Cedar Falls Briefs Honor Local Events and Deaths
Cedar Falls notes multiple social and civic happenings. Dr and Mrs W W Gist host English instructors breakfast May 1. Miss Elizabeth Hughes awards contract for new house at Twenty fourth and Tremont. The Cedar Falls Concert Band headlines Friday at Cotton theatre. Funeral services for Mrs Douglas Smith set for 2 30 pm tomorrow at 523 West Fourth with R C W R C No 26 in charge. John Bladine senior of Alta, Sweden native, dies. family shortly nearby.
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Cedar Falls
W. W. Gist
Wilson
Greeley
Colo
Miss Wilson
W. GC
Jean
Washington Street
McKee
Muscatine
P. Colegrave
Charles City
Floyd County Child Welfare Association
Cotton Theatre
Elizabeth Hughes
Colege
Twenty-fourth
Tremont Streets
C. P. Colegrove
Rockford
Home Missionary Conference
District Missionary Society
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Cedar Falls Woman's Club
Douglas Smith
Weat
Fourth Street
James Brownell W
New York State
Smith
Rogers
Bangert
Anna Pauling
Oronora
Minn
Thomas Lynch
Texas
Twenty Textbook Firms Bid For Black Hawk County
Twenty textbook publishers gathered in Waterloo as the Black Hawk County Board of Supervisors and officials hear claims for five year textbook adoptions. Each dealer was allotted fifteen minutes to present. Most sought contracts are readers used in all grades. some push sewing texts.
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Black Hawk County
Waterloo
Court House
Hach
Winges
Sewing, Cooking Skills Taught to Girls by Board
A speaker outlines how to equip girls with practical domestic arts by teaching sewing and dressmaking as well as cooking and meal preparation. The plan envisions empowering girls with home management skills and self sufficiency.
West High Pupils in Final Program
West High School presented the term’s farewell program in the auditorium. Miss Ethel Zartman directed elocution with Mary Cass caden’s whistling impressing the audience. The Philome chorus, orchestra, and boys’ glee club supported scenes from Shakespeare, a playlet, and readings featuring Carol Cobb, Eileen Collins, Marjorie Taylor, Robert Nauman, Gordon Vaughan, Chas Teeter, Maybeth Mack, Will Jefferson, Sherman Drake, Carroll Cole, Penn Way, Bernice McCloud, Dorothy Davis, Marian Brown, Mae Herseb, and Mildred Smith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West High School
Ethel Zartman
Mise Mary Casscaden
Philome
Qulyde Davis
Carol Cobb
Eileen Collins
Marjorie Taylor
Robert Nauman
Goridon Vaughan
Chas Teeter
Maybeth Mack
Will Jefferson
Sherman Drake
Carroll Cole
Penn Way
Bernice McCloud
Dorothy Davis
Marian Brown
Mae Herseb
Mildred Smith
Injured in Fall From Street Car in Cedar Falls
Ephiphan Mermeletzik a 41 year old resident of 314 Sycamore street was seriously injured after falling from a Cedar Falls interurban near the Iowa Dairy plant around 12:30 last evening. He was taken to police headquarters then to Presbyterian hospital and said he was slugged on Jefferson street before the fall. No witnesses saw him attempting to exit the car while in motion. authorities believe he was struck unconscious on impact. Separately George Jamps, stabbed early Wednesday, is recovering in hospital and expected to leave soon. Officers think a colored woman stabbed him.
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Ephiphan Mermeletzik
Sycamore Street
Cedar Falls
Iowa
Presbyterian Hospital
Jefferson Street
George Jamps
Phillipa
Commercial teachers meet here next week
The thirteenth annual Central Commercial Teachers association convention will be at the Hotel Rigsell-Lamson from May 6 to 8. An estimated 156 teachers from ten midwestern states are expected to attend. This marks the second time the event is held in this city, the previous gathering occurring in 1904 two years after the association was formed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Metcalf
Ira S. Condit
B. F. Stiles
Willard
Robert Willard
Grundy Center
Waterloo
C. P. Colegrove
Israel Zangwill
Dramatic Club of
Allison
State Teachers’ College
Benjamin Roadman
Harl A. Roadman
Ralph, McWhirter
Andrew Mularky
J. E. Mayo
Hillside Cemetery Association
Central Commercial Teachers’ Association
Rigsell-Lamson
St Paul Library Destroyed by Fire in Minnesota
A fire in St Paul Minnesota at 9 am yesterday leveled the public library building. Firefighters from across the city battled the blaze while 30 firemen were injured, two seriously. Estimated loss is 375000 with the main building insured for 100000 and contents at 125000. The library held about 290000 volumes, most housed in the older section. The wing added years ago was said to be fireproof.
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St. Paul, Minn
West Seventh Street
Wabasha
St. Peter Street
Bat Tle
Miss Oscola Pooler To Read The Music Master In Waterloo
Miss Oscola Pooler of Jesup will interpret The Music Master in the Young Women's Christian Association rooms in Waterloo on Saturday evening at 8 o'clock. A former Chautauqua reader, she appears free of charge and invites the public to attend. Her refined bearing and pleasing delivery are praised by friends.
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Oscola Pooler
Jesup
Waterloo
Iil
Christian Association
Miss Pooler
Chautauqua
Surprise Wedding Taffner and Alberts Wed in Charles City
Ralph M. Taffner and Velma E. Alberts of Waterloo married at the bride’s sister’s home in Charles City on April 24. The groom works for an printing company. The bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hoover, has lived in the area most of her life and attended East High. After May 1 they will reside at 826 Columbia Street.
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Ralph M. Taffner
Velma E. Alberts
Waterloo
Charles City
3. B. Highland
Taffner
Oscola Pooler
Jesup
Not Printing Company
J. H. Hoover
East High
Calumbia Street
Cake Walk Judges Gather at Elms Hotel Excelsior
Waterloo residents Cass Eighmey and S E Bentley and Cedar Rapids C E Tatlor judged an old fashioned cake walk at the Elms hotel in Excelsior Springs Ma Revived by local society the event drew social attention. Foley’s Honey and Tar is promoted as safe quick cough relief for children without opiates and is sold by all druggists.
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Foley
All Druggista Everywhere
Advartia Et Bent
Allies crushed at Gallipolis battle drift continues
Contested dispatches describe French casualties and Italian burial rites after the Gambetta torpedoing. Reports claim Allied positions near Caba Tepeh were breached, and ships fled or surrendered. The U-5 submarine, under Lt. von Trapp, sank the Gambetta. 578 lives lost, only 136 rescued.
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Neuve Chapelle
Grusser
Rome
Paris
Eon Gambetta
Strait of
Otranto
Santa Maria Leuca
Constantinople
Amsterdam
London
Dardanelles
Sebdul Bahr
Caba Tepeh
Avi Burun
Gallipoli
Tost
Leon Gambella
George Ritter von Trapp
Adriatic Sea
Malta
Leon Gambetta
Brest
Adriatic
Pola
Turkey
Austria
Dyspepsia Diet: Indigestion and Acid Reduction Advice
A short medical note advises dyspeptics to avoid acidic foods and use a teaspoon of bisulated magnesia after meals to neutralize stomach acidity. The author argues acidity causes most stomach trouble and promotes a better fit between meal and digestion, endorsing bisulated magnesia as an effective antacid. J. K. Joder offered supplies.
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J. K. Joder
Ju Auprtimernas
Submarine completes rapid nonrefueled Atlantic run to Austrian port
The Ulf reports a submarine wire connected Leon Gamnbedia enrieheed Catture traveling 800 miles from Santa Maria Louca jeint to an Austrian port in about twenty hours. In a separate note, Sousa and his sixty-man band will perform two concerts on May 5 at the collegeum, arriving May 5 at 9 45 am and departing via the Central for Sioux City. The band is bound for San Francisco to play for the Panama-Pacific exposition, traveling in three special cars.
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Santa Maria Louca
Collgeum
Sioux City
San Francisco
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Lawn City
Lars Bladine
Alta
Sweden
Lara Bladine
Cedar Ik Nlls Record
John Bladine
la Valiere
Arant’s
West High
FaLhpe
St. Paul
Wateriooans IX
Gallipolis
Calucaalg Cloak & Suit Cod
East Fourth Street
Virginia Root
Sopraqo
Chautauqua Coliseum
Herbert L. Clarke
Cornetist
Sousa
Coliseum Grounds
Schuneman
Landgrass
North Bad Drug
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