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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1922
Page
5
In Des Moines Register coverage, Iowa legislative hopefuls respond to a league questionnaire on Sheppard-Towner maternity aid, a maximum hour law for women, and women’s seats in the legislature. Of 31 replies, 19 back all questions. six oppose the maximum hour rule. one candidate refuses to pledge.
A final decree dissolving the American Sugar Refining company as a trust was filed in federal district court in New York City today. The agreement, reached two months earlier, was confirmed by Judges Rogers Hough and Manton acting as expediting court and dissolves the American Sugar Refining company the National Sugar Refining company of New Jersey the Great Western Sugar company and the Michigan Sugar company from acts that would prevent full and free competition.
An Irish merchant fleet prepared for action to oppose British shipping, with first ship from New York in June carrying the Irish flag and American banner. The Irish American crew aims to triple US–Ireland trade and attract tourism, backed by US supporters and endorsed by the Irish government in Dublin.
At last night’s meeting the park commission authorized buying playground equipment from Funtail Playground Equipment of Indianapolis. Items include an ocean wave for Byrnes Park, a Cedar River park water chute, a new slide for the Lafayette Park playground, a combination slide and swing, teeter boards, and a Pat's Pond Park slide. Delivery is promised within three weeks.
Local notes report many small items from Waterloo including A.B. Levejoy traveling to Des Moines on legal business and Fern B. Ianes filing for divorce from K. BE Innes. Kenneth Clayton, 14, listed as scarlet fever patient, is at the county detention hospital. Mrs Lenore Patterson visits Iowa City to see her daughter. Fox Shoe Store moves from 710 to 19 Sycamore Street. Verne Isenhower’s tenth birthday party draws twenty children. Board of Directors meeting of the Greater Waterloo Association postponed to tomorrow noon. Judge H. B. Botes plans a trip to Long Beach to visit his father Horace Bates. Helmet lodge members attend Charles Vaughn’s funeral in Hudson. Two boys detected for bakery thefts are sent to probation. Frances Perry of Minneapolis will confer with Waterloo Association on girls club work. A driver hit a boy on a bicycle. the boy is bruised. Rev Alexander Robertson visiting Waterloo has family ties there. A nurse training student Leona Wood from East High will work in Evanston hospital. William Herren of Waterloo to attend San Francisco real estate convention May 31. Plate’s Groceteria sets new sale record with 937 Merit bread loaves in one day. Herbert Starr of Waseca and family visiting his mother on Fowler Street. Starr a Spanish War veteran. Mrs M B Greenburg to perform in Evansville theater. Rummage sale announced at First Presbyterian Church. Memorial Day meeting scheduled for Waterloo patriotic groups at 2:30 p.m. at Memorial Hall.
About 160 officials and workers from the Illinois Central Western lines gathered at Hotel Russell Lamson for a coal conservation conference. The session covered fuel costs from 1914 and 1926, storage and handling improvements, automatic combustion controls, and engine performance records, with strong emphasis on reducing waste and systematizing fuel use.
Chairman Porterfield presented fuel campaign progress to enginemen and officials, noting engineers track coal ton mileage. A railway accountant’s claim that coal bought and consumed could be balanced drew amusement. Harry A. Brown described daily coal handling audits with discrepancies adjusted, while B L Bowden tallied coal waste in station heating. An inspection of station stoves was planned as interest ran high through lunch.
Violent clashes broke out between Ulster constabulary and Irish Republican Army detachments along the Ulster frontier with reports of fighting near Strabane and Clady. The flare up follows ongoing violence since the armistice in Dublin last week not covering Ulster. Pneumatic tubes for parcel post via compressed air were laid in London streets forty years ago but failed.
For 17 years Dr. F M Edwards treated many women with liver and bowel complaints using a simple vegetable blend in olive oil called Dr Edwards Olive Tablets. The olive colored pills claim to stimulate bowel action, cleanse waste, improve complexion, and support general vitality with nightly use. Thousands reportedly use them as a health boost and preventive aid.
An old health ad proclaims exhausted nerve force dulls organs and causes symptoms like irritability and headaches. It argues nervous weakness can be cured by increasing blood activity with Nuxated Iron, claiming new red cells boost nerve force and offering a two week self test with a money back guarantee.
Wisconsin supreme court sustains Severson law allowing prohibition officers to search saloons without warrants. The ruling upheld the right to enter the Milwaukee saloon of H Sitber to seize nonintoxicating beverages during licensed soft drink parlors in Madison on May 3.
The Owen authored the opinion which the court concurred in without any dissent.
Major General Leonard Wood will stay as governor of the Philippine islands until the end of 1922. He was asked to choose between remaining in the islands or returning to the United States to work with the University of Pennsylvania. Also noted is Mrs. Mollie Smith of Smithton Ark as the only woman member of the Independent Order of Hoo Hoo.
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