Man acquitted in statutory rape case involving 13 year old
In Carroll Iowa a jury acquitted Dick Heaton a young farmer after he married Elsie Ritter aged 13 the daughter of John Ritter of Carroll. The evening trial followed the arrest on the charge. George Hammond and George Mann of Shell Rock visited the city and bought a Maxwell car and a Maytag respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll, Fa
Evening Press
Dick Heaton
Carroll
Elsie Ritter
John Ritter
George Hammond
George Mann
Shell Rock
Maxwell
Change in East Side Tenants in Waterloo
Louis Geismar leases space in Marsh Place building as negotiations occur for Citizens Savings Bank and Waterloo Loan Trust Co to occupy the Cowin building now housing Golden Eagle clothing. Martin Bros may take Geismar’s former room if needed, with firmer plans for a James Black Dry Goods Co project to replace the Logan hotel block and boost East Fourth and Sycamore streets toward a metropolitan upgrade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Citizens Savings Bank
Waterloo Loan & Trust Co
Cowin
Golden Eagle Clothing
Louis Geismar
Geismar
New Marsh Place
Citizens Bank
Martin Bros
Dreamland Theatre
Waterloo
Logan Hotel
First National Bank
James Black Co
East Fourth
Sycamore Streets
Western rail freight rates rise ahead of June 1
Tariffs filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission show substantial increases in western to Atlantic freight rates set to take effect June 1. Wool from Minneapolis and St Paul to New York will rise from 54 to 64 cents per hundred pounds, about a 20 percent jump, with higher rates to Boston. Hog rates from Minneapolis and St Paul to Chicago rise about 12 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Atlantic Seaboard
Interstate Commission
Minneapolis
St. Paul
New York
Commission
Chicago
St. Paul-Chicago
Western Freight Association
Linden Items and local notices in brief
Rev. Mr Bauernfeind will preach at the chapel tomorrow at 4 o clock. Mrs Miranda Bandfield and son Irvin left for her claim in North Dakota. Clifton McClelland visited his parents on Lafayette street and has gone to St Paul for a position. Linden Circle holds a handkerchief bazaar and supper next Tuesday May 3. Mrs William Scott was taken to the hospital for treatment. K Peterson has joined Contractor McDonalds crew after a rest. Anvil 30 A resolution opposing federal income tax passed the Rhode Island General Assembly.
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Eeemenapendel
Bauernfeind
Miranda
Bandfield
Irvin
North Dakota
Clifton McClelland
Colorado
D. W. McClelland
Lafayette Street
St. Paul
Linden Circle
William Scott
Linden
K. Peterson
McDonald
Dart Company Stock 13 Sold and Waterloo Investment
Waterloo financiers invest in the Anderson Indiana Dart Manufacturing Company stock, selling remaining 11000 shares and planning Dart auto truck production. The plant will employ hundreds, with a 2000 truck order, a new 60 by 300 foot three story factory, and a new administration building west of the current site.
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Dart Manufacturing Company
Anderson
Ind
Waterloo
Dart
Galloway
Mars
Central West
Dart Company
Iowa
Bank Clearing Over A Million In Waterloo Week
Water loo weekly bank clearings totaled 242 058 76 Monday 189 892 32 Tuesday 227 550 74 Wednesday 178 374 38 Thursday 143 667 30 Friday 29 782 32 Saturday Building and Loan associations in Waterloo reported loan applications accumulations and total business 14393 42 Realty transfers for the week ending April 30 1910 totaled 145 702 00 58 507 18 compared with last year 1887 A Guest In Buffalo President Taft arrived in Buffalo at 7 25 am resting with Ansley Wilcox. Des Moines reports say Des Moines team released Freeman to Muscatine and Bradley and Wells to Elgin Illinois.
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J. B. Ogle & Co
Black Hawk County Abstract Company
Waterloo
Des Moines
Evening Press
Topeka
Higging
Freeman
Muscatine
Bradley
Wells
Elgin
Catholic Mission Ends Sunday Night at Sacred Heart
Reverend Father Drumm preached on sin death and judgment at Sacred Heart church urging repentance. He emphasized fear as a tool to love God and mercy as greater than justice. Dr. Jerger returned from Rochester after attending to professional business. closing sermon and Benediction planned for 7 20 p m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Father Drumm
Sacred Heart Church
God
Christ
Jerger
Rochester, Minn
The Evening Chit Chat on Beauty and Thinness Standards
A columnist criticizes society’s obsession with bone thinness urging health and reasonable curves as true beauty. She recalls Mabel Gilman Corey and notes doctors warn against extreme dieting while advocating a normal figure as desirable for American women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvard Medical School
America
Waverly couple marks golden wedding with open houses
Mr and Mrs J F Woodring of Waverly celebrate fifty years of marriage with public open houses on May 2 from 2 to 5 pm and 7 to 10 pm. Married May 1 1860 at Durand Illinois, they moved to Waverly in 1865 where Woodring has run a furniture business for forty five years. A Chicago Great Western train delayed at Union Station caused crowds and delays. C B Stilson, operated on in Rochester Minn, shows rapid improvement and hopes to return soon.
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Ascalon Commandery No. 25
Masonic Temple
Red Cross
Templar
J. L. Rose
Order
P. J. Martin
Mabel Merrill
Harriett Miller
Florence Lantgraff
Loma Griffin
Margery Graham
Gladys
Andrew Sauerbrey
Ninth Street East
Huck
Glava
Waverly
George Sauerbrey
Henry Lang
Henry van Norden
Strawberry Point
Sophia Sauerbrey
C. Schultzman
Jubilee
Flieler
Hublein
Rose Mound
Neb
C. Sauerbrey
Neuenkirk
Koblen
Cedar Falls
Sauerbrey
J.- F. Woodring
Durand
Tul
Woodring
Chicago Great Western
Union Station
Oelwein
Fourth Street
Bluff
C. B. Stilson
Rochester
Minn
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Society ‘ Club
Ens
Women’s Missionary Society of the
First Presbyterian
A. W. Peterson
Logan Avenue
W. W. Miller
James Black
Grundy Center
Miss White
Ida Scott
F. W. Boynton
J. W. Forbes
5. J. Hall
Ada Young
Indianapolis
Peterson
Deborah Society
M. E. Church
L. H. Woodruff
Seventh Street West
W. Bruner
E. A. Smith
Clara Waterbury
Smith
Scott B. Prowell
Viola Knittle
Laverne Beal
Presbyterian Church of Independence
Waterloo Conservatory of Music
Parkersburg
Calvary Baptist Church
Fern Bickley
Hazel Manning
Maud Andrews
Jessie Gaskins
Vera Coates
Hazel Payne
Europe
Bernice Manning
Oliver Eason
H. C. Doughlass
Hazel Green
Mina McChane
Grace Manning
Mavis Glosser
W. Id. Brown
Epworth
Epworth League of
Grace M. BH
First
St. Paul's
Grace Church
League
Stephen Ferguson
Grace League
Genevieve Edwards
Reading
Eliph Hewlett
Ellis Parker Butler
Lulu Mahanke
Mendelssohn
Beulah Bingham
Martha Mussett
Grace Hollis
Ter
Frappe
Ferguson
Cora Rector
Priscilla Club
A. L Fairbanks
Third Avenue West
Intermediate Society
Walnut Street Baptist Church
H. S. Bunnell
Adams Street
Ardele
Florence Sage
Dudley Buck
Ruth Reed
Sandler
Demuth
Marion Cooley
Arditi
Fithel Bates
Wilhelm
Gavotte
Popper
Wilma Basher
the Angel
Rubens Stein
Flossie la Tier
Freanor ‘Johnson
Liszt
Gwyneth Sampson
Strauss
Edna Harrison
de Koven
Harold Whittle
East Side
Louis Gelsmar
Marsh
Place Building
Providence
House
Senate
Rhode Island General Assembly
Stoce 13
B. and
Building & Loan Associations of
East Fourth Street
Mabel Gilman Corey
Mabel Corey
Longfellow
Agnes Surrey
E. Jerald
Sulky CO
Webster Street
Mississippi River
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