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Newspaper

Waterloo Evening Courier

Location

Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Sep 21, 1929

Page

2

Waterloo Evening Courier 1 and Wat-Wore T1 No 228

Waterloo Evening Courier announces publication details and pricing. The notice lists staff editors and managers, advertising policies, rates, and press affiliations including Associated Press and Audit Bureau of Circulations.

Daly W.H. Hartman Co Courier Park John Hartman Qase Jackson BieCey Cartier Waterloo Town Associated Press United Press International News Member Audit Bureau Chay New York Philadelphia Chicago Los Angeles Las Prantista Story Brooks & Finley Representatives

Stock Market Tax Sparks Senate Debate on Speculation

The senate faces amendments to curb stock speculation by a proposed tax of five dollars per hundred on stocks traded within 60 days of purchase. Critics warn the measure would demoralize exchanges, push trading abroad, and penalize investors, threatening free markets and capital financing for new industries.

Congress Senate London

Danger Money and the New U S Currency Debate

The piece reviews charges by Louis A. Hill that the new U S currency is poorly made cheaper to counterfeit and vulnerable to loss, prompting talk of a congressional inquiry into treasury practices and currency quality. It weighs both economic savings and risks to public confidence in the currency.

United States Louis A. Hill Bureau of Engraving and Printing Congressional Treasury Department Hill Washington Uncle Sam

Louisiana’s justice system mirrors Napoleon code insights

An article by J Kenion Bailey notes Louisiana’s unique use of non jury trials in certain cases and graded jury requirements by offense severity. It explains that hard labor as penalty prompts judge only trials or small juries, while capital cases require full 12 jurors. The piece contrasts this with broader U.S. jury practices and highlights the evidence rules' efficiency.

Louisiana J. Kenion Bailey New Orleans Journal of the American Judicature Society

Louisiana jury in civil cases faces abolition trend

The article discusses Louisiana's civil trial reforms where juries are rarely used, with judges often admitting any relevant evidence. It highlights the belief that state practice minimizes jury involvement and expedites due process while preserving substantial justice, amid calls to end juries in civil matters and some criminal cases.

Defining the Common Cold Sparks Debate in Health Column

Dr William Brady challenges health authorities to define the common cold, arguing the term is vague. He criticizes researchers for avoiding a formal definition and suggests new terms to describe early respiratory illness stages. Readers are invited to respond with concise letters.

O. W. Holmes M. D Mint Grady Williem Brady

A Fable of Tolerance From Glenn Frank

A newspaper reprint of Glenn Frank s fable about mirrors and perspective. It presents convex and flat mirrors debating nature and truth with d Alembert noting optics and the relativity of truth. The piece ends proposing that orthodoxy and heterodoxy are merely different dogmas and urges broad acceptance.

Glenn Frank Uniersity of Wisconsin Century Magazine McClure d'Alembert Nature

The High Hat and a Catalog of Pet Peeves

A University of Rochester professor discusses a catalog of 507 pet peeves in a New Haven lecture. He notes personal aversions to high hatters, alarm clocks, motor horns, chalk squeaks, and crowded talk, contrasting city behavior with his Mississippi hometown hospitality.

New Haven Hulsey’ Cason University ’ of Rochester Elia Sant Donne

Naumburg birthday memory and assorted clippings

A collage of verse about Naumburg and a memory of her first birthday contrasts with a note on winter’s return via Donald B. McMillan from the arctic. The page also includes varied society items, quips, and brief notes from St. Louis to Philadelphia, mentioning George Olsen and Count Keyserling.

Donald B. McMillan Arctic MacCutcheon

Brain Tests From Evening Post IQ Challenge

A reader notes an old IQ style test with errors in statements about literary unity coherence and emphasis. It lists items about Hugo Les Miserables and February dates, plus counting people and a ship disaster survivor, with answers to be found on the society page.

Hugo John Harry Marie Jessica Eunice

Abe Martin on Preachers among modern disappointments

The column mocks various professions from lawyers to doctors and notes the preacher ranks as especially discouraging to the author. It frames the preacher’s plight amid broader frustrations with social roles and marriage.

The New York Bachelor Social Scene Revisited

In New York a type of bachelor on call for social duties circulates among husbands and wives, offering companionship and dinner engagements without a stipend. The piece contrasts writers critics and theatre goers, noting a Rialto flop and a curio about letters from readers in San Diego.

New York America George

Washington Daybook highlights Smoot tariff clash and White House pet bits

Washington Daybook notes Democratic barbs at Senator Reed Smoot over the tariff bill as Chairman Smoot stands firm. Snippets recall Swanson and Harrison jabbing, Utah's Smoot showing restraint, and Beagle-like gossipy items about Hoover pets and Stetson at Quantico.

Washington, D. C Reed Smoot Senate Finance Committee Utah Pat Harrison Smoot Bright Smoot Harrison Swanson Virginia California Pennsylvania Shortridge Reed Hoover Rapidan River Daniel Hastings Delaware Washington Capital Ines Lee ‘Tracey Lye John’ BR. Stetson United’ States Poland Is. Buck Marine Corps Base Quantico

New Books Review on Hamsun and More Realistic Tales

Richard Maslock surveys Hamsun's latest novel Chapter of the Last Death and a cast of frail sanatorium residents including Daniel and Froken DEspard. He also notes Borgin Complex Death and disaster in Zonk Gale and other works by Faul Barker H. H. Bates and Roger Chauviry, with Floyd Gibbons on The Red Napoleon.

Richard Maslock New York Ey Hamsun Daniel Daniel Utyy Froken Finn Froken D'Espard Merfa Walter B. Pitkin H. H. Bates Catherine Foster Ireland Ernest Boyd Roger Chauviry Floyd Gibbons Key West Nova Scotia Reg St. Lawrence Val

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