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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1915
Page
1
Advertisement style note on Cascarets promoting relief from headaches biliousness indigestion and colds. Claims a ten cent box cleanses stomach removes sour food and excess bile enabling a clear head sweet stomach and healthy liver by morning. Ends with claim that children love Cascarets as they never gripe or sticken.
Helen Keller, born deaf mute and blind, will lecture at Grace Church auditorium in Waterloo on February 3. After years of effort and patience her achievement in learning to speak is hailed as a historic milestone by specialists and is expected to draw a large audience under the Brotherhood’s auspices.
A special meeting at Walnut Street Baptist Church on Sunday at 11 am will include reports from the boys conference. Delegates present topics on hospitality, personal benefits from conferences, annual banquet address, athletics, and future plans. George Cockburn presides. Dr John Ruigant Smith speaks on Boys and Booze. evening sermon at 7 39 with chorus choir.
Rev H J Harwood of Websterett Universalist church will address the Commercial club Monday on city government and municipal plans. He will also exchange pulpits with Rev Effie McCollum Jones in Webster City for a requested lecture on paper. He chaired municipal research and writes on civic issues. his Sunday talk titled The Better City is anticipated to draw many attendees.
A young mother on Tuesday sought relief for her baby’s cough. She bought Foley's Money and Tar Compound, advertised as loosening coughs and easing choking secretions to help the child breathe and regain normal rest. Sold by all druggists everywhere.
A long listing of area churches notes service times, pastors, and school hours across many denominations from Adventist to Universalist. Entries include Seventh Day Adventist Kistner’s chapel, First United, Central, St. Joseph’s, Christ Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, and more with specific addresses and sermon topics.
New York historian editor and author John Denigan Champlin died of heart disease yesterday at his home. He was 80 and a Yale graduate of 1856.
Commentary by Rev. D. M. Stearns on Judges chapters four and five, praising God's use of unlikely instruments like Deborah and Jael. It notes Israel's repeated straying, divine compassion, and future hope of universal recognition of God through Israel. The piece reflects on faith, readiness to serve, and perseverance amid Europe’s conflicts, urging believers to action.
About 150 temperance advocates met at Waterloo Business College to organize a division canvass. James M. Graham chaired while J S Tuthill outlined a plan to divide the city into forty blocks for pledge cards and neutral stances on the saloon petition. Speakers attacked the Greater Waterloo movement, urging the dry cause as the fight to finish and warning the plan could stir town divisions.
Clarence Burger recently paroled from Knoxville and Carl Moses who admitted drug use in police court this morning will be sent to the state institution for treatment. Burger Moses and two other youths were arrested last evening in a business block toilet as officers say the group planned to take four shots in the arm when the patrolmen arrived. Burger and Moses were detained. the others released.
The city council likely will pass an ordinance forcing second hand stores to pay a 50 dollar annual license and to keep records of pledged articles with officer inspections. The move treats second hand dealers like pawnbrokers. Revival meetings at St Pauls M E Church end with strong sermons by Rev T M Evans and Dr Brown T. big day planned tomorrow with special music.
Rev S H Moore presiding elder of the Des Moines district will lead the quarterly meeting at the African M B church with morning preaching and a 3 p.m. communion service and an evening sermon by Rev G H Burts. Special music enhances all services open to all. On Tuesday Jan 12 at 8 p.m. at Westminster Presbyterian church Karl Lehmann of the United Society of Christian Endeavor will present the headquarter campaign to local endeavorers.
The piece argues that familiarity with a friend’s vocabulary aids prediction of their words, compares speaking and reading vocabularies, and urges expanding daily word use. It highlights Shakespeare’s breadth, common speakers’ limits, and the dictionary as a constant tool for better expression and understanding.
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