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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1914
Page
12
A fragmented OCR item cites a reed rocker at $10.26 and a shade listing at $24.80. The text is garbled with stray letters but indicates price points for home decor items. No clear event, date, or seller name is readable.
Rome dispatches describe a major Servian victory with the Austrian army corps largely destroyed or captured. About 5,000 Austrian soldiers of Italian nationality were taken, many without food for two days, and harsh conditions are noted for prisoners. Weather data is appended from Buchanan Optical Co. Dec 10.
Panama December 16 Col Geo W Goethals appeals to Secretary of War for torpedo boat destroyers to guard canal ports and preserve neutrality. He warns ports are used for communications and threaten the canal zone.
Geo G Davis travels to Indianola to be with his ill sister while Mrs A W Brant visits in Iowa City. Rev J M Hamilton and wife of Monmouth are visiting their son J M Hamilton. Justice F F Knapp unites George H Bearbower and Leta F Evans in marriage at Brandon. M G Vaughan arrives from Minneapolis for holidays. Attorney J D Liffring returns from Kenosha to aid his ailing wife. Mrs James Klinefelter ill at 417 Jefferson Street. Lincoln club hosts luncheon at Mrs Harry Jenks' home. Train narrowly misses car on Park Avenue crossing. Mrs P L A Ferguson and Mrs Jennie Hatta travel from Minneapolis to visit family. James Thompson Jr of Brady, Mont returns for a rare visit. Rittenhouse visit turns serious with wife ill after hospital operation. improving today. Treaty 19 ratified by Senate in Washington. Whitman’s Candy promo ad.
The Outlook Circle of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church received fifty suites of underwear and six bolts of dress goods from Sloan Case and Smith of Fredericksburg Iowa, routed through H. Bingham. The gifts support the poor in Waterloo and are part of ongoing relief with Associated Charities and visiting nurses.
London dispatch reports that authorities prepared for a German raid with coast defenses ready and all infantry and artillery in trenches. Casualty estimates were being compiled, with updates available up to the afternoon.
A shipment of Christmas trees and holly arrived yesterday for use in Waterloo's public schools. In kindergartens, there will be special celebrations with gifts and decorations made by children. Upper grades will hold the usual Christmas exercises.
In New York on Sunday sermons condemned alcohol ahead of Congress debates on prohibition. Distillers shares fell about three quarters of a point as the stock market opened. Telegram updates from Constantinople report the Turkish battleship Messadieh torpedoed by the British submarine B-11 sank anchored with crew saved. French forces on the front from Belfort to Sainte Marie Aux Mines intensify artillery action and convert Than into a stronghold.
West High’s first and second football teams meet tonight for a dinner hosted by William Cotter. After the banquet, the election for next year’s captain will take place with Superintendent A. T. Hukin, Principal S. M. Wallace, and Coach Fred McClain attending as guests.
West High students will present a Christmas program Friday at 1 46 pm including recitations staging and a short play titled A Christmas Chime The event was postponed from Thanksgiving to Christmas and is announced by Irving Smoke Shop advertising the largest pipe line in the city BBR Meerschaum Briar available through the advertiser
Dr Oliver Williams preached on the second coming from Titus 2 1 to 4 at First United Brethren Church. He urged readiness for the rapture and described the sequence of separation, resurrection, and meeting Christ in the air with the church. Several professed conversion after the service and Williams planned daily sermons all week. Fire alarm at Golden Rule store prompted evacuation. no major damage.
A public program at East High’s manual training auditorium Friday at 3 pm features student performances under Mrs H Wilbur, with mixed and girls choirs, a boys quartet, a double girls quartet, a vocal duet, and a reading. Separately, Burr Lichty reports the disappearance of J P Glass, 28, from Birmingham after a November 1 auto crash. portraits and descriptions are being circulated.
Rome Dec 16 Reports from the Austrian frontier say conditions in the dual monarchy near crisis. Vienna crowds protest war conduct while Prague shows separatist sentiment against German or anti Slav aims. Budapest riots force police to clear main streets and attack on defense ministry targeted Potiorek.
A Christmas prayer meet ing will be held Thursday evening at Grace Methodist church. It will be a people's prayer and praise service led by the men's chorus with Frank Taylor singing a solo and Charles Hutton leading the meeting. Also notices a sale of paintings fancy work tags and curios by Mrs J Thrower 414 E Seventh phone red 2805.
Forty thousand persons are employed by clothing manufacturers in Leeds. The Rand gold industry may be worth half a million dollars daily to South Africa. Sweden’s alum shale deposits are being investigated for potential illumination. Pennsylvania supplies one tenth of the world’s coal.
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