Water Works for Farms Urged by Mississippi College President
President Joe Cook of the Mississippi Normal College argues farm women shoulder excessive housework from archaic water handling. He cites a U S Bureau of Education bulletin showing a sixfold water handling burden daily, and outlines a $230 home waterworks system with pump, engine, tank, fixtures, and piping to ease farm life and conserve energy.
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Joe Cook
Mis-sissippi Normal College
Cook
United States Bureau of Education
Remarkable Skin Remedy Clears Severe Pimples
A testimonial from LeRoy Roen of Saginaw Michigan describes a nine month facial eruption covered with large red pimples. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment for about ten days the skin began to heal, scabs faded, and red spots vanished. The ad notes availability and sample offers.
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Genesseo Ave
Saginaw
Mich
LeRoy
Ay Roen
T. Heaton
Wilkind
Ideas of a Plain Man Is He a Hypocrite
This passage argues that labeling someone a hypocrite oversimplifies character. It urges understanding a person’s full life and experiences before judging morals. It suggests modern openness to diverse experiences and cautions against narrow thinking.
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Hapa
Government Parcel Post Reform Promises Big Revenue
A 1913 discussion outlines a new parcel post system expected to yield 30 million dollars in public revenue and reduce indirect taxes. It criticizes the old four year weighing method and argues railroads deserve fair compensation for increased mail carriage. The piece notes forthcoming congressional action to readjust payments and modernize the computation system.
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Postal Department
Congress
Advice and air are free things left in the world
The piece satirizes advice as abundant and unwanted, noting that rich and poor alike dispense it freely while few people actually need or want guidance. It argues advice is never stolen, compares it to tangible goods, and ends by suggesting humanity remains eager for risk and adventure.
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Soman
Forty Years Ago in The Courier November 20 1873
A Courier page notes Waterloo signers of a stage comedy praise and a marriage November 12 by Rev Carey. Witt & Chapman lease the Novalty Carriage works to R T Hitt of Ohio. A boy killed a returning nine foot bird after it divebombed him. A threshing loss at Geo Bloeser near Center school Fox township. Capt Edgar Pickett to Washington with Mrs Pickett. An 11 year old Clarksville boy gets a wage cut order from The American Express Company clerks and agents.
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Waterloo Evening Courier
Associated Press
TRE W. Aw. Martman Company
Beylis
Park Avenue
C. Hanraas
ACW
Perkinas
Bec Y Treas
Gen. Mgr
New York
Tribune
Alfred BH
Courier
Waterloo
Barger
Ftrofe
Europe
London
Trafalgar Building
Northcumberlland Avenue
American Express
Haymerket
Kane's Steamship Agency
Green Street
Paris
Boulevard Des Capucines
Cores Place de Opera
Rue Scribe
Berlin
Unter den Linden
Bt. Petersburg
Nevsky Preapekt
Geo. Bloeser
Fox Township
American “Express Company
Clarks
Tragedy in Cherokee as Beal Shot by Tramps
Twenty years ago this week John W. Beal, 19, of Waterloo was murdered near Cherokee by tramps for $35. A Waterloo mortgage foreclosures affected Waterloo Collegiate and Commercial College. Prof W M Brown could not repay a loan from F Camp of La Porte City. Weather notes and local obituaries accompany the item including J O Knapp’s death in Sanford Florida and a La Porte City iron bridge contract.
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John W. Beal
Cherokee
W. W. Beal
Quimby
Waterloo
Tei and Commercial College
F. Camp
la Porte City
Ted
W. 4. Brown
Board of Supervisors
Big Creek
Contested Illinois Senat e Race and Turbulent Politics
A fragmentary notice surveys Illinois political contests and hints at a reshaping senatorial campaign. It notes a Democrat preaching from a pulpit, Tammany Hall attacks on Charles Murphy, and a New York judge’s school teaching decision. It mentions turkey parcel post from Wisconsin and a drifting Mexican situation.
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Illinois
Bryan and Underwood Promise Bank Deposit Guarantee
The article recalls 1908 Democratic pledges to create a deposit guarantee fund for national banks and notes later silence. It questions why Bryan and Underwood, now powerful leaders, do not back the fund in currency legislation. Is their failure to act a shift from advocacy to inaction after gaining power.
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Oscar W. Underwood
United States
Underwood
Mr. Bryan
Democratic Party
House
Bryan
Why did the big building at Cedar Rapids fall
The snippet quotes editorials from Marshalltown Times-Republican and Sioux City Journal about federal appointments and inquiry into a Cedar Rapids building collapse. It notes Theodore Roosevelt as party head would affect the GOP and references a misread whisky shipment labeled drugs and holiday goods.
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Marshalltown Times-Republican
Cedar Rapids
Sioux City
Washington
Iowa
Alta
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Mason City
Abandoned Eastern Farms Offer Low-Cost Revival
Mason City Globe Gazette notes hundreds of abandoned farms in the east could be reclaimed cheaper than raw land. Restoring fine colonial residences amid nearby rail access presents a potential rural revival as living costs push urban residents back to farms.
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Mason City
A Moment of Fun Cause and Effect
A collection of short humorous clippings from Pittsburgh Post Washington Star Boston Transcript and Brooklyn Life. Jokes cover spoiled children good losers domestic manners and a speeders tale with witty exchanges and punchlines from multiple papers.
American Tour Pastor Warns On South America
Minneapolis pastor Rev. G. L. Morrill delivered a sermon titled To Hell and Back after a three month South American trip. He warned pleasure seekers against travel, mocked Peru and Buenos Aires, noting Colombian beauty and Venezuelan turmoil, and urged慎 travelers to reconsider.
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Minneapolis
G. L. Morrill
The
People’s Church
South America
Hell
Hades
Dante
Columbia
Pacific Ocean
Peru
Buennos Ayres
Sodom
Venezuela
How This Woman Found Health
Utica Ohio reader Mia Earlewine reports relief after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for a female weakness post childbirth. Another Nebo Ill. resident credits the remedy with restoring energy and curing long standing female troubles, warning against South American travel for health. A Courier wanted ad closes the snippet.
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Utica
Ohio
Pepett
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mia
Ae Earlewine
R.F.D
Nebo
Ill
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