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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1919
Page
4
George H. K. Twaddle, Cedar Falls resident news representative, is based at the Waterloo Evening Courier and Daily Reporter office located at 121 West Fourth Street. Telephone 17 and office hours 9 to 12 and 1 to 2 p.m.
The three Cedar Falls banks sent 412 006 to the seventh federal reserve district in Chicago as the first remittance for the Victory loan the largest single city bank transfer to date. A second remittance is planned for July. Registration boards meet for bond election on good roads June 3. details include session across four precincts May 31 to election day for those out of town.
A joint Atlantic meeting of laymen committees from six leading Protestant churches discussed uniting the Methodist Christian Baptist Congregational Presbyterian and United Presbyterian bodies. Clarence Bigelow former Camp Dodge chaplain was named chairman of the tentative organization with a follow up meeting in three weeks to seek common ground for unification.
George Williams a 67 year old Spaniard was arrested after alighting from Sinois Central No.1 at 1 am with 14 pints of whisky in a grip and more strapped under his hat. He carried $118.09 in cash and was held on a state charge of illegal transportation with bond set at $200.
Chicago May 22 Ed Strangler Lewis earned 5000 for throwing Byszko here the loser collected 1762.50 and receipts totaled 11900.
A dated school report lists humorous eighth grade exam responses on topics from music theory to Emancipation Proclamation and physiology. It notes simplistic health ideas, misdefined terms, and puzzled lines about institutions and famous figures alongside agricultural and weather updates.
A vintage beauty notice touts canthrax as a simple inexpensive shampoo. It claims to clean the hair and scalp of dandruff dirt and excess oil, leaving the hair dry quickly and evenly and looking soft fluffy and abundant. A teaspoonful dissolved in hot water makes a full cup of shampoo easy to apply.
The US Department of Agriculture weekly weather crop bulletin for Des Moines reports a favorable week for farm work with abundant sun and drying soil. Corn planting ranges from 75 to 90 percent done in northeast counties with early corn up and germination good. statewide progress about 60 percent.
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