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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1911
Page
11
The hog market closed weak with early declines and 10 cents lower than yesterday amid mixed demand for early sales. Butter and eggs face shifts in Chicago and Waterloo markets with butter down several cents and eggs up, while local grocers promise steady dairy quality despite large storage supplies and price swings.
Chicago docket recounts packers asking to quash indictments as immunity from prosecution, granted by Judge Humphrey in 1906, is cited to block current charges under the Sherman anti trust law. Proceedings set for next week before Judge Carpenter and a panel of packers led by Louis Swift.
The article notes a revival of the crossroads dance in Owensville, Indiana, after twenty-five years. The return includes the fiddle tunes like Mohawk and Arkansas Traveler, a restoration of the caller instructions, and a social-memory of rural communities where the fiddle and open-air dances were once central. If revived, southern Indiana may share in renewed community gatherings and nostalgia for the old dance era.
Madison Wisconsin January 20 Senator Isaac Stephenson faces a push to authorize a U S senate investigation into his election State Senator Paul Hastings introduced a joint resolution in the Wisconsin Senate urging inquiry into bribery fraud and violation of the corrupt practices law connected with Stephenson's election The measure defers action to next Tuesday and calls for certified testimony and filings to the U S Senate with prosecutions urged for violators including perjury in the Wisconsin campaign
James Graham W R Jameson and J S S Puthill of Waterloo led guest of honor at a monster banquet in the Cedar Rapids city auditorium hosted by the Business Men's Temperance organization. About 600 prizes were awarded as Iowa cities sent attendees and several speeches urged opposition to saloons. Cedar Rapids saloon proponents claim a petition has 35 names more than sufficient, while local temperance leaders say their group is well organized to defeat the petition.
In Flankinsville a New England village becomes famous for a blackberry season frenzy. A Philadelphia visitor creates blackberry champagne, and several townspeople rush to harvest berries, press wine, and profit, sparking a boom that ends when the joke proves thin and locals stay alive out of sheer laziness.
Water loo sanitary inspector W E Jennish urges the Iowa Mister Plumbers association to back a state licensing law for plumbers. He cites health risks from unregulated work and endorses a universal plumbing code while noting Iowa lacks one and other states have varied requirements. He emphasizes inspection protects public health and helps honest plumbers compete.
New York on January 20 Carnegie announced a gift of ten million dollars to the endowment fund of the Carnegie Institute of Research in Washington. This brings his total endowments to the institution to twenty five million dollars.
Joe Hackett aged 18 died after reportedly drinking carbolic acid near Sigourney Iowa. Friends say accident though family hints at possible self harm. his father died by suicide about a year earlier. Exgs 20 cents dozen at C I Eigh midy’s.
Survivors of the freighter Parisiana, burned December 48, reached Aulxing on a British transport. They fought the blaze for four days and abandoned ship forty miles off St. Paul Island. After three weeks on the island their signals drew the transport to rescue them.
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