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Newspaper

Waterloo Evening Courier

Location

Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America

Date

May 15, 1911

Page

2

Waterlo o Courier in Europe Travel Postings

The Waterloo Courier lists overseas locations where American travelers can find The Courier in Europe. It names offices in London Trafalgar Square Room 7 and addresses in Paris Boulevard des Capucines and Unter den Linden, with additional postings in Berlin and other cities. Foreign postage details and paper formats are noted.

Armerican Europe Waterloo Courier Met London Trafalcar Northeam Ferland Avenue American Express and & Beynasky Dewe’s Steamship Agency Green Boulevard Des Capucines Place de Powers Ree Berbe Pectin Unter den

Fallacy of the Promoters of Peace in Sioux City Tribune

The piece argues against armed peace advocates, contending Hobson logic fails for individuals versus nations. It warns that disarmament without international governance invites aggression, fearing European powers would seize the land if the navy were reduced.

Sioux City Tribune Courier Hobson

The Farm Wife's Blessing A Cough Syrup

An old home remedy claims a simple syrup can stop a cough and cure colds. It mixes Branulated Sugar with hot water then adds Mentho-Laxene essence, bottled and taken by the spoonful hourly. The text touts ease for children and adults and even mental healers favor the simple home treatment.

Inevitable Reciprocity Debated in Global Contexts

A rhetorical piece discusses international authority and reciprocity as a guiding principle. It contrasts formal law with cultural habits and uses examples from daily life to illustrate how reciprocal exchanges shape language and social interactions.

The Butterfly Girl Hosts Sunday Supper and Superstitions

The Butterfly Girl presides at a Sunday night supper where salt is spilled and superstitions are joked about. Molly, the stenographer, fears the omen while others debate left shoulder moons and luck. The group, including the author man and the woman who always knows somehow, recognizes shared quirks and lingering beliefs.

Molly E Cannon Joan Spirit OF the Iowa Press Sud

Remembering Higginson and a generation of American scholars

The Des Moines Register and Leader recalls the splendid New England era and says that with Thomas Wentworth Higginson the last of a famed group passes away. It notes Longfellow Holmes Lowell Garrison Everett Wendell Phillips Whittier Emerson Hale and others as leaders in literature and ideals shaping a united nation.

Des Moines Register New England Thomas Wentworth Higginson Longfellow Holmes Lowell Garrison Everett Wendell Phillips Whittier Emerson Hale Thomas Wentworth Higgin

Cleaning Up Illinois Politics Targets Senate Scandals

The Progressive Republicans of Illinois in the state Senate vow a cleaning up at the next election. They claim the Lorimer scandal and related corruption will bear fruit, surprising many fossils and cow men across the Mississippi.

Illinois State Senate Lorimer Mississippi

Mexican revolution mocks U S burden to civilize the continent

The article argues the Mexican revolution is a serious threat and criticizes both Insurgents and United States officials for failing to maintain civilization on the American continent amid stabbing, looting, shooting, and looting incidents.

United States

Legislature botches road dragging laws causing fund delay

The legislature botched road dragging laws by leaving provisions so the Cunningham fund is not available until next year. If lawmakers had focused on proper road legislation, they might have improved what they set out to do.

Nine Years Nearer Trial for Packers Under Sherman Law

The text notes the Packers are nine years closer to trial since proceedings began, arguing nine years is a short span in eternity. It invokes the Sherman Act as a longstanding tool to crack old trusts that keep food from hungry mouths and imply ongoing enforcement.

Opposition moves on berry box truth across Congress

Sioux City commissioners push for truth in berry and fruit boxes while Representative Peters of Massachusetts proposes a federal standard to ensure a quart box indeed holds a quart. The debate mirrors local pushback as politics and commerce collide.

Sioux City Tribune Sioux City Congress Peters Massachusetts

Enduring Men of New England Echo a Bygone Era

The document reflects on Everett and a prior group of eminent New England figures, noting their long lives, plain living, and high thinking. It contrasts their literary and intellectual achievements with later elites focused on industrial success, and ponders future standards in a postwar era. It hints at a current struggle to elevate human rights over property rights.

Everett New England Tni

Sunday’s Beautiful Picture of Heaven

In Lolredo Ohio Evangelist Sunday at the tabernacle Friday night painted a vivid word picture of heaven’s glories. The audience listened in a trance as his rhetoric rivaled canvas splendor and counted 4,587 conversions by Friday night.

Loledo Evangelist Tabernacle

Waterloo Women Attend Biennial Convention

Mrs. Julian W. Richards leaves for Sioux City to serve as state president of the Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs and deliver the opening address at the ninth biennial convention. Waterloo delegates include Mrs. Langlands, Mrs. Sigworth, Mrs. Noble, Miss VanMetre, and alternates McElhinney and Boggs. other local attendees and committees listed. Mrs. W. H. Woods chairs Household Economics. Mrs. Storm and Mrs. Marsh attend. Audubon Society president Mrs. Small also speaks Wednesday afternoon.

Julian W. Richards Sioux City Iowa Federation of Women’s Clubs Ladies’ Literary Society Women’s Club Mra G. Langlands H. W. Sigworth L. §. Noble Cedar Falls Margaret VanMetre Ella White A. Boggs Tressa McKinney W. H. Bickley McElhinney Boggs Waterloo J. H. Woods E. L. Johnson Margaret Clark Matt Parrott Fred Austin E. M. Storm W. W. Marsh H. M. Reed W. B. Small The Audubon Society

Cole Younger Visited Waterloo Briefly Yesterday

Cole Younger former outlaw and evangelist spent a short time in Waterloo yesterday registering at the Hummel hotel. He declined a planned Eagles address to catch the 4 30 train south on the Rock Island road. Also notes a testimonial on Chamberlains Liniment for sore muscles and rheumatism.

Cole Younger Waterloo Hummel Hotel Eagles Hel Rock Island Road

Gideons To Place 150 More Bibles In Iowa Hotels

Gideons from Waterloo and Cedar Falls report successful presentations across multiple churches. The group plans to place 150 additional Bibles in transients rooms of Iowa hotels, with speakers including H. T. Howland C. R. Rolide James Draper and FP Willis Jenks. Members feel encouraged to expand their work in the future.

Gideons Cedar Falls Waterloo Iowa H. T. Howland C. R. Rolide Methodist James Draper Baptist Mr. Bowen Presbyterian Willis Jenks

Mrs Doxey Faces Cancer as Bigamy Bond Is Renewed

In St Louis on May 15 Loren B Doxey says his wife Dora Elizabeth Doxey is dying of liver cancer while she awaits a renewed bigamy bond. The pair traveled from Savannah Tennessee and the new bond was arranged after the old one expired. She is accused of marrying William J Erder while still married to Doxey and was previously acquitted of arsenic murder charges.

St. Louis Loren B. Doxey Dora Elizabeth Merchants’ Hotel Savannah Tenn Wurdeman Clayton

Big Prize for Big Cattle Show In October

Indications point to a successful daily convention and cattle show next October with exhibitor reservations nationwide. Prof. F. G. Van Pelt reports H. Y. Prentice has pledged 150 dollars in Jersey cattle prizes, aiding the New England fair Waterloo show and the National Dairy show. Chamberlains Tablets praised for digestion, sold by dealers.

G. van Pelt H. Y. Prentice Jersey Prentice Worcester Mass Waterloo

Stage Lodge Play For Masonic Order

Cedar Rapids Iowa May 15. Arnold has secured dramatic rights to An Eighteenth Century Lodge by Joseph Morcombe Storm Lake for next season. Eighteen actors from Masons and Rowe will perform with Masons allowed as audience. Iowa cities Davenport Des Moines Cedar Rapids Sioux City on itinerary. Los Angeles offered $1000 for opening but play will debut in Detroit. The work portrays a London lodge meeting at the Thatched House Tavern in 1728.

Cedar Rapids PB Arnold Joseph Morcombe Storm Lake Masons Rowe Iowa Davenport Des Moines Sioux City Los Angeles Detroit Arnold London

Evangelists Reunite in Toledo After Sunday Sermon

A happy reunion of evangelists occurred at the Tabernacle in Toledo on Friday after Mr. Sunday’s sermon. M. B. Williams of Chicago and French B., a prominent evangelist and son-in-law of Williams, greeted Sunday and his party. Several earlier collaborators, including Miss Saxe, Miss Miller, Fred Seibert, and Mr. Gill, were noted for their past roles with Williams or Sunday. French B. Oliver, Sunday’s first singer, also appears in the reunion narrative.

Toledo Tabernacle M. B. Williams Chicago French B Williams Sunday Mr. Williams Miss Saxe Miss Miller

Ditcher Stabbed in Webster City Knife Fight

Webster City Iowa May 15 W O M Green a barber is jailed charged with stabbing Owen Dillon a ditcher who was severely wounded in a knife affray on Seneca Street yesterday morning Dillon is in Mercy hospital with little hope of recovery Police report the suspect and victim known to locals and the incident under investigation

Webster City W. OM. Green Owen Dillon Seneca Street Mercy Hospital Dillon

Knife attack leads to life threatening injury near doorway

Bystanders report Dillon grabbed Green causing Green to threaten and stab with a knife into the abdomen just above the stomach. The weapon wound was described as severe with Dillon in precarious condition.

Green Dillon

Sunday School Workers Meet at Cedar Rapids Convention

The forty six annual State Sunday School association convention will be held in Cedar Rapids on June 6. Noted out of state workers include Herbert Moniger of Cincinnati Mary Foster Bryner of Chicago and I H Meredith of New York. A chorus of 200 voices will lead the music with Cedar Rapids hosting entertainment on the Harvard plan for delegates who notify Mrs J Wilbur Hill by June 2.

State Sunday School Association Cedar Rapids Tanda Towa Herbert Moniger Cincinnati Standard Mary Foster Bryner Chicago International 1. H

Statues Draped in Lingerie Provokes Police Action

Washington officials condemn the desecration of statues after General Sheridan in Sheridan circle was dressed in lingerie on Sunday night. Maj. Richard Sylvester says such acts will not be tolerated and police and the district commissioners order thorough searches to identify the offenders with Precinct Detective Weber assigned to the case.

Washington, D. C Police Department Richard Sylvester General Sheridan Sheridan Circle Talschief General Tenth Precinct Weber

Local prank investigated by police and Major Sylvester

Policeman Sullivan leads the investigation into a prank whose perpetrators are not yet identified. Major Sylvester says the mischief appears to be carried out by boys with a perverted sense of humor.

Sullivan Sylvester

Wets Abandon Jones County

Monticello Indiana May 15. Contrary to expectations the saloon and liquor dealers of Jones county will not circulate petitions for saloons here. After July 2 1912 there will be no saloons in Jones county.

Monticello, In Jones County

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