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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1915
Page
2
Des Moines reports Senator A B Cummins told Highlands Park college graduates that citizens must shoulder political responsibility, denouncing indifference and urging youth to participate in shaping government. The speech warned that criticizing government without action demeans voters and threatens free institutions.
Dr John North of Toletto argues starvation and calcium deficiency drive tuberculosis. He promotes Eckman’s Alterative, claiming calcium lime aids absorption with proper diet and hygienic living conditions. He stresses the remedy contains no opiates or habit forming drugs and is safe to try. Eckman Laboratory, Philadelphia.
Earl W. Lindsay, aviator, convicted of criminal assault on one-year-old Grace Hopkins at Golfax, is denied a pardon by Governor Clarence after parole board recommendation. Lindsay, indicted in 1908, twice ruled guilty by juries, with supreme court upholding verdicts in 1913. He sought more flights to support his mother while jailed.
Council Bluffs reports Henry Gerber, a South Main Street saloonist, narrowly escaped a deadly attack after his nose was bitten off by a man Gerber refused service for already being intoxicated. The incident follows Gerber’s attempt to reopen and his recent escape from the confrontation.
Promotional note claims Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap relieve babies itching skin and skin troubles such as eczema rash and chafing. It states products stop itching instantly and heal quickly with 20 years of doctors' prescriptions, mentioning samples and multiple misspelled variants.
After a three week siege with surgeons, a man received a serious injury including a flesh wound to the arm and a grazed nose with a portion of the nose cut away. While a call was placed to police, he was attacked again, and the assailant fled the city. The victim’s face bears lasting damage as doctors expected.
Sheriff Henderson weighs a proposed plan to channel inmate unrest into order and morale. Inmates, numbering about fifteen, are described as well dressed and capable, with access to a grand county hall where they sing. A morning program featured southern tunes with an afternoon continuation planned.
A mixed national group of singers performs popular songs in a county courthouse, drawing admiring crowds as Sheriff plans to feature them in vaudeville for weeks. The ensemble contains Melban, Schimann-Holuks, Carusos, and Landers, with a refined ear noting improving harmony.
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