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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1913
Page
4
A bed design called Unifold opens into a full size bed with a metal frame and steel springs and comes with a full size mattress. It uses either hair or cotton felt and keeps all bedding including pillows in place through the day, ready for use at night.
Des Moines reports say several Great Western passenger conductors were summoned to Chicago for exams on failing sight in handling fares. Charges of dishonesty across the bonding contract arise as cases are tried coldly by the bonding company, not the railroad. Reports note Rock Island conductors face similar scrutiny though denial follows.
Kansas City, March 18. Mrs. Rodella G. Dwight, once prominent as defendant and witness in sensational court actions, married yesterday to W. C. Culbertson, attorney and Kansas City alderman. Culbertson first met Dwight when he represented her in a case against land promoter Augustus T. Moreaux for alleged fraud over a Bitter Root valley deal. Moreaux was later convicted of embezzlement related to the same transaction and sentenced to three years in prison.
Waterloo will be represented in the Northeastern Iowa Teachers association typewriting contests at Independence the last week of the month. Six top East High School typists will compete March 27 to 29 after an elimination contest to select the best. Local teachers expect to attend. program specifics were not yet released due to distribution delays.
A set of five riddles with playful wordplay and puns. Riddles include an Irishman easily frightened a wordplay on fear, beheading a ship to reveal a fish, filling blanks with a single word in two senses, a pun linking an inkstand to Pisa, and train related puns. Answers from yesterday list: not apparent, Salmon, famine fame in, grub that makes the butterfly, combativeness.
St Paul report says Frank Lavatsky was playing pool when a cue from the next table fell. In trying a difficult shot he tripped, jumped, and landed on his right shoulder, sending him to City hospital for treatment. The incident is noted by police surgeons as an odd accident.
Ex Secretary of the Navy and Mrs Meyer announce the engagement of their daughter Miss Alys Appleton Meyer to Lieutenant Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers U S N. Miss Meyer has been prominent in Washington society through the Roosevelt and Taft administrations and is credited with introducing many new fads into the smart set.
In a playful scene Ticklemouse, Davy, Willy and Dorfy plot a gentler ride with a new swing high above the yard. Teddy complains of a turtle bite while Dory pushes for care and a safer adventure, ending with plans to swing and laugh under a silvery moon.
Willy Wishingmouse secretly tightens a swing rope and lofts Darfy high into the night sky. Davy and Teddy panic as the swing returns empty. The Ticklemouse reads poems while plotting a cloudbound slide with a moonbeam rope for her return, promising a coming whipping.
A historical note traces naval tradition from Commodore Perry to Lieutenant Rodgers, who graduated from the Naval Academy in 1904, highlighting a family service lineage that underscores the capital city’s notable maritime heritage.
A barn owned by Al Pettit at 127 Ricker Street burned for some time before firefighting crews arrived at 6:45 last evening. Several sheds and nearby buildings also caught fire, but quick work saved the remaining structures. Loss is not expected to be heavy as none were valuable.
An advertisement touts Gold Dust as an all round cleanser for toilet, bath, laces, and lingerie. It claims it cleans better than soap, reaches every corner, purifies and drives out germs, and requires no elbow grease.
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