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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1921
Page
11
Ed Madigan county treasurer issues a circular and placard outlining Iowa tax rules. Real estate ownership, personal property, road polls, specials, and penalties are explained with due dates and payment schedules. Receipts should be checked and lists filed early for efficient processing.
Des Moines Aug 12 The Des Alpines Union railway seeks a federal court injunction to stop the state executive council and Polk County board of supervisors from collecting taxes on recently raised valuations. The council faces several other lawsuits from railways and telephone firms.
The Waterloo post office receives 700 to 1,000 misdirected letters daily, with corrections requiring constant clerical effort. Abbreviations and illegible pencil writing, plus obsolete lists and missing street addresses, drive misdelivery. cities like Waterloo, New York, and Grand Rapids report large totals.
Aspirin name Bayer must appear on package to ensure genuineness. Widely claimed safe for twenty one years by physicians for colds headaches neuralgia rheumatism earache toothache lumbago and other pains. Small twelve tablet tins affordable. druggists offer larger packages. Trade mark Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetic acid ester of Salicylic acid.
An old advertisement touts Tiz as the sole remedy that draws out poisonous exudations causing swollen burning and tender feet. It promises instant relief with a small box available at drug or department stores and claims a year of comfort for a few cents.
In Cedar Rapids on August 12 a sign reading Shine-5 Cents appeared before a Second Avenue shoe store near Third Street. The article criticizes high polish prices since wartime inflation and alleges exploitation by Greek shoe shiners, noting a Black worker with a wife and two children and plans to hire more assistants as demand grows.
In Adair Iowa on August 12 Pat Manley reports a passing car stopped by his signal but the vehicle grabbed his new $15 Panama hat and sped away. Manley, upset, calls it the meanest trick of his lifetime and could not read the car number.
A period ad promotes ladies pure silk and fiber half hose in grown and white sizes, featuring full fashioned reinforced heel and toes and sisle tops in white only. Per pair pricing indicated.
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