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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1911
Page
5
The report details mixed market activity across Chicago and key western livestock centers. It covers wheat and corn sentiment, hogs and cattle prices, cash grain quotes, and livestock receipts, with sectional notes from St. Louis Kansas City Omaha and Minneapolis.
The Janesville W R C distributed 418 flags to public schools in Iowa this year. Mrs. Shaw, 86, led the ceremony with remarks by Mrs. Taylor Mrs. Ballantyne and Mrs. Wetherer. Conrad Ballantyne gave a salute lesson and entertained the audience.
A listing of market prices for numerous fruits vegetables dairy meats and other items. Includes grapes butternuts peaches pears squash string beans onions cucumbers cabbage cucumbers pickling celery corn milk tomatoes groundcherries watermelons muskmelons cottage cheese live poultry eggs oranges lemons pears radishes asters brooms beets turnips hickory nuts walnuts lettuce butter cheese cider apples plums can teloupes pumpkins honey oyster plantChannel cat pike and various other goods with per unit or per quantity pricing.
Mrs E Holdiman of 404 Leland Avenue reports a large crop with almost all tomatoes seedless this year. Yellow varieties have no seeds and red tomatoes show only two seeds in many. She has grown the same variety for sixteen years and usually selects the fewest seeds for seed stock. She cannot explain the anomaly. Try a Courier Want Ad.
Peter Briton a former Union boy seeks a duel abroad over a slight in Rome Castelli a famed duelist can kill with ease Gunter engineers a lunatic asylum trap to avoid risk Castelli apologizes after a ruse Briton returns home safe and quietly abandons such tales of war and honor
A historical discussion on steel ball bearings notes that true perfect spheres remain elusive. It explains the requires near perfect roundness for automobile bearings, the challenges with chrome steel, and the vital role of spherical accuracy in modern machinery.
A Maine seacoast town tale recalls a lazy two week visit and a hunter who boasts on missing targets. An old archer notes bow ranges while modern naval guns reach fifteen miles. A telephone call about a house fire leaves the senior partner surprised by his wife’s reaction.
Riffing on a Toledo Blade quip, the dialogue notes Miss Beanpole’s transformation after a fortune inheritance. It contrasts her past frail figure with a newly described slender elegance, delivering a humorous social observation.
Dr Robert Westenberg hosts an arithmetical Bible problem contest for Sunday school scholars under seventeen. The winner receives a leather bound New Testament after solving a long scripture-based sum and delivering an honest, uncopied solution to the Manse. The program includes vaudeville acts and musical numbers by Charties Sisters, Holliday, Courtney, Jeanette, Cummings and Thornton, LaMoines, and Syd Allen.
Atlanta voters choose a proposed form of commission government in a spirited campaign in a major city. The outcome could bring Atlanta in line with large U S cities adopting the plan.
Miss Roxy E. Tyler and Mr. George S. Hillis were married at 30 o'clock this afternoon at the Cedar Falls road home of the officiating minister Rev. George B. Shoemaker. Attendants were Miss Eva Tyler and Miss Etta Crawford. The bride, daughter of Albert Tyler, has lived in Waterloo six years. The groom works in tiling. They will begin housekeeping at 316 Riehl street.
The Majestic Theatre features an excellent first half lineup headlined by Barnee Reming and Co in the domestic comedy Mrs Pottr's First. The act promises a lively, entertaining program with strong vaudeville variety.
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