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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1919
Page
7
Cedar Falls residents organize a good roads campaign ahead of the June 3 election. Promoters from the Commercial clubrooms outline countywide canvass and invite all areas to participate, noting a six mile highway from Twenty-seventh Street to the county line.
J P Ayers aged 70, longtime Greene resident and former owner of a cold storage plant, died after a paralytic stroke. His widow, ill with liver cancer, is hospitalized in critical condition. Surviving are two sons Lestie of Berkeley and Fred of Seattle, plus three grandchildren. Funeral plans depend on arrival of the Seattle son.
Birth announcements list a son born May 18 to Mr and Mrs Warren Shoul of Cas Ue Will and a daughter Edith Etta born May 13 to Mr and Mrs Robert Morris Top Ping of Cedar Falls. An additional birth to Mr and Mrs Irwin Frederick is noted.
May 17 to Mr and Mrs Arthur Henry Clingman Cedar Falls a son Lloyd Henry. May 17 to Mr and Mrs Edward Burk A. Ciawel Cedar Falls a son Ronald Leon. May 18 Larsen Cedar Falls a daughter Virginia Mabel. Avril 2013 and 2013 dis Meld Cedar Falls and Louis Le Jdhes.
An old advertisement touts Canthrox shampoo made from canthra dissolving impurities to renew dandruff and oil. It promises a full cup of liquid from a teaspoonful mixed in hot water, yielding a soothing lather. Claims include a clean scalp, pliant soft hair, and natural glossy color.
A fragment notes births including a daughter Cathery war and a son to Mr and Mrs William Volbruck in Waterloo township on May 1, with unclear text surrounding dates and names.
A young woman promotes a grandmother’s skin whitening method using concentrated buttermilk and cream. Howard's Buttermilk Cream is sold in small quantities at drug stores for reducing wrinkles, lines, roughness, and redness through a nightly facial massage endorsed by actresses.
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