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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1911
Page
2
The Hold Over Paper is described as the Waterloo weekly that readers digest over the weekend. It is noted for Saturday publication with a Sunday digest following, shaping a local information pattern for the community.
A critical column denounces the ban on the Chicago vice commission report The Social Evil in Chicago arguing postal officials misinterpret the law to suppress vital reform literature The piece links the action to political pressure and laments censorship and legal absurdity.
A brief wartime note contemplates giving Turks and Italians in allied regions a chance to engage. The casual remark hints at broader conflict dynamics and regional fighting expectations without detailing actions or dates.
The piece urges Waterloo to adopt smoke reducing ordinances citing Kimball laundry switch to oil burners and cost savings. It compares Turko Italian war forces, notes Turkey’s naval deficit, and hints at a proposed union depot for Waterloo with local civic action.
In Youngstown the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie tracks will be elevated to remove grade crossings and a new station at the location is part of the improvements. The city population is listed as 79 066.
A compilation of brief editorial notes from various Iowa papers. It cites Sioux City Tribune on punitive policy, Council Bluffs Newpaperell on voter turnout, Marshalltown Times-Republican on governor parole and Rainsharger cases, Davenport Times on state school fire safety inspections.
A Mason City depot report questions Waterloo’s dealings as inspectors prepare to enforce fire escape laws. The Cl arinda Herald notes Secretary Wilson may run for governor to test public opinion on his ties to alcohol interests while a local student conflict with a teacher is reported and a school board upholds a teacher.
Professors Bowman and Crosley publish a second edition of the Corn textbook, 4000 copies, adopted at Ames Agricultural College and Minnesota agricultural high schools. The volume covers ground prep to harvest, seed selection, diseases and pests with cures, and a history of corn development. Bowman, now in Waterloo with Galoway Bros Bowman Seed, praises the work as a standard reference for farmers nationwide.
Despite postal savings banks, national banks show rising deposits from June to September. Deposits climbed from $1,000,000,000 to $1,254,200,060, an increase of $202,060,000, as 3,014 of 7,302 national banks operated savings departments.
A reflective column urges readers to express their own quirky ideas rather than suppress them. It argues that often bright people and teachers are notable because they voice the unexpected rather than conform to convention. Ruth Campbell finalizes the piece.
Residents of School District 72 in Lyon County Wan are aroused after teacher Elizabeth Fagen deputized a pupil to whip Ival Metcalf, 11, prompting district officials to question the legality of delegating corporal punishment authority.
Rock Island Illinois reports funerals for Miss Magdalene Kemp and Erskine S. Walker who killed Kemp then shot himself after a broken engagement. Mrs. C J Walker, mother of the dead man, is dying of shock at Lancaster Wisconsin, with a sister also seriously ill. Kemp died in Joliet Illinois and Walker in Lancaster Wisconsin.
Des Moines reports a storm moving from Arizona brought by a weather system that saved Iowa from an early frost. Dr George M Chappel the weatherman notes the rain spread across the Western states and is moving east, stalling Jack Frost's approach.
Des Moines reports the state dairy and food department shut down a Crescent City operation nine miles north of Council Bluffs for filthy open air tomato paste production. Jacob Pepitoni and associates were fined 25 dollars and costs for pure food violations amid unsafe sanitary conditions and river water used for cleaning.
Mrs Aletha Rush was indicted yesterday afternoon for the murder of her husband at Sheffield on August 4. The grand jury took three days to reach the verdict and Mrs Rush may be brought to Hampton from Osceola for trial this term. The Proms in Sheffield and church work figure among noted community members. Lame Back is one of the most common forms of muscular rheumatism. A few applications of Chamberlain's Liniment will give relief. For sale by all dealers.
A resident describes a four year eczema outbreak covering arms neck and body with severe itching and pain. After three doctors labeled it eczema with little relief, four months using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent led to a complete cure. Signed EL Cate Exie Ky Nov 30 1910. Free samples and skin book offered by Potter Drug Chem Corp Boston.
Meritol Tonic Digestive marketed as a great rejuvenator and builder that tones the system boosts appetite aids digestion and cleanses impurities. Sold by Henderson Drug Co and Red Cross Drug Co representatives of American Drug and Press Association.
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