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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1912
Page
5
City residents head to Chicago and Dubuque for visits and schooling while others travel to Detroit New York and Niagara Falls on shorter trips. Local operations include moving the Van Nuys lunch room and a restaurant sale in La Porte City. Market activity remains brisk as produce moves through the east side yard amid rising tomato thefts.
A Cornell favored move to appoint Rev W F Spry as Cedar Rapids district superintendent threatens First M E church of Waterloo. The church shows a $500 year end surplus after a deficit at start, with Spry praised for growth and finances, but fear of removal could cripple the congregation and its new building, despite politics at the conference and Cornell college influence.
A French medical journal notes cases where gentle abdominal massage aids dyspepsia treatment. The article stresses digestion as a muscular process and highlights benefits from massage and abdominal exercises. It advises morning practice with a cold bath and friction, starting with light routines and increasing gradually.
Supreme and Grand Lodge will assist in initiation as Helmet lodge in Waterloo organizes a 100 new member drive. Fred E. Wheaton of Minneapolis to oversee November 25 ceremony using the original Rathbone Bible from 1864. An Oct 4 open meeting with athletic, magical and eating stunts is planned plus a Pythian fair contract in Utica for next October.
The Majestic theatre showcases a strong vaudeville bill headlined by the Arnaut Bros musical clowns who perform violin acrobatics with nonstop music. Don Carlos Marionettes, The Village Lock Up, Hoseley and Nichols, Stuart and Hall, and Kelley with Wentworth share top billing, delivering humor, talent, and vivid stagecraft. Mrs EB Ward and Miss Florence Ward depart Waterloo for Cedar Falls after occupying the Coolidge home in the absence of Mrs Coolidge.
Miss Clara B. Comstock, agent for the Children’s Aid Society of New York City, announces the postponement of the New York orphan distribution to La Porte City. The event now will take place Saturday October 5 at 10 o’clock. A local committee led by J. H. Lunemann, R. E. Ashley, G. E B. Steb bing, Dr. R. B. Fields, W. HE. Hager, C. A. Brust and W. Mayes will handle applications for children.
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