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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Reporter
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1907
Page
3
City hall records show citizens must fund a city project nine blocks long with a total cost noted as 42000 dollars. The share assigned to each property holder amounts to 7753.08 dollars, with a plat filed at city hall detailing apportioned assessments.
Mrs. G W Rittman and other visitors attend Masonic lodge events in Waverly and Cedar Falls. Mrs. Elwood Saul travels to Rochester for medical consultation. a California trip follows for Mrs. C A Lesle and Mrs. B B Fenton returns from Detroit. Associated Charities notes a warm clothing drive. a Jefferson street paving cost breakdown totals 31 737 23 with local property owners covering 23 969 24. Funeral services held for Miss Nellis Knapp at Hillside Cemetery after a Cedar Falls death. extensive community sympathy follows.
Special Agents on the Illinois Central investigation report a wholesale theft scheme stealing thousands of dollars in freight from moving cars. Two conductors operating between Waterloo and Freeport were discharged after officers observed them taking goods from cars. Local officials refuse to name the men or confirm ties to the robberies, ongoing as inquiries continue.
The brother of conductors K. B. and FB. K. Strouse left for St Paul after visiting. An express messenger foresees rising holiday traffic and delays due to loading. A Illinois Central line wreck near a trestle caused hours of delay. John Williamson of Freeport was struck by a freight engine but escaped with minor injuries. Louis Neuman, a Northern Pacific freight engineer, returned from Beattle to visit relatives. Central yards crews tested engine No. 2002. Martin Buckley of Dubuque plans a several week visit with Buckleys in the city. Red Sparle came back from Cedar Rapids after attending to matters.
The Shriner meeting convened yesterday while Harry Bredneck is not expected home until Friday and will spend today with friends at Marshalltown. Real estate transfers filed for record Wednesday include Almwood Gen. Assi to A. Mi. Ehret, a lot in Waterloo with $5,000.00 consideration. E. Wightman to Maude Lathrop, a lot in Waterloo valued at $700.00. three transfers total consideration $5,868.40.
Long tribute to Frank Chance as natural born baseball leader and captain of the Chicago baseball club. Lively praise notes his calm, dignified style, boundless work ethic, and the team unity seen in the World Series. Also mentions pension talks at Westinghouse Air Brake and other brief items from the era.
A report from the county jail highlights Jakey Lingelbach being released after thirty days for drunkenness, then re-arraigned and sent back for thirty more. Judge Van Metre will recommend confinement in an inebriate asylum while other cases include a delirium tremens sufferer from Thanksgiving celebrations and a wife beater serving five days on bread and water in nearby cells.
Clarence Mackay enjoys deer pastimes in polo and Scottish shooting while John-Philip Souva captains a baseball team and pursues pitching. Tom Maguire, famed songwriter and "Waltz of the Clouds" author, is blind and street-concerts on the London pavements. Sartoria, Grant’s grandson, resigns from the army to join Uruguay’s Montevideo legation. Ex Senator Chandler rumored to keep stenographic notes for future memoirs. Walter Christie, the automobilist, vows to race on despite danger, wishing tomb inscription R I P. Edelund of Vermont resigns after long service and remains a Philadelphia lawyer in today’s news. William Starr, born 1807 in Virginia, marks a century without physicians in the Oldest Inhabitants group.
The article describes rising fashion demand for overdresses and neenaries with a strong tilt toward cloth gowns. The long and short skirt styles diversify, silks velvets and plush fabrics flood shops, blocking remains popular and smocking becomes a showcased handwork.
A New York Post report notes a strong fancy for tailored skirts even when fabrics suit veiling tones. The fashion mood favors decorations such as velvet tabs, silk or braid or self-material, with broadcloth and smooth fabrics styled for fullness and confinement.
Reports recount a wounded spar row William Toughberry of Philadelphia falling from a roof and dying. Mary Carman killed near Osage New Jersey when a wind torn chicken house whirled and struck her. Edward and Mary Pool killed in separate incidents at Centralia Illinois. A Brake driver water bird captured near Portland Michigan attacked Byron Aldrich, plunging its beak into his eye.
Steel piles are cut off by electric arc. Chicago mail order houses gross about 100 million dollars annually. In Taoiis native weavers work for little pay with hand looms, making enough cotton cloth to supply a yard to every person globally each year. In Braveg all mechanics must serve two to three year apprenticeships, during which they board themselves and receive no wages.
An Australian traveler in Japan meets an English girl and an American woman and jokes about stamps and revolutions while comparing the American Revolution to the Boer War. Separately, a better behaved child Wille comforts a sick friend Timmy, then a humor piece recalls Judge Hawkins and a black cap, ending with a note on rattlesnake rattles worn by ground snakes.
The 1186 papal ban on the cross and threats of excommunication are noted beside mentions of the old miracle plays, where the Adoration of the Three Kings was staged by Jeweler’s guild corporations to cover expenses. The text then shifts to a curious line about Uncle Sam’s Domains and time zones from Alaska to Maine.
A garbled note describes washing onions with water and dish soap after slicing, claiming the method keeps knives from odor. It mentions scouring soda ineffective and promises this simple technique holds for gilt fish cooking, though the text is unclear and largely nonsensical.
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