Lot Two Ladies Night Gowns Special at Series Store
A brief sale advert lists Lot Two Ladies Night Gowns offered at a special price. The notice highlights limited quantities and a weekend sale period in a local department shop.
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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1912
Page
8
A brief sale advert lists Lot Two Ladies Night Gowns offered at a special price. The notice highlights limited quantities and a weekend sale period in a local department shop.
Lot Three features LaGrecque tailored garments including combination garments night robes skirts and princess slips. Every piece crafted to fit the figure perfectly with no fullness around waist or hips. Inspect the La Grecque under garments for quality and fit.
Leavitt & Johnson Trust official GC Davis tours Cedar Rapids on business and visits nearby towns. Fargo Sunday meetings see 282 converts, nearly 1 000 in two weeks, with 3 692 raised for expenses. Royal Arcanum secretary Henry A. Snyder shows a picture of Keokuk grand council delegates—dam and power plant features clear. Waterloo lodge A P A M prepares to work on third degree at Masonic temple. Mrs. Edward Peak and daughters plan move from Jesup to Wolf Creek Wisconsin with family. Judge Ransier weighs Bryant vs Cedar Falls and contractor injunction. ruling expected next Friday. Automatic rail gates rising at Mulberry and Lafayette crossings per city council. Walter Clark, Titanic victim, mourned in Los Angeles by C J Mensch family. Fancy dried peaches at C H Kighmey’s Grocery.
Geof Fedon returns from Illinois and Michigan trip. W Woldiman and Floyd Myers buy the Gales & Pint butcher shop and will run the meat market. Dennis Kirby of Great Falls visits his ailing mother. Mrs. Mary Mahlig is very ill. May Metcalf visits Fairbank. Henry Koster goes to Dubuque on business. Hemer visitors from Waterloo. Fleiple sells a car load of hogs. Sadler runs a daily cream milk and produce wagon to Waterloo. Seeding progresses slowly due to wet ground. Mrs. Ida Barron sells a car load of corn to Moblett & Nemec.
The France, a 27 000 ton French line steamship, left Havre on April 20 for New York on its maiden voyage. Among the passengers are Mr Robert Bacon the retiring Ambassador to France and Mrs Bacon. The liner is 715 feet long with a 75 foot beam and a displacement of 27 000 tons. It has space for 2 000 passengers and a crew of 535.
Jeff T McCaskill awaits a new trial motion in a manslaughter case over Henry Phillips of Black Hawk county. He remains in good health in county jail, sustained by gifts of fruit and delicacies, as flowers have not arrived since the trial. Mrs. Mary Ferry of 206 Jefferson is reported critically ill with cancer.
A 19 year old girl narrowly escaped death when her skirts ignited on a motor carriage driven by her brother on Independence Avenue. The blaze started from a bilge flash in the flooding carburetor. garments burned badly before the brother could extinguish the flames.
Tennis classes for Y W C A girls have been organized. Play on Mondays and Wednesdays at Mrs J B Smiths court at the corner of Iowa and Pine streets. Sedgwick court on South Street donated for use, days undecided. Season fee is twenty five cents. Cafeteria committee meeting tomorrow at 3 in Y W C A parlors.
The Evening Courier offers a free paper bag cooking school in Waterloo with Mrs. Marshment leading sessions from tomorrow at 2:30 PM in the Century building. Booths by Armour & Co and other local firms decorate four days of lectures on this new culinary method. Coupons empower admission. tickets are free with a season entry at The Evening Courier office.
April events and visits in Jesup Iowa. F Loveblack visits friends. various residents travel to Independence Waterloo and Freeport. Local church activities noted with Ladies Aid and auxiliary meetings and a hard time social fundraiser.
Berlin April 3 The North German Lloyd reports the new trans Atlantic steamer ordered at Bremen’s Schichau yard will have a displacement of 25000 tons. It dismisses American reports that the vessel would displace 64000 tons and that more ships were planned as incorrect.
April 23 Eagle Center notes nearly all farmers will finish seeding this week. Local visits include Mr and Mrs Q Russell and Miss Edna Klein of Waterloo, Conny Klein family of Orange township, Emma Schaefer of Washburn, and Peter Schaefer returning from Florida. Germany's new Undosahad sea bath debuts portable design with canvas roof and motor power for heating and wave generation.
An old grocery ad lists Seedot Raisins priced 25 ets at Bightney's Grocery. A Courier wants Ada Wu to do it, with unclear local reference to UW and Atlanta.
John Lawson of Des Moines, former White Star engineer, defends J Bruce Ismay from swift censure. He argues speed and course on Atlantic ships are fixed by safety and nautical norms, not personal blame. Lawson faults lawmakers for rushing judgement and insists Ismay, brave by nature, bears an unfair burden in this tragedy.
The notice in the W H Teats versus Lali Teats divorce action reports desertion as the ground. The plaintiff seeks custody of two children Levita and Blanche. Mr and Mrs M Hileman have returned to Iowa and are staying at Thos Pirale’s Cedar Rapids home.
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