Root on Railroads and Borah Attacks Stir National Debate
Elihu Root advocates private railroad ownership with selective rate regulation to ensure self sustaining profits and public benefit. The piece defends Senator Borah against partisan attacks over his opposition to the league and covenants, noting strikes and Prohibition sentiment shaping policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elihu Root
United States
Root
Congress
Ufe
Qone
Wick
Substitute Speaker Sparks In Neighborhood Talk
A discussion in many neighborhoods centers on the rise of substitute speakers at events. Residents complain substitutes fail to capture the tone and leading topic of the shows.
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Copyright National Newspaper Service
Health Talks on caffeine and nicotine effects
Health talks explain caffeine from coffee tea and tobacco elevates blood pressure when overused. They advise giving up or limiting intake to one cup of coffee at breakfast and one cup at supper. tobacco should be avoided. More on this tomorrow.
Blood Pressure Basics and Home Health Advice
An article explains sphygmomanometer use to measure systolic and diastolic pressure and discusses normal ranges. It warns high diastolic readings signal heart stress, and excess food and alcohol contribute to hypertension. It also includes reader questions on rupture in infants and aging weakness with cautious medical guidance.
Fifty Years Ago May Twenty Seventh 1865 Local Notes
A playful column recalls a delegation of boys with puppies to our office and notes the return of Edwin Mesick on crutches after a broken leg. Items mention twins born to the senior editor, a new deputy collector Henry Harrison, sympathy with Cuban cause, and repairs to the local railroad eating house.
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Bologna
Edwin Mesick
Check Rowing and Butter Prices Highlight 1879 Iowa Items
Forty years ago on May 28 1879 reports note W H Jenkins proving corn plantability by a check rower on Daniel W Kings farm Mt Vernon township and new patented implements saving ground marking. Excursion plans from Cedar Falls to Alberta plus Iowa valley scenery drawn forward. Butter quoted 7 1 2 cents. eggs 1 cent 2 dozen. rapid Waterloo Chicago rail time cut to 11 hours 30 minutes from seven and a half hours. Logs found 44 feet deep in Geneseo township well. possible tamarack cedar wood mysteries. Sam Cook ships a ton of butter to France with expected two tons this week.
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WIL Hartman CO
West Park Ave
John Hartman
W. Peterson
Treas
Gen'l Mer
Jotciahiil
Waterloo
Iowa
Menber
Associated Press
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Washington, D. C
Eilean
G. Dougherty
Corr
New York
Philadelphia
Story
Brooks & Finley
W. H. Jenkins
Daniel W. King
Mt. Vernon Township
Carl Munger
Tama County
William Spencer
Geneseo Township
Sam Cook
France
Wrecks and Disasters and Widowed River Floods
Yesteryear notes recount a May 1899 passenger train derailment near Waterloo after heavy rain. One porter killed and many injured as floodwaters rose, with rescue efforts and a rare theater appearance by Richard Mansfield in Cedar Rapids. A separate wreck near Waterloo left multiple dead and dozens hurt due to washed tracks. The era’s Courier published a four page extra with sketches reflecting the event.
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Neary Oelwein Yesternayetna A. G. W
John Manning
Wa Iterloo
Courier
B. J. Griswald
Henry Weis
W. EF. Schollian
Farse
Coffeyville
Tan
armanaiKan
R. K
Madam Cow Hosts Farm Party Tale
Madam Cow plans a party in her barn and invites Mr. Horse from the adjacent barn. The plan aims to bring the farm animals together for a shared social event in a light children story style.
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Mr. Horse
Madam Cow
Barnyard guests gather for a lively supper party
Mr Horse and Madam Cow invite all the animals to a barnyard party. Donkey and Billy Goat are invited despite worries they will misbehave. Guests arrive early, crowd the door, and line up for a long supper spread of corn cake meat cakes and other dishes while dancing fails.
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Mr. Horse
Madam Cow
Auyang
Donkey
Billy Goat
Dog
Mistress Pass
Madameon
BRAIN TESTS A 60 Minute Challenge From Sam Loud
A nostalgic puzzle note recalls a wood brain teaser once popular about 75 years ago. It explains a solution method in 52 moves and claims an actual solution in 47 moves. The old game used wooden pegs and holes in square centers to swap white and black pegs.
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Sam Lord
Rtnddadies
Ambulance Collision At Franklin And Park Avenues
An ambulance from Hile Tan Gindt and a light automobile driven by W F Johnson collided at 1 p m at the Franklin Park avenue intersection. The car was badly wrecked and dragged for some distance while the ambulance suffered only a blown tire. No one was injured. Florence L Sage and Erwin Sage return from Lake Mills and France for a family reunion soon.
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Hile- Tan & Gindt
W. F. Johnson
Franklin and
Park Avenue
Funeral notices and local obituaries in Dubuque and area
Deaths include Revered J J Norris a Dubuque priest on his way home from Excelsior Springs burial Mount Olivet with pallbearers named. Maria Baxter dies at 65 at her son EB A McCullough Castle Hill funeral O Keefe Towne chapel burial Fairview. Clarence Marquis dies near Cedar Falls funeral Thursday Hileman Gindt chapel burial Fairview. Jennie Mae Putnam dies 14 pneumonia at Presbyterian Hospital funeral services in African M E church body to Canton Mississippi. Local ads note aerial camera tests by Miller Scales and various classified requests and sales across the region.
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J. J. Norris
JL Slattery
St. Joseph
Eagle Center
Dubuque
J. M. Molloy
Sacred Heart Church
Father Norris
Kansas City
Excelsior Springs
County Meath
Ireland
AH Hallows College
Dublin
St. Raphael's Cathedral
Calmar, Lourdes
Martia Baxter
EB. A. McCullough
Castle Hill
Brooklyn
N. Y
Springfield
Civeside
Canada
O’keefe & Towne
Fairview
Clarence D. Marquis
Cedar, Falls
Hileman & Gindt
N. S. Methfessel
Jennie Mae Putnam
Presbyterian Hospital
M. E
Canton, Miss
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Borab
New York World
Carranza
Mexico
Rio Grande
Idaho
Washington
Illinois
Borah
League of Nations
Hoe
Mr. Borah
Des Moines
Joan B. Buber
Tie
van Duyn
Mar’m
Artemus Ward
Shanghai
Jesse Wasson
la Porte City
Henry Harrison
Capt. Pardee
H. RB. Hunt
Sarah Mun
W. Tilley
Leigh Hunt
Cedar Falls
Alberta
Ifse
R.& N. Railway
Chicago
Odell
Richard Mansfield
Cedar Rapids
John Alexander Dowie
Zion City
Brown’s
Opera House
Jeanie Jewell
Sandman
Mrs. F. A. Walker
Cauli Flowar
Tero
Harry
Maybs
Seveen
Sven
4Th St. Bridge
Y. M
F. R. Sigworth
Hlizabeth
Anamosa
Harry W. Sigworth
Howard Woolman
Rocky Mountains
Wyoming
Colorado
Christ Episcopal Church
Comimunion
Waterloo Real Estate Board
Russell-Lamson
Jefferson Barracks
Paul T. Phelan
John Gorshe
Ossie Jackson
Kenneth Randolph
Infantry
Hans Jacobson
Jacobson
Wallingford
R. B. Story
Hammond
Walnut St. Baptist School
Thurs
Sam Loud
Florence L. Sage
TF. C. Sage
Lake Mills
Minn
Erwin Sage
Miller-Scales Company
Ladies’ Home Journal
W. A. Wiliams
West Fourth St
Mount Olivet Cemetery
J. W. Bernardy
J. L. Rosaner
T. H. Keegan
N. E. Reiter
John Kauffman
Roy Rust
William Rinn
Tom Noonan
Martha Baxter
Milo Miller
C. Pierce
Miller- Scales Company
Pierce
Mulberry St
John Swift
Western Ave
Plymouth Rocks
Rhode Island
Wm. T. Cumming
Reinbeck
Gibson, Hudson
Riehl Street
East Fourth Street
Albert Pick and Co
Puritan Confectionary
Osage
Smith Bros
Fox Shoe
Sycamore St
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