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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1910
Page
9
Local plea for immediate payment of about $7,000 still owed on the $25,000 Franciscan Sisters hospital fund. The project, costing $150,000 to $175,000, aims to build a leading Waterloo hospital. Readers are urged to fulfill subscriptions to support the new facility and its promised standards.
Coroner A Waterbury has summoned a jury to inquire into the death of Myrtle Moore who was struck by Rock Island passenger train No 67 while walking from the business district toward the south. The inquest, with jurors George Barnes C E Pfeiffer and William Hetts, will hear testimony in the coroner's office this evening after the panel viewed the remains and the accident scene. Trainmen will testify. observers puzzled why she did not see or hear the approaching train.
Cedar Falls Ia Oct 31 Major H J Pfeiffer Republican senator nominee for the Black Hawk Grundy district was injured when thrown from a speeding auto near Grundy Center Saturday afternoon He fell while trying to stop a runaway team and suffered serious head injuries He plans a house to house canvass to win over Democrat S W DeWolf and hopes to resume campaigning today if he recovers sufficiently
In Marshalltown Iowa 13 month old Donald son of Mrs Sadie Moore died Saturday afternoon after a piece of bone became lodged in his windpipe while feeding. Doctors could not remove the obstruction.
Nebraska State Journal recalls Pat Crowe once hailed as reformed evangelist who drifted back to sin. It notes a Peoria stop with police supervision, then Rock Island, and cites past Davenport Times reporting him as a star villain in a drama. The piece portrays him ragged, broke, and contemplating self destructive drinking.
Dr. Eugene May addressed 200 or more listeners at the auditorium of the A G A building on the three story concept physical mental and spiritual urging reserve spiritual power for life battles. He defended the YMCA emphasis on spiritual growth alongside physical and mental development and cited figures like Roosevelt Bryan and Shakespeare to illustrate lifelong discipline. After the talk a luncheon followed and May planned to attend the Y M C A Halloween event that evening.
An old newspaper notice promotes X ray treatments as a wonder and danger, detailing procedures for examinations and pictures, plus a broad electrical treatment practice. It claims the practitioner can treat rheumatism and chronic diseases from head to foot, charging 0.50 to 1.00 dollars with medicines included.
A horse hitched to a two seated buggy tied near the tabernacle gate wandered onto Rock Island tracks on fluff street between Seventh and Eighth, where a freight engine demolished the buggy. The horse was not struck, ran briefly, then was captured. The buggy owner was J S Hershberger of 1180 Hammond Avenue. The Hershberger family, attending tabernacle dedication services, had left the horse tied in the city.
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