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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1914
Page
12
The YWCA announces a series of Saturday noontime musicales in the cafeteria venue. Singers like Miss Selene Musielt soprano and pianist Mire A Peterson will perform with other Waterloo musicians featured weekly at noon. Admission is free to all attendees.
Judge Dunham hears 14 to 15 applicants for naturalization including Rev. Elias Proven sen pastor of a Danish church at Cedar Falls. Proof of continuous residence is challenged by his moves between Coulter Franklin County and Cedar Falls. Witnesses confirm ties to both towns. Proven sen says he came to America twenty years ago from Odense Denmark and seeks citizenship after visiting relatives. No one rejected before thirteenth applicant.
A physician recounts being nearly unable to eat during a severe grip attack. He describes using four teaspoons of Grape-Nuts and cream three times daily for two weeks, noting it was delicious and well tolerated. He claims it quickly restored health and urges wider physician use to prevent loss of life from malnutrition.
Ruth Cameron advises adults, especially singles and childless hosts, on simple ways to amuse children using coins, paper cutouts, drawings, and familiar songs. The column also notes Peter Commalate forfeiting a motorcycle after failing to appear in police court for operating a motorcycle without lights.
Ackley hosts the Four-County Grain association picnic at the Fred Ukre pasture. About a thousand attend with lectures by Professors Hughes and Hauser on corn growing. A baseball game ends in a defeat for Kesley, while Ackley farmers win the tug of war. The day ends with meals and plans for a repeat next year.
Public accountant and auditor from Davenport asks Police Judge Meyers to send copies of information blanks and each record used in the police court. State Examiner Cox endorses the Waterloo system as a model. copies forwarded to Davenport today. A colored woman Kitty Brown of Des Moines is jailed on a knife attack charge against F. E. Hendricks. she will face the grand jury. Hendricks suffered a knee wound and a hand cut from the assault on Lagan avenue. The basement cafeteria of the First National Bank building, closed for summer, is to reopen tomorrow.
An article extols mild laxative tonics over violent purgatives for the elderly, praising a simple herbal combination with pepsin sold as Tr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. It notes a fifty cent price and a one dollar bottle, with address Caldwell, 4 Washington St,Monticello, TN.
Freeman Clark reported a horse and buggy stolen from the Lentz and Ringer feed barn between 8 and 11 last night. The horse returned home at 2 this morning unharmed after an apparent long trip. Clark initially feared a loose horse but the rig shows no damage.
W F Lake appeared at police headquarters and said he would write his sister in Cincinnati to confirm he is alive and well. His sister contacted Chief Leighton for information after hearing he was killed locally. Lake recently changed address and mail may have gone astray.
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