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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1914
Page
12
Des Moines reports a large gathering of Iowa insurance interests forming a strong political organization. They aim to fix laws to favor insurers, counterworkmen's compensation threats, and coordinate legislation, after past prosecutions of rate fixing and evasion.
Mrs J Kops of 732 Mobile Street Waterloo Iowa testifies she suffered a decade from kidney pain backache and fainting spells before using Deans Kidney Pills. She says the remedy improved her health from the start and permanently cured her after three years of use. Price 50 cents at all dealers Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY ad.
Council Bluffs Chief Ovide View sues Dr. F H Hollingsworth for 10000 damages in district court alleging slander. He claims Hollingsworth publicly accused him of knowingly aiding liquor sales at the stadium and that the chief acted to obtain a vindication of the false charges.
Weet Liberty report: Luke McGuire pays his hired man $49 on completing service. The man, posing guileless, draws a second $49 check on the same bank and signs McGuire’s name. Bank hesitates to cash the fraudulent check.
In Des Moines on October 27 B A Hull on trial for offering to sell his juror vote to Nat Wetzel president of the Southern Land Co testified he was intoxicated and had visited Wetzel to discuss paying Hull for a verdict. Hull said Wetzel broached the topic and could influence a verdict or hung jury.
Extra reports a bustling summer in Exira with a new moving picture theatre opening and a major mercantile store expansion under way. J W Laurenson near completion of a $40 000 schoolhouse for the high school, with interior decorators finishing by January 1. In Des Moines a parole board note confirms the capture of Robert King, a paroled convict, in Vincennes Indiana after an escape last week.
A man eluded Cedar Rapids officers while being returned to Anamoan for a pie role violation. He hired a taxicab, went to Clinton claiming his father near death, then caught a train eastward. King was later sent up from Hamblin county on a larceny charge and received five years.
A census of twenty seven thousand Iowa teachers is being conducted by A M Neyoo to gather ages service length and related data. The effort intends to aid pension deliberations next January and produce usable demographic information for the profession. Des Moines boy Frank Bishard Jr aged 15 was killed by an auto at East Twelfth and Northwestern when he jumped from a delivery wagon.
A collision on a bridge near Sehna left Lt. Steve Wilkins seriously injured and his one year old daughter Aduasl injured when their car ran off a bridge Saturday. The accident followed a fire and fuel fumes in a nearby closet.
John J. Barnes head of the departmental public affairs will give a program of instantaneous readings at the Waterloo East Teachers College Cedar Falls. The lecture is the second in a series for teachers of Waterloo east, with a Wednesday afternoon event at one o clock. The public is invited to attend and the format is an educational observance. Waterloo woman honored Mrs LL UHH 230 Vamiend.
A vintage ad touts Knowlton's Dandeline claiming it stops dandruff and hair loss, restores life to dull hair, and makes hair fluffy, waving, and lustrous after a few weeks. It emphasizes easy application and a 25 cent bottle from drug stores.
Novena org deems Mrs Hill a delegate and supports her role at the national convention in Kansas City. Gov Geore W Clarke commissions workers and delegates from Iowa to advance the social purity cause.
A brief report identifies three common money missteps: mismanaging cash sales, failing to record credit sales charges, and keeping loose records of money received. These issues damage cash flow and internal controls.
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