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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1919
Page
5
Preparatory to the new school year non resident teachers plan to arrive next week seeking housing in Waterloo. The YWCA, plus a planned boarding home in a future building, will aid in finding suitable rooms for the women, with inspections required before occupancy.
A scattered column blends recipe notes and lifestyle tips with social columns. It touches on diet ideas like tomato gelatine salads and varied fruits, discussed hair care cautions, and includes social snippets about visitors and upcoming events. It also references army nurses and rank discussions in Washington.
A domestic guide suggests women imagine their husbands pitying themselves after long workdays to ease marital quarrels. By shifting view from self to spouse, the piece argues a moment of shared compassion can defuse tensions and restore harmony at home.
An M E Jonian class at Florence Meyers home last evening featured an infant dinner with games and music. Mrs Niel Sorenson hosted a light class gathering at Walnut Street Ames near Waterloo. St Marys School opens September 3 with applications from prospective students for grade and high school, including commercial instruction.
A man found ill at Ill Central Station around 11 a.m. was unable to walk and asked to be taken to St Francis Hospital. Police took him to the station then to the boys’ ward after delays. he gave his name as Charley Pennewell Humboldt Ja and sought medical attention before admission.
The pasteurization salesmen exhausted supplies and will use homemade blanks for food stalls. War Department instructed not to take orders for jam toilet spray or pinean plan items. Roast beer priced 28 cents instead of 29.Morning business slow but afternoon orders picked up with first orders sent to Chicago.
Solo fruit thief Bo Hansen, described as a fine melon picker, was searching a patch when he spotted two boys hiding inside a fence. He captured them and turned them over to a police patrol. The youths, about sixteen years old, pleaded guilty and paid fines.
In Bangor an inquest into the death of Annie Proudfoot of Carnoustie found accidental drowning. She wore swimming wings when she stepped near a deep bend in the Menai Straits and fell in, the wings trapping her under water until her body was recovered. Also noted is John J. Gorman’s return to Waterloo as sales assistant for a candy company.
William H. Rice junior, son of Mr and Mrs D M Rice of 506 Sycamore Street, reappears after silence since May 1918 sending word he is en route to Hot Springs Arkansas for hip wound treatment. He shows Croix de Guerre and four drives citations, spent 20 months overseas with five gun wounds, and hopes for railway work after recovery.
A brief report notes a soldier who served overseas with the First Division. His extraordinary heroism earned him additional credit, though his role as a bugler was not counted as frontline combat.
G Corneiro of St Thomas harbor board says U S Shipping Board ships now call at Charlotte Amalie for coal and oil and one voyage daily, expected to rise to five. Shipmasters renew stevedore recruitment aiding idle workers and boosting island prosperity since the purchase, aided by Collector Curry and Chairman Hurley efforts.
John Rudkin of Mattapan paid 10 dollars for cutting hair at home on Sundays to earn extra cash. He was convicted of violating Lord's day laws in Dorchester court and fined 70 dollars. The report also notes New Battery Company and a classified ad for sale items.
The Evening Courier announces updateable Courier patterns with a 14 cent price per pattern mailed to Fashion Department Wa terloo. Patterns come in seven sizes from 34 to 44 inch bust, with size 88 needing four yards of 44 inch fabric. A pattern illustrated can be mailed for 12 cents total with silver and stamps.
Rev H H McConnell pastor of St Louis first United Presbyterian will preach at Westminster Presbyterian in Union Services Sunday morning. He and his wife go home to St Louis after visiting Mrs Gardiner in Kansas City. Rev Clinton F Smith of Yokohama Specie Bank will speak on Brazil tour plans in Rio Janeiro and other cities.
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