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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1911
Page
3
The Underwood line offers Model Nos 4 5 and 3 with varying carriage widths from 8 to 26 inches. Model 5 adds four keys for fractions and special characters. Model 3 serves specialized reporting and statistics uses for banks railroads insurers and corporations. The sales lead all competitors.
Waterloo hosts Champ Clark, Speaker of the U.S. House and likely Democratic presidential candidate, for an Aug. 2 address under the Round Table group. The event, possibly at Syndicate theatre, is organized by local young men with John Gabriel presiding, Nathan Sharp leading the ticket committee, and Ralph Marsh heading advertising.
Ja Aug 1 John G Bowman recently elected president of the state University of Iowa will assume his new duties. The board of education meets in Iowa City Wednesday. No exercises mark the take over of the university by Dr. President Maclean. Inaugural exercises for Bowman likely shortly after the collegiate year begins.
Ralph Johnson, 15, son of Supervisor George F. Johnson, was hurt yesterday while riding a manure spreader with a man named Thompson. He fell in the gear box, suffering head injuries and body bruises, not permanent. Jaira Bender, 11, living at Tenth and Franklin, is recovering from a broken limb above the knee after falling from a swing.
W T Headford of Headford Bros and fluennis has purchased the Carl R Walker residence at 136 Leland Avenue and will move in soon. Walker, longtime Waterloo representative of Diamond Salt, is promoted to a Chicago general officer role overseeing over forty traveling salesmen.
Frank Jenson a former Waterloo switchman and Civil War veteran died yesterday morning in Dunkerton Iowa from paralysis at age 71 born January 8 1841 in Mecklenburg Germany immigrated as a child lived in Illinois before Iowa survived by wife and six children John a Waterloo police officer, Mrs Hudson of Lincoln, Lewis Otto Munroe and Clara Shimp, a brother in Tripoli funeral at 2 pm Wednesday in Dunkerton with burial here
Zulena Jimmerson Olmstead of Dike, formerly New Hartford, dies at 2 pm in a private hospital at 517 Franklin street. She is survived by children of two marriages, including Charles, Ed, James Campbell, Ida Squires, and Margaret Miller, plus her mother and widower D R Olmstead. Funeral plans set for New Hartford. services Thursday afternoon.
State officials received pay increases under the new salary plan. Secretary Davison now earns 2200, executive council members 1200, State Health Board Secretary Sumner 3000, Commissioner Barney 2700, and food and dairy inspectors switch to straight salaries. The Des Moines Despatch notes the first monthly checks and lists several names connected to the changes.
New York Aug 1 Rockefeller ownership of Standard Oil will persist as the company reorganizes into 33 separate concerns. Stockholders holding one share on Aug 31 will own proportional interests in the 33 firms when books reopen around Dec 1. The plan, described as preliminary, aims to keep Standard Oil controlled by Rockefeller and associates while creating active competition among the new entities. The list includes Anglo American Oil, Atlantic Refining, Explorers and many pipeline and refining units across states, with further circulars promised to clarify operations.
Mrs. James Black and Miss Nan Black with Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Whannell traveled to Chillicothe Missouri after learning of William Frasier’s sudden death at 22. He was an only son and had been in frail health. Irene Frasier, sister to Mrs. Black’s sister, had lived in Waterloo and worked in her uncle’s store. A Denver trip followed for war-related family reasons.
Dubuque leaders press for market rules favoring consumers as city officials discuss revising the public market ordinance. Mayor Haas and others argue the current law favors merchants and pedlars and should curb competition, with a plan to protect consumers by adjusting hours and licensing.
Charlotte Nova Scotia Aug 1 One hundred fifty two cotton mills in North and South Carolina shut down yesterday due to drought. No water is obtainable from regular sources here, relief comes only from hauling water from the Catawba River ten miles away. The drought has...
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