Eau Claire pattern coupons and Episcopal notices
Courier patterns offer updated design by mail with ten cent pattern fee. Missionary from Freatown arrives, convention features include Mrs Hursh talk. Episcopal church notices announce guild meeting, Daughters of the King event, Sunday school junior party, and hosting arrangements. Social items cover visiting guests, informal entertainment, M B A events, bake sale at Grace Church, and planned meetings. Storm prevention delays Waterloo D A R meeting. teacher training classes to host Sunday school event April 24.
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My. FE
Endestar
Society News and Travelers Club Event
The United Commercial Travelers met Saturday afternoon in Russell Lamson hall, initiating a class of candidates and hosting a two course chicken dinner for about one hundred guests. A program followed with monologues, vocal and piano solos, duets, and dancing, led by A W McFarlane, featuring Mabel Ferris and Lucile Rue among others.
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United Commercial Travelers
Russell-Lamson Hall
A. W. McFarlane
Lee Greene
Mabel M. Ferris
Frances Cordes
J. L. Ferris. Jr
tLa Rute
la- Rue
Lucile Ruce
Metropolitan
Six Pisces
Marvel M. Ferris
Els Horn
Wis
T. L. Ferris, Jr
Miss Mar Griswold
St. Paul
Attractive Bill at the Majestic
The Alpha Troupe promises novel stunts and hoop tricks at the Majestic today and tomorrow. The Van Merrow company also offers an act drawing attention in vaudeville circles. Walter Canton and Evelyn Tussi present a miniature musical comedy as Racker and Runnells perform as a lively musical team.
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Majestic
van Merrow & O
Walter Canton
Evelyn + Tussi
Racker
Runnells
Werding
Marie Dearin
Gaspar Celebrates Birth of Son in Cincinnati
Harry Gaspar, famed Waterloo pitcher, becomes proud father to a 4 pound 9 1/2 ounce son born last Wednesday in Cincinnati. Mrs. Gaspar remains hospitalized while the couple plans a flat near the baseball park. The junior Gaspar is tipped to grow quickly as a pitcher. Meanwhile Rae Muirhead Phi Beta club will meet tomorrow at the YWCA parlors.
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Harry Gaspar
Waterloo
Coentral Association
Cincinnati
Justice in a House of Fear Trials of McCaskill Begin
A courtroom crowd hears arguments on reasonable doubt and self defense in the Jefferson McCaskill case. State counsel outlines instructions and the duty to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt while defense contends the sanctity of home and duty to retreat. The proceedings recount the November Phillips home incident and emphasize the aggressor question.
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McCoy
Phillips
Jefferson McCaskill
Henry Phillips
Mr. Phillips
McCaskill
Newman
Longley
Alfred Longley
Mr. Longley
Special Services for Young Ladies at First Brethren Church
Last evening the First Brethren Church hosted a talk titled The Young Lady of Today and the Responsibility She Assumes on the Morrow. About 200 attendees heard the King's Daughters choir perform a trombone solo by Mrs Ethel Troxell-Thompson and a flute solo by Miss Greenwald, with Mrs S Hady at the piano. Next Sunday evening the service will focus on young men.
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First Brethren Church
King's Daughters
Ethel Troxell-Thompson
Drake Relays Meet Draws National Teams
Des Moines April 15 Drake University coach Griffith announced Chicago University will send a team to the Drake relay meet next Saturday. Stagg telegram confirms one mile entry. Over 500 athletes in 12 events with Nebraska Wisconsin Ames Kansas Iowa Minnesota South Dakota and others to compete. Drake will field four university events and Redfern Leitsle Henshaw Fieke will run the two mile relay as favorites.
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Des Moines
Griffith
Drake University
Chicago University
Drake
Stagg
Chicago
Nebraska University
Wisconsin
Ames
Wisconsin University
Towa
Kansas
Minnesota
South Dakota
Washington University of St. Louis
Redfern
Leitsle
Henshaw
Fieke
World violinist Kubelik arrives for Waterloo concert
Kubelik the world famed violinist reached Waterloo from Kansas City this afternoon and prepares for a concert at the Waterloo theatre tonight. He is staying at the Irving and was seen by Courier staff. This farewell American tour marks his last chance for many to hear his wizardry. Kubelik spoke softly with foreign manners and praised Waterloo’s reception.
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Kubelik
Waterloo
Kansas City
Waterloo Theatre
the Irving
Kuhelik
Keubelik
Mr. Schwab
Iowa Republicans Claim Control of Cedar Rapids Convention
After 99 Iowa county conventions, Taft and Cummins factions claim control of the April 24 state convention in Cedar Rapids. Delegates to Chicago will be chosen, with counts varying due to uninstructed delegates. The final votes may not be known until the convention opens.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Taft
Cummins
Cedar Rapids
Chicago
Veteran of 99 Lies at Hospital in Spokane Washington
L. J. Boyd, claiming to have piloted Whitman across the continent in 1843, lies near death at St. Marys hospital in Walla Walla after a stroke. A Civil War veteran and frontier driver, he remained active until a year ago and now is cared for by Sisters of Providence.
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Spokane
Wash
L. J. Boyd
Marcus Whitman
St.Mary’s Hospital
Walla Walla
Sisters of Providence
Oho
Northwest
Whitman
Walla Walla Calles
California
Mra. R. FE. Allen
Taunch
Five Year Old Girl Found Living With Juvenile Suspect
Bertha Nicholson, a five year old girl, was picked up on Iowa Street and taken to the care of police matron Mrs. Marle Carey. The child, sister of Mrs. William Gruebn, had been staying with Otto Gruebn and Bernice McMillan on Fourth Street East and was turned out with a bundle of clothes. Temporary care is provided and the case will be heard in juvenile court before Judge F. C. Platt. Pernice McMillan, who recently left a sixty day county jail sentence for disorderly conduct, had returned to Waterloo three weeks ago despite prior warnings.
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Bertha Nicholson
Iowa Street
Marle Carey
William Gruebn
Indiana
Otto Gruebn
Bernice McMillan
Fourth Street
Platt
Waterloo
Convention of D A R Opens in Washington
The twenty first annual D A R convention opened in Washington with Mrs Matthew T Scott as chair. No president general will be elected this year. ten vice presidents general will be chosen. Reports from credentials and program committees opened the session while President Taft’s welcome address highlighted the afternoon program. Mrs Scott planned a reception at Memorial Continental Hall that evening for visiting Daughters.
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M. 13
Shatter
Minapolis
Nis General Convention
Waverloo
Universalist
Woman's Missionary Society
O’clark
Iowa
Woman's Missionary Association of the United Brethren
Christ
First United Brethren
Ehurch
Mra
Mary Hursh
Washington
the Daughters of the American Revolution
Matthew T. Scott
Taft
Scott Wi
Memorial Continental Hall
A N Barkman Loses Eye in Portland Accident
A N Barkman, formerly of Waterloo, sustained a severe eye injury in a Portland warehouse when a ladder tipped by a coworker caused his glasses to shatter. The hammer struck his eye, necessitating immediate hospital surgery to remove the left eye. Barkman, long active in contracting, has had prior accidents and recently left Waterloo around 1898.
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A. N. Barkman
Waterloo
Portland
Ore
Barkman
Seek Dorr for Marsh murder in three states
Lynn police announced they seek W. A. Dorr of Stockton California as the man to question in the murder of George E. Marsh the wealthy Lynn soap manufacturer Suspect is sought in Maine and New York as inspectors pursue possible connections in the case.
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Lynn
Mass
Thomas M. Burches
Maine
New York State
George E. Marsh
W. A. Dorr
Stockton
Cal
CREAMERY DESTROYED BY FIRE NEAR WATERLOO IOWA
The Farrington co operative creamery twelve miles north of Waterloo was wholly destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon around 4 o clock. The blaze gutted the creamery and ice house with two cream separators and a two days collection of cream lost. Loss placed at about $2,000 with unknown origin though a shearing spark theory floated.
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Glasgow
Farrington Co-Operative Creamery
Waterloo
Engineer's Leg Smashed in Milwaukee Freight Derailment
A Milwaukee freight train derailed after a landslide from an embankment covered the tracks in Guttenberg Iowa. Engineer James Crawford of Dubuque suffered a crushed leg and several others were slightly injured.
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Guttenberg
James Crawford
Dubuque
Milwaukee
Sidney company expands with Ottumwa women’s shop
The Sidney company opened a new women’s store in Ottumwa following its Waterloo debut. Ottumwa papers praise the store’s appointments and shopper conveniences. General manager Mr. Solomon attended the opening. Fixtures for Ottumwa were designed and made in Sidney, continuing the chain’s local manufacturing links.
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Sidney Company
Waterloo
Ottumwa
Solomon
Leaves Tomorrow for Presbytery Meeting in Toledo
Miss Ella White travels to Toledo for a presbytery session of Presbyterian churches. She will present a paper advocating missionary work and summarize Woman's Work in the session. Mrs. R. T. Sisson of Ames, Indiana, visits Waterloo at Mrs. N. W. Frisbie’s home on Maple Street. Miss Jessie Patterson heads to Cedar Rapids to meet her sister and relatives visiting Mrs. Bronson’s mother in Waterloo.
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Waterlan Chanter
D. A. RK
Ella
White
South Street
Ella White
Toledo
Miss White
R. T. Sisson
Ames, In
City
N. W. Frisbie
Maple Street
Jessie Patterson
Cedar Rapids
A. 2. Bronson
Marion Virginia
Wanted To Do Furniture Repairing and Farm Implements
Wanted to do furniture repairing all kinds. Phone 574 B at Independence Ave. For sale one riding Emerson corn plow one sulky Emerson corn plow one Vaughan three section harrow one Racine Sattley corn planter all in fine condition EE. T. Nelson at Herrick Refrigerator factory. Phone 2462 White. Wanted By Hopkins Sanitary Cleaning Co electric vacuum cleaning.
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bBlack
Independence Ave
Emerson
EE. T. Nelson
Herrick Refrigerator Factory
Hopkins Sanitary Cleaning Co
Electric Vacuum
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