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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1909
Page
1
General Sporting News notes Waterloo hopes for success in the Three-I League while fans worry about funds. Martin Dolan commits to join the 1910 Boosters, admitting he considered farming and chicken ventures. A Chicago lake sale and NL meeting chatter also appear.
Decatur shows confidence in joining an Illinois Missouri baseball league while Jacksonville sources fade. Doc Childs, president of the Decatur Base Ball association, has signed pitcher George Ray of Winchester for 1910. The Prairie State league rumors fade as Decatur lines up a franchise in the I M league and presses forward despite uncertain origins.
Kansas City December 23. Jake Beckley denies reports he plans to quit baseball. He vows to return to first base in spring and play for many more years, saying the game keeps him young and he will find a team to play for next season.
In his later years the veteran is planning a return to the ring. Opponent Lang, described as a ham of the first water, is seen as a token challenger whose age and past life may hasten a brief bout and spark a final flash of public interest.
Waterloo boosters discuss a proposed railway from the city to Tama or Belle Plaine passing south of Waterloo. Belle Plaine argues advantages including access to the Iowa River valley and a route toward Marengo Kalona Washington Mount Pleasant and Burlington. Local groups plan surveys and investor data after New Year.
Ernest Madison and Lorena Henningsen of Dike were married in Cedar Rapids last Saturday, a ceremony by Rev. Cyrus Cleveland at Kenwood Park. The marriage surprised friends. Madison is a defendant in a breach of promise suit brought by Byal King, with Madison denying most allegations and noting no fixed date for marriage.
A garbled ad touts Pape's Diuretic as a cure for kidney and urinary trouble and claims a fifty cent treatment will restore healthy kidneys and relieve backache and bladder misery. It mentions Cincinnati based firm Pape Thompson & Pape and urges buying only this product.
The article recalls Bob Fitzsimmons born 1862 in Bristol England and fighting in Australia before moving to the United States in 1891. It praises his meteoric rise, notes victories over Dempsy and Jeffries, and laments his decline and long boxing career amid Australian boxing culture.
A report to Congress from the landscape architects urges creating a national park at Niagara Falls. It calls for acquiring a continuous strip along the gorge, protecting the falls and cliff, and allowing private properties to be adjusted. It also recommends controlled water diversion in cooperation with Canada to preserve the cataract’s grandeur. Secretary Dickinson endorses the plan and defers overall scope to Congress.
Jacob Schrall of 432 South J in Danville writes that after eighteen months of kidney and bladder trouble treated by several doctors and different pills, seven weeks of Foley's Kidney Pills brought daily improvement and he urges others to learn what they did for him. Wangler Bros and H. W. Tagbart are cited in the notice. The ad blends personal testimony with a closing adage on love and money.
In Minneapolis a christening at the Marshall Stacy home leads to a name change after a nurse cites a Copenhagen University finding. The mother agrees to call the baby Peary, turning the christening gift into a Christmas present mix up involving the infant and the name Peary instead of Cook.
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