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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1913
Page
11
Postmaster General Burleson released a statement detailing measures to speed mail delivery and curb waste. He notes added staff, temporary hires funded by emergency appropriations, backstamping stopped to save time, and parcel post improvements aimed at efficiency and uniform practices nationwide.
Paris, June 7. Alexis Savaroff, a Russian magnate, divides his day between fashion and a paper hanging job. Earning about $12 weekly, he arrives by automobile, dons overalls, and works as a foreman for a St. Petersburg interior decorating firm. After the whistle at day’s end he resumes a life of social prominence.
A health note urges slower eating to prevent indigestion and constipation. It recommends Thorough chewing and salivation, then using Chamberlain's Tablets when full or dull after meals. The ad claims many stomach troubles and constipation are cured by these tablets sold by all dealers.
Local notes from Linden report visits and illnesses including Louella Chapman pneumonia recovery and Fern Evans at L. C. Lowe. births at A Andreassen home. travel to Clinton and western states. street grading on Colorado hinders boarding cars. several residents improving. Children's Day moved to June 15. Wm Daisy visiting Michigan. Foley Kidney Pills ad highlights Florence Oregon resident praising results.
Waterloo theatre offers Out of the Fold for last days with strong reviews and a full house. Monday to Wednesday bring The Girl Up Stairs a new farce expected to set records with 10 cent seats. Electric Park opening next Monday promises a major vaudeville bill headlined by Lawrence Crane & Co with other notable acts.
Paris June 7. Alexandre Ribot and Leon Bourgeois warn that alcoholism tuberculosis and poor hygiene threaten France. They cite tuberculosis death rates higher than England and Germany and urge government action to combat rising mortality and national inertia.
Indianapolis reports C M Berkley of Waterloo bought the entire hand bell stock to be carried in the Town Criers parade. The party dined at the Commercial Club with La Rue orchestra providing music. Photographs were taken at Circle Place for the American Publishers' association as noted city scenes and local sightseeing are described.
The text describes a journey to Dayton during entertainment, mentions weakened binders from a flood, and promotes Charbel ointment for rheumatism with claims of quick pain relief. It reads as a distressed promotional fragment from a late 19th or early 20th century page.
Effective Sunday June 8 new schedules apply on Waverly La Porte City lines. Waterloo departs for Waverly at 6 30 am 8 20 am 10 38 am 12 16 noon 2 30 pm and 7 06 pm with return times listed. Waterloo to La Porte City departures include 7 00 am 9 10 am 1 08 pm 2 50 pm 4 11 pm. New tables available by application to Wat Fo & N agents. Also a public notice states a wife has left and husband will not assume her debts.
Local figure J M Nelson longtime editor of the Marble Rock Journal and former Floyd County recorder died in Rochester Minnesota Friday afternoon after hospitalization and pneumonia. Survived by widow and two sons Frank and George. brother George Nelson in Texas attended the vigil. Nelson served Marble Rocks for about thirty years and was active in politics and public service.
No person should hesitate to take Foley Kidney Pills as marketed by Foley & Co. They are guaranteed to be a pure curative medicine for kidney and bladder ailments and irregularities. They do not contain habit forming drugs. Try them. For sale by all druggists.
The senate confirmed a list of postmasters including M. Finnell of Algona, Kasper Fak tinson, Thomas M. Fitzgerald, Charles Guy, Leroy H. Lyon, Edward J. Mitchell, John J. Donahoe, R. Price, Indianola, Lloyd Crow Mapleton, Walter Rae Mangena, George C. Bonth Prescott, Edward E. Swank, George M. Watermann, and William Wallace Finn Wes Iny.
A Farnham New York letter from the Sisters of St Mary testifies that Father John’s Medicine cured their coughs after other remedies failed. The ad touts its nourishing formula, non alcoholic prescription nature, and 60 years of spring success, urging orders via Carleton Hovey Company Lowell Massachusetts with one dollar for a large bottle.
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