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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1911
Page
3
A vintage advertisement touts Cascarets as a cure for a lazy liver and upset stomach. It claims the product cleanses the stomach and bowels overnight, banishes gas and sourness, and leaves users feeling great by morning. Contains lines urging children to take Cascarets for a pleasant taste.
Mrs. Mary Soder, longtime Masonville resident since 1900, filed for separation from her husband Frank Soder. Her petition, filed by attorney B. B. Stiles of Manchester, notes their marriage on September 18, 1900.
Mrs James Watson of 203 West Sixth Street Boone Iowa writes five years after a course of treatments by Dr Wilbert Shallenberger of Chicago. She suffered long with stomach and bowel catarrh and skin boils with pus beneath. after the treatment she declares she was cured and life saved.
Government probes into Chicago vice reaches to influential figures as the Justice Department coordinates a six week nationwide inquiry into the Mann Act. Grand jury action against alleged violators in Chicago is anticipated as federal agents work with local investigators and the vice commission in Washington.
The refusal to grant a writ of certiorari from a Mann Act case is seen as a practical statement of the act’s constitutionality. Prosecutions under the law have occurred in Chicago, though few targets reach the actual leaders of the traffic. Federal prosecutor Wilkerson said no evidence was ready for the grand jury and declined further comment.
An assortment of notices describes early 1900s medical advertising and local events. Reports include a Manchester Iowa accident injuring Mrs. Jerome Sabin and her son, a fire-destroyed factory site, a power plant rebuild, and a flood of testimonials praising a rupture appliance with claims of cure and trial. The letters mention numerous towns and individuals testing this device.
An inventor promotes a unique appliance described as the sole product of its kind with a soft rubber air cushion that adheres to the body without irritation. It claims invisibility under clothing, washable materials, no metal springs, and durability. The seller touts thirty years of honest dealing and appealing prices with a free coupon offer.
Durant Jones of Perry guides a new Prohibition Ex tension Society of Perry with aim to secure state and nation wide prohibition. The 5000 dollar capital stock company seeks to enact laws and publish material to aid the dry cause and profits after 6 percent dividends go to the Iowa Prohibition party state central committee. Corporators include C Durant Jones Ida P Jones and H E Pearl Butler.
An enthusiastic committee of fifty overseeing Jets in Hagerman and Downing places reported progress at Northwestern Land & Investment offices. Over 200 lots sold in a week, 674 remaining this morning. Mercantile Warehouse Co subscribed for 30 lots as plans to launch a campaign to fund the Gladstone hotel construction unfold.
The United States circuit court approved the plan for dissolving the American Tobacco Company with modifications. It directs keeping intact books and records for accounting and ongoing litigation, with Lacombe limiting the defendants’ control for three years and denying sale of United Cigar Storer Company stock.
A Bethlehem Pennsylvania man writes that after six years with a rupture he found relief using the Brooks Rupture Appliance. He says the device fits snugly, is unobtrusive day or night, and has healed his rupture, adding he will recommend it to friends and strangers and praises the company’s conduct.
A Texas farmer writes to praise the Brooks adaptors of Appliance Co in Marshall for a life changing medical device. He claims decades of rupture wearing various trusses ended after using the appliance last November. He reports eventual cure and resumed farm work without aid, though text cuts off mid sentence.
Dear Sir, your appliance did all you claim for the little boy and more. It cured him sound and well after about a year of use, though it cured him three months after starting. We tried several other remedies with no relief and will recommend it to friends. William Watterson, 717 S Main St, Akron Ohio.
Seven year old Francis Sniffin of Bristow Ta was shot in the back while riding with his father W B Sniffin near Bristow Friday around 5 pm The bullet lodging near the second lining of the abdomen punctured four places in the intestines and the child remains in serious condition at Rohlf hospital Waverly The shooter Willard Coddington is jailed on criminal carelessness charge with a $500 bond and a hearing set for next Wednesday
An advertisement promotes S S S as a blood purifier to cure rheumatism by cleansing the inflammatory uric acid from the blood. It claims external remedies are temporary and urges readers to purify blood through the plant based preparation sold by The Swift Specific Co. of Atlanta Georgia.
Ezekiel Lizer transfers land in 26 87 11 to Charles J Broad for 800 dollars. Henry L Weisbard sells lot 7 block 14 Normal addition Cedar Falls for 1 dollar to Carl B Miller. William H Howrey conveys lot 18 block 3 Prospect Heights Waterloo for 450 dollars to Faye Hoff. Martin Faffner sells lots 17 18 block 1 Grand View Place Waterloo to Hawkeye Investment Co for 1 dollar. Galloway Gibson Investment Co transfers part of lot 3 division BH Cedar Heights to Henry J Lemks for 450 dollars. Edwin W Kendall sells lot 4 Prospect Hills addition Waterloo to Galloway Gibson Investment Co for 1 dollar.
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