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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1921
Page
6
The crowd packed First M.E. Church for an evangelistic program highlighted by law enforcement themes. Rev J H McCombe urged stricter prohibition enforcement as speakers recalled the temperance cause and the dangers of drinking.
An old advertisement touts Garian Blood Tea as a cure all boosting blood circulation, finishing the kidneys, stimulating the liver, and warding off flu grippe and pneumonia. It claims wide availability from druggists and grocers everywhere.
A historical ad promises free trial treatments and a two pound free treatment plus a book by Dr Franklin Miles. It touts relief for nervous ailments including headaches insomnia and digestive issues. The notice requests readers to describe their case and mail for testimonials from various professionals and citizens.
Mrs. McCombe, born in Toronto, and her husband John Henry McCombe, married in 1910, have devoted their lives to evangelistic work since. The pair, joined by Harold C. Classe, a former army song leader and vocal music teacher, undertook campaigns at Toronto churches and later in France with the US Army camps during WWI. Mrs. Classe, Hazel Dell Olds, was born in Delaware County Ohio and educated in Ashley.
Fragmentary OCR describes a woman over nine years old, transitioning from piano studies and a high school program to Ohio Wesleyan, then Pittsburgh and Syracuse, teaching piano and organ, studying voice, and eventually entering evangelistic work with about 50 pupils. The text is garbled and partially unreadable.
Dr. Daniel G. Carey of Elmira New York retires after forty years devoted to kidney disease research and Marshallroot his famed prescription. The notice urges readers to obtain Marshroot from Henderson Drug J Miller Hansen and Hansen and other pharmacists nationwide claiming no other medicine can replace it.
Fragmentary notes report Mire Clase joining the Methodine church in 1911. Text mentions Mr. and Mrs. Clase with two babies, including Winktred Jean born December 8 1919, and that the church is with her maternal grandmother at Avhley.
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