Waterloo bankers to join Chicago trip for Mississippi Valley meet
A Waterloo delegation of bankers businessmen and stock raisers will travel Tuesday night on the Chicago Great Western in two special sleepers to attend the Mississippi Valley association convention at the Congress hotel in Chicago. Twenty five rooms are reserved at the LaSalle hotel as headquarters with sessions set to run three days beginning Wednesday. A permanent Mississippi valley organization will be formed for commercial economic and other purposes. Delegates include E. Licht s O Bernbrack J E Johnson A J Knapp W Beal W E Parrott George W Huntley Edmund F Miller L E Fowler Fr Cropper W J Peddicord Bred W Hartong W W D Burdick C Morris Austin Burt and others.
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Waterloo
Chicago
Mississippi Valley Association
Mississippi Basin
United States
LaSalle Hotel
Congress Hotel
Mississippi Valley
Chisago
Great
Mississippi Valley Basin
Waisrloa
A. J. Knapp
Waterloo Commercial Club
EB. Lichts
Waterloo Cement Machinery Corporation
O. Bernbrack
Waterson Laundry Company
Chamber of Commerce and
Waterloo Club
J. E. Johnson
Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company
Waterloo-Mississippi Valley
Town Motor Trades Bureau
Johnson
Chicago District Federal Re “E Bank
Leavitt & Johnson Trist
W. Beal
Lincoln Savines Bank
W. E. Parrott
Matt Parrott & Sons Company
George W. Huntley
Teanager Cetler Hardware Company
Edmund ‘Fy. Miller
Conmercial National Bank
L. E. Fowler
Smith, Lichty_& Hillman company
FR. Cropper
Black Hawk Coffee & Spice Company
W. J. Peddicord
Waterloo &Cedar Falls Union Mill Company
W. Hartong
Fowler Ccompany
Rath Packing Company
HB. Plumb
Iowa Dairy Separator Company
W. E. Hermon
P. W. Belantes
Waterloo Healtars
W.W. D. Burdick
Town Dairy Separator Company
Morris
Morris Motorcar Company
H .Hl OM. Reed
Austin Burt
Citizens Gas & Electric Company
Schyneman
Schyneman Drug Company
W. OC. Logan
Waterloo Savings
Ben E.R. Shoemaker
F. J. Kimball Company
Paul Davis
Paul Davis Dry Goods Company
A Reed
Waterloo Times- Tribune
H. EF. Hiester
Kiester-Hall Seed Company
Waterloo Boys Now Quartered at Famous Luxembourg Resort
Mrs. M.F. Whitmer of 209 Falls Avenue reports her son Roy Whitney of the 108th Field Battalion, 33rd Division, among Waterloo men in Luxembourg. In his Bettenorf letter he recalls May landings, Meuse Argonne drive, and the 33rd’s three flags. He notes rain, a long front, and bivouacs from Texas to the Somme and Verdun.
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M.F. Whitmer
Falls
Roy €. Whitney
Waterloo
Ren Howrey
Ron Arbuckle
Fred Stearns
Bettendorf
Luxembourg
Whitney
132Nd
Hemel Woods
Verdun
Forges Woods
Meuse Argonne
Meuss
Dead Man’s Hill
33Rd
Texas
North Sea
Somme
Meuse
Moselle
Chateau Thierry
Germany
Amiens
Alsace-Lorraine
Europe
Duchy of Luxembourg
Last Night's News in Brief from Around the World
A chaotic digest reports on a boundary decision by a four man council in New York appointing Julius H. Barnes as wheat director in the United States. Berlin notes a widening strike among railway workers and bank staff. Washington cites talks among four powers to urge a new Omchak government. Bucharest says Ottoman troops move to protect Hungarians, while London reports a Bremen general strike with continued food shipments.
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Wilson
Bereen
Aris
Council of Four
New York
Julius H. Barnes
United Suites
Wie
Berlin
Sneil
Washington
D. C
London
Omsk
Shevik Hussein
Guucharest
Harwich
Antwerp
Freising
Munich
Wurttemburg
Dachau
Copenhagen
Bamberg
Hoffman
Lossische Zeitung
Vom
Committee of Five
Philippines Leader Urges Self Rule and US Trust Policy
New York dispatch reports Manuel L. Quezon urging immediate independence for the Philippines on grounds of self rule and a rightful status under the US war policy. He argues the islands have proven fit for self-government under American suzerainty and asks Washington to recognize and aid Philippine independence.
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New York
Philippines
United States
Manuel L. Quecon
Philippines Senate
America
Czecho-Slovakia
Poland
Mr. Quezon
League of Free Nations
Quezon
League of Nations
Us. S
Philippine
Mississippi Valley convention to focus on economic resources
Five hundred business and banking representatives from across the valley and beyond will gather in Chicago for the Mississippi Valley association meeting starting next Wednesday. Delegates from Ohio to Colorado, Minnesota to Louisiana attend to discuss development of regional and overseas economic resources. the convention runs through Saturday.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Mississippi Valley Association
Ohio
Colorado
Minnesota
Louisiana
Historian of Mormon Church Dies at 86
Joseph Smith kin and historian of the Reorganized Latter Day Saints, Auith Herman C. Smith, died in a Kansas City suburban hospital at 86. Since the church’s founding 60 years ago he served as historian. His widow is a granddaughter of Joseph Smith. Burial will be at his Lamoni home.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
Auith
Herman C. Smith
Latter Day Saints’ Church
Joseph Smith
Lamoni
Famous Dairy Animal to New York Show
A famed Jersey bull, previously owned by Weterloo Jersey farm, with a $30,000 half interest sale, will travel to the New York milk show at the Armory Park next week. Valued around $60,000, the bull is renowned among breeders for its pedigree. Huck Van Pelt of Kimball's Dairy Farm departs tonight to attend the event, with a likely return to Water-Too next fall.
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Jersey Bus
Weterloo Jersey Farm
New York
Armory Park
Huck van Pelt
Kimball's
Dairy Farmer
Women Granted Partial Suffrage by Vote of 84-2
In Des Moines on April 19 the Iowa legislature passed a partial women suffrage measure by a large two to one margin, after senate approval. Gov. Harding expected to sign. The report also covers a real estate sale by the Universalist church, involving property at Mulberry and Fourth streets in Waterloo, to a Cedar Rapids syndicate for about 25000, with plans for a 100000 development and civic improvements to accompany the sale.
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Des Noines
Iowa
Senate
Eugene Schaffter
Wagle Grove
House
Knickerbocker
Linn ‘County
O'Donnell
Dubuque
Harding
Mulberry
Fourth
Universalist Church Society
Michael Ford
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
C. J. White
White
Ezre Lichty
Universalist Society
A.T. Lane
H. W. Jenney
W. F. Brown
W. A. Cutler
J. C. Crapper
Wellington Russell
N. Hoty
R.S. Leland
George Leland
G. W. Morgan
R. G. Hamilton
J. J. Austin
H. G. Haywood
Altho
Antwerp Regains Diamond Cutting Trade
London reports Antwerp rapidly restoring its diamond cutting trade after German occupation. Jewish migrants who fled to England and Holland return as authorities grant recognition of Jewish nationality for workers, allowing entry of diverse diamond merchants.
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London
Associated Press
Antwerp
England
Holland
Enngland
Hatton Garden
Brussels
City in Brief and Local Notices
Miss Clara Vick leaves today for Decorah Iowa with her mother for a two week visit. D M Kelly of Butte Montana visits his parents at 516 Vermont. The Miniaterial association meets Monday morning at the Black building with Nev G D Berri to read on the labor situation. Mrs George Moody speaks on death and resurrection at the Y W C A at 2 30 Monday. The Naughty Bride played at Waterloo theatre last night to a small audience with a competent cast. W R Walker Co lumber dealers contracted to J W Pressnell for a bungalow at 420 Denver Street costing about 2700 dollars. Iowa Building Material Company opened an office in the Black Hawk National Bank building with C S Hughes as manager to handle building materials. Mr and Mrs A W Peterson left for New York City for the American Newspaper Publishers association meeting and foreign advertisers conference at the Bureau of Advertising. The annual meeting of the national conference of social workers of police matrons and police women is set for Atlantic City June 11-13. Mrs Myrtle Barr may attend. A 400 acre Black Hawk farm sale noted yesterday for 325 per acre shows pricing. Grant Miller farm at 160 acres in Orange township sold recently at 360 per acre.
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Clara Vick
Decorah
D. M. Kelly
Butte, Mont
P. D. Kelly
Vermont
Waterloo Theatre
W. R. Walker & Co
J. W
National Conference of Social Workers of Police Matrons
Police Women
Atlantic City
Myrtle Barr
Police Matrons' Association
Kansas City
Two Buchanan Co Members of Home for Soldiers Die
Two soldiers home members from Buchanan county died in Marshalltown on April 15. John Delair of Hazleton served in Company M Eighth Illinois Cavalry and left two sons William and George and a daughter Maude Hillman. The body will go to Hazleton. Mrs. Caroline Bordner of Jesup, widow of Henry Bordner, leaves a son R L who likely will have the body sent to Jesup for interment.
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Marshalltown
Buchanan County
John Delair
Hazleton
Caroline Bordner
Jesup
Coniraie Delair
Co. M. Eighth Llinoss Cavalry
William
George
Maude Hillman
Solemn Good Friday Service Draws Dense Congregation
Christ Episcopal church hosted a three hour Good Friday service attended by many as seven denominations shared brief sermons on Christ's last words. The somber decor featured purple draperies and black vestments, with capacity more than twice filled as worshipers came and went. A cablegram from Dayton reports Lt Sam A Stephens received 102 letters in one day from his parents while at the front.
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Christ Episcopal Church
Yank
Victory Loan program at Elklets meeting
Miss Mary Morner of the women's victory loan committee spoke at the Elklets meeting this afternoon. A program on the victory loan will be given at Lowell School Monday with Ervin Voilinger and Leonard Barnes as speakers.
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Mary Morner
Women’s Victory Loan Committee
Elklets
Lowell School
Ervin Voilinger
Leonard
Barnes
Easter Observance at Castle Hill Sunday at 2:30
Special Easter service will be held at Castle Hill on Sunday at 2 30 p m tomorrow. Parents, children and others interested are welcome to attend.
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Castle Hill
Infant Peterman Dies at Five Months in City Home
Wayne Russell Peterman five month old son of Mr and Mrs II J Peterman of 315 City street died at 10 20 am today at the family home Funeral arrangements to be announced later Roy Wilcox seven small son of Mrs George Wilcox of 2118 Mulberry street died yesterday afternoon He was born February 8 1918 in Marshalltown Services will be at the O Keefe and Towne chapel Monday at 2 30 pm with burial in Fairview
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Wayne BR. Peterman
Wayne Russell Peterman
II J. Peterman
City Street
Roy Wilcox
George Wilcox
Mulberry Street
Marshalltown
Putarat
O'Keefe & Towne Chapel
Tairview
Westrate Home from France After Gas Injury
Overseas veteran E J Westrate arrived home for a visit with his brother Matthaw Westrate after two years in service. He served one year with the American army including Alsace Chateau Thierry and Ar Cons sectors and was gassed at Chateau Thierry. Now recovering his health he plans to return to Muscatine Journal as city editor and had prior ties to the Cour ier advertising department.
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J. Westrate
Matthaw Westrate
147Th ‘Weta Artillery
Westrata
Muscatine Journal
The
Courier
Exemption for veterans affirmed sparks film row
Washington April 19. The adoption of a bill granting Spanish American War veterans a property tax exemption of $1200 was received today. Capt. W. J. Flynn, head of the W. V. Department legislative committee, urged theatre operators to post red flags and tear down a Bolshevism themed film advertisement to protect patrons. The motion picture, described as an exposure of socialism and Bolshevism, would be taxed for 1920 under the previous exemption rule.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Department of Justice and Post
the General Assembly
W. J. Flynn
Flynn
U.S. W.V
Des Moines
Bth
Vespers at Y M C A Shifts to 4 20 P M Tomorrow
Vespers at the Young Women's Christian Association will be at 4 20 p m tomorrow instead of the usual 7 p m A program of responsive readings violin piano and vocal numbers themed to Easter will be led by Miss Ruth Magowan general secretary Embezzlement case marks Judge Wheeler’s downfall as he is found guilty on two indictments for $48500 taken from Mrs Marriet H Jour ce of Columbus Ohio and resigns from the municipal court bench.
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Young Women's Christian Association
Ruth Magowan
Philadelphia
William T. Wheeler
Philadelphia Municipal Court
Marriet H. Jource
Colummbins
Wheeler
Willys Overland to pay $256000 profit sharing Monday
Willys Overland announces first checks under the 50 59 profit sharing plan will total $256000 to employes. Walter Starner of the Machinists union says the division won’t affect demands of 12000 workers in seven departments for wage increases estimated at $4 320 906 annually.
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George
Folede
Clarence A. Earl
Willys-Overland Company
Walter Starner
The
Machinists’ Union
Bamburg Reds Capture Depot and Barracks
Berlin reports Friday fighting near Freising between Bavarian Communist and government troops caused notable losses on both sides. Munich dispatch to Tageblatt notes serious clashes.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Copenhagen
Freising
Munich
Tageblatt
Dial Telephone Strike Deepens In New England
Paris dispatch reports President Wilson declining to intervene in the New England telephone strike. In Boston, Assistant Postmaster Koons said the strike could be settled within hours after reviewing the company’s finances and planning further talks with the union and company officials. Mayor Peters and labor leaders planned a conference to press for a settlement as 20,000 workers walk out demanding wage raises and collective bargaining.
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Paris
Wilson
Tumulty
New England
Boston
Coolidge
Camp Devens
Koons
Andrew J. Peters
Peters
Washington
Burlesas
Joseph P. Tumulty
Teit
New England Joint Council of Telephone Workers
Award of Baltic Corridor Decided Not Detailed
Gates sent by Irish societies in the United States to place Ireland's case before the peace conference. Former Gov. Edward F. Dunne of Illinois Frank P. Walsh and Michael Ryan of Philadelphia recalled upon Col. E. M. House of the American peace delegation this morning. The papers relating to their requests on the Irish question submission, which has been set for a day, were handed to Col. House by his callers.
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Gates
United States
Ireland
Edward F. Dunne
Illinois
Frank P. Walsh
Michaell. Ryan
Philadelphia
Col. E. M. House
Col. House
The Westport Social Club Meets Amid Farm Family Tension
Phyllis Crawford, secretarial for the Wednesday Afternoon club, balances help for the Red Cross with strained marriage to Tom Crawford. A chance return to her aunt Mary and a sudden accident at the farm rekindle old affection as Tom recovers from a frightened horse incident and they plan to unite at the aunt’s home.
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Phylis
Westport
Mary
Phyllis
Red Cross
Tom
Big Crawford Meadow
Tom Crawford
Tes
Weston
Ee Action Eto
Bouse i Sr Iteeteres
Paylus Crawford
United States
Great ‘Britain
Janes
Fane Excelsior
Rom
Joe
Phyllie
Joe Hill
Joach
Man shoots self after taunt at stockyards
Chicago April 19 George Dada of 562 Thirty sixth street asked Special Policeman Thomas McCarthy to view a goowman die He shot himself in the temple aloft the revolver held by McCarthy Dada a horse buyer for the British government died instantly Coroner's inquest could offer no reason Prof Dewinel F Thompson president emeritus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute died after a long illness He was an authority on Indian relics A Burma government ruling requires Burman gifts to be educated in moral standards He entered vastage and attended a site school graduating with high honors
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Chicago
George’ Dada
Thirty-sixth Street
Thomas McCarthy
McCarthy
Rensselaer
Associated Press
Troy
N. J
Dewinel F. Thompson
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Thompson
Princess Oyama
Prince Oyama
Japan
Burma
Moron
Kineleen
D A R backs league and frames victory fruits support
The D A R closes its national chapter endorsing a league of nations to preserve victory fruits. The 28th continental congress resolves to back Wilson's peace efforts, records sympathy for Roosevelt’s death, and approves a universal system for patriotic compassion and reporting disloyal acts.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
League of
United States
League of Nations
Continental Congress
William C. Spencer
Tennessee
Congress
Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
Alleged robber caught by federal officials in Hillsboro
Federal officials report the arrest of Sidney A. Boucher at Hillsboro Illinois last night. He is said to be another member of a gang accused of stealing goods totaling thousands of dollars from victims in Winnebago Indiana Ohio and Missouri since January 1917.
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Associated Press
Springfield
Sidney A. Boucher
Hillsboro
Til
Vic‘tas
T Winneis
Indiana
Ohio
Missouri
Five police killed in Vienna parliament riot
Vienna reports say five policemen died and many were wounded as Bolshevik sympathizers sought to storm the Austrian Parliament. The unrest also injured 20 demonstrators and unemployed agitators, with many windows broken before troops and police dispersed the crowd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Copenhagen
Vienna
The
Republic
Middle Class Union Forms in England to Aid Its Members
English middle class leaders organize to shield education, small business, and professionals from rising living costs and pressures of capital and labor. A preliminary meeting led by Maj. J. R. Pretyman Newman MP created the Middle Class Union to oppose bureaucratic and industrial tyranny and protect those without strong organization. Soldiers and officers express strong support warning of potential Bolshevik influence if the movement fails.
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London
England
Numeleus
J. R. Pretyman Newman
M_-P- Tb
Tthe Union
Food prices rise in March after February dip
Washington reports March price gains driven by staples. Stating six year rise from March 1913 to March 1919 reaches 130 percent for all foods, with flour bacon lard and cornmeal up over 106 percent. Butter fell in February and rebounded in March while some items like navy beans potatoes rice eggs and milk declined.
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Washington
D. C
Bureau of Labor Baptistics
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Valley
Waterloo Boys
Nations’ League
Historian of
Mormon Church
Buchanan
Miniaterial Association
Nev. G. D. Berri
George Moody
Orange Township
Buchanan Co
Home For Soldiers
E. J. Westrate
France
Yanks
Red Emblem
Willys-Overland
Towan
George Alien
D. Eidelstein
Dong
Buxton
Adelaide
KR. Kemp
Iowa House
Towa
Excelsior
Dolain
Assant
Parliament House
Capital
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