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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1911
Page
6
A new city market in Waterloo shows strong early success with 100 farmers and hucksters supplying a large share of daily needs. Prices drifted lower from opening levels as vendors and regulators enforce sales rules and curb price gouging, while permanent booths and broader offerings expand.
A group of licensed Northwestern doctors offer free consultation examination and advice for chronic nervous and other diseases. They claim success avoiding surgery for appendicitis gall stones goiter piles and cancers with a germ destroying fluid injected into growths. They advertise treatment of stomach liver blood nerves heart kidneys and more and invite anyone with long standing illness to visit even if past doctors failed. Bring two ounces of urine for analysis if kidney or bladder issues.
A first in a series of open air services will be held Sunday at 3 PM on the new West Side Mission Lot at the corner of First and Hoover Streets, led by Rev J G Walz and church members. Regular services at Logan Avenues church continue. Mr Walz will close with Part II of his 3000 Miles by Automobile lecture tonight.
A 19 year old girl, dirty and soot smudged, climbed from a Missouri Pacific box car in Kansas City yards. She left Denver two weeks earlier after her widowed mother married a man she did not fancy and rode the rails to St Louis, saying she is Ada Jones, brother of Casey Jones, refusing further family details. She faces municipal court today on a vagrancy charge.
New York reports Vilhimar Stefansson leads a 1908 expedition noting a previously uninhabited Arctic region discovery. He describes Eskimo behavior and appearance as Scandinavian in look, raising questions about Franklin’s lost men and Greenland's vanished Danes. The 38-year-old Harvard graduate emphasizes routine work and field observations.
Miss Grace Saxe, a Bible teacher at Northminster Presbyterian, will deliver a Bible talk on The Second Coming of Christ Sunday at 7:45 PM in the large tent on Avalon Avenue and Vaughn Street in Westfield. She will illustrate with a large blackboard. a chorus choir will lead singing and a male quartet may perform. Bring Sunday song books.
Snow's College of Dressmaking enters an open Federal block term signaling its status as a new government aided program. The move highlights its expansion into vocational education under federal support. Local officials note opportunities for students and partnerships with industry to boost skilled labor.
Independence Iowa August 27 Weather Prophet Busby earned a gift from Buchanan county fair management after delivering sunny days for the fair week. His forecast of good weather proved correct with clear calm comfortable conditions most days, a light rain Thursday night easing dust.
Washington reports show Canada facing a tight reciprocity vote with strong opposition funded by American industry and English conservatives. Western Canada favors the agreement, boosting Laurier, while eastern provinces wage a fierce, close campaign. A separate note praises Chamberlains Liniment for cuts, bruises, and rheumatic pains.
Electric park draws large crowds with vaudeville acts, dancing, and rides. Cuba DeShon Campbell and McDonald Art Fisher and Keith and DeMont headline a superb bill. Labor Day fireworks will feature Niagara Falls display by Gregory company, touted as the most expensive and beautiful. Rev Effie McCullom Jones and daughters will return from Osage this evening.
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