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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1915
Page
2
A Waterloo Courier and Reporter column urges open windows for winter ventilation, arguing fresh air boosts health and work efficiency. It cites college lectures and medical authorities, warns against over-heating, and notes public misgivings about winter airing. The piece also mentions a Minnesota journal quip about alliances and misused syllables.
The piece discusses J Fred Uelf author of Everybody Works but Father and similar ditties, noting how popular songs rise and fall with public taste, often driven by melody over lyrics, and how ragtime lyrics reflect the era. It mentions international reach of the hit and critiques national song identity.
Robert Burns quotes on seeing ourselves as others see us and as we really are. The piece urges daily self photography of ideas and goals to spur growth and ambition. It suggests fame comes from visualizing and developing personal dreams and keeping them before one’s eyes.
The piece satirizes the income tax as an insidious burden on idle wealth and merchants. It mocks exemptions and depreciation rules while portraying the tax as a costly government burden. It notes political wrangling over post offices and harbors, and depicts taxpayers attempting to hide income or restructure assets to avoid payment.
A reflective piece on the talent for adventure as a gift that brings happiness beyond money. It cites Hawthorne's letter to his wife and a woman with a rare zest who turns ordinary days into exciting experiences. The essay argues that adventure can emerge from poverty or routine when one possesses this talent and will.
A compilation of editorials and comments from Iowa newspapers on national defense, land tenancy, and political maneuvers. The pieces reference Senator Cummins addressing Grinnell College students, efforts to strengthen the navy, tenant farmers in midwestern states, and reflections on Hughes and Root in national politics.
A lazy older brother Jock inherits a farm and mistreats his younger brother Jake. To stop the roaming Jinko, Jake traps the creature in a molasses-soaked bedbag, then bargains with it to drive out Jock and spare Jake. The Jinko agrees, helps expose Jock, and Jake and the Jinko live and work together on the farm.
Reader Otto Schueler endorses Judge Rafferty of Chicago who argues for an embargo on arms and ammunition to Europe to avoid harming the US economy. He warns war loans and munition profits could bankrupt America, raise stock prices unrealistically, and entangle the nation in foreign wars.
A Kansas City Star piece mocks Congress and the administration’s spending on wedding gifts. It riffs on household items as a playful lens to critique politics, imagining chic alternatives from silver candlesticks to monogram stationery as a humorous gauge of national mood.
A beauty specialist describes a method to remove facial hair by applying a delatone paste made from water and powder. After 2 or 3 minutes the paste is washed off and the skin shows no visible hairs, provided the product is the real delatone.
The writer laments vanished items like the Sistine Madonna prints, plaster Laocoons, Dying Gaul, Discus Thrower replicas, and mail order fruit knives, nut crackers, and tableware. They question Congress framing tariff schedules with talk of cheaper articles, linking it to broader economic concerns and political rhetoric.
The article touts Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as an effective laxative and digestive aid. It claims chronic digestive issues stem from inactive bowels and that regular bowel action improves stomach function. A testimonial from Thomas De Loach of the Interior Department endorses the product and offers a free bottle by writing to Dr. W Caldwell in Ticello Illinois.
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