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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1911
Page
8
A local retailer advertises men and women’s suits and overcoats with a sale price of 25.00. The offer highlights affordable clothing options for the current season and appeals to shoppers seeking value on apparel.
Fragmentary item notes boys suits and overcoats priced at two dollars and fifty cents, with garbled OCR text. The readable portion indicates a sale or advertisement and references a price point around $2.50. No clear names, dates, or places available.
Cedar Falls Iowa. Special. Power outages disrupt streetcar service and water lines, slowing workers and businesspeople. Nearby social notes report the Danish Lyren society entertainment, funerals, illnesses, sports travel news, theater changes, and church business meetings among local items.
Waterloo Live Stock Commission company announces sale opening Saturday January 7 managed by Win Holland. Advertising spans the horse world with a gala turnout expected. consignors are urged to bring horses early to ensure sale to actual consumers and to obtain top prices for every class of horse.
Anamosa Iowa January 3 Evening Press reports T B Booth longtime owner of the Amamoga En teka has sold out to Lewis Gardner. The Booth family ran the Eureka for 50 years. W R G will hold a thrift bee Thursday at Mrs J E Barrett’s home 1128 Washington street. Come early ready to quilt comforters. Progressive lodge Daughters of Rebekah 462 will meet at G A R hall Wednesday evening with candidates to be taken in and all members urged to be present.
Waterloo Engraving and Service company forms with Stewart-Simmons in Waterloo to take over Buckbee-Mears engraving plant. J. B. Payne, former Sears Roebuck catalogue head, is president. Kirk Stewart VP. Charles Simmons secretary treasurer. Gevin Weston will run the office. Public notices advertise the Crystal Theatre show The Aeroplane and The Girl Avior.
The cold night nipped combs and tender parts of Waterloo fancy chickens. Many birds are unfit for public display, dampening hopes for next week’s banner show in Federal block. Some owners mourn but few frozen. the show remains large, with minor losses in a few pens.
Kingston January report says no immediate GOP committee reorganization. White House denies Taft approval for Congress Weeks Massachusetts as chairman. a meeting to elect a chairman was reportedly planned this month, per a circulating story.
The meeting of the general diitete committee faces regular session with Lieventer Weld presiding. Thatta and Mir Vitehcock expected to attend as new chairman elected. Mir Hitehcock remains head of committees but retired from active duties after becoming postmaster general. former Coy. Hail of Maine acts as chairman.
Bellevue Iowa January 3 Arthur Lint gen awakened his brother reporting numbness all over his body A physician was summoned but could not help and the youth died of infantile paralysis three hours later He had seemed in good health the day before.
In cold weather a large crowd attends St Marys mission as Rev Father Charles preaches on sin as the great evil and offense against God. He warns against mislabeling sins and urges devotion, describing sin as disobedience and ingratitude. The preacher outlines Our Journey End and The Accounting as upcoming topics.
The Courier endorses Robert Henderson as a candidate for state printer. A native of Burlington and former city editor of the Nonpareil, he has served as managing editor of the Comet Bluffs Nonpareil and private secretary to Congressman Smith in Washington. He is described as amiable, capable, and well qualified for the office.
A Waterloo city brief lists local passengers and visits including Luachanin Optical Co. Rev Wf Malewna, K. T. Fisher to Vinton on business, Miller the music teacher to Excelsior Springs for recuperation, and Maurice A Welch in Des Moines tied to the street railway. Also mentions New Year visits by Miss Lucille Ningen in Ackley, and Mr. and Mrs. Lee Canfield of Cedar Rapids. A fire at 0 Marlberry street caused minor damage from a defective chimney.
The Waterloo Cedar Falls Northern railway reports severe traffic delays due to extreme cold and poor coal. Engineers say the current coal is well below average and lacks power for operating cars. Last night crowds exiting theaters faced halted trains and many walked home.
The report describes motormen and conductors forced to idle in a remote part of the city. Passengers faced long waits and were provided with accommodations at nearby residences until trains could be restarted.
Robert Krizer, 20, son of Jacob Krizer near Oskaloosa, shot himself after telling his mother he would kill himself. He went outside a dance where youths gathered and took his life with a single bullet, amid reports of loneliness and lack of a partner.
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