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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1912
Page
12
Washington reports momentum for a constitutional amendment to limit the president to a single six year term. The measure, pushed amid anti Roosevelt and anti Wilson sentiment, won support to advance as unfinished business. If adopted by states Roosevelt could not return, and Wilson would be limited to one term.
The War Cry reports General William Booth of the Salvation Army improving after severe illness. He remains sleepless and blind, with fluctuating mental condition, but shows calmness, less pain, and occasional garden walks as he nears his ninety year.
Galveston Texas reports that George Sweeney, accused by his estranged wife of wasting $35,000 in three months, boarded an interurban car with his wife as a passenger and placed a revolver under her nose in a forced marriage incident.
A man led a woman to a rear platform and forced a train stop then bundled her into a waiting automobile before speeding to a justice of the peace to remarry. On returning to Galveston he was arrested for carrying a revolver abduction false imprisonment and holding up a train.
Harry Million, 16, of Guide Rock Nebraska, has spent six weeks in a St. Joseph hospital for a broken neck and is gradually regaining movement, able to move his hands after diving accident in a shallow stream near home. Des Moines club manager Frank Isbell reports cash offers from American and National league teams for pitcher Hueston and shortstop Kores.
A historical advertisement touts Atenotype as a rapid and accurate shorthand machine. It claims the device is easier to learn than pen and pencil stenography and more valuable to users, urging young people to investigate the Atenotype before taking shorthand courses.
Three hundred sixty marines arrived aboard the collier Justin at Corinto and were sent to Managua to reinforce the blue jackets from the gunboat Annapolis. Americans and foreigners at Matagalpa were told by the government to be ready to defend themselves.
Washington Aug 16 regular republicans Senators Root Crane and Smoot told President Taft that there is little chance the wool or steel tariff bills pass the senate over his veto. Mrs M J Perrin injured in an automobile collision Wednesday evening remains about the same. Her injuries not severe but her condition is due to extreme nervousness.
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