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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1918
Page
5
The Cedar Falls wedding will unite Frank E. Birch and Miss Margaret Johnson in St Charles Minnesota. Birch, known in athletic circles as an official, plans to work as a physical director in army camps after marriage.
Milk producers claim they must receive 2.80 dollars per 100 pounds, or about six cents per quart, to operate profitably. W H Maust of the Iowa Dairy Marketing Association argued the current price causes losses, citing total costs of 217.25 dollars per cow per period and a potential 37.25 dollar loss at 3 dollars per 1100 pounds. The council of defense plans to study delivery costs, noting a large local firm may profit from delivery as well. A follow up meeting is set for Thursday night.
The Red Cross canteen committee serving the lo cal chapter met trains to extend courtesies to Army enlistees and National Guard personnel passing through for training camps. At a Chicago Great Western depot they found 16 full blood Indians from North Dakota. They distributed stamped postcards and chocolate bars to June draft registrants who had just been fed breakfast.
J T Houser general secretary of the Y M C A accompanied selectees departing Waterloo for Camp Dodge. He carried newspapers mail stamps pins and other items for the men and planned to accompany new members of the national army to camp and ensure their safe settlement.
The state fuel administrator Charles Webster issues a telegram stating that as of June 25, 1918 coal dealers cannot add the advanced freight rate unless it has already been paid by the dealer. The order aims to prevent new surcharges on coal shipments from taking effect.
A group of 12 boys and 3 girls aged 9 to 12 staged a circus at the Robert Jenkins lot 223 Cutler Street in East Park yesterday afternoon and last evening. The performances raised 5.15 dollars for Red Cross funds, with 125 attendees in the afternoon and 175 in the evening, including 50 adults.
New York reports Prime Minister William Hughes cites 6.5 million tons of Australian surplus wheat, 19.9 million bales of wool, and other raw materials stored in Australia ready for transfer to Allied needs. He urges rapid shipping, redistribution of fast and slow freighters, and possible government control to move supplies to Europe or Pacific routes to support Britain and France in the war.
An advertisement notes support for a 525 mile concrete highway along the Rio Grande from the mouth of the boundary stream to Del Rio Texas. Officials in Washington consider direct congressional funding likely to build a border road to speed troop and supply movement, reduce transport costs, and aid frontier security and settlement.
Fort Dodge Iowa June 26. President T. M. Watts Holstein urged pharmacists to debar German made chemicals at the annual Jawa Pharmaceutical association convention. He backed Edmonds bill for a pharmaceutical corps in the army and called for full cooperation with wartime government requirements. The program included athletic events and a swimming exhibition by local women at the YMCA.
Manufacturing firms in Waterloo, including Citizens Gas and Electric, are stockpiling coal for winter use. Two large pits and a derrick unload coal from cars in under an hour, with water pumped into pits to submerge and preserve fuel quality.
An article promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills as a safe tonic to combat pimples from improper diet and anemia in schoolgirls. It notes improved appetite and vitality as blood strengthens, and sells six boxes for 2 50 with a pamphlet available on request.
A local advertisement promotes lemon juice as a cheap complexion lotion. It instructs squeezing three ounces of Orchard White from a bottle to make a quarter pint of a freckle and sunburn remover. It claims daily massage clears sunburn windburn and tan, leaving white skin.
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