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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1921
Page
12
Des Moines reports James W. Holden chairing the state highway commission announces 16000 men are employed on 154 highway projects in 94 counties. Many projects won't finish this season. federal funds of 75090000 aim to keep idle workers employed through winter, with deep cuts and fills usable unless severe weather halts progress.
Des Moines reports Swaney Curtis aviation field to become a Chicago to Omaha mail route station with Iowa City Grinnell Des Moines and Atlantic as stops. Regular mail planes ready to cover outages. passenger service priced as low as $5 for 30 miles with coupon books offering 1000 miles for $150. About 22 visitors flew from Des Moines to Iowa City for the football game.
In 1875 T R McElhinney began fishing and hunting at Lake Okoboji. His forty-sixth annual trip last week with Thomas S Wells faced a full gale with whitecaps. Early trips centered on duck hunting with torch and spear, once logging 3200 ducks in a day shipped to Booth & Co Chicago.
The city youth groups plan a large Halloween party at the Y M C A next Tuesday night October 25 featuring a masquerade and stunts. Invitations are being printed for 1,500 recipients and church groups W C C A M C A and two business colleges are invited. committees are finalizing plans with costumes including witches and black cats.
Mason City Iowa October 18 A district Lions club official urged old fashioned modesty and recited an original verse lamenting styles that expose ankles and midriffs. He asked for a return to garments and dances of earlier eras, ending with a plea for "God's richest Dressing" but no undressed women.
J R Rector former mayor of Waterloo and Mrs Rector drove 700 miles through Wisconsin Minnesota and the Dakotas reporting a record Red River valley potato crop. He noted one North Dakota grower yielded 13060 bushels on 60 acres and prices as low as 60 cents per bushel there versus $1 in Wisconsin. He blamed high freight and said dairying areas shelter farmers from hard times. the worst road stretch was between Janesville and Weastern.
Andrew Carmical former Courier sports editor becomes advertising manager for Coats & Burchard Co with offices in Chicago New York Detroit Cincinnati and Dallas He writes from Chicago that the city is the best in the world while Waterloo remains a cherished hometown.
The ad proclaims Pape's Diapepsin as a harmless antacid giving immediate and lasting relief for stomach issues. It asserts over a million sufferers in the U S England and Canada use it yearly. A sixty cent case promises relief within five minutes from sour risings belching gas and indigestion.
Sioux City Oct 18 Billy Sunday calls for a national law to ban dancing, declaring it a greater social evil than the saloon. He criticizes church members for moral torpor and cites After Death the Judgement as his sermon topic. Thousands attended. doors closed 15 minutes before start. A group of 250 Sap a women attended.
The years after George Klein’s production of Quo Vadis sparked wide attention, a renewed showing now attracts a broad audience of motion picture patrons and students. The revival demonstrates the lasting appeal of a great theatrical work as it reaches a fresh generation.
An advertisement promotes Danderine at 35 cents a bottle, claiming one application banishes dandruff and hair loss, and leaves hair looking fuller, brighter, and more vibrant with renewed color and vigor.
Remember the Rowe and Garden Theatre present a mixed program at Strand City. Mary Miles Minter stars in Her Winning Way with Clyde Cook in The Toreador offering real comedy. Anita Stewart leads a stirring mystery, with Pathe News and musical numbers filling the slate.
An old advertisement touts Epsonade Salts as real Epsom salts combined with fruit derivative salts to mimic sparkling lemonade. A tablespoonful in cold water is suggested for biliousness headaches and constipation, pitched as a discovery of the American Epsom Association.
A Salem Massachusetts resident praises Foley Cathartic Tablets for constipation. The ad claims the tablets are wholesome and cleansing without griping or nausea, banishing headaches and bloating. Sold everywhere.
A man describes two years of stomach pain with sour belching and coated tongue. After using Mayr Wonderful Remedy he recovers fully and urges others to try it. The ad claims the preparation cleanses the intestinal tract and eases stomach liver and intestinal ailments including appendicitis. Money back guarantee. For sale at druggists.
A fragmented story threads suspense through a haunted setting with a woman accused, a baffling safe robbery, and a lone cabin confrontation. The plot features twists, surprising attacks, and a perilous escape as truth gradually emerges.
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