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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1912
Page
9
Date Muffins use ripe dates for wholesome nutrition in a Boston Cooking School Magazine style recipe. The KC Cook's Book by Mrs Janet McKenzie Hill features ninety recipes and nine color illustrations, with a free copy offer via KC Baking Powder certificates from Jacques Mfg Co of Chicago.
The Waterloo Evening Courier reports a large response to a Bible offer. Readers show off their new Bibles, praising the varied editions including limp leather, silk cloth, and Catholic versions with full-page colored plates. The project cost $50,000 in illustration selections from the Tissot collection and aims to exhaust supply quickly.
The ad claims Gold Dust dissolves instantly in water to cleanse garments. It softens hard water, reduces rubbing and wear, and cleans with less effort, promising whiter, sweeter clothes in half the time.
The Rev Will F Spry may gain an assistant pastor funded by a generous anonymous member paying half the upkeep for an assistant or a deaconess. A woman member pledged the last 25 of a 100 gift to the Epworth League. Fourteen new members, including the Glasenger family from Lincoln township, joined at services. The pastor urged cash and nonperishable food to aid a desperately needy family, names undisclosed.
Thieves entered Everybody's laundry at 509 Bluff Street between 11 a.m. Sunday and 6 a.m. today, opened the safe, and stole $10 in silver. Police are pursuing vague clues as investigators review the break in. The proprietor found no signs of a burglary at 11 a.m. yesterday, but today the safe’s night lock was opened and the money drawer rifled in an apparently planned theft. The burglars seemed familiar with the shop’s surroundings.
The Waterloo clerks challenge the city stenographers and other office workers to a YMCA WC A membership contest running March 25 to April 2. Points: renewals and new memberships one, sustaining five. Both sides may solicit women citywide, pledge cards available at WC A. Social to losers, invites to participants, chair Miss Mildred Guntsaulus.
Keota Iowa March 25 Buffalo and elk herds once seen by schoolchildren and auto tours are sold by 80 year old Singmaster principal of Singmaster and Sons. The 25 buffalo and 18 elk valued high per acre grazing land eighty acres will be moved. Elk sold to Warren Leach Rushville Indiana who sold them to West Virginia state park. Buffalo to be moved within ninety days. first elk arrived in Keota fifteen years ago.
The six weeks revival campaign led by Evangelist EB J Forsythe and party from Waterloo ended in Waverly Ta with a farewell service. Conversions numbered 300 and free will offerings totaled about $800. Last night the tabernacle was packed. Roy Forsythe will lead a program tomorrow night with the Sunbeam Chorus to aid Civil War veterans and the Woman's Relief Corps.
In Charles City Iowa March 25 the coroner s jury finds that section two of the Illinois Central freight train caused the rear end collision with section one while both in the yards. Death was instantaneous from the shock of the impact Wade was killed while Orvin Wade survived with minor injuries. Local businessmen contributed a large sum to aid the dead man s son.
A testimonial from R. C. Johnson Atchison Kansas praises Mellin's Food for a six month old girl who suffered colic sleep issues and poor gain until using Mellin's product. The letter notes rapid weight gain and improved health and urges friends to try a free sample from Mellin's Food Co Boston MA.
Last evening church services across several houses of worship featured political themes. Rev. Edgar A. Valiant spoke on How to Vote at First Baptist, Rev. W. B. Sandford preached Civic Responsibility from The City at Westminster Presbyterian, and Attorney J. S. Tuthill urged Citizenship in the City at Walnut Street Baptist urging Christians to work for the city and its citizens.
A detailed at home procedure by Prof. P. G. Holden for testing seed corn germination using a wooden box, moist sawdust, and a checkerboard cloth grid. It covers layered packing, moistening, and careful germination reading, plus cautions on cloth quality and avoiding freezing. It ends with a cough remedy note for colds.
Mrs. Wo. McCoy, formerly of Watertoo, died Saturday at a ranch near Wallspell Montana. Funeral services are set for Kalispell with interment there. Survived by Mr. McCoy and four daughters Mrs. Hamilton Laving Denver Mrs. Clara Wilson Los Angeles Mrs. Robert Wodell Cedar Rapids and Florence at home. Airs. G H Crane of South Street is a family friend informed by telegram.
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