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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1911
Page
3
Instructions emphasize KC Baking Powder and EC Baking Powder to produce light cakes and biscuits. Key steps include thorough sifting, warming sugar, creaming butter and sugar, beating yolks, folding in beaten egg whites, alternating moisture and flour, and using cold shortening.
Dubuque owners Clarence Rowland and Forrest Plass move to active work in the 1911 Three-I season by opening headquarters at the Bradley building in Dubuque. Frank Ray signs, while Frank Lerchen misses engaged duties. a first baseman replacement is sought as plans proceed amid Waterloo court tangles and possible team shifts. Davenport contract news: Ray Chapman, infielder from Herrin, Ill., signs with the Davenport club for 1911 and will report early.
Earl Percy heir to the Duke of Northumberland and aide de camp to Earl Grey completed a 111 mile trek from Montreal to Ottawa in three days. The journey, started Saturday morning, carried him through exposed rail lines and a delayed clothing pickup at Plantagenet. He arrived in time for the Rideau Hall dinner and found the trek enjoyable despite the cold wind.
Grinnell College defeats Iowa University and rival teams in a sweeping season. The meteoric run includes wins over Kansas Drake Ames Coe Luther Cornell and Parsons with a 485 to 134 scoring margin. If Grinnell beats Town on March 8 they claim a fifth straight state title in a dominant campaign.
Mason City Iowa March 2 an independent baseball team will be formed with C A Kohl as manager. Fast players from four north town teams will be recruited to strengthen the lineup which includes Kohl Smith Shannberger Duncan Charlies Baum gardner Bell Wells Giek Kleal and Rader.
Chancellor Howell filed a decision upholding the division of a 20 million dollar surplus among deferred dividend policy holders. The ruling also declared that 2.5 million six hundred thousand dollars assigned to stockholders of the Prudential Hal company is declared as all stockholders and labelled contingency surplus.
Hugh Jennings plans coaching in Esperanto this season while umpires resist. Northern signs with Cincinnati Reds after a St. Louis Browns trial. Kuhn trains with Vic Hanson to reach peak fitness. Spokane signs three full blood Indians from Lapwai. Larry Schlatfig part owner cannot play until Newark release. Campbell Abbatic and Slagle retire from baseball. Johnny Kling complains about Charlie.
Murphy blocks a trade and the Cubs insist on keeping the star catcher. Arthur Herrman, a 17 year old touted as one of baseballs youngest players, nears pro debut in the Cotton States league as managers are appointed in several minor leagues. Pepper Clark reports to Manager Chance in New Orleans after Hot Springs appearances, delivering two hits including a home run in a five inning stint.
Peoria March 1 Jimmy Johnson has retired from baseball refusing to sign a Peoria club contract and turning down an invitation from Charles Comiskey to join the Chicago White Sox in spring training. He will join the Peoria and Pekin Union railroad where his father is general manager.
Kate Hansen has left my home and I will not be responsible for any bills or debts contracted by her. Chris Hansen signs the notice.
Waverly Iowa March 2. During a visit to Waterloo Charles Louders arranged with Frank Knapp to train his 4 year old pacer by Echo. Louders will also have Pat Jackman and Curt Brown train on the Waverly track this year. Harlan Smith of Nashua may bring a string. No large training stable is expected by April 1.
Charlie Anderson, a young farmer near Winterset Iowa, withdrew 2900 dollars for a farm purchase. After returning home the trunk with the money burned when a stovepipe elbow dropped, flames spreading to the trunk and destroying all the paper currency while other items remained unburned.
Emma Goldman and Joseph Fels sat together at a dinner hosted by Councilman Frank P. Crunden in St. Louis. Fels reportedly planned to avoid the event with Goldman but attended. the pair debated, with soap maker Fels recounting land purchases and garden schemes for the poor and Goldman challenging him as Reedy supported Goldman.
In Baltimore, a white man who battered his wife faced the criminal court where he tearfully pleaded for mercy. The sentence was five lashes at the whipping post and imprisonment, with no mercy granted.
Testimony showed Frank McCauley struck his wife seven or eight times and choked her, taking more than $20. It marked a second wife beating case sentenced to the whipping post by Judge Duffy within a month.
Lester Fairfield ate rat poison left by his mother in a can but rejected the taste and ran to his mother claiming the candy looked like chocolate. A physician used a stomach pump and the boy suffered no ill effects.
Woods Bros last evening closed a city piano contest as ad departments of three papers judged over 2000 replies. The five top prizes went to Charlotte Holmes, Mrs Eugene F Carey, Mrs Edward Stapler, Mrs Charles Shepler, and Mrs L E Fern, with fifty additional contestants honored in merit order.
The ad promotes Foley's Kidney Remedy as a cure for kidney and bladder ailments and urinary irregularities in the elderly. An elderly man from Marmer, Missouri named Isaac Regan testifies that it cured his condition, urging others to try the product. J. K. Joder & Son endorses the remedy.
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