Social and family notices from La Porte City
In La Porte City Aug 3 a surprise birthday party entertained Miss Margaret Banger on Locust street for her 17th birthday with music games and gifts. Mrs. Robert Geren of La Porte City died Aug 1 at her son’s home in Spring Creek township after months of illness born Feb 8 1844 in Strawberry Point Iowa first white child born in Clayton county. Funeral at Spring Creek church with burial beside husband. Numerous items note travel visits moves and family events including travels of Miss Edith Hoyt and Georgia Thomason, Miss Pearl Haymond, Mrs A E Osborne, Mr and Mrs Clint Hayes, Mr and Mrs G H Holmes and La Noa Holmes, and other social movements and church activities. The piece also mentions hotel fire in Cheyenne Wells and several relocations and gatherings around Cedar River and local homes.
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la Porte City
Locust Street
Margaret Banger
Ruth Leverich
Sheldon
Robert Geren
C. G Geren
Spring Creek Township
Strawberry Point
Clayton County
Mary Adaline Purdy
S. F
C. G
Fern Geren
Waterloo
D. W. Purdy
Walnut
Kansas
Spring Creek
Breniman
Bank clearings for Waterloo week ending Aug 3 1911
Waterloo bank clearings for the week ending Thursday Aug 3 1911 totaled 991 477.60 with daily totals 522 8123 162 19. 139 835.76. 191 954.26. 167 952.93. 165 466.89. and 203 105.57. Last year’s week was 1 004 148.58. Realty instruments recorded for week ending Aug 2 1911 total 23 309.00 mortgages 46 103.00 chattel mortgages 7 779.33 bills of sale 1 00. mortgages released 207 229.75. Date total instruments 4 132. previous year 4 450. Decrease 313.
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Black Hawk Co- Abstract Company
Waterloo Bank
Electric Park Promises Best Season Yet This Week
Despite cool weather Electric Park remains popular with big crowds nightly. The park touts its peak attractions this week headlined by Mike and Bernie, European musical act, Hardie Langdon, Manhattan trio, and Montambe and Bartelli. Friday fireworks draw large crowds while Thursday through Saturday see lively dancing with Morers' orchestra ensuring strong attendance.
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Electric Park
Mike and
Beniie
Hardie Langdon
Manhattan
Montambe and
Bartelli
Morers
Richard Carle in Jumping Jupiter at Waterloo Aug 11
Edna Wallace Hopper supports Richard Carle in Jumping Jupiter. Waterloo booking confirms midsummer attraction for Friday night August 11 at the Waterloo theatre. Company touring after Atlantic City engagement, with two Iowa towns, Cedar Rapids and Waterloo, listed among stops.
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Waterloo Theatres
Aa. J. Bushy
Waterloo Theatre
Richard Carle
Edna Wallace Hopper
Atlantic City
N. J
San Francisco
Iowa
Ce- Mr
John Lehmar
Dar Rapides
Waterloo
Fictitious name keeps man in jail in Waterloo brief
John Harper aged 85 a shoe string peddler was jailed after failing to reveal his real name when arrested for intoxication. He paid 7.85 bail and was released with orders to travel to Cedar Falls. Two pugilists faced charges, B Palmer fined 7.85 for fighting. Ed Brundage pleaded not guilty and case continued. J W Shack, a painting gang member, released at noon to catch a northbound train. L G Pharos of St Louis and Joseph Kramer of New York faced vagrancy charges with 30 minutes to depart Waterloo.
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Otto Bradstreet
Benjamin Sweet
John Harper
Cedar Falls
Waterloo
J. W. Shack
Oelwein
Caldwell
First Aid to Hobble Skirts Device Aids Boarding Trains
Bloomfield New Jersey August 3 Alexander Jameson Calhoun introduces a hydraulic assisted boarding chair for hobble skirt wearers. An iron jack carries a cushioned chair on two levers to lift and extend passengers onto a train platform, promising faster boarding than stairs.
Racial Demographics Cited With Alarm by Speaker
A speaker warns that the negro race will be virtually extinct by the twenty-first century citing Richmond's 38 percent black population, 6 percent of deaths, and lower birth rate. The notice also lists a price ad: one 25 pound sack of cane sugar for $1.60 at C. J. Fightey's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
C. J. Fightey
C. H. Fightey's
Waterloo City in Brief Highlights Wide Guest and Travel News
Local notes show Miss Lilah Thompson visiting Waterloo relatives from Chicago while many Waterloo residents travel to nearby cities. A formal license is issued to James Hildebrant and Edith Miller, and Ed Ford pays a $1 fine for a larceny charge. The week includes medical updates, repairs, and optimism for upcoming events at the First M. E. church and related groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James C. Hildebrant
Dunkerton
Edith Miller
Remsen
Husband Slayer's Baby Born in Sault Ste. Marie
A girl was born to Mrs Napolitano at General hospital yesterday afternoon. Mrs Napolitano, sentenced to be hanged next Wednesday for killing her husband, had the sentence commuted to life imprisonment due to widespread public interest in her case.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Ont
Angelino Wnapolitano
General Hospital
Real Estate Transfers in Cedar Falls and Waterloo
Real estate transfers recorded by Black Hawk Co. Abstract Co list several deeds. John P. Cobb et al to A. H. Ufford for lot 2 block 16 R. P. Speer's addition Cedar Falls for 1650 dollars. Blanche and Scholes to B. S. Harrison for part of lot 41 block 11 West Waterloo for 1 dollar. M. A. Gillam to Pitt M. Sheffield for part of lot 4 block 20 Normal addition Cedar Falls for 4000 dollars. Mary J. Bandfield to C. Alfred Brust for part of lots 9 and 10 block 4 Bishop's 2nd addition La Porte City for 1 dollar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black Hawk Co. Abstract Co
John P. Cobb
A. H. Ufford
R. P. Speer
Cedar Falls
Blanche &. Scholes
B. S. Harrison
West Waterloo
M. A. Gillam
Pitt M. Sheffield
Normal
Mary J. Bandfield
C. Alfred Brust
Bishop's 2Nd
la Porte City
Volcanic Heat Measured At Kilauea By Experts
Carnegie Foundation scientists testing boiling lava at Kilauea report a third attempt yielded a pyrometer reading of 1010 degrees Celsius or 1850 Fahrenheit, marking the first record of boiling lava heat. Also noted is a kidney medicine testimonial and a sugar sale listing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
Carnegie Foundation
Hawaii
Kilauea
Levy Finds American Negro Mortality Comparative Low
Richmond report states after close study of mortuary statistics in Richmond and other cities that the American Negro mortality rate is comparatively low based on a detailed comparison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Ernest Co. Levy
Curiosity Reveals Identity of Suicide Victim Sister
Davenport Iowa August 3 Miss Anna Fagenberg pierced by curiosity visits morgue and finds her sister Anna Fagenberg the girl who killed herself in Central Park yesterday. Before taking acid she ensured life insurance was paid up.
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Davenport
Anna Fagenberg
Central Park
Owen backs recall of Supreme Court justices in Senate speech
Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma urges recall and election of Supreme Court justices as warranted by sound reason and public sentiment. He argues for the accountability of high court members and cites recent events to support his stance.
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T. S. Owen
Robert L. Owen
Oklahoma
Justtees
Supreme Court of the United States
Senate
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