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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1911
Page
9
The article urges women to prepare physically for childbirth and highlights the nervous toll of unprepared motherhood. It touts Lydia J. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as helping women become healthy and strong and invites letters to Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn, Massachusetts.
A twentieth century sensation claims a special formula from chemists of the American Drug and Press Association. Merital Rheumatism Powders are touted as easy to take and certain in results, recommended by physicians and users. Local reps Henderson Drug Co and Red Cross Drug Co.
A letter from Shellhorn Alabama describes relief from prolonged weakness and headaches after using Cardus a tonic for women. The piece promotes Carduffs and states a 50 year track record, urging readers to contact Chattanooga Medicine Co for advisory help and a home treatment book.
An advertisement argues gray hair signals need for help and promotes Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy. It claims the old recipe restores natural color, removes dandruff, and refreshes dry hair. Sold by druggists for fifty cents a bottle, via H. W. Taggart at 637 Commercial St.
Walter L. Houser, in charge of progressive headquarters, asks Howard Clark of Des Moines to call a December meeting of Iowa progressives to begin organizing for La Follette. Aimed at state control of delegates, the effort is said to have Cummins support and to operate in harmony with his camp.
Fairbank items report H C Kuenzel sells Main street house to H A Trebon and moves to Dubuque. Local church groups meet. Sunday school officers elected. Rev C A Peddicord and others attend district events. A fatal house fire claims Henry Leonard. Residents travel to Waterloo, Independence, Chicago. winsome gatherings include farewells, parties, and a husking bee contest.
Quack Duck, longtime proprietor of the city’s Chinese laundry, plans to leave Waterloo for Canton, China, to join his wife with whom he has maintained a boyhood marriage contract. He describes the arrangement as genuine and cites plans to depart tomorrow or Friday.
Marshalltown Iowa November 8 Gust Hockerson forty one years old paid two hundred dollars after being arrested as a Jack the Peeper Miss Tillie Baxter a local woman heard a noise by her window and confronted the man warning him with a bluff to shoot him Her sister called the police and Hockerson was jailed The mayor fined him eighty five dollars plus costs
Springfield news reports Billy Sunday closed his six week revival with a record 607 converts at the last service raising total converts to 6,804. Sunday left for his Winona Lake home with about 13,761 dollars in hand, likely to exceed 14,000. The farewell service drew 10,000 plus as crowds witnessed the final appeals and a large portion of the audience joined at the mourner’s bench.
Mrs Ed Collings of Lakefield Minn visits sister Mrs G A Mead in Parkersburg as a sick child near town is reported. A cement block barn rises on William Slutter’s new southwest Parkersburg home. Arthur Crawston was in Waterloo last Tuesday. Mrs Mary Collins travels to Owatonna Minn to visit relatives with Ethel Conn. Paul Strickland hosts a Hallowe'en party at a Jack o Lantern venue. Mrs H Z Merlin and daughter Mrs Albert Smith visit Waterloo. High school students attend a Hallowe'en party in vacant Mahanke's Hardware rooms. Mrs Herman Schultz hosts a ladies party on her tenth wedding anniversary. Alberta Hoffman visits Cedar Falls over the weekend as Harry Bahr and Eva Christopher are noted.
Reports from Waterloo note Miss Gertrude Hersey visiting and Mrs W T Evans returning from Independence. George Mead remains seriously ill but shows signs of improvement. Several locals attended a dance in Cedar Falls and a matinee in Waterloo while Halloween was quiet.
Howard Foutch nine-year-old son of Mr and Mrs W J Foutch of 732 Mobile Street is in precarious condition after a two week illness with brain congestion. Doctor Hwutoon in charge. Also contains a testimonial letter from Mrs James Watson Boone Iowa praising treatment. Merito Cough Remedy ad promotes safe cough relief for children available at Henderson Drug Co and Red Cross Drug Co.
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