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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1913
Page
3
The piece argues that residents’ opinions on street usefulness determine land values in cities. It highlights Somers System methods to quantify street accessibility, fix a standard unit, and reconcile varied local judgments. It notes that value hinges on street frontages, corner effects, and overall accessibility, aiming to improve city land valuations.
New York reports Dr. George G. Rambaud announces the Friedmann treatment for tuberculosis. The vaccine uses a live virulent TB bacilli emulsion grown on culture media and administered intravenously for joints or intramuscularly for lung disease. Physicians in good standing may learn the administration details at laboratories.
An old advertisement for Wakefield’s Blackberry Balsam claims quick relief from diarrhoea dysentery cholera infantum and other bowel troubles without constipation. It states no opium or habit forming drugs and urges acceptance of Wakefield’s. The offer mentions 3 bottles for 81.00 and asserts availability everywhere.
Miss Mary L. Jobe, history professor from New York, will visit the Athabascan or carrier tribe along the Skeena and Peace rivers to study their language, traditions, and ceremonies. She plans a 400 mile hike over Indian trails north and west of Edmonton, lasting about ten weeks with two Indian guides.
The traveler will traverse a route into largely unmapped northern British Columbia and southern Alaska. The journey promises remote landscapes, limited settlements, and potential encounters with rugged geography.
Andrew Thompson arrives from California to visit sister Mrs Andrews and grandsons Francis Arthur and Paul Simpson for the Waterloo gathering. He had just attended the Lancaster Wis funeral of his grandniece Misa Helen Godfrey, drowned with two companions and her father's partner in medicine.
Pure Food Inspector Chris Ottosen announced the arrest of F. H. Brennecke at Sumner on a charge of selling impure meat. The claim states Brennecke bought a steer fattened for market but unfit for shipment due to disease.
An advertisement warns that rheumatism can settle in the heart and disturb valvular action. It promotes Foley Kidney Pills to tone kidneys and purify blood, preventing poisons and uric acid crystals linked to rheumatic symptoms. Sold by all druggists.
Independence Indiana notes this week record the funerals of two former citizens, Donald L. O'Brien and E. A. Sheldon, with brief biographical lines on their city service and business roles. Also featured are a gifted singer Miss Ethel Jones returning from Chicago and Lima, Ohio, recitals, plus social arrivals, local visits to Waterloo, a gas plant project, and a fishing contest won by Joe Limbert.
Word arrives that Ensign Earnest W McKee, of the navy, residing in this city, has been promoted to lieutenant. Chautauqua closed Thursday evening with a gala time. An advertisement touts Cham berlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as a cure for dysentery praised by Mrs William Orvis of Clare, Mich.
Edmonton dispatch reports dangerous Rocky Mountain passes are used to smuggle Chinese from British Columbia into Washington Idaho and Montana. A. T. Lunney of Washington immigration says smugglers use wild routes to avoid customs and land Orientals near remote rail stations for per head prices. The traffic once flourished then waned but has revived, increasing arrivals.
Vermin plagued homes can end quickly with Stearns Electric Rat and Roach Paste, the trusted remedy for thirty five years. Kills rats mice and cockroaches in a single night without blowing away like powders. Ready to use with no mixing, money back guarantee if it fails. Sold by druggists 25 cents or one dollar prepaid from Stearns Electric Paste Co Chicago IL.
In Waterloo, several property transfers are recorded including Kate I Ashe to John F Ashe parcels in North Waterloo Place blocks 14-87-12 and 12-87-13 valued at 81 dollars. W C Kohl to C E Frederick. D M Balliett to A J Reber lot 5/1 block 18 1st addition Grand View and part of lot 4 Does addition Place Waterloo valued at 6 000 dollars.
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