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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1913
Page
2
The piece discusses fuel costs in the auto industry, English fuel innovation, and a prize for fuel solutions. It notes a Maine artist surviving in the woods, immigration views, and public debates on jury service by women. It ends with railway wreck notes and currency bill politics.
The Courier endorses Prof Daniel W Mead's finding that the Mullan avenue bridge is not a flood menace yet warns no judgment is infallible. It notes a cedar river flood could still overwhelm safety and supports seawall construction from Fourth street to beyond the bridge as a vital safety and aesthetic upgrade. The paper welcomes Mead's assessment while urging timely funding for seawalls for Waterloo's future protection.
The British unemployment insurance, in force a little over a year, aimed to prevent and alleviate unemployment distress. The Chicago Record-Herald notes the first annual report shows a $3,000 fund balance and about 400,600 men receiving money from a larger enrolled pool. It explains that delays and idle periods limited payouts, and warns that prolonged hard times could swell relief needs as prosperity wanes.
An advertisement touts Wakefield’s Blackberry Balsam as a remedy that stops diarrhoea and dysentery without constipation. It markets Lifanium and other bowel aids, presenting the product as non habit forming with affordable pricing of 86 cents or three bottles for 1 dollar. It asserts efficacy after other remedies fail and promotes nationwide availability.
A reflective assertion on human development and societal progress. The text urges patience as humanity, cities, science, and religion evolve, using metaphors of kitchens, scaffolding, green apples, and future possibilities. It envisions a distant future where a perfected man and woman emerge after vast time.
A satirical essay on press agents who manufacture news for free gain. It argues they can conjure dramatic stories quickly, provoking wars or scandals, then offer them to editors with cigars and tickets. It mocks editors who ignore such “news” yet remain dependent on sensational publicity.
A compilation highlights Iowa topics from the Sioux City Tribune and Marshalltown Times Republican, praising experimental farms for boosting crop yields and noting Des Moines high school sex hygiene lectures, with GOP and press commentary on progressives, plus light items on soil bacteria, a joyful rider quip, geography teaching via AP, and an ad for Pootle's Furniture Co.
A collage of humor from multiple papers includes a slangy caption about a slicker and skirts, a Baltimore quip on youth spending, a Detroit Free Press yarn about liniment and cement used after a pitcher hit a mother, plus a Washington Star joke about women voters and a magazine editor meeting an author.
The editor urges publication under the writer's name to boost fame, but the author refuses. He insists he wants money, and fears his wife would receive the earnings if published under his name. The exchange highlights concerns over ownership and payment.
In Des Moines Register and Leader excerpts, Herbert L. Aldrich notes Iowa drought and grasshopper damage seen on a Texas Kansas trip. He cites 30 bushels per acre as a relief, with creeks dry, railroads hauling water, 30 000 cattle sent to market, 60 000 in three days, and corn prices set to rise. Also advertises Foley Kidney Pills.
A bird built a nest inside a human skull found in a vault beneath a Rothwell church in Northamptonshire England. The skull lay among others on shelves as the bird entered via a ventilator and enlarged a hole likely created by an earlier battle.
Miss Margaret Furry of Vinton visited her sister Mrs. E C Ward in Brandon. Irene Wroten returns from Coggon, Roy Gallagher from Rock Rapids vacationing with L N Frink. Various residents, travel, church events and a horse shoe injury noted. A dozen locals announced moves, visitors and shipments, including electric power hogs shipment and staff changes at W F N rail line offices.
A 16 year old tobacco factory worker from New Orleans and a young woman from Saint Clair Pa. praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for health issues including menstrual suppression back pain headaches pimples and fatigue. The letters promote the remedy and invite others to seek confidential advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
The undersigned herewith gives no tice that he will not be responsible for any debts contracted by Miss El sie Nissen. JOHN NISSEN, Reinbeck, la.
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