Belgian relief fund gains generous public support in Waterloo
The Waterloo community rallies for Belgian relief with bank sales of ration tickets under the Waterloo Woman's Club. Honorary chairmen include Henry van Dyke and ambassadors such as Page, Gerard, and Whitlock, with Herbert Hoover as executive officer in London. Funds are placed in New York City banks for safekeeping and distribution.
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Gneral Supe Ion
Henry Vau Dy
Hague
Brand Whitlock
Bros
Walter Hines Page
London
James Gerard
Amer
Ican
Berlin
William 3. Sharp
Paris
Don Alfonse Merry del Val Y Zureta
le Maranis de Villatobar
Brussels
Herbert C. Hoover
City Bank
Guaranty Trust Company
New York City
Belgium Relief Commission
Fourteen Billion Marks Paid On War Loan Progress
Berlin reports that three fourths of the latest war loan has been paid. Subscriptions total 6,782,000,000 marks, about 1.68775 billion dollars, more than twice the required amount to date under the issue terms.
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Berlin
London
Bible School Plan by Dr Gahelein in Waterloo
Dr A Gahelein of New York City will conduct a Bible school in Waterloo from May 28 to May 28. He is currently traveling along the Pacific coast this week.
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A. (. Gahelein
New York City
Waterloo
Pacific Coast
Swoboda Identified as Shanghai Jail Bird
Paris reports Raymond Ruff Sehwind known as Raymond Swo boda arrested for starting a fire on the steamship La Torraine and charged with espionage. Major Webring identifies him as a former Trusso Chinese bank manager employee in Shanghai. The Petit Journal says he admitted a prior Shanghai consular court conviction under Lehwind and claimed Hamburg birth.
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Raymond Ruff Sehwind
Raymond Swoboda
la Torraine
Major Webring
Shanghai
Petit Journal
Lehwind
Hamburg
Window Smashing Their Specialty in Chautauqua Park
Three youths, P. L. Jackson 19 W Riehl Street, W. M. Eastman 20 Kern Street, and Claude Rodenbaurh 28, were taken into custody after confessing to throwing rocks through a cottage window at Ter race cottage in Chautauqua park. They face state charges of malicious mischief and admitted further windows broken at the Kessler and Brainard homes and at William Jarrett’s home in nearby areas.
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P. L. Jackson
Riehl Street
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Kern Street
Claude Rodenbaurh
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Jackjson
A. C. Kessler
Clyde Brainard
Harper
Dawson Street
William Jarrett
Wheatland tragedy shocks town as jury figure linked to riot case
In Wheatland California a man named Emil Y. was found shot dead in his barn while his wife lay dead in the house after a riot in 1912. Richard Ford and Herman Suhr, tied to trials with Pickard as a juror, received lengthy penitentiary terms amid threats to Pickard’s life.
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Wheatland
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Richard Ford
Herman Suhr
Pickard
Sioux City Meat Rates At Hearings On Freight Tariffs
In Chicago on April 30 W F Benn traffic manager of the Sioux City Stockyards company urged against higher freight tariffs on packing house products. He said most Sioux City stock comes from the northwest, about 425 miles closer than to Chicago, reducing transport costs. Benn noted Chicago pays 5 to 6 cents per car mile for the extra haul, while Sioux City packing house products to Chicago incur 3 to 13 cents per car mile.
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Sioux City
W. F. Benn
Benn
Northwest
Cylinders Hold Deadly Gas Used by Germans
The Times reports Germans used asphyxiating gas via fifty four inch cylinders sunk in trenches with six foot pipes toward Allied lines. It says respirators were damp towers enclosed in waterproof cloth bags supplied to German troops.
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London
the Times
Germany
Pioneer graphophone maker dies in New York
Edward L. Easton, 59, president of the Columbia Graphophone Co and a pioneer in talking machine development, died at his Arcola New Jersey home. Easton was formerly a newspaper man. The rest of the items describe minor trivia on bees in mail and a caterpillar vision measure.
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New York
Edward L. Easton
Columbia Graphophone Company
Arcola
N. J
Easton
Freckle-Face Remedy Offered With Money-Back Guarantee
An offer urges Miss Freckle-face to try a freckle remover. Buy ethine double strength from any druggist. if it clears freckles you pay a trifling amount, if not you receive a money back guarantee. One ounce usually suffices for severe cases.
Kaiser’s Attacks on the Yser Canal Subside
The Times correspondent reports German assaults on the Yser have ceased as Belgian forces hold the line. The enemy failed to cross the canal and could not force a passage at Dixmude. Belgian shells destroyed pontoon bridges, while the Belgian army remains intact along its defensible positions.
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Yser
Dixmude
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