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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1913
Page
10
Advertisement notes Cascarets for headaches, biliousness, and constipation. It promises a ten cent box will cleanse the stomach and liver, ease sour stomach, and improve bowel action by morning. The piece also mentions railway safety demonstrations by Illinois Central with blue flags and crosswalk cautions.
Des Moines. Promises that Margaret Luka will be taken from Des Moines and every effort made to guard her in the future are by Gus and William Luka who fight to keep her from the state reform school. Relatives plan to send her to Detroit with her parents to visit an uncle indefinitely. Sheriff Knox in Ottumwa located the missing girl after Gus and William paid $150 to Sheriff Griffin. The narrative ties Milton Heavilin’s brother to a Seymour girl and, after leaving for St Joseph, died by poison rather than marry.
An advertisement touts Foley Kidney Pills as an honest safe remedy to eliminate backache rheumatism and restore normal kidney and bladder function. Sold at druggists with low cost and high benefit claims. A separate notice reports Louis Lawrence a Monticello Iowa farmer as champion corn grower with ninety five acres averaging 75 bushels per acre.
Several thousand Waterloo residents attended a Columbia theatre program titled Safety First showing two reels from Central Railroad films. The footage, shot along the Central line and in local yards, highlighted railroad worker hazards and the need for caution, depicting risky acts such as switching before rear trains pass and workers near loading points.
Rev Herbert Blair of Kang Kai Korea arrives in the city to visit his cousin Mrs H W Reherd. He will address the Thursday prayer meeting on Korea’s country features and landscape, sharing eight years as a northern Korea pioneer missionary and lecturing in the east recently. Public invited. Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound ad promotes a non opiate cough remedy.
Multiple transfers recorded by Black Hawk Co. Abstract Co. include Champlin to Clark lot 8 block east of 12 Cedar Falls for 1 dollar and Conger et al to Citizens Gas & Electric lot 18 auditor's bayou plat Waterloo for 1 dollar. Other deeds involve Ballheim to Cooper lot 12 block 1 Fox & Forsyth Waterloo La Porte City for 2700 dollars and Farguson to Roosa lot 7 block 1 Walliday's addition Waterloo for 1 dollar. Also Waterloo Chautauqua & Bible Institute to Joe Myers lot unspecified block 14 Cedar River Park Waterloo for 242.90 dollars. Further transfers include Waterloo Loan & Trust Co. for Arthur Roeder lot 7 block 4 Alfords addition Waterloo for 400 dollars and Hope C. Martin to John P. and Luella B. Harris lot unspecified block 5 Gates Park Place addition Waterloo for 1 dollar. Sedgwick trustee to Mary E. Brown lot 21 block 16 Downing Place Waterloo for 200 dollars. Cowin to Harry Foerger man lot 4 block 19 1st addition Grand View Place Waterloo for 1 dollar. Engel Oltrogge to Sydney Bruner lot 12 Jenks & McQuilkin subdivision Waterloo for 1 dollar.
The McCarthy Improvement Company of Davenport will send a representative to Waterloo to arrange repairs on Washington Os West Ninth streets. City Attorney James Kenyon spoke with the company by long distance yesterday and they promise to complete the repairs this fall. President O'Brien will visit Waterloo Monday to confer with city officials. The company held the contract for the street work and will likely buy asphalt from Bryant Asphalt Company, sending their own crew to do the job.
Ten wagonloads of produce filled the public market today but rain kept patrons away. Tomatoes ripe and on sale, potatoes scarce, radishes of the icicle variety sold at 10 cents a dozen. A salesman offered canned fruit and jellies sold by the quart and glass.
Do not miss this old fashioned home remedy for coughs. It instructs mixing Pinex with sugar syrup to create a potent cough syrup that many claim relieves ordinary and spasmodic coughs within 24 hours and improves appetite, with a money back guarantee and drugstore availability. The ad cites Norway pine extract and guaiacol as active components and notes wide popularity in the United States and Canada.
Apple butter priced at 30 cents, apples at 20 cents, cherries 30 cents, apple jelly 10 cents a glass, mixed pickles 10 cents a quart. Turnips praised for size and quality due to favorable weather with ample rain and cool conditions over the past month.
An old advertisement urges readers to remove the cause of kidney discomfort and uric acid buildup. It claims Foley Kidney Pills will strengthen kidneys, restore function, and prevent uric crystals in the blood, reducing rheumatic pains and swelling. Sold by all dealers.
Dover, Sept 20 An English mansion once owned by the Earl of Guilford in Waldlerstate Pack Ansarian was destroyed by an early today fire. The residence contained some of the finest furniture with no evidence of arson noted and no comment from Place, editor of the Citizen-Herald, who reported the event.
An old advertisement touts Knowlton's Danderine as a treatment that removes dandruff and promotes hair luster. It claims rapid results, moisture benefits, and dramatic soft, fluffy, wavy hair, urging readers to buy a bottle and prove its effects at drug stores.
You pay five cents the first week ten in the second and fifteen the next with deposits rising by five cents weekly. After forty weeks, by June 27 1914 you will have saved 42 dollars plus interest. This enables a three dollar daily allowance for a two week vacation at the lakes of the north.
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