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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1911
Page
9
An advertisement extols Danderine Hair Cleanse and Dandeline as instant hair softening and dandruff relief. It claims immediate light fluffy waves, zero itching, and eventual new hair growth with regular use. A 25 cent bottle is offered at drug stores and toilet counters.
About 200 Greeks in Tony Papageorge’s pool hall watched Helen Pahageolopsouron perform Greek dances and contortions with a five-piece orchestra. The 19 year old actress wore a Grecian dress, sang, and performed while spectators contributed at least 50 cents each before a century dance was staged.
Waterloo Theatre presents The Millionaire Tramp Thursday with a starry cast and prices of 10 20 30 and 50 rents. The show blends humor with a heartfelt story about a gold heart beneath ragged clothes. Also The Girl in the Train arrives Friday with a large chorus and stylish gowns after a New York run. Critics praise With Edged Tools as a powerful English company piece. Matinee and night show on Saturday December 9. Wizard Carpet Clean advertising ends.
Rapidly increasing conversions follow evangelist Yorsythe's meetings at St Pauls. Twelve penitents yielded to the Master after last night's sermon as large crowds attend Monday services. Leonard leads the choir. the evangelist aims to complete a fruitful revival series with broad unconverted turnout.
The Majestic presents a strict Orpheum vaudeville bill led by Chesterfield the posing horse of Rose Royal. A Million Dollar Wife by Leslie Morosco Co.Basic laughs fuel the show with Waiter Hale’s Banjo evolution and Tale’s banjo solo. Hildebrand and Delong deliver clever comedy and Coratta Day closes with a singing and dancing sketch.
Mrs. J. Jarrod of Webster Street Waterloo Iowa shares her kidney and bladder cure after using Foley Kidney Pills. She reports back pain and hip pain eased within days and rheumatism disappeared, endorsing the medicine to others with kidney trouble.
Helmet lodge No 89 Knights of Pythias met and elected officers for the year led by Chancellor Commander P J Martin. Newcomers W W Woolley and P H Paulson spoke, and the Russian Imperial orchestra was hired for Jan 2 with a dinner served before the meeting.
Iowa labor commissioner EE W Van Duyn reports no progress toward an amicable settlement between Muscatine button workers and employers. He notes the union is determined to continue the dispute, despite hardships from severe weather and shortages of food and fuel. Residents remain unsettled and wary.
Miss Helen Taft, daughter of the President and Mrs Taft, will teach Sunday school next week at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington. She will take her mother’s place in the church school, continuing a family tradition of service.
The Waterloo Woman's Club held a valued afternoon program at the library with papers by Mrs. W. H. Bickley on Vanity Fair showing Becky Sharp through modern eyes. Mrs. G. F. Seales discussed Amelia and Thackeray’s women with quotations, and Mrs. H. Davis led a final discussion on virtues over vanity.
A catalog-like list presents diverse subjects including Weather Forecast, Wheat and Wool products, Aeronauts, Fowls, Badges, Furnaces, Ceramic Art, Marine life, Human Races, Gems, Flags, Fruits, Sault Ste. Marie lock, West Point, Daily Scenes, Press, Coats of Arms, Paris fashions, Peace treaties, Stamps, Seals, Kindergarten songs, Breeds of cattle and horses, Submarines, X rays, Dogs, Locomotives, Kittens, Irrigation, Marine engines, and food Animals.
Dr Carver Williams, Chicago registrar of the Cosmopolitan School of Music, arrives in Waterloo for tonight’s Artists’ Course at Walnut Street Baptist. He is joined by Miss Georgiela Lay of the Waterloo Conservatory, praised by papers in San Francisco New York Toronto and New Orleans for her recital and tone.
President Fowler opens the nineteenth national irrigation congress in Ghicaga Dec addressing amendments to the national irrigation act and reclamation of swamp lands. He cites eighty million swamp acres eligible for drainage, urging interstate cooperation among states and private owners to reclaim wetlands and support a vast, multi-state program.
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