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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1912
Page
12
Local Waterloo eventing courier reports on Cedar Falls civic matters. Details include community updates, upcoming meetings, and brief notices affecting residents and organizations in the Cedar Falls area. Individual names and exact dates are not fully legible in the provided fragment.
Cedar Falls Iowa October 24 special notes on residents traveling and stay-at-homes. A freight train hid by buildings nearly struck a farmer on Main Street. Many moves and visits include Behrens moving to Eckhart house, Eckhart daughter in Galesburg, Corning kin in Cedar Falls, Seligar in town, and land sales like Puls selling to a New Hartford buyer. Local events include weddings, a large Bitter Root Valley shipment of huge potatoes and apples, paving cleanliness issues on Franklin Street, and political visits from Connelly, Kenyon, Pickett, and De Wolfe with Cotton's Opera House engagements. Community life shows frequent travel, illness, and bereavements.
A sixty page advertisement touts Father John’s Medicine as a permanent cure for colds throat and lung troubles claiming fifty years of success as a body builder and noting endorsements by clergy doctors hospitals and institutions. It lists numerous church figures and hospitals in Lowell New York Manchester Waterville and Nashua and invites readers to order a large bottle by mailing one dollar to the Father John’s Medicine Co. in Lowell Massachusetts.
Copenhagen reports Denmark would face a grave dilemma in any Britain Germany war as Baltic access and foreign fleet movements threaten its neutrality. Rumors of alliances with England Russia or Germany are dismissed as fiction. Government seeks neutral stance by timing fleet visits to avoid crowded Copenhagen harbor. War vessels advertised elsewhere.
Cedar Falls Iowa October 29 Harry MacCowen riding his bicycle yesterday afternoon had to jump from an automobile crossing Main Street to avoid a collision. He struck the pavement suffering severe bruises and multiple injuries. The auto driver fled the scene without stopping.
Cedar Falls Iowa Oct 29 Squire Knapp aged 85 has served as justice of the peace for fifty years and was back on duty after a brief spell of illness. Miss Marsh of Grinnell visits Cedar Falls while Mrs. Vydta Lord Davis of Cornell lectures on life in China at the Congregational church. The Advancers host a supper and business meeting after a descriptive China talk. Mrs. Davis plans to show views of her China home tonight before about 100 guests from Waterloo. Dr F N Mead and Mark Scroggy plan a duck hunting trip at Lost Island lake.
Chicago and Omaha market notes report wheat gains on snow induced selling restraint, corn and oats fluctuating with weather. Hog and cattle receipts steady to lower as pork and lard futures slip. New York and Minneapolis closes show mixed wheat and corn prices. Cash wheat priced No 2 red and No 2 white across markets with scattered quotes for corn and oats.
The ad warns that backache and related symptoms such as kidney pains nervousness dizziness and urinary problems signal potential serious disease like Bright's Disease dropsy or diabetes. It promotes Croxone as a universal cure claim claims it clears toxins dissolves uric acid and supports kidney cleansing with three daily doses, noting easy availability and a money back promise if it fails.
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