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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1913
Page
3
A Waterloo realty dealer toured the eastern part of the state visiting Olathe in preparation for a busy two week period as season activities ramp up.
Spokane Washington public school teachers who smoke are targeted by the Spokane W C T U which asks the education board to hire no teachers who use tobacco and to offer current smokers the choice of reform or leaving their jobs at a public hearing supporters claim some principals smoke in public and that mothers trying to curb the habit are met with resistance the Rev J O Johnson says teachers who smoke cannot credibly teach about the harms of nicotine under state law.
The funeral for Arg Parton will be held Friday at the Congregational church in Cedar Falls. The service will be led by Rev. Holmes with Rev. Snowden assisting, followed by interment in Fairview cemetery.
The junior-senior reception will be held Saturday evening at the high school building. A lavish banquet heads the program with Selliger's orchestra providing music. Flowers will decorate and frappe will be served from a tea room. The farce The Bachelor's and Widow's Dream rounds out the program.
An article quotes Dr Rupert Mackenzie advising removal of worn complexion using mercorized wax applied nightly and washed off with soap. It claims an ounce of wax yields a youthful skin in one to two weeks. It also notes a remedy for wrinkles using saxoline in witch hazel for facial bathing with rapid effects.
Cedar Falls officials Councilmen Wyeth Wilimek and Doak plus City Engineer Streeter visited Vinton to study its electric lighting plant. The trip by auto yielded the plant’s solid performance and pointers for Cedar Falls new municipal plant details. A second note says college champions The Philos and Aristos will contest the baseball championship Thursday at College field at 2 30 PM with Philos aiming to defend their unbeaten record.
A playful poem describes a poet strolling through a sunlit park hearing a lark and admiring blooms. He envisions each bud as a personal wish, then sits to paint but ruins a ten dollar suit in Louisville.
Local papers protest the Iroquois bakers for selling 22 gram loaves at two and a half cents and allegedly using sea water in their bakeries, prompting calls for investigation and reform.
A. B. Hallowell, a Fourth Street West real estate dealer, reports from eastern Kansas that farmers statewide enjoy unusual prosperity. Alfalfa is nearly all cut and timothy and clover will be in the barn within a week, while wheat heads and harvest are under way.
Mrs. Kate Thompson Keltner failed to prove a common law marriage with W. B. Keltner and seek alimony. Judge DeGraff ruled her prior marriage to William Thompson, Pekin Illinois, at the start of cohabitation, barred the claim and found no basis to annul or separate maintenance. She had alleged cruelty and infidelity, including an assault and another intimate partner.
The weekly prayer service of Trace M. B. Church will begin promptly at 7 30 this evening to accommodate friends attending East High School graduation exercises. The service will be brief to fit the program.
Catholic Order of Foresters estate officers issue circulars to delegates for the twelfth annual convention to be held in the city on June 10. An Exalted Degree exemplification occurs Monday at Eagle's hall with Breda degree team directing. Headquarters are at Billig hotel while sessions convene at Our Lady of Victory academy. Local courts St. Joseph's and St. Mary's prepare entertainment for visitors.
A survey of editorials denounces Friedmanns cure as a commercial scheme. Critics from Topeka and Pittsburgh condemn the license handling and cold profiteering, while New York and Baltimore outlets note self interest and warn buyers. Some papers call him a humbug and fear patent medicine fate.
The Scranton Republican urges a fraud order halting mail related to a business after alleging the editor’s deceit. The American Medical Association critiques editors for their handling of the issue, praising some indirect benefits to teachers and pupils amid controversy.
The United States Bureau of Education reports that 141 municipalities ran vacation schools in 1912 and more may join in the current year. Programs run five days a week, six in some cities, with term lengths of six to ten weeks. Total 1912 appropriations exceed $300,000 as they contribute to keeping children off streets and boosting year round schooling. Newark leads with longstanding all year elementary schools begun in 1912 under Supt. Poland.
An ad extols daily bathing as essential to health and links cleanliness to well being. It claims Jap Rose bubble bath soap plus its delicate fragrance provides lasting freshness and notes it sells for 10 cents at many merchants.
Waterloo readers urged to use the German remedy Adler-i-ka for appendicitis and digestive troubles. A single dose is claimed to relieve gas and constipation by drawing out old foul matter, as advertised by Wangler Bros. druggists at 229 East Fourth Street.
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