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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1910
Page
3
Evangelist Sunday delivered a heartfelt sermon urging prayer, consecration, and zeal for souls. He challenged church members to abandon worldliness and theatergoing, urged born again faith, and emphasized compassion for the unsaved while criticizing lukewarm church life.
Independence December 7. J W Smith and E Everett the new clerk of the court and county auditor announce their deputies to assist in January. Smith names Robert Plane, recently a bookkeeper at Commercial State Bank. Everett selects Miss Mabel Spencer, former bookkeeper now on a Faith homestead claim.
Take City Ta Dec 7 James Dougherty a farmer in Poca hontas county north of Lake City is searching for his daughter May age 16 who vanished from home two weeks ago after visiting Teft Rusk near Lohrville. She left a train at Lohrville saying she changed her mind. Tickets were sold from Lohrville to Carroll Omaha Council Bluffs and Fort Dodge and her father is visiting these points seeking clues.
Des Moines reports Dr. G H Somner secretary of the state board of health urged legislation to forbid marriages of those afflicted with black plague at the Iowa Conference of Correction and Charities in Des Moines. He argued that affected men should be imprisoned, while barriers and education would protect innocence and combat degeneracy. Dr S Luther Stevens and Dr Max B E Witte backed radical measures and public education against the disease.
Fairfield Va December 7 George Eagan was taken into custody by insanity commissioners after claiming to have been employed on canals on Mars and that Halley’s comet disturbed gravity preventing his return. He likely will be confined at Mount Pleasant hospital.
The article recounts Florence Ledyard Cross’s 1907 effort to aid Italian immigrants in Rochester. A one room bureau grew into a hub providing school placement, legal aid, health guidance, and wage dispute mediation. The labor strike of Italian workers ended with wage increases and arbitration, improving public attitudes and immigrant welfare.
Marked by increased demands since the strike the bureau's existence and purpose become clearer to Italians. It shows them they need not fear graft or persecution and that benevolent agencies stand ready if they learn how to use them. Italians have within them ideals needing encouragement and opportunity from friends in America.
Governor Carroll plans to urge the general assembly to set the state parole board on a regular salary rather than per diem and to create three districts with a board member in charge of each, citing the need for full-time attention to parole matters and faster processing of cases. Secretary C. C. Nye says no confirmation of district plan. no action on state board of education yet.
Winterset Iowa December 7 Mrs T J Alexander aged 60 wife of a local real estate dealer died at noon yesterday from burns suffered when gasoline used to light a fire exploded in the kitchen. Her sons Floyd Shirley and Urwin Alexander assisted in the fire fight with Irwin damaged badly. The house was saved though the kitchen was gutted and the family planned to move into a new home Shirley had just completed for them.
Lena Gresham of Clinton Mississippi reports Cardui relieved years of female inflammation after four doctors provided little help. She claims seven bottles outperformed all physicians and urges others to try this safe vegetable tonic. The ad promotes Cardui as the medicine for all women and notes a free "Home Treatment" booklet.
An advertisement touts the greatest ointment ever manufactured, endorsed by the American Drug and Press Association. It claims for rheumatism neuralgia sciatica lumbago and deep muscular pains and urges readers to obtain it at Henderson Drug Co the Meritol store.
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