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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1923
Page
4
A dense OCR of a Waterloo Iowa era ad list and notices shows classified ads for milk routes barber jobs dishwashers and various real estate and employment notices. The page also includes lost and found, rental listings, and small business advertisements with phone numbers and locations. It reads like a busy community classifieds section with many entries competing for attention.
Orange Township community notices include farm sales and transfers, parades by Grange members, and social visits. A Mrs Silas Miller sells her farm to a Tara County buyer while other residents hosted friends and attended local church events. Household goods and coal sales are advertised with auctions and classified items.
Local residents and families are listed visiting, socializing, and attending events in the Eagle Center area. The snippet mentions Mr. and Mrs. John Gehl and others visiting in Waterloo and nearby towns, farm bureau meetings, property transactions, and additions in Gale, Waterton, and Cedar Falls areas.
Classified note offers a coal yard business for sale with good pay and experienced labor needed. Includes contact details referencing the Waterloo Evening Courier and address 1-18.
The Federal Council of Churches edits a bulletin on the two shift and twelve hour day in steel. Rev Ernest Johnson criticizes industry for opposing public concern, urges truth in reports, and notes failed industry cooperation while urging wage and policy reforms. Public opinion weighs on the issue as churches defend moral questions against misleading defenses from steel interests.
A wash holler of clothes in the basement at 807 Eighth street west burned dry and filled the Chesley residence with smoke. An NP station alarm rang at a P.M. There was no damage to the building. Fire department supplied an engine pumper for several hours to assist in steaming up the W. C. BF. & N. power house plant.
Advertisement fragment repeats brand names Play Safa Incure and Bronsca In urance Agency with a phone number 1374. It mentions travel twice yearly and a riddle about being in the arctic in summer and near the equator in winter, implying a seasonal or travel theme without clear context.
The bulletin notes incomplete data on current 12 hour shifts in steel plants and questions industry pledges. It cites Colorado Fuel and Iron and the American Iron and Steel Institute while criticizing the Tron and Steel institute’s defense of long hours. The piece implies revival of business may trigger more 12 hour employment.
Stewart L. Lewis obtained an injunction to restrain Glatys B. Lewis from removing their child Ward 5 from the court’s jurisdiction. The couple, married in Cedar Falls on March 21, 1914, are divorcing after Lewis alleges cruelty and infidelity. He seeks custody and notes the wife planned to take the child to Seattle, Washington.
Judge Martin J. Wade told the University of Iowa audience that thousands of inmates had as good a shot at success as Knute Nelson, tracing the Minnesota senator’s rise from Norwegian immigrant roots. He warned that red tag banners and voter apathy imperil government, urging greater citizen engagement. Judge Swaney echoed calls for better schools, teachers, and constitutional texts to improve public governance.
Des Moines reports rising wife desertion in Polk County with 628 cases since 1920 and over 35 000 spent to recover deserters. County Attorney Seeburger plans legal changes to curb this drain, noting one fifth of grand jury indictments involve desertion and arguing enforcement could improve with bond restrictions after conviction.
Rotary club and the Greater Waterloo Association invite Black Hawk County supervisors to a Des Moines good roads meeting next Thursday. About 10 to 15 county representatives are expected, with W. P. Parrott noting plans for 10 delegates from the ring counties. Delegation travels by automobile, with a departure schedule set for Thursday morning.
La Porte City items cover visits from Chicago guests the Travies wedding, postnuptial shower for Oliie Billingsley, and gatherings hosted by Arch Baker and the Narber family. Community clubs, church events, and notices of funerals and family reunions fill the page with local portraits and forthcoming summer plans.
June 26 Littleton reports Frances Malfr underwent a hospital operation at St Pran Spital Waterloo Priday. The Fred Deuher family Haziston visited the Albert Fiedler home Sunday. Children’s Day at the Methodist church featured songs recitations and prayers led by Dr T I Bhwinck and Pastor. revival meetings at Jasup church begin most evenings except Monday. Cemetery association met with plans for new fence and a $24 addition to treasury. Ladies auxiliary to serve dinner ice cream and cake this week. Venice hotel guests face tipping prohibition with penalties for gratuities.
More than 2,000 students and faculty heard Judge Florence J. Allen of the Ohio supreme court lecture at Cedar Falls College auditorium. She urged better legal machinery through careful official selection and continued support of officers during their terms.
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