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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1912
Page
4
Fort Dodge Iowa July 8 special reports a guardian appointed for 69 year old philanthropist Father Coffin who seeks to insure his work by adopting writer Mrs Fleth Murray of Chicago now in Los Angeles. The guardianship could affect notes to small colleges and involves Coffin’s daughter Carrie Contin Rutledge seeking to block the plan.
Report notes M Mep simy proposes a draft law granting a bonus to mothers for every child beyond the third, with options for a lump sum, an annuity, or a portion to an annuity. Details outline eligibility by age and birth count, with an example of eight children between ages 20 and 31. Paris society recoils at fashionable Apache balls and dancing halls, where brigandish etiquette supposedly flourishes under the same social spotlight.
Wireless messages from the Point Arguello naval station report the City of Panama drifting with disabled machinery several miles southwest of the coast. The ship was said to be six miles off Point Sur and moving northward under steam, with aid requested as a rescue effort was coordinated.
New York heiress Ava Gilbert, heir to her grandfather Gilbert’s estate, searches for a suitable husband. Candidates include Ansel Duke and Jack Farcaveh, among others. Renshaw, a Troy Polytechnic graduate, is noted in speculation as a possible suitor, with ties to notable families through lineage.
Frank Cody of Waterlon Evansville Indiana died after a collision during the Nutwood mile track professional motorcycle races in Dubuque Iowa. He was thrown from his bike and run over by another machine. internal injuries and a base skull fracture were the cause of death. Cody had predicted he would beat Harry Yonkers and his death shocked friends and family. funds were raised to send his body to Evansville.
The report describes Cody attempting to squeeze past leader Meisel on a muddy track. Cody's machine interlocked with Meisel's, swerved, and rolled over as Meisel's bike struck him. Yonkers and Hitchcock avoided the wreck by veering into a muddy section as the crowd predicted accidents due to high speed and difficult handling.
Burlington reports pitcher Ralph Bell of the Incr club has been sold to the Chicago White Sox for 8400. Catcher Grimm joins St Joseph and catcher Marrington with Waterloo last 'aave'on signed. Pitcher iMunk, who fell from a hotel window Friday, is not expected to recover.
In Trenton New Jersey on July 2 Vice Chancellor Stevens filed in chancery court that Norman D. Wooker and others sue the executor and heirs of Henry Havemeyer over $109,000 worth of stock in the National Sugar Refining Company issued without consideration.
Davenport Tas July 8 reports Charles Woomert a Princeton team member was struck in the head yesterday and is believed dying today.
More than 10,000 educators attended the fifteenth annual NEA convention as progressives push to move meetings to winter and switch from summer to winter sessions. Carroll G. Pearse of Milwaukee opened with an address outlining expected battles with opponents over dates and structure for the association’s future.
A Waterloo district court docket details Charles Cotter barred from operating a place for prostitution or immorality and enjoined from allowing premises to be used for immorality while related cases proceed. Judge Franklin C. Platt also grants temporary alimony of 25 dollars monthly to Johanna Shea and advances 25 dollars for clothing, with further orders pending.
The Daily Hint from Faris notes how courier want ads streamline errands by consolidating tasks. It highlights time saved and efficiency gains for readers seeking quick, practical classifieds.
Goethe notes that men focus on action and work while women, tied to family life, oversee interdependence. Women’s destiny in families rests on promoting balance and harmony, reflecting an enduring division of social roles.
Tiberius Gucchua asks if property, race, and origin determine patriotism. He questions whether a man lacking fighting ability is useless, whether a citizen is inferior to a slave, and whether an alien or landowner is the true patriot, challenging inclusive citizenship.
Mrs. Carolyn Bellingham Sibert, active Westminster Presbyterian Church member and Woman's Auxiliary worker, died Sunday night at 11 after a brief illness at 228 Randolph Street Waterloo Iowa. Born August 19 1879 near Sauk Center Minnesota she lived in Waterloo since childhood and leaves husband W Sibert and six year old son Robert. Survived by mother Mrs Robert Bele Ingham of Los Angeles sisters Dorothy and Edna and married sisters Mrs S A Asquith of Waterloo and Mrs A M Lichty of Long Beach California. Funeral arrangements pending with services planned Wednesday at 2 pm at Westminster Presbyterian Church conducted by Rev Wer Sandford. Burial details unclear from fragment.
A major naval war game will begin July 7 involving torpedo boat and submarine flotillas with a manoeuvre linking Benton's Reef Lightship Montauk Point and No Man's battleships. Rear Admiral Hugo Osterhaus aboard the flagship Connecticut leads the exercise with Rear Admirals Ward Winslow and Commander Wherle commanding divisions and flotillas.
La Crosse citizen R J Ewe aged 45 2 retired merchant from La Crosse Wis died in Davenport Ia after a party of friends came to attend the Mississippi Valley Power Boat association regatta He was removed from his house boat Vida when stricken and died shortly after in a hospital
The Iowa State shoot under the Iowa State Sportsmen's association will take place in Fort Dodge on July 9 10 and 11. Fort Dodge Gun club manages the event with ten events daily and fifteen targets per event. The Squier money back system will be used and the fund is estimated at 1062.80 dollars.
Prices on the stock exchange at the close today include Canadian Pacific Reading Rock Island Northwestern and Atchison listed among active listings in Marne New York stocks. The fragmented text notes various figures and halts but lacks full data for precise values.
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