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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1912
Page
12
County officials discuss tax corrections for several properties and stocks with motions to cancel or reduce assessments. The board then names judges and clerks for East Waterloo and other townships for upcoming elections and approves various county fund and poor fund claims. Adjournment noted for April 24, 1912.
Waterloo High School East staged a well attended German Evening in the manual training auditorium. The German department head Emma Roemer led a program featuring plays Der Prozens and Hin Pension Streich with strong performances by Ern wal Koopke Edgar Kober Esther Small Althea Stamp Marguerite Ladage Beulah McCune Hazel Hanlon Ernest Koepke and others. The chorus sang Folk Songs and Die Lorelle and recitations by Hanlon Renn and McCune impressed. A piano solo by Marjorie Chamberlain opened the program.
At Sunrise will be the Waterloo attraction tonight a western comedy drama praised for scenic effects and clean humor Kubeliks violins famed with four instruments including the Emperor Stradivarius in a US tour ending soon Monte Carlo Girls Burlesque comes Wednesday April 17 The Girl and the Tramp with Mayme Gardner and Pat Kane April 20 Deep Purple crooks drama from New York and Chicago heads to Waterloo next
T. Baker of Waterloo Iowa praises the German program noting a fund drive will buy supplies for the department. H W Taggart endorses Foley Kidney Pills claiming they cured his kidney trouble and relieved back pain after a months long ailment.
Judson Br. Palmer, general secretary of the Y M C A, visiting his cousin's family, will give the principal talk at the YMCA men's meeting tomorrow at 3 45 p.m. His Galveston flood experience and southwest work add interest. music is planned.
Eldora April 13 revival of an electric line between Waterloo and Des Moines via Eldora is being considered by the Waterloo Town Criers club. Waterloo business men expect the project to be taken up soon and note a proposed east and west line from Waterloo to Des Moines via Eldora as a paying proposition and almost a necessity. A branch of the Illinois Central to Eldora is also being considered.
Fred D. Moore of Denver and Alma Fields of St. Louis may be the couple in a notice listing several names including Martin J. Free and Lettie I. Hackett of Waterloo and Charles J. Crawford of Dixon. Mageio Aldrich and Henry Ferris of Hadar Neb are also mentioned as friends in a larger marriage notice context.
Christian Jensen born November 2, 1852 in Denmark endured a long journey through schools and politics before immigrating to America. He taught in Iowa, earned a teaching certificate, and later lived at the Bremer county home in a sunlit “villa” before dying April 4, 1912 at age 59 years. His body was sent to Charlotte, Iowa for burial per his sister’s request.
James Schermerhorn publisher of the Detroit Daily Times will arrive in Waterloo Tuesday morning and speak at the Masonic temple that evening after a 6:30 dinner by Eastern Star. Reservations required via Secretary Henry Frank. about 400 may be seated.
Davenport April 13. On a theory that a quantity of gold was hidden in the little hovel where Mrs. remains under investigation. Police search the dwelling for clues and valuables. No further details provided.
The Waterloo special train to Dallas for the national convention has been postponed to next Tuesday due to railroads lacking complete data. Reservations are already under way with seventy five needed to guarantee the train. Railroads Illinois Central Rock Island Burlington Great Western plan a deluxe service for Waterloo travelers.
Fitchville Ohio letters praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for a severely ailing daughter who recovered, with the mother urging others to seek the treatment for female troubles. The company at Lynn Massachusetts notes many such letters and advises young girls with menstrual and related symptoms to use the compound.
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