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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1912
Page
5
Waynesville resident F R Huffman credits Thedford's Black Draught with curing indigestion and restoring health after failed remedies. The ad touts the product as a safe vegetable substitute, cleansing the digestive system, and notes a 70 year history and a 25 cent price.
M B Locke reports recovering from injuries after a steam roller incident during the campaign. He praises Mayor Thompson and the Thompson managers, pledges support for the new city officers, and says he plans to run again by the next election. He acknowledges a personal defeat but remains hopeful and active.
An advertisement for a cold remedy titled Cold & Grip claims to cure headache by using laxative bromosine and quinine. It requests the reader to provide a full name and look for signature BEW with Grove 23c.
The YWCA program in Waterloo heats up with many members enrolled for the new year. Women are urged to pay dues at designated stores to aid the girls, with special opportunity today and tomorrow. Miss Jessie Kistner, Miss Vera Grover, and Miss Molly LaTier lead at Black's Vetter & Waters and Paul Davis' respectively in collecting memberships. The goal is 500 memberships at $5 to support next year’s work.
Big price reductions on carnations violets and other blooms at 6023 Sycamore St. Bee dozen hoses tic to one dollar per dozen and one dollar per hundred. Also welcomes design requests and work for designs.
A handwritten note from Mrs A T Smith of Stanhope Iowa to Dr Wilbert Shallenberger in Chicago Illinois requests treatment for chronic stomach trouble and praises past care. She mentions goitre and stomach issues and recommends the doctor to others with chronic illness. The letter is dated March 4 1912 and references Stanhope and Dear Str.
Portsmouth Ohio physician Dr F M Edwards announces Dr Winards Olive Tablets a sugar coated olive colored tablet to replace calomel. The pills claim gentle liver cleansing with no calomel after effects and are sold by the Olive Tablet Company Columbus Ohio with Edwards as president.
Entries describe yesterday gatherings at homes of Mrs. Oscar M. Brown Mrs. W T McComb and Mrs E E Peek with sewing games and refreshments The Birthday club surprise honored Mrs McComb at Conger street with garden party style fare The Lady Militant circle and Canton Crescent held social sessions at I O O F hall with comforters destined for Mason City Old People Home Eastern Stars initiate tonight Rae Muirhead Business Girls held a social at YWCA to resume Bible study next Tuesday focusing on Philippians
Since June 1 will see the Y M C A vacancy created by F M Devenders resignation discussions center on A W Hartquist the current financial secretary as the likely successor. Hartquist has quick familiarity with local affairs and the association’s work and would ease the transition if terms suit.
Frank Q. Stuart a leading Iowa Democrat announced his candidacy for delegate at large to the Baltimore convention stating he supports William J. Bryan for president. In Monona County Wilson supporters won fight delegates at the state convention, while Hopkinton elected socialist mayor J. C. Ohler amid a mixed ticket of candidates.
The funeral for A F Ham will be held Thursday at 3 PM from the home 212 Franklin Street with burial in Fairview cemetery. Masons will lead the services and Rev Effie McCollum Jones will officiate. Dick Speicher, brother of Mrs Ham, arrived from Milwaukee for the funeral and other out of town relatives are expected to attend.
Hollis J. Houghton died at his Waverly home after a cancer of the liver. Born in 1849 in Michigan, he moved to Waverly in 1871 and built a stable business in stock and real estate. Survived by his second wife and five children from his first marriage. Funeral Thursday at 2 pm from his residence with cremation in Davenport. He was a longtime Mason and respected local figure.
Dr L Rowe, formerly with a large Chicago institution, joins Dr Joseph Jerger to bolster Waterloo's medical group. The Pine Street hospital staff now includes Dr Grace Jerger Dr L Rowe Dr Francis L Isom and Dr J Jerger as they plan for the new Franciscan Sisters hospital.
The facility will finish in the first part of August and be opened to the public. It will be among the best equipped hospitals in the central west and a valuable addition to the citys public institutions.
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