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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1913
Page
3
Rev. D. M. Stearns analyzes Numbers and Exodus accounts focusing on Miriam, Aaron, and Moses within the Levi tribe. The lesson discusses their roles, Mophet humility, and divine rebuke for speaking against Moses, highlighting fidelity to God and trust in His judgments.
Waterloo area religious notices list services across denominations led by pastors such as Geo R BP McNay and Rev J B Smith. The roster includes Adventist, Baptist, Brethren, Catholic, Church of Christ, Scient ist, Christadelphian, Congregational, Episcopal, Hebrew, Evangelical, Latter Day Saints, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Universalist services with times, locations, and Sunday schools.
Salvation Army No. 2221 at 2 Fifth Street East lists 8 A Moyer holiness meeting at 10 30 A M 2 00 P M junior meeting 6 00 P M Young People's Legion and 8 00 P M salvation meeting Champlin Chapel at Burton Avenue and Riehl Street hosts Sunday School at 3 P M led by F E McStay superintendent.
Y W Co lists a century building address 811 613 Sycamore with Secretary Miss Rachel Jones. Vesper service 4 pm at Engle Church. Sunday services 11 am, Sunday school 10 am. Independent Bible Class non sectarian Sundays 3 pm in public library east.
White Plains Oct 11 In testimony Arthur William Barber a New York lawyer told a judge that his wife taught their three year old daughter to recite a nightly prayer asking God to bless grandmother and spare mother and to make daddy a better man He objected to the last line Mrs Barber said she kept daily notes of cruel things he did and to relieve her feelings Would Justice Mills press further on the matter and ask about the husband calling her naughty names
Mr. Barber responds to a wife’s claim by saying she called him the scum of the earth and he retorts that he must be such to have married her, framing a sharp marital quip.
The annual rally at Walnut Street Baptist Church starts at 10 AM with music and department programs. Rev McRhoades speaks on The Chain that Binds and Dr. John Bunyan Smith on A Box of Bees. evening sermon So Near So Far.
Philadelphia, Oct. 11. Rev Zed Hetzel Copp, pastor of Cohocksink Presbyterian, opened a public mental clinic to prevent self harm. He has privately run clinics since May and reports twenty one patients, eighteen of whom contemplated suicide. Clinics will be held Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Five young embryo jack tars from Waterloo returned for an eight day vacation before reporting to Brooklyn navy yard to board battleships. They previously trained at Great Lakes and Chicago, then to be assigned to a European squadron leaving New York. Milbourn notes rising enlistment from the Midwest and the value of farmer boys as sailors.
A pocketbook with 50 in cash and an envelope containing over 1600 in notes and papers was found near Mayor Burnett’s yard after theft from F M Joslan of Frederick Maryland. Officials suspect a local thief remained in Atlantic three days after the burglary as papers and wallet were recovered intact. Joslan was notified by telegraph of the find and residents question how the thief escaped pursuit.
The Kings Daughters announce their Iowa state meeting October 15 to 17 at Albia with many Waterloo members expected. Mrs. Mansfield, state president, spent summer east attending national councils and conventions and returns to preside at Albia. She heads the program committee for the second national convention in Detroit next May.
Waterloo readers are warned by tree expert James Davey that white birch trees in the city face inevitable destruction from the bronze birch borer. He says there is no effective remedy or prevention and urges not planting birch, while recommending bird houses to attract insect-eating birds and heavy fertilization to combat drought effects.
Home keeping women face constant calls on strength and vitality as kidney and bladder troubles appear. Foley Kidney Pills claim to invigorate the system and restore energy, easing back pain nervousness aching joints and irregular bladder action. Sold by all dealers.
Miss Mabel Ettinger leaves this morning for Kansas City to spend the winter with her brother and wife, Mrs. Victor Ettinger, as reported in local society notes.
Real estate transfers listed by county include Joel Burke to E D Dumond in Finchford for 1 dollar, and multiple transfers to Roger Leavitt in Cedar Falls and Waterloo. Other entries cover lots in Leavitt, Kentzelman, Auditor Rainbow additions, and properties in Galloway, Water loo, and Grand View Place. A trade note cites United States to John R Cameron and Hope G Martin to O M Glessner. Also an ad notes relief for sick headaches via Chamberlains Tablets.
The Waterloo Evening Courier promotes Panama and the Canal in Picture and Page, a new illustrated work by Willis J. Abbott. It highlights rare pictures, discusses the canal’s impact, and urges readers to save Panama certificates to obtain the volume for themselves or as a gift, stressing educational value and posterity.
This advertisement promotes Cascarets as a cleansing remedy for digestion. It claims Cascarets thoroughly cleanse the stomach, purify internal organs, remove undigested food and poisons, and relieve symptoms like headache and constipation while costing 10 cents a box. It targets both adults and children.
John Kerper a Carroll County board member is found dead near the fair grounds after his buggy dash and a horse kick. The inquest cites an accidental fall over the dashboard. he was about 50 and survived by a widow and children.
Arch Masons conclude their sixty first convention in Clinton after a tight win over Centerville by ten votes. Elected officers include High Priest Edward M. Willard Atlantic Deputy John W. Corer Spencer King Frank N. Fowler Nevada Scribe Charles A. Dewey Washington Treasurer M. R. Ans cach Clarinda Secretary A. L. Win zate Des Moines.
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