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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1920
Page
14
The Wa verloo records show indolence illness and old age as the main sources of poverty, not intemperance. Overseer F A Sporle says work available, and county aid targets able workers. widows pensions are handled by the assistant county attorney rather than the poorhouse.
Waterloo is praised as a good town to hold conventions in a Billboard article from September 11. The piece highlights the International Lyceum and Chautauqua Association convention with interesting facts about the city and features cuts of FL MacDonough, general secretary of the Greater Waterloo chapter.
Exterior work on a new movie theatre in Waterloo is highlighted with photos of Fourth street business sections and hotel activity. The piece notes promotion by the Billboard, chautauqua connections, and a cast of acts at Waterloo Theatre and Plaza. Directors, managers, and entertainers from Maury Pickford to Adelaide Vorak are mentioned with showtimes and venues.
The Waterloo hosts the season’s first big musical, Cheer Up Mable, a Broadway hit that ran at the Haymarket in Chicago for over three months. John Gets and Myra Brown co star in the production as it opens.
Mrs A H Hall of Caseville Michigan thanks the medicine for saving her baby's life this summer and calls Chamberlains Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy a grand good medicine Weary Mary Carrington of Caseville Michigan says she has used it for years and always received prompt relief.
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