Goop Coxey on show business outlook and optimistic farming links
A press agent named Coxey discusses the Barnum & Bailey show business as a barometer of national commerce. He notes broad audience appeal, including farmers and families buying reserve seats, improved crop conditions, and rising consumer confidence. He downplays Wall Street speculation and foresees a bright, hopeful western economy with easing early-season uneasiness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ww. D. Coxey
Barnum & Bailey
Busines
Coxey
New York
North Dakota
Ohio River
Wall Street
Will
Harly
Veteran V W Allbee dies at 68 in Waterloo history
V W Allbee a longtime Waterloo resident and Civil War veteran died at the Marshalltown Soldiers Home at 9 15 Thursday from paralysis and other diseases. He was 68 and had been bedfast for a year after losing his wife. Funeral services will be held Friday, burial in Elmwood. Surviving relatives include daughter Mrs Hiram Gross and brothers and sisters in Vermont. A Waterloo auction notice follows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
V. W. Allbee
Waterloo
Soldders
Marshalltown
Mr. Allbee
Congregational Church
Hiram Gross
Vernon W. Allber
Frankie and
Hila Allbee
Juett Allbee
Anne Eaton
Frank Bidwell
Frank Cassady
Vermont
Elmwood
Will Change Service at Standish Restaurant
The Standish in the Gasser block shifts to dairy lunches only and drops all hot meals. High payroll expenses, about 176 dollars weekly, have absorbed revenue. The restaurant will now open from six in the morning to one at night under Fred Standish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Standish
Fred Standish
Gasser Block
Standish Restaurant
Raymond Aug 15 Social Notes and Local Visits
Mrs Hodges and two sons visited from Pittsburg with her parents Mr and Mrs A Burt. Mrs Sta Getty and infant from Waterloo visited Mrs Hobson. Mrs Hetple of Waterloo and Mrs Marble of Raymond called at Oliver Douglass home. Lynn, Smith and Edna Smith attended a 21st birthday party in Barclay. Several visits among locals, a horse accident, and a Modern Woodmen social planned. 160 acre farm for sale near Suison, Hancock county, Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hodges
Pittsburg
A. Burt
Sta’ Getty
Little Babe
Waterloo
Hobson
BH. W. Hetple
E .D. Marble
Raymond
Oliver Douglass
Frank Smith
Lynn
Smith
Catherine
Edna
Barclay
Vernon Seawick
Rose Dubois
Misa Vere Duboie
Cédar Falla
Dr. Phillips
Harold
Victor Phillips
Peter and
Leonard Younger
James Douglass
Rev. Hawn
Ella Hobson
Graham Young
Will Baker
Sioux City
George Arthur
Arthur Wednesday
Hol. Arthur
Laporte
Market summaries from Lamson Bros Chicago hog cattle sheep
The reported receipts detail hogs cattle and sheep for today and estimates for tomorrow. Hogs show mixed and butchers' good to choice heavers with rough heavy and light categories. Cattle opened steady while sheep opened weak amid yesterday's quantities.
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Chicago
Local Market Prices and Dreamland Theater Decor
Waterloo market items show hogs five eighty five per hundredweight and oats forty cents per bushel. Corm forty eight cents, barley forty, wheat seventy three to 00 cents. New potatoes one dollar, wild hay six to seven dollars, tame hay seven to eight fifty. Hens eight cents, old chickens twelve, roosters four, turkeys ninety, ducks sixty. Lard one twenty four to sixteen cents, patent flour two thirty, other flour two sixty to two seventy. Straw five dollars, horse hides three dollars no.1, two dollars no.2, wool two hundred and twenty three cents, calf hides two st. H. D. Fairall decorates Dreamland theater entrance with girl and jar painting. S. E. Bentley and Frank Merrick return from Colorado and New Mexico trip. Mrs. Bentley remains in Denver and will join Waterloo soon.
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Jig Farm
Waterloo
Independence Avenue
Peter Delagardell
C. E. Phifer
H.C. Schultz
Clerk
Iowa
Frank Merrick
Colorado
New Mexico
Three Weeks After Marriage Woman Seeks Divorce
Mrs Mabel Irene Smith aged 24 filed for divorce from Elias D. Reynolds after three weeks of marriage. Reynolds alleged cruelty and adultery and had her arrested for drawing a pistol on him. In police court he did not appear, the notice was read, and Reynolds was discharged. Mrs Reynolds reacted with defiance then smiled with relief outside the station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elias D. Reynolds
Mabel Irene Smith
Justice Kuhns
Reynolds
Divorces Sought by Early 1900s Iowa Couples
Twenty one years after a first marriage Mrs Jennie E Smith seeks divorce from John M Smith now a nonresident. Custody of two children is requested. Pearl Allen sues Samuel Allen for divorce alleging cruel treatment and custody of their daughter with permanent alimony. Ackley school board members clash over a high school contract amid a streetside scrap. editor Althouse injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jennie E. ‘Smith Hax
John M. Smith
Ohn Pa Smit Dunlap
Cauge
Unio
Pearl Allen
Samuel Allen
Mason Gily
Waterloo
Afteen
Ackley
Althouse
Ackley World
Youth Gets A Jag On At Local Police Station
Fourteen year old Wille Graham was found drunk by police and spent the night in custody. Judge Van Metre lectured him on temperance and warned of reform school if offenses repeat. Graham blamed a saloon porter named Joe Small and other black visitors for leading him astray. The boy’s father pressed charges. Small was arrested. Graham received seven days in the jail darkhole on bread and water. A Kadena City painter, G A Storms, pled guilty to drunkenness and was told to leave the city within 20 minutes. Other attendees from Cedar Rapids returned from the K P grand lodge. The Waterloo delegation wore a badge reading Waterlo Way Wins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wille Graham
van Metre
Graham
Joe’ Small
Small
Econ
G. A. Storms
Kadena City
Messrs
H. C. Schultz
G.W. Huntley
Mesdames Hall
Hart Tat
J. N. LaBarre
Cedar Rapids
K. P. Grand Lodge
Waterloo
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Home Park Driving Association
Home Park
C &D
Dean
Olney & Mgdaid
Clinton
Wangler Bros
Orugaits
Mel
Leavitt & Johnson Trust Co
Waradosowa
Hyth Wana
Waterloo Business College
Modern Woodmen of America
Bickley Ball
West Fourth Street
Suison
Hancock ‘County
C. Pierce
Allen St
Lamson. Bros. & CO
Rey Opusag
Eis. Sang
Seu
H. D. Fairall
Dreaim-land
E. D. Reynolds
Brida
Biafi
Bears
Castoria
Hubby
Bhazst
McLaughlin
A. N. Moothart
Yenney
B. H. Kasebt
Ed Andérson
J. A. Wise
M. Chapman
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