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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1913
Page
3
Des Moines physicians urge quarantine as the safest defense against infantile paralysis. They report cases in Iowa as sporadic, study the disease’s germ, and push for vaccine or serum development while advising absolute quiet and avoidance of exposed individuals.
George O. Hartman adjudged a leper by the St. Louis health department surrendered after escaping and was placed in quarantine. His wife vows to fight his release, appointing an attorney and planning to visit quarantine. She maintains he is not a leper, saying nine years of marriage and her lack of infection prove it.
Sheriff Shores and J E Briggs accused of wife desertion arrived from Los Angeles last midnight. A $1000 appearance bond secured his release until 9 o'clock Wednesday morning before Justice Tullar for the hearing. Briggs, a Waterloo manufacturer of labor saving devices, traveled five days and nights by train. a wreck caused a missed connection. He appeared cheerful at Willams Clark law offices.
The text notes three classes of medicines animal vegetable and mineral and asserts the vegetable kingdom provides the most effective remedies. It mentions over 700 plant varieties used medicinally and Lydia E Pinkham of Lynn Massachusetts discovering her Vegetable Compound for women’s illnesses over forty years ago, praising its value to countless American women.
The man stated he has not neglected his domestic duties and will not speak until the preliminary examination. He traveled only for business, denying any escape from his wife’s duties. The county attorney will represent the state, with B F Swisher continuing as Mrs Briggs’s counsel in the May term suit.
In Hammond Indiana during a severe storm lightning struck the Chicago Telephone exchange three times and started Putnam Block fire. Operator Alma Meuser remained at her switchboard from 11 p.m. to dawn, answering calls as flames rose through the floor. Firefighters extinguished the blaze, costing about $2,000.
A short notice from Waterloo indicates two residents, Elmer North and Jeanette Eastman, are licensed to wed. The announcement confirms their names and hometown. No wedding date is provided in the readable fragment.
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