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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1913
Page
7
Chicago market notes show wheat and other grains slipping amid world supply signals and favorable Argentina prospects. Cattle and hog demand slow at Union Stock Yards while sheep and lambs remain plentiful. Also reported a Chicago Great Western wreck in Mason City injuring two train crew members.
Center Point residents Clarence Glass and Hazel Hoagland, both 20, obtained marriage licenses. Jonathan Shirey is seriously ill at his son’s home on Commercial Street. Mayor R C Thompson was in Des Moines on business, expected back Friday morning. Eugene Eagle underwent a serious operation at St Francis Hospital last Saturday and remains in guarded condition. Rev Howard Anspach and H A Harrison left for Des Moines to attend the Iowa district general synod meeting. George N Garrettson and wife returned from a three week wedding tour. they will move into their Colonial apartments later this week. Mrs Jessie Manson Garrettson was previously Miss Manson. Diaries of Wallace Barber, deceased, were found in a Fourth Street basement, covering 1869 to 1883. The Young Woman’s Club of the First Congregational church will meet at Mrs W H Rolling’s home Friday evening Oct 17 with officers to be elected. Coughs and colds during fall weather prompt sales of U Foleys Honey and Tar Compound noted as soothing. Father Peter O Dowd of Petersville, aged 70, died in Dubuque, longest-serving priest in the Dubuque archdiocese.
An advertisement promotes Foley Kidney Pills as a fast remedy for backache and rheumatism. It claims the pills quickly tone and strengthen weak kidneys to improve blood purification and overall vitality, with good results and availability from all dealers.
The record notes the day's temperature range with a minimum of 44 and maximum of 58. It compares to the previous year which had a minimum of 41 and maximum of 72. The entry shows markings from Buchanan Optical Co. on ground floor Syndicate block with scattered unreadable text.
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