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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1911
Page
9
Claiming three years of research and over fifty thousand dollars cost, Pape's Cold Compound supposedly halts a cold or grippe within hours with doses every two hours, avoids quinine, and guarantees quick relief from headache, feverishness, nasal congestion, and throat soreness.
Denver Iowa October 25 1919 Joseph B Farris longtime Bremer County settler died Sunday October 21 at 7 15 am Survived by widow and four children including Mrs W B Hafar and Mrs L L urge Farris One son J W J Farris preceded him in death Funeral from home with burial in local cemetery The Rev Mr Smith of Janesville led services he was a respected citizen and Christian.
Orville Wright flew at Kill Devil Hill North Carolina and remained nearly stationary in his glider for nine minutes forty five seconds. He held an altitude around 150 feet as part of a series of aerial stability experiments amid wind blown sand. The weather was cited as the most trying possible for testing the craft.
An early 20th century advertisement touts ERADICO a liquid depilatory for permanent removal of superfluous hair. It claims deep skin penetration to reach hair roots, dissolving growth like sugar in water, with a Waterloo outlet at Vetter Waters Pilgrim Mfg Co New York.
About 250 strikers and their wives and families filled Labor temple hall for speeches urging union solidarity against the railroad. K A Hicker and local allies spoke. officials plan visits from J A Franklin and A L Urick to address Waterloo workers.
Iowa League of Commercial Clubs selects delegates for the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress to be held in Kansas City on November 14. Governors senators and other leaders will discuss inland waterways conservation health insurance and good roads among topics. Delegates include Woodworth Clum Ralph Belton WE Holmes C Lamon and Clarence A Cotton.
State Fish and Game Warden George A. Lincoln returns from Avoca after farmers complain wild deer are ruining alfalfa and corn fields. Laws prevent shooting, so he plans to round up the deer and send them to Iowa parks that have requisitioned the animals.
TIZ claims quick, lasting relief for sore feet including corns bunions and odors. It advertises cleaning pores drawing out exudations and cleansing feet with instant results, selling 25 cents per bottle via Walter Luther Dodge & Co Chicago IL.
At Shenandoah the state W C T U convention elected four state superintendents including Sabbath observance Mrs Ella De Long Waterloo franchise Mrs S J Line Waterloo literature Mrs M J Philpot Cedar Falls and Sabbath school Mrs Hoger Leavitt Cedar Falls About 150 delegates attended the 38th annual meeting in a salonless town Decorated business districts welcomed visitors who enjoyed an automobile ride The W C T U is the world’s largest women’s organization with 500000 members Iowa has 5000 The organization is incorporated with properties in Des Moines St Dodge Mt Vernon and an endowment fund over 5000 The Champion official organ is published at Mt Vernon All general officers were reelected except treasurer Mrs Nannie B Howe who joined the board of trustees Mrs Shadle Shenandoah succeeds.
Melbourne public schools shut for at least two weeks due to infantile paralysis after 12 year old Roy Mulca ny is stricken. Quarantine rules rigid as Melbourne lies near Rhodes where a paralysis outbreak caused a death.
Carrie Sparr and others transfer part of lot 8 block 24 original plat Cedar Falls to H C Heim enway for 1825 30 dollars. Charles W Harvey transfers parts of lots 4 and 3 block 2 West Waterloo to Waterloo Gasoline Engine Co for 1 dollar.
C C Woodmansee reports Loveland area beet tonnage and price projections. Using 15 tons per acre at 5.50 per ton, 300 acres could yield 24 750 gross with 6 000 cultivation costs leaving 18 750 net. In Steamboat Rock 300 acres at 10 tons per acre and 5 per ton nets 9 150, favoring Loveland by 9 000.
A chaotic street scene follows the unconscious stranger on the sidewalk as bystanders note the injuries and a surgeon suggests he might be a peacemaker. The text mentions various local association figures in Ottumwa and nearby towns, including Weidenteller and Eggin, with titles in a fragmented clipping.
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