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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1914
Page
12
The King family gathered Sunday at 436 Edwardes Street Waterloo to celebrate Lewis King's eighty ninth birthday. Despite a third stroke last year he enjoyed the reunion with his children grandchildren and nephew present.
The elderly Lewis King remains active on crutches with a clear mind and hearty appetite. Born in Morgan County to a 12 child family from Pennsylvania, he helped tame early Ohio and Morgan County lands before moving to Black Hawk area in 1883. He lived near Raymond, Rymond, then Cedar Falls, and now resides with his son J P King in Waterloo. He has two sons, four grandchildren, and four great grandchildren, with extended family members from the Bingham and Merriau households attending a reunion.
Dr Harry Thurston Peck notes slang fuels language growth in his latest dictionary. The Waterloo Evening Courier offers the new edition for six coupons plus a small expense bonus, noting slang terms like mucker swell snob and mug among others.
Dr Edwards Olive Tablets are advertised as a vegetable olive oil compound claimed to cleanse the bowels, start bile, and relieve constipation, with promises of clear skin and buoyancy. The ad states millions of boxes sold at 10c and 25c, urging one or two nightly usage.
A stork carrying two babies meets an old witch who swaps their ribbons. The gardener's daughter Nora grows praised for beauty while Eugina, the princess, attracts the prince. A late-night ball leads to romance, and an old prophecy sets right a past wrong.
Rheumasalts offers quick relief from constipation through a carbonated drink made by dissolving the powder in water. It claims to cleanse the stomach and intestines, remove toxins, and aid digestion while being gentler than pills. Suitable for infants and adults, with dosing of two teaspoonfuls in water before breakfast. Prepared by Rheumabath Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
A copper mine in Armenia has operated since prehistoric times. Three union dollars funded a project to channel the power of a waterfall 96 miles to Bombay for electric light and power purposes.
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