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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1912
Page
2
Germany moves to curb the Standard Oil control of wholesale illuminating oils. A government bill would expropriate and supervise a national stock company to limit price hikes, with profit caps and safeguards to press prices downward. Expropriation powers and banks’ funding are proposed as part of the plan.
A critique of promoters using touching terms like Mother Home and Heaven to lure readers. It argues the cow, as the essential home and wealth producer, anchors families and keeps men at home to tend livestock and sustain farms during poor harvests and animal disease.
The item surveys editorial opinions from Keokuk and Marshalltown papers on a wide range of 1920s political ideas. It mentions Roosevelt and Bryan era sentiment, campaign tactics, and the role of soft speech in leadership, noting varied state expectations and public posture.
Ruth Cameron muses on aging with dignity versus youth’s social pull. She recalls a crabbed elderly woman and urges cultivating sympathy, broadened intellect, and a hopeful view of aging. The piece ends with a note on fair news coverage and partisan press.
Willmanur DeMoss seeks divorce from his wife on desertion and indignities after a 42 year marriage and ten children. The wife counters, denying the claims and pledging continued affection, as Judge W. Mee Henry hears the case and the decree is printed.
A portrait of the Reuben car as a six seat electric trolley linking farms to Peoria Zanesville and Leavenworth. It stops often to serve farmers families and workers, spreading rural goods and life through city markets and stores.
The piece notes the practice of covering party activities by leading papers like the New York Evening Journal and New York Evening Sun. It praises American papers for improving fairness and predicts fewer partisan exceptions as publishers adopt impartial standards.
In a heated scene Senator Jones clashed with hecklers as two policemen quieted the room. He allegedly called the senator a defeated Republican and bull mooser. Jones later handed a card to Mr. Harlan claiming Roosevelt had been shot by a would be assassin incited by such talks.
The Waterloo Evening Courier reports a clash at a republican rally in the Coliseum. Senator Walter Clyde Jones attempted to address the crowd as J. Adam Rede and John Maynard Harlan condemned Colonel Roosevelt as a traitor and ingrate prompting cries to remove Jones and calls to hire a ball.
J Adam Bede former congressman from Minnesota spoke at Muscatine fall festival urging support for the Taft administration. He entertained about 600 people at the market square with chautauqua jokes and lightly touched on political issues while praising Iowa prosperity and warning against Taft repudiation at the polls.
An ad touts Pape's Cold Compound as a fast remedy for colds and grippe. It claims drinking doses every two hours for three doses ends the illness, relieves headache stuffed head feverishness and nasal symptoms, with no quinine and a pleasant taste.
A late Roosevelt trailer avoids attacking the bull moose leader and fears Wilson would wreck the Democratic Party if he wins in November. The excerpt recalls 75 years ago and reflects historical tensions in the presidential race.
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