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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1926
Page
14
Adherents of First Presbyterian Grace Methodist and others prepare pledges for the year starting April 2. Pledges collected during morning services and canvassing in the afternoon aim to maximize participation.
A fragmented transcription presents a poetic scene about a candlelit night and budding love. It references youths, songs, and seasonal imagery as the speaker recalls a moment of romance and anticipation. The text includes archaic spellings and names, with Katharine Yinat Pirleson noted in the rise to Transcrips.
Summary of First Samuel as a transition from the Mosaic theocracy to the monarchy. Highlights Samuel’s leadership and mother Hannah, Saul’s promising start and downfall, and David’s rise. Notes friendship with Jonathan, Saul’s jealousy, and David’s development into a noble figure, all leading to the coming of Jesus Christ.
In Tokyo on February 11, Christian and Buddhist groups backed a drive to raise Japan’s drinking age from 20 to 25. The demonstration, led by younger lawmakers and 12 organizations, sought Diet passage of the bill to curb youth intoxication and align with a broader temperance push.
Wirst Presbyterian church dedicates Sunday evening to a music program led by organist Mrs Oliver Stevenson. The recital features works from Oberlin Conservatory training and a career among Iowa’s noted musicians. A varied program includes organ numbers, choral items, and quartets, with selections by Foote Wagner Nevin and others.
Special service at Westminster Presbyterian Church led by Rev William V2 McGormick. Officers announce tenure of pastor for three months and a fundraising drive to meet the budget. Church events include a mourning worship, a dinner for campaigners, and a sermon titled The Ple lyede loot.
Miss Lenora Hall and Roy Gilfillan will sing Emmanuel's Land and the choir will perform Forward Christian Soldiers. The event features a selection of hymn tunes and a period choir number in a community program.
Rev. Christopher Markides, longtime pastor of St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox, will leave Waterloo after four years four months to serve Trinity Church in Omaha Nebraska. He is a graduate of Greek National College Constantinople and fluent in Greek Turkish French English and more. He previously led Greek communities in Stamford Connecticut Nashville Tennessee Springfield and other locales as teacher and choir director.
The First Baptist church hosts Great Hymns of the Cross performed by a quartet, soloist, and organ with the service featuring hymnody and the unveiling of the cross. Dr. Arthur Young leads morning and evening messages at various churches as part of a broader Easter season sermon series.
Waterloo librarian Miss Callie Wieder selects four recent biography titles for review. The set includes Lives of the Great: two modern figures connected to recent life and two earlier works with notable anecdotes and portraits of Theodore Roosevelt, Stephen Jenks, Nast, and Burr among others.
Waterloo church to host a pre Easter sermon series titled Witteen Days in the Glories of the Cross under Rev William Wilkins. Five guest pastors from local churches will speak March 15 to March 28 with themes on the cross and its interpretations, preparation, and salvation.
Fragmentary text references Athens and Mines, mentions farmers and a legal or agricultural process, and includes garbled proper nouns. The readable phrases suggest a disrupted report about a community event or decision with several place and person names obscured by OCR errors. No clear date, action, or outcome is determinable from the accessible lines.
Ben R. Vardaman, community specialist who led the Greater Business and Community Institute this week, will be principal speaker at the Waterlon Mine Industrial association meeting at 10 p m next Monday. His subject will be The Church and Modern Ingenuity.
Fragmentary text from a New York Suns page mentions love and dancing, with garbled names and phrases. It reads like a scattered cultural blurb or society item with unclear dates or places and no readable event details.
New York clergyman Rev. Dr. Lewis I. Chan of Washington Square Methodist Episcopal Church argues in a sermon on The Immortality of the Soul that life and death are both good and that immortality explains death. He cites Christ as supreme authority and contrasts faith with scientific doubt.
In Chester on March 13 the spelling champion from Delaware county was designated to compete March 27 at Manchester High School gym. County superintendent urged schools to prepare entrants for the Unak contest, with WATO Coty School and Mark Catt among participants.
Charles City will receive a 27 acre park on the fairgrounds financed by the Lions Club. The club will pay W. H. Waller $1,000 a year for 20 years no interest, then turn the grounds over to the city for park use. The group envisions tearing down the south fence to improve the grounds and create a popular public space.
New York March 13 Reverend Samuel Trexler president of the Lutheran synod of New York argues reforms cannot come from laws alone. He says average citizens and lawmakers mistake legal changes for real change and that laws muddle citizens by piling up provisions without effective enforcement.
A church sermon argues Jesus valued character over outward deeds. It notes church advertising should reflect meaningful work, contrasting Jesus message with mere activity and urging focus on inner virtue.
Cedar Heights Community church will host a stereopticon travel talk with Dr. J A Laurie as pastor. Morning service at 11 a m features Then Shall We Escape to Neglect So Great Salvation. Children receive a presentation titled The Arrows of Sant ura. Evening talk covers Visit in London with St Pauls tabernacle etc reflecting church services.
An old advertisement promotes using Bayer Aspirin for sore throat or tonsillitis. It instructs dissolving two Bayer tablets in four spoonfuls of water to gargle, repeating every two hours if needed, and notes the Bayer Cross marking in tins of twelve tablets.
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