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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1914
Page
6
An advertisement touts Pape’s Diapepsin as a quick, safe cure for indigestion and dyspepsia. It claims relief within five minutes, easing stomach misery, belching, and sourness, and lets users eat favorite foods again without fear. A fifty cent bottle is advertised at drug stores.
The Ho Anderson Relief Corps Det adopts resolutions extending heartfelt sympathy to Sisters Shirley and Sherwand for the deaths of their father and brother. A copy is printed in papers, sent to the bereaved, and read into minutes as faith and endurance are urged, with a prayer for comfort. A clipping notes Wenatchee fruit shipments to New York, with 82 cars passing on the Great Northern in one night and large fruit yards in Wenatchee.
Members of the Waterloo group and allied towns pledge to buy cotton goods to support workers in the South facing unemployment as mills slow. Mrs. Percy Pennyhacker reads Wilson’s request urging divine service and buying domestic goods to aid shipyard and factory workers. The meeting outlines plans for the year, including building improvements, garbage disposal talk, and future clubs and open lectures.
A Jewish noncommissioned officer named Miller is recommended by General Jennenkampff for the Order of St George for conspicuous bravery in East Prussia. He volunteered at the war’s outbreak, led in captures of a German armored car and a supply train, and gathered intelligence while near Suwalki.
Three bankruptcy petitions were filed recently with Refren P. Jerman. In the case of Mathias Millet near Gilbertville, Massachusetts assets are valued at 2481 with 1765 exempt. Mary Miller, a housewife, lists liabilities of 1821 and assets as SAN. Martin Tollefson, a brakeman, shows liabilities of 5068 with all other details unclear.
William Minnis told police he knew the murderer and named a foreman at the Litchfield factory as a possible source. Officers detained Minnis while Lt. Garrison and Sgt. Wetlaufer traced the call. The foreman denied any knowledge and investigation continued into the alleged threat to Mrs. Sherwood.
A Springfield man claimed to be watching a woman and threatened to remove her at the proper time. He says he worked for Lentz & Ringer briefly and recently left a local hospital. Minnis carried two suspicious checks, $80 and $22, both from the same issuer and believed worthless. The suspect was arraigned in poles court on a drunkenness charge and jailed for two days.
Thomas A. Edison plans a deadly efficient submarine mechanism that extracts oxygen from water, enabling longer submerged operation. He announced the plan during his first Navy visit aboard the submarine G-4 at the Brooklyn yards with Secretary Daniels and a party touring the vessel.
Waterloo lodge No 16 A F & A M invites all Master Masons to a stated meeting at the Masonic temple Tuesday evening October 13 with regular business and balloting. Tabernacle chapter No A A M holds a convocation Monday October 12 at 7 30 for work on the M M M degree and welcomes members and visiting companions.
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