Church Experiment Prompts Film Based Sermons
A Fort Dodge church invests $1,000 in a moving picture outfit to deliver services with film and stage near the pulpit. Pastor Wright aims to use high class drama and entertainment as moral teaching, arguing pictures may attract congregations and reinforce sermons. The piece notes the trend of cinema drawing crowds on Sunday nights and questions how churches might adapt.
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Fort, Dodge
Mr. Wright
Iowa
Waterloo
Fort Dodge
Farm Auction Near Harlan Sells Orpington Hens
At a farm auction near Harlan hens from the Orpington breed sold for about $3.15 each, reflecting market interest in pure-bred stock. The item appeared in the Webster City Freeman Tribune as a brief auction note.
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Webster City
Freeman-Tribune
Harlan
New German Maneuvers on Alsace Lorraine Question
A Strasburg analysis argues German propaganda aims to keep Alsace Lorraine issues alive by indirect methods. It cites history of German settlement, emigration, and Germanized administration, contending true French majority remains despite colonists and calls for a plebiscite as a political ploy. The piece notes limited pro German sentiment to colonists and warns Americans against German influence tied to the Versailles settlement.
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United States
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Reichsland
German Immi
Italy
Belgium
Luxemburg
Orleans
Tours
Alsate-Lorraine
Reichstag
Taat
Berlin
Algace- Lorraine
Strasbourg
Britain
United States Senate
Senate
Europe
Meen
Haim
Alsace
Fifty Years Ago In The Courier November 4 1869
The issue recalls New York voting Democratic by 20,000 and Wisconsin by 8,000 for Republicans, with large Democratic majorities in Maryland and Chicago. It notes O. C. Miller admitted to the Iowa supreme court bar, discusses Waterloo cemetery relocation, the Waterloo bridge plank contract at 26 per 1000 feet, Sunday schools year round, a hydrogen gas lighting claim, and news on potato and corn crops with prices and farmer outlook.
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WB. Hartman
West Park Ave
John C. Hartman
A. W. Paterson
Treas
Gen’l
Iowa
Associated Pre
Associated Press
Audit Bureau of
Washington, D. C
Munsex Bue
Dougherty
Eeem
New York
Philadelphia
Story
Brooks & Finley
Waterloo
The
Courier
Duta Yhiliee
Mitte
Dobbin
Black Hawk
Wisconsin
Maryland
Chicago
Charles City
Big Woods
Forty Years Ago in Waterloo News and Notes
A fragment from a Waterloo era page revisits events of November 1879 and 1899: wheat prices and rural encouragement, a headline about a crowing rooster tied to a 1879 election landslide for Republicans in multiple states, obituaries of Weatherwax and Dr. Williams, local prices on butter eggs potatoes and flour, a dynamite case, resignations, Ottmar Margenthaler’s linotype, White Law Reid’s backing, and Waterloo’s new Illinois Central line plans. The piece ties local life to broader national politics and industry.
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New York
Nebraska
Illinois
Wisconsin
Health and home cooking aid tuberculosis cure
Health and home cooking are praised as essential for health, yet many homes lack this belief. The column discusses tuberculosis care, homesickness, sanatoriums, and the need for proper home management and hygiene. It explains that well patients can recover with physician guidance and labor toward health, and invites readers to send questions for Dr. John B. Huber.
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Yaour
John B. Huber
Iowa Editors Note Severe Newsprint Shortage
Des Moines Capital reports an unprecedented crisis in the newspaper industry as a severe shortage of newsprint paper disrupts operations. Executives warn prices are unpredictable and adequate supply uncertain amid a surge in advertising demand across the United States.
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Des Moines Capital
Universal
United States
The Uninvited Guest Part I at the Four-Footed Club
Mr. Crow, angry at being left out, schemes to invite Mrs. Skunk and her eight children to a dinner for wood folk. He recalls past favors to Rabbits, Dogs, Foxes, and Coon, and plans a late gathering to avoid early scrutiny. Mrs. Skunk agrees to attend. (Continued Tomorrow).
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Mr. Crow
Mr. Rabbit
Man
Dog
Mr. Fox
Ghee
Mr. Caan
Mr. Coon
Wood Chuck
Woody
Skunk
Newspaper shortages drive drastic page cuts and price limits
The text notes severe newsprint shortages across the country forcing papers to curtail production. It cites the Chicago Tribune reducing weekday pages to 32 with no advertising and mentions high paper prices and many papers facing closure or cutbacks in wartime conservation.
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Chicago Tribune
the Tribune
Conserva
The
Tribune
Brain Tests by Sam Log No 214 and 218 clue
Two rebus puzzles of interest to readers suggest a stylish dress material name. The item hints at fashion materials. answer to No 218, Mad Mon Minife and Mock, remains to be confirmed.
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Sam Log
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