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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1910
Page
3
An old home remedy combines granulated sugar and warm water with Pinex and sugar syrup or honey. Taken by teaspoonful every one to three hours, it claims to rapidly ease deep coughs and chest discomfort, with a refund guarantee and note that Pinex is a valued pine extract.
An advertisement claims Dr Miles Restorative Nervine cured over three years of nervous prostration. It extols anti pain pills as household remedies and cites WM J Loughran of Philadelphia as a user. The piece links many illnesses to nervous troubles and touts Nervine as soothing nerves and aiding nerve cell function.
Keokuk dispatch reports a husband Ben Steutermann, wife Sue Rena Bridall, and their six year old son perished after the wife drenched them with gasoline and lit a match in a Sunday afternoon blaze. The injured father survived. neighbors and police described a jealous dispute preceding the act with the family having long troubled relations. The couple had lived in Keokuk for years and the husband recalled a recent attempt to reconcile amid mounting tensions.
Washington October 25. All unallotted lands of the five civilized tribes in Oklahoma about 1 660 000 acres and Choctaw forest area about 1 365 006 acres are to be sold by counties from November 21 1919 to March 1 1921. The sale follows discussions by Secretary Ballinger and Commissioner Valen tine with President Taft. Timber will be priced to move, given expected excess supply.
In Reinbeck Iowa October 25 church groups gathered for a memorial service honoring the late Senator Dolliver at the Congregational church. A large audience heard eulogies to the dead statesman with Miss Jean Balillie reciting Major Byers poem and remarks from Rev J Q Robinson Senator De Wolf and J D Morrison praising his Christian character and achievements as a former statesman.
A Snohomish Washington patient Miss Marguerite Hall was cured of a severe rheumatism attack using Dr Williams Pink Pills. Her mother Mrs Hall reported rapid limb swelling reduction and resumed activity after starting the pills. The company guarantees safety and offers a prospectus along with purchase options from druggists or by mail from Schenectady New York.
In Dubuque on Oct 24 the Archangel Raphael feast was observed by Cathedral parish with 9 am high mass and a children's choir. The observance marked the 73rd anniversary of Iowa’s first Catholic church, founded by Rev Samuel Mazzuelli, with Bishop Loras arriving to lead the infant diocese then.
Funeral services for Kenneth Hollcroft were held Monday at 10am from J. H. Hollcroft’s home after he died Saturday when a pole broke and he was thrown. The service was led by Rev. H. Morris with large attendance and flowers from relatives, friends, and the Iowa Telephone Company.
The employer of the company at Waterloo observed a broken wheel and a gate ajar as pallbearers, all former companions of the young man, named Goldman Bingaman Roy Winters Otto Al Bregman George Berenga and John Cordt, were present. interment followed at Riverside.
Des Moines ministers vote to fight saloon interests in the fall election. Resolutions require pastors to sermonize on temperance, urge voters to cast a large turnout, and push the Laymen's Civic union to publish saloon petition names.
A roundup of recent property deeds transfers including L. C. Vanderlip to Gerhard Ludemann Cedar Falls lot 4 block 14 railroad addition for 275 dollars and T. H. Filkins to Peter Oleson land valued at 2800 dollars. Other transfers involve M. S. Cline to John Nelson lot 470 Pacific addition Cedar Falls 2100 dollars and Jacob Mets to C. L. Guy land in 990-14 for 23120 dollars. Additional transfers include Waterloo Chautauqua and Bible Institute to Frank L. King lot 8 block 25 Cedar River park 267.10 dollars Ira A. Fairbank to G. C. Weber and Emma Weber part of lot 2 block 2 Woodbing addition Waterloo 1 dollar and William C. Logan to Louis A. Ebel lot 10 and part of lot block 3 first addition Oak Lawn Waterloo 1 dollar Clifford J. Woolley to Elizabeth Murphy lot 15 block 7 Whitney & Sedgwick's addition Waterloo 1 dollar.
Chicago reports a daytime theft at Raphael brothers jewelry, 166 State street, where forty diamond rings valued at 2500 were stolen from the safe. Mrs. John Raphael identified two rings after a reset, but the tray with the rest vanished while staff briefly left for dinner. store searched with no trace found.
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