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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1918
Page
2
A Waterloo newspaper column rails at the Kaiser and praises a strong peace in the postwar context. It contrasts German leadership with Allied aims, mocks Kaiser's cowardice, and notes public sentiment as soldiers return from service while homefront support remains vital.
Fragmentary OCR shows several personal names and initials including Ralph, Wehee, Jeekeson, McCoy, Steed, Glockner, lacking context or action. No dates, places, or organizations readable to determine event or notice type.
Virginia Senator Martin, chair of the Appropriations committee, urges immediate action to salvage and cancel costly war contracts. He argues production should stop, expenses paid, and machinery repurposed to essential needs, warning continued munitions output risks waste as peace approaches.
Iowa editorials call for citizens to embrace postwar duties and work toward a greater nation. The piece stresses lessons from the war, sacrifice for others, and waking visions of new duties to build a better world.
A health page discusses scrofula, its evolving meaning from a named disease to a tuberculosis related condition. It notes the old remedies, warns against patent medicines, and advocates hygiene, nutrition, air, baths, and ventilation as preventive measures. It also mentions treatments like iodine, cod liver oil, and iron, plus a Q&A about torpid liver and medical guidance.
A writer urges readers to stop trivializing colds and to treat illness with rest and care. He praises employers who send sick workers home, urges proper sneezing etiquette, and reflects on potential long term health and economic benefits from reducing the spread of respiratory illness.
Johnnie Blackbird and Jack Sparrow are rivals in a barnyard quarrel over crumbs and bravado. Jack taunts and outsmarts Johnnie, but a scarecrow scare leads to a near-miss with a gunshot as the two spar over crumbs and pride.
Fifty years ago on November 12 1868 Waterloo reports Grant’s price in Black Hawk county at 2580 and Seymour at 41 dollars. Turkeys could be fattened in fourteen days before Thanksgiving if penned and fed. The new Association block on east Side nears completion and is praised as a pride to citizens. Henry Sherman an early Waterloo settler and business figure died last Friday and left a lasting name for the city. Improvements by Dr Buechley on MiN square include a fine plank walk. The Young Men’s Christian Association is now an established city institution with growing membership rooms at Commercial and Fifth streets. Charles Sumner’s re election to the U S Senate is viewed as settled. Charles Francis Adams made a polling error at Quinny Massachusetts by depositing a receipt bill for a written ballot.
Forty years ago on November 13 1878 Theodore N Vail of Waterloo resigned as railway mail service superintendent citing Democratic cuts to expenses. The piece also notes the Thayer family reunion in Jesup with 64 relatives, plus various local events such as a mother walking six miles to town, a new residence being finished, antelope park plans, a prairie fire near Fifteen Mile Grove, and a barber’s two for a nickel offer.
Atlantic Indiana report states William Dallinger, a local young man, died after a gas pipe exploded during a peace celebration. He and companions loaded a piece of gas pipe with powder and ignited it, causing a brutal wound. The accident occurred during the public event, and the injured man was taken to the hospital where doctors fear he will not recover.
An unsigned ad extols Fagged Out Women Vine as a tonic for tired run-down people. It claims its beef and cod liver peptones iron and manganese help blood and strength, with testimonials from Dukedom Tennessee and Burdett Nebraska about nervous breakdowns and restored health. It markets Vinal as a universal remedy for women men and children alike.
News of the armistice reaches cities as crowds gather, cars and automobiles flood streets in celebration. General Pershing features in the jubilant scenes with hometown recognition and planned ceremonies across towns and counties.
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