Evans and Gardner highlighted at Waterloo golf event
The Waterloo Daily Courier notes Chick Evans, winner of the Western Amateur, and Bob Gardner, ex Yale athlete and former world pole vault record holder, as prominent figures in the approaching golf showcase. The piece reflects on golf as a blend of science and luck, mentions municipal golf links spending, and praises Evans’s enduring public appeal and future prospects.
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Rays
Chick
Evans
Vfew
Bob Gardner
Yale
Chick” Evans
Altho
Unks
Isy
BASEBALL PIONEER SPALDING DIES LEAVING LEGACY
Arthur Gooswell Spalding known as the father of baseball is dead. He helped make baseball a national sport, launched world tours, and built a vast business from a $800 start in 1876. His firm’s outfits are widely used and his name is highly recognized across the country.
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Arthur Gooswell Spalding
America
Spalding
J. P. Morgan
Thomas A A. Edison
Orville Wright
Champ Clark
Johnson attacks Taft for 1916 bid in labor day talk
Governor Hiram Johnson used a Los Angeles labor day speech to attack former President Taft, seeking publicity for a 1916 Republican bid. The address questions Taft’s relevance while hinting at other potential rivals and touches on national issues and party strategy.
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Hiram Johnson
Los Angeles
Formur
Taft
Johnson
Root
Puget Sound A Vivid Portrait From Old Seattle Era
Puget Sound is described as a vast Pacific Northwest waterway lined with forests and islands. The piece extols its beauty, foggy winters, salmon canneries, busy ports, and tourism, noting Seattle and Tacoma’s growth, wartime tensions, and future prospects with steamships and motorboats navigating its waters.
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Puget Sound
United States
Jad
Jorg
America
Seattle
Taroma
Olyhale Mountains
Tacoma
Sound
Atlantic
China
Japan
Europe
Alaska
The Wonder of Daily Beauty and Eyes that See
A reflective note on soap bubbles as fleeting art and the human eye’s beauty. From the marvel of simple things to a neighbor’s poppy garden, the piece extols astonishment at everyday scenes and the idea of intensive cultivation of happiness through perception and wonder. It closes with quoted lines about seeking beauty and fellowship in everyday passers-by.
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Stevenson
Roy
Watt
Shin
Mara
Ghier
Basis of Value by George Matthey Adams
A philosophical piece argues that personal worth equals usefulness to others. It refutes self pity and claims success hinges on tangible value contributed to the world. The author stresses unselfish service and distributing light through actions and thoughts to earn happiness and lasting satisfaction.
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George Matthey
Adams
What Iowa Editors Are Saying
A compilation of Iowa editorial excerpts from Des Moines Capital Sioux City Tribune and Marshalltown Times-Republican. Topics include teacher certification changes effective July 1, gambling critique, evolving views of schooling and cartoons by students, Taft remarks on Ballinger and Alaska, and musings on governors with local newspaper voices from Mason City and Sioux City.
Toe Sheng Mountain Part I
A stranger climbs the sighing Toe Sheng Mountain to discover the source of the village legend. He clears a path through thick briers, ascends to a rock top, and finds a maiden sleeping in an opening above the edge, her sighs guiding his cautious approach. The tale ends with a cliffhanger as the maiden lies revealed beside the rock.
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Went
Bis
Inventive Americans Shaping Naval War Tech and Politics
The piece praises American wartime inventors from Edison to Gatling and Ericsson, noting national pride in naval advances. It urges accountability for officeholders, calls for qualified postmasters, and hints at political critiques of jingo editors and party leaders without naming individuals beyond general references.
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Galesbore
Thomas A. Edison
America
Yale
Robert Patton
John Ericsson
Philadelphia
Ericsson
Holland
Richard Gatling
North Carolina
Tycons
Colonel Deringer
Colt
Samuel
The Man for the Place Nominates Hunter as Treasurer
The Waterloo Courier suggests W. F. Hunter of Webster City for state treasurer. The Webster City editor would serve as treasurer in his own right, not a figurehead, though concerns about public service and independence are noted.
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Waterloo Commercial Club
L. P. Davison
Davison
West Point
Annapolis
Fort Sheridan
Courier and
Waterloo
Hunter
Zoad
Charles City Intelligencer
Waterloo Courier
W. F. Hunter
Webster City Freeman-Tribune
Peonte Haa
Hartman Physician and Surgeon Clinic Notice
Frank T Hartman physician and surgeon lists specialties in obstetrics with office at Gomer Fifth and Mulberry Streets opposite East Side Library. hours 2 to 5 p m Wednesday and Saturday evenings 7 to 9 Sundays 11 am to 4 pm. contact azl office.
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Frank T. Hartman
Grusen
Gomer
Mulberry
East Side Library
Om Tory
Night and Stars Prompt Desire for Bigger View
Collier’s essay laments indoor living and gossip driven pettiness. It urges embracing night skies, moonlit reflections, and eternal, cosmic influences to elevate the spirit beyond daily room confines. The Waterloo paper notes Want Ads reach 6,500 Waterloo homes with nightly home distribution.
Lydia Pinkham’s Remedy Praised by Minnesota Woman
Mrs Jos Esera Aselin of Minneapolis recounts two years of illness and monthly pains after childbirth. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her strength after three bottles. She invites inquiries for others to contact the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Mass for confidential advice.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Lydia E Pinkham
JosEera Aselin
Fourth Avenue
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia FE. Pinkham
Lydia E.pinkham
Boston Confectionery Boxed Chocolates Ad
Boston confectionery advertises a sample box of chocolates available at 126 East 4th Street and 322 West 4th Street inviting customers to try a box.
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Boston Confectionery
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Presatober Audit Bureau of Cirevistona
Hartman Company
Weet Park Ave
John C Hartman
Wi. Peterson
Iowa
Repy
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Zolf
Sell
Detroit
Fortung
Jerome Travers
Francis Guimet
Vardon
Prison Mirror
Minnesota State Prison
Wall Street Journal
Regul
James F Donnelly
Iberia
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Iy George Kitch
Choe Mart
Selfles
Des Moines
Towand
Sioux City
Chicago
New York
Marshalltown Times
Renwbthan
Jonah
Sioux City Tribune
Ballinger
Rolding
Mason City Times
William Barnes
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
New York City
T. A
Bryan
Artemus Ward
Belog
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Igre
Bithy Root
N’s
New York World
Gerrit J. Bennett
Grant Ave
Telephone Pany
Collier’s
Syvery
Resinel
Baltimore
Afe
Western Union
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Western Union Telegraph CO
F. H. Latier
Lafayette Street
Fourth Street
Uapayeutr Building
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