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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1911
Page
12
An advertisement touts Pape's Cold Compound as three years of research costing over fifty thousand dollars. It claims the formula contains no quinine and will end grippe and break up severe colds with a 25 cent dose routine every two hours.
Wm Burns finishes threshing in Geneseo area. Frank Lockard returns from Kansas. The Geneseo Clark township Sunday school association holds its 79th semi annual convention at the Geneseo church on Sunday Nov 5. Basil Barrows delivers 1911 corn crop to McElhinney Bros. at a rate of 5? cents per bushel. A. Frense of Waterloo surveys auto buyers. Trobert Bragonier registries in Rosebud land drawing in Dakota. First quarterly meeting of the conference year will be next Saturday led by District Superintendent T Alvans. Lame Back is common. Chamberlains Animent offers relief. Hear Boness Boys concert at First Baptist church Monday Oct 20.
An advertisement touts beauty secrets from Della Carson, claiming any woman can enhance looks in private at home. It asks readers to write for free instructions without cost or special equipment and offers crossboxed checks for common concerns like wrinkles, body development, weight, hair removal, and skin blemishes.
A Dubuque meeting will discuss forming a state federation of retailers to affiliate with the national federation formed in Chicago. The aim is to protect retailers from anti middleman legislation, educate the public and unite Iowa retailers for influence on state and national policy.
A Waterlooville library note reviews J N Larned's study of greatness in Napoleon Cromwell Washington and Lincoln. It outlines four guiding principles endowments opportunity motives and uses. The piece lists new books arriving this week and a plan to display recent editions for public viewing.
E W Hoag suffered a loss of 10000 with 1000 insurance when his electric plant in a frame building burned at about five o'clock. Firefighters could not save the plant but confined the blaze to the origin. The city illuminated as the fire raged and the chimney nearly collapsed near Chief Commerford and Kennessey. Over 200 homes and many churches and businesses lost power until connections could be made to another supplier.
J W Clark, jailed in Waverly on fur larceny charges, was sentenced to Fort Madison. Sheriff Krause found Clark's jail escape prep after Clark had asked two days' notice, revealing an 18 inch wall hole, tools from a dumped brick and plaster, and a water tank hiding the escape route.
Sunday afternoon program features five delegates giving seven minute talks. Each speech covers a facet of the Men and Religion program for Waterloo, including The Boy Message Evangelism Message The Social Service Message The Bible Study Message and The Missions Message.
Funeral services for Jacob Jessell, who died suddenly Thursday morning at the W. O. & N. shops, will be held at 2 P.M. at the local church with burial in the city cemetery. The deceased leaves a widow and several children.
Urgent notices for a Monday service at 123 Mill Street. Items for sale include a Weker, a large Atlas, a dredging cage, German roller canaries, and New York buckwheat flour. Also mentions Eden and a humorous cartoon note about Adam and universal peace.
The Dewar Roaster club gathered at Mrs Barron’s home with sixty attendees from western Iowa Waterloo and Orange township for a Halloween night event. Rev Ward the new Methodist pastor and his wife were initiated as part of the program. The minister’s costume of a red kimono white hose and black scarf provoked much merriment and capped an enjoyable evening.
The Waterloo Medical and Surgical Institute now occupies the third floor of the Syndicate Building and proclaims thousands of testimonials. It offers a free one week treatment with Multe-Nebulizer or Stormer Norwegian Method for catarrh and lung diseases, plus rapid relief for heart, stomach, liver, and other ailments. Special devices include electric couch and vapor therapies.
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