Waterloo Area News Rates and Policy Notes
Waterloo paper details delivery rates and mail options, lists staff roles and office contact, and outlines advertising rules and bureau affiliations with Associated Press and other partners. It notes subscription steps, circulation terms, and the paper’s policy on fraudulent ads and public-interest standards.
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The Inventive Mind and Yankee Patents
A discussion on American inventiveness cites high patent activity with 366 daily applications and about 1,000 patent-related letters daily. It notes that grant of a patent signals novelty but does not guarantee priority, and court reviews can overturn decisions, with transfer of rights risking future lawsuits.
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Patent Office
Popular Science
Supreme Court voids Sinclair lease in Teapot Dome case
The Supreme Court cancelled Harry F. Sinclair's Teapot Dome lease and B. L. Eng's Elk Hills lease after finding sufficient evidence of conspiracy with former Secretary Fall. Doheny and Fall were acquitted in their trial for defrauding the government, and the Washington trial involving Sinclair and Fall looms as a test of whether air scandal defendants can be punished under the law.
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Harry F. Sinclair
Teapot Domecil’ Reserve
Supreme Court of the United States
B. L. Eng
Elk. Hills
Sinclair
Fall
Doheny
Washington
Editors Seek Names Over Youthful Talent in Magazines
Old Ed Howe argues editors favor proven names over new writers, aiming to boost sales and ads. The piece critiques reliance on fame, noting advances and wages may be paid before any strong opening paragraph. The author contends editors prefer recognizable figures, even if the work is not superior.
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Ed Howe
Rai
Teaders
Atchison
Mr. Howe
Harvest Season Signals Autumn’s Golden Arrivals
Autumn arrives with maples turning yellow and cool evenings. Harvest moons rise, corn husking contests begin, and Thanksgiving preparations spark a busy season as hunters head south and communities brace for winter.
Personal Health Service on Mouth Cleaning by Dr Head
Dr Head outlines a thorough mouth cleaning routine using floss brushing and antiseptics. He warns that time with antiseptics matters and that good antiseptics reduce germ growth rather than instantly healing. The piece compares antiseptics to refrigeration and cautions against overuse and haste.
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Joseph Head
Head
Questions and Answers No Kidney Trouble
Bed wetting is not kidney trouble but faulty bladder control. Likely excess ammonia from a protein rich diet with too few carbohydrates. Diet and general care can correct it. I will send full instructions with a stamped addressed envelope.
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Chile
Freedom and Discipline By Glenn Frank on university growth
Glenn Frank argues that higher education demands both freedom and discipline. He describes the home sickness of students and the university as a human, challenging environment. Freedom enables growth while self chosen discipline prevents regimentation and defines education as student action.
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Freedom and Discipline
Glenn Frank
University of Wisconsin
The
Century Magazine
Parcell trial prompts parents to keep liquor out of cellars
Cedar Valley Times notes district court evidence shows a boy stole liquor from his father's cellar to host a party. The piece argues parents share blame for children’s drinking, urging families to set better examples and remove liquor from basements.
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Cedar Valley Times
Parcell
Inland towns of tomorrow
The Dows Advocate warns that aviation could rival rail travel within a decade. Cities are preparing landing places and towns lacking air routes may be cut off from rail service, raising concern about long distance passenger hauls.
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Dows
Bowery Gangsters From Silk to Silencers Told
New York by Day recalls Bowery history from the flashy Bowery Boys to the Whyos. It contrasts old brutal gang life with the newer lone wolf style, noting vanished figures and changes in dress, violence, and crime culture in the Bowery during Prohibition era.
Abe Martin on Learning Flight and Practice
The column humorously argues that real learning to fly oceans requires practice and effort, calling out necessity as the mother of invention and noting the importance of energy and effort akin to lighting a cigar.
Uncle Wiggily and the Quest for a Cocoa Nut
Baby Bunty finds a cabbage then the bunny girls seek a cocoa nut for Daddiums pie. They search Uncle Wiggily's garden in Woodland near the Orange Ice Mountains where coconuts do not grow due to winter approaching.
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Mr. Longears
Jingle
Jangle
Orange Ice Mountains
Carrot Hero in Uncle Wiggily Garden Tale
In a whimsical garden world Timble and Tumble seek fruit like oranges and pineapples but learn they grow far away or on ground shrubs. A tiny carrot, grown from the wind blown seed, laments small size until Uncle Wiggily discovers its brave use saving him from the Woozie Wolf.
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Tooter
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Jingle
Jangie
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Yingle
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Uncle Wiggily
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Uncle Wiggly
Iowa 1877 election gives Gear governor victory and state gains
Fifty years ago Iowa voters backed John H Gear for governor by about 30 000 as Hemenway Gay Foote Washburn and Hayzlett won local seats. A silver anniversary celebration for Mr and Mrs George Ordway drew many gifts. Mrs Charles Warlich died at 25 from consumption. Cleve land visits Waterloo and Wheat shipments surge via Illinois Central line. Rev H Pratt extends supply for Jefferson Street M E church for another year.
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Iowa
John H. Gear
H. C. Hemenway
Cedar Falls
Jeremiah Gay
D .W. Foote
D.B. Washburn
G. W. Hayzlett
George Ordway
H. ©. Pratt
Jefferson Street M. E
Upper Iowa
Mr. Pratt
Pumpkins winches and church news fill 1887 column
Forty years ago reports from Wednesday October 12 1887 highlight giant pumpkins from S B Vinton and Dan Dierdorff with weights from 50 to 81 pounds. Seed acquired from W Atlee Burpee. Community notes list performances at Grace M E church and various Methodist appointments across towns. Local prices show butter 18c per lb eggs 16c a dozen and grains Wheat 60-65c corn 31c oats 20c. Simon Shanks brings pumpkins weighing 50 pounds to 72 pounds. Whittier California growth noted with Quaker arrivals.
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S. B. Vinton
Dan Dierdorff
Vinton
Dierdorff
M. Bingham
Fox Township
W. Atlee Burpee
Local Farm Profits and Community Notes From 1907
Twenty years ago this week Fuess and Volkman made 817000 profit on a west of Black Hawk creek farm sold to J M Flater of Cedar Falls for 210 per acre on part and 165 per acre on the rest. The sellers had bought most land five years earlier from D M Balliett for 100 per acre. An October 8 frost damaged corn and ice formed as a late autumn low of 28 degrees. Rev W F Pitner and Nellie E Heinberg plan a Decorah wedding next Tuesday. Elijah Brown has taken a Cedar Falls Baptist pastorate. Waterloo lodge A M F and A will mark its fiftieth anniversary next St Johns Day with about 600 members. Hiram B Eightmey and wife of Hudson celebrate their 35th anniversary, married Oct 9, 1872 at Lanark. C H Werner, selling Florence Street home for 850, buys Summit Avenue lots to build.
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Black Hawk Creek
J. M. Flater
Cedar Falls
D. M. Balliett
Bears Roaming Yellowstone Park Explain Safety Tips
UNCLE RAY'S CORNER notes that bears in Yellowstone roam freely and may approach roads for food. About 75 grizzlies and 200 black bears exist there, with many bites from tourists feeding them. Bears fear harm to cubs and prefer bacon, so campers should secure food. a tree-climbing bear once dropped bacon and itself after a branch broke.
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Yellowstone Park
Earth
Mear
Uncle Ray
Burroughs Nature Club Notes 1927
Notes from the Burroughs Nature Club invite readers to submit questions on nature subjects to the Nature Notes Department of this newspaper. The column offers answers in this space and references the HOUGHTON MIFFLIN Co. copyright year 1927.
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Burroughs Nature Club
Houghton Mifflin Co
Nature Notes
Answers From Tomorrow's Nature Notes
The notes answer three questions: 1 why the os trichia breast is featherless. 2 which tree types dominate Alaska’s main forests. 3 whether yellow fever exists in the old world. The piece also recaps prior queries on attracting wild birds, snakes’ egg-laying, and viviparous snakes.
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Alaska
The Housewife’s May Ritual and Hidden Delicacies
In a May scene the housewife unseals a cedar chest and mothballs winter clothes to reveal a curiously edible aftermath. The tale riffs on domestic duties, moths, and wartime thrift as she discovers traces of meals on her husband’s Sunday coat.
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Baltimore Sun
Tut-Ankh-Amen
Fixing the Blame in Prize Fight Pay
Chicago Evening Post argues it is troubling that prize fighters earn in minutes what presidents earn in years. It says values are misplaced when entertainment celebrities are valued above enduring human effort and calls for accountability to those who create such opportunities.
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Chicago Evening Post
United States
Antievolution laws face setback in states
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch notes only two states have passed antievolution laws this year while 13 legislatures considered them. Florida showed a tentative follow of Tennessee but the senate blocked the house bill. Despite Dr. Riley leading the movement, large funds and organization, the antievolutionists suffered a serious setback.
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Senate
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Great Names in Health Pioneers Compared to Great Leaders
Detroit News reports Governor Fred W. Green urging Wayne Medical society to teach children the history of Jenner Lister Pasteur and Gorgas alongside Washington Lincoln Napoleon and Wellington. He praises Jenner for vaccination Lister for sanitary hospitals Pasteur for vast health benefits and Gorgas for eradicating yellow fever.
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Lincoln
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