Waterloo Clean Up Week Plans Bring City Agencies Together
Waterloo mobilizes April 18 to 23 with churches schools civic bodies and clubs coordinating efforts to remove dirt from businesses homes streets and alleys. Ministers will urge clean environment at services and schools will feature talks to recruit student volunteers. A broad city committee chaired by Mayor Glenn Tibbitts and Police Chief Charles A Mohlis will supervise the drive with representatives from Lions Rotary Izaak Walton league and other groups.
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Plana For
Waterloo
Ministera
Waterloo ‘Club
Paul Davis
Glenn Tibbitts
Charles A. Mohlis
Ray Tiller
H. B. Will
C. L
McDermott
F. 3B. .Brocksus
Helen Swinbank
Kate Stabler
Lions Club
John Koch
Fred Repass
Leo Mak
Allan Lown
Hermann Miller
Frank Cihak
L.W. Witty
Frank Collard, Jr
W.H. Jennish
Seth Beem
E. G. Carey
Wade Nelson
Home financing risks and contract for deed schemes
The article warns of contracts for deed used in home financing where buyers pay low down payments and lenders add large undisclosed discounts. It notes 20 percent upfront “discounts” and liquidated damages if payments falter, calling such terms costly and hazardous for buyers and urging caution and full awareness.
Modern Colonial Style Wood House Featured In Plan 6-A-17
The article describes a wood framed Colonial style house, Plan 6-A-17, highlighting wood’s simplicity and delicacy, with a brick base, wide bevel siding, and double hung windows. It notes a modern interior with two living rooms, a screened porch, brick fireplace, and practical layout across two floors, plus attic storage and adaptable lot size. The piece credits the Architects Small House Service Bureau and invites readers to request blueprints via the Home Building Editor.
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United States
Waterloo Metal buys sheet metal business in city
The Waterloo Metal and Manufacturing Co has purchased the sheet metal business of the C. M. Berkeley hardware store. The notice lists numerous real estate transfers in Black Hawk and surrounding townships, including properties in Washington and Cedar Falls, along with several trust and mortgage movements and bank transactions through 1905.
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Waterloo Metal & Manuffacturing Co
C. M. Berkley
Alice EB. van Vilet
Glenny Logan
Park
Washington
Black Hawk County
Lows
Orilla Shielda
Old Add
Vas
Orilla Shields
Washington Chapel
Humiston
Orie B. ‘Harrin
Home Park
Howrey & McWilliams
BAM We Laaeee
Westfield
Zadia M. Elchar
Westfield cc
Charles E. Luce
Fr. S. Card
Smith
Donald D. Sage
Wm. C. Sage
Swig
Elmer C. Rickert
Sves
Bank of Reinbeck
Tayland
Woman Spends Entire Fortune Trying to Reduce
A Boston Transcript item notes a woman’s costly pursuit to trim her finances, illustrating how aggressive frugality backfires by draining her pocketbook rather than shrinking expenses. The column captures a cautionary tale about fiscal overreach and misplaced optimism.
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Boston Transcript
Aluminated Cross Window in Eagle Grove Church Contract Bid
J S Bartley announces open bid for the new First Methodist Episcopal church at Eagle Grove Iowa with a $75000 estimate. Building will be 108 by .77 feet with 485 seats plus 220 expandable, three floor Sunday school for 550, featuring an illuminated cross window. Church choir of 30 members with a 12 year reputation invests proceeds in the fund and has broadcast services from Davenport Ames and Des Moines stations.
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First Methodist Episcopal
Eagle Grove
J.S. Bartley
W. G. Muhleman
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Iowa
Waterloo
Shady Second Mortgage Lenders and Home Ownership Debate
The text contrasts honorable lenders with "sharks" who press home builders to default on contracts. It questions whether owning a home is cheaper than renting, noting the need for facts over hearsay in evaluating the home ownership question.
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Peore
Doctor-Exercise Advice for a Bricklayer
A bricklayer asks what he should work on and the doctor responds with daily incremental exercise. The doctor suggests laying an extra brick every day to build strength and fitness.
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Ney
Rotary
Fred Northey
P. M. Michael
M. W. Gibson
S.D. Brown
American Legion
L. R. Swenson
B. BR. McGinnis
Joe Keegan
Kiwanis Club
C/A. Ellyson
N.S. Huntington
A. EB. McFarlane AV
BE. Steely
R. K .DeGon
Waterloo Ministerials ‘Association
Edwin Boardman, Jr
A. A. Moore
Y's Men’s Club
Russell Lamson
Oral Hinds
Merle Parr
Auto Radiator & Sheet Metal CO
W. Park Ave
Waterloo, Towa
Waterloo Metal & Mfg. C
W. BH. Brunn
Pres
Eickelberg
Sec'y
Weatherwax Ins
B. V. Hughes
Mgr
Black Hawk
Roofi
Rae
Waterloo Lumber Co
American Abstract & Title Company
Francise M. Stebbins
First Nat’ Bank
Walker & Myers Electric
Jefferson St
Stebbins Plumbing & Heating CO
Stebbins
Bryant Paving CO
Black Hawk Building
Petosh Isutn
Central Iowa Power & Light CO
Waterloo, Iowa
Erloo
Bovee Furnace Works
West Eighth St
Wert
Dunkelberg, Leeper & Cropper, Inc
Small House Service Bureau of the United States, Inc. Home Builders’ Clinic
Genasco Latite
C. W. Chapman Lumber Co
Iowa Securities Company
East Fifth St
A. K. Smith
Mgr. Ins. Dept
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