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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1911
Page
16
The Waterlo o Evening Courier Fashion Department offers Courier patterns with seams. Fill the coupon and send with 16 cents per pattern. Orders are filled promptly and should reach you within ten days after sending.
In Des Moines on Dec 15 railroad officials testified before Special Examiner Henderson of the Interstate Commerce Commission that freight rates for print paper from eastern points to Des Moines are reasonable. Local publishers filed complaints. exhibits showed how Des Moines rates compare with eastern and western city rates. After the print paper session, lumber rate complaints from the south were heard, noting 11 1/2 cents from Kansas City to Des Moines versus 8 1/2 cents by others, and 9 12 cents from St Louis to Des Moines over 340 miles.
F. B. Hubbard, Stella Briggs’s brother, disputes a prior report that she and five children lived three days on 35 cents. He states she stayed eight days, left for Albert Lea, and that $10 for coal and provisions was spent during their nine days in his home. Hubbard notes she left voluntarily, and that he received union aid for groceries.
Confederate veteran Robert McDonald visits Waterloo visitors at the G A R hall, recounting battles such as Lookout Mountain Gettysburg and Antietam, mentioning his father’s death at Gettysburg and his own service under General Lee. He travels from Topeka to see his son and praises post members for fostering reconciliation between former enemies. Also mention of Chamberlain’s tablets for constipation with testimonial.
The Iowa Supreme Court reversed Jasper county district court ruling denying Mary C. Engle a divorce from Perry Engle and sent the case back for a new trial. The couple wed in Des Moines in 1905 and lived together 3.5 years. he is 72, she 64, with an unmarried 40 year old named as co respondent in her petition.
The court rules that when a spouse suspects infidelity they may use any lawful means to obtain evidence of the wrong for divorce, and the Supreme Court finds Engle guilty.
Ben Hur Melchoir Court No 8 plans a hard times social in South Wall Friday evening December 15. Wear old clothes and join the Ben Hur and friends for admission ten cents. Music by the Ben Hur four piece harp orchestra.
A grocer advertises Wizard Carpet Clean as a simple solution to dust during sweeping. The notice highlights its availability at local groceries and promotes ease of use for household cleaning tasks.
The local demonstration of the Root Juice medicine closes tomorrow. The campaign of health has drawn crowds and sold hundreds of bottles. Reported cures include restored appetites, relief from rheumatism, kidney and stomach ailments, and general improved health. Henderson drug store offers information about Root Juice.
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