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Newspaper

Waterloo Evening Courier

Location

Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 27, 1913

Page

3

Public Playgrounds Bill Aims to Shape Iowa Cities

Des Moines reports a proposed amendment by Representative Bernbrock to dedicate one block per forty acres for public playgrounds in all Iowa cities. The plan argues park space enhances property values and offers safe play areas, with landowners bearing costs via higher lot prices. The piece also notes local politics over a House public utilities bill and upcoming theatre attractions in Waterloo.

Des Moines Gut Poth Bernbreck Iowa Bernbrock Bernibrock Seeme

Amusements at Wateriog theatre draw packed house

Last night at the Wateriog theatre the Githins repeated success of the former two nights and packed the theatre too. The entertainment proved popular with patrons praising the host and the performance for its novelty and energy.

Wateriog Martin

Artesian Well Spouts 1 008 000 Gallons Daily

Edgemont and D March report a massive artesian well drilled to 2970 feet delivering 700 gallons per minute or about 42 000 gallons per hour. The water runs at 126 degrees and is very pure, intended for domestic use and heating with surplus used for a monster plunge bath and potential medicinal claims.

Edgemont, & D United States

The Ticklemouse and his Sleepyland Adventure

Roy Rutherford Beiey AVY! Dorfy! Wake up and join the Ticklemouse on a Star Land night journey. The twins Kavvy and Dorfy exit the nursery with the playful rodent into a long hall that becomes an endless dark lane for a magical nighttime voyage.

Davy and Dorfy Kavy Lemouse Rly Icklemouse Father Mother

The Mouse Trap Theatre Night Ends In Fright

Davy and companions sneak into a theater named The Mouse Trap to watch The Farmer's Wife of St Ives. A vivid scene with seven sacks and a dramatic chase by three blind mice and a Cats O’ Dawn erupts, terrifying the tickle mice audience and prompting fear of future stage shows.

Father Davy St Ives Dorfy

Missed the Sun Sold Her Home

New York City March 27 The February 21 announcement that Mrs. W. Seward Webb sold her Fifth Avenue home to John D. Rockefeller cited no reason. An intimate friend said the new St Thomas Church south of the house would block sunlight, prompting the sale after thirty years of sunlit mornings through the home’s windows.

New York City St. Thomas

Mayor of the Death House On Trial in White Plains

Lawrence Spohr formerly a corporal in the U S artillery service with Sing Sing prison history faces a life trial for the murder of Rosie O Toole at the home of her sister Mrs Charles Campbell in White Plains on April 1 1911. Defense argues brain storm and insanity while New Rochelle attorney Charles H Noxon leads the case.

United States Artillery Service Fort Slocum Sing Sing Death House Spohr Rosie O'Toole Charles Campbell White Plains Charles H. Noxon New Rochelle Spo

TRY FOLLER ON INSANITY PLEA

The trial of Herman Foller a young German indicted on robbery will be held tomorrow before Judge Hansler on an insanity plea. A jury will hear the issues. Foller is said to have confessed to entering several stores and a residence. J. Tut hill will defend him while BE McCoy prosecutes for the state.

Herman Foller Hansler Foller Mie Walnut Street Baptist Church Tuthill BE. J. McCoy

Daily riddles questions and yesterday's answers

A compact puzzle page listing five new questions and then the previous day’s solutions. Riddles touch on wordplay with beheadings and puns, while the answers reference fleas leaves and other playful terms.

Blood Poison On The Run Blood Poison On The Run

Cure claim for blood poison using S S and 8. 6 products from The Swift Specific Co. urging readers to buy at drug stores or write to the Medical Dept at 146 Swift Blog Atlanta Ga for a book or private advice. Claims sensational improvements and warns against mineral drugs.

Swift Specific Co Swift Atlanta

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