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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1911
Page
4
A large crowd at Waterloo public markets bought eggs butter poultry and potatoes amid fine weather. About 7 000 visitors and nearly 2 009 wagons offered goods with potatoes ranging to a dollar a bushel and dressed ducks at 60 cents each. Prices held steady vs previous days.
Readable market list shows cauliflower, cantaloupes, pumpkins, honey, oyster plant, channel cat, pike, buffalo and carp, crappies with per unit or per pound prices. Contains stray OCR artifacts but items and approximate costs are clear.
Judge F C Platt held a brief morning session granting several divorces. Adolphus Hubbell is legally separated from Kathryn Hubbell and Grace Six will cease to be Charles Six’s wife once costs are paid. Mary Weimester won permission to remarry before the legal one year expires.
Northminster Presbyterian Church holds rally day with Sunday school reports, songs, Bible drill for intermediates led by Rev. Frank Schroeder. Scripture verses recited by Rimball, Crow, Forster, Broell, Miller, Biffle, Schroeder. Closing address by the pastor. Fund drive targets $50 for building fund. Classes to take exams at 3 pm with gold stars, overseen by J C Davis.
An advertisement touts Foley's Kidney Pills as a cure all for backache nervousness and kidney bladder and urinary troubles. It promotes direct buy sell or trade with a low fee system, listing Hosteter Realty Co contact details and a demonstration event at Johan Hickle's grocery with a note to read Pearls' letter from LaBelle Florida.
Black's announces a fall opening sale starting Monday at 3 o'clock and running through Saturday. The event covers all departments with dress goods silks linens cloaks and more. Black's notes its largest stock in nineteen years and plans for a new Logan house corner store.
Homecoming day at Waverly is set for Tuesday September 26. The Waterloo to Waverly railway run will operate a special car to the event leaving Waterloo at 3 a.m. C. M. Cheney of the GFL and PLA announces the arrangement.
A historic public notice touts the Gladstone Hotel project highlighting NEED for a fireproof hotel in Waterloo, MERIT of the proposition, and SYSTEM-driven cooperation. It lists subscriptions, stock offers, and property lots on Falls Avenue as value driven investments with 5 percent preferred stock returns.
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