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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1921
Page
11
The Davenport city treasury shows a growing deficit with cash on hand 79,817.47 while unpaid warrants total 91,905.01. A $40,000 bond issue is deemed necessary to restore pay-as-you-go operations amid deficits across General, Fire, West/East Street funds and special accounts.
New York report on Ellis Island where 1,700 diners received ice cream as a treat. A Balkan native and an East Indian man sparked a food fight smeared with ice cream before a ringleader spread butter on bread to start a new trend. The head steward spoke eight languages as riots over sweets continued in previous sugar and soap tastings.
An advertisement promotes organic Nuxated Iron as the remedy for women’s fatigue and nervousness, claiming iron deficiency causes common ills and that two weeks of use restores vigor. It warns to avoid metallic iron substitutes and guarantees money back if not satisfied.
Des Moines faces a prolonged streetcar suspension as financial troubles force a receiver’s sale. Workers fear loss of over 1,000 jobs while heavy stockholders eye reacquiring control and a new franchise. Some shop workers shift to Vanley Junction’s expanding railroad shops.
Streetcar workers plan a Monday meeting to discuss job displacement as many may have found other work or left the city by the time service restarts. Transportation shifts to buses, private cars, and walking between the business district and neighborhoods.
New York The temperamental raccoon Buddy and beaver Bill disturb Raymond Ditmars at the Bronx Zoo. Buddy refuses food as keeper George Surras lies ill at Fordham Hospital. Bill disrupts a proposed home in the Botanical Gardens. Buddy is Burras’s pet, not a zoo inmate.
Bud oy visits old BIL the beaver then abandons the zoo to build a home in a botanical lake. He selects a pond site, fells a prized Japanese tree for a house support, drags it to the lake, and uses a branch to clog the drain causing the lake to overflow. The flood ruins several cowarei trees but holds no consequence for him.
A fragmented report mentions a person named Dimara and others including Keeper John and Bill. The text references building work on a new house, a gang of assistants, a rampage by Britten, and Bill being kept at the zoo, but details are incomplete and unclear.
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