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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1911
Page
8
Dalbeck resists going to the golf club on a beautiful Sunday while his wife persuades him to join for health and family happiness. He hops the train after a staged dispute, joking about the fuss as onlookers watch the scene unfold.
A builder defends his new houses amid a heated discussion with friends. A local resident from one of the jerry-built dwellings recounts how, when staying there, he could rise at night to let the cat out and still slip through the cracks, calling the homes the most convenient he has ever lived in.
Waterloo Courier urges readers to buy the Webster's New Standard Dictionary to improve English skills and wage prospects. Stenographers support an educational campaign to cut errors, promising better pay and work as the $5 book moves to $4 in stores. Clip the coupon from another page.
One of the most interesting public sales will take place Wednesday December 13 on the Mullan farm three miles east of Eagle Center. High grade full blood Hereford cattle and Percheron horses. Also mules and one hundred and fifty Duroc Jersey hogs grain and tame hay.
Sumer la Dec 8 Martin Watenpaugh pioneer citizen and Civil War veteran was stricken with paralysis Wednesday morning on the highway west of Sumer while en route to his woodlot on Plum Creek. He left home about 8 o clock and reached a point east of Kid Webster's before the stroke became evident as he unhitched the wagon to deal with imagined trouble with the harness.
The article promotes dry shampoo made from four ounces of box mix and four ounces of corn meal or orange root to keep hair clean and lustrous. It also instructs daily face and neck massage with magatone dissolved in witch hazel for a velvety complexion. Mother's Salve is praised as a cure for cuts burns scalds sores coughs colds and boils.
A promotional paragraph touts faultless cleaning brands made from top materials with no sand. It claims dust absorption purifies air, cleans and brightens floors and carpets, suits homes, schools, churches, hospitals, theaters, and offices, and reduces dust damage while preventing disease by destroying germs.
It can be used on floors that have been waxed oiled or varnished. No matter how finely finished your furniture or woodwork may be you can use WAXIT and it will give you the finest kind of service.
An advertisement touts Faultless Brand Floor Oil as reducing circulating dust in homes and stores while also serving as a hardwood floor dressing. It claims rapid adoption by hotels and large institutions and urges readers to order by telephone.
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