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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1921
Page
3
The Waterloo Courier prints a long 1921 Thanksgiving editorial urging national gratitude for abundant blessings and discussing global military balance. It critiques naval arms, praises France as Europe’s police, cites Briand and Washington talks, and notes local advertising and postal details.
Lois of folks resemble Dan Cu pid allus as he starts projects and loses interest. Bootlegger Ike Lark suffers a nervous collapse after two years of hard work. Dr Mopps prescribes a brief layoff and fines until he regains strength.
Dr Huber explains erythema nodosum an acute non suppurative skin condition with fever pains and shin bone nodules treated by rest elevation saline quinine and salicylates. The column also answers a reader asking how to slow beard growth noting no remedy exists and urging patience with natural development.
Andrew and Imogene discuss talking too much and the perils of conversational politeness in a humorous exchange. Andrew boasts of his loquacity while lamenting how topics like weather and politics strain conversation. Imogene counters with wit about attention and restraint in dialogue.
A collage of quotes and quips spans foreign uses of ships for a fish factory in France to a pumpkin pie venture in Atlantic City. It notes new immortals to the American Academy of Arts and Letters Henry Bacon Joseph Pennell and Charles Dana Gibson. It muses on arms limits and silhouettes of marriage independence and a theatre bomb scare in Des Moines.
A retrospective list names Rosie Fuller Estella Verden Minnie Russell Della Dunnell M T Owens Brainard Porter Assernon Ferrig sayy Fancher Eliza Jollett Charleng Hall Mary Grout vida Billings William Doty William Bruner Albert Logan Fanny Grout Ada Burden Lizzie Landis Alice Haddock Corda Weller Moses Hoover Byron Wright Watson Strayer. Local weather notes joke about Boreas and a social scene with meals and neighbors. Waterloo relief society forms with officers and managers named.
Forty years ago the November 1 election produced Baren R. Sherman as Iowa governor. The item mentions his relation to James P. Sherman of Waterloo and notes his local prominence. Other local items report mishaps and happenings including sports injuries, farm hardships, a wolf killed near La Porte City, scaffold fall injuries, typhoid fever deaths, infant deaths from scarlet fever, restaurant moves, a grocery sale, a Thanksgiving service, and a mouse-gnawed winter coat discovery.
Twenty years ago on Monday November 25 1901 Rev S H Basnor denounced the Iowa maid law as un American in an address at First Brethren church. The piece notes strong labor demand in Waterloo with many buildings under construction and a Thanksgiving frame raising by Linden addition residents. It mentions business moves and community events including almanac shipments, a local brick contractor startup, a silver wedding anniversary, Elks charity night setup, a Cedar Falls schools talk to Waterloo Business College students.
Question section asks about peafowls and their eggs in health. The piece invites readers to send general interest questions to the azure Notes Dept for answers in this column.
George Morton, expelled for love, pursues a rise through college life aided by Squibs Bailly and Blodgett. He clashes with Sylvia Planter, meets Lambert, and navigates elite circles while keeping a hidden ambition to finance his fortune.
The passage corrects common pronoun errors in a humorous note about subjects and predicates. It contrasts HIM with HE and WHOMEVER with WHO, noting proper case after linking verbs and relative clauses. It also swaps HER for SHE and WHOM for WHO in several example sentences.
Fragmented verse describes winter scenes and a lasting love in poetic imagery. The text references a rose on a morning breast and misty valleys, with lines about summer hearts and a song about glory, ending with rural dialect speech and a line about people knowing only when they arrive.
Iowa editors accuse Borah and La Follette of delaying consensus on Secretary Hughes's policy while noting no strong opposition in Washington. The Times-Republican jokes about liver and onions, contrasting gratitude for the meal with politics.
A word riddle asks for a term whose head and tail are equal and whose middle is slender. The riddle notes the head on either end yields the same meaning and triggers a paradox if the head is cut. The piece ends with a line about a charitable woman carrying forty two cents.
An Indianapolis ad claims 200 hens produce 25 to 30 eggs daily but rise to 107 to 114 eggs with Don Sung. It states a guaranteed $126 monthly extra income at 60c per dozen and offers a 50¢ mail package plus refunds if not paying for itself. Burrell-Dogeer Co. markets the tonic.
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