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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1913
Page
9
Local lender at 115 1-2 Fourth St advertises personal property loans to Joan on furniture pans ve stock and other items with low rates and open terms.
Notice records the incorporation of Northwestern Land and Investment Company at Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa. The firm lists real estate and related property ventures, capital stock of 250,000 dollars, a 20 year term with possible renewal, and a board of 3 to 7 directors with officers named. The article also notes preexisting directors and officers and cites a 1913 legal matter involving Pearl Preston.
Mason City Iowa August 7 James Winters a well known farmer asks for a divorce from his wife. He states his wife injured him with a butcher knife in multiple incidents. They have been married many years and have grown children. The petition claims the wife's actions endangered his health and life.
In Dubuque Iowa eight cases of infantile paralysis were reported yesterday as physicians warn the disease is infectious and transmittable among children. Local officials say quarantine laws in the state do not control the outbreak.
Vancouver Aug. 7 A heavy sockeye run promises big wages despite reduced cannery prices causing 6000 Fraser River fishermen strike to collapse. Strikers grew restless as harvest began to sweep by. Industrial Workers of the World urged firmness but fishermen quickly returned to nets.
An advertisement for Woley's Honey and Tar Compound touts it as the best high grade family medicine for coughs chest and throat issues. It claims no opiates and lists Dr. H. W. Signorta with two local phone numbers and the Russells Lampson Building address.
An advertisement promotes a combined deal for the Waterloo Evening Courier and Farmer and Breeder at 3.20. It urges readers to renew subscriptions and suggests sending papers to different addresses, highlighting the weekly agricultural content as a farmer's best friend.
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