Waterloo City Paper and Advertising Rates Inform and Urge Action
The Waterloo paper outlines advertising rates and post office operations while urging immediate local action to combat unemployment. It cites 1920-21 winter wartime precedents, warns of rising joblessness, and advocates rotating work schedules and community measures to provide food, clothing, and fuel without resorting to charity. It calls for patriotism and coordinated planning.
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Hartman CO
West Park Ava
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A. W. Peterson
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Iowa
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Dougherty
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Philadelphia
Chicago
Los Angeles
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Story
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Iowa Farmers Lead Nation in Auto Ownership and Telephones
Iowa farmers show high adoption of automobiles with about three of four farms owning cars, far above national levels. The state also leads in telephone installations at 86.1 percent and high daily newspaper readership, signaling strong rural connectivity amid ongoing debates on roads and public policy.
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The
Courier
Iowa
Mississippi
Towa
Lament on Iowa’s new automobile lens obsession
The piece rails against an new automotive requirement sweeping Iowa, bemoaning hostile public fervor and urging action while lampooning the lens mandate’s intrusion into daily life. It decries the political mood and predicts continued public unrest through September.
Abe Martin Miss Tawney Applea at home
Abe Martin notes miss Tawney Applea at home with painters colic. A farm husband is half as patient with his wife as he is with a fish, and he would not see so many cow-faced women on the pirate.
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Tawney Applea
Ife Fellar
Haif
Bessie Milton
Imogene
Hallo
Andrew
Bessie
Belle
Ambrose
Dr. Giddines
Colina
Calvin
A Heart Case and Health Tips From Dr Huber
A reader describes heart symptoms and nervous dread, with advice on heart disease causes from infections to lifestyle. Other questions ask about wrist size with light dumb-bell exercise and the Hygienic Life program. The health column notes delays in responses and requests a stamped self addressed envelope for quicker answers.
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Ames
Welch
Hubert
The Lodge Night Lies Between Andrew and Imogene
Imogene confronts Andrew about a Wednesday night alibi as he admits to a white lie about his whereabouts. The couple clash over truthfulness and trust, the stakes being their marriage and future honesty. A phone interruption adds tension to the domestic dispute.
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Andrew
Afterthoughts From a Weathered Proverb and Steam of Opinion
A jumble of wry reflections on weather fashion politics and culture. The piece muses on wisdom after events the collapse of communism Russia the Mars talk of Marconi and the impact of technology from skyscrapers to railroads and motorbuses. It notes an upcoming cold winter and social quips from Billy Sunday and a dismissive jab at flappers.
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Russia
Mars
Marconi
Rehr
Iowa Editors Burroughs Nature Club Notes
Nature column invites reader questions on topics of nature. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY copyright 1921 prompts inquiries to the Nature Notes Department for general interest answers in this paper.
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Burroughs Nature Club
Houghton Mifflin Co
Nature Notes
Do Skunks Hibernate and Other Wildlife Questions
Answers 1 from Tomorrow's Nature Notes explain whether skunks hibernate, if toads transfer warts to handlers, and what it means by calling birds summer residents and winter residents.
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Bol
Dol
Public pays taxes on seven percent rail bonds
A 1914 railroad issue yielded under five percent, while new $8 million 15 year bonds pay over seven percent. Tax exempt securities raise rates for all, including shippers and passengers, via freight charges and the transportation tax. Congressional repeal could lower borrowing costs and fares.
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Dunois
Jade
Interstate Commerce Commission
Markham
Congress
Flapper Wit Sparks Debate Over Mr Sunday Pension
A witty comment mocks a modern flapper skirted and bare necked while chewing gum and enjoying fudge yet asks what she thinks of Mr Sunday. The remark hints at moral standards and public pension debate in a social column tone.
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Sunday
We ll Go Home to Rest and Love Guiding Night
A fragmented poem recounts weariness and rest, linking journeys of life to love guiding toward home. The narrator contrasts dreary skies and weary hearts with dreams of Heaven carried by Love. An old deacon voices a pragmatic view that earthly life matters more than celestial signs.
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Dearie
Colina
Krose
Beane
Correct English Usage and Pronoun Review
The text showcases common grammar errors in pronoun case and comparative forms. It contrasts phrases like him and I versus me and I, and misuses words like myself and itself, highlighting the need for correct subject and object forms and clear comparative adjectives.
Rebus Puzzle Clues Misspellings and Puzzling Text
A garbled rebus puzzle with instructions to form a pen name of a famous American author. The snippet mentions SOLIMBUS and CAPTAIN JOHN, and a convoluted wordplay about fluids, vessels, divining rods, and head coverings. The passage drifts into nonsensical phrases and odd spellings without a clear news item or outcome.
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Inner
Walla
The Fur Bring ers A Story Of The Northwest
Peter Minot and Ambrose Doane visit Fort Enterprise after Poly Goussird brings word of the fur trade. Ambrose distrusts Gordon Strange, Colina Gaviller’s guardian, and pressures Colina over wheat pricing as tensions rise among the trading post’s whites and natives. Colina declares a price of 1.50 per bushel while Ambrose warns of unrest. Strange’s own loyalties remain doubtful.
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Peter Minot
Ambrose Doane
Poly Goussird
Colina Gaviller
Duane
Pisce
Colina
Ambrose
Fred Ambrose
Coline
Aager
Gordon Strange
Strange
Courrt
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