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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1913
Page
10
San Francisco June 18. This photo shows the Service building, first finished among the fourteen main exhibit palaces planned for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. It is the headquarters for construction and architecture as crews prepare landscape work and plantings across the grounds for a semi tropical setting by July 1914.
Chicago market reports show wheat gains amid showers with July and September prices mixed. Corn and hog values firming. cattle market opens steady then eases. New York and St. Louis closes list July and September wheat and corn prices. Waterloo Flour and Grain reports steady business. An evangelist in Atchison earned 1700 for two weeks, with 695 conversions noted. Editor quip ends column.
A four year old son of Mr and Mrs Emil Andrist 284 Nowell Street was seriously injured last evening after a bicycle struck him on the sidewalk and the rider fled. The child's leg is badly swollen and he was taken to a physician's office as police pursue the rider and push a crackdown on walking bicycles.
Detroit June 18 special report on the Waterloo Town Criers club touring cities. The ladies recall meetings with old friends in Chicago Indianapolis Washington Baltimore and New York City. Cupid jokes and social honors mark their journey with much praise for Waterloo's hospitality and charm.
The speaker notes a change in how people answer the divine call, suggesting that in contemporary times few Isaiahs remain and that men increasingly defer to their wives when asked to serve. The quote attributed to Woltman frames the reflection on gender roles in religious vocation.
The ladies of Waterloo and vicinity are invited to inspect one of the largest and finest exhibitions of Oriental Carpets and Rugs beginning Thursday on the third floor of Paul Davis Dry Goods Company.
In hot weather local boys refrain from running a trail for bloodhounds. Earl Yordy reports that boys won’t move for less than a quarter, forming a barefoot youth union. Deputy Sheriff O Blenns has taken over treks as the heat drops interest in manhunts.
George Risk of Aurora and George Rolph of Cuba Wis are in the city on business. Knights of Pythias Helmet Lodge 89 to hold memorial services next Sunday at 7:39 pm at the K of P hall with ritualistic services. Brother B F Swisher to deliver the memorial address. John Mulkern an engineer on the Illinois Central retires to his home after a vacation in Chicago and the East. I W Virden and family visiting relatives will visit Chalksville before returning to Grinnell. Excavation for Harvey Deans new Logan Avenue home started yesterday. The eight room modern residence will cost 3000 dollars. A motorcycle collided with a horse and buggy on Fourth Street West yesterday. no party was injured. Rev L F P Smith, Waterloo pastor of Evangelical church at Waverly, begins a four month tour of Europe to attend the international Sunday school convention and visit saints on the continent.
F E Pettit of Philadelphia interviewed Waterloo and Cedar Falls officials on a national push to establish playgrounds under public schools. Supt Hukill doubts summer launch. the district will gauge public demand while the school board plans action.
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