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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1912
Page
10
A vintage ad claims Cascarets cure torpid liver and clogged bowels causing indigestion and foul breath. It promises a thorough cleansing overnight with a 10 cent box, selling safety for adults and children alike and asserting widespread use.
Advertises Ely's Cream Balm as a cure for colds and nasal catarrh claiming instant relief by cleansing the nose throat and head. It asserts improved taste and smell and warns against internal medicines and snuffs while promoting a 60 cent bottle and endorses Fly's Cream Balm for children and a local agent H. W. Taggart.
Iowa State Game Warden George A. Lincoln criticizes local courts for leniency toward violators and urges monthly license remittances, stronger enforcement, and more public interest in game protection. He highlights large fish harvests from state waters, restocking plans, and notes on non game birds and pollution affecting aquatic life.
A legislative note urges changes to law on knowingly selling fish and proposes allowing game birds and captivity raised animals to be sold with game warden permission. It also calls for banning hunting with ferrets and sets minimum fish sizes. An unrelated farm-advertising section promotes The Town Homestead and subscription offers through James M. Pierce, Des Moines.
The John Murphy farm south of town is posted with no hunting, no foraging and no trespassing allowed. Violators will be prosecuted under local property and wildlife laws.
The First Congregational church brothers gathered for an annual meeting with dinner and elections. Officers elected included Simmons as president Wil lame as vice president Fawkes as secretary treasurer and Mac Eachron as Bible class director. A straw vote showed Roosevelt leading with 38 electors while Wilson received 14 Taft five and others two.
An article urges preparedness for childbirth and highlights Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a tonic for the female system. It claims the product helps women become healthy, strong, and normal, and offers confidential advice from the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn, Massachusetts.
Council Bluffs reports a Chicago Milwaukee St Paul policy requiring searches of wheelchair passengers and those riding in baggage cars to prevent concealed weapons after a Milwaukee baggage man thwarted a theft involving an old man in a chair. The incident at Waterloo led to stricter precautions. An advertisement by Holley Kidney Pills closes the piece.
A recipe for rolled oat cookies uses oats flour brown sugar butter sour milk soda and chopped raisins and dates. Mix sour milk with sugar, rub in butter, combine dry ingredients, roll thin, sprinkle sugar, cut shapes and bake for three to four dozen 1 1/2 inch cookies.
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