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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1912
Page
4
An old advertisement promotes Cascarets as the best laxative for constipation and indigestion. It touts relief from headaches biliousness dizziness nervousness and stomach distress, promising a clear head and months of health on a 10 cent box. It urges druggists to stock Cascarets and notes children also need gentle cleansing.
Chicago Sept 29 speakers at the evangelists conference assailed tricks in the trade. They condemned auction like free will offerings posing for pictures lying about conversions and melodramatic acts. Dr Blederwolf urged a fixed salary instead of money from offerings.
A promotional notice extols Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as uniquely effective for women’s suffering. It cites testimonials from Pinkham Laboratory letters and asserts the remedy restores female health without surgery, emphasizing harmless herbal ingredients and direct action on the female system.
In October evenings Saturn dominates the eastern sky and grows brighter toward November opposition. Mira and Algol in Cetus compete for attention as Algol ebbs and Mira wanes. Venus and Jupiter rise in the west by month end, offering a vivid celestial show, Charles Sarver.
Dr Taylor denounces inflated revival tallies and hypocrisy among evangelists. He cites free will offerings given back by Moody and argues evangelists mislead audiences with reported conversions. He warns against artificial praise and ignorance of higher criticism versus lower criticism.
In Bingham Utah on September 18 armed pickets reportedly turned away workers at copper mines. Miners had voted a strike affecting 400 men and twenty five deputies sent by the Salt Lake sheriff were powerless as every mine stayed idle.
Durant Jones, candidate for governor on the prohibition ticket, plans a statewide tour in an automobile with singers and entertainers from the Jones Chautauqua program. The mayor will speak from street corners and public parks as a systematic plan for crowd drawing and outreach unfolds.
Alfred B. Taynton selected to run the Iowa campaign with headquarters at Oskaloosa as Mr. Jones predicts a 25,000 vote tally in support of prohibition this year.
A letter from a Minneapolis charity notes Mrs. Margaret Hildebrand, formerly wife of James R. Hildebrand of Grundy Center, is destitute in Minneapolis. An inquiry into her husband’s ability to aid her follows her September divorce suit in Grundy Center. Mrs. Hildebrand formerly lived in Waterloo.
Marshalltown reports Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kelly were wed Sept 19 1842 at Newcastle on Tyne and celebrate their seventieth anniversary. He is 90 and she will be 90 in April. They moved from England to America in 1849, lived in Chicago after 1850, and survived the 1871 fire. They reside with their daughter Mrs. M. E. Whitehead and have seven grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
Washington observers track Supreme Court plans to overhaul equity rules in federal courts. Chief Justice White leads work with Justices Van Devanter and Lurton, gathering nationwide suggestions to reduce delays, with President Taft supportive and states likely to follow. Public clamor and recall debates push for streamlined litigation.
The New York State Department of Health outlines a home water sterilization method as an alternative to boiling. Dissolve one teaspoonful of chloride of lime in a cupful of water, then add three cupfuls to make one quart, strain through cheesecloth, and mix with two gallons of water. The chlorine will kill bacteria, odor and taste vanish in about thirty minutes.
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