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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1920
Page
2
A Waterloo Evening Courier column notes the 300th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving in 1620 and contrasts past devotion with modern gratitude. It urges readers to reflect on character, citizenship, and moral progress over three centuries, inviting introspection on how today measures against the pilgrims.
A Vatican backed view predicts a coming Japan United States war but argues Britain would prevent a broader clash. The piece urges American preparedness while noting England’s ties to the US and England Japan dynamics. It comments on current politics and a Seymour Iowa town marshal shooting, ending with Thanksgiving reflections.
With final figures in, Houstim’s popular majority drops to just under 16 million and the initial fear eases as totals tighten.
A 1924 era tale of the Greek loan scheme in England. Eminent scholars Hume and Bowring championed bonds promising high returns while funds funded a doomed effort. Public funds and investor losses followed as ships were never built and Turkish advances devastated Greece.
Marshalltown Times-Republican notes Federal Judge Landis draws 7 500 yearly as judge and 42 500 from baseball duties, arguing the extra pay buys public confidence rather than service. The piece questions fairness and highlights the public rehabilitation motive behind the arrangement. Canada speaks for the U S at the League of Nations assembly, stressing non interference in Canadian affairs by the league.
A collection of editorial notes discusses immigration limits for the United States and Canada, the long effort to control the Republican party, the need for a careful approach to a new legal code, and Iowa educational funding comparisons with Michigan.
Puzzle text fragments describe Loyd brain teasers and incomplete sentences. The fragment mentions a carpenter and apprentice, a game, and a giraffe versus hippo comparison with a numerical detail.
Health talks by Dr Huber discuss painful feet from fashionable footwear and sedentary life, noting no rheumatism but foot bone dislocation. A reader questions red table carrots as human food, with explanation of carrot nutrients, cultivation history, and culinary uses.
Hilda, worn from hard work, fetches water at night and发现 a moonlit silver spring. She finds a silver ring and enters a ruby-lit world ruled by a witch. A talking white rabbit warns of danger as the witch declares revenge and traps Hilda with a black cat.
Imogene recounts rushing to the Mutual Trust company to recover her money after word of its failure spreads. She meets Tom Jenkins, pleads to see him, buys time, and retrieves her balance before learning the bank failed that day with losses over three million, leaving Tom exhausted.
A fragment from Nature Notes discusses whether birds feel a sense of home and if animals keep special commandments, noting limited interspecies killing among higher animals and detailing a curious claim about a horsehair transforming into a snake through a parasitic life cycle.
Deaths list Margaret Smith aged 14 died Nov 11 typhoid fever John Morgan 72 died Nov 7 long time Methodist member early Dubuque settler Mrs Lavina Lichty widow of Elias Lichty died Nov 18 quick consumption. five children aged 6 to 17. Also train timetable winter schedule and local items including a failed lecture by Carrie Lowe and multiple city notices.
Ice on the river above the dam is thick enough for skating. Hunters report success with game and fowls. George Bloeser shot two quail. a man killed a raccoon. William Black took two skunks. J P Sherman moved to work at the statehouse in Des Moines. A I Hurlbert, first inmate of the new calaboose, owes $19 in fine and costs. Alford and Elwell dissolve as attorneys. Union Thanksgiving services at Grace Church led by Rev. C E Baker. Patterson advertises Waterloo area farm for $28 per acre with 110 cultivated acres. L F Walker Hose Company displays a new cart with nickel trim and 250 feet of hose. Jacob Rosgen hires two No 1 barbers for rough beards.
Twenty years ago on November 27 1900 thieves robbed Dr E R Shannon's residence stealing sone and other items valued at 300 dollars. Water leaked from a lavatory in W W Pierce building damaging Mrs Gorham stock by 1 dollar. Louis Langlas aged 58 of Gree died November 20 from pneumonia leaving a widow three sons and a daughter. Bat J W Krapfel reports county population 32389 Cedar Falls 5819 Waterloo 12881. The thirtieth wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs J B Stewart was observed last Saturday. Efforts begin to form a central labor body in Waterloo. Kascht and Heber bought Wick Federspiel's grocery interest at Fifth and Water Streets.
A rustic verse passage recalls a star seen in the sky and a dialog about a hard choice between coal and liquor, as the speaker and Mr. Tom contemplate his humble life and frontier wisdom. The tone hints at rural sentiment and moral testing amid scarcity.
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