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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1911
Page
4
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The Sons of Veterans meet at G A S hall Tuesday at 7 30 with important business including annual inspection and officer elections. The No 46a election is at Is of C hall Tuesday Dec 12. Waterloo chapter No 128 O HL S meets Wednesday 7 59 at Masonic temple. Royal Neighbors meet tomorrow at 7. Oriental club meets Tuesday with Mrs Guy Pettay Pine street. Lydia society meets Tuesday with Miss Grace Harbaugh Wellington street.
Waterloo society pages report the formal engagement of Austa D. Cramer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Cramer, to Denver businessman W. Hugh Stark. Miss Cramer, a 1908 West High graduate, works at Black Hawk National Bank. Stark previously in Waterloo, later with Denver Express. The couple plans holidays nuptials and a Denver home.
The dead miner Andrew Blanc was found last night with a bullet wound in the head. Authorities suspect foul play. He leaves a wife and seven children. City Plumbing Inspector Jennish was injured when struck by a Ford crank handle during storage in front of city hall.
Grace M E bazaar run by Ladies Aid in church parlors Friday and Saturday featured hand decorated china and a popular candy booth. Chicken pie supper Saturday raised funds for enlarging the church clean fund. Mrs. Wyant led the bazaar with Mrs. Watters Peek and Cranston credited for the supper.
The Evening Courier ends its educational work and the book will be sold only at the store for not less than four dollars. Reports from an eastern city emphasize correct spelling in civil service exams where 28 failed for common words.
A rush hour scene shows girls debating book features while a courier offers Webster's New Standard Dictionary Illustrated at a limited-time distribution. The item prompts curiosity about leather binding, word counts, and edge colors as crowds learn how to secure a copy.
Charles Peniebell a stranger about 400 years of age asked the sheriff Saturday night to lock him up fearing a recurrence of mania. He had been released from a hospital less than a year ago and warned he might act if not restrained. He appeared normal this morning and will likely be freed unless mental trouble returns. Also noted is Miss Gladys Powers returning from Boston to Waterloo to stay with her parents through Christmas.
Reports say settlement of the Illinois Central strike may come before year’s end as Judge Lovett travels east to confer with Mary Harriman. Strikers and officials exchange Inside information while rail workers await return to work and merchants welcome any settlement restoring normal business.
A new Crystal show opens with a full bill of feature attractions led by a four act race-playlet from Harry Sullivan Co featuring Kilbourne stables at Sheeps Head Bay NY. Sulley Hussey Valoise brothers and four kids perform, Keeler and Don juggle, plus new pictures to conclude.
A free Overland automobile ticket will be given to every paid admission at Crystal theatre on December 23. Any seat price grants a chance on the auto. tickets at the Crystal box office and from listed merchants carry cash coupons.
The passage notes several vendors offering goods for cash at Scane the clothier Knapp the druggist UTK Shoe Co Cowing the jeweler Acme cale Waterloo Shoe Co L8 Parsons & Som. The list suggests a mercantile environment with multiple shops accepting cash payments.
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