Senate on Treaty and Baseball Game Draw Attention
Washington April 15 The Senate pressed ahead with debate on the Colombian treaty while the House prepared for a brief session and many members planned to attend the opening major league baseball game. President Harding urged emergency tariff action as Kellogg led opposition to ratification and Lodge urged quick approval citing economic and Latin American interests. Senate leaders welcomed Harding’s stance against the Versailles league and favoring termination of the war through congressional action. The irreconcilables Johnson and Borah voiced skepticism that the Versailles treaty could be ratified in any form.
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Washington
D. C
Senate
House
Ways and Means
Harding
Kellogg
Minnesota
Lodge
Massachusetts
Latin America
Learme
Colombia
United States
Congress
Lerge
Johnson
California
Borah
Idaho
Altho
City in Brief from Des Moines Scout Executive Visit
Ray L. Short, scout executive, attends a state session of scout directors in Des Moines. Councilman W. E. Ogle is reported better and bed-ridden. The Williams home at 1933 Fourth Street East is under quarantine for a 15 year old with scarlet fever. M. A. Danton was moved to Mayo Brothers sanitarium for further treatment. Antioch Baptist Church thanks Walnut Street Baptist Church for a 75.57 offering for church property. J. Falan and spouse depart for Chicago to join friends for a two week stay at French Lick Springs. Sheriff Wagner sought to locate Alden Henry Sweet. B. B. Hunter, operated on for appendicitis, progressing well. Miss Trottie Horton plans a return to England via Carmania May 17 for a four month stay. Marcena Webster obtains a temporary injunction against Vernon M. Webster for alleged threats and abuse. asks alimony and attorney fees. Special value one pound Senteco pure breakfast coffee advertised locally.
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Ray L. Short
Des Moines
W. E. Ogle
Third Avenue West
FL R Williams
Fourth Street East
B. B. Hunter
Waterloo Auto & Supply Co
St. Francis Hospital
Trottie Horton
England
America
Carmania
New York
Miss Horton
Marcena A. Webster
Linden Avenue
Vernon M. Webster
Babe
Fire alarms respond to plant blaze and straw stack fire
Fire department was called to Northey Manufacturing on Park avenue and Bluff street at 5 30 am today. Spontaneous coal ribins combustion caused smoke drawing attention of a pedestrian. No damage reported. A straw stack near Independence avenue outside city limits burned at 4 30 pm yesterday. station No 1 firemen responded as boys playing near the stack started the fire.
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Northey Manufacturing Company
Park Avenue
Bluff Street
Independence Avenue
Startion No. 1
Presbyterians of Northern Iowa Hold Annual Meeting
The Presbytery of Cedar Rapids representing northern Iowa and parts of South Dakota met at United Presbyterian Church for the annual session. Delegates debated evangelism and spiritual rebuilding after the war with talks by Dr. Frank B. Murch and Rev. Calhoun, and elected officers for the coming year.
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Presbytery
Cedar Rapids
Northers
Iowa
South Dakota
United Presbyterian Church
Frank B. Murch
Ilard Write
Reinberk
Mer
W. T. McConnell
Boyden
WG. Comin
Goldfeld
Wrie
N. Calhoun
Calhoun
McConnell
Lesmen
Geci and Flour ade to Make God
An advertisement fragment promotes Geci and Flour ade to make God. The message emphasizes a product or brand claim in a period style notice. No clear details on usage, producer, or date are readable.
Council to Amend Plumbing Ordinance in Special Session
A special city meeting is called by Mayor N. W. Frisbie for Friday evening to amend the plumbing ordinance. Master plumbers petitioned to remove the outside inspection requirement and make plumbers liable for defects, with license revocation as a penalty. The ordinance committee will report the changes and the full council will act promptly.
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Eglinei
N. W. Frisbie
Joyce from Davenport claims annulment suit in Chicago
J Stanley Joyce, a Clinton born lumberman now in Chicago, filed yesterday for an annulment of his marriage to Pegey Hopkins in Chicago. Joyce, son of the late W T Joyce, is well known in Clinton where he was born and raised.
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Warden Thomas
Thomas
Six West High students win debating honors this year
The West High chapel ceremony announced debaters and declaimers honored by Miss Dorothy Seifert. Winners include Meade Francis John Carson Vietor Kaplan on the negative team with 16 of 18 wins, and Max Levingston Elizabeth Hollis Wendell Webb on the affirmative team. Declamatory honors went to Max Levingston Helen Walker June Marks. Mrs. Fred J. Clark performed three solos.
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West High
Dorothy Seifert
Meade Francis
John Carson
Vietor Kaplan
Max Levingston
Elizabeth Hollis
Wendell Webb
Helen Walker
June Marks
Fred J. Clark
Waterloo Irishmen Send Delegates to National Meeting
Waterloo council plans 21 delegates for the national convention of the American Association for Recognition of the Irish Republic in Chicago on April 18 198. Two delegates will attend Rev. E J Slattery and Rev. J M Molloy. A state financial letter shows Iowa has 0 organized with 40 000 total members worldwide. Next council meeting is April 26 with reports and anticipated speakers.
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American Association For
Chicago
Waterloo
Altho
E. J. Slattery
J. M. Molioy
State Financial Lit
Iowa
T Ital
East Janesville Church Hosts First Social Event
East Janesville Church in Mount Vernon township holds its first social event a spring kickoff ice cream sociable and musicale. The remodeled church adds a basement social center for the community. Entertainer Joe Dumond from Redpath Vawter Chautauqua will perform with piano accordion and Italian songs. Irene Rhode of Waterloo will accompany on piano. An orchestra from Waterloo and Denver will present popular music programs.
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East Janesville
Mount Vernon Township
Joe Dumond
Redpath Vawter Chautauqua System
Irene Rhode
Waterloo
Herman Bruns
George
Alvin Moeter
Denver
For Sale Ad Sells Silence in County Courthouse Row
A terse For Sale notice appears in the county court listings as a single line classified item. The brief entry hints at a real estate sale and local notices without further details.
Canada's Mineral Output Reaches New Peak in 1920
Canada's mineral production in 1920 totaled 247,775,080 dollars, up 23 percent from 1919 and the largest annual output in the dominion's history. John McLeish announced the figure at the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy meeting, which also outlined plans for rapid resource development and industrial cooperation.
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Montreal
Canada
John McLeish
Division of Mineral Resources
Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
O. B. S. Whiteside
Dominion
Negro Presides 1 Terse y Assembly in Trenton
In Trenton New Jersey for the first time in state history three Black lawmakers held the speaker chair when Walter G Alexander of Newark in Essex county stood in for Speaker George S Hobbert. Assembly members unanimously approved a resolution honoring his ability as a registrar. Dr Alexander, a physician, spoke briefly acknowledging the honor.
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Trenton
N. J
New Jersey
House of Assembly
Walter G
Alexander Newark
Essex
George S. Hobbert
National Guard
Alexander
House
Warren Patton Coon
Essex County
Upton Jeferrs
Towns pet dies on fire at livery stable
Tom the sugar eating horse owned by American Railway Express died in a livery stable fire in Middletown N Y. Police and businessmen fed him sugar after the blaze. Milton Stock reports in Chicago April 13 that Milton Stock the St Louis Cardinal third baseman who held out all spring has signed with the club.
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Middletown
Tom
American Railway Express Company
Milton
Chicago
Milton Stock
St. Louis Cardinal
Rickey
Indian Education Transforming Traditions Says Sells
Cato Sells in the Saturday Evening Post argues that the Indian bureau and its schools are replacing barbaric customs with practical training. He notes English, agriculture, and trades as core, with girls aimed at homemaking. hundreds of young men show favorable results.
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Indian Bureau
Red Man
Saturday Evening Post
Cato Sells
Indian Affairs
Sells
Vinton
Jowans
Mr. Sells
Church
From schools to skilled trades and public service
The passage notes students transitioning from schools to automotive factories and railway roles with high wages. It highlights machinists earning over $2,000 yearly before 25, and credits commercial training at a large school for graduates thriving in business and government. It also mentions Indian school students becoming lawyers, physicians, clergy, teachers, matrons, and nurses.
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Railways
Thirteenth Century Telescope Claim Stirs Skepticism
Dr Wilfred Voynich reports crude manuscripts allegedly proving Roger Bacon used a telescope and microscope in the thirteenth century prompting Newbold to decipher a coded text. The claim centers on evidence of advanced celestial and anatomical observations never seen for 400 years.
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New York
Roger Bacon
Wilfred M. Voynich
Bacon
Made to Make Good Life Extension by Artificial Means
New York reports Dr. Alexis Carrel removed a chick embryo heart from its egg eight years ago and kept it alive under scientific conditions. He claims the heart tissue will continue to grow indefinitely barring accidents, marking a landmark in indefinite tissue life extension.
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New York
Chhicken
Alexis Carrel
Dr. Carrel
Ruins Reveal Early Churches Beneath Reims Cathedral
The Living Age reports that the fallen pavement of Reims cathedral exposes earlier foundations from Saint Hincmar’s church, and deeper traces of Saint Remi’s church. A sealed well with water remains, and a lead conduit links to the long vanished baptismal font where Clovis was received into the church.
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Reims
Saint
Hincmar
Saint Remi
Clovis
France
Canadian Squaw Man Ends Useful Life at Vancouver
A Vancouver death recounts Guillermo Green, a Spanish adventurer who befriended local whites and Indians. After years of frontier danger and two marriages to an Indigenous woman known as Gods Strong Daughter, he dies following illness and a stormy career on the coast.
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Vancouver
B. C
Guillermo Green
British Columbia
Western Canada
Hudson's Bay Company
Praiie
Green
Turmoil in Spring Valley Over Constable Hodeck Pot of War
In Spring Valley New York residents split over Otto Redeck the village constable. A protest led by Thomas Hartkinson seeks two weeks notice from Village President Arnot after Hodeck repeatedly cites car owners in and near the village. The clash centers on enforcement and public sentiment toward local law enforcement.
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Spring Valley
N. Y
Vesuvius
Spring Valley Way
Rock of Gibraltar
Otto Redeck
Otto
Justice of the Peace
Thomas Hartkinson
Spring Valley Theatre
Arnot
Constable Hodeck
Otto Enforces Law as Cars Face Fines in Court
Citizens using heel and sole methods clash with car owners over enforcement. Otto sticks to strict legal standards while a justice of the peace hints at remaining fines.
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Otto
Justice of the Peace
What's Your Hose Mileage at Detroit Dance Halls
Mrs. Laura Phelan, former dancing instructor for the recreation commission, computes hose mileage by steps and floors. She says a dancer averages three miles per dance and can attend five dances per pair, estimating 15 miles per pair and 24 pair for 45 miles total before worn.
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Detroit
Mich
Laura Phelan
The
Recreation Commission
Real Estate Transfers in Waterloo Area
Real estate transfers recorded by Black Hawk County Abstract Co list multiple lot and tract changes in Waterloo and surrounding subdivisions. Transactions include parcels in North addition, Leavitt’s, Cloverdale Acres, Sherwood Park, Summit addition, and others with rev. price annotations. Public notices indicate transfers among individuals and firms in Waterloo and West Waterloo.
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Black Hawk Country Abstract Co
Culbertson
Waterloo
Bock Jr
Francis
Jeatrice
Hanna Hupp
Nicholas
Sely
Waterloo East Side
Cedar River
Red M. “Raymond
Leavitt
Rederick H. Kezar
Lavanna M. Kezar
West Waterloo
Cleery
Those Hill 1St
Sherwood Park
Holmes
Matt Waller
J. J. Miller
Sarah T. Hook
Summit “Addition
Lydia M. Wiltse
Lucy Bf
Gregory R. Garcia
Charles Ie Hardy
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M. A. Danton
Mayo Hros. Sanitarium
Rochester
Minon
Antioch Baptist Church
Walnut Street Baptist Church
J. £. Falan
French Lick Springs
Ind
Springs
H. T. Wagner
Alden Henry Sweet
Laura M. Harming
Council Bluffs, Ln
Sweet
County
Komgon Insurance Agency
Tadveris Iment
U. Presbyterians of
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East Janesville Church
Britain
Great Britain
Newcastle
Columbus
Presion
Ohio
Tersey Assembly
Cate Leis
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Tirteenth Century
William Romaine Newbold
University of Pennsylvania
Voyich
Gettysburg
Elmer Jacobs
Los Angeles
Earl Fisenhour
Islea
Camp Colt
Jacobs
Lincoln Highway
Garland-Fleur
Atland
Orto
Waterloo Flour & Feed Co
J. & P. Coats
iGc
Paris
Our Candy Dept
Bine Border
Wees
Black & Hansen CO
F. D. Davis
Mgr
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