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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1914
Page
13
A long list of ladies clubs, circles, and society gatherings fills Waterloo activity notes. Prizes, card parties, dances, lectures, and anniversaries mark Friday and weekend plans across churches, lodges, and civic groups. Mentions of Lincoln birthday observance and recitals accompany regular meetings and forthcoming events.
Amid weather, First M church revival drew a helpful service led by Dr. W B Sandford of Westminister Presbyterian. He urged forgetting the past to live effectively and serve God, with a prayerful call for spiritual quickening and conversion tonight with Dr T M Evans to preach.
Mrs Oy Sin, a Chinese woman, was arrested in Chicago in connection with the murder of a Chinese man whose dismembered body was found in a trunk a year earlier in Seattle. The trunk had been shipped from Pendleton, Oregon, and Sin’s husband was arrested in Pendleton. Detectives in a Chinese rooming house cornered Sin, with two others present. one escaped. Sin is being held in Portland, Oregon.
G Boerner of Washington notes his fourteen Atlantic crossings and seven European trips while discussing grain grading at a cran dealers’ convention. A Minnesota native and University of Minnesota agriculture graduate, he entered government service seven years ago and will address a gathering in Ottawa Kansas, then be away three weeks. An ad promotes Foley Cathartic Tablets for digestion and cold relief, priced at 25 cents per bottle.
Waterloo residents are invited to a reception for Madame Rive King at the Ross Conservatory parlors this evening at the First Congregational church. The famed pianist will perform tomorrow night at a concert, with a program featuring works by Mendelssohn, Chopin, Wagner Liszt, MacDowell, and Strauss. King, who last toured the West decades ago, says she is at her best and continues to publish music, with past earnings exceeding fifty thousand dollars.
Backache and rheumatism sufferers are told Foley Kidney Pills are effective for kidney and urinary problems. The ad claims quick results from a true medicine, sold by all druggists.
Weather note reports snow tonight and Friday with little temperature change and moderate to brisk east winds. Mentions Marsh Mace Building address and C G Larraber as resident manager.
Kansas City stock and produce notes show hogs and cattle receipts and prices with rates at 6 to 10 cents. Chicago prices list poultry and potatoes, while Waterloo markets report flour oats and butter prices, hogs and cattle values, hay and straw, and various hides and veal bids. Includes an auction-like notice: bids for wrecking the Roserell Lamson building at the Russell Lamson hotel.
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