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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1912
Page
5
July 1912 recorded a high of 97 and a low of 47 with 6.23 inches of rain, while July 1911 saw a 104 high and 46 low. Seventeen clear days, nine cloudy, five partly cloudy noted by Ralph A. Slippy. Rainfall nearly double the previous July. weather observer notes month-long variation.
W M Robe received word that his niece Mildred Lizer Witterman 24 died in Glenwood Colorado after a typhoid illness. She was the eldest daughter of Frank and Mildred Lizer former Jesup residents now in Harris Kansas. Burial planned in Harris with uncle C F Robe of Jesup nearby.
W R Law returning to Waterloo from a business trip rode the Great Western when a wheel axle problem caused a sudden stop at Gladbrook. The engineer halted the train before a serious wreck while passengers were shaken but unharmed.
Henry Myers went to Chicago to identify three men arrested there and suspected in a $52 hotel check theft. Local officers now believe Myers could not make a definite identification.
Oyster Bay August 2 Roosevelt says Taft did not meet five issues in his speech accepting the Republican nomination. He says the president stuck to general conservative remarks and avoided commitments on tolls for the Panama Canal, calling the speech a negative document that fails to capture the era.
A mixed page item lists a found auto lamp and cover with a reward for the finder, seeks a first class traction engineer, and advertises a 10 acre farm with fruit plantings for $4 650. It also promotes a brand new Waterloo home for $2 650 with terms including $200 cash and $20 monthly.
Dr George W Hinkle rector arrives back from a vacation to Evanston and Cleveland and finds Christ Episcopal church with a new hardwood floor a renewed organ and a full renovation. The project was funded by the church ladies and friends who contributed 600 dollars. Services will resume Sunday with Mrs Hinkle away two more weeks.
The Waterloo Evening Courier announces new weekly coupons with a promotion details visible on page three. Readers are invited to clip and redeem savings from upcoming issues.
New York market update lists varying stock values including Canadian Pacific Reading Rock Island Northwestern Union Pacific United States Steel Amalgamated Copper Northern Pacific Great Northern Central Pacific New York Central Anaconda American Sugar and others with mixed price quotations and closing tendencies across railroads and conglomerates.
Excavation began today for a new two story brick building for the F. M. Michael Paint company on Water street beside the Times-Tribune office. The 20 by 84 foot structure will be strictly modern in every detail.
Town notices report Mr and Mrs W J Y Peddicord returning from a visit to Chita O Dr H W Brown spending a week at Colfax for rest and relaxation Miss Elvira Tyler visiting New York State with P E O friends at Tater and outings Dr W B Small and nephew Thomas Alyea return from ten days fishing with Dr T E and Melville Alyea in their motor boat from Grafton Til to La Salle TH Thomas Cascaden shows general improvement and rests Peter Goodman fined for knife fracas at Bradley Weastcott barn Re C Foster returns from Duluth and will join Frank E Foster at Wear A Well Shoe Co 124 Fifth Street East For Sale General Mercantile Business in iron mining district of Minnesota with yearly sales 77000 includes groceries meats hardware dry goods boots and shoes feed post office laundry for sale by postmaster at Taconite Minn.
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