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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1911
Page
5
Walter Peterson of Cedar Rapids visits Waterloo friends while many locals travel for business and social trips. A wide range of residents are noted for visits, moves, illnesses, and community events including court terms, gas and electric undergrounding plans, and a notable horse-drawn streetcar memory from Waterloo’s past.
In Cook County, Judge John Owens denied the state legislature’s demand to move ballot boxes from the Fourth and Twenty-fifth senatorial districts to the State Capitol for a recount. Fred J. Crowley contests the election. a restraining order by Judge Kenesaw A. Landis bars removal until the contest concludes. The Friendship Society plans a meeting with Mrs. Harry Wolf at 611 Elm Street on Wednesday, March 15.
Washington D C March 13 Plans for the reform of currency laws will be prosecuted with vigor by the national monetary commission in the summer and fall A public education campaign will start soon to build support for a bill likely to be introduced in both houses when the next regular session opens in December The commission aims to stay nonpartisan and many members are viewed as out of politics Chairman Aldrich will devote substantial time to the effort The hearings begin with the American Bankers Association currency committee on March 22 and the commission plans many Washington hearings and city visits to gather public views
Chicago March 13 A cooperative and copartnership plan will make department heads joint owners of Marshall Field estate controlled business. Central of the estate’s operations may pass from Field heirs to current employees though personal property and outside real estate stay with the heirs. The trust runs fifty years for Marshall Field’s two grandsons educated in England under Mrs. Maldwin Drummond. Twenty five department heads will receive stock allotments initially with plans to extend beyond.
Rev. Francis M. Brady, 54, president of Loyola College and pastor of St. Ignatius Catholic Church, was found dead in his bed at the church rectory in Baltimore on March 13.
Henry Epting, a noted San Francisco artist, was discovered with a bullet wound to the temple on Council Crest in Portland. A note in his pocket states the death was a deliberate act attributed to melancholia, marking a tragic self inflicted demise.
Aimed at writers, the tale follows Melville Ostrander who leaves pure literary aims for marketable fiction. He meets Miss Easton in Florida, she guides him to balance art with business, and their marriage yields publishing fortune after a simple story by Easton becomes a hit.
In his Highways and Byeways In Yorkshire, Nor way describes the role of regarders in royal forests like Sherwood. Survey trips occurred every three years with boys pressed into service, used to mark boundaries. They were paddled when boundaries or streams were misread, a harsh method to keep records and memory intact.
An old medical claim argues eczema is a skin disease, not blood related, and introduces Meritol Eczema Remedy as a cure. Henderson Drug Co. is authorized to sell the product in Waterloo after extensive investigation by the American Drug and Press Association.
A London Lancet note warns against smoking before meals to avoid starchy digestion issues and insomnia from unneutralized gastric juice, suggesting light food or baking soda. A courtroom exchange features a Quixotic defense about insults and a brisk judge’s quip. A pawnbroker dismisses brass rings as free aid for distressed wives, while a Chicago News item jokes about eggs boiled unevenly in a cheap restaurant.
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