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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1914
Page
9
An advertisement urges parents to use California Syrup of Figs as a gentle laxative for constipated children. It claims a teaspoonful clears waste and toxins within hours, notes signs of illness, warns about counterfeit syrups, and directs buyers to choose the 50 cent bottle made by the California Fig Syrup Company.
United States to William Joshua Barney and others record transfers. properties include Highland 2nd filing Waterloo lot blocks and Cedar Falls parcels with prices from $1 to $2,232.66. Also advertisement for Crystl theatre today and a note urging want ads in the Waterloo Evening Courier and Reporter.
Des Moines reports from Hardin county reveal county funds drained by careless methods. Bills were paid without proper verification or detail, with double payments possible through overlapping work by laborers, engineers, and cities. Legal action will seek recovery of thousands, and future procedures will tighten controls. Separately, hog cholera reports show scarce serum and quarantines. extermination of exemptions in wage attachments may be discussed after labor and merchant groups convene. Witnesses are slated for Dr Harry D Kelley in a Des Moines court trying to resolve manslaughter and murder charges.
Iowa City reports a medical authorities verdict of insanity for Walter Morris a dental college student. He is in critical condition at university hospital after being picked up wandering drunk and was taken in by police. His roommate says Morris had kidney trouble for a week.
In Fredericksburg Louisiana on November 9 a man was hurt when thrown from a horse and dragged by his foot catching in a shop causing a severe ankle injury. The opera house hosted the first lecture of a course on Monday November 9 with Harold C. Kessing er as speaker. At month’s end the postmaster change occurred Milo L. Sherman served twenty five years and 3. B. Welsh became the new public servitor.
Washburn Kansas territory date. Mr and Mrs Jim Benadum of Cedar Falls were weekend guests of Mr and Mrs George Markn. A boy came to brighten the home.
Des Moines dispatch reports federal agents will kill condemned cattle herds in Clinton county and Ox ford Junction Jones county for foot and mouth disease. Carcasses will be buried in quick lime. Clinton herd counts twenty five head. Federal appraisal amounts not public. Government will pay 50 percent, state of Iowa 50 percent to owners. Dr J I Gibson state veterinarian.
Fred Hentzelmann, 76, Davenport, committed death by his own action by hanging himself to his bed post. He had sprayed for death daily for the last five years, an invalid for twenty years and blind for ten years.
Council Bluffs reports editor Richard Tollnaar of the Marne Free Press vanished after police information from Constable Paul Snyder. The note describes the investigation as ongoing with unclear motives and details.
Quick relief constipation claims, presenting Rheumasalis as a medically blended carbonated lithia drink. It promises gentle action on bowels and kidneys, can be used by infants and adults, and is sold through druggists in five ounce bottles from the Rheumabath Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Jessie Keller and Tommy Woek perform a staging and dancing number with Keller praised as one of the most perfectly formed appendages in a bicycle act. Audience applaud as the act ends. Also notes Mary Pickford and the Famous Players to show To The Boy's Carriage tonight and tomorrow with a Want Ad in the Evening Courier and Reporter for best results.
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