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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1919
Page
1
The article announces appointed Iowa supervisors for the 1920 census and outlines enumerator duties and pay. It lists district supervisors and details data collection topics including household composition, property, farming outputs, and industrial activity. It notes enumerators will visit rural areas and collect data from household heads, with pay set by law and government funding.
Col S B Philpot heads the Nepoeuus Masonic Club in Germany as 200 members join a sightseeing journey to Berg Ee Castle. The trip, noted for its furnishings and weapon collection, included ruins and ancient artillery in a tour that aroused plans for future excursions and promoted interest in visiting venerable medieval sites.
The Fort Dodge ice depot warned that no ice will be delivered to city homes after Saturday. Despite a national shortage, local residents faced reduced supplies as stores and houses awaited further shipments, with some households already scrambling for limited ice from ice houses.
Advertisement urges readers to buy Zemo at drugstores for 35 cents or one dollar for a large bottle. Claims instant relief from eczema blotches and itching, noting Zemo cleanses, soothes, and heals skin quickly. Describes it as non greasy and easily applied. From EW Rose Co Cleveland OH.
Major T Je Rust chief engineer for the Waterloo Cedar Falls and Sorthern railway was returned to Waterloo after nearly two years in the army with much time in France and Germany He was in Washington reporting to the war department on German railway work He will be in Waterloo briefly before discharge He commanded a regiment of engineers in France and was later chief of the Army of Occupation advising German railway officials in Cochen Germany He predicts German railways could match many American lines once repaired and notes no shortages in Germany despite slave labor reports.
A letter mailed in Germany in August 1916 and censored en route finally arrived in Fort Dodge, Iowa, three years later. Ernest Pruess of Fort Dodge received the missive after a long journey caused by wartime censorship and delays.
Iowa Democrats urge President Wilson to stop on his Pacific tour within 10 days or two weeks and address Congress in the capital. Shenandoah organizers and Senate ally Ameson press to maximize Democratic gains, arguing for the president to visit Republican strongholds and rally party supporters.
Waverly Iowa August state fair results show Willow Lawn Farm Aberdeen-Angus herd winning multiple premiums. In county group, the Willow Lawn herd took first on senior bull call and first on calf herd plus top spots for senior and junior heifers. The stock is rapidly rising in the beef cattle class with the Willow Lawn herd leading statewide.
A vintage note warns that soaps and prepared shampoos use excessive alkali, drying the scalp and making hair brittle. It recommends Malsified cocoanut oil shampoo as pure and greaseless, with one or two teaspoonfuls cleansing the hair, leaving it soft, silky, and easy to manage. It claims the shampoo provides abundant lather and rinses out easily and is available cheaply at a local pharmacy for the whole family.
In Gainnell Iowa an auto train collision at a railroad crossing killed John Mumba's 6- to 4-year-old son and seriously injured his wife Mrs. Dumba, with another boy hurt. The family, from near Deep River, attempted to cross the track when the vehicle stalled and a locomotive struck the car. Mrs Dumba and another child survived, the son died at the scene.
Shenandoah Iowa reports Corporal Thomas Hockenberg has returned from five months of rough and tumble service with the U S Army in Russia. He served with the 168th North Russia transport service on the Murmansk railroad under fire from Bolsheviks. Two casualties occurred in his company a lieutenant and a sergeant. He notes all Archangel veterans are out for Russia and only three enlisted men and two officers remained to settle up samples.
A fragmentary note recalls a queen, Archangelis, and Archangelas, suggesting a royal naming precaucion tied to astrology. It references a city founded under such advice, a coronation in 1514, and a distant part of Russia, all in terse, unclear terms.
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