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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1912
Page
4
The Evening Courier reports a free cooking school in Waterloo with large attendance from local women. Mrs. Marshment demonstrated paper bag cookery and bread and pastry making. A baking contest offers a $27 kitchen cabinet prize, judged anonymously by audience members, with a daily $1 cash award for best entry.
An advertisement urges fat women to shed fat through Marmoia Prescription Tablets claiming rapid loss of fat without hard work or dieting. It states safe, healthful effects and minimal cost with a 75 cent case and directs readers to contact The Marmola Company in Detroit if their local druggist does not stock the product.
Mrs Mary Muhling an octogenarian resident of Dewar Iowa for 45 years died Wednesday at 2 30 pm at her son's home two miles north of town after strokes. Born in Germany she came to America with her husband later homesteading near John Muhling. Survived by son John and daughters Mrs Thresa Miller and Mrs Magsie Prindel. Funeral Friday at 9 am from the home with burial at Barclay Catholic cemetery.
The AP board elected officers in New York on April 24. President is Frank B. Noyes of the Washington Star. first vice president General Charles H. Taylor of the Boston Globe. Crawford Hill of the Denver Republican is second vice president. Melville B. Stone becomes general manager and secretary. J. R. Youatt is treasurer.
At an adjourned Waterloo presbytery session in Marshalltown the Rev. Robert C. Westenberg will be formally installed as pastor of the Marshalltown church. The 7:30 pm ceremony at the Presbyterian church is open to the public with Rev. Lewis P. Crone of Grundy Center presiding.
Mrs Marshment leads a paper bag cooking school at the hall offering daily cash prizes of one dollar for the best entry. Attendees bring specimens for judging, with a charity sale planned Saturday evening to benefit the Young Women’s Christian Association. American Beauty roses arrive from florist N H Loomis.
Installation service led by Rev W B Sanford of Waterloo with Dr David Fahs delivering the pastor’s charge. Majestic bills The Four Musical Apalog on xylophones, Travilla Bros with seal act, Babe Mason Hadith McClaire, Miss Frances Burns, Billy Mann, Redwood and Johnson. Mrs Moorhead substitutes at Washington school.
The condition report shows steady growth in resources and deposits at Commercial National Bank. Total assets reach 2,707,844.66 dollars with nearly 1,200,000 in deposits, surplus of 10,000 dollars, and undivided profits of 102,487.17 dollars.
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