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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1918
Page
12
Cedar Falls hosts the second annual conference on consolidated and rural Iowa schools with an open forum format. Highlights include a Glendale district woman selling three bottle pigs to fund war savings stamps and other local notices from Cedar Falls and nearby areas.
Prospect bright for increased wheat plantings in Iowa. W J Peddicord of Union Mill reports two carloads of seed wheat pledged by the food administration, with 2,500 bushels to seed about 1,800 acres. Most has been spoken for. extra supply ordered as sowing is encouraged, signaling a potential surge in Iowa wheat production beyond normal 10 million bushels. Farmers show patriotism by increasing acreage.
A spice buyer in France explains transport delays in southern France due to war demands. The foreign representative says railway service is fully occupied with military requirements and no private goods are allowed. He doubts the American government can restrict crude drug imports to 50 percent or even ship half of last year’s quantities.
Davenport city alderman B. M. Raven died in Battle Creek Michigan after a short illness. Local officials mourn his passing as city records note his service and role in Davenport government. The death was reported from Battle Creek where he had sought treatment.
A Newark area carpenter, Eugene M. Pullen of Manasquan New Jersey, writes that he was ruptured years ago and cured without surgery. He claims no operation or lost time and offers full guidance to others with rupture, urging readers to write for details.
Vaudeville star Sam Lichert brings The Shattered Idol to the Majestic theatre for a three day vaudeville start this afternoon with Lichert and four more. On the bill Warren and Conley in The Kidding Ear, Kern Richelieu and Fern in an athletic skit, Story and Clark in songs, Nip and Fack acrobats, Pathe News and the seventh chapter of The Hidden Hand. Jewel Carmen stars in The Girl with the Champagne Eyes at Palace Monday and Saturday, showing a life of crime and redemption with Francs Carpenter among the cast.
The feature stars Charles Richman and Anne Q. Nilsson in a big patriotic drama at the Palace theatre Friday and Saturday. The plot centers on Monte Jackson whose mother survived a murder before his birth and who fears violence, a fear tested as war looms and friends enlist.
Lou Tellegen silent era star returns to film work directing motion pictures and starring with Sarah Dernhardt. He directed Wallace Reid's latest picture Queen Elizabeth and led Dernhardt in her first screen appearance. The King We Love with Reid and Tellegen is set to screen at Plaza Theatre Friday and Saturday.
An advertisement extols Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as trustworthy and dependable with a nearly fifty year history. It claims wide use across the United States and abroad and urges readers to try it for coughs or colds.
A Kentucky girl enslaved in a Turkish harem escapes to America and rises to fame as a dancer. The film follows her journey from captive to fiancée of the newspaper reporter who discovers her. Peggy Wyeth plays Olette in the production at the Family Theatre.
The county superintendent H C Moeller presided at a conference to expand Junior Red Cross chapters and auxiliaries across the county. The aim is to organize each township for vocational work, especially domestic arts, to make garments for Belgian children. The program is still developing beyond existing localities.
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