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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1911
Page
10
An old advertisement for Pape's Diapepsin claims rapid relief from indigestion and stomach misery, urging readers to ask pharmacists for the 50-cent case. The article also notes Sheriff Shores rescheduling county jail meetings to alternate Sundays at 10 o'clock, with Y M C A secretary Liljestrand and Christian workers in attendance.
Walter H. Rollins, pastor of the First Congregational church, contrasted a Brewers Conference and an American Missionary convention, noting expense allowances and aims to end saloons. He linked liquor with warfare, race prejudice, and urged loyalty themes expanding to a sermon on Loyalty to Ruth.
Society notes report Florence Lichty, the bride elect to Charles Stewart of San Francisco, hosted by her sister Mrs. F L Northey at Wellington apartments. Guests include Lichty’s college friends from St Marys Knoxville, while groom elect Stewart arrives and Lichty kin gather for the wedding week. Other events include harvest supper plans, a thimble bee, a court of honor reception, and several church society gatherings.
Twenty seven weary individuals appeared before Police Judge Caldwell this morning charged mainly with drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Fines ranged from 7.85 dollars and sentences from five to 36 days of street labor. Ed Sanfrisco denied intoxication and faced a 30 day term. A recently released inmate from Waverly was jailed for 30 days’ street labor after resisting a Waterloo officer.
Seventeen diphtheria cases are under quarantine in North Waterloo with many cases at the Washington school. Most infections occur on Cottage, Riehl and Fourth streets east. Some pupils are kept home while others attend school under physician guidance. One smallpox quarantine is posted at 20 Franklin street. A couple of deaths are linked to diphtheria, but officials say the situation is under control and spreading is unlikely.
J Hill spoke to the monetary reform committee in St Paul detailing currency policy. He urged recognizing first class bonds for loans, proposed tweaks to a central reserve group, and stressed confidence as key to economic progress. He urged a non governmental board and tax exemptions on notes for initial circulation.
In Delwein, the Waterloo Tigers lost 15 to 0 on a drenched field slowed by rain and slick balls. Poor footing, few successful passes, and two weeks without practice left both teams cautious. Borlana and McLain of Oelwein earned praise for key runs as referee John Joice halted play at 3:30. Flow of the Mississippi and an anecdote about Schumann appear in the same page.
Letters from mothers in New York City and Maine extol Mellin's Food for infants. Mrs H P Leonard credits early feeding for a healthy, teething child with thirteen teeth and early walking. Mrs R E Bent from Brooklin recommends it to all non nursing mothers and requests a free sample from Mellin's Food Co. Boston.
A vintage advertisement touts sage tea for restoring hair color, praising Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy as convenient and effective. It claims easy, ready-made use from chemists, with a money-back guarantee if it fails to work as represented. Sold by druggists for fifty cents a bottle.
At the forty third annual National Woman Suffrage Association meeting in Waterloo Iowa residents heard Miss Kate Mc Gordon New Orleans urge listening to heart and head while Miss Winsor Philadelphia pressed for decisive action. Speakers praised pamphlets and balloons for outreach and urged moving into political campaigns with concrete tactics ending in a call to rally women to vote. Public notices follow with sewer project plats and street improvements in Waterloo including specific streets and deadlines for objections.
Davenport Oct 23 Aviator Hough Robinson who had flown his hydro aeroplane from Minneapolis to New Orleans ended his night at Rock Island and Sunday packed up his machine and left for Enid Oklahoma to fill exhibition dates. The failure of fifties along the river ary to pay ex-
City notices owners of abutting properties on West Mullan Avenue from Washington to Jefferson of a filed plat and schedule showing the cost of street improvements. The schedule is on file for inspection in the Waterloo Iowa city clerk's office, with a 20 day deadline from October 21 for objections or corrections. R C Thompson, City Clerk.
Toa the property owners owning property abading the described streets in Waterloo Town. Rhey street from Fowler to Illinois Central Railway belt line. Sycamore street 150 feet east of Division street. Gable street from Fourth to Linn streets. Cortland street from Mobile to Vinion streets. Park Road from Broadway west 4 feet. Dawson street from Reed to Lincoln street. Linenin street from Dawson to Kern streets. Linenin.
The city of Waterloo Iowa informs owners of lots and parcels abutting described sidewalks of cost and schedule as filed with the city clerk for inspection. Objections to the plat schedule or to prior improvement proceedings must be written and filed with the city clerk within twenty days after Saturday October 21 2011. City Clerk R C Thompson signs.
Notice in Waterloo Iowa records an attached plat and schedule detail the cost of constructing cement sidewalks in front of numerous parcels across multiple blocks and additions. The descriptions include many lot numbers and block names, plus two street alignments and boundary measurements for affected areas. The action seeks property owners to review and respond as required by law.
A promotional note extols modern devices and medical progress. It highlights Meritol Rheumatism Powders as a trusted remedy, produced by the American Drug & Press Association. Exclusive representatives Henderson Drug Co. and Red Cross Drug Co. offer the formula with a positive guarantee.
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