Water company plans new artesian well project
Aug 23 Waterloo waterworks announced a $600,000 program to coat and modernize the water plant. A second artesian well was tested Aug 24 as the company expanded its supply. Old settlers gather at Chautauqua Park and a flurry of city visitors and social notes fill the local scene with multiple residents and out-of-town guests over the week.
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Waterloo Water “Company
Water Company
Mra
J. -W. Hamilton
Jd. B. Meloy
Laporte
Chautauqua’ Park
Waterloo Ahead in Fifth Inning Football Scorecard
Waterloo leads Ottumwa 2 to 1 in the fifth inning as Peterson pitches for Waterloo and Zackert works for Ottumwa. Carnival band and fans urge the locals to victory while a local ad mentions bushel peaches and pears at a nearby store. Revival services opened at the Christian church led by Evangelists Nichols and Lewis with Nichols delivering a sermon on God’s Dynamite. Four more nightly meetings are planned this week with a lecture by Mrs. A B Simg at the Congregational church tonight.
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Waterloo
Ottumwa
Peterson
Zackert
The
Christian Church
Nichols
Lewis
Jesus Christ
Congregational Church
Real estate deal tops county records in Tama county
Timothy Shea of Bagla township completed the county's largest recent land deal by selling 152 acres near the Hoe in Tama county to Peterson of the same township for 687.50 per acre, a farm formerly bought by Shea for 75 per acre. he also purchased the McKevitt farm of 377 acres near Washburn for 56 per acre totaling 21 112, and rents his Eagle township 320 acres to James Griffith for five years while planning to move there in spring. Dr G G Bickley shows signs of recovery after a week of critical illness and now walks on the porch and to the morning air with improved health.
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HIG
Timothy Shea
Bagla Township
Lnd
Shea
Tama County
Peterson
Hemsworth Place
Mr. Shea
Iim
McKevitt
Washburn
McKevitt Bros
Eagle Township
James Griffith
G. G. Bickley
Weather and market outlook from Chicago August report
August weather in Chicago brought mild temperatures from 50 to 77 with clear conditions. Grain markets show big cargo arrivals and ideal conditions for corn growth. World wheat shipments total 7,312,000 bushels with varied national totals. corn figures show 1,866,000 bushels versus last year’s 4,704,000.
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Chicago
Peopla Wiress
Lear
Morthwest
Amerina
Russia
Danubian
India
Argentine
Australia
Austria-Hungary
North Africa
Live Stock Market Returns from Chicago Aug 24
Chicago取 Aug 24 hogs 25,000 cattle 30,000 sheep 44,000. Hogs opened slow then weak, mixed and butchers 6.05 6.30, 6.75 6.80 range. Cattle opened 10 to 16 cents lower, closed 10 to 12 cents lower. Sheep opened and closed weak. Estimated tomorrow hogs 22,000. United States Stock issues show mixed figures.
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Chicago
Bowen
Doctor Bickley Plans Rockford Medical Practice
Dr Geell J Bickley arrives in Rockford to prepare for permanent medical practice. He studied at New York School of Medicine and has over years of surgical work in a large eastern hospital. Cecil and Mrs Cecil Bickley return from a European wedding trip and will move to Rockford as their home. Dr Robert S Blakley and his wife, returning from Europe, also plan to settle in Rockford to practice medicine with his brother.
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Geell J. Bickley
Rothford
Ith
New York School of Medicine
Rockford
Climots
Cecil Bickley
Robert S. Blakley
Electric Park billed acts dazzle at week show
Electric Park presents a strong bill this week featuring Charles DeCamp and his genius fox terrier Gora famed for intelligent acts and speech despite lacking that one function. Esmarelda the xylophone virtuoso will astonish with opera and popular pieces. Alonzo Cox’s silhouette artistry crafts likenesses of prominent Americans on a lantern lit sheet. Russell & Church perform the playful From Spectary to the Bowery, a top vaudeville comedy. Also Royal Neighbors meeting and O U W Hall notices close the program.
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Charles DeCamp
Gora
Alonzo Cox
Mr. Cox
Russell & Church
Bowery
Vaudevile
Shey Owen
O. U. W. Hall
Death message of W M Annis from Captain Hains shooting
The note written at the hospital by William B Annis confirms he was shot by Captain Hains on August 15 1908. The message bears Annis’s signature and states the assailant as Captain Hains DA 5 A.
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Hains
William 2B
Annis
Hains, DA
William E. Annis
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