Four youths held for attack on Ralph Bailey
Four youths Hugh Hicok Jesse Mays Frank Bond and Ernest Fuller are jailed awaiting a 2 p m Thursday preliminary trial on robbery by force and violence charges. They were arraigned in municipal court after slugging and robbing Ralph Bailey at 1336 Logan Avenue near the Illinois Central track. Bailey says the four men beat him and took his overcoat watch and 1 40. Police say confessions will lead to convictions. Mays slugged Bailey. Hicok denied involvement. They lack 1090 bond each and were sent to Sheriff H T Wagner. Chief Leighton notes the men have police records.
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Hugh Hicok
Jesse Mays
Frank Bond
Ernest Fuller
Ralph Bailey
Leighton
Logan Avenua
Ilinois Central
Bailey
County Board Renews Contracts for Poor Sickness Care
The county board of supervisors renew contracts for medical care of the sick poor. Cedar Falls Medical Society will provide attendance for $480 a year in the district centered on Cedar Falls. Similar attendance will be arranged.
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County Board of Supervisors
Cedar Falls
Iowa Leader Praises Tax Plan for Township Roads
A prominent Iowa figure lauds a tax division allowing one third of the funds to be used for township road improvements. The endorsement highlights federal and local fiscal coordination to boost rural infrastructure and transportation access.
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Iowa
Census Canvass Progress Report in Waterloo
J Hu Steely, census enumeration superintendent, reports excellent progress by field workers in Waterloo for J A Townsley city assessor. In two weeks about 14008 names listed. only a few residents refuse to provide information. Officials will visit refusers to obtain required data before legal steps to compel answers.
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J. Hu. Steely
Waterloo
J. A. Townsley
J H Cummins Honored by Life Insurance Co
J H Cummins of Waterlog agency for Equitable Life Insurance qualified for the Honorary Production club based on 1924 life insurance writings. He earns a spot at the company convention July 15 and 16 at Asbury Park New Jersey, a rare perk for top agents under strict yearlong standards.
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J. H. Cummins
Equitable Life Insurance Company of
Yown
Asbury Park
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California Faring Well Building Is Brisk Crops Good
Nathan Northey and wife return from California noting strong crop values, large cattle herds near Los Angeles, rapid pork production, and extensive building in Los Angeles. He disputes Kansas City clipping on fruit profits and cites oranges averaging 1900 dollars per acre last year. Mrs Northey highlights support for the gasoline tax as a fair highway funding measure.
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California
Iowa
Nathan Northey
Courier
Lewer
Los Angeles
Towa
Matthey
Unlicensed Dogs in Black Hawk County Across the Board
Deputy county auditor Tracy Clasener reports that over half of dogs due for county licensing in Black Hawk County remain without tags. Legal notices will publish delinquent owners between May 16 and May 15, with 63 cent publication fees and a $1 penalty after June. The issue labels such dogs as wandering without a home or country.
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Black Hawk County
Tracy Clasener
Small Bible Shrinks to Postage Stamp Size in Town
The Courier reports Mrs G L Bondurant's Bible at 1205 Grant Avenue has shrunk to about 1 11 16 by 1 4 16 inches, claiming it is the smallest seen in the area. Cliff Jenkins of Jenkins and Fergemann notes his volume of the New Testament is even smaller at one and three sixteenths inches long and three quarters of an inch wide.
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Mre. G. L. Bondurant
Grant Avenue
Cliff Jenkins
Jenkins & Fergemann
Smallest Bible Tale Tied to Bondurant and Jenkins
A fragment recalls Mrs Bondurant claiming the smallest Bible with both testaments. Jenkins, a Chicago bookbinder, selected the miniature volume about 30 years ago. It was originally panel bound and later rebound in Oxford limp leather with gold lettering.
Gun purchased in Waterloo linked to crime story
Coburn Sporting Goods proprietor M Cotsen received a curious letter from Garfield Bisperman, now a policeman at Altamont Alabama, recounting how he bought a revolver from Coburn in 1919 and lost it last November during a bank robbery.
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M. ©. Cotsen
Coburn Sporting Goods
Garfield Bisperman
Altamont
Coburn
Aix
Garreld Elsperman
Town Policeman Recalls Barn Robbery Attempt Last November
A town police officer recounts facing six barn robbers who ordered him to surrender last November. He says they took his revolver, which he had received in May, and he was on duty at the time.
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Levert H. Lassen
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la Parte City
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Emii J. Weber
Clayton
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Waterloo Evening Courier
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Atlas Portland Cement
Chrysler Six
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Waterloo Motor Sales Co
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