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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1912
Page
6
About 750 business men signed a temperance pledge while 1 000 have sworn to oppose saloons. The Waterloo Temperance Association urges keeping saloons to 25, noting prior editions claimed Waterloo could only hold 26. The ad calls for restraint and commercial caution in Waterloo auctions.
Five inch white cedar post offered for sale by Canfield Lumber Co. Contains a garbled line indicating price listed as 3 cents. Item appears from an OCR fragment and details are incomplete.
A Minneapolis to Memphis journeying party recounts a comic collision with a farmer’s dog near Waverly. The animal darted into the auto’s path and died instantly. The farmer’s boy demanded two dollars for the loss, which was paid, and the travelers continued.
Cedar Falls Iowa November 21 Special George Windalfi an aged veteran who served six years in the German army and two in the Civil War died at his home yesterday afternoon at Falls. He came to America later settling first at Tipton and later in Cedar Falls where he lived fifteen years. Survived by widow and four children Jay John Charles Mrs Townsend of Waterloo and Miss Windolf of Alvala. Born in Germany August 3 1821 he grew to manhood there and enlisted in the German army before moving to America. Funeral arrangements postponed pending word from distant relatives.
A Cedar Falls report details a large student mass meeting at the college auditorium to distribute Commercial Club literature about the history of 1S. T. C. and recent board actions. The event aimed to mobilize students for political contact during Thanksgiving break and featured speeches by Hearst and coordinating guidance for each congressional district.
Cedar Falls notes recount moving plans of Fred B. Miller who may relocate to Colorado, local teachers hired for Bellevue High School, social visits, a college football preview against Upper Iowa, and various community events. Also noted are a secret wedding in Waterloo, Belfield Igan son Cedar Falls nuptials, and a temperance rally invites headlines reflecting small town life and ongoing social dynamics.
The Waterloo Trunk company once run by J Morris and J Rosenthal has been sold to John J Herkens. He has assumed control in the Wagner building on Sycamore street and plans to install machinery to manufacture sample trunks and cases. Trunk repair will receive attention as well as soliciting business from Waterloo and surrounding towns.
Nearly 150 businessmen signed the old saloon petition, and organizers expect fewer than 25 this time. The Waterloo business community notes that saloons did not drive growth. no edition or advertisement highlighted Waterloo’s 26 saloons.
An advertisement from the Waterloo Business Men's Temperance Association asserts that liquor sales generated one hundred thousand dollars in revenue tax in a year, paid entirely by Waterloo drinkers, while saloons paid back to the city only thirty thousand eight hundred dollars in multi tax.
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