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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1912
Page
1
Washington and Philadelphia staged a 19 inning marathon in Philadelphia as the Phillies won 2 to 1. Plank outpitched Groom and Williams, aided by late errors, sparked the home club’s dramatic victory after a near four hour rain of chances and several double plays.
Two base hits for Washington and multiple players for Philadelphia in a lopsided game. Notable performers include Shanks Williams Baker Lapp and McBride with defensive feats and several double plays. Pitchers Plank Groom Johnson and others contributed, with wild pitches and errors shaping the score as Detroit references appear in a garbled recap.
New York Sept 28 Baseball fans speculate on Rube Marquard’s fate in the World Series. He opened the season with a nineteen game win streak then slumped, showing flashes of his early form. If he regains peak speed and control, he could boost the Giants while opponents fear a Red Sox revival if he falters.
Yesterday’s Western League results show Sioux City at Des Moines with weather delay. Wichita played in Denver, Topeka edged Omaha in a late ninth inning blackout. St Joseph beat Omaha 4 to 2.
Japanese wrestler Matsuda won a sixty minute handicap match against Jud Thompson, with Matsuda scoring the decisive fall after Thompson failed to pin him. The bout, at Waterloo theatre, followed Matsuda’s recent victories and long challenge to local rivals.
Cincinnati routed Chicago 19 to 3 in the opener and tied 4 to 4 after ten innings in darkness. New York beat Boston 7 to 6 as the winning run scored in the ninth. Pittsburgh shut out St. Louis 4 to 0. Brooklyn edged Philadelphia 1 to 0 in Brooklyn.
The piece notes a Wyoming record trout catch during the midsummer Wyoming Good Roads Association event in Rawlins with fifteen hundred anglers catching five thousand trout in thirty five minutes. It also covers Weber county Utah duck disease culling and disposal to protect unaffected birds, plus John Lewis Childs commenting on wild pigeon extinction due to nesting colonies and market hunting.
Osage high defeated Cresco high 32 to 6 in the county fair football game. Marcel Tournier staged two aeroplane flights reaching over 1500 feet, his ice-covered craft landing safely. Twelve cars competed in auto races led by Connar in a 160 horsepower De Dietrich, with Boody of Mason City posting the best half mile time.
Iowa officials report the quarterly health bulletin notes a special agreement with a diphtheria antitoxin firm saved about 12000 in the last year. Secretary Guilford H. Sumner urges use of state endorsed antitoxin and lists authorized distributing stations in major cities for physicians and patients. He also criticizes physicians who fail to educate patients, urging sensible advice along with treatment.
An intelligent community in medical matters should educate the public and have doctors teach at the bedside and in consulting rooms. If every physician did this a stunning blow would be dealt to dishonest practitioners. Beaver Board Iowa Lumber Co.
Rose McCue, a Brooklyn orphan turned vaudeville actress, answered a Fort Madison Illinois farmer Jonas Smith's advertisement for a wife. The couple met after she traveled from New York to Fort Madison where the romance led to marriage hopes, though his aged home and modest means framed their union. Rose died, having answered the ad that drew her to a life with the Hancock county farmer.
A woman who wed after meeting her future husband at the Fort Madison depot left the couple’s farm life for independence. She later worked as a dining room girl at Hotel Anthes, fell ill with typhoid and pneumonia, and died Wednesday night after hospitalization. A brother lives in Brooklyn. another called Cue plays in a Chicago major league team. Remains held pending relatives’ word.
Dr. J. W. Bouldin dedicates full time to treatment of chronic nervous and special diseases using Specific Medication Magnets Manipulation Vibration Therapeutic Rays and Multi-Nebulizer. He cites hundreds of Waterloo patients helped or cured and offers free confidential examinations with personal attention in every case.
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