Keep Your Car In Commission With Careful Maintenance
Ample inflation and careful upkeep are urged to save motorists money. An expert lists essential checks including oiling bearings and joints, cleaning steering, ensuring proper wheel alignment, preventing carbon buildup, lubricating the drive pinion and universal joints, and keeping the motor clean. Regular wrench use and tight bolts prevent many repairs and depreciation. Tires should be inflated to the right level for full roundness and safe performance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mne
Tires Stand Up Round Under Load When Car Is Static
Illustrations show tires support shape when stationary and flatten slightly in motion. Ample inflation is urged as key to maximum mileage for any tire. Tests prove inflating properly reduces internal friction and heat, guiding automobile owners to best tire care.
Bequest Swindle Draws St Louis Man to Europe
A St Louis fertilizer company owner named Daish fell for a Spanish money inheritance scam. He wired 3750 dollars to purported heirs near Valladolid, then to Paris, and finally learned at Chicago that no funds existed. The tale shows a complex mail fraud rooted in European promises of a half million dollars.
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George Daisch
St. Louis
The
Post Dispatch
Daish
North Sea
Spain
William Stolz
St. Louis County
New York
Lusitania
Valladolid
Madrid
Valadolid
First National Bank of Chicago
Sharpers
Stolz
Paris
Atlantic
Chicago
First National Bank
Bread strewn on streets after runaway wagon
A driverless wagon loaded with bread shattered from Hartong's grocery to Fred Rath's along Franklin Street at 7:30. Thirty to forty loaves lay along the route, a bystander and high school boys gathered the loot, feeding chickens. The team crashed into a tree. a horse was injured but no major damage occurred. The driver, Fred Willard, had stepped into Hartong's to deliver bread.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Street
Hartong’s
Fred Rath Grocery
Lower
Franklin
Fred Willard
Corn Special on East Side Arrives Friday in Waterloo
The Corn Special will arrive Friday at 10:10 a.m. on the Chicago Great Western. It will stop in Waterloo for about thirty minutes between Sycamore and Lafayette streets on the east side. Farmers and others are urged to attend for seed corn demonstrations and to bring samples for testing. Canned black berries, 5 cents per can at C. W. Eighmey's.
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Courier
Chicago Great Western
Waterloo
City
Sycamore
Corn looks good ploughed once in early spring
Parkersburg Iowa April 14 A farmer experimenting with ten acres planted in late March reports corn emerging after warm sun and April rains. Despite two light frosts the plants are four to five inches tall and have been ploughed once. If no further killing frost occurs the corn is expected to tassel and form ears by July 1.
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Parkersburg
Iowa
Here
Blaze partly consumes rear barn on Quincy Street
A barn behind a residence at 186 Quincy Street was found burning this afternoon around 2 PM and partially consumed. Firefighters saved the building and hay contents, preventing spread to nearby structures. The owner is Otto Myers of 1513 Fourth Street East. The cause is not definite but suspected to be incendiary by local youths.
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Quincy Street
Otto Myers
Fourth Street
Harry Sayler
Sayler
The Intention Not the Deed. A Woman's Standard
A humorous exchange notes a woman's demand for wealth and status from a future husband. She insists the man must provide a luxurious home, two maids, an electric runabout, a touring car, and fashion access, while admitting intent may trump execution in true spirit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Womans Standard
Goling
Chicago Post
Suffragist Recruitment Tactics Across Women Colleges
Notes from Woman's Standard describe college girls at Wellesley Bryn Mawr Vassar Smith Radcliffe organizing along radical lines in favor of woman suffrage. The piece cites plans to recruit voters with point values assigned to political figures and promises a broad education push through public schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellesley
Bryn Mawr
Vassar
Smith
Radcliffe
Hach
Clarence Mackay
Equal Franchise Society
United States
Suffragists push for school by law on women's voting rights
Mrs. Carrot vows to speak plainly to lawmakers while suffragist actions gain momentum in New York. Mrs. Belmont’s prize essays spur a by law amendment to ban suffrage contests in public schools, drawing sharp quotes from Abraham Stern. Chicago protestors plan tax resistance under no taxation without representation. The Public roundups commentary ends with a dream sequence about a stork family and a carpenter injury report.
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N. Y
O. H. P. Belmont
Daily Press
Wadisigh High School
Board of Education
New York
Abraham Stern
Belle Squire
Chicago
TWO STORKS AND THEIR NESTING FAMILY LIFE
A young stork abandons carefree dalliance after marriage to devote himself to his mate and their brood. He assists by building the nest feeding the young and brooding, admiring the mother’s devoted care as spring turns to summer and the chicks grow larger, making the labor more demanding.
State Declamatory Contest Seat Sale Promises Big Attendance
The seat sale for the annual state declamatory contest at East Waterloo High School’s new manual training auditorium Friday evening draws crowds amid strong indications of a robust turnout and spirited competition with many participants expected.
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East
Waterloo High School
Visitors to attend classes and tours at high school event
A large crowd is expected as visitors arrive to tour new manual training and domestic art departments tomorrow. In the afternoon there will be a reception and a 2 o'clock musical program with possible automobile ride if weather permits. No regular classes that afternoon.
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Welock
Infant Dies of Measles in Local Family
Mr and Mrs Gordon R Olney of 1714 Commercial Street mourn the death of their thirteen month old child who died at 6 am after a weeklong illness of measles followed by pneumonia. Four older children had measles and recovered before the baby fell ill. Born in Nashua the infant’s body will be taken there tomorrow for burial.
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Gordon R. Olney
Commercial Street
Nashua
New Electric Pipe Thawing Device Launched
A newly marketed electrical device offers rapid thawing of frozen water pipes with reduced risk of pipe bursts or ignition of surrounding woodwork, promising safer home thawing.
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St. Lows
Richard Holmes
John Asquith
C. WH. Eighmey's
Lee
ST. Waterloo MA
Tors
General Assembly
Forerunner
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
West Side
J. T
Brueck Garment Co
Bluff St
Chestnut St
Sternsheins Furniture Store
W. 4Th St
Bovey
Cole
McKibbin
Boston Brokerage Co
Sycamore Street
Waterloo Savings Bank
Emmons Johnson
W. C. Logan
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