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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1912
Page
8
Torpid liver and clogged bowels cause indigestion foul taste headaches and yellow skin. A Cascaret nightly cleanses inside and works while you sleep. Ten cent box from druggist keeps you feeling good for months. Millions use Cascarets to regulate stomach liver and bowels. Include children for gentle cleansing.
Council approves a male and female censor pair to police public dances under a new ordinance. Appointees Mrs Williams English, Mrs Granger, Mrs Wakefield, Dee Moir and others join John Mac Vicar in overseeing admittance and censoring dances like the grizzly bear and turkey trot. Censors are paid from a city trust fund funded by dance hall owners alongside the $100 annual license tax.
At the annual meeting of the Farmers Mutual Telephone Co of Jesup officers were elected: President and general manager Oliver. Vice president William May. Secretary and Treasurer Bright. Directors Oliver, Willig May, C. Reipsehe, Bright, W. M. Kenney, Val Smith, A. K. Mount. Financials show cash on hand 1,288.15 and receipts for 1911 of 4,137.32, with total assets 6,137.32 and liabilities 2,078.83. The line serves 1,246 renters and 334 shares, totaling 470 patrons.
Stockholders of the Kimball Dairy Farmer company, publishers of Kim balls Dairy Farmer, met in annual meeting in the office in Pythian temple last evening. John Andrews, E. H. Colby and EB. R. Shoemaker were re elected directors and the officers were retained. The company has had a prosperous year and the dairy journal has grown in circulation and advertising patronage. Elmer E. Taylor and Matt Mc Cook were out of town stockholders attending.
Advertises Pinex Cough Syrup as a fast acting remedy for coughs including croup and whooping cough. Claims guaiacol rich Norway pine extract, easy 30 minute preparation, a 50 cent bottle yields ample supply, tastes pleasant, mildly laxative, used for hoarseness bronchitis and incipient lung troubles. Noted as the most widely used cough remedy in the U S and Canada with a money back guarantee and certificate of guarantee in each package.
In Urbana Illinois a surprised Rev F M Wood known as the Fighting Parson and his wife were hosted by about forty church members. The event followed an assault case against him by William Cumberland, with guests delivering baskets of delicacies and an old fashioned oyster supper to show support. Case's creamery butter 40c on the wagons.
WW I A members show interest in tomorrow’s basketball game as Muscatine faces the local fire department team. A large crowd is expected with Waterian Y fire to dominate. Toast High meets the Midgets as curtain raiser. Second schedule to start with eight teams. players and captains to be announced Saturday. Case’s milk delivery at 14 branches.
The American Federation of Labor executive council in Washington condemns the scientific management system as a speed up scheme. It argues such efficiency plans threaten workers health and safety and increase accidents and deaths amid rising workloads. The council cites hostility to Taylorism in plants and government shops.
Paris reports 39,605,509 people in the latest French census up from 39,252,245 in 1946. Urban shift continues with cities over 100,000 and Paris at 2,888,110 while Marseilles reaches 550,619 and Lyons 423,796. Over forty years France’s population rose by about 2,200,000.
The salary list shows officers in active county administration with figures for salaries of auditor treasurer clerk and deputies. It notes deputy salaries outside the city and about 400 tons of coal needed to heat the courthouse sheriff’s residence jail and county home during the cold spell.
Tonight the First Baptist church holds its annual congregation meeting at the Park Avenue and Jefferson Street house of worship. All societies convene for reunion, reports, officers, and necessary business. Rev. E A Vanant will deliver the sermon on The Marriage Relationship.
Jesup Louisiana news reports the funeral of Al Walkemin aged 76 after heart trouble. He and wife Hlakeman celebrated their golden anniversary on June 13 1811. Survived by children in Lewiston Portland and other towns. services held at their home in Jesup with friends attending.
Fragmentary OCR describes a convention with officers to be elected tomorrow afternoon. Sessions begin at 10 and 2, with papers on topics including farming and apprenticeship. A theatre party and luncheon are noted, inviting public attendance with limited hours and a display hall event.
Sixty or more members of the Iowa State Association of Master Painters and Decorators breakfasted at the Witcrlan Varnish plant on lower Water street. The first annual convention opened with a product demonstration and a lecture by Prof. Sabin of National Lead. Delegates from Des Moines and Waterloo attended, with visitors from Chicago and Michigan.
An advertisement extols Pape's Cold Compound as a safe 25 cent remedy without quinine, claiming two hourly doses through three doses will end grippe or severe cold. It lists relief from headache feverishness nasal congestion sore throat and rheumatic pains and cites three years research and fifty thousand dollar cost.
A vintage advertisement touts Miller's Dyspepsia Tablets as a remedy that digests food without a real medicine, claiming it heals diseased stomach cells and avoids irritation. It describes digestive symptoms from indigestion to vertigo and nervosity, urging readers to seek free sample treatment from Morris Drug Co. in Morris, Illinois.
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