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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1915
Page
10
Cedar Falls circulates a crowded social calendar with moves including the Albright family returning to Burlington, club meetings, dinners, and local hires. The Wagner Manufacturing annual meeting surfaces plan and reelects officers as residents attend plays, lectures, and neighborhood events.
An important meeting of the Waterloo Real Estate board at the Russell-Lamson discussed loan interest rates in Waterloo and vicinity. A committee will study rates and report later. They favored lower gilt edged loan rates and proposed a 7 percent loan program for workers with flexible security and no excessive charges. The board invited the International Convention of House Painters to meet next February and would seek local business support to host 700 to 800 guests from the US and Canada.
Amsterdam reports Brussels life returning to normal with Sundays crowded cafes and boulevards. German troops remain few, stamps are German in post offices, and many public buildings bear Germanized design. Some municipal officials signed six month German subject contracts. most shops are open with scarce money and troops paying cash. German travelers circulate as shops reopen.
Washington reports an order effective immediately amending livestock foot and mouth disease quarantine rules in Iowa and nearby states. In Iowa, Jones county gains one township and seven in Dubuque are added to the closed area, Cedar County partly reassigned. Regulations now require cleaning and disinfection of all railroad cars carrying livestock from quarantined areas since January 16, plus a privilege of personal inspection.
Joe Shugrue of Jersey City again outclassed Freddie Welsh, world lightweight champion, in a ten round match at Madison Square Garden. Welsh won only two rounds in their prior NY meeting, while last night Shugrue dominated the rest, delivering two even rounds the sixth and seventh.
Save a dollar by attending the Wang and Miller shoe sale now. Licensed to Wed. Frank H. Ken of Hudson and Genevieve M. McGarvey of La Porte City listed. William E. Webberking of Waterloo and Sidonia Herfurth of Waterloo appear with small figures.
Waterlo Commercial club directors met to adopt a full slate of committees headed by N. B. Lichty with an advisory board including G. B. Lichty and H. M. Read. Appointments cover Publicity, Auditing, Conventions, Good Roads, Finance, Manufacturers, Traffic, Travelingmen, Civic, Entertainment and Special Funds, with many named members and officers.
Fisher at The Model Phar Macy urges residents to try Quaker Extract and related products. He cites worm and stomach issues, sharing local testimonials from Harry Doyle, Mrs Joyner, Clark Sutton, Ezra Prangley, and Mrs Van Every. Remedies priced $1.00 per bottle, six for $5.00, with express delivery offered.
The list includes Pant, W. I. Reusch, C. M. Young, Clem Biddulph, G. Brebner, L. A. Denton, G. L. Dogan, Harry P. Joyce, W. A. Bextor, and E. C. Miller as registered individuals in the community draft records.
In a Sunday School Basketball League game at the Y, First M. HE. intermediates routed First Presbyterian 62 to 4. Mathews and Spry each scored 18 for the victors as the senior division produced a close Presbyterian 19-18 win with Rees netting 10 of his team's 20. Tonight two more games are on the schedule with First Baptist facing First Brethren intermediates at 8 and First Baptist meeting First Congregational seniors at 8:60.
The family thanks friends for valuable assistance during the illness and after the death of our wife and sister Mrs. Budd Wachtel. Budd Bachtell Miss Mamie Bogard express gratitude for support received.
Paris dispatch reports Rene Vidal a Rainey reservist who survived 73 wounds and later 139 separate wounds from shell blast. He lay in the trench for hours without aid before reaching an auxiliary hospital and is now able to move with crutches despite severe blood loss.
A wartime style advertisement promoting Sargel tablets as a weight gain remedy. It claims thin people can gain 5 to 8 pounds in two weeks and 10 to 25 pounds monthly, with stronger blood and better fat absorption. It asserts the product mixes with food and lists Waterloo druggists offering a money back guarantee.
Minnols Central train No. 29 from Chicago to St. Paul derailed near Warren Illinois last night. Several passengers injured, conductor George L. Ward and engineer Hob Lake aboard. Broken rail caused wreck, sleeper and coach left tracks, delays lasting hours. westbound No. 24 reached Waterloo by 9 am, others delayed. A woman and infant were among those aboard, with other passengers moved to safety.
An advertisement touts Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy as an easy at home tonic to darken gray fading hair. It promises natural even coverage with a sponge or brush applying the solution, claiming gray hairs disappear after one or two more applications. Sold by H. W. Taggart.
Paris dispatch reports Caston fillet a printer's boy hid under a Fontainebleau train seat with reinforcements for the 40th infantry. He joined battles and was killed by fragment from a shell on January 18. The same era mentions the Grain Dealers convention in Mason City, Iowa, with W H Kerr of Washington DC and Clifford Thorne of the Iowa Railroad Commission slated to speak on competition.
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