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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1910
Page
1
An old advertisement touts Kilmer's Swamp Root as the great kidney and bladder remedy. It claims to restore health quickly, ease distress, and warns to avoid imitations. Sample bottles and mail offers are included, with a notice to mention the paper when contacting the company.
A busy sporting bulletin notes a Frank Gotch versus Pr Becker match planned for St Joseph on March 7 and remarks on Dr Becker’s rise. Springfield's Dick Kinsella lists 54 reserve players while Dubuque hosts a baseball fair seen as a major season event. Danville signs Tom Asmussen and three new players McCarthy adds Belgram Lane and Otto Burns, with Burns optimistic about a winning Danville squad.
St Louis January 28 report on Batting Nelson and manager John R Robinson wrestling with film rights for Nelson Wolgast title bout on Washington's birthday. Six film sets show Nelson winning, but public appetite shifts to fights where Nelson is knocked down. Negotiations pivot to stock deal and potential profits, with San Francisco trip ahead and Kansas City stop.
M E Harris, representing M W Savage of Minneapolis, promotes a $75,000 futurity for 1810 four year old horses in Waterloo. The event will split $37,500 to trotters and pacers, with a $10 nomination fee and $200 due the night before each start. A 2,500 nomination target is set to begin the futurity.
Charley invites readers to Ellis hall this week for warm meals hot style and polar ice cream to ease the cold. A sisters' hospital benefit features Myers Orchestra and other attractions to draw crowds and support the cause.
Wrestling fans recall Walter Miller who was badly hurt in Minneapolis when Adamson used head-batting and a shoulder pin. Miller, though stunned, insisted on continuing the match. officials warned him off during intermission but he vowed to wrestle again. The article notes the Welterweight title remains with Miller despite the defeat, and includes a medical ad urging early Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy use for colds.
North Waterloo and Railroads notes list Ralph Piper's Chicago visit and residents traveling to Florida. Du buque promotes Buster Coolan to yard master. John Moss dies in Osage. Several railroad men change posts, resignations occur, and a near wreck on Engine 2033 prompts repairs. Snow plow work and roundhouse motor failure are reported along with personnel changes at Illinois Central and local meat market purchases. General Manager Ewing and Supt.
A vintage styled ad extols Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey as the fastest remedy for colds and coughs. It claims to attack the cause by killing germs, reducing mucus, and using pine tar sassafras thubarb honey with no habit forming drugs. Manufactured by E. E. Sutherland for twenty years with Granny Metcalfe trademark.
Machinery official R. W. Bell returned last night from a trip over the western lines of the company and left in their private car on train No. 2 for Chicago.
A Guadalajara letter reports American conductor Cook destitute in prison. He endures severe confinement with ragged clothing and scant food, saved only by a Chinese hotel keeper who provides meals as Cook falls several months behind on payments.
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