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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1915
Page
11
Courteous traveling salesmen visit officials ahead of a planned uniform textbook adoption in Black Hawk county for the next school year. Ginn & Co leads local sales, with officials noting few changes likely due to cost and continuity concerns for large families.
An advertisement extols Rheumasalts as a safe pleasant quick cure for constipation and associated ailments. It claims carbonated lithia drink cleans the stomach and intestines, relieves headaches and indigestion, and offers dosing via five ounce bottles with mail order from the Rheumabath Company in Minneapolis Minnesota at 5¢ 50¢ and 1.00.
A Daily Mail dispatch from northern France credits Canadian forces with foiling a German thrust in Flanders. They defended a promontory amid gas, smoke, and varied trench lines, aided by French troops, Zouaves, Belgians, and English regiments. Canadians endured gas exposure and bayonet charges to check the German advance and re-form the allied line.
London reports that only thirteen neutral ships have been captured and sent to prize courts by Britain and France, with the latest figures described as the best obtainable.
The area details steamers of American registry including Dacia Marn cus Lorenzo Hangmetal Ilo Passe. Hangmetal freed at Hongkong by court. Lorenzo condemned at St Juvia with IL cargo taken in September. Rilo Pasig still held at Hong Kong awaiting trial. Maracas at Hull awaiting prize court action. Ducla awaited by French prize court after capture.
The Topandou town weather and crop service reports ideal conditions for farm work in the seven days ending April 26. Director Gao M. Chappel notes continued favorable weather for farm operations and vegetation growth with ground preparation for corn planting and brisk breezes aiding soil work.
Amid drought and uneven fruit yield readers crave a new "History of the World" as seven editions head to high sales. The work, praised for increasing knowledge, will likely reach hundreds of thousands in distribution before the edition sells out. The paper also notes a shift in evangelistic efforts as James Scofield resigns from YMC A post to join Messrs Hanley and Fischer in preaching work, with past ties to the Waterloo Y M C A building project.
A five volume history project for the masses nearly ended as the Henepapers syndicate faced a distribution halt. The brief text notes the syndicate’s involvement and an abrupt interruption in distribution activities.
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