Liberty Loan Appeal Urges Intensive Final Week Push
Washington April 30 An appeal to liberty loan committees to inaugurate an intensive finish for the third loan urges canvassing of industrial plants and stores, follow up pledges, and a reminder that subscriptions require no June payments. The treasury adds May 1 pay day as a chance for initial payments and stresses wide distribution to hit the 20,000,000 bond buyer goal.
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Washington
Liberty Loan
Treasury Department
BUX
WOTAL
Washington, D. C
Treasury
Atlanta
Greveland
Kansas City
Colorado
Mkansas
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Wyoming
New Mexico
St. Joseph
Omaha
Neb
Oklahoma City
Village of Concrete
Colo
Antioch
Bachwater
Wryo
Chicago
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Michigan
Wisconsin
IGWA
Indianapolis
Des Moines
Detroit
Milwaukee
Sioux City
New England
Portland
Providence
New Haven
Boston
Worcester
Fall River
Springfeld
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Dallas
San Antonio
Galveston
Houston
Fort Worth
Austin
Shreveport
Families Pool in Housekeeping as Men Go to Front
Chicago April 30 nearly half of families that moved or attempted to move this month sent furniture to storage warehouses and van firms. Breakup and consolidation of families whose soldier boys departed is driving the storage demand. Five families moved this year for every four last spring though rental agents report their strongest spring for medium sized flats and a tight market for houses due to coal shortages and inability to secure sergeants.
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Chicago
Desperate plea fuels forged check case
Jed Morris Nelson 26 used a $10 check after losing his job and facing his wife and two sick children in Chicago. He was arrested before boarding a train as his tale of hardship moved the court. he promised to repay after steady work.
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Morris
Jed Morris Nelson
Chicago
Nelson
Illinois Central
East
Cedar Valley
Justin Upton
Kepford
Justice Kepford
Creamery
Changes Among Officials at City Building
Police Chief J. D. Caldwell bids farewell this evening as Fred A. Sparle takes over at police headquarters at midnight. Civil service protections limit immediate discharges, with changes possible mainly in office staff and duty assignments. Caldwell plans to focus on business and then California. Police Judge J. N. Sweitzer retires from bench. Judge W N. Birdsall to preside tomorrow. W. A. Moore leaves as clerk. City Auditor A. E. Johnson assumes duties. Wilbur Glaw becomes clerk of the municipal court.
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J. D. Caldwell
Fred A. Sparle
Caldwell
California
J. N. Sweitzer
W N. Birdsall
W. A. Moore
A. E. Johnson
Wilbur . Glaw
Real Estate Transfers In Waterloo Area
Real estate transfers listed by Issack new County Abstract Co. include Hodevig J Ostergaard and others transferring to Floyd Ackerson and Katherine Ackerson with Elmwood cemetery notes in Waterloo. Elmwood Cemetery Assn transfers to Flor Satde Katz via W R Cole as trustee in Morningside and Rosewood additions, Waterloo. Figures show several parcel numbers and dollar amounts, including 72.00 and 2222.26 in recent transfers.
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Issack New County Abstract Co
Hodevig J. Ostergaard
Floyd ‘Ackerson
Katherine A Ackerson
Pleasant Viewence
C. Barber
K. Elmwood Cemetery
Waterloo
G. H. Jameson
Peterka
M. J. Thomas
Eee
Elmwood Cemetery
Flor- Satde Katz
W. R Cole
Tristee
Morningside
Lord
Reserve district surpasses minimum quota amid oversubscription
Officials say the district is over the minimum quota and may reach the 50 percent oversubscription the treasury requested. However, until the initial payment is received, there will be no official acknowledgment of the status.
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Arizona
Louisiana
Texas
Seventie
Chicago
Seventh
Federal Reserve District
Potato Week Plans in Black Hawk County
Black Hawk county to observe Potato Week May 4 11 under women’s council of defenses. Campaign aims to promote potatoes as a wheat substitute with displays posters and recipes to encourage serving potatoes at least twice daily. Contest for largest potato sought at Bailey clothing store. Mrs F L Marquis chairs with Miss Clara M Sutter assisting.
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Black Hawk County
Women's Council of Defenses
Bailey Clothing Store
United States
Defense Council
F. L. Marquis
Clara M. Sutter
Army Cuisine of America Weak Plaint by Gaul
A Le Temps correspondent on the French front notes Allied cooking lags. American troops prefer canned meat and stew over hot meals. French cooks teach soup making, and the correspondent recalls unpalatable rations such as canned salmon with mashed potatoes and pickled cucumbers seen that evening.
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America
Paris
le Temps
Better Buy at Home and the Hoover Grain Conference
A shopper named Jae Apumall exposed a dress fraud case from an April ten deal where a buyer paid cash for a dress pattern and received no delivery, urged by officials to patronize home merchants. Separately in New York on April 30 Herbert Hoover praised 160 grain dealers and officials for cooperation with the food administration and spoke of returning to normal business when supply and demand laws permit.
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Apumall
Hoover
New York
Herbert Hoover
Food Administration Grain Corporation
Food Administration
Alien teachers barred in Minnesota schools
The state safety commission issued an order restricting employment to United States citizens only for teachers in public private parochial and formal schools across Minnesota.
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St. Paul
Minn
The
State Safety Commission
United States
Minnesota
Quaker City Ads to Hun Language Papers Stopped
Philadelphia mayor orders all city departments to stop public advertisements in German language newspapers. Action follows city council resolution deemed legal by the city solicitor.
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Quaker City
Philadelphia
Smith
City Counsils
National Anthem Near After U S Waits 150 Years
Washington April 30 After decades the United States may adopt a national anthem The Star Spangled Banner is tied to a Pennsylvania representative McKadden resolution in the house Army and Navy rules assign the hymn while the public favors it Key wrote the lines aboard a British ship after Fort McHenry battle Anacreon in Heaven music may be used but controversy remains over authorship
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Washington, D. C
United States
Republic
Representative McKadden
Pennsylvania
Army
Navy
Union and Patriotic Societies
France
England
Iron Band
Germany
Belgium
Garihall
Francis Scott Key
Fort McHenry
Baltimore
America
Altho
Key
Marlborough
Maryland
Anacreon
Heaven
Samuel Arnold
Congress
Greece
Athens
Huntington Barnes Dies at West Union Kansas Trainer Dies at 90
Huntington Barnes died in West Union at age 90. He began as a jockey in 1849 and later trained trotters. He toured Iowa fairs last fall driving in races at West Union Manchester and Strawberry Point and had trained horses for about 70 years since spring preparations for the fall circuit.
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West Union
Temperature Readings For April 30 From Buchanan Optical Co
Readings show temperatures ranging from the low 30s to low 70s with midnight around 44 and 6am near 38 to 49. The data list values from 1813 through 1917 and reference prices from $0 to $5.
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Buchanan Optical Co
Dutch May Not Have Yielded To German Demand
Amsterdam April 80 The Vossische Zeitung Berlin says Germany demands the right to move war materials and food via the Limburg railway to Antwerp and import sand and gravel. Holland reportedly yielded to Anglo American pressure but no agreement on transport through the Netherlands. The Hague reports a bill to regulate commerce with foreign nations by centralizing imports to swap home products for necessities.
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Amsterdam
Germany
Holland
Vossische Zeitung
Berlin
Limburg
Antwerp
Hague
The
Wheat substitutes and religion clash in Okla food ruling
Oklahoma City reports a food administration case where a man refused to sign a wheat receipt citing religious scruples, forcing him to choose between his faith and wheat. The piece notes other food conservation incidents, including a Logan County woman and rival chickens under wartime regulations.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Stratton D. Brooks
Oklahoma
Pittsburgh County
Oklahoma Food Administration
Logan County
Food Administration
Tents No Share in U.S. Commerce is Plan of Government
New York on April 30 reports revelations by A Mitchell Palmer, custodian of enemy alien property, that the government plans to divorce Germany from American industry and commerce. He will speak May under the National Security League to disclose observations on Germany's prewar footholds.
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New York
Germany
A. Mitchell Palmer
National Security League
League
Palmer
Washington
Plotters Sentenced in India Revolution Plot Case
In San Francisco on April 20 Maxi mum sentences of two years in a federal penitentiary and fines of $10,000 each were imposed on Franz Bopp former German consul general and E H Schack former vice consul after their conviction last week on charges of conspiring to foment revolution against British rule in India.
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San Francisco
Franz Bopp
E. H. Schack
India
British Casualties in April Reach 52 475
April British casualties total 52 475 with 1 621 officers killed or died of wounds and 7 723 men. Wounded or missing include 7 447 officers and 35 684 men. April figures show a sharp rise from March 14 090. Japan rice lands cover 12 000 square miles feeding 60 million people with hand cultivation.
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London
France
Belgium
Japan
Ready for Court in the Morning in Waterloo
Prisoners taken by police today signal the opening of Waterloo's municipal court tomorrow with Judge Willis N. Birdeall presiding. Justices of the peace will keep their books until served, while quo warranto threats probe Brdeall's authority and petitions may move forward once court opens.
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Willis N. Birdeall
Justices of the Peace
J. W. Sandusky
Bar Association
Waterloo
Biedsall
Justice of the Peace
Wenner
Teaching Staff in East Will Remain Intact
Public schools in East Will show few teaching changes as most staff are reelected with a $10 monthly raise. The document lists principals and teachers by school level including Supacvisore Mrs. H. C. Wilbur and J. Piske's administration, with numerous grade assignments across Alcott, Cadet, Lafayette, Lincoln, McKinney, Hawthorne, Washington, and other campuses.
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Esat
Board of Education
Supacvisore
H. C. Wilbur
Winnifred Unruh
Gaylta Wosdring
Wanda L. Daum
Owen Carpenter
Mansters R Gell
Grace Ament
F. J. Miler
Almire C. Basgat
Christine Corey
Mars I. Day
C. R. Edminster
Mary 3. Hunter
Buda Isller
Viola Knoche
W. W W. White
Marion 46
Lajey
Grace TG. Lambert
O. N. Olsen
Ruth Acker
Carrie Neldy
Ruth Tillmont
Lola M. Rath
Lillian TD. Rickert
Bistory
P. B. Ritz
Lille B. Seielstad
Clara Tobins
Daphne Shaull
Hylma D. Turner
Alcott
Mary G. Christie
Joy Harmon
Maude Hayden
Mildred Schaefer
Adda Brown
Eva McCosh
Elsie Taylor
Mabel McBroom
Gertrude Kieth
Dorothy Hall
John Piske
Jennie Brainerd
Laura Neville
Ruth Haddock
Anna L. Sather
Alles Boley
Gladys Kelley
Kathryn Marshall
Howana Gresley
Evelyn Mmcquilkin
Ruth Grrman
Louisa Puirke
Grant—William Philo
Grace Bratmard
Mine Clause
Florence Clausen
Margaret Owens
Anna Woolfries
Edna Alley
Grace Denniston
Gladys Resor
Ruth Fish
Ruth Small
Lafayette
Thekla Neuman
Mellie Vincent
Hazel Morse
Florence Cummings
Ruth Rockwell
Elsa Shearer
Loraine Hallowell
Irma Shearer
Isabelle Horrigan
Inez Bristol
Lincoln
Elizabeth Carl
Myra Lohan
Luella Burk
Janole Turner
Lucile Krapfl
Ethel Wichman
Betts Swanson
Theresa Feyerels
Beulah Bingham
Skuth Small
McKinney
Mathilda Behrens
Marjoris Whitney
Ruth Jeffers
Margaret Gibbs
Marle Serrill
Gladys Brackney
Elizabeth Bongartz
Blanche Lovett
Young Women’s Christian Association Holds Iowa Conference
Delegates from several Iowa cities gather in Cedar Rapids for a two day YWCA workers conference. An illustrated lecture on the association at work by national secretary Miss Helen F. Barnes is planned, followed by a mass meeting featuring prominent speakers.
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Cedar Rapids
Iown
Young Women’s Christian Association
Association
Helen F. Barnes
City in Brief: Local Notices and Updates
City in Brief reports today on travel notes for T. O. Platt in Minneapolis and Mrs. Johnny Reiff visiting Cedar Rapids, plus Dubuque reunion plans for Robert Obslo and Cecil Gorman. It notes a clerks and carriers exam in the federal building, a hospital admission for W. A. Snyder, and a furnace fire at 1012 Blue Street. Further items include stray health advisories, a smallpox quarantine at 514 Lincoln, and an amendment to Ovnerland Hanson capital stock. Also mentions corrections to Cedar Falls bankers meeting date, repeated robberies on Mrs. G. T. Wallace’s property, and Jack Bartley being drafted to Washington for war work.
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Federal Building
C. I. Munger
W. A. Snyder
Jefferson Street
Presbyterian Hospital
Fire Department
Biufe Street
Fred Engloff
Harold
Minneapolis
Stephen Cayton
Mulberry Street
Finley Dempster
J. BD. Dempster
Sartori Hospital
Cedar Falls
J. L. Weller
New York
H. F. O'Neill
France
W. G. Ankles
Lincoln Street
Ovnerland-Hanson Company
John Hanson
C. PD. O'Harron
Bankers of Group 7
State Association
Lawn City
Jack Bartley
J. S. Bartley
Claystreat
Centerville
Washington
War Department
Bartley
Death notices and obituaries from Waterloo area
Mortuary Wamera services set for Wednesday at 2 p m at home and 2 30 at St Pauls Methodist Church with burial at Fairview. Decedent born January 23 1854 in Vernon Ohio, survived by Mary A Hoffman wife and nine children. Also survived by four brothers and three sisters. Carrie May McKinney dies at Presbyterian hospital from appendicitis. Private funeral for M G Ball. burial Elmwood. Julius Patersen funeral on Thursday at 2 p m. Emma Matthews funeral Wednesday at Kistner s chapel. burial Fairview. Electric plant in Nebraska uses exhaust steam to make ice via ammonia process. profitable venture.
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Wamera
Agc Mucvey OW
Mary A. Hoffman
M. M
David R
Howard S
Robert D. Smith
Alma Ragsdale
Sadie Gortfare
Lucile
Ellen Smith
Ell
Waterloo
Lizzie Stahl
Kingsley
J. W
G. W. Smith
Charles
Lebanon
Neb
Link Smith
Martha Smith
Anna Brown
Onaka
S.D
Mary Gressley
Buford
N. D
Carrie May McKinney
Herfred McKinney
Fourth Street East
Presbyterian Hospital
Petersen Brothers
M. G. Ball
Ef. &. Goughnour
First Brethren Church
Elmwood
Ben Stapeila
Jack Francis
John Blim
Pp. L. Billings
Albert Flanders
John Shaw
Emma Matthews
Kistner’s Chapel
G. D. Serritt
Fairview
Nebraska
City to Begin Garbage Plan
The city will start garbage collection tomorrow with staff and vehicles in service early. Waste will be deposited at the piggery north of the city for conversion into swine. The plan aims to reduce taxpayer costs by selling garbage at $3.52 per ton and collecting only feeding-grade material, excluding glass, cans, ashes, and similar waste.
Kaiser Drafting Russians After Draining Poland
Kaiser plans shift from draining Polish labor to occupied Russian territories to supply workers for Germany. German troops move men from Russia back home, while skilled workers are sought from Ukraine. Polish labor on Saxon estates is exploited, wages kept low to boost agricultural profits amid wartime needs. Paper mill wage scale extended to July 1 after talks with Colver, averting a strike and influencing paper prices. Local Mulder case: W E Holcroft, ex Waterloo police lieutenant and Central Foundry superintendent, in Marshalltown seeking taders amid labor shortages.
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Zurich
Leipziger Volkestimme
Germany
Poland
Russia
Ukraine
Saxony
Mulder
W. E. Holcroftt
Waterloo
Central Foundry Company
Marshalltown
Tadders
Freezone corn cure promises quick relief with no pain
An advertisement touts Freezone as a magical corn treatment that instantly stops pain and allows the corn to be lifted out. It claims a tiny bottle costs only a few cents and works on hard corn soft corn and corns between toes without soreness. The copy cites an alleged Cincinnati praise for the product.
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Cincinnati
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Buchanan
Optical Service
T. O. Platt
Johnny Reiff
Robert Obslo
Cecil Gorman
Dubuque
Dubuque College
Dvelyn Uhr
Walter
G. T. Wallace
Logan Avenue
Harvey W. Sarr Fou Tre
Carrie
Kinney
M. G. Bagl
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Julius Petersen
Franklin Street
C. R. Bair
Petersen Bros
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Federal’ Trade Commission
Federal Trade Commission
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