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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1911
Page
3
A review notes that aviation interest in literature and theater aids public understanding of flying. The vaudeville variety includes short sketches, with The Aviator as the first real play to sustain aeronautic themes. The Waterloo theatre will show it Monday evening with Fileriot XI monoplane, prices 25, 50 cents, one dollar and one fifty. Seats are selling.
Cai Stewart, famed after dinner speaker and storyteller, performs in Politics at the Waterloo theatre on Sept 2 with matinee and night shows. A sample tale features Easter eggs hidden under Plymouth Rock and a rooster tale. Prices 10 and 25 cents matinee, 35 30 and 75 cents night. Seats go on sale Friday at 10 am.
Public notice promises a new home asthma cure at no cost, claiming it works for hay fever and chronic asthma in any climate and age. It targets hopeless cases after failed inhalers and opium preparations and urges immediate response with a mail coupon.
Mount Hope farmer William Dennis, 83, traveled to Chicago to wed a county fair fortune teller named Blanche. He handed her $3000 for safekeeping, but she disappeared after a phone call to a rich sister. Police were notified as the groom awaited his bride at the railway station.
Champ Clark a Missouri Democrat and former speaker addressed a sizable audience at the Majestic last night for an hour. He praised the integrity of House members, urged broader democracy, argued New Mexico and Arizona statehood, and praised Theodore Roosevelt while joking about party balance. He refused to call his talk political though it touched on his party and urged readers to vote conscientiously.
To whom it may concern the undersigned states he will not be responsible for any debts contracted by his wife RBesae Altum Peterson Leroy Peterson.
Iowa Traction Company pushes grading of the 116 mile line from Oskaloosa to Waterloo with 75 to 100 workers and 55 teams. J L Slone and T D VanCamp supervise, saying promoters are strong financially with substantial capital. Right of way largely secured, work to begin near Eagle Center church and move toward Waterloo, with routes yet to be fixed.
Real estate transfers list Edw McChane to Byron Lenius in La Porte for 1. Horty to Hortry in 7 and 4-89-13 for 1. J P Geist to Peter C Nielsen in Linden Place Waterloo for 3500. Anna Eddy to Amanda Sibert in Linden Place Waterloo for 300. Also a Des Moines woman cured after two days bone complaint by one dose of Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. For sale by all dealers.
Dubuque Aug 26 Illinois Central railroad reports record freight traffic as twenty trains in one day on a division, driven by the coast to Chicago fruit trains via Omaha. Union Pacific handles transfers. crews stretched, west and east ends require more equipment and heavier engines to meet the surge.
The article notes that doubling the track is likely if business keeps rising, aligning with broader policy changes since the line came under new management a year ago. It highlights how loss of time and pay affects workers, and cites a testimonial praising Foley Kidney Pills for recovery from kidney and bladder trouble.
In Sharan township Amana circles a 25 year old Johnson County man faces charges from a father who accuses him of luring two girls ages 5 and 10 to a secluded spot and insulting them. The man pleads innocence and a church trial is planned with Rev Noah Yoder to decide. Names withheld until public notice or a damage suit. Chamberlains Colic remedy advertised.
Goodwater Missouri resident Mrs Riley Laramore recalls suffering from dyspepsia and heartburn since childhood. After using Thedford's Breck-Draught in small doses for a short period she reports relief, appetite restored, and no distress since. The advertisement urges others with eating distress to try the remedy, noting gentle cleansing of the system and no bad after effects.
The advertisement promotes Underwood Typewriter models No 4 and No 5 with identical specs except No 5 adds four keys for fractions and special characters. Model No 3 offers wider carriage options from 12 to 26 inches for reports and statistics, widely used by banks railroads insurers and accounting firms, claiming sales lead over competitors.
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