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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1914
Page
8
Ringling Brothers siege of Waterloo gathers 700 staff and elephants as contingents arrive. The parade forms at 10 am from show grounds, with the vast tent and canvases described, and the cook house tent first to feed the party.
Collated notices show a housekeeper position with references, rooming house work, and multiple real estate offers. Items include furnished cottages for rent, seven room flats, a seven room modern house, and a Marion Iowa car listing, with contact numbers and addresses for Carlson Springfield, Fal an Bollman Co., Waterloo Storage, and J. J. Cooley.
Arrival about 4 a m from Charles City on four Illinois Central trains. Route through the street garage from Fourth to Commercial to Fifth to Franklin to Fourth to show grounds. Performances at 2 and 8 p m with doors opening an hour earlier for menagerie view. Downtown ticket office at Ellis Drug Co Fifth and Sycamore streets in the Ellis hotel building open all day. Show departs for Marshalltown on the Chicago Great Western immediately after the evening performance.
The Ringling Brothers Circus travels with 400 performers, many foreigners, presenting Salomon and the Queen of Sheba followed by a three ring circus. Performances start at 2 and 7 p.m. tomorrow with tickets at Ellis Drug Co. downtown and show grounds prices.
Circus plans to move equipment over the newly paved Mullan Avenue bridge to Kingbard Hill for tents and performances. Parade route details include Fourth Street west from Ringbard to Commercial, then Pitth, Fifth to Franklin, and back to the show grounds on Fourth. Chief Leighton urges business and home security during the parade.
Bavedi baggage lost at Great Western station. later found unharmed. Mr Reed and family fled Europe as war spread from Austria to Serbia and to Britain. They sailed aboard Campania after Aquitania was seized, endured iceberg sightings and cold seas, but arrived healthy and safe to Waterloo to relieved relatives.
New York Aug 25 The federal inquiry into high food costs concludes no conspiracy to raise prices was found by Roger B Wood assistant district attorney in charge. No abnormal food supply was detected. The mayoral committee plans 100000 pamphlets on vegetable uses and other substitutes for meat to promote market basket days and open markets.
Mrs Susie Nauman returned yesterday from a visit to Fort Dodge. Mrs B A Leighton came home from Sioux Falls this morning. Herbert Harbart of Kahoka Missouri plans to return home after visiting his uncle M B Nef and soon depart for New York City to enter a conservatory of music.
London dispatch reports Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria gravely ill with death seemingly imminent as telegrams indicate his condition worsened and death a matter of hours. The Aug 24 telegrams were cited by the Exchange Telegraph.
Antwerp announces King Albert of Belgium has promoted Claud Gen. Hertrand to full general in recognition of his excellent conduct before the enemy.
Announcements note Sons of Veterans No 43 meet this evening at the G A R hall with admissions for new members and several applications to be examined. Knights and Ladies of Security meet at Elks hall tomorrow at 8 PM with a large initiation class and social entertainment planned. L C T M No 327 meets Wednesday at 7 30 PM in the Sonsh hall. Lady Militant Social circle skips Aug 25 but plans a September picnic with date to be announced.
Mrs Elizabeth Harkins of Peoria was attacked by a vicious dog two miles west of Westfield while returning from a social visit. She used a pine strip to fend the animal, climbed a fence and tree for safety as two Hutchins boys chased the dog away with stones. Her dress torn and fatigue followed the ordeal.
In Chicago on August 25, the hog market showed strong demand for prime and light scuff hogs with top prices reaching 9.40. Western steers were sought after while native cattle remained plain and less desired. Sheep and lambs were easy to buy.
Messrs J E Palen and J T Fleming of the Falan Bellman D Goods Co returned from New York after three weeks selecting fall stocks. They expect a welcome display of new garments for Waterloo women and note European war unrest making New York police unusually alert to prevent hostilities among foreign colonists.
The North Eastern district meeting of the Iowa Synod will run from tomorrow to next Sunday at First Lutheran Church in Waterloo with about 30 ministers and 60 laymen. Sessions cover church concerns and business, with delegates staying in local homes. Miss Bertha Shutts is reported safe in London after earlier news from Switzerland. The note closes with an advertisement for The Trey of Hearts serial drama at the Columbia.
London dispatch reports British troops first action on Friday and Saturday, with outposts and scouting along the Belgian front. Describes exhausted Belgian and German forces, with the English cavalry probing west of Brussels and toward Charleroi as French forces converge from south and west.
Paris London Aug 2 1 15 Posh That Servint plans to wage a war of no quarter against Servian enemies. A note to the French government protests Austrian orders to burn Servian crops and villages along the line of march. Servian reprisals are framed as responses under international law. The report reflects Austrian cruelties toward Servian troops and possible Servian restraint.
An advertisement extols Poslam as safe and fast for skin healing. It mentions confidence in effectiveness and includes garbled lines about contact and mail, with scattered references to sales and advertising notes.
Fugitives from the Low Countries continue to arrive at Maastricht via London, with nearly 7,000 housed in sheds and many slightly wounded. Most are from the Matines area, while Belgian farmers abandon lands claiming German mistreatment has become too good.
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