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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1914
Page
7
A nighttime fairy picnic in the woods unfolds with a goblin spying the feast and tumbling into lemonade on ice. The fairies demand repayment and the goblin promises a future bloom carpet. By dawn, blue flowers and violets cover the ground as proof of his pledge.
The city public library displays works by Dr. BE A Steiner af Grinnell and other immigration authors in anticipation of debates at the high school on restricting immigration by a literacy test. The display includes Mary Antin E A Ross and Myra Kelly titles. Two new immigration works are noted.
An old advertisement touts Stuarts Dyspepsia Tablets as quick relief for indigestion belching sour risings and stomach distress. It promises restored appetite and comfort after meals and notes a 50 cent price at druggists with a mail order sample offer.
Circulation boosters are ready for public release within a week. Neighbors by Jacob Riis and The Immigration Problem by Jenks and Lauck headline juvenile readers. Yesterday 75 children borrowed books in 46 minutes at the library west. Saturday totals reach 690 books across both branches with 304 west and 386 east. Both buildings were recently fumigated due to contagious disease cases in the city.
The National Stenotype Co. lists branch offices in New York St Louis Boston Denver Chicago Waterloo Pittsburgh Kansas City Cleveland San Francisco. A year and a half ago Minneapolis was considered as the district center but strong protests led to Waterloo being chosen with a branch office managed by W F Teerigs.
Iowa reports no current cases of foot and mouth disease with the last infected animal destroyed. Twenty one counties remain under strict quarantine while 78 are cleared. A federal guard stands 15 miles from any outbreak site and new rules allow slaughter permits from designated areas under veterinary supervision.
At the Waterloo, Friday December 4 presents Hanky Panky a bright musical comedy with a star cast, scenic investiture, and laughs. On Tuesday December 8 the Waterloo revives The Prince of Pilsen with John W. Ransone Edward Mora Dorothy Delmore and an all star revival and a fresh scenic and musical presentation by its own band. Mail orders now.
H B Glover prominent Dubuque manufacturer died at his home 21098 Locust street last night from old age infirmities. He was 79 and his wife survived him, having died about three months earlier.
Mrs Fannie E. Rodgers of Grand Saline Texas declares Vinci revived her strength and made her able to do housework after long feebleness. She calls Vinci the best medicine for chronic colds and notes its guarantee of benefit or money back, sold by Wangler Bros. Co. Druggist and C J Miller Druggist Waterloo.
Grinnell and surrounding counties will issue permits through veterinarians listed for each county with aid from others. Railroads may move stock within a quarantine area to Cedar Rapids Waterloo Dubuque Davenport under permits issued by the named veterinarians. Also mentions Haly clay origin and a Sioux prophet Cloud Reader predicting floods and weather through 1920 with hints of an early war end.
Presidents of Galloway petitioned the W C F N to build a waiting station at a central city point. Street car officials said plans are considered for a freight depot in Galloway and if built, arrangements will provide a waiting room. If not built, other plans may be made.
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