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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1912
Page
3
An advertising blurb touts Cascarets as a thorough cleanse for the stomach and intestines, removing undigested food, bile, and foul gases. It claims users feel better by morning, work during sleep, and avoid headaches, biliousness, and indigestion. It targets households and even children, priced at 10 cents per box.
The Employers liability and workmen's compensation commission named by the governor of Town will hold public meetings this month in Des Moines, Waterloo, and several other cities. Meetings invite all parties to present views for or against the measure, with written submissions encouraged. Also notes on Foley's Kidney Pills and a card of thanks from JaccER Rhodes and family for sympathy after Mrs Christina Rhodes's death.
An advertisement extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a highly effective remedy for women's suffering. It claims decades of testimonials, notes potential to prevent surgical operations, and describes the product as herbal and harmless while restoring female health.
A Freeport dispute between the Citizens Commercial Association and the Federated craftsmen escalates over support for railroad workers. Meetings in the mayor's office and a Sunday session see resolutions condemning aid to the railroad officials, amid rumors the railroad may move shops from the city.
Cardinal Gibbons at the National Civic Federation conference urged industrial peace between capital and labor. He praised the worker, advocated Labor and Capital as inseparable, and called for mutual harmony to sustain prosperity. He cited Christ's example in labor and stressed interdependence of capital and labor for national progress.
The Independence, Iowa prophet John G. Rusty claims a lion like entry of March was foretold, noting a two day delay but confirming the arrival. He signs as Big Indian and cites weather bureau alarm schedules as sometimes late.
The Waterloo Courier reports Confederate forces occupying Fayetteville Arkansas last week capturing prisoners and stores. Forty two officers and men were poisoned by tainted food left by rebels with several deaths. wounded from Ft Donelson pass through town.
Rex Beresford, a 1911 Iowa State College animal husbandry graduate, has been named special agent for the Iowa Beef Cattle Producers association. He begins March 6 to study Iowa beef production, visit leading farms, assess costs and profits, and gather methods on silo feeding. Readied material will be shared statewide and via institutes. The season closes with beef production train operations across Iowa in October and November.
In New York a nine year old native American artist named Vincent V. Natalish, son of an Apache chief, shows early skill in oils. He has painted a landscape, a bear sculpture, and other works, drawing attention from established artists for his evident artiste impulse and growing interest in sculpture.
H. N. P. Hill, born in Whitefield North Carolina, died at 89 in Osage after living there since 1856. He learned printing in The Liberator newsroom with William Lloyd Garrison in Boston and later worked for Wendell Phillips and Frederick Douglass who sought protection from a mob during an 1830s Boston incident. He left a large family including wife, who died earlier, and surviving children FLOD Mill, A. WT. Hill, Mrs. A. Roberts, and H. N. P. Will Jr. who died last March.
In Brandon Iowa Special report Rev Will F Spry of Waterloo raised 3200 dollars to clear the remaining debt on the new and enlarged Brandon Methodist Episcopal church at a 10 PM dedication. The 300-member congregation celebrated, noting the town of about 200 with two churches. The church seats 300, with basement social space, classroom and library.
Rev. E. A. Valiant of the First Baptist Church travels to Oelwein for the Brotherhood banquet and will deliver the evening address on The Man of the Hour. A burglar proof two and a half ton safe is installed for county treasurer cash, moved through the vault window.
An advertisement touts Knowlton's Danderine a 25 cent bottle that will stop hair loss and dandruff, improve scalp itch, and make hair appear fuller, longer, and shinier after use. It claims immediate dramatic effects and visible new hair after a few weeks with regular application.
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