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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1913
Page
3
Postal matters and advertising notes appear with a European travel insert and several addresses for American offices in London Paris and Berlin. The piece includes rates and submission rules, but much of the text is garbled and unreadable.
New York reports Henry C. Edey a retired Wall Street broker shot his wife and killed himself at his Bellport Long Island country home. The piece critiques life of pleasure and materialism ending in tragedy and condemns self destruction as a rational escape rather than personal fate.
A rambly 1911 column critiques Tearneyism in Waterloo and Chicago politics, mocks a profligate alderman and saloonkeeper, and shifts to a miner with twenty three children praising frugality while blaming alcohol. It contrasts local political heat with a large Iowa wedding and proves a social satire tone.
The Illinois legislature considers a new roads law with a uniform state aid and state administration plan, reflecting Iowa and Minnesota moves toward better highways. The good roads committee has drafted recommendations aligned with Des Moines convention aims. A Chicago Law and Order League member notes thousands of youths may have first drinks or missteps around New Year’s, a commentary for Mayor Harrison.
A collection of short editorials and notes from Iowa papers. Amianelle Observer, Greenfield Transcript, Denison Bulletin, and Council Bluffs Nonpareil discuss roads funding, cheap newspapers value, 1914 progressive activity, and Taft civil service post offices.
The Marshalltown Times-Republican argues for a bond method where the highway commission handles engineering and the state lends credit to counties. Counties would levy a 1-mill tax on properties benefited, using state aid to speed local road construction without concentrating funds in favored areas.
A reflection on life length versus depth by Ruth Cameron. She contrasts a prideful ninety-year-old with a young man who died at thirty after meaningful deeds, noting enduring value lies in what is done, not years counted. An advertisement pitches Chamberlain's Liniment for partial paralysis and rheumatic pains.
A proposed plan calls for a governor appointed state highway commissioner, a chief and assistant engineer, and county highway engineers. It envisions state control of state aid bridges, a uniform highway system, cash tax payments for highway purposes, and abolition of the three commissioner setup with a single commissioner per district. County aid for certain projects allowed up to 15 percent of costs.
Keokuk Iowa January 3 Frank B Churchill inventor of the washing machine used in the Treasury in Washington says reports that washing paper money aids counterfeiters are false. He claims printers fear losing work as the government may print fewer bills. Churchill has not cashed the voucher for the first machine and keeps it framed in his office.
Chas W. Clark, heir to the Montana copper fortune, paid $1,000 for a San Francisco ballroom to host a three hour New Year’s Eve dance after a street tour with friends. The manager cleared the room and Clark’s party danced to the song “Lexae Tommied” as the bill was settled with a check.
Iowa coal production in 1912 showed poor results for most of the year due to car shortages. Only January February and March were profitable before an April shutdown followed by resumed activity hampered by scarcity of transportation and scattered miners.
A satirical critique argues billboards dominate urban landscapes more than grasshoppers or diseases. It lampoons the cluttered, color loud displays, roadside profits, and social indifference, noting the visual pollution harms taste, travel, and even safety. The piece closes by linking billboards to popular travel and aviation culture.
A damaged OCR recipe describes mixing flour salt pice and powder with mashed potato eggs sugar milk and sour mixture to form a soft dough. Roll, cut rounds with a center hole, and fry in oil not hot enough to brown. Turn several times for even cooking. doughnuts stay moist for days.
In Muscatine on January 2 James P. Holliday captured about a thousand pounds of snapping turtles in the slough, packing them in barrels for shipment mainly to eastern markets. The haul, made in Mittman pasture, used dip-nets and Carmel-nets with ice cut to reach the water.
The 2000-ton British steamer Alcazar bound from Port A-Paix Haiti to Philadelphia ran aground at Cape Lookout early today. The revenue cutter Seminole picked up the distress signals and headed to the scene, expected to arrive by evening. This marks the second recent incident near Cape Lookout with the Seminole aiding the vessel.
The Seminole found the Alcazar anchored in dangerous waters off Lookout Shoals and towed her to a safe area, leaving her at a secure spot.
Shenandoah Iowa January 2 J B Armstrong an early seedsman faced an unusual swindle as his Tampa Florida winter residence was occupied by strangers. The housekeeper who cared for the home last spring rented it out and fled. Armstrong arrived to halt a pending sale after a month long legal effort to reclaim the property.
Yonkers New York suffers trolley paralysis as 300 car men quit work to block traffic in Westchester County. Mt. Vernon union members discuss a sympathetic strike with Mt. Vernon and Yonkers lines under unified management.
Henry J. Goldstein of Boston reports five years of severe rheumatism eased by Hood's Sarsaparilla. He says his knees were stiff and pain severe, but after taking the medicine he recovered and now recommends Hood's. The ad promotes Hood's in usual liquid or chocolate tablet forms.
The article asserts eczema is a skin disease not blood borne and that Merital Eczema Remedy applied to the skin cures it. It urges immediate use and cites Henderson Drug Co and Red Cross Drug Co as sources.
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