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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1912
Page
6
Pity at seeing thin hair and gray streaks while promising full glossy hair with Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy. Claims dandruff, oily scalp, and hair loss improve in days. recommends a 50 cent bottle from a druggist. Agent H W Taggart.
Des Moines reports a biennial reshuffle at the state house in January with three leading offices to be reorganized. Secretary of State’s office will see major changes as John Jamieson steps from deputy to state binder while a new deputy, an active young lawyer, will be chosen. Other offices offer a mix of salaries and posts, including the governor’s staff, adjutant general, dairy and food commissioner, chief chemist, state veterinarian, and parole and control boards. The custodian atop the state house faces a long sought replacement, while executive council posts and various inspectors roles attract attention.
Gresham notes include Rev Reichert on the sick list, visits by Mrs Schroedermeier and Mrs Raecker from Waverly, Teisinger family travel to Sumner, Mrs Elizabeth Burk's partial recovery from paralysis, and work on Aug Boehme’s crew. Winter term begins next Monday with Agnes Cheaper of Iowa City as teacher. No Evangelical services due to a Dunkerton meeting, and sale bills are promoted with the Courier’s ads. W Hartman Co publishers Waterloo Evening Courier.
A 13 ton traction engine owned by A J Kennedy, a sub-contractor on the interurban grade work, broke through the bridge floor over the river east of Mt Auburn on Monday afternoon. It was being moved from La Porte City to near Brandon when the stringers failed about fifteen feet from the east end, narrowly avoiding a plunge into the water before resting against iron girders below.
Otto D Hilmer of eight miles north of the Franciscan Sisters hospital announces a public auction on December 1 offering 278 head of short horn Angus cattle 34 horses a complete farm machinery line 20 acres of corn fodder in the field 2100 bushels of corn in the ear two barns of tame hay and one stack of straw to be sold.
Des Moines report quotes Attorney General Casson on the thirty fifth Iowa General Assembly. He lists more than a dozen major measures, including arbitration, workers compensation, tax reform, direct inheritance tax, equal suffrage, direct U S senators, good roads, school laws, jail reform, and Australian ballots. He says Republicans must act now to implement progressive changes and anticipates passage of suffrage, prison reform, and other reforms in the coming winter.
Baltimore report on reformatories shows prison population scales with 1910 census data. It notes 125 prisoners per 100,000, 522 commitments per 100,000, and a total 479,763 confined in 1910. It highlights receiving wards as psychological labs for reform, and weighs parole success ranges from 26 to 87 percent, with a wide spread in outcomes. The piece ends noting a sale of five inch white cedar posts by Canfield Lumber Co.
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