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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1914
Page
2
A garbled passage discusses which candidate sets a better example for voters and future applicants. It contrasts a brave mention of convictions with a claim about a man awaiting party convention and another who acts boldly, though the meaning is obscured by errors.
The Courier previews Republican primary contenders across Iowa, urging voters to support leaders like Alberto Cunomina for Senate and George W. Clarke for governor, with others including W. L. Harding, W. C. Barber, and incumbents in secretary of state, treasurer, attorney general races. It underscores progressive stances, party loyalty, and turnout, noting districts for auditor, railroad commissioners, and the Third District congressional race with candidates Law, Sweet, and Sumner.
Fragmented text references two local wholesalers and a paving project linked to an urban newspaper column. It mentions a summer show and a radiation site for production, with unclear figures and names. The piece hints at public access, taxation, and penalties, but details are obscured.
For years the Railway Mail service faced demands and profits shifted as roads logged mail and contested rates. Government plans to adjust compensation loom, with a joint committee set to decide second class matter payments while dispute over parcels post and service value fuels tension among operators.
A fragmented account describes southern states once raising vast hog numbers and curing bacon to feed populations. It notes widespread production across counties, with Georgia’s Dowareyt eters region somehow highlighted and a yearly sale of significant hog outputs, reflecting historic rural farming scale.
A fragmented eyewitness piece describes a dramatic earthquake event in Rome. The author recounts a tremor that shook a six story building, toppled walls, and left readers terrified by a collapsing floor. The narrative blends surreal imagery with a perilous scene of danger and fear.
A reader letter argues market vendors charge high prices, harming retail grocers and consumers. It defends local merchants, claims market forces reduce wholesale impact, seeks price comparisons before market visits, and praises Waterloo’s home merchants and industries.
The report notes Beecks county plans for bacon and hog production this year with ample hog numbers and fat cattle to be marketed. Despite low stock taking elsewhere, local farmers increase profits by diversifying alongside regular crops, making cattle and hog farming a leading enterprise in the county.
A 1914 Waterloo Chautauqua piece recalls the national movement begun in 1874 near New York’s lakeshore. The article highlights the lyceum tradition, its evolution into modern Chautauquas, and the aim of uplift through lectures, entertainment, and public virtue. It notes twenty two hundred Chautauquas planned nationwide, with Waterloo entering a pivotal year in deciding its future.
English writer John Milton, born 1608, studied at Cambridge and earned fame through Latin poetry, religious and political tracts, and pamphleteering. He served as Latin secretary during the Commonwealth, later authored Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, enduring battles with opponents and enduring sorrow, including a troubled marriage.
A reader recounts two sayings about youth and aging. A successful mother notes that older generations forget how it feels to be young and should avoid forcing youth to act old. Thoreau and Stevenson are invoked to argue age brings fault, yet youth often remains misunderstood by those with experience.
The 126th Presbyterian assembly urges members to resign from clubs that sell liquor and to avoid renting saloons. It endorses national prohibition while warning that a prohibitory amendment could spark mass unrest, hypocrisy, tyranny, and possible civil conflict across major cities.
The joint American Canadian party on the Alaska-Canada Boundary survey near the Porcupine River reached near Mt. St Elias summit after Mt. Natarghat ascent. A four day snow storm forced retreat 40 miles to base as supplies ran low, with Mt. St Elias at 18,000 feet.
Ruth Cameron notes a reader letter about modern daughters defying parental dress rules. The columnist offers admonitions on generational attitudes, privacy, and tidy gender norms shaping social expectations.
Washington May 30 Democratic leaders said President Wilson did not surrender to the American Federation of Labor and the administration’s anti trust program will not exempt unions. The compromise shows a back down by Samuel Gompers and labor leaders who threatened to oppose Democratic congressmen. The labor provision grants unions right to exist and prevents government dissolution actions while not shielding specific acts in restraint of trade. Gompers and colleagues abandoned the fight after Wilson stated he would not support the Bart Lett Bacon bill or similar measures.
Elkhart Indiana resident Mrs Sapre Williams describes prolonged illness including organic inflammation and weakness solved after four months with Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash. She endorses the treatment and invites others to seek guidance from the Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
A long list of 1914 political announcements for Black Hawk County officials. Candidates include W A Blough for supervisor. L Upton Kepford for state representative. John B Tutuli for district court judge. Duke Nave n for county coroner. Sidney D Smith for sheriff. Leighton for county treasurer. James S Fason for state representative. H E Tullar attorney. Clayton Be Bronson for county treasurer. B H Kascht for county supervisor. T R Meladinney for county treasurer. William J Burbank for state senator. H W Grout for county supervisor. Fred Jorth for Democratic primary voter guidance.
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