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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Reporter
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1907
Page
4
A local retailer promotes its fast rising status and urges shoppers to visit for deeply discounted Fall Stock. The notice highlights silk and dress goods, cloaks, suits, furs, carpets, linens, curtains, tableware, domestics, and more with all remaining summer stock sold at fractions of former prices. Mali orders filled.
A compilation shows 140.045 miles of railroad in Blackhawk county generating taxes on an actual valuation of 128,296 with extra levies for Illinois Central Mona and Cedar Falls lines. Increases come from higher valuations and equipment, with three and four tenths mills general levy and specific university college and normal levies.
Several people were hurt when a collision caused glass to shatter and bystanders assisted. H. Williams escaped with minor cuts while W. T. Dinneen strained an ankle and others sustained abrasions. Police and emergency crews responded to the scene.
Fred Grant 47, longtime Standard Oil driver, died Tuesday afternoon from heart disease induced by acute indigestion after a hearty Monday night meal. He was well known in Waterloo, never married, and survived by his mother and sister. Funeral Thursday at his home on Logad avenue. Burial at Fairview. Loss followed by other local notices of a wreck near Cedar Falls and community updates.
Lamson Bros and Co provide grain provisions stocks and bonds updates from Waterloo Iowa. Sievert Larrabee manage the office at 62634 Sycamore Street with telephone service and cash train special attention offered.
Hog market closed more active at early prices with mixed notes for butchers and light offerings. Cattle opened steady and closed steady, sheep strong. butter and eggs steady with creamery specials around 25 cents. local goods in Waterloo show varied prices for hogs chickens hens and produce. receipts tomorrow estimated at 16,000 hogs, with yesterday’s hogs at 1,380.
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