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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1911
Page
3
Advertises Pape's Diapepsin as a safe remedy to relieve indigestion heartburn and stomach distress within five minutes. Claims to digest food prevent fermentation and stop sour rising belching and gas with a 40 cent case offering abundant supply for many cases.
Mrs Lena Gresham of Clinton Mississippi extols Cardus as a safe effective remedy for female ailments. She claims seven bottles eased her pains after four doctors offered little help and urges others to try the vegetable tonic. Chattanooga Medicine Co offers readers a special prospectus.
The ad asserts Sunny Monday laundry soap contains no rosin unlike others and costs more to manufacture. It touts protection for woolens and flannels, non yellowing, and purity reflected in its whiteness. It positions Sunny Monday as the safest and most economical option.
Waterloo post office to close on Sundays starting April 2 1911 with similar moves in Cedar Rapids Council Bluffs and Cedar Falls The plan gained 99 percent support from 4752 responses and 1086 additional signatures Patron mail service continues with limited Sunday hours and general delivery open 9 15 to 10 15 am carrier windows closed Postmaster W R Law explains intent and safeguards for mail delivery and rest for clerks and carriers.
An old style advertorial notes that preserving hair color is easier than restoring it. It cites grandmothers using sage tea for dark hair, contrasts with modern Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy claimed as superior, offers a money back guarantee, and advertises the bottle at fifty cents.
The census bureau reports Iowa City, Iowa, had 44 manufacturing establishments in 1909 with 282 wage earners on average, plus 123 officials and clerks, and $465000 value added by manufacture. Steam laundries totaled 3 establishments with 25 wage earners on average and $27000 in products. No report on salaried officials and clerks for laundries.
New Hartford reports Mrs. Emily Strong travels to Des Moines for her mother’s illness Nancy Ensign. Fd Enloe improves after hospital care in Waterloo for blood poisoning. Elmer Mack family in transit from California to Hawley Minn. Vera Hoffman gets a Shetland pony. George Yokom home quarantined for scarlet fever. School election reelects B B Wright and votes in N B Wolfensperger to replace Frank Mack. Schools take a week off for scarlet fever. Lucy Jamerson’s 80th birthday celebrated with family, dinner, and new easy chair. Mrs Jamerson has resided here since 1866.
Hazel Lutter files for divorce from John Lutter alleging improper correspondence with an unnamed unmarried woman Ida and emotional cruelty. She cites his insults, alcohol use, and abandonment on January 28, with her seeking alimony and her maiden name. Additional note mentions a sheriff arrest related to a separate desertion case. Glasgow Tailors contact details included.
Lizzie Sparrow returns to Portland North Dakota after a visit with the Rays. Greene residents Will Pfeffer and son Kenneth visit the Sewells. John Leonard of Joliet visits uncle Wm. Weat over Sunday. Mrs. George Sigenfritz and Beryl visit Graham. George Stanley buys Will Toll home and will move in. Prof A W Moore’s father visits the Amick family. Chester De Vaney moves to Mrs Goodman’s. Gail Towne returns from St Louis where he studied plumbing. H A Jones of Water loo visits town. Mrs. E M Jones returns from Waterloo and Mt. Auburn. Jim Carter travels to Moorland Minnesota for ill brother-in-law W E Reedbert.
E E Arnold spent Friday at Waterloo. Ben Eck of Waterloo was an over Sunday visitor here. Mrs Susan Spragg of Hazleton spent the past week with the Hoffman and Hayes families. Stash Weeple and family were in dependence visitors Friday. Mrs Brant of Fairbank is visiting F B Durham and family Teetilla Meythaler was a Waterloo visitor Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Willis Eck returned to Waterloo Thursday after a pleasant visit here, Chas McGlaughlin is the new school director, Miss Rena Alexander was a weekend visitor at the Walker home. Miss Herma Minton is working in the Tones millinery store at Jesup. Quite a number from here attended the service held by the Stevens brothers at Jesup Tuesday evening. Misa Lyall of Waterloo has been engaged to teach the spring term in the grammar room and Miss Vera Hayward the primary. E E Arnold returned Tuesday from Sanborn North Dakota, where he was looking at land. He secured a farm near that place, having traded his property here for the same. The remains of John Wroten, who elder several years ago in Dakota, were brought here and hurled Thursday, after which memorial services were held in the Presbyterian church. Mr Wroten was among the early settlers of this county and many old friends remember him as an upright neighbor and citizen. Mr and Mrs Clarence Harter mourn the death of their ten months old daughter Donna, which occurred this morning, after a brief illness.
Ruth Dignan of East Waterloo earned second in the dramatic class at the Northeastern Iowa Declamatory contest in New Hampton. The event drew fourteen schools and featured orations, dramatic pieces, and humor with judges from Cedar Falls Charles City and Waverly.
Rev. Walter H. Hollins, pastor, outlines a Lent series for 1911 at the First Congregational Church. Morning services begin March 19 with Jesus and the Individual, continuing March 26 The Path of Self-Deviance, April 2 The Cross of Love, April 9 Watching With the Master, April 16 The Immortal Gain. Evening services feature Jesus and Nicodemus, Jesus and Mary Magdalene, Jesus and Joseph of Arimathea, Jesus and Pirate, with an Easter musical service on April 16.
An advertises S S S as a safe all vegetable blood purifier and tonic. It claims no minerals, cites cures for rheumatism catarrh sores ulcers scrofula and constitutional diseases. It urges readers to request a free book from Smerwilt Specific Co Atlanta Georgia.
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