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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1919
Page
2
The piece contrasts urban conditions with rural idealism noting generous complaints about weather coal and labor. It mentions Byng of Vimy and a light political jab about the sea son. A woodville Michigan anecdote adds a hen laying eggs in odd places.
Newspaper page fragment lists mailing rates and staff names for Waterloo Evening Courier. Includes publisher Hartmax, Hartman president, A W Peterson treasurer, and domestic and out-of-state subscription prices. Also notes Associated Press affiliation, advertising policies, and requests payment timing.
An editorial argues the coal miners strike will be brief and unpopular. It cites expected government protection for workers who continue, public opposition to the strike, and belief that more miners will keep working with assurance of protection. The piece predicts the strike will fail to meet its promoters’ aims.
Educational men forecast a great boom and higher attendance as American colleges prepare to aid Europe in crisis. With European universities starved of manpower, scholars and professors are scarce, while the US may offer scholarships and incentives to students from neutral and allied nations to study in America. The State Department has opened discussions on the matter.
The text discusses Carranza’s annual address criticizing U S incursions into Mexico and mistreatment of Mexicans in the United States. It notes repeated exchanges with the U S state department and argues for fair treatment of Mexicans, while referencing other domestic issues and potential political bids.
In this health column Dr Huber outlines emergency steps for apoplexy, including bed rest, neck free of clothing, head elevation, ice or wet compresses, and careful dosing of calomel or croton with castor oil. It notes possible trephination, prognosis after stroke, and cautions that recovery from paralysis is rare, with emphasis on prevention and general health.
Imogene hums a Scotch ballad as Andrew grows exasperated by Scottish dialect stories. He bans Scotch jokes, mocks Lauder, and calls for avoidance of Scots cuisine in a heated kitchen scene. The quarrel shifts from affection to disdain over cultural stereotypes and drink.
The Frame Lady on the bureau narrates a bedtime tale of miniature figures in a blue satin fan. A dancing Little Lady, jealous of parties, exits the frame with the Silver Boy and a kiss of romance. Nightly, the pair share a whispered exchange on the fan.
Feld will no doubt line up strong support, especially in the western part of the state.
Iowa editors tout hog raising as a fast path to wealth. A Monroe citizen sold a pig for 20 dollars whose offspring sold for 10 000 at a swine show in Des Moines, with claims the Orange Bay owner could fetch 15 000 for the stud. A lighthearted note contrasts mining, oil wells, and diamonds with hog profits.
In a puzzle with 15 pins in piles of three four and eight players alternately take any number from one pile the last move loses The solution uses a rule yielding a right angled triangle from the odd side by squaring 47 to get 2 209 which splits into 47 1 104 1 108 The final tally notes 2 246 rails enclosing the triangles
A Louisville salesman recalls a severe cholera morbus attack in summer 1888. He paid a hotel porter fifty cents to buy Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy, took a double dose per directions, slept, then rose at five to catch a train as a well man.
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