Safeguarding Our Youth M C A drive boosts Waterloo boys
The big annual YMCA membership drive begins tomorrow inviting Waterloo households to support boys through recreation, athletics, and guidance. Even families without a boy can back the effort to fund access for those lacking funds, with local businessmen providing arrangements to ensure no boy is excluded. The piece stresses urgent need amid wartime excitement and urges broad community backing.
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Waterloo
France
M. CG. A
E Fentima TV WW Mennke vs Van Metre Jackson BicCoy
A fragmented court docket entry lists the matchup between E Fentima TV WW Mennke and EL Van Metre Jackson BicCoy with unreadable details. The brief item suggests a scheduled contest or dispute but lacks dates venues or outcomes.
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Ww. W
Mennke Vv
EL van Metre Jackson BicCoy
After-war map outlines Europe to redefine borders
The article discusses a Saturday Courier map showing postwar boundary changes. Austria disappears as an independent nation, its southern regions joining Serbia and Bosnia Herzegovina under a merged state. Romania enlarges by adding Bessarabia and Transylvania, with Czecho Slovaks among those first to separate from Austria. The text notes ethnic Dutch Reuttenians and race groupings shaping the new map.
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Silesia
Moravia
Hungary
Transylvania
Poland
Spain
Prussia
Baltic
Danzig
Galicia
Austria
Italy
Trentino
Trieste
Albania
South Adriatic Sea
Greece
Bulgaria
Dardanelles
Bosporus
Sea of Marmora
Alsace-Lorraine
Germany
Europe
Simonds
Saturday Evening
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Roumania
Bessarabia
Ulcers of the stomach and general health guidance
A health column explains that stomach ulcers are more common than once thought and often misunderstood. It describes ulcer formation, risks of perforation and peritonitis, causes from corrosion by acid and disease, and possible outcomes from healing to cancer. It also notes typical affected ages and medical guidance from Dr Currier on patient questions.
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Neuri
Currier
Dr. Currier
Courier
The Two Selves in One Mind
A reflective essay on the split within personality, describing an upper self that strives to do right and a greedy under self that urges comfort and excuses. The piece explores jealousy in in laws, greed for sweets, and the constant tug of conflicting impulses, noting that most people are not permanently ruled by a single dark side.
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Mr. Hydes
How the Soldier's Pay Was Raised
Iowa editors recount the public debate over army pay raises, noting James W. Good's proposed $30 monthly increase and the party split in Congress. The piece contrasts Republican votes in favor with Democratic opposition and cites implications for soldiers compared with riveters at Hog Island. It closes with satirical items on germ-free air aloft and women in brick manufacture.
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Marshalltown
Hog Island
The Sandman Story Blanch Doll and Her Lost Hair Tale
A fable of Blanch the doll recounts a dollhouse accident. A fire day, a window, a dangling fall, and a hair loss caused by a dog tugging at her curls. Blanch recalls the terror, the glue attempt, and the memory of her lost hair.
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Teddy Bear
Teddy
Blanch
Blaugh
Blanch Doll
Taddy Bean
Rianeh
Doll and uniforms in a wartime buyer’s plea
The passage blends a children's doll dialogue about hair and happiness with wartime notes on Liberty Bonds and soldiers’ needs. It references a Teddy Bear, Blanch Doll, and a line about a boy in advertising for Fourth Liberty Loan bonds. It also includes a letter from a Crack American battery mentioning Chateau-Thierry, cold weather, and clothing shortages amid New England mill strikes for higher wages, highlighting wartime strain and labor unrest.
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Teddy Bear
Luther P. Burlingame
Liberty Loan Bonds
Crack American
Chateau-Thierry
New England
No Inefficiency or Slackened Power in War Work
A call to self denial and continuous effort in production and logistics to support troops at the front. Emphasizes that health and comfort of soldiers matter, and that personal interests must yield to the common cause. Warns of enemy influence and greed hampering essential industry, urging all wheels to turn until victory is won.
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