln Neb New York Denver Washington

Fuss at Ames Stirs Debate Over School Leadership

The Ames State School controversy centers on Professor Kennedy and Jim Trewin with the state board of education. Marshalltown Times-Republican argues for open publicity and prioritizing school interests over individuals to resolve internal disputes and protect Iowa education progress. The piece urges full, public airing of contentions to clarify friction and its causes for the state.

Marshalltown Times-Republican Ames Kennedy Jim Trewin State Board of Education Tt Sa Iowa Trewin

Greater Iowa trip to boost state progress in Mason City

Mason City hosts a delegation from Greater Iowa with Col. Hugh Shepard guiding a dinner for notable Iowans. The purpose is to mobilize support for broader Iowa publicity, agricultural expansion, and a possible Iowa building at the San Francisco fair, amid appeals to legislators for funding.

Mason City Globe-Gazette Mason City Iowa Hugh Shepard San Francisco

Authority and justice in university review process

The text argues that authorities have power to relieve a staff member and bind or loosen control, focusing not on their authority but on whether the action is just to the individual. If the professor appeals to the state, his service warrants a respectful hearing of his explanations.

Hullo Wigglesworth Cleveland Plain Dealer

Sickles Controversy Reopens Gettysburg Debate

The New York Evening Post reflects on General Daniel B. Sickles death and the Gettysburg controversy. It notes partisan praise and military doubt, cites his leg loss as a factor in avoiding court martial, and mentions remaining Civil War figures like Grenville M. Dodge, James H. Wilson, Nelson A. Miles, Joshua L. Chamberlain, and the ongoing public interest in wartime leadership.

New York Evening Post Daniel B. Sickles Gettysburg Lincoln Spain Sickles Grenville M. Dodge Council Bluffs James H. Wilson Wilmington Nelgon A. Miles Joshua L. Chamberlain Maine

3-Grain Tablet Maes Flesh Adopts Weight Gains

An old advertisement promotes 3-grain hypo-nuclane tablets claiming to improve weight and color and restore normal stomach and nerve function. It asserts red lips, pink cheeks, and 10 to 80 pounds weight increases after several months of use and urges consulting a physician or druggist.

Candidacy Announcements for Black Hawk County Officials

A sweep of notices lists candidates for state representative district tightening in Black Hawk County and nearby races. Names include Upton Kepford, John B. Tuthill, E Duke Nave n Sidney D. Smith, James S. Bason, H E H Tullar, Clayton E Bronson, T R Melhinney, William J Burbank, and H W Grovt, all pledging to run in the June 1, 1914 primaries or Republican and Democratic contests.

Black Hawk County Upton B. Kepford District Court John 8. Tuthill E. Duke Naven Sidney D. Smith E. A. Leighton James 8. Bason H. EH. Tullar Waterloo Clayton E. Bronson William J. Burbank Black Hawk-Grundy H.W. Grovt

Resinol Cream Cleared Pimples in Atlanta Woman’s Testimony

A Atlanta businesswoman reports her face, previously covered with pimples, cleared after using Resinol Soap and Resinol Ointment. She notes the transformation to a soft velvet complexion and credits constant use, signed by Miss E. Gaddis of 284 South Pryor St.

Atlanta Miss E Gaddis South Pryor St

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