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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1912
Page
1
Mrs Artilea Judd advertises a new chiropractic method for relief from acute and chronic conditions. Simple, effective, and painless adjustments are claimed to be free of CAMS annotations. Office hours listed as 1 to 11 and 2 to 4, at 406 Wellington Street, phone 1857 Black.
A Waterloo agency reiterates it is the sole distributor for Merital Pile Remedy in the city. The firm boasts strong success from the product and offers to recommend and guarantee every package sold.
Waterloo defeated Shell Rock 12 to 4 as Waterlooians pounded pitching with strong hitting. Brackenbush led Independents with four hits while Wagner, Robison, Pustier and Boyer also rocked the ball. Waterloos started early and never let up, forcing Shell Rock to chase throughout the game.
Louisville, Ky June 19. Jack Tighe, manager of the Louisville American Association team, resigned yesterday after arriving from Seattle this season. Right fielder Jack Hayden was named manager, though he is sidelined with a dislocated shoulder but expected to return in about a week. Tighe cited owners' demand for a winning team as a reason.
The Y M C A and Engravers of the Jobbers league played a fast clean game at Prospect Park on Saturday afternoon before a large crowd. The Y M C A scored three to one, changing their standings in the percentage column.
Results from yesterday include Denver over Des Moines six to two in the Western League, Wichita and St Joseph tied four to four, Topeka and Sioux City postponed by rain, and Lincoln Omaha listed in American League action. Other notes cover Detroit's win over Washington and Chicago's 2 to 1 victory over New York, plus a slate of American Association and Central Association games with varying scores and pairings.
Scores from multiple leagues including National League games in Boston New York Brooklyn Philadelphia St. Louis and Louisville Kansas City. Central Association results show Dalesburg Galesburg Muscatine Keokuk Monmouth Keokuk Burlington Hannibal Ottumwa and other matchups. Local Sunday school league teams from Central Church of Christ and First Baptist clash tomorrow on Fifth Street Mullinond.
The American team selection committee will meet in New York to pick sixty leaders for Stockholm after a weekend surge of marks across the east west and Pacific coast. Mathew Halpin says the team is the best ever and ready to be invincible. Standout performances include Linberg 400m Kiviat and Patterson 1500m Kramer 10,000m Wright vault 13 feet 4.5 inches Horine high jump 6 feet 1 inch Duncan discus.
Captain M C Mumma reports Iowa national enardsmen chosen for the Olympic team received word from Annapolis that Sergeant John BE Jackson of company D Fifty-fourth Iowa broke the world rifle record. He scored eighty-five points in each division of the Olympic course, totaling 340 of 249, a mark rifle experts say has never been equaled.
The Waterloo Red Sox opened the season at Parkersburg and fell 1 to 0 in a pitchers duel. Six new players joined the lineup as Bradley started on the mound but tired by the sixth inning. Sadler struck out fourteen as Parkersburg earned two earned runs while Red Sox aim to stay together for the long season.
Chicago June 10 Frank Leroy Chance leader of the Chicago National League team in four league championships and world champions is expected to retire from baseball. Friends expect a permanent retirement while Chance seeks to discuss immediate retirement with club owner Charles W Murphy in New York.
The text describes a Cleveland style page about a Cincinnati game head blow causing ongoing discomfort to a player named Chance. He misses games, works out in Boston, and appeals to President Murphy to relocate east. His wife joins him in New York while Chance contemplates quitting, with owner Murphy hoping the illness passes and not naming a successor. Chance plans to focus on his California fruit lands.
On Saturday Johnson pitched a no-hit game in Bloomington, facing 29 batters with three errors granting baserunners. The Dashers defeated Hum boldt 4 to 2 in a 19 inning Rutland, Ta. game featuring Coffin’s dominant 32 strikeouts. The box scores note Lysle Spurs at Duluth and Washington’s defeat of the White Sox.
The Dutch Levies defeated North Waterloo 14 to 13 in a Saturday amateur game played on the ground between the tracks at Mullan avenue west. Heavy hitting marked the contest with inning by inning scoring details confirming the close finish.
June 8 Greene Greete column reports visits by Kather Sheehy and Mrs. Carrie Leesbe from Nashua, Annis Squires' Waterloo trip, the Rodgers' Independence visit, Nettleton resuming work, Eva McCosh vacationing at Frank Bush home, and a birth to Dr. and Mrs. M. Wilson. Local moves include Camp and wife into Maude Curtis house, Rosberg family into Reynolds laundry quarters, and the Blasters on a Cedar Rapids Colfax trip for health.
An advertisement touts Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a liver and bowel aid to banish dark brown taste and bad breath. It claims thousands use them nightly to stay regular, with vegetarian compounds and olive oil, priced 10 and 25 cents per box from the Olive Tablet Company in Columbus.
An advice style notice promotes Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy claiming it restores natural hair color, removes dandruff, and stops hair loss with a money back guarantee. The ad cites common garden sage and sulphur as ingredients and directs readers to buy at drug stores for fifty cents a bottle from H. W. Taggart, 537 Commercial Street.
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