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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Reporter
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1908
Page
6
A mixed Waterloo column recaps local events from a year ago and current items. Reports of sales and legal actions, births, illnesses, school exams, and community notices illuminate daily life. This snapshot mentions Hileman & Gindt, Waterloo residents, smallpox quarantines, school tests, and local business changes.
Rose Reich spent Sunday with friends at Waverly on September 2 as Elliott notes brisk interest in ongoing tests. Miss Mabel Morrill is confined at home with an illness. Joe McLaughlin left Coldwater to travel on business, while Mrs. J. D. Cowit visits Mrs. P. J. Martin in Iowa Falls for a few days.
A Evansville resident writes about a five year kidney and bladder ailment that left him run down and unable to work. After three physicians failed, Foley's Kidney Cure supplied relief with the first bottle and complete cure after the second.
An old advertisement asserts no case of retardation of a cough or cold leading to pneumonia after Foley's Honey And Tar. It urges refusal of non genuine versions and notes the yellow package contains no opiates. Licenses listed include Francis E. Palmer 27 Jesup and Orville Thomas 26 Cedar Falls with partners Cartle Li Meyer and Caroline Schalr.
Debuque Iowa March 2 Positive advices from Allison state headquarters report Fayette county delegates claimed by Cummins. William Larrabee SI a son of ex Governor Larrabee Chicago is part of the delegation. A million dollar check for back taxes on the late Marshall Field estate was given to Cook County treasurer under an agreed settlement that included sales totaling seventeen hundred thousand dollars. Oranges offered at C H Eigmeys.
Thomas Jorgstead was found dead Sunday morning after a fall from a landing following an evening of card playing and drinking with friends near the Scanlon blacksmith shop. A patrolman found him about an hour later with a broken neck. An inquest was held with no foul play indicated.
A Waterloo Theatre offer highlights the musical numbers and scenic effects of The Gingerbread Man running March 4 and 5. The piece uses Pastryland and Bon Bon land settings with a happy ending and lively songs, promising wholesome humor and impressive costumes. The cast is touted as notably strong for a comic opera.
A bedraggled man appeared at Klinefelter livery asking for a ride home near Jubilee with a boy said to be a relative. He claimed to have driven to town and fled with the boy, but the pair escaped from Waterloo team and wagon as two constables approached. the mother remains distraught and no trace of the wagon or boy was found. Grand jury session follows with eight to ten charges expected. Separate notices advertise a parasol found with initials M.G. and room rentals, plus medical cautions and butter market updates.
Sporting notes survey fading interest in Frank Gotch style wrestling. Leavensworth Kansas boxing scene up. Billy Madden and Gus Roblin open a Bay Ridge cafe. Chicago University backs five football games in a season. Dartmouth Williams drama resumes after pause. Peter the Great trotting sire allure grows for Kentucky breeders. Zetock and Nervolo clock respectable ages in racing. Three Cy Youngs projected for next season from Boston Americans, Boston Nationals, and Pittsburgh. the Pittsburgh man hails from Wichita previously managed by Jim McAleer.
A speaker at a London conference of woman workers summarized wage disparity with the remark that a woman's maxim is a man's minimum. The piece notes a city restaurant run by three Scotch women earning $15,000 yearly, with rent at $5 A. A female police corps is planned at Christiania to protect children. Mrs. Cobden-Sanderson spoke at Mount Holyoke College on the suffrage movement, arguing women seek voting rights to give, not just receive.
The New York Sun notes nearly all hats feature velvet for face flattering, white taffeta skirts are elaborately tucked and trimmed with French laces. Velvet or silk skirts show soft panels over gauze, high neck collars frame the chin, sleeves shorten yet end with long cuffs, and trimmings echo across bodices for a cohesive costume look.
Riverside New Jersey with 4000 residents lacks a paid police force and ban on Sadlup, while New York makes an unnecessary noise near hospitals punishable. Kansas grows a dwarf broom corn for whisk brooms and Maneas talent fuels much of the U.S. broom supply. Vermont sets no legal work hour limit, relying on custom, while Granite cutters and post office workers log eight hours. Many plants run nine to ten hours and farm labor still starts at sunrise.
The passage notes Denmark’s labor strength with half the population organized, Italy olive pickers earning 1 to 16 daily on shares, and 2,000,000 in the American Federation of Labor affiliated unions plus 600,000 unaffiliated groups. It cites New England cotton spinners earning 8.50 to 21 per week, weave rs at up to 18, and machine gains easing work. Also includes a domestic quote about a threat of never having another woman and a promise tied to acceptance, plus a note on today’s city employees’ payday.
Dr Crombine of the Kansas state board of health plans an exhibit of corn products for the boards pure food display at the Kansas Midwinter exposition in Hensae City, then at other state expositions. The exhibit lists cornmeal products starch gluten glucose grape sugar and corn oil among others all derived from Kansas corn with notes on uses and processing.
A letter by J D Rees MP urges rewards for killing man eaters in India, arguing tigers target only the weak and that deer stalkers are humane. Separate items note Y M C A farming hubs in Baraboo Wisconsin inviting farmers to sober, prosperous gatherings. Also a fashionably described dessert trend features candles stuffed in oranges with bohems and nougat among sweets.
Notice to customers announces Foley’s Honey and Tar cough remedy is not affected by the National Pure Food and Drug Law, contains no opiates or harmful drugs, and is recommended for children and adults. Eggs priced at 21 cents per dozen at LeigHmey’s store.
Grover Cleveland argues ex presidents deserve financial support to avoid poverty after leaving office. The Youth's Companion excerpted his piece calling for a definite provision, citing Jefferson and Adams as examples of hardship despite public service. He stresses justice, prudence, and nonpartisan care for those who led the nation. The text frames a public moral obligation and urges action rather than mere charity.
Griations backs a congressional considering provision for ex presidents citing Grover Cleveland and Jefferson as examples. He argues payment of debts and a government allowance for former presidents would not drain treasury, noting Mrs Garfield already receives support.
The Waterloo office marks grain provisions and livestock prices with hogs steady to mixed and cattle and sheep opening strong. Estimated hog receipts tomorrow 24,000. yesterday’s hogs 63,481. New York stock quotes include Amalgamated Copper and United States Steel among others. the piece also notes a housekeeper departure story and two brief social quips from London and New York papers.
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