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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1911
Page
10
London January report says Mile. Gaby Deslys, dubbed the uncrowned queen, works to rally Manuel supporters to regain the Portuguese throne. She has moved between London and Paris to press his cause while Portugal plans a modest monthly allowance for the ex-king.
Civic department of the Ladies' Literary Society meets Saturday afternoon at the public library west with two committees in charge. Talks cover illuminated signs, city ordinances on billboards, street trash, waste cans, and two minute talks by members. All welcome to discuss these civic topics. Elite Circle hosts pleasant gathering at Mrs Meffert’s Saxon street home with guests Mrs Chevalier and Mrs Wheeler. Next meeting with Mrs Knoulf on Argyle street.
The Coterie club met at Mrs J H Sindlinger’s Fourth Street West home to weave a comforter for St Joseph’s bazaar to be held at month’s end. Fifteen ladies attended a pleasant afternoon followed by a three course supper hosted by the hostess and her daughter Marvel. XX Club hosts Mrs S J Hall and Mrs E L Hosetler led yesterday’s gathering.
The notes recount meetings and activities of several local clubs. Needlework hosts Dorothy Wall and Kathleen Hall provide piano solos and a tea after sewing. Daughters of Isabella contest readings and city-guessing games are reported with winners. Merry Go Round Club enjoyed a social afternoon and new member Lunlam. Birthdays celebrated with a surprise visit and oyster supper. Knights of Columbus banquet aids officer installation. Philotes club featured musical numbers. Thursday Five Hundred shared a card game. Priscilla club met for sewing and lunch. A boxing motel is announced at Poultry Show in Thederal Block with a game cacks at 10 p.m.
The First Presbyterian church hosted a 400 strong reception and social for new members after a prayer meeting. Speakers included Rev. Full and George Wright, with two quartets and a vocal solo. Refreshments followed as committees and officers welcomed converts and older members in a spirited, communal evening.
The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union held a meeting in the M G C A parlors with two interesting addresses and a good attendance yesterday afternoon.
Mrs Bulkema linked alcohol to poverty in a Salvation Army talk, citing three fourths of extreme poverty cases. Hayling shared city anecdotes, praising Mrs Rutheina as speaker. A MacHachron urged cigarette law enforcement, noting employers shun smoker hires and Iowa law restricts underage smoking. Mrs H Q Douglass will depart south, with Mrs S Z Douglass elected secretary. The group donated $10 to the new Iowa City W C T U A.
George J. Gould was today re elected president of the New Orleans Pacific railroad in New Orleans Louisiana on January 13 confirming leadership of the line through the midwinter session of the board.
The body of a five year old boy found dead in a swamp on the Schenectady road last Tuesday and believed murdered was identified by relatives as George Bleber from Albany New Jersey.
Chicago January 13 State's Attorney Wayman filed a suit in circuit court for seventy thousand dollars against the Chicago and Oak Park elevated railroad for alleged failure to report the company financial status to the state railroad and warehouse commission by September 1 as required by law.
Lansing Michigan January 13 Representative Graves of Adrian introduced in the house today a tonnage tax bill fixing two rates a half cent per pound on copper ore and fifteen cents per ton on iron ore mined in the state. This is part of a broader effort to raise revenue from mineral production in Michigan. Curious Manx Custom is noted as the Isle of Man officials walk to Tynwald hill each year to promulgate laws in Manx and English.
A brief exchange plays on marriage and beauty as a witty couple banters about a future wife who remains unaware of her own beauty. The dialogue pivots on perception, expectation, and the humor of modesty versus vanity.
Dr Henry H Dole of Cedar Falls and Marian L Sampsell of New York City wed in December 1909 the union ending in divorce amid claims of cruelty and desertion The court granted the divorce after witnesses testified The notice included a Boxluz Match at Poultry Show at Peeral Mock with Game Cocks set for 10 PM
The federal commission studying the Lakes to Gulf deep waterways met in Chicago behind closed doors to discuss the report to be submitted to President Taft. The plan covers the first section from Tecport to the Mississippi River and assesses feasibility and impact.
Magnetic disturbances do not start simultaneously but progress around the globe. Abrupt disturbances with minor compass effects take about three to four minutes to complete a full circuit, while larger magnetic storms move slower and may take half an hour or more to pass around the Earth.
The article explains mythology arose from mankind’s desire to know the reasons behind phenomena. Early humans narrated stories to explain events lacking obvious causes, giving birth to myths from simple tales to the grand mythologies of Greece and Rome.
When tired out go home. When you want consolation go home. When you want to shine with unusual brillancy go home and light up the whole household. The piece urges returning home as a moral or social refuge and reflects a domestic exhortation tone.
The term derrick for a lifting machine derives from a London hangman’s mime. The name, linked to Theodoric in early plays, appears in The Bellman of London (1616). It influenced later usage for the gallows and any frame resembling it, evolving through an easy linguistic transition.
Elwood Indiana woman reports cure after taking six bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for three months of illness and pain. Doctors planned surgery. she improved after one bottle and continued the remedy. The ad promotes the product as a standard cure for female ailments and offers free confidential advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
An old ad touts Merite chocolate granules as a purely vegetable pill that regains stomach and liver balance without gripe. The copy claims reliable, certain, effective relief and promotes Henderson Drug Co as the exclusive agent.
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