Waterloo Aims to Be City Beautiful This Season
Waterloo plans a major street upgrade featuring brick and asphalt paving across about 20 blocks. The program covers Commercial Seventh Grant and Eighth streets plus intersections, with 4 foot wide paving and brick where specified, plus sidewalk work and new street lighting requests as petitions move through the council.
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Mullen Ave
Thirteenth
Washington
Grant Avenue
Grant
Seventh
Eighth
Leavitt
Ninth
Pilsines
East Waterlon
Park Road
Tincolln
Centter
Calum
Cottage Street
Balti ‘More
Bluff
Virden
Randolph
City to sell land to fund new fire station plan
The city council advertised sealed bids for property on Commercial Street near Fifth to raise at least six thousand dollars for a new fire station. Bids due by 7 30 p m Monday May 27, with highest satisfactory offer securing the sale. The council intends to build a new station after disposing of the old building, which is a two story brick structure on Commercial Street.
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Highland Park
Rt Chautangis Park
Independence Avenue
Nevada
Idaho
Highland
Arizona Street
C. N. Steuber
Bawarde
Ricker & Beat Nother
Mobile Street
Merriman
Albany
Shilliam
Ash
Beech
Bates
Halstead
Barclay
Watler, Seat and Gas Committee
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Commercia
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Sisth Streets
R. E. Peek
Theodore 'Pek
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Will Erect Building on Water Street for Saloon
Fred H Stolte plans a brick cement block building on Water between Fourth and Fifth to serve as a saloon. The Waterloo council approved the permit 4 to 2 despite opposition. A business group urged reconsideration of the city’s growing alcohol trade. The GAR memorial day services will receive $50 in the next chance bill.
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Fred H Stolte
Mr. Stolte
Alderman Hath
Miller
Mr. Rath
Waterloo Board of Trade
East Wayterloo
Chamber of Commerce
Weat
Waterloo
Robert Anderson Post
GAR
Realife Investigation Reveals Possible Nicide Plot
The article describes a woman linked to a realife investigation with claims of terror and potential poisoning. Aboard a boarding house since Waterloo arrival she showed religious tendencies and unassuming manners. Doctors expect recovery after hospital treatment and rest, with friends aiding her return to health.
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Nicide
Clkimis
Kim
Waterloo
Tao
Washington Township Spelling and Oratorical Contest
In Kalla May 14 special: Washington township held a spelling contest with all schools represented. Written test winner Mins Heagle Wine of No. 4 scored 96 percent. Oratorical winner Miss Rhoda Rohr abacher of No. 3 after a long contest, second to Oscar Pierce of No. 3. Participants and topics traced the township's educational history from 1812.
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Cedar “Kalla
School House
Washington Township
Blackhawk
Rhoda Rohrabacher
Oscar Pierce
Hohrabacher
The
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Lndjeng
Gasoline Fire Injures Women Cleaning Garments in Chicago
In Chicago on May 14 a gasoline sparked accident burned a woman as she cleaned clothing with gasoline. Witnesses say improper handling caused the incident. Fire crews responded quickly, but injuries were reported and the event drew attention to safety in cleaning practices.
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Chicago
Midget baby born in town breaks small weight record
A baby weighing one and three fourths pounds at birth grew to four pounds two ounces in two months. Parents Mr and Mrs Crandall live at 516 Dane Street. The infant, born to the Crandalls, has a pleasant disposition and is developing steadily. The mother, Mrs Walter E Elfrink, suffered severe burns to her hands when a skirt burst into flames during cleaning using gasoline. The Crandalls are prominent local residents with the father employed in the trolley line.
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Walter E. Elfrink
Vegetation Magazine
Aral Elfrink
Grandall
Womnen Trive
Crandall
Tilo’ Central
Bigamy case hits court as Sharp responds to divorce bid
Emma Alita Sharp sues for divorce claiming Al a wife married him in March and he later took eight wives. William Henry Sharp answers alleging his wife cared little for divorce and would not be divorced. The sprawling filing covers much of the lives of the parties and may be among the most extensive records in the case. The February term saw a divorce case filed and later withdrawn by the plaintiff after an answer by the defendant.
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Willan Henry Sharp
Emma’ Alita Sharp
Dt Grea
Eight year sentence for Iowa incest case
Allison Iowa May 14 Special: Loree James G Smith of Freemont Indicted by the grand jury on January 22 1900 for incest pleaded guilty. Libby sentenced to eight years in the penitentiary. Smith confessed marriage to a woman already married to Edwin. Sheriff Hill will escort the prisoner to Anamos with the prisoner.
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Allison
Iowa
Mey
Loree
James G. Smith
Freemont
Town
Butler County
Maranalltown
Edwin
Libby
Yorce
Minnesota
Sheriff Hill
Anamons
Dance Ends in Tragedy at Harpers Farm Barn
A Saturday night barn dance near Harpers six miles east ended in a fatal quarrel and fight. George Kuhir was stabbed and remains missing, possibly hiding in a county barn or farmhouse. A separate blaze gutted the Steel Radiator plant in Webster City, its origin unknown and its insurance loss noted. A tornado near Parker, South Dakota, killed a woman and child, injured others, and damaged homes. A court action in Marshalltown concerning Campbell vs Jackman Bros proceeds with interrogatories as counsel contests the case. In Millersburg a 40 year romance ends as a shingle marriage plea finally drifts away with Fortune and Martha never wed.
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Harpérs
Kuhir
Magus
Smith
Millersburg
Ohio
A Farma Free
Middaugh Farm
Fortune
Fortuna
Fortuné
Nebraska
Martha Muldaugh
Martha
Weathered Farm Life and Local News From Sennington
A clipped Sennington item reports farm injuries and repairs, weather notes, land dry conditions, and local visits. Howard McDougal returns from a western trip and buys a colt after selling a buggy, while May taxed locals with frost and drought worries. Nearby residents include Hermap Woebbeking ill from rheumatism and Benjamin Broadbent adding a wind mill. Wives and kin visit kin across Sumner and Denver, with travel plans to Montana and North Dakota noted.
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G. F. Malie
Isom
Howard McDougal
Woebbeking
Pipho
Sumner Sim
Utlaw
Henry Fasse
Bliss Minnie Fink
Montana
Fred Rinderknecht
North Dakota
Ernst
Wm. Foock
Strange Mishap To Train Near Sioux Kalla
Cherokee Democrat reports a southbound Sioux Falls train jolted after leaving Sioux Kalla. The tender derailed from a truck, delaying service several hours until a second engine reached Cherokee at nine. Wind gusts may have caused rocking leading to a truck slip. A prior similar mishap involved the same engine.
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Cherokee Democrat
Sioux Fails
Sioux Kalla
Baginger Culton
Cherokee
Maid
Tov St
Bloutx Walle
Waterloo
Top Chiledge
Conducts Sage
Tanners Start Strike in Kenosha Warmer Wage Walkout
Kenosha Wisconsin May 14 sympathy with sixteen letters who had struck for higher wages 71260 men mostly foreigners walked out of N H Allen Sons tannery today. The plant is closed today.
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Wik
Liteters
Rel N.H. Allen Sons Tannery
Burglar Outfit Found In Return Trip From Chicago
Mrs B R Sholes of chin city found a complete burglar outfit in a bag meant for another traveler after returning home from Chicago. The box contained steel bits blades bind dynamite and a bottle of explosive ultraglycerine. Police are investigating the incident.
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Janesville
Wit
B. R. Sholes
Chin City
Robbery Attack on Stolte Shocks East Fifth Street
Louis Stolte, robbed at his home on East Fifth Street, was struck from behind by an unknown man who fled toward the river after the assault. Police investigated, with a suspect alibied. a detailed description of the attacker was obtained by witnesses.
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Louis Stolte
East Fifth Street
P. W. Wagner
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Stolte
Wagner
Charles Parker
Rhea Standiah
Trig
Dr Williams Pink Pills Touted In Silly Health Cure Tale
A garbled consumer ad recounts a woman's recovery after using Dr Williams Pink Pills, claiming cures for stomach and blood issues. The piece names testimonials, a Mr. Lowell, a Mrs Stackpole, and a March date, with references to tonic ingredients and renewed energy after the treatment.
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Pope
Hay
Mar
Mery Stackpole
Liorg Lowell
Croublis
Bai Ata
Dr. Williams
Zeke Orion
Wl Gray
Mioms
Court hearing calendar lists liquor cases and substitutions
The court adjourned to Tuesday afternoon to determine readiness for hearings. Yesterday’s assignments include actions against saloon men for May 30 and a substitution in Jackman Bros. The likely hearing date is the last Wednesday of May with a constitutional challenge to the Munich law. Upcoming dockets for two weeks feature Galloway vs Miller and others on May 20 to May 23.
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J. A H. Campbell
H.G. Beeman
Jackman
Wells
Merlin
Jones
Mazanti
Long
Joder
Burgess
Pfeiffer & Co
Baliey Ve
Snyder
Est
Blantialp & McGarpban
Roosevelt's Stand Endorsed by Syracuse Banquet Leader
Second Vice President W C Brown of New York Central spoke at a Syracuse Chamber of Commerce banquet and endorsed Roosevelt's stance on corporations.
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Roosevelt
Syracuse
W. C. Brown
New York Central Railroad
M Ann Adress
Wnawa al
Clermaree Instingts
Eland
Ownership dispute over property sale damages claim
District court examined Irene Kentzelmann versus W W Jenke and wife to determine damages for breach of warranty and whether a specific lot described as ninety by twenty feet in the southwest portion of the property was included in the transfer or merely a clerical error. The case centers on possession claims and the true scope of the sale as disputed for months.
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Irene Kentzelmann
H. Jenke
R. Blenfa
Aiza
Aged Resident Josane Ordered to Insane Asylum
An elderly resident identified as Josane, connected to Alexander McPherson, a Spring Creek pioneer, was deemed unable to care for himself after a Tuesday afternoon incident. He was ordered committed to an asylum, described as suffering from a form of insanity due to old age and brain weakness.
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