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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1914
Page
1
County treasurer warns late payers that penalties apply if the first installment is not paid by March 31 and urges taxpayers to pay at least part now to avoid full charges. Delinquency rules allow payment before April 1 if offices can handle crowds.
Soldiers enjoy a rough sport of fencing with rubber tipped bayonets as the main attraction at field days. Combatants wear a mask padded coat and gloves, and each regiment selects champions through elimination trials. Rivalry runs intense among competing units.
A Troy reader credits Grape-Nuts with relief from years of indigestion and bilious headaches, improving sleep and mood after daily use. The letter praises the product and mentions Postum Co. and the book The Road to Wellville, noting occasional new letters appear.
Mrs F L Tanner hosted the Willing Workers at her Wellington home planning a chicken pie supper for next Wednesday. Idlewily Club and All Day Meeting events featured luncheons and sewing. Miss Wilma Bruce of Omaha attended a St Patrick dinner party at Park Ave West.
Franz Abt a prominent Prussian Saxon German composer died in 1885. Memorial services after his death echoed his best known song When the Swallows Homeward Fly. His vast catalog includes over two hundred popular German songs many translated for English readers. Heart Songs features his imperishable works preserved for readers. See the certificate in a day’s issue for terms.
An old advertisement touts Foley Kidney Pills to restore kidney and bladder function. It claims relief from daytime pain and nighttime sleep disturbance, targeting men and women and urging purchase at all druggists.
A New Yorker dispatch reports a mob of men and women stormed Carnegie Hall in New York City last Monday night to hear Evangelist Billy. Thousands jammed the streets when doors closed early, the police reserves struggled to disperse the crowd as hymn singing continued outside and inside the hall. Several women fainted amid the crush.
Champlin chapel at Rich Street and Burton Avenue hosted a quick lathing session by about a dozen neighborhood men. They finished in an hour and prepared basement rooms for plastering, while women later delivered a generous spread of meat pastries and drinks. Earlier, the men met at the church to build tables for social rooms.
Rev I W Bess of the African Methodist church plans a Waterloo revival with Mrs Della Cary of Chicago, a noted evangelist. Cottage prayer meetings begin next Monday night in parishioners homes as preparations, with the revival to start within two weeks.
Waterloo resident C J Stoyd recalls arriving in Waterloo in 1864 and buying land, facing payment worries, and subscribing to the Courier for over four decades. He praises the paper as the best and cleanest in Waterloo while noting room for improvement. He signs from 222 Hammond Avenue.
Deputy Game Warden Al Houston received a consignment of twenty five Hungarian partridges from Des Moines yesterday. The birds were taken to the state game preserve four and a half miles southeast of the city. This is the first consignment but more birds will be placed on the preserve soon.
Mrs. Mary Carter died at 5:30 p.m. at 122 Irving street after a long tuberculosis illness. She and her husband John Carter and family moved to Waterloo last June from Oelwein. Born in Waukon in 1867, she spent youth there, married in 1898 at Riceville, and later lived in Oelwein before Waterloo. Survived by husband and two children John 13 and Lucile 15. Funeral at St Joseph's church with Rev Father Slattery Friday. remains to be interred in Oelwein.
A shortened chimney in the Gibson Brothers insurance office building on Commercial Street nearly caused a major fire last evening. Smoke backed up between ceiling and roof until an alert passenger sighted it and called the fire department around 9 o'clock. Firemen found the fire limited to the chimney area after investigation.
Chief BH A Leighton urged the board of parole to grant pardons to Frank and Nathan Rainsbarger, life prisoners at the Anamosa state reformatory since 1887 for murder. Leighton, who once supervised them, described both as model prisoners while he was a guard at the institution.
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