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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1912
Page
6
Our new Millinery Department on Fourth floor offers the season s latest styles. New hats daily by express from the great fashion centers. Priced at figures never before offered the public. It will pay you to see our selection before making your fall purchases. New Millinery Department is located on Fourth Floor.
An ad notes a basement sale offering a wide range of fabrics and bedding staples including blankets comforters cretonnes ticking flannels and yarns. It encourages shoppers to save money by visiting the basement for these items.
A dealer advertises a large stock from Peerless Manufacturing Co Chicago offered for spot cash at special sale prices. Ten cent papers, fifteen cent papers, and eighteen cent caners are priced as low as possible with quantities listed and a note that stock is moving fast at the Third Moor department.
Paul Fenner, nineteen, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Fenner, is confined at home with spinal difficulties after a fall during last season’s Reinbeck game. He may never return to athletics, though he is not bedbound. Also covered are Progressive candidate Robert E. Leach’s Cedar Falls visit, booming area farm rents, and the sudden death of Mrs. Ambrose Updegraff in Oskaloosa affecting Mrs. Leo H. Paulger.
Cedar Falls officials discuss submitting a tax for a new schoolhouse to voters at the March election. They favor tearing down the Lincoln and Jefferson buildings and replacing them with one large modern facility to cut maintenance costs and accommodate students.
Cedar Falls Ia Sept 23 Special Mr and Mrs J H Shoemaker hosted friends at College Hill in honor of D N Hurd slow recovery from illness. D A Emery announced Cedar Rapids board meeting postponement. Various local residents made trips, trades and moves including ministers heading to Marshalltown for a conference and plans for a Lenox club home upgrade.
Bremer County Sheriff takes Jack Archer into custody on a Bremer county warrant after a prize fight staged near the county line. Archer, whose opponent was Young Ketchell, faces charges for participating in a clandestine fight. several attendees pled guilty and were fined. Archer’s wife is ill and a healthy baby boy arrived today. Archer was called home before his arrest. Ketchell resides in Chicago, likely not returning to the area.
Edward L. Carton 46 of Waterloo and Margaret VanMatre 27 of Waterloo receive a license record No 28. Also Walter W. Bowers 22 of Waterloo and Toole 21 of Waterloo listed in the same notice with other names Ricker 26 Nas Moines and Mallia Caster 26 Das Moines.
Two preliminaries set for a Waterloo theatre wrestling card. Carl Brown faces Julius Johnson of Seattle while James McDonald meets Cyclone Burns in a 20 minute bout. An unknown opponent for Ed Knipp will be revealed on the mat tomorrow night. Johnson, 26, 158 pounds, has seven years experience and a strong Western record. The article notes Yokel beat Johnson in 2 hours 14 minutes and discusses Seattle promoter Billy Edwards. A separate North survey party led by M Edwards departs Edmonton to chart the Mackenzie route to the Pacific coast, with a branch line planned to Fort McMurray and Edmonton.
Fifty one men tied to labor unions face October 1 federal trial before Judge Albert A Anderson on charges of complicity in the dynamiting conspiracy. Key figures include Frank M Ryan Herbert S Hockin and John T Butler with Ortie McManigal as principal witness. The case centers on illegal explosives transport and a coast to coast campaign against non union employers linked to the Los Angeles Times explosion.
Engineers and surveyors for the Alberta Peace River and Eastern Railway study a 2000 mile pony journey and a 700 mile foot route as they plan a new transcontinental line through Edminton and Alberta.
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