Witnesses Testify Over Fictitious Names in Saloon Petition Case
Court heard from about forty five names alleged as fictitious on the petition for saloon sales. Eleven witnesses testified before noon. cross examinations questioned why signatures did not match true names and if consent to sale was given. Hearing expected to continue next week with rebuttals and lengthy legal arguments by seven attorneys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph A. Dunkelberg
Ralph H. Dunkelberg
E. A. Oppert
C. A. Oppert
SE. Perkins
F. EF. Perkins
Q. F. Robinson
Q. S. Robinson
Deputy coroner rules death of Mrs. Gerhart accidental
In St Louis on April 4 a deputy coroner concluded the death of Mrs Julia Mac Farline Gerhart from an overdose of sleeping potion was accidental. The coroner stated she took the poison in an attempt to sleep. Courier want ads mentioned times and prices.
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Fata
St. Louis
Julia MacFarline Gerhart
Gerhart
Des Moines Man Loses Folded Ten Dollar Bill at Union Station
J A Herman of Des Moines, a match salesman, boarded a Rock Island train to Cedar Rapids after purchasing a ticket. He later realized a folded ten dollar bill had fallen from his bill folder under a bench, and he returned to search the south waiting room but found only the untouched bill folded and forgotten.
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Union Station
Rock Island
Cedar Rapids
J. A. Herman
Des Moines
Herman
Want Ad Sparks Quick Sale for Fireman Griffin
The Courier’s want ads drew rapid attention in Waterloo when James Griffin a west side fireman sold a racycle soon after the ad ran yesterday. Prospective buyers flooded in before the paper hit city streets and the cycle sold soon after. Griffin halted further inquiries by pulling the ad.
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Courier
Waterloo
James Grifkn
West Side
the Courier
Griffin
Installation planned by Elkg Lodge Fifth
W R Law former exalted ruler of Waterloo lodge No 290 BPOE will install officers at the club rooms on Sycamore street tomorrow evening. A luncheon may follow. The Waterloo lodge organized in 1894 reports 500 members in good standing with finances sound and a rosy future for the order.
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W. R. Law
Waterloo Lodge
Sycamore Street
Law
Waterloo
Health Lecturer Will Speak Here in Waterloo
Aretas E. Kepford state tuberculosis lecturer will speak at Walnut Street Baptist church Sunday evening on The Statecraft of Preventative Medicine. He notes pending legislation intended to reduce insanitary conditions and disease breeding. Also, William Scovite, a worker at the Iowa Dairy Separator plant, was injured when iron fell five feet and crushed his left foot today.
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Aretas E. Kepford
Department of Tuberculosis
Waterloo
Walnut Street
William Scovite
Iowa
Musterole advertised to ease neuralgia and more
Musterole advertised as an ointment offering quick relief for neuralgia and sore throats among other ailments. The copy promotes rubbing onto the skin without a plaster, claims superiority to mustard plaster, and lists prices and mail order options from Musterole Company in Cleveland Ohio.
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Musterate Company
Cleveland
Ohio
Leo. S. Hoag
Athens
Michigan
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Potson Verwim
East Fourth Street
Oelwein
Temperance
McCune’s
ELKG
Lodge
Helmet Lodge
Helmet Lodge No. 89
Knights of Pythias
P. J. Martin
Waterloo Knights
Pythian Temple
No. 89
Sullivan
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