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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1913
Page
3
New York reports fall fashion featuring high openings above the knee in skirts, leopard skin coats, and dramatic trims. Designers showcase vaguer silhouettes with bold accessories, including feathered headpieces and versatile trains for evening wear.
Fire swept Siegel grocery stored in the basement at Union and Sycamore streets at 4 30 this morning. A cigar stub left on the counter before closing is blamed for the blaze. Firefighters found the interior a boiling furnace and fought to reach the water source. Insurance partially covers the damage.
Waterloo Canning Company installs thirty new husking machines at a total cost of $10 000. The equipment eliminates hand husking, improves sanitation with running water washings, and feeds corn to automatic curing machinery. To house the new gear, old sheds are rebuilt, upgrading the plant to midwest standards.
Police swept into the Merriman street area known as Smoky Row early Wednesday, forcing a long police court session. Judge Myers sentenced several black residents to 30 days in jail or $100 fines for disorderly houses, while others faced city charges and state accusations of keep ing houses of ill fame and prostitution.
A Clinton court settlement over M B A lodge rates confirms the thirteenth assessment was illegal and funds collected must be returned to a special reserve for transferred members. The court did not rule on rates, leaving that issue to the 1915 supreme convention while stipulations allow insurgents to debate rates and management in Modern Brotherhood columns. District conventions for delegates occur on the same date.
A Waterloo party headed by Mr. and Mrs. H G Rogers with Mrs Rogers's mother W A Bowen and George De Long joined a Dubuque Pythian lodge outing on the steam yacht Sydney. They traveled by auto at 430 in the morning to Dubuque and then steamed to Casaville Wisconsin for a river trip.
An unidentified plant in the Petersen Bros office at 321 Fourth Street West has grown to three feet in three weeks. The plant called speckled snakeitus originated from 221 Fourth Street cellar, previously sluggish but now rapidly rising toward the ceiling with a serpentine stem and symmetrical leaves, bent daily to face the sun.
Chicago and Des Moines report corn prices easing on selling amid rain and cooler weather. Wheat and oats follow grains. hogs weaker. pork, lard, and ribs prices cited. Sheep market opens weak with varied native and Western lamb values. cattle and hog receipts listed. St. Louis and Minneapolis closes show mixed grain futures and hog estimates.
Market listing shows No 2 red new 86 87 No 3 red new 854 864 No 4 red new 82 with $5 value.
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