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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1911
Page
2
The Hold Over Paper is described as the Waterloo weekly read for Saturday night and Sunday digest, with emphasis on its broad readership and digestible content. The item highlights its prominence in Waterloo as the newspaper readers turn to on weekends.
A Niagara Falls preservation act extension was not taken up by Congress, prompting an urgent protest over potential exploitation by power interests. The Evening Courier warns of deep public anger if Niagara Falls is allowed to degrade and calls for swift congressional action to protect the natural wonder.
The text claims excess weight is not ideal and many lack reserve nerve power to fight disease. It presents hypo-nuciane tablets of 3 grains as a solution to raise white and red blood cells, promising weight gain. Instructions urge sealed packages and several months of use per directions.
Druggists advertise Pall-Away-Pills as a quick remedy for headache and acute pain. The notice emphasizes fast relief marketed to customers seeking dependable over the counter relief. It highlights availability through local druggists and pharmacies.
A collage of editorials and comments from Des Moines to Council Bluffs discussing Champ Clark and Taft era politics. It notes Clark's waning nomination prospects, praise for prudent patriotism, Iowa infamies tempered by national comparisons, Ballinger land policy and coal interests, reciprocity and tariff debates, and Canadian market fears from U S and Canadian editors.
The Iowa Capital issue shows no editorial attack on any senator, a rarity noted by the Webster City Freeman-Tribune. Col Young is praised for self-restraint, with hopes he will avoid glorifying ex Senator Young as he improves.
The piece extols trees as lovelier than commonly praised sights and urges readers to notice individual trees. It cherishes maple, birch, pine, fir, redwood, willow, and elm as symbols of dignity, heritage, and personal connection, urging children to learn tree varieties and appreciate nature’s quiet gifts.
Promote your health by trying Foley Kidney Pills which allegedly contain only ingredients necessary to regulate and strengthen kidney and bladder function for better urinary comfort.
Washington D C June 30 The Supreme Court directed the attorney general to instruct lower courts to carry out its decision dissolving the American Tobacco company. The 30 day rehearing period expired. The report also notes a Berlin dining complex opening with 10 000 capacity indoors and 10 000 outdoors, staffed by 1 000 waiters and 500 cooks.
In Washington on June 30 Senator Cummins challenged reciprocity with Canada while Senator Williams read an earlier speech from 1904. Williams argued consistency in opposing free admission of farm goods without free imports of manufactured articles. Cummins denied inconsistency and urged linking free farm and manufactured goods, warning a separate tariff schedule could not achieve this quickly.
The Wall Street Journal notes widespread evidence of rising prices reflected by consular reports from Buenos Aires to Paris. Bread costs up 70 percent in ten years, wages and rents climb in Batavia, and household lists show sharp gains in food and living expenses. Copper demonetization in China and nickel use in Britain follow global gold inflows from abundant mining regions.
The passage argues that if price advances persist they will erode confidence in the metal’s future purchasing power, signaling concern about the value backing current obligations. It notes the risk that rising prices undermine trust in the monetary metal.
Raymond remains lively with visits from W W Edwards and family to Knapp home and a Wear Branch reunion. Ella Hobson travels for family gathering. Winifred Tulley of Waterloo visits the Allen relatives. Mrs Herman McVey and children return to Waterloo after weekend at Catherine McVey’s. Mr and Mrs Joseph Shirley and family attend church. Mrs Nick Klein mourns death. twin babies born last December died soon after. burial in Jesup Catholic cemetery. George Mills and sister Marion Mills visit Raymond. Eddie Carroll improves health in Colfax and returns home. Mrs George E Arthur and Mrs E W Heiple visit Waterloo and Raymond contacts.
Finchford June 29 Mr L Whitney has been laying a cement walk. William Beaty Sr aged about 78 died Sunday morning at his home after thirty two years in the town. Funeral Tuesday at M E church with Rev Smith of Janesville. Interment Finchford cemetery. Beaty leaves a wife three sons two granddaughters and three grandsons. A Davenport visit includes Henry Giesler family. Medicine show remains the week’s draw with large nightly attendance and praise for the performance.
New York June 30 federal grand jury returned nine indictments against wire pool operators. Named officers include Frank J Gould of Old Dominion Iron and Nail Works and William P Palmer of American Steel & Wire. Other executives hail from Trenton Iron, Ansonia Brass, and John A Roebling firms. Offense cited is unlawful restraint of trade under antitrust laws. Satterlee is J P Morgan son-in-law. Gould is a noted financier and street railway magnate.
Chicago on June 30. C. E. Dugan, held captive by Deputy Sheriff M. W. Roberts of Des Moines, took his captor to Harrison Street station for safekeeping. Dugan said his interest in Roberts did no good as Ness arrived to uncover the missing deputy and determine Dugan's fate.
A plagued by long standing female troubles writes of relief after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier. The notices praise improved sleep, strength, and health, citing relief from inflammation ulcers fibroid symptoms and nervous prostration.
Ness and Dugan travel to Des Moines for a reunion with Sheriff Sheruf. Dugan jokes about avoiding detours for ice cream and asks to hurry to the station. The sheriff replies he is “on the wagon” this trip before they head back to Des Moines. TRY A COURIER WANT AD.
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