Old Folks Meeting Carriages Bring Hundred Grace Church
A Grace church service drew about 100 elderly attendees, many brought by carriages and buses. Dr Ostrom spoke on sin and mortality using the Simeon and Anna scriptural episode, urging reconciliation with God. A practical sermon urged breaking habits, avoiding drunkenness, falsehood, and moral laxity, ending with a plea for prayer and repentance.
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Grace Eureh
Autonibbilus
Dr. Ostrom
Siman
Anna
Notice of Incorporation for Hieber-Metz Company in Waterloo
Notice is given that Hieber-Metz Company is organized under Iowa law with offices in Waterloo Town. It will buy and sell ladies haberdashery, millinery, dry goods, and related articles. Authorized capital stock is $10,000, to be paid as directed. business to commence when $5,000 is paid on March 5, 1926. Board of directors will be 2 to 3 members, elected every March and May. Directors will elect president, secretary, and treasurer for one year terms. Indebtedness limited to two-thirds of paid-up capital. stockholders’ private property exempt from corporate debts. Signed by Hieber-Metz Co., Hieber, Metz, President, Secretary.
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Iowa
Hieber-Métz Company
Waterloo
Board of Directors
Sy Hieble-Ametz CO
Himber
W. Metz
Waverly News Mixes Farm Reports and Local Happenings
Reports from Waverly and vicinity note 7000 pounds of milk daily at a condensing factory paying 90 cents per hundredweight. Local earnings include $32 for eggs, $385.12 for pies, and $4 a ton for sugar beets. Residents like George Gorey visit from Waterloo, birthdays and illnesses are recorded, and Panama Canal returnee J Q Lauer plans a month stay.
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Waverly
Win. Briden
Jefferson Township
Iowa
George Gorey
Waterloo
Corey
G. R. Haner
Henry Schumacher
Maxfield
J. Q. Lauer
BP. S. Lauer
Panama Canal
Parrott
Sumner
Sheriff Parrott
Alonng Stacy
Kelley Cannings Company
Perent
Raymond News Roundup of Visits and Deaths
Local notes from Raymond describe visits among residents including Mrs Lizzie Fairchilds, Mrs E D Marbie, Mrs Arthur Young and others. The text mentions the funeral of Wm McVey at the M E B church, pallbearers, burial at Fairview cemetery, and a large crowd. Additional items include crop work, new windmill, stock sales, and roads to Waterloo visits.
Swamp Root Cure Promoted By Dr Kilmer
Readers urged to try Dr Kilmer’s Swamp Root for kidney liver and bladder troubles. A free sample bottle and booklet offered by mail with instructions to mention this paper. Bottles priced fifty cents and one dollar, distributed by Kilmer & Co. in Binghamton New York.
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Ei Kilner
Kilmer
Bright
Kihner
Dr. Kallieroe & Co
Binghasmer
Binghamton, N
A Year of Blood in Alliance Kentucky 1903 Remembrance
A resident of Alliance Kentucky FL N Tackett endures a deadly year marked by severe bleeding from the lungs and a frightful cough. He credits Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption with a dramatic recovery after four bottles, claiming permanent cure. Sold by Wangler Bros drug store with a trial bottle free.
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FL N. Tacket
Alliance
Wangler Bros
Insurance tabulated 1905 figures for Town area
The Insurance Press reports 1905 nationwide data with Town showing paid fees of 38,978,521. Waterloo received 15,091 and Cedar Falls 20,239, with Port Dalgh a leading city at 14,1 024. Local notes mention Mrs. Will Hosmer visiting Des Moines to join husband and job moves at Wat j¢tino/People’s Furniture firms.
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United States
Waterloo
Port Dailga
Cedar Falls
Will Hosmer
Des Moines
Hosmer
Wat J¢Tino Furniture Company
People's Fur- Julture Company
Local Market Prices in Waterloo May 24 1908
Market notes list livestock and produce prices including hogs at 5.35, prime steers 3.50 to 4.00, calves 3000 93.60, lard at 1 cent, eggs lic, butter 18 cents, strawberries 10 to 12 cents, corn 36 cents, wheat 70 cents, oats 21 cents, hay prairie 6.00, timothy 6.00 to 3.00, spring chickens 3.40, hens 4? cents, ducks 8 cents, young turkeys 13 cents, geese 6 cents, hides prices, flour patent 2.40, bakers 2.30.
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Waterloo
Cedar Falls News Highlights At City and School
Cedar Falls Iowa May 24 1996 highlights include Raymond Leland elected principal at Chariton High School with a higher salary. Elite Yard club picnic and ride on Wyth electric launch. George Thygesen plans a modern house on West Seventh. Prof Loughridge to donate curios to Iowa State Normal School museum. accident at the Normal injures Mr St Jobs from falling scaffolding. A bright concert by Cedar Falls Concert Band at Main and Fourth. golden wedding for Mr and Mrs Hunt. normal pupils program with flag drill. new Cedar Falls fire department uniforms for state tournament. Des Moines concert by the ladies band of the I S N S. gas lighting station contract for Cedar Falls Waterloo Gas & Electric. funeral of Mrs Hans Miller. commencement address by Rev G I Birney at Cedar Watts High. Shanklig to give commerce address. Euterpean Fraternity ends summer with study of nature. health ad on Hollister Rocky Mountain Tea.”
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J. B. McMinn
F. B. Church
Jume 1
Parker College
Winnebago City
Minn
Bernice Opperman
Oelwein
Grove Street
Lewis Sheonut
Leonie Kraft
Farmers’ Creamery Co
J. H. Murphy
Myrtle Hayes
J. B. Murphy
Riverside
Helen
Catherine Sheonut
Lenz Kerns
Cell Starr
Geo. Rommell
Waterloo
Mabel Neff
West Union
Amy Higbee
F. H. Lehmkuhl
Harold
Minneapolis
F. D. Agnew
Clyde Dee Bothwell
State Board of Examiners of
Missouri
Physicians and Surgeons College
St. Louis
TI. C. Phelps
Sumner
Agnew
P. F. Kratt
Earl Zimmerman
Edmund Sims
G. W. Bothwell
Jrank Adderman
G. C. Elekeberg
G. W. Roberts
John Keane
Dunkerton
Fairbank High School
Lehmkuhl
Graham of
W. J. Lehmkuhl
Art. Lehrach
Readlyn
Elite Yard Club
Wyth
George Thygesen
West Seventh Street
Seerley
A. Loughridge
California
Iowa State Normal School
St. Jobs
Cedar Fas
Waverly
Cedar Falls
H.C. Hunt
Washington
Normal Training School
Clinton
Des Moines
Des Moines Y. M. CG. A
Fitzgerald
C. H. Merrill
Waterloo and
Gag & Electric Light Company
Tenth Street
Peter Linn
Methortist
G. I. Birney
Cedar Watts High School
William Arnold Shanklig
Upper Iowa University
Commerce- Moné
Euterpean Fraternity
Euterpean
Baptist Church
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H. S. Matie
Misa Berths Martin
Misses Riggs
Thornton
Helen Fulbell
Jenness
Edith Voorhees
Childs
Mesdames G
W. Lamgon
Duthbert
J. O. Knox
B. J. Cable
W. L. Hearst
Hazlett
G. H. Birnes
Rescue of Teacher From 12 Foot Cistern Highlights Chivalry
A popular public school teacher fell into an uncovered 12 foot cistern at night and could not speak. Dr. is credited with a heroic rescue after lowering a ladder and pulling her to safety. The incident sparked remarks on gallantry and old fashioned chivalry.
Earthquake at Brown's Show Delivers San Francisco Calamity Film
Brown's opera house to screen the Frisco Motion Picture Company’s stark moving pictures of the San Francisco quake and fire. Operators preserved from the disaster capture the April 18 calamity and its devastating aftermath in life like detail. Co J Rudolph returned home from Jesup after legal business and family visits.
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San Francisco
Frisco Motion Picture Company
Brown's Opera House
Californis
Elty
Waterloo Daily Notes Roundup Highlights Local Happenings
A sweeping Waterloo region column reports social trips and visits by Miles- Mary Long and relatives, trip plans to Lindenville Virginia Boston and New Haven, a name request for a new steel auditorium, and staff moves at Headford Bros. & Hutchins. It notes home construction on Whitney Sedgwick and east side blocks, Mary Horner’s return from the west trip, dentistry studies for Dr. Witter, Frank Mannhall Jr. resignation and Dyeraville club management shift, concert plans by G E B Wright, and a smallpox quarantine with a funeral. Also listed are sheriff and recorder election candidates, a surprise shower for Nettie Beck, a wedding upcoming for Miss Hock, and a fatal wagon accident involving a Paul Davia Dry Goods horse.
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Frank Manhall Jr
Headford Bros. &. Hutchins Foundry
Wil
Dyeraville
G. EB. Wright
Waterloo
Bratnober Street
Waterloo singer Martin Berend rising on operatic stage
Waterloo native Martin Berend, son of John Berend, gains notice as a tenor in operatic productions with Frank L. Perley’s company. He toured major eastern cities including New York and Chicago, and will study music with Signor Gilamini in Des Moines this summer.
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Waterloo
Martin Berend
Savage Forces
Malt and
Times of
Des Moines
Mr. Berend
Frank. L. Perley
New York
Brooklyn
Baltimore
Cleveland
Chicago
Washington
Signor Gilamini
Martin Bereng
John Herend
Margaret Berend
the Logan
Pay car mishap injures conductor George Abel
Conductor George Abel is nursing two severely injured fingers after a pay car incident in the Waterloo yards during switching between Waterloo and Albert Lea. Abel attempted to operate a ground switch but finger was pinched, flesh torn. brakeman Reedy replaces him as pilot on the run.
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George Abel
Waterloo
Abel
Albert Les
Reedy
Mr. Abel
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