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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1922
Page
10
Frot High School added 24 pictures to walls in corridors and classrooms completing a plan by architect M B Cleveland. The second installment follows 28 hung in fall with works of art and cathedrals dominating the subjects. Total cost about 600 dollars funded by senior class activities and alumni memorialized.
Nellie Battolph Carleton, former Iowa Falls resident and Chicago music teacher, died after a period of illness at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago. She was buried there after last Thursday’s death. She is survived by two sons Treadway in St. Paul and Burdette in Chicago, with former Iowa Falls postmaster James S. Buttolph and sister Mrs Jerome D. Steere among relatives.
A Waterloo visitor, Mrs Louis Freeman, praised the Dubuque jail noting its fine sleeping quarters and courteous police. She became a ward of the Dubuque police matron after a charge tied to excessive drinking.
In the city fall, only one prisoner faced Judge J. W. Gwynne in police court this morning. An aged inmate pleaded guilty to intoxication and was fined 13.50 plus costs. W. S. Merrill pleaded guilty to speeding 30 mph in the business district and was fined 15 plus costs.
Dorothy Rae Shop for Children hosts a spring style show at the Strand Thursday evening. Miss Alice Brown sings She Story Book Ball, while Lois Cramer, aged five, dances. Jack All house Jr will hand out favors to the models as part of the regular Strand program.
The Artificial Ice and Fuel Company filed a declaration with the county yesterday afternoon to establish a storage warehouse at Water and Tenth streets. It plans to store and sell grain seeds butter eggs cheese fruits vegetables and other farm products and to control the warehouse operations locally.
An old advertisement touts Musterole as a clean white mustard ointment that relieves headaches when rubbed on the forehead and temples. It markets jars and tubes at 85c and 65c and hospital size at $2, claiming no after-effects of internal medicines.
A fragmented OCR list shows ages 3 through 11 with numerous surnames and given names. It ends with a note that Wilson, a Waterloo police patrol driver, was summoned to Iowa Tall Inst.
A dispatch reports the sudden death of the elder Weht father, noting he died after boarding an early train today. The obituary line indicates the elder Weht’s passing and references his immediate family.
A disjointed OCR fragment notes ages and percentages across categories. It mentions Mr. Wilson aged 68 and unclear figures such as 50 percent of auto items and 48 percent of drugs, with stray phrases about foods and mobiles. The passage lacks coherent context or dates.
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