POKER PLAYERS FINED BY MAYOR
Cedar Falls Iowa April 24 Mayor Merner returns from Iowa City and fines poker players caught in the old mill building. One black man jailed in Waterloo awaiting grand jury action. Mrs H C Hunt plans Denver summer visit with daughter Mrs Hattie Bogue. Walter A Bryant Jr of Waterloo visits local Bryant Asphalt Co. Alpha society picnic at college hall. Cedar Falls party to attend Margaret Kelly and Will Casey wedding at Webster City. Attending from here Thomas Casey and family Join Lemmer Mary Murphy Lilly Robinson Alma Cutler. Marshal Enlow returns from Dubuque. case involved Tom Mann colored felon.
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Cedar Falls
Merner
Iowa City
Waterloo
H. C. Hunt
Denver
Col
Hattie Bogue
Margaret, Kelly
Will Casey
Webster City
Thomas Casey
Join Lemmer
Mary Murphy
Lilly Robinson
Alma Cutler
Marshal Enlow
Dubuque
Tom Mann
Sore Feet Cure Promises and Police Endorsement
An advertiser touts TIZ relief for sore feet with claims police officers use the product and endorse its cure. A guaranteed money back offer accompanies a free trial pack, and refined notes quote a Austin Texas officer praising its effects. The piece shifts to local notices and community happenings including illnesses, weddings, birthdays, and civic events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tiz
Emzy Harrell
Austin
Texas
Walter Luther Dodge & Co
Chicago
VETS FREE FARE TO GETTYSBURG
The Thirty-fifth Iowa General Assembly provides 10000 to cover railroad fare for Civil War veterans from Iowa to the Gettysburg reunion July 1 to 4. Both Union and Confederate vets residing in Iowa may ride free. others attend at their own expense. Commission members are John D. Brown Guy E. Lincoln and George A. Newman.
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Cedar Falls
Fth
General Assembly
Gettysburg
Iowa
John D. Brown
Guy E. Lincoln
George A. Newman
SITTING HENS TO HATCH PHEASANTS
In Cedar Falls Iowa on April 24 sportsmen in Black Hawk county appeal for old setting hens for sale to supply a pheasant farm run by W. M. Benton in East Cedar Falls. Benton has about a thousand pheasant eggs but lacks the setting hens as the birds refuse to incubate.
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Cedar Falls
Black Hawk County
W. M. Benton
Demand for rented houses floods Cedar Falla
Desirable residences with for rent signs are scarce in Cedar Falla as capitalists are urged to build new modern houses. Strangers arriving to locate find no empty homes and travel elsewhere. Mise Martin of I. T. C. begins practice for the class play When Knighthood was in Flower to be staged June 9 in the auditorium.
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Cedar Falla
Ft la
Mise Martin
Deaths of Women Natural Causes Discussed in St Louis
Autopsies on Mrs. Ernestine Kommichau and her daughter Selma found immured in cement in the basement of their home. Physicians concluded both died of natural causes, aligning with testimony from Miss Marie Kommichau who said they feared burial in cemeteries. The younger woman reportedly died of pneumonia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Ernestine Kommichau
Selma
Marie Kommichau
Bessie Rate Likely Placed in Dubuque Home
Federal grand jury heard Bessie Rate, a girl noted for causing trouble in the pollen department, and authorities likely plan to place her in the Sisters' Good Shepherd home in Dubuque rather than a state institution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bessie Rate
Pollen Department
Dubuque
Good Shepherd
Sisters
Firemen Gain 10 to 12 Percent Pay Increase
The Erdmann act arbitration board grants railroad firemen a wage rise of 10 to 12 percent effective May 3, with additional allowances and standardization of wages by locomotive weight. About 35,000 firemen are affected, costing railways $2.4 to 3.486 million annually, per the unanimous ruling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Erdmnn Act Arbitration Board
William L. Chambers
Albert Phillips
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
W. W. Atterbury
Pennsylvania Railroad
Iowa Electrical Association Ends Thirteenth Annual Session
The Cedar Rapids based Iowa Electrical association wrapped its thirteenth annual meeting with a strong program and social events. Speakers included W A Hain John M Drabelle H W Garner and Rufus Lee though a late Keokuk dam address was canceled due to illness.
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The
Electrical Association
W. A. Hain
John M. Drabelle
Cedar Rapids
H. W. Garner
Oskaloosa
Rufus Lee
Clarinda
J. N. LaBelle
A. H. Ford
Dexter FP. Cooper
Keokuk
Cooper
Sons of Jove
E. P. Hall
United States
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Cedar Foalls Daily
No News
G. Packard
Corresponden
Walter A. Bryant, Jr
Bryant Asphalt Co
Alpha Society
Mann
Uncle Sam
Neo Society
Teachers College
Muriel Draper
Florence Seliger
South Main Street
Bert Younker
John Christensen
Christensen
Rev. Christensen
Denmark
Herbert Nielsen
Harrison Peck
Alexander Bryson
Glenn Daviss
Rolan James Lantz
Harry F. Lantz
21St
Franklin Streets
BR. Wiener
Greenwood Cemetery
Frances Blayney
W. A Garrett
C. G. W. Railway
Great Western
Hagerman and Galloway
Frank Lewis
Main
Fourth Streets
Ideal Clothes Co
Otis Halbert Holmes
College Gymnasium
Elizabeth McDonald
Clarksville
B. H. Stiles
Party of Electric
Ladies’ Guild of
St. Luke's Church
John Caldwell
Oak Ridge
Ed Messier
Minneapolis
Titus Lowe
Shell Rock
Methodist Church
Walter Taylor
VETS
Iowa Electrical Association
Iowa’ Street and Interurban Railway Association
City
Town Criers
Citizens Gas & Electric Company
A. A. Prodenfeld
Majestic
Majestic Theatre
Peetric Sparks
Waterson Sn Ow
Moline
Davenoport
Rock Island
Thall
All Waterloo
Aoman
Sahara
Big White Store Money S
Vateploo
Tomorro
Mrs. Ives
George
Victor
Felix
Jennie
Uve
Hep
Steve
Castoria
CSU
T. A. McManus
M. D
Commercial Bank
Lightning Jim King
Jim
Irving Hotel Sanitary Barber Shop
Napoleon Fin
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