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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1913
Page
6
In a 1918 McClure syndicate tale, goblins in winter dress siphon Santa’s sleigh on a roof, unload toys and candy, and share mischief until a fairy urges reversal. Realizing the harm, they return everything before Santa resumes his midnight flight, vowing to be later next year.
Bradstreet weekly review notes retail and holiday business center stage while wholesale trade cools. Salesmen return, inventories rise, and backward demand at retail slackens jobbing trade. Mild weather dampens distribution and idle hands rise. iron trade shows some improvement with pig iron sales up. Weekly business failures total 378 versus 322 last year. wheat and flour exports reach 6,964,102 bushels. Christmas Victor Victrolas advertised by Strodel's.
France earned about 105 million dollars from the tobacco monopoly last year, with a state-controlled network of 47,250 planters and 55 million pounds of foreign tobacco. A French aerial squadron will attempt a Sahara crossing from Oran toward Timbuctoo, with dangerous desert segments and guidance via pyramids. King Alfonso of Spain reportedly smokes heavily and may send his heir to Eton for schooling, amid English influence debates in Spain. A Russian peasant accused of murdering an English mine manager crossed himself before firing, revealing a noted left-arm disability observed by witnesses.
Inland Webster City Dec 20 a report recalls the monster engine No. 400 once the era’s marvel at the world's fair in Chicago. Once the largest locomotive built in the US it is now deemed a relic among older engines. Uncle John Keith of Eagle Grove operates the old locomotive daily, pulling a four coach train to Elmore and returning to Eagle Grove.
King Albert of Belgium backs a monumental hygienic world city to be a clearing house for international business and ideas. American sculptor Hendrik Andersen, living in Rome, presented plans by Ernest Hebrard and collaborators. A full financial scheme is due in 1916 as the king cites potential for universal participation and design governed by science and art.
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