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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1913
Page
10
J C Wildhagen of Pleasant Avenue grows all kinds of produce for sale at the public market and stores. His sweet corn sold well today at 15 cents a dozen, bringing $7.50 from fifty dozen. He expected 200 more dozen soon at 12 cents a dozen, worth $24. Market and weather notes follow, plus a brief omen discussion and a stomach remedy advertisement.
Reported meteorite trail visible across multiple towns Monday at 8 03 PM drew reader notices in local papers. In Eagle Grove spectators speculated on ominous letters in the zigzag light while a silvery cloud lingered about an hour before fading into the sky.
Capt John Hess new officer in charge asks city residents to phone between 7 and 9 in the morning to arrange pickup of spare clothing. He will come to collect it for distribution to the needy.
Fayette County Iowa adopts new road law to fund a $35,000 year tax. The board hires an engineer and partners with the state highway commission to run two county grading crews and a planned third private crew plus two county tractors. Forty miles of roads will be graded drained and bridged to standard.
Mia Orvis of Clare Michigan writes that her little girl suffered severe dysentery but Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy cured her. She declares it the best medicine in the world and notes it is sold by all dealers.
A gentle rain began at 7:15 last evening and lasted through the night, soaking the soil and boosting late potatoes, corn, and pastures. Rainfall near Ralph B. Slippy’s weather station measured .83 inch with no wind or disturbances. General rainfall reported across Iowa, heavier in the north and east, delaying trains near Albert Lea. Corn prospects cited as very promising, drought effects largely absent except on the sandiest soils. Hay yields were strong due to May rains. oats harvest fair, slightly below average.
Frank A. Ferguson, head of the Young People's Christian Union reception committee, predicts Waterloo will become the Midwest’s premier convention city once the Russell-Lamson hotel at Commercial and Fifth streets is completed. He notes visitors from Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa and beyond come to admire Waterloo’s boosterism and municipal promotion, while the convention will not be commercialized.
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