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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1913
Page
3
The Ticklemouse hosts Davy Dorfy and friends for a Sleepyland night. They conjure an enormous lemonade pool, fish with straw lines, and gear up for night fishing. A sour Lemon Squeezer pursues them, delivering a playful chase across Doverville before bedtime.
Tripoli reports the new 9 and 10 cent store opening. Waverly residents Mr and Mrs Hardin live here as manager. Many locals attend Will Rourke’s funeral and John Berlin’s birthday. Visitors from Cedar Rapids New Hampton and Westgate appear, with town updates on schooling, dressmaking, lumber remodeling, and post office changes.
A Virginia mother reports a three week old baby developed a itchy rash that crusted over the face except the eyelids. She credits Resinol Soap and Healing Ointment with rapid improvement after five weeks of unsuccessful washes. She invites others to try samples at the company mailing address.
Jesup residents report several depot transfers and new operators at Waterloo and Winthrop. Local clergy and missions announce Presbytery travel, thimble bee, and missionary society activities. A April wedding, birthdays, and social gatherings fill the town notices with visits to Independence, Oelwein, and Dayton friends.
A large bouquet of American Beauty roses was sent by her son James of Waterloo along with a buffet prepared by her husband Mr A Haskins and son Lyle. Attending were daughter Mrs F Reid granddaughter Ruth and Mrs H A Mead of Dubuque with guests Mrs Yorhees and Mrs S Shafer from Freeport Illinois.
Edwin Axon visits Waterloo and other community events highlight a busy Hudson period. Activities include the Bachelor Girls masquerade, district Sunday school convention with talks by Rev Beachler and H T Fisher, elections of officeholders, birthday celebrations, social visits to Waterloo and Cedar Falls, a P C E recital, and a dance at Voorhies with Bishop Weekly preaching to TU TB church members.
A period advertisement extols Mother's Friend as a trusted external remedy for pregnant women. It claims to ease pain, reduce nausea, prevent breast distress, and smooth the journey to childbirth, promising a calmer, more comfortable period and urging readers to obtain it via the Headfield Lator Co. and Lamar Alde in Atlanta.
A speaker presented his renowned address titled "A Young Man" to a large attentive crowd in the evening. The item also notes social visits and relocations among Waterloo residents including Mrs. Will McFarlane, Mrs. Kienzi Hollis, Miss Rose Sherratt, and Mrs. Alice Wyatt. John Tumian shows improvement after a serious illness, and others visited Reinbeck and Des Moines on various errands.
Mt Auburn residents and visitors are listed in a social roundup as they travel between Vinton La Porte City Cedar Rapids Waterloo Cedar Falls and Garrison. The long roster records callers shoppers and visits including Mr and Mrs Schlotfelt Mrs Hall Miss Henry Miss Wagner and many others with relatives and friends across townships and cities.
Gilbertville April 17 Mike Kraus worked for Gilbertville Grain & Lumber then helped a man from IHinoia install lightning rods at the Peter Werner home. Mathias Ahles is the new road boss east of John Delagardeile's. Victor Youngblut now with Gilbertville Grain & Lumber Co. William Birch from Washburn shipped a carload of steers to Chicago. Henry Delagardelle working in Waterloo for a pulley factory. Newell Construction of Cedar Rapids has carloads of lumber to begin an elevator project here.
A vintage advertisement promotes Pape's Diapepsin as the world’s largest selling stomach regulator. It claims rapid relief from digestion issues, gas, heartburn, and sour stomach within minutes. The 50 cent case allegedly yields a hundred dollars’ worth of relief or money back.
Waterloo residents were among a group visiting Gilbertville Grain & Lumber Co on Sunday, reporting interest in the firm’s products and services.
A compact set of five riddle prompts asking wordplay queries about colors, trees, eyes, stems, and peas. Answers from yesterday include prognostication, knew, sycamore, treason reason, and butter-cup, presented as a playful puzzle snippet without further context.
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