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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1914
Page
10
The Courier and Reporter reports multiple destitution cases after a prior appeal. A father of three cannot support his family, having only an unpaid home and a bare dwelling. Readers are urged to provide temporary or permanent work and to contact the office for notes and addresses.
Tonight features Herbert Liord and his troupe with dogs performing stunts and a vaudeville act praised as among the best. Van Brothers supply droll comedy and music while Harry Gilbert offers singing and talking bits. A Japs slide life stunt thrills. Jubilee program starts tomorrow with Banda Roma marines, soloists Kennedy Platt No body, acrobats Cunningham Marion, and acts Miss Thankegiving and Jolly and Wild.
The Wrath of the Gods played at the Crystal yesterday and again this afternoon and tonight. The film includes a typhoon wrecking a schooner, an American ashore on a jungle island with Lana Toy and her father, near Sakrajima volcano. Strong scenes of mob panic surround the volcanic eruption. Most roles are played by Japanese actors.
John Kaltenbach received a telegram from his sons Fred and Adolph who spent months in Germany arriving yesterday at Hoboken New Jersey and planning to reach Waterloo today. They toured the German empire on bicycles and toured Switzerland. Their experiences include episodes of excitement when hostilities began and several arrests as spies.
A boy named Frank, fault finding at meals, is swept away in a dream by goblins and brownies to a hidden house where a fairy cures his habit with magical poultices. He promises to change and wakes beside his mother, who believes it was a dream. Tomorrow’s story is Mrs Fox's Coat-of-Arms.
The piece tells of Frank H. Wright, a publisher known for bibles and dictionaries, and his coinage of the word spizzerinktum meaning intense energy. It notes its adoption in a major dictionary and recalls Wright’s habit of abbreviating paths to missions with a single four syllable word, alongside other curious facts about the book industry and odd statistics such as ostrich lifespans and plume yields.
A sample floor note compares a Shuttleworth Velvet Rug priced at 82.50 to a claimed lower price range between 45 and 50. The ad asserts Shuttleworth as a high grade rug made in America with genuine logos woven on the back.
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