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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1918
Page
6
A public drive urges farmers to grow sugar cane this season to supplement sorghum needs. Cane is as easy as corn, yields fodder after sap has been pressed, and could support local production with potential price gains amid sugar shortages. A half acre per farm could ease demand and even support local processing plants.
Red Lake Falls Minnesota reports speculators moving to sign farmers to seed potato contracts for 1918. Firms would supply seed tubers and return for the harvest, but county agent Charles Lake warns the deal lacks firm buyback guarantees. If prices fall the buyer may not take the crop, while a price rise could force sale at the contract price.
Father Peter Crumbly one of three Franciscan priests to receive commissions as lieutenant chaplains in the U S army. Assigned to the United States engineer corps, he will soon go abroad. Fellow priests Isidore Fosselman of Waverly with Waterloo relatives and J F Emanuel both O F M also commissioned by the war department.
An old fashioned newspaper advertisement extols Gets-It as a painless corn remover. It promises quick relief with two drops, no cutting, and a stock or shoe fit afterward. The ad notes guaranteed money back, low cost, and lists Chicago manufacturer E. Lawrence & Co. along with Waterloo distributors and several local drug-store names.
Iowa station experiments show four to five Bordeaux mixture sprays yearly raise potato yields by about 25 bushels per acre. Bordeaux mix controls certain leaf blights but not all diseases or Colorado potato beetle unless Paris green or lead arsenate is added. Mix ratios: copper sulfate five pounds, lime five pounds, water fifty gallons. prepare separately then combine. Start sprays when plants are six to eight inches high and repeat every week to ten days.
Waterloo is favorably placed for lumber supplies with prices expected to stay low for years. Local dealers report cheap stock and note that a leading Waterloo firm bought large piles of lumber last year. Residents and nearby areas could buy at 10 to 16 dollars per 1000 feet, well below prices elsewhere. Building materials broadly show this price advantage.
A historic cosmetic note advises against aggressive rubbing for deep wrinkles. It promotes a formula: one ounce Porceran saxolite dissolved in one pint witch hazel to apply to face, neck, and hands. The remedy is claimed to reduce wrinkles, cheeks, and lines, with cooling soothing effects.
War time shortages hit Waterloo post office as vacancies mount and few substitutes remain. Postmaster M. Hi. Kally struggles to fill roles while several workers exit for farming, France service, or government posts. Recent departures include Adams, Eightey, Busby, Shipton, Geist, and McGreevey due to drafting or reassignment.
News item reports Ben Naven of Waterloo seriously ill at Iowa City with a diagnosed combination of pneumonia and blood poisoning. Condition described as grave and progressing, with germs of both diseases evident.
Three students are now AI and three others have died of the disease with high mortality, a illness that has plagued the army CAINS and spread among personnel.
There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases but copether and for years it wen au p hosed to be incurable. Doctors described local remedies and by failing to cure with local treatment pronounced it incurable. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is a constitutional remedy taken internally and acts through the blood on the mucous surfaces of the system. A hundred dollar reward offered for any case it fails to cure.
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