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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1912
Page
4
A vintage advertisement promises quick hair color restoration with Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy. It claims gray or faded hair can be changed after a single nightly application and notes dandruff removal, scalp health, and hair growth benefits. The 50 cent bottle is sold by druggists with a money back guarantee.
Former President Theodore Roosevelt criticizes Woodrow Wilson over trusts and industrial policy in Kansas, arguing the Wilson administration fails to curb trusts and misreads Roosevelt era reform. He defends strong government action against misbehaving corporations like Standard Oil and contrasts Wilson with Buchanan era union preservation.
A green knitted coat with white Shetland collar and cuffs is shown. A youth claims grand cross Legion of Honor status during a police encounter, revealing himself as former King Manuel of Portugal who is briefly detained before leaving. The officers remain wary.
A garbled report notes Manuel's arrest during a police stop as he laughed at officers. The text mentions Elysems and a Rosetta of the Legion, but specifics are unclear. The fragment suggests a sensational, low-clarity crime snippet without coherent details.
A mother from Atchison Kansas credits Mellin's Food with improving her six month old baby's health. The infant had poor weight gain and sleep, but after starting Mellin's Food the child gained well and became healthy and rosy cheeked. Sample offered by Mellins Food Co loston Massachusetts.
Work began Friday morning packing apples at the state experimental farm six miles east of Council Bluffs. A. B. Cooper of Hood River, Oregon, oversees the operation with Prof. Laurenz Greene of Iowa State College in charge for the state. The crop is excellent and packing shifts will run for ten days in commercially popular box packages.
Berlin reports a new automatic device linked to rail signals to halt trains that pass danger signals. If an engineer ignores a stop signal, a bell sounds at the next station and a sealed register records the incident for accountability.
President Taft upholds January action revoking the order that barred religious garb in government Indian schools. Existing teachers may continue to wear garb, but new entrants must dress ordinarily. Secretary Fisher notes 61 of 2000 teachers wear garb. no sectarian instruction is given in current schools.
Mount Pleasant reports an attached Curtiss type aeroplane stored since July Fourth amid a legal clash. The Commercial Club seeks $100 plus, F A Campbell of Chicago sues Sheriff Gee for $2,500 over detention of the craft worth $2,000. District court opens later this month. Coroner Ralph Crane to serve papers.
The Rev Dr O S Hillegas of Quakertown Pa says cancer in his eye was cured by faith and prayer after doctors warned of permanent blindness. He claims spider cancer began seventeen years ago and sight returned without medical treatment as he continued preaching and praying. His face bears scars from the illness.
The report notes partial destruction on the left side of his face and eye yet his right eye now sees clearly as if untouched, indicating overall recovery from the affliction.
William J. Bryan condemned Col. Roosevelt for joining progressive plans and warned against unlimited nonconsecutive presidential terms. He criticized the proposed trust bureau and Taft tariff board, praising Governor Wilson as the people's candidate.
Berlin reports a dispute between Baden and Württemberg over 1 million to stop Danube bed leaks. A subterranean Danube branch feeds the Rhine, with Immendingen and Aach cited where the river reemerges. Water power towns fear rising leakage threatens supplies and hydro power.
A wartime style sales blurb asserts women suffer from irregularities and pains and promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy to cure the root causes. It claims the product has safeguarded women's health for nearly forty years and is sold by druggists in large quantities.
Wurtemberg asserts old water rights while Baden disclaims responsibility as leakage is nature’s phenomenon. Humorous factories rely on Danube runoff in the Aach valley. Engineers propose a surface Danube to Aach channel with domes to generate power. Estimated cost about 1,006,000 dollars.
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