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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1914
Page
3
In a 1914 McClure Syndicate tale Helen hand feeds three piglets Pink Greedy and Smut, hoping they stay clean. Her father plans market for the pigs and her aunt’s visit spares them briefly. The pigs mature muddy and ordinary, teaching Helen pigs must earn their status.
An advertisement touts Stuart's Calcium Wafers as a blood cleanser for skin eruptions. It claims rapid flushing of toxins, instant effects on impurities, and a complexion improvement with a ruby red color shown beneath the skin. Sold by druggists for 60 cents a box.
The Business Men's Temperance association offers cash prizes for letters to discuss Waterloo conditions after closed saloons. Prizes: wife and mother ten dollars, daughter fourteen to eighteen five and two fifty, son fourteen to eighteen five and two fifty, under fourteen five and two fifty. All letters must be signed. names may later be public. Rewards also offered for evidence leading to conviction of bootleggers, solicitors, and druggists involved in illegal liquor sales, amounts vary from fifteen to five hundred six.
Iowa City Iowa January 22 Iowa defeated Princeton in the Intercollegiate Rifle Association tourney second round by a score of AA to 911. The Hawkeyes advance to meet California this week at Washington headquarters report.
Bureau reports from around the world describe weather forecasting as a businesslike process using ships, telegraphs, and global observations. Forecasters track storms by barometer, pressure lines, and travel times, with alerts issued for frosts and floods based on gauging stations and river heights.
Florence Dempsey travels to Dubuque to seek stenographer work and visit relatives. W C T U sets a mothers’ meeting Jan 23 with music and program at Mrs. Woodring’s. Local social events include visits, dinners, and theater. Mrs. J M Sturdevant dies in Garretson S.D. at 88. funeral in Waverly. Major entertainment ads note That Printer of Udell’s in Waterloo and the Rhoda Royal Circus at Waterloo with acts by Harris, Franklin, and Maud Chapman. Illinois Central payroll totals $94,000 for Waterloo-area workers. Indoor Winter Circus to follow.
Observations show water from tributaries and local rain caused the recent flood. Cairo residents had warning a week or ten days in advance, while the Pittsburgh district can only expect 12 to 24 hours notice due to rapid flood onset after heavy rain.
Milky test results for January show the city’s milk supply meeting high butterfat standards with improved sanitation. City Milk Inspector Wyant conducted fifty eleven tests averaging over 4.1 percent butterfat. thirty two cream samples averaged 22 percent. Suppliers listed with individual milk and cream readings include Irving dairy 4.2, Thompson 4.3, Lester 3.9, Hoover 3.7 milk and 23 cream, Purity Dairy 4.5 milk 18 cream, Iowa Dairy 5.4 milk 33 cream, Shoemaker-Van P.M. Co 8 milk 23 cream, and others.
The Majestic opens with an afternoon matinee presenting Johnny Wise, praised as a merry, lively theatrical outing with unusually universal acclaim for its engaging comedy and knockabout charm.
The piece based on the mother-in-law theme returns, pleasing the public with strong vaudeville talent. Notable cast includes high class farce players, popular comedians, capable female vocalists, dancers, and show girls, all contributing to a lively tabloid style production.
Augustus Pitou Jr presents Fiske O Hara in a new romantic comedy In Old Dublin a sparkling Irish stage romance famed for its wit patriotism and dramatic interest with vivid humor and pathos throughout.
Simple beauty guide promoting mercorized wax as a skin cleanser and wrinkle remover. Recommends whitening effects and gradual removal of damaged surface skin to reveal younger under skin. Includes recipe for a tightening wash lotion using saxolite and witch hazel.
Readers submit various home remedies for hair and skin care including a canthrax shampoo mix to promote hair growth and cleanse the scalp, a delatone paste for temporary hair removal, an eye tonic using crystal, and a quinine hair tonic. A blood purifier and tonic, a skin wrinkle remedy with almoroin and glycerine, a simple parnotis reducer for weight loss, and spurmax hazel lotion for complexion and sun protection are also described.
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