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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1911
Page
3
A vintage advertising item touts Pape's Diapepsin as a quick cure for indigestion and stomach misery. It claims relief in five minutes, harmless candy taste, and eliminates need for laxatives, with a call to keep a bottle for family use.
A description claims a soap free from dead animal fat rosin acid or lye, marking it as 50 necessary to soap. It promises purity and cleansing for hands, bath, laundry, and woodwork, while avoiding elements that injure or destroy surfaces.
An obituary for Philip Milen Shipton details his death at Dunkerton Iowa on November 22 1911 at age 79. Born in Missouri in 1832, he joined the Union Army with the Second Arkansas Cavalry and served through the Civil War. He later lived in Iowa towns including Waterloo and Dunkerton, farming in Black Hawk County before settling in Dunkerton with his wife and eleven children. He was a Mason Grand Army of the Republic and Presbyterian-turned Methodist, survived by a large family and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren.
An Ecottrille farmer and mother of thirteen credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash for her health after hard work and childbearing. She also says her eldest daughter improved with the remedies and urges others to try them for fatigue, backache, and menstrual irregularities.
The name Verkmann is famed as a guarantee of cleverness and originality in the theatrical world. The Attertean stage Dnastet, a delightful artist, stands as a notable figure beside Alexander in this creative realm.
Madame Adelaide Herrmann the famed illusionist plans a three day engagement at the Majestic Theatre beginning today. The act features new tricks like The Mystic Tea Chest The Phantom Bride and Electrocution while introducing other novelty elements to vaudeville audiences.
Mrs Warner and daughter Anna visited Waterloo on business. The Raymond Sunday school convention lacked larger attendance due to cold weather. Talks and papers by Waterloo and Dewar participants enriched the day. Mrs Witk Frost shows improvement from lumbago as Rev Ward hosts visiting daughters and relatives in town. Clarence Poyner and wife return from kin visits and stay at his parents' park.
A Mrs Julia Finney of St Louis recounts a year of eczema suffering on her foot and leg. She credits Cuticura Soap and Ointment after a friend’s recommendation and reports night pain relief and permanent restoration after three months.
Dr. F. M. Edwards of Portsmouth Ohio promotes Olive Tablets as a gentle non calomel laxative that clears impurities and boosts energy. The preparation, sold by The Olive Tablet Co. in Portsmouth and Columbia Ohio, comes in 10 and 25 cent packages with Dr Edwards as president.
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