Municipal spending and debt rise in U S cities
The Waterloo Evening Courier highlights a United States commerce summary showing 247 cities with populations over 30 000 have doubled their expenditures in eight years while per capita debt rose 50 percent. It notes 10 percent of debt growth occurred in the past year and federal outlays grew only 14 percent, urging restraint amid rising municipal costs and lingering future obligations.
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Tolo
United States Department of Commerce
United States
Althe
Coolidge
Milwaukees Old Screeching Whistles to Be Replaced
An article notes the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul will abolish its rural locomotive whistles. New warning devices will be installed, replacing the old ear splitting blasts once heard across Iowa and along the 40 mile route from Clinton to Omaha.
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St.Paul
Milwaukee
Union
Iowa
Ninavah
Tyre
Clinton
Omaha
Oriental patriotism and the Nogi memorial festival
The fourteenth anniversary of Gen. Nogi’s death is marked in Japan with a Nogi-kai pilgrimage to his shrine and schoolchildren and soldiers marching in Tokyo. The piece contrasts Japanese patriotism with American ideals, urging defense of the country and capable governance. It ends with a commentary from the Omaha World-Herald on women’s skirts and a phrase about today’s era.
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Gen. Nogi
Port Arthur
Miji
Nogi
Nogi-kai
Nogi Shrine
Tokio
America
Omaha World-Herald
The Hygienic Bus and Walking to Work
Health column argues walking to work benefits head clarity and reduces respiratory infection risk versus crowded transit. It favors buses over subways for ventilation and lower transmission, then answers readers' health letters on neuritis, child play safety, and high blood pressure diet advice.
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Tim
Efficient Inefficiency and Democracy Debate
A 1926 column discusses whether dictatorship’s efficiency justifies its suppression of progress versus democracy’s slower but steadier policy with broad public input. It argues democracy, if leveraging strong leaders and inclusive policy, may be more efficient long term than autocratic rule. The piece also urges voter participation and cautions about censorship and mob influence in cinema.
Riverside Drive and Broadway Views from an Aristocratic City
New York article describes Riverside Drive from Seventy second Street, noting river vistas, yachts, parkways, and the mansions of Schwab, Amelia Bingham, Hearst, and Potter. It cites once-elite views, statues, monuments, and the Drive as a rare noncommercial enclave. It ends with slang origins on Broadway and a warned stock swindle list.
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New York
Riverside Drive
Broadway
Fifth l Avenue
Manhattan
Seventy- Second Street
Hudson
Inspiration Point
Champs Elysees
Michigan Boulevard
Charles Schwab
Amelia Bingham
W. R. Hearst
Bishop Potter
Cigaret Kings
Mwe
Grant
Prave
Jeanne d'Arc
Uncle Wiggily and the Stopper
Uncle Wiggily plays in a bath tub pretending to sail the ocean when a whirlpool forms after a stopper is pulled. The Fox storming in to seize his ears must bathe to nibble, but Uncle Wiggily makes him bathe, triggering a escape as water drains and the Fox flees back to his den.
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Uncle
Hollow Stump
J Longears
Jim
Mrs. Long Ears
Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzon
Nurse Jane
Aeur
Bentlomin
Uncle Wiggly
Mr. Longears
Uncle Wiggily
Wiggily
the Fox
Uncle Wigsily
Fox
Chen
Hal Hal
Mr. Long Ears
Burroughs Nature Club Notes From 1926
Answers to reader questions on beaver fur care tree leaf fall in mild climates and wood duck nesting, followed by notes on bird population patterns. The column discusses tracking individual birds, marks and ants, and how tree rings form from cambium layers, phloem and xylem during growth.
The Dance That Tests Diane Colfax
Diane Colfax, the town’s prettiest girl, resists her mother’s cash obsessed views on marriage. At a Saturday dance she meets Chicago classmate Gordon McComas who hints he will court her, while Ham Tracy grows jealous as McComas escorts Diane home and tries for a kiss she blocks. The night ends with Diane upset by McComas’s bold advances and her mother’s wry remark on men.
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Diane Colfax
Diane
Freddie Tyler
Tyler
Mrs. Colfax
Cora Savage
Cora
Fellows
Hammond Tracy
Ham
Tracy
Harry Arnold
McComag
McComas
Ike
Iloos
Miss Colfax
Missy
Cod
Kilbournured by Black Hawk Forces in War Tale
The account recalls an 1812 era American scout Kilbourn who spied on Native camps near the Rock River. Captured by Black Hawk, he is spared and later freed after Black Hawk explains his people sought peace for starving women and children.
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Black Hawk
Rock River
Llingis
Kilbourn
Uncle Ray
Medlolna
Moving pictures challenged by music strike in Chicago
The Chicago 3,000 musicians strike halted theatres causing admission cuts to one third and added features yet attendance dropped to one eighth of normal on the first day. The piece highlights the vivid impact of labor actions on cinema crowds and consumer behavior. A separate column questions voting rights and civic participation, noting half of eligible Americans do not vote and warning of potential consequences.
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Chicago
Charles City Press
Abe Martin recalls jesting moment of friendship between tellers
In a humorous reminiscence Abe Martin recalls how a budding friendship between two bank tellers sparked rivalries over a photograph gallery. He notes how a watch charm once served to judge character, a trait now hard to gauge.
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W. H. Hartman Co
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Mont Tee
Postoffice
Waterloo
Associated Press
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Audit Bureau of Circulations
Philadelphia
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Story
Brooks & Winley
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William Brady, M. D
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Dr. Brady
William Brady
Glenn Prank
University of Wisconsin
Century Magazine
McClure Newspaper
Europe
Marshalltown
Fintes
Inwa
Perron
American Legion
C. O. McIntyre
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Edgar Street
Twenty-third Street
Bridge Street
Nassau Street
Walter Catlett
New Amsterdam Theatre
Caruso
Wall Street
The
Howard R. Garis
Porter
HERBS
Bell
Goont
Burroughs Nature Club
Houghton Mifflin CO
By Claire Pomeroye
Uncle Ray’s
Clack Hawk
Minneapolis Journal
Abe Martin
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