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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1912
Page
7
In Dubuque Iowa on November 20 Archbishop Keane was mistaken for Woodrow Wilson by a stranger during a confirmation tour. A Williams Tennessee platform encounter showed the admirer greeting the archbishop as governor and asking if he was Woodrow Wilson, prompting a polite correction.
A wrecked Overland car was set ablaze after yesterday's forenoon crash near Dunkerton. Driver John Ritzinger and companion Joe Schiel were pinned beneath the vehicle and burned. Schiel sustained serious injuries and is recuperating at home with multiple fractures. Ritzinger has bruises and lacerations. Nearby resident Leo Braniger, with diphtheria, was quarantined as city cases rise to thirty three.
Lamson, president of the Waterloo club and head of the West Waterloo promotion bureau, will not seek reelection at the upcoming annual meeting. He has served six years and cites the growing duties of the presidency, pledging to stay interested while relinquishing the head executive role. He notes factory growth and city development during his term and plans to devote more time to his own affairs.
Fifty milk producers and dealers gathered in Waterloo last evening for a school of instruction in the city hall to discuss dairy standards and sanitation. W. W. Wyant organized the event with lectures by EB Estes and Dr. O P Thompson. A December Des Moines meeting will form a state dairy group with addresses and a banquet at Chamberlain hotel.
Chicago and midwest markets show wheat at new lows on weak Liverpool data with further declines on bearish Argentine news. Cattle hog and sheep prices in St Louis and Omaha mix firm to higher on steady demand. hogs lead gains with futures near 7.70 per cwt. Cash grain and livestock quotes list multiple No 2 red wheat and corn values and regional produce prices.
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