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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1914
Page
12
A major second floor display features three highlighted prices on a wide range of skirts in Poplin Broadcloth Serges and Cluddah Cloths. Styles include plain and pleated tunics side pleats braid trim and button details. Sales staff ready to assist now or later.
The Waterloo store promotes new lines with a focus on Vanity Bags and leather handbags. It advertises clear price advantages and a broad selection of blankets, underwear from Globe Knit, and Hosiery from Taiffel Phobis and Buster Brown lines. The ad highlights guarantees and liberal exchange if items do not fit.
Westfield pupils bid farewell to the old building as the Thomas Edison new school opens Monday with 225 pupils in seven rooms. Supt Hukill accelerates moving furniture to finish before the start. six grades plus a kindergarten, three extra rooms for future manual training and domestic science. Principal Miss Kate Martin and staff list includes Misses Good Elefson Dewey Martin Madden Lorenzen.
Cedar Rapids reports the Royal Ladies national convention closed with a Kingston hall dance honoring supreme officers. Delegates from five states attended. Fond du Lac Wisconsin chosen for the 1915 convention. Officers elected include Past royal princess Ida Dickjer Racine and Royal princess Meta Wagoner Racine among others.
Dr. S. V. Duncan of Dale, Texas, celebrated 50 years as a Mason in Pleasantville Lodge 128 A F and A M. A Civil War veteran, he moved to Indias, Texas ten years ago after practicing medicine in Pleasantville for 35 years. He was initiated October 15, 1864.
The fifty-seventh annual Odd Fellows convention will be held in Burlington October 19 21 with Grand Warden Sweeney of Ottumwa as grindmaster and Otis city delegation led by him. The twenty seventh annual Iowa Rebekah assembly sessions follow. The event marks the first lodge anniversary in Burlington since 1844.
The Davenport defendant Johani fatally injured his wife in a 1914 incident. A jury in Scott County found the case serious, with the state seeking severe penalties and the defense citing prior troubles and alleged infidelity.
The readable bits describe a woman in Elrun and references to people named Dane Fleming and Faye. The text is garbled with missing context and incomplete phrases making interpretation uncertain.
The report notes greater work on locomotive rounds and track in 1912, with more machines and steam equipment. Grist revenue rose over the year ending June, as ex penditures for additions and improvements reached 10.23 million dollars for five years, including 946 thousand spent in the year. Seventy locomotives now have superheaters, and equipment value used in five years totals 6.0 million dollars, with 2.744 million spent in the past year.
The text touts Hyome Hs as a safe remedy for catarrh and colds, claiming powerful healing and digestive benefits while warning against strong brags and unsafe linings. It urges readers to seek relief and warns of dangers from unsafe remedies.
An advertisement touts Rheumasalts as an internal bath to ease constipation and purify the system. It claims the carbonate drink cleanses the intestines without calomel, is non nauseating, and acts softly overnight. Sold by the Rheumabath Company of Minneapolis.
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