Daily Waterloo paper details and advertising policy
The notice outlines publication details for the Waterloo Iowa daily paper, lists staff roles led by John Hartman, and provides subscription rates and advertising rules. It also notes Associated Press and United Press International services and outlines policies against fraudulent or public policy opposed ads.
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Waterloo
Iowa
Associated Press
United Press International
Audit Bureau of Circulations
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Story, Brooks & Finley, Representatives
Too Much Prosperity Dooms a Man in This Tale
A once rising author and sales expert with a $25,000 a year contract loses fortune and family after fleeing prosperity. He deserts his wife and two children for a teenage nurse, then squanders cash in the stock market and ends in a Cleveland jail after a fatal beating. His fall is attributed to overindulgence and lack of discipline.
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Donald C. Prentiss
Western University
Cleveland
Redistributing Seats in Congress Sparks Debate
A statistician compared congressional representation across states, noting California 1:160,306 versus South Carolina 1:7,808. The piece urges reapportionment measures to align voting power more closely with citizens, raising limits on southern disenfranchisement and constitutional intent, and questions counting by population versus voting strength.
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California
Congress
South Carolina
Union
Mason and Dixon
The Last Gas Lamp Remains in Brooklyn History
In a Brooklyn tone the New York Post notes the borough will shed its final gas lamps by year end and gain full electric illumination. The piece contrasts nostalgia for gas lighting with modern neon glare and references Stevenson and S Lucius’s and R L S criticism, echoing debates on urban progress.
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Brooklyn
New York Post
Stevenson
London
Prometheus
Robert Louis
Pall Mall
Professors Probe Craftmen Interest With Million Dollar Question
The article reports how Prof. Harry Dexter Kitson of Teachers College Columbia University tests how deeply craftsmen and tailors are invested in their trade. He asks a basic question if you had a million dollars and did not need to work, exploring motivation and satisfaction across vocations.
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Harry Dexter Kitson
Teachers College
Columbia University
Interest in work spans wages and careers, Kitson study
A survey of 409 teachers shows 25 percent would stay in teaching regardless of pay while some would leave for better prospects. Prof Kitson aims to map lack of interest across 47 million workers. He cautions against revealing individual answers to employers.
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Kitson
Chicory in Coffee Sparks Health Debate and Habits
A columnist discusses chicory as a coffee additive, noting its history as a possible adulterant and its health merits in small amounts. The piece compares chicory to hair tonics and dyes, warns against deception in marketing, and ends with a remark on boiled coffee as distasteful.
von Pirquet Test For Tuberculosis Clinic
A clinic will offer the von Pirquet skin test with chest examination and X-ray if needed for children with parental consent. The test is a harmless scratch. a hive reaction suggests a TB focus, often latent, especially in youths. positive results warrant chest checks to confirm incipient lung TB.
A New Profession for Science Journalists Emerges
Glenn Prank argues for a new profession of scientific journalism to interpret laboratory revolutions for the public. He cites Wiggam as a model and outlines four requirements: scientific spirit, field mastery, journalistic technique, and viewing problems as science and art. The piece presents a manifesto for the future role of science writers.
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Albert Edward Wiggam
Wiggam
Diary and dining through New York novelties and tales
A New York diary records a day in New York City with visits to Sing Sing, a dentist, a dinner with Edgar Wallace, and an opera. It notes culture, stores on Broadway, family literary connections, fashion details, and a playful Uncle Wiggily story interwoven with urban life.
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New York
Gene Tunney
Campbell
Edgar Wallace
Britain
Abe Martin muses on politics and charity overhead charges
The writer jokes about a Washington columnist’s view of state political leanings observed from a car window. He ponders how the cheerful giver who earmarks donations for overhead should be viewed by divine judgment.
Uncle Wiggily’s Funny Skates
Uncle Wiggily hurries from his hollow stump to chase snowballs with Mr Twistytail when Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy asks for a minute. He delays, accepts two molasses cakes, and agrees to deliver them to Mrs Longtail the mouse lady.
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Uncle Wiggily
Skillery
Uncle Wreggily
Gator
Uncle
Mr. Longears
Mr. Twistytail
Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy
Mrs. Longtail
Burroughs Nature Club Notes
Houghton Mifflin Co 1928 Nature Notes column invites readers to send general interest questions to the Nature Notes Dept. Answers appear in this column.
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Burroughs Nature Club
Houghton Mifflin Co
Nature Notes
Tomorrow's Nature Notes Quiz Answers
The Canada goose winter range extends well into the southern U S and parts of Central America. Snakes are not slimy to the touch. their skin feels dry and scaly. For trimming the evergreen tree, do so after leaf set ends and before new growth in spring, trimming only the lower branches to provide clearance.
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Ingersoll
Riverside Natural History
Prospect Bride Takes Five Lesson Can Opener Course
A Minneapolis Journal item notes a prospective bride is taking a correspondence course titled five easy lessons in the use of the can opener.
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Minneapolis
Stones with Magic Power in Uncle Ray's Corner
In a child friendly science note Uncle Ray explains magnetism using a magic box with moving toy figures. He describes lodestones found near Magnesia, how magnets attract iron and steel, and how electromagnets use electric current to lift heavy weights. He invites readers to ponder nature’s hidden power in magnets.
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Magnesia
Policy and aims of the United States Navy noted
The general board outlines a national naval policy to maintain a strong navy aligned with treaty limits, replacing old cruisers with 10 000 ton ships, developing aviation and the merchant marine, and building aircraft carriers. Congress may approve 15 10,000 ton cruisers, with no intent to provoke rivals, while US defenses remain independent of any future agreement.
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General Board
Coolidge
United States
Congress
Naval Air Force
Merchant Marine
United States Navy
Pershing
American Legion
Dean Anna Lor etia Rose studies student intelligence links
The dean at George Washington University reports a potential discrepancy between students' intelligence and their class grades. She notes that high achieving girls often surpass expectations while many boys show high IQ with lower subject marks. The Arkansas anti evolution law bans dictionaries defining evolution in schools.
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American Association
Dean Rose
New York Times
Anna Loretia Rose
George Washington University
Ohio State University
Insects to Battle Humans Warned by Scientist
The Houston Post-Dispatch warns of a future war where mosquitoes fight humans. It imagines women changing dress to speed escapes as swarms threaten, picturing millions rushing to rumble seats to face mosquito phalanxes.
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Houston Post-Dispatch
The Lion and the Mouse
The railroads face growing pressure from autos as car versus train collisions rise. In 20 percent of such crashes last year the motor car struck a steam train, challenging rail safety.
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New Orleans Times Picayune
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