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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1914
Page
4
Parisian dancers crowd resorts as tango steps reach 200 and American tunes echo. In Vladikavka Russia a police ban triggers a clash with local dancers and German-leaning officials. An American car marks Iceland’s first self propelled vehicle era.
Regina Saskatchewan faces martial law as authorities plan to deploy a mounted police detachment after a threatening letter from the unemployed gang urged four days to secure work or trigger violence. The letter names 83 armed men and warns women and children to stay off streets Friday night.
Mrs Ed Pfalz graf rushed to La Porte City due to mother Mrs C H Kober illness. Cedar Rapids visits include John McLeish and Glen Van Shike. Revel from Cedar Falls and D H Revel host visits. Elsie Blair resigns Porter store post to work for W H Naylor in Garrison. Revival and lecture events at M E church with Miss Nita Dooley. Miss Ida Douglass rents rooms from Lillie Miller. Warren Van Skike and Arch McKinley visit La Porte City. Miss Sarah Shaffer wed Arch McKinley at high noon. Elmer Tunks visits from Brandon. Georgia Town studies at Tilford academy. Mrs Chris Johnson and Roy Steckman return from Kansas. Frank Beachler visits from South Dakota. Alten Beachler in Vinton. Bernidene Jewel returns to work in Vinton. Advertisement for Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy and updated Black Hawk Automobile Co phone 281.
London date shows rift between Prime Minister and Bonar Law hindering Ulster rule talks. Describes leadership styles and past personal relations, noting Asquith’s authority on Liberal side. Also reports on suffragist fractures and Zelie Emerson’s militant action in East End.
Berlin reports Carmen Sylva the Roumanian queen dowager accuses her husband King Charles of shaping the elevation of Prince William of Wied to rule Albania. The account describes the royal intervention, the chosen prince, and the lineage leading to the new Albanian state. It also notes Mexican exiles in Paris and German safety whistle tests in mines.
A new organization with prominent women aims to back parliamentary candidates who support women's suffrage. It will study women’s civic duties and perform community service, organized in eleven member bands under captains, with ten bands under a leader. Lady St Davids heads the league with a committee including Lady Clare Annesley and others.
Independence Iowa January 10 special Wapsie camp No 99 M W A held its annual installation of officers for the coming year Consul E M Thompson past consul D B Crown advisor J W Farris escort D C Hood clerk C M Roberts banker L McGill watchman Carl Gear sentry G S Gibson manager J G Klotzbach physicians Dr W Co Miller and Dr B B Sells Rev Littleton of Clarion spoke D N Crown of Waterloo attended the installation of officers
The week’s warmth depresses sailor morale as they eye their yearly ice stock. In 1913 Buchanan county court granted twelve divorces for cruel and inhuman treatment. Sixty five licenses and marriages were issued in the week, showing matrimony remains active locally. The First Baptist church plans its annual meeting next Wednesday with Rev. W. H. Stickel steering a hopeful program. A horse died after frightening event on Main Street. Justice R. F. Carsey recently married, with Mayor E. Purdy assisting for the first time. L. W. Irwin sold his East Main feed yard to Patrick Dullard of Oelwein, who plans to move by March 1.
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