Waterloo Courier announces candidates and social concerns
The Waterloo Courier lists political notices for county attorney recorder sheriff and supervisor races in June 1912. It laments youth delinquency, urging improved home life and education, and calls for stricter enforcement of vagrancy and compulsory schooling laws to curb idle youth and crime.
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Wirt P
NQXIE
Apolis
Orbany
Tack Hawk County
F. MM. Shores
Black Hawk County
Black Hank County
M. &. Cline
W. D. Strayer
Waterloo Boys
Waterloo
Up Against It The Iowa GOP And Roosevelt Clash
A digest from several papers notes Republican tensions with Cummins and Roosevelt, Minnesota and Wisconsin shifts against Taft, and saloon interests pressing a whisky plank. Commentary remarks on Ismay Titanic fallout and English attitudes toward lords.
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Mt. Vernon
Iowa
Cummins
Roosevelt
A Disjointed Snippet Reads Like Gossip in Dialogue
A fragment from the Boston Transcript features banter about divorce and privacy in New York. A brief exchange shows a judge and a wife discussing a maid while a child hears about Shakespeare authorship.
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Boston Transcript
Satire and mischief fill a modern news page
A collage of magazine humor and political quips shows writers mimicking fine prose to lampoon elections and editorials. Quotations from the Washington Star Harper’s Weekly Chicago Tribune and Popular Magazine reveal playful sarcasm about speed in cars or solemn birthday obituaries, highlighting a nimble culture of mock rhetoric.
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William Allen White
Nebraska
Popular Magazine
The Pendulum in Child Rearing and Its Pitfalls
A reflective essay argues that lavish parenting can spoil children and cites examples of families oscillating between strictness and indulgence. It critiques the pendulum method, where parents swing from extreme control to extreme laxity, often harming children's development.
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Lawa
Towa
Cuticura Remedies Help A Back Skin Disorder Patient
A 1911 testimonial from W. A. Armstrong of Cothin Kansas describes a years long severe back skin eruption and itch being cured within weeks by Cuticura Remedies. The ad notes Cuticura Soap Ointment and Rusolvent as effective for skin diseases and offers free samples with a book on skin care from Potter Drug & Chou in Boston.
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Nsw
W. A. Armstrong
Cothin
Kan
Potter Drug & Chou
Cory
Devt
Boswn
Pendulum parenting and kidney cure commercials in one page
A reader laments extreme church zeal harming childrearing and asks if zeal should yield discretion. The page includes a testimonial by H W Taggart praising Foley Kidney Pills for kidney pain relief and recovery.
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E. M. Markham
W. Mill Jr
Wihona
Minn
Foley
H. W. Taggart
Delaware County News Names Roy Hilton New Editor
Manchester Iowa May 28 Special. For the sixth time this year the Delaware County News will change managers with the arrival of Monday June 3. Roy Hilton, recently back from a Europe tour, will serve as the new editor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Delaware County News
Roy Hilton
Europe
Fairbank Fight Disputed Marshal Duffy Incident
Fairbank editor rebuts a May 18 letter claiming a town in a fight night. The reply says the altercation occurred at Nyery barn when marshal McCunniss attacked Duffy with a billy, was himself knocked down, and that Duffy defended himself and took the weapon. It argues on delay in weapon grievances and clarifies marshal tenure.
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Fairbank
Courier
Nyery
Duffy
McCunniss
Gunfire prompts speculation on motive and fair play
The fragment notes a shooting linked to a grievance, asking who waited for a chance to retaliate. It questions the idea of fair play and suggests the incident arose from imagined grievances.
Borax marketing boosts sales and household use
The article extols borax as a versatile odorless antiseptic aiding cleanliness in sinks pipes laundry and cleaning. It highlights a local ad push for 20 Mule Team borax and includes endorsements from E M Markham and H W Taggart. It ends with a notice about summer hours for Snow's College of Dressmaking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snow’s College of Dressmaking
The McCoy Directory Co. Directory Notice
A public notice warns customers about impostor directory agents seeking contracts for a new city directory. It urges signing only contracts bearing The McCoy Directory Co. name and says Waterloo directory work has long been published by the firm. The firm's manager W H McCoy states representatives will arrive with credentials.
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City Directory
McCoy Directory CO
Waterloo
W. H McCoy
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