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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1915
Page
9
A boy named Pete befriends a tiny goblin who leaves him a magic opal. When the goblin departs, Pete uses the opal to hear animals and to help awaken a princess trapped in a trance. He cures her by removing a poisonous thorn, earns a royal welcome, and marries the princess in a grand ceremony.
Flora Dunlap president of the Iowa equal Suffrage league told Miss Blanche Edwards in Waterloo that Iowans will support suffrage when given a vote in June 1916. She also described Roadside Settlement work in Des Moines including an employment bureau a neighborhood laundry and a weekly dance at Union Park noting Sunday meetings did not hurt attendance and youth engagement is recovering.
An ad promotes Q-Ban Hair Color Restorer claiming to darken gray hair and stimulate growth. It promises root action for natural, thorough darkening and relief from itching, dandruff, and hair loss. The product is sold at Vansey & Piétcher's Drug Store in Waterloo with mail orders available for out of town buyers.
The Waterloo council Knights and Ladies of Security will hold a big meeting at Bikes hall on Wednesday evening. A large class of candidates will be initiated as the order doubles its membership in a drive for a new building and hall. W. L. Randolph was elected financial secretary at the last meeting, with offices at 316 First National building. All members and candidates are asked to attend at 3 p.m. sharp.
Miss Zola Hosteter daughter of Mr and Mrs E L Hosteter and six college friends and teachers will tour the east by way of Detroit Buffalo Niagara Falls Toronto and the Thousand Islands on the St Lawrence to Montreal Boston and New York. They will attend a summer course at Columbia University returning late August with stops in Philadelphia Baltimore Washington Pittsburgh and Chicago. Miss Hosteter has supervised home economics at Fairfield High School for five years and will return for another year in September.
Philadelphia plans a continental tour of the Tiberty Bell for the Panama-Pacific exposition. The project will use a moving picture device operated by Lewis TR. Snow, city photographer, funded by a $1,000 ordinance from the Cone’s finance committee for the survey bureau.
The circus arrives tomorrow with Varnum and Bailey's famed show promising a grand parade at 1 o clock and a full day of acts. Highlights include a new pageant, elephants, jungle lions, and athletic feats, with ticket sales at the local Emporium and the fairgrounds doors opening at morning.
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