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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1913
Page
3
The notice urges women to join an Hoosier Club to own a Hoosier Kitchen Cabinet for one dollar. It promises saved walking miles, time, and effort by keeping cooking gear within reach, and credits the Hoosier with health, vigor, and a neat home.
Cedar Falls residents travel and attend events, with a funeral in New Hartford for G. M. Bronson drawing many locals. Families relocate, properties sell, and plans unfold as business and social life continue amid winter travel and upcoming community activities.
An advertisement promotes Kellogg's Sanitone Wafers as a universal nerve energizer for men and women. It claims to restore brightness, courage, and vitality, addressing insomnia nerves and weight loss. A 50 cent free trial box is offered with home delivery and a later price for full boxes.
The regular one dollar size Kellogg s Kanitone Wafers are on sale in Waterloo at H W Taggart and Th W Kehuneman Co. No free boxes from Arugeists.
Mrs. Adolph Quimby fractured multiple small bones in her right ankle after a fall on home steps. Her mother Mrs. Ellis will care for her in Waterloo for several weeks. In Waterloo, J. Miler is named railway ticket agent for the Island and Great Western at Waterloo, replacing Mr. Voss of Fairbault who will move on.
Fifty five neighbors paid a farewell surprise visit to Mr and Mrs William Walters at their 180 acre Cedar Falls area country home three miles southwest of town. They arrived with baskets, shared games and music, and presented an eight day clock. Walters expressed deep thanks as the Walters prepare to move to Cedar Falls. The farm is famed as a model country place kept in shipshape order.
A one o clock luncheon and card games are listed for Brown and Mrs. Flord M Thompson at 1005 Logan Avenue. A patriotic reception dance honors R W Stewart s twenty fifth birthday with Miss Belford and Mrs Belford among guests. Myers orchestra played for dancing in Pyshian temple. Miss Alice Elsperman and Frank Collard of Rockford IL married quietly at Elsperman home with a simple wedding breakfast. couple to reside briefly before moving to Rockford.
An out of town guest attended a New England supper held in the A. O. U. W. hall with a menu of roast beef mashed potatoes brown gravy Boston brown bread cream bread baked beans and cake. Mrs Mary Makinster celebrated her sixty ninth birthday with twenty five friends at Bluff Street with a two course meal and gifts. A George Washington party is planned by Walnut Street Baptist Church Ladies Aid division one. Dinner parties are set for February 26 and 27 at 687 Third Street West hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Chapman and Mr. Oliver Chapman.
Boston February 20 dispatches corrected earlier reports on receivers for Gen A Alden & Co rubber dealers. The Boston firm Geo A Alden & Co was appointed, while references to Alden firms in London Adelbert Alden Para Brazil were incorrect.
After a long legal contest spanning five years, Edwards & Longley win a notable victory in the Supreme Court in Waterloo Lumber Co. vs Des Moines Insurance Co. The decision sustains the jury verdict from the first trial, with the plaintiff to receive judgment on the policy amount. Previous steps included lower court verdict, appeals, and reversible Supreme Court decrees.
Township officers are urged to attend the good roads meeting at the court house on February 26 with forenoon and afternoon sessions. The morning session starts at 10 o clock with two expert addresses and talks on the good roads problem followed by general discussion. Automobile owners are expected to attend and participate in discussions.
An advertisement urging merchants to place ads in the Waterloo Evening Courier, claiming superior readership and greater reach, appealing to buyers who value effective advertising over mere talk. The piece asserts the paper’s circulation is more than double that of rivals in its territory.
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