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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1911
Page
3
A syndicated column offers home remedies for glowing skin clear complexions and hair care. It promotes a sugar and alcohol tonic for blood purification, a quinine scalp rinse, weight loss potions, eye tonics and skin lotions with named ingredients and step by step use for pimples dandruff and aging skin.
Mrs John Buckholz aged 35 dies at home on West 224 Witty Street after a month with peritonitis. She leaves infant daughter Anna May, husband John, and a large family, with services to be held at home by Rev Theodore Wolfram and burial at Mount Carroll.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General DeGraw explained to a Courier reporter the upcoming parcels post limited to rural routes with five cents for the first pound and two cents for each additional up to 11 pounds. He noted its protection for small town merchants and projected significant annual earnings with wide rural use.
Electric Park opens next Monday with two nightly vaudeville shows and Sunday matinees under Western Vaudeville Managers Association. A full orchestra will accompany each show, with a separate band giving evenings concerts. The park, updated with new wiring and decor in brown, green and white, aims to be bigger and nicer than ever in Waterloo Cedar Falls North Western railway era.
Preparations are under way for the annual Y camp for bays of the ML CG A at Venturia Heights near Clear Lake. It will run Aug 22 31 with Ot tumwa boys first then Boone Marshalltown and Des Moines. Only 50 may attend, cost $10 covering all. Doubles tennis starts Monday next week at Seventh street court by the river with hustled play. The city track meet spurred athletics as Director Lee takes amateur parties to the new track Tuesdays and Fridays.
The MWA held Deco ration day services with a parade to the cemetery where readings and floral tributes honored departed members. Rev. E S Genung delivered a brief eloquent address amid hot weather as Miss Leo Scofield receives a teaching offer from Maquoketa school board.
A wedding of wide interest occurred in Raymond Iowa when Miss Eleanor Catherine Fischell and Mark Trierweiler joined in Catholic ceremony. The bride wore white marquisette. Afterward a wedding breakfast was held at the bride’s home with about thirty relatives and friends attending. The couple plans a visit to Minneapolis and St Paul before settling on the Trierweiler farm.
Three members of the Black Hawk Confectionery Co have sold to Langfeldt Candy Co and will move production to Waukegan and Chicago. J B Hungerford is not active. J E Swisher has already gone to Chicago to run the factory. A H Short will follow soon. The new firm will be the Swisher Short Co, planning to dedicate a factory to a new line of goods.
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