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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1918
Page
2
The piece discusses temperance activists in Chicago aiming to leverage Billy Sunday revival to push for prohibition, noting perseverance amid setbacks. It also urges immediate passage of daylight saving, arguing it saves coal and supports early gardening and energy use. The column references the Reims cathedral as a signaling post in the war context.
The Chicago revival by Billy Sunday is framed as a pivotal event shaping civic and spiritual life. Writers highlight his sincerity and stage persona, while noting potential increases in churchgoing and reform efforts amid ongoing prohibition drives.
Iowa editorials argue the war department censorship of casualty lists risks revealing unit details and family connections. Cartoons touch on governors, fundraising, and wartime bread shortages while rural papers poke at politicians and public figures with light satire.
The Paris July 14 celebration revived the story of Rouget de Lisle composing the Marseillaise in Strasburg in 1792. A dinner with Mayor Dietrich sparked the night of music and poetical creation, ending with the elder daughter playing, De Lisle singing, and the hymn spreading across France, attaining its famous name from an early longer title.
An old medical column advises gentle home care for infant and toddler catarrh. Treatments include warm baths, hot lemon drinks with mild tonics, castor oil, nasal sprays with asterine, saline gargles, and cautious use of adrenalin drops under physician guidance. After the acute stage, quinine or sodium bicarbonate may help. emphasis on indoor rest, proper warmth, and avoiding sweets.
A dialogue and accompanying reflections explore how friendships endure through periods of strain. Molly, a stenographer, explains that couples or friends may drift apart yet later reconcile, suggesting time apart, self awareness, and renewing ties with renewed perspective and new contacts.
Tabby the cat slips upstairs through an ajar door and triggers a hidden trap. The trap topples, sending Tabby tumbling downstairs to a frightening fright. The mistress punishes the cat with a milk taping and Tabby hides under the stove nursing a hurt paw.
An old fashioned advertisement touts St Jacobs Liniment for sprains and strains. It promises instant relief as it penetrates muscles, nerves, ligaments and bones, soothing pain and aiding a quick recovery. A trial bottle is promoted for purchase at drug stores.
A page from The Courier notes rural concerns about allowing stock to roam at large, claims Iowa as the poor man’s land, and reports civic items. Farewell ice on the Cedar River, local election results for Waterloo district directors, building delays due to brick shortages, Dr S B Williams’s west tour, newspaper men moves, mill construction, Bernums museum fire, Cedar Falls mayor P A Bryant elected by 158 votes, and Hancock nomination for president emerging.
Prices quoted by Union Mill include flour two fifty to three fifty per hundred pounds meal ten dollars a ton middlings and shorts nine to thirteen a ton bran seven a ton eggs ten cents two dozen butter fourteen cents a pound. Farmers work fields amid heavy rain and mud while George P Beck installs a large plate glass front weighing 1100 pounds at Glover Arthur stores. William Galloway age 25 dies in Bellevue after Civil War service and law career. Mrs A T Lane and daughter injuried when carriage overturns on Fourth Street. Eight year old son of William Minoe dies after coming into contact with paris green in a corn crib.
Supt F J Sessions touts talent for this year’s chautauqua featuring George R Wendling John G Woolley S H Basler Dr Robert McIntyre Russell H Conwell Georges W Peck of Peck’s Bad Boy fame J J Ingalls Miss Isabel Garghill Dr Edgerton RK Youns Edwin Page Gaston Miss Inez Fullerton Miss Bertha Shutts and others A J Cole drafts plans for an 18 room residence at Washington and Fourth streets. John Stears born England 79 years ago dies. Duskards head to Cando ND to form a settlement. names listed. Waterloo Gasoline Engine Co works on horseless wagon engine attachment for a covered wagon. EB Hartsock leads Des Moines frients to Portland Ore. A 1/2 hp engine will propel wagon. Eggs at cents a dozen. creamery butter 18 cents. dairy 12 cents. Best fancy patent flour 32.98 per cwt. Last Saturday marked the 30th anniversary of F M Shoemaker as county treasurer.
In a postwar policy stance the Washington Times declares the railroads will not return to private owners within two years after the war. It characterizes private railroad owners as exploiters and wreckers and urges immediate shedding of any remaining private holdings.
A brief note from the St. Paul Pioneer Press warns that men who fail to register will lose their vote, emphasizing the consequences of registration compliance and civic participation.
On primary day the subject will keep the privilege of cussing the government. The remark underscores ongoing tensions between voters and officials as campaigns push for support while frustrations surface in public discourse.
Mrs W D Wells of Petersburg Virginia reports her daughter suffered two years with weakness and pains on the right side and was to be operated on. After reluctance she tried Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and improved, now fully well and praising the remedy. The letter asks other women with irregularities or pains to try the product and offers advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Massachusetts.
Dr Edwards 17-year practice advocates Olive Tablets as a non calomel laxative for constipation and torpid liver. The sugar coated olive colored pills claim to regulate bowels and liver without griping and are sold 10 cents per box by all druggists.
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