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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Reporter
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1907
Page
1
In Beet Hedin’s Through Agia a traveler recalls seeing human footprints on a dune after descending into darkness. The tracks appear near a river, prompting shock and a cautious investigation that confirms the prints belong to themselves.
August and September specials navigate sales to California Washington Oregon Idaho Montana Utah and the Big Horn Basin. Round trip cheap excursion rates to California Puget Sound Colorado Utah and the Black Hills via Burlington main line to Denver and Billings. Homeseeker's excursions to Billings and the Big Horn Basin on first and third Tuesdays. Contact D Clem Deaver, General Agent, Landseeker's Information Bureau, Omaha. Through service daily to California via Denver, Colorado and Salt Lake. fastest route to the upper northwest.
Thousands gathered to view the Rock Island wreck near Cedar Rapids as repair crews shifted mail cars to shops and began re-railing engines. Claim agent Albright questioned flange failure while a Waterloo man’s gold watch was recovered for Mrs Oliver amid a tale of mistaken identity across Grand Forks and Presbyterian Hospital.
Social tidbits from Waterloo area include visitors Lyra Farles at J M Williams home and Mrs Gusta Ford plus Miss Melondi planning winter in Portland. John Ritzinger, Blackhawk county bridge contractor, loses a file by death today. A wedding march signals a divorce petition by Mrs Mary Hunt against Edwin Hunt. Deed transfers allocate Cushman family property in Waterloo block 43.
Patrick Reagan aged 58 died Monday at the county home, likely of heart trouble. He had been an inmate for 22 years and remained in frail health. Remains held at O Keefe and Towne undertaking rooms pending word from relatives.
A dense notice shows ongoing social events at Grace M church First M E and Union Congregational listings. Rev H W Reherd travels to Geneseo and returns by Wednesday. St Marys Catholic church and Danis services noted. Salvation Army harvest home festival planned around the 71st to 24th of the month with street work and meetings led by Adj. Kettle Jr.
Waterloo public schools opened sessions with high turnout, many out of town attendees arriving for advanced study. Enrollment not complete, but attendance exceeded last year as additions and merges impact the district.
Waterloo church notices report Rev Geo W Hinkle leaving with Benjamin B Oliver funeral party and returning by Wednesday. Rev H G Beeman preached at Kalnut Street Baptist chapel and regular winter services will be held. Cottage meetings to begin around October. Rev J W Bissell, presiding elder, to return after visiting Plaingfield Nastus and other places. Twin City ministerial association met Cedar Falls with an attending group and a paper read. Rev Father Mark Cooney was mentioned.
The East Waterloo public schools opened with rising enrollment and crowded rooms. Additional high school staff includes two more teachers and a new German course, while manual training grows under Prof. Mallory. New buildings fill quickly, a heating plant upgrade was completed, and the district awaits a new high school principal.
A St Louis Republic report says Honore Jaxon of Chicago, tied to Cree pleas for wandering rights, plans a chain of camping posts across the United States to enable Cree Indians to roam seasonally from Mexico to Canada. He would consult with Cree leaders in Chicago and Montana, presenting a creed of land as belonging to no single people and seeking justice through renewed nomadic life.
The report covers hogs cattle and sheep receipts and price shifts with market closures. It notes hog market movement from open to easy higher, cattle opening lower, sheep steady, plus Chicago stock exchange quotes and local market prices for grains poultry butter eggs and produce.
A Nashvil le Indiana pastor William Grabb of the Church of the Firstborn wrapped rattlesnakes about his neck to prove divine protection, drawing crowds and turning some to the sinner’s bench. Also recounted are a woodchuck ascent prompted by a dog, a pine branch mystery, and a road company star asking for hot iron in a bemused hotel scene.
Denver News reports a group of young Denver women led by Nise Ruth Owens form a land club to take up two fall sections totaling 1 280 acres in the Little Boake river valley reclamation district. They plan to farm immediately, irrigate via a sixty mile canal, and profit from crops and rising land values.
A Plainfield Indiana Dispatch reports a spirited Old Maids Parade inviting men to propose, with banners reading Do Your Buttons On and I Don’t Belong With That Bunch. The piece also notes Uncle Billy Waring’s weather forecasts rumored to rely on his two pigs tails curling in dry or wet weather. A later vignette quotes Has Caine on storytelling in Book Monthly.
A fragment discusses deep ocean pressure, claiming water at five miles depth exerts immense force. It cites a corked bottle at 200 feet breaking glass, and reports wooden blocks sinking and losing buoyancy, not burning when dry, illustrating mythic notions of underwater pressure.
Classified notice seeks three machinists and helpers for motor works building in Weatfield Waterloo Town. Also lists Cascaden Mfg Co S716L for rent 260 acre Faris black soil five miles from Waterloo and names Ellis Wilson Lamson. a lost Brave curtains set in blue pasteboard box between Lafayette and Elwood cemetery. Return to Keefe & Towne's undertaking parlors.
A fragmentary timetable lists numerous trains on the Illinois Central line with routes between Chicago Waterloo Dubuque Fort Dodge Sioux City and Albert Lea. It notes passenger and freight services, limiteds, expresses, and manifest trains with various arrival and departure times and mentions certain trains canceled on Sundays.
Rail timetable for the Right Road connecting Chicago Omaha St Louis Denver Memphis Colorado Springs Peoria Fort Worth St Joseph St Paul Kansas City Minneapolis and other points. East bound limited trains run daily with key stops at St Louis Mall and Ex-Prees, Chicago and Burlington passenger service on Sundays, Twin City Limited and Rockford schedules, west bound and freight services listed with station stops and times.
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