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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1913
Page
3
London reports intense debate over Ireland's home rule and Ulster's status, with officials considering limited autonomy within the bill. Welsh disestablishment looms large, backed by Liberals and nationalists, facing stiff unionist opposition and church-led protests.
Jesup notes a busy week with visitors from Waterloo Watertown and Independence. Local people include Miss Lou Richardson Miss Lorene Standish and Professor Riley’s family. The town also hosts the play Tempest and Sunshine at the Grand Opera House on December 16 and reports on church meetings, society events, a Market Day sale netting over 133 dollars, a hospital visit, a theatre course event featuring Robert Bowman, and Knights of Pythias officers elected for Safety Lodge 416.
Local notes from Raymond recount P J O Connor & Sons receiving a coal carload. Many residents, including Misses Fagan Mellirece, Munger family, Kremer sisters, and the O Connell household, host or visit in Cedar Falls Waterloo and nearby towns. Reports mention shop outings, hospital stays, Epworth league oyster supper, Ladies Aid, and multiple visits among relatives with brief travel and home adjustments.
Patents granted to Iowans include solid balls by James P Appleby assigned to Johnson and Sharp Mfg Co Ottumwa stalkcutter by Robert A Blunck Grand Mound mouse trap by Jacob I Brody Shenandoah electrical switch by Otis L Davis Town City tank car by Leo E Evans with half to J A Cutler Osage tee box by Ralph E Hartwell Davenport automatic stock salting device by John I Ihlings Cedar Falls Nutlock by Charles J Lantz Gowrie sash fastener by Harry M Martin Glidden chimney cleaner by Lawrence Moeller Maquoketa lock by Adolph Mourek Rathbun printing apparatus by William J Noe and M C Mesner East Pleasant Plain gas engine by Andrew A Paysen Clinton pole tip by Harold W Randall Quimby stock feeding device by Ferdinand W Schultz Treynor baton stator cane by James H H Sutlive Keokuk attachment for lateral conveyors by Arthur C Van Houveling Pella
The piece notes many young women suffer weak backs dizziness nervous spells dull headaches and fatigue. Kidney and bladder ailments cause these troubles but Foley Kidney Pills taken as directed bring prompt relief and the ailments disappear. They contain no habit forming drugs and are sold by all druggists everywhere.
G F Thurston of 128 Bath Street remains gravely ill with paralysis after six weeks of decline. In Waterloo, Mrs Adelia Dodge, sister of many locals, is in critical condition after an appendicitis operation at a Sycamore hospital. The First United Brethren church will host a revival day with a morning service for converts, new members to be received, and an evening lecture titled Many Sided Views of United Brethren Foreign Missions featuring about one hundred stereopticon slides.
Iva Smith of Paint Blank Texas reports suffering a liver complaint and taking Chamberlain's Tablets. She says she was completely cured and recommends them to everyone. For sale by all dealers.
In West Union Iowa on December 13 Judge Hobson adjourned the November term of the district court. Oelwein cases for O'Brien were moved to Winnebago County for February due to local prejudice. The teachers minimum wage law was upheld in a case involving M N Bopp, president of Windsor township school board, who had hired a teacher for less than the wage set by law. The Ociwein moving picture owners were fined for violating the Sunday labor law. the court ruled they had no greater right to operate than merchants or bankers.
Extra coach attached to the southbound Rock Island train at 4 30 and returned at 9 45 the next morning to ease Waterloo passenger load. Waterloo business on this line is among the largest between St Louis and St Paul. Also mentions a California woman praising Chamberlains Cough Remedy from Sawtate California and local advertising notes.
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