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Newspaper

Waterloo Evening Courier

Location

Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Oct 19, 1921

Page

3

Ain't It a Grand and Glorious Feelin'

Unable to determine a coherent news event from the fragment. The text appears as a stray note or lyric line without identifiable persons, places, organizations, or dates to anchor a factual summary.

Waterlo o Evening Courier Opinion and Notices

A compilation from the Waterloo Evening Courier includes advertising policy notes, a columnist discussion on tolls through the Panama Canal and the Hay Pauncefote treaty, social observations on a New York divorce case, Mars signaling skepticism, and musings on Japanese democracy and population distribution. The piece blends editorial, cultural critique, and public notices.

The Evileptic Seizure Explored In Health Talks

Health Talks by John B. Huber, A M D discusses the epileptic seizure its aura onset progression and coma. It notes heredity triggers diet and treatment options including bromides and medical guidance while warning against absinthe and the need for patient safety during fits. Questions and answers address absinthe and public health notes.

Eugenics questioned as a science not fad

Imogene debates the idea of eugenics with Andrew, who argues it is a science shaping long lived healthy, blonde offspring through parental charts. They discuss commissions judging marriages, the extreme matching of traits, and the potential social effects of such a system.

Andrew Imogene Cupid Venus Burbank Deaf and Dumb Asylum Curtis

Fifty Years Ago in The Conrster Chicago Fire and Markets

A fragment from October 21 1874 notes Chicago banks burned in the fire resumed last Tuesday. Rev A A Elsworth takes Congregational pulpit and preaches Lessons from the Chicago Fire. Grain prices fall with wheat at 85 cents per bushel and eggs at 14 cents a dozen. Local election results report a tax levy for bridges defeated by electors.

Chicago A.A. Elsworth Congregational Church Chicago Fire Northwest

Autumn's fruitless muse and a judge’s quip at Union hall

The朶aterloo Savings bank advertises with capital stock of 100000 and lists directors P McIsaac John Robertson Mrs Robertson D B Stanton O B Hardy H M Crittenden. High school top students named include Rose Fuller Estella Virden Eliza Follett Mary Fancher and many others. Iowa State Baptist convention held with good attendance and local officials elected in Orange township. Titus Whitmore of Waterloo invents a turbine water wheel.

Waterloo Savings Bank P. McIsaac John Robertson Rose Fuller Estella Virden Eliza Follett Mary Fancher M. T. Owens Edgar Kneeland Emma Champlin Minnie Russell Delia Dannell Charles Pike Brainard Porter Fanny Grout Ada Burder Mary Grout Philo St. John Moses Hoover Corda Weller Ella Burden Lizzie Landis Alice Haddock C. C. Smith Byron Wright Otis Day Herbert Colby Lida Billings Nellie Doty John McCormick Clarence Hall Susie Henderson B. F. Hood

Forties nostalgia and social snippets from Marion and beyond

A dated column riffs on peace talks, job hunts, Mardi Gras timing, a Ames dishwasher inheriting 2 million, and the continued fight for veterans and the disabled. It laments spelling, mocks prohibition, notes pumpkin news alongside crime, and warns about bootleggers and risky driving behavior.

Clinton Ames

Local Notes and Events From Abe Martin’s Town

Trade at Taft and Libkty’s grocery and Wangler Bros store. Dr J G Holland editor of Scribner’s magazine dies in New York at 62. Ardelle Whitaker and George A Goodell wed at brides home with Rev G H Somerville officiating. They will live in Cedar Rapids with Mr Goodell at the railroad office. William Barrett takes Logan house furnishings. Fifteenth anniversary of Mr and Mrs M C Brown celebrated with gifts. The Naiad Queen opera features EF Van Duyn Ola Brown Nettie Robinson F F Van Duyn G B Fernald Helen White Gertrude Fowler. Cleveland Manson and Wichman add night shifts at cracker factory. John Drew to lead. Rensselaer Russell sélls Michigan apples. Mr and Mrs W W Undegraft return from South Bend. Jiggs cures eye with secret. Watchman Manes describes jail bandit with specifics. Star hints at a Kansas City kerfuffle and bishop’s wife jail tale.

R. A. Whitaker Ardelle G. Whitaker George A. Goodell G. H.somerville Christ Precopal Church Cedar Rapids Opera House EF. F. van Duyn Ola Brown Nettie Robinson F. F. van Duyn G. B. Fernald Helen White Gertrude Fowler

Local figures and tragedies mark Dubuque 1901 page

Twenty years ago in Dubuque Gar land Rush defeats Al Weis in a golf final while a second engine is placed in service by the Dubuque and Sioux City railway. Frank W Kerr dies after being struck by a streetcar on Washington and Sixth streets. Oliver and David Stevenson arrive from Belfast to join James Black store clerks. T. W. Place resigns after decades as master mechanic of the Illinois Central Water Street shops. Henry D. Mitchell and Char wher White wed in a Wednesday ceremony. Market prices for oats wheat corn and more are listed.

E WH. Harthan CO West Park Ara Tek John C Hartman Buttor AW. Peterson Treas Gen’l Sigt Waterlon Iowa Associated Pres Associated Press Eriter Audit Bureau of Circulations G. Dougherty Washington, D. C New York Philadelphia Chicago Los Angeles San Francisco Brory, Brooks & Finley Rep Great Britain United States America Sam Colombia Hay-Pauncefote John Hay Julian Pauncefote Britain Borah Senate Panama Canal Congress Unela Dubuque Garland Rush al. Weis Sioux ——A. City Fred Place Ilinois T. W. Place Place Henry D. Mitchell

Principal and Professor mixed in old editorial note

An editor notes confusion between principle and principal in school rhetoric. The lawyer gathered proof and evidence, but the evidence failed to establish proof. The piece highlights repeated incorrect usage and stresses the distinction between principal and principle in scientific context.

Congress plan to appoint five member debt commission

Des Moines Capital reports a congressional plan to form a five member debt collection commission to handle refunds due the United States from European nations. The Treasury secretary would serve ex officio with four others appointed by the president. The total European war debt is about eleven billion dollars and the plan is thought to have popular support. Initially Congress favored keeping debt collection entirely under its control.

Europe Des Moines Congress Secretary of the Treasury Con ‘Gress

Night Ghosts at the Gate and Local Benefit Dinners

A fragmented piece blends memories of a dear street and haunted gate with a note on Starlight and a vanished place. Local notices describe the successful supper for a new church lightning rod and a Wednesday dinner for the schoolhouse bell, plus a barbecue planned tomorrow for the new courthouse steps.

Unclear proposal for a formal settlement via new paper

The text discusses adopting a commission plan to enable prompt negotiations for a permanent settlement with definite security. It notes war loans lacked formal payment understanding due to emergency. A humorous court anecdote then describes a man seeking letters of administration to reduce his late father’s estate, calling himself the clerk of probates.

Commission Adel

Burroughs Nature Club Notes Question Column

Readers asked about the most poisonous snake and its habitat, whether moose travel in herds, and what foods to feed a brown thrash. Answers promised in tomorrow's Nature Notes from the Burroughs Nature Club column.

Burroughs Nature Club Houghton Mifflin CO Nature Notes Jean

Local Answers on Moles Trees and Birds in Vernacular Names

A reader asks if moles have eyes and if a catalpa tree can be relocated by its roots or grown from seed. Another inquiry identifies a ground-nesting bird called Pete Wete, explained as the spotted sandpiper with local names like Peet weet and tip-up noted in Birds of the U. S. and Can.

Fes Pete Wete Nite U. S

Samovars Do Not Sing: Russian Famine Reflections Along Volga

An Associated Press correspondent reports famine along the Volga in Samara and Samovars replaced by bread in village homes. Refugees crowd railways and camps as priests, families, and belongings endure drought, hunger, and displacement amid a harsh autumn as thousands seek relief.

Syzran Samara Volga Samovars Bape Lana Eithey

Beam Tests and a Civil War Sailor Turned Hero

Rebus puzzle identifies the surname of an American naval commander from the Civil War who later made a distinction in the Spanish War. The article notes a cobbler charging $1.80 for men's shoe repairs and 31.50 for women’s, with children’s free.

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