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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1913
Page
4
The piece by Hy James B. Morman and contributors discusses strawberry bed setup and fall planting, mulch use, and winter protection. It also covers fall farrowing, porker care, and breeding advice by Hy Valentine and Jared Van WACenen, plus silo benefits for dairy and stock feeding.
A resident near Waterloo, Iowa writes to the Chamber of Commerce proposing a $500 million raise to manufacture a motor machine he claims can generate electricity, power streetcars, saw lumber, pump water, thresh, plow, and run machinery without coal or water. He offers to create a smaller version with instructions and asks readers to travel to New York to secure investors willing to fund a million dollars each.
A reader reports dramatic benefits from Grape-Nuts after long days of work and late study. He describes restored strength, appetite, and nerve calm, noting the cereal’s sustaining power and its role in enabling continued office work and nighttime study.
A letter from a Waterloo writer proposes a communal house purchase to foster a local residence and town honor. The author argues for selective participation and outlines a plan to coordinate purchase and construction once spring arrives, requesting ten dollars a day for guidance.
Rev William Spry pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church denounces the Waterloo Way as a money driven hustle that ignores strangers He pleads for a broader humanitarian spirit and warmer community welcoming newcomers within Waterloo's gates.
Kingsley presented a tablet to the Elks on a Saturday evening, Maynard making the presentation. The inscribed message urges self belief, virtue, protecting childhood and women, and cherishing memories. The donor is noted for long service to the organization and broad circles of friends.
Rev B M Theades assisted by Miss Mtta Plunkett and Mrs J G Wright led a county jail service yesterday at 10 o clock. Mrs J M McStay attended bringing books for inmates. The entry notes 35 50 dollars Franklin coal, clean and clinkerless, from Blim & Co.
Farmers weigh stave silos against concrete when near lumber or gravel sources. If wood, stave silos suit. near gravel and sand, concrete is wiser since initial cost is similar and concrete lasts without decay or wind damage.
Mrs Mary Grady of Iowa City sues contractor William Horrabtin for 1000 dollars alleging illness from fumes from a bitulithic paving plant. The paving mix was laid on a vacant lot beside her home over two miles of road this fall.
The William Galloway farm near Waterloo offers 180 acres on the old Cedar Falls road one mile from Waterloo city limits. The sale features Holstein and Ayrshire cattle Hampshire and Ouver Jersey hogs horses and farm machinery. Improvements valued around 40000 include brick tile structures with cement floors fireproof work and an independent electric light plant and water system.
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