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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1912
Page
4
An old advertisement touts Cascarets as a cure for digestive discomfort, claiming they cleanse the stomach, reduce bile, and relieve constipation overnight. It promotes 10 cent boxes for adults and children, then shifts to local news from La Porte City Iowa with farm accident updates and community notices.
A public safety push aims to end white phosphorus parlor matches by prohibiting manufacture storage sale and distribution of single-dipped strike anywhere matches and any matches that ignite or shed burning particles. The proposed measure would also outlaw defective goods and set head tenacity standards.
Altoona Pennsylvania marks the semi centennial of the local war governors conference first held in 1862 after Antietam. Delegates drafted an address to President Lincoln pledging confidence and volunteers to recruit shattered regiments and support the Union war effort. Historians call the conference a turning point that strengthened Lincoln’s aims and remains a notable Civil War event.
The new measure bans selling defective matches in job lots to cheap retailers and sets standards for packing and storage. It limits matches per box and per case and prescribes box sizes and packaging materials in line with Interstate Commerce Commission and Explosives Bureau rules, mirroring a St. Louis fire bureau ordinance.
An advert promotes TIZ foot bath claiming to ease tired aching feet, corns, callouses, and blisters. It urges readers to write Walter Turner Podge & Co in Chicago for a free trial or buy TIZ at stores, noting a price of 2h cents a box.
At the International Congress on Hygiene and Demography Edward Bunnell Phelps cites 40,000 infant deaths daily and argues half are preventable. Dr. Bailey K. Ashford describes Porto Rico’s worm disease reduction, and Dr. Helen MacMurchy urges medical school inspections as signs of the times.
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