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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1918
Page
5
Cedar Falls reports fuel shortage pushing churches to combine for fifth Sunday services across 18 congregations. Clergy note strong turnout while scholars and townspeople discuss labor, seed corn, and potential church consolidations amid wartime strain.
Iowa state food administrator 7 P F Deems announces uniform meatless and wheatless rules for public eating places to follow weekly. Rules set daily meatless and wheatless periods, replacing earlier inconsistent practices across towns and travel stops.
An advertisement claims dandruff causes feverish scalp irritation and hair loss. It urges buying a small bottle of Danderrine at a drug store, applying it to the scalp to eliminate dandruff and halt further hair shedding.
An old style advertisement promotes California Syrup of Figs as a gentle laxative for children and adults. It advises checking a coated tongue to diagnose constipation, claims cleansing the liver and bowels, and warns to demand a bottle made by the California Fig Syrup Company.
Waterloo theater listings announce The Thirteenth Chair in a lavish New York standard production by William Harris Jr. plus Broadway Belles burlesque, Otis Hammerstein's You're In Love at the Waterloo, The Naughty Princess vaudeville at Majestic, Daybreak at Palace, Sirens of the Sea at Crystal, Blue Blazes Rawdon with William S Hart at Plaza, all showcasing lavish casts, music, and cinema.
Revival services at Burton Avenue Baptist Church report encouraging attendance. Pastor Rev. W Hi Rogers preaches with Rev. Harold Philpotte in charge of music. The junior chorus performs tonight for the first time and sermons reflect themes of forsaking Christ and procrastination as a tool of the devil.
The Red Cross will open emergency nursing courses in New York City high schools this week to prepare girls for the likely demands on the nursing profession.
New York February 18 The 116th meeting of the American Institute of Mining Engineers opened its four day session here with topics on war work for mining engineers and munition manufacturers. Hudson Maxim is among the speakers as the gathering addresses wartime technical needs and industry challenges.
In Worcester Massachusetts Mrs F H Stone says after trying many doctors she took Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for a month and recovered from weakness monthly discomfort and general illness. She reports she is now strong enough to do housework and care for her baby. The ad urges others with displacement irregularities inflammation backache and nervousness to try the remedy.
A group of army and navy officers along with naval consulting board members will participate in the discus event, showcasing broad military athletic involvement.
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