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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1912
Page
8
Many cases of piles have been cured by a trial package of Pyra mid Pile Remedy without further treatment. When it proves valuable, order more from your druggist at 50c a box. Fill out the free coupon and mail today to save yourself from the surgeon’s knife and its torture.
Free mail order request from Pyramid Drug Company Marshall Michigan offering Pyramid Pile Remedy samples in plain wrap. Customer asks for a sample by mail at once, free, and notes the address 402 Pyramid Brig Marshall.
For hair restoration Sage tea is an old method revived by Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Nair Remedy. Aimed at darkening hair, preventing dandruff, itching scalp, and falling hair, the product promises quick results with a money back guarantee from druggists. Agent H W Taggart.
La Porte City reports a reception for Wade and Floy Koons, missionaries to Korea, hosted by the Ladies Mite Society. They grew up in the city and attended La Porte High School, with Rev Genung speaking and Koons explaining Korean artifacts. Milford Gingrich dies at Mt. Auburn after three weeks of blood poisoning. Funeral at Masonic Hall with ritual. Revival meetings progress with three visiting ministers and a strong quartet. Lewis Struble badly burned in restaurant stove explosion. Various social notes recount travels, visits, family gatherings, and club activities across town.
An ad touts GETS-IT as a new painless corn cure that works in two seconds without wrapping or plasters. It claims safety for skin and flesh, guarantees satisfaction with money refunded, and notes availability from Chicago supplier Law Franca & Co and various distributors in Waterlan Halden Flord Jader Miller and Schuneman outlets.
Yesterday in the court house automobile enthusiasts formed plans for a state affiliated club. F A Ferguson chaired the meeting with J I Kenyon as secretary. H Leslie Smith explained the Iowa State Automobile association link and the Black Hawk county group may join the Town Crier club. A committee will arrange a good roads day at the Waterloo Cattle Congress on October 17 to unite boosters.
An operating Burlington official recalls Boone Iowa missing a Northwestern railroad shop investment after locals backed a strike. He says citizen sympathy scared away the project, noting Chicago shops were planned here and could have boosted Boone into a larger city, while warning against prejudicial community actions harming investment.
Des Moines officials report Carl Franke and the progressive state committee filed nominating petitions with excess signatures for the Iowa state ticket including Bravenk as governor and Moray as secretary of state. The electoral ticket is listed with ten district electors and at large electors. Other petitions include candidates for Congress, state senate, and house, with filing to close Saturday evening.
Franke explains no statewide plan to fix county races. He says counties must determine their own candidates due to differing local conditions. The campaign aims to elect Roosevelt and Johnson and the state ticket.
Democratic speaker Clark will extend a planned two day tour to three days in Iowa. He will speak in Muscatine Burlington Watertown and Marshalltown on Oct 16 and Ottumwa on Oct 17, with a final stop in Des Moines that night. Campaigns in the First District follow with Dunn in Des Moines and Fairfield New London and Burlington.
Real estate transfers reported by Black Hawk Co Abstract Co show Swan Olsen selling to Telena Marbleland in 4-R8-12 for 7400 dollars. Riverview Development Co transfers to Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway Co for blocks 110 and 113 percent and adjoining streets for 8285 dollars. Emmons Johnson sells lot 12 block 1 Miller's addition Waterloo for 1 dollar. E Dunkelberg sells to J M Hamilton lot 9 block 6 Greenfield Waterloo for 1 dollar. Frederick Henry transfers land in 1789-13 to P R Henry for 1 dollar.
Advertising copy touts Knowlton's Danderine as a hair treatment that doubles hair beauty, dissolves dandruff, and stops itching. It claims benefits for neglected, thin, or oily hair, urging readers to buy a 23 to 25 cent bottle and apply briefly for quick results.
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