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Watering Evening Concrce ne steamy sate. Iowa paper notes Iowa population, reapportionment debate, and the 1920 census effects on the Sixty-eighth Congress. Discusses shifts in urban rural trends, employment, and potential move toward agricultural independence, with local humor and commentary on Prohibition and national politics. Includes syndicated notes on serbia, film stars, and President Wilson's Thanksgiving proclamation.
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Towa
Iowa
Washington
Congress
Scanning the Future Population Trends in Cities
The text notes a long running shift of population toward urban areas, a trend evident for years and accelerating before and after 1914. It frames the urban pull as a pronounced and enduring phenomenon shaping society.
The Great British Railway Mania and Its Crash
A detailed chronicle of Britain's 1840s railway fever from skepticism to frenzy, with millions invested by all social ranks. It tracks 1035 companies formed by 1845, inflated shares, ballooning expectations, and sweeping bankruptcies as the bubble burst and the nation paid the price.
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Great Britain
Dublin & Galway
Radbey
Peverey
London
Lever
England
McClure
Friend Wife A Sober Horseman In Distress
Andrew, claiming to be as sick as a horse, describes a wild horseback ride that left him bruised and dizzy. He asks his wife to fetch arnica and soothing syrup, insisting he is not well and that the ride ended with a chaotic scene and a mounted officer guiding the horse away.
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Andrew
Imogene
Sarah
Billy Sands
Billy
Health Talks by Johan R. Huber A M D
In this Health Talks column Dr Johan R Huber discusses dangers of haphazard drug use and consumer ads. He recalls a maid near poisoning from coal tar samples and warns readers to scrutinize what they ingest or administer at home. He answers questions on baths, tuberculosis precautions, sleeping outdoors, and window insulations for TB patients.
Association Opens Quarters for City Club Meetings
The Greater Waterloo association will make its new quarters available to outside groups to use idle space. Approved by the executive board committee, the plan follows a suggestion from the Waterloo Woman's Club to share the club rooms. The proposal, part of last Tuesday's director reports, will be presented to the board next Tuesday at 4730 p.m. at the association offices.
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Greater Waterloo Association
West Club
Waterloo Woman's Club
Toder l
Brain Tests by Sam Lord Solved as Word Transform Puzzles
A fragmented item presents a brain teaser by Sam Lord about transforming words with one-letter substitutions while preserving valid English words. It includes sequences changing seed to corn, white to black, and hill to date, with cryptic notes on pace, timing, and precautions among garbled lines.
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Bush
Hill
The Stubborn Donkey Moves Through a Barnyard Tale
The Sandman story recounts Mr Donkey refusing to budge from a doorway despite steps over, nudges, and pleas from Mme Cow and others. A talking barnyard bee calls him stubborn and a final sting prompts him to leap away to a meadow, learning a lesson about defying others.
Country Town Decline Noted In Midwest Survey
Associated Press reports pastor L M Birkhead found rural towns in Minnesota Iowa Missouri Kansas Nebraska Colorado Illinois Wisconsin losing population or stagnant. He notes lack of leadership and opportunities for youth, weak merchants, rise of farm cooperatives, and increasing tenancy with 60 percent of land held by tenants in some counties.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
Middlewest
L. M. Birkhead
All Souls’ Unitarian
Birkhead
State Departments of Agriculture
Agricultural Colleges
Legion Seeks Aid From Waterloo Business Men for New Rooms
Becker Chapman American Legion post plans to involve 50 leading Waterloo business men in deciding mutual service. An option on the West Club rooms was secured, and funds are sought to renovate. Proposals include dances and a pledge system where businessmen contribute over several years to furnish the post space.
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Waterloo
Becker- Chapman Post
American Legion
J. N. Jacobson
Post
Cowbells on Hunter So He Won't Get Lost
Horace Jackson, a Chicago grain broker who nearly starved in the Ely woods after getting lost on a big game hunt four years ago, is back in the Duluth area for a two week hunt guided this time. Chicago board of trade friends tied a large cowbell to him, promising it will help him not get lost and scare wolves away.
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Michigan
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New York
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Ohio
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Massachusetts
New Jersey
North Carolina
Maine
Missouri
Bleventera
Ani
Germany
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Towa
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Puss
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Mr. Dog
Mr. Donker
Associated Press
Duluth
Minn
Horace Jackson
Chicago
Ely
Garry
Shaw
Hoover and Labor Leaders Confer in Washington
Washington November 16. Industrial peace and related issues were discussed at a conference between leaders of organized labor and Herbert Hoover former federal food administrator and member of Wilsons second industrial conference Hoover came at the request of Samuel Gompers to the executive council of the American Federation of Labor and said he had traveled from San Francisco to discuss the entire industrial and employment situation.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Organized Labor
Fleibert Hoover
Wilson
Hoover
Executive Council
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
San Francisco
Work of compiling jury list begins in county
The jury selection process started yesterday afternoon with a commission of Wirt P. Hoxie John T. Swift of Waterloo and L. H. Keep of Cedar Falls. From pollbooks of the recent election 3158 names will be canvassed to choose both men and women for jury service. Five hundred talesmen are to be drawn from Waterloo and Waterloo townships while 100 men will come from other townships as grand jurors.
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Wirt P. Hoxie
John T. Swift
Waterloo
L. H. Keep
Cedar Falls
Hast
Prohibition Party to Maintain Operation for Two Years
Virgil G. Hinshaw, chairman of the Prohibition national committee, says the party will continue to operate for at least two more years to safeguard a dry Congress and deter attempts to weaken the Volstead Act. He warns that halting major temperance groups now could let wets push beer and wine amendments. St Ansgar reports note visits to Waterloo, Milwaukee trips, and social events including a Knights of Pythias ball for departing locals Vanderpoel.
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China
Prohibition Party
Virgil G. Hinshaw
Prohibition National Committee
National
Ae Hinshaw
ST. Ansgar
Hegel
Maybeth
Waterloo
M. A. Christianson
Milwaukee
Wis
Frank Gaffney
Cedar Falls
Vanderpoel
Los Angeles
Cal
Nature Notes by John Burroughs on hawks snow and snakes
Nature Notes by John Burroughs questions and answers discuss the hen hawk as a farmer ally after a study of 300 hawks showing a diet of meadow mice. Snow alters landscape perception by blanking color, and snakes evoke alarm in dogs and other animals, with birds reacting similarly to reptiles.
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Agricultural Department
City Receives County Vouchers To Replenish Coffers
Waterloo's treasury received 43220.30 from County Treasurer W J Burbank and was countersigned by Mayor N W Frisbie at 9 am. Funds come from taxes and cover operating general and sidewalk sewer funds plus overdrawn accounts as semimonthly payroll nears. A deputy clerk called the inflow like “moving money from home.”
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Waterloo
W. J. Burbank
N. W. Frisbie
Isalso
Gold mining in Alaska hit by wartime wages says Dr Roberts
Beaver Colo Nov 16 Associated Press Dr Milner Roberts dean of the college of mines University of Washington says high wartime wages in the United States cripple Alaska gold mining by drawing miners northward and abroad He cites 1915 output 16702782 and 1919 9 million with a possible further drop He notes wartime outflow of British miners and the inability of Alaskan producers to match Pacific coast wage scales affecting development and prospecting. Storm Lake Register reports Robert Taft son of ex President Taft elected to Ohio legislature.
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Associated Press
Beaver
Colo
United States
Alaska
North
Milner Roberts
College of Mines
University of Washington
Seattle
American Mining Congress
Roberts
Yukon Territory
Canada
America
States
Pacific Coast
Storm Lake Register
Robert Taft
William Toward Taft
Ohio
Col
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
She Darkened Her Gray Hair Boots remedy claim ad
Mrs. E. H. Boots of Buchanan County Indiana promotes a home hair darkening remedy. A half pint of water with bay rum Barbo Compound and glycerine is applied every other day to darken gray hair without greasing the scalp.
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E. H. Boots
Buchanan County
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