This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 5 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1913
Page
11
An advertisement promotes a two for one deal on the Waterloo Evening Courier at 3.20 dollars for farmers and breeders weekly. It markets the paper as Northwest farm and stock weekly with practical content by expert farmers. Readers are urged to renew and recruit neighbors with mail to different addresses offered.
The Iowa Good Roads association and the Iowa State Automobile association unite in Des Moines to push road improvement laws. A joint legislative committee will solicit voluntary subscriptions to fund the campaign with officers named to lead the effort and resolutions urging bond issues, a permanent highway commission, rural highway classification, a 1 mill state tax, and codification of road laws.
New York reports Charlies W. Morse acknowledged in testimony that he is not financially responsible and suggested creditors push him toward bankruptcy. Morse, a former banker pardoned by President Taft after serving two years of a fifteen year banking crime sentence, spoke to London lawyer A. Levings Whately who is examining him in a suit by Abel J. Culver against Peter McCarthy. Culver seeks a $100,000 fee for aiding Morse and McCarthy to regain control of Hudson Navigation after the 1907 panic. Morse added he has taken no penal bankruptcy action.
Washington D C January 23 bitter opposition to a bill for a 2 000 000 Lincoln memorial is expected when the house takes up the measure Wednesday The Senate has passed the bill proposing a statue and temple on the mall near the Washington monument Opponents favor a memorial highway from Washington to Gettysburg Richard Watrous American Civic Association secretary sent thousands of letters to members urging action
Franklin Platt, executor and residuary legatee, sues unknown claimants over multiple parcels in Section 6 and surrounding lots in Townships 88 and 88, seeking to quiet title and bar adverse claims after tax sales. The action, filed in Waterloo, Iowa, notifies all unknown defendants to appear by Feb 17, 1942, or risk default. The notice is published in Waterloo Evening Courier.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.