This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 14 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1915
Page
1
Joseph Col n will speak at Walnut Street Church on Sunday night detailing his father’s Jewish background and conversion to Christianity. He describes persecution, travel to America, and his mission to share the gospel with New York Jews, noting many have confessed faith while others remain secret believers.
Palm Sunday activities fill many churches with special services and music preparations. Notable plans include grand processions, choirs rehearsing pieces by Mendelssohn and Handel, and a confirmaton service at Immanuel Lutheran. Rev. YU Prekel leads a Sunday morning rite with fourteen confirmands.
A dense list of church notices across the city detailing denominations, service times, pastors, and venues. Includes Baptist, Lutheran, Roman Catholic, Methodist, Brethren, Hebrew, and other congregations with street corners, mass times, Sunday school, and special lectures. Notable items include Joseph Cole of New York City lectures on Jewish history and war, and Easter sermon notes from various pastors.
Central Avenue Fourth and South Rev L C Moore holds services 10 am and 7 30 pm with Sunday school at 9 45 am. Christian Endeavor at 6 40 pm. Morning subject: evening Critic of God in Red A New. First Church of Christ Scientist Jefferson 648 am services noon Sunday school. Episcopal Christ Church Fourth east. Rev W Hinke communion 8 am matins 9 30 am Sunday school 12 noon. St Mary Corner Fourth and Beier. Rev D A Pachlea Sunday school 10 am service 11 am. Lafayette and Park Rev J A Lang services 1 00 pm 9 am Sunday school 10 30 am center YOR 89 pm. Morning theme The Ideal and What it Costs evening Lord It is well monthly missionary talk 30 pm. Login Avenue United Logan and thoy de. Bamford services 11 am 7 20 pm. Bible ser.. and Christian Endeavor as usual no preaching service tomorrow due to Midi conference.
A local class meets with Hert at 321 Seventh Street East on Sunday for prayer and testimony at 2 30 p m studying scriptures. The St loom Tabernacle shadows hold a Wednesday service at 8 p.m.
New York relief official J Ernest W Bysshe a distributing agent for the Methodist Episcopal board reports entry to allied lines near Ypres. He describes great destruction and ongoing bombardment while organizing refugee women in a workshop to manufacture clothing for military dependents and distributing a truckload of food to aid the displaced.
Women of the City will assist in the YWCA financial drive. A meeting set teams for canvassing across the city. Frances Crittenden of Minneapolis will advise workers on methods. Sunday talks will be given in city churches by association representatives to demonstrate progress.
The Waterloo Evening Courier and Daily Reporter is available at Harriott's News Stand in San Francisco during the exposition and is on file in the Iowa building's reading room.
Firestone tires are highlighted for multiple long distance and record races across 1914. Barney Oldfield uses Firestones on 800 mile and 671 mile exploits, while other drivers including Jules Goux and Louis Disbrow win notable events on Firestones. The article emphasizes consistency of Firestone performance on desert roads and major national competitions.
Waterloo could receive statues from the Panama-Pacific Exposition as part of a national memorial project. Mayor R C Thompson forwarded the notice from Exposition President Myers to Dr Margaret Clark of the Waterloo Woman's Club for action. California cities lead in preference but many statues will be sent nationwide. the pieces, not marble but durable, will be installed in public parks or buildings at no cost to the cities.
Manchester, March 27. The Delaware district court convened in an adjourned session by Judge H. B. Boies of Waterloo. Adjournment taken until Monday next week. Boies disposed of numerous matters in the stretched proceedings including a divorce case involving a long marriage and incidents of hairpulling.
Mrs. Freida Schrader of Hartville sues Carl Schrader for divorce after forty two years of marriage begun in Dubuque county on December 14, 1872. She alleges repeated brutalities including forcing her into the snow in stocking feet and pulling hair out by the handful. The court grants her title to the family home in Warville with the divorce decree.
The Argentine battleship Moreno, sailing from Philadelphia toward Hampton Roads, collided with a Newcastle Delaware barge 30 miles down the Delaware River. The barge sank. Moreno grounded until 7:30 a.m. today, then freed and proceeded down the Delaware Bay seemingly uninjured toward sea.
An old advertisement invites readers to mail five cents with name and address to Foley & Co. Chicago to receive a trial package of Honey and Tar Compound Foley Kidney Pills and Foley Cathartic Tablets. The text promotes reading Want Ads in the Evening Courier and Reporter.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.