Bethlehem Steel workers win eight hour day and wage reforms
The national war labor board rules in Bethlehem Steel case covering about 28,000 workers. It grants the right to organize, enforces collective bargaining, revises piece work rates, and establishes a minimum hourly wage for 5,000 machine shop workers. Eight hour day with time and a half overtime, and double time on Sundays and holidays are set. Women receive equal pay for equal work. The decision creates a local mediation board and assigns an examiner to interpret and enforce the award. Wages for 440 electricians rise to 67 1 2 cents for first class, 62 1 2 cents for second class, and 40 cents for helpers. Wages for other workers left to bargaining.
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Washington, D. C
National War Labor Board
Bethlehem Steel Company
Bethlehem
War and Navy Departments
Bethlehem Company
Ordnance Department
Animal Circus to Show Twice Today at Athletic Park
The LG Barnes animal circus arrived in Waterloo yesterday. A big parade stretched over a mile through streets this morning featuring lions tigers leopards panthers and other acts. Tonight the big show opens at 7 with 103 acts including aerial feats and firework explosions. Owner ALG Barnes a California showman travels with 1200 wild animals 200 horses and 500 people in 40 railroad cars.
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Barnes’ Animal Circus Ar
Waterloo
Cedar River Athletic Park
Jungle Land
Barnes Circus
Italy’s Popularity Surges as London Honors Italy
London residents celebrate Italy’s war effort with macaroni dishes and applauding Italian staff. The city displays broad admiration as Italian culture appears to endure. Ernest Fuller wandered into a police station declaring his navigational skills and was jailed for drunkenness.
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Ernest Fuller
Poiice
Births Reported In Eagle and Manchester Townships
Birth notices list several new arrivals. To Mr and Mrs Jacob C Schaefer of Eagle township on August 1 a baby son is reported, to Mr and Mrs Ralph Harbaugh of Manchester on July 20 a son born in Waterloo, to Mr and Mrs Thomas Pearson of Woorhier a son named Donald born July 2, and to Mr and Mrs Frank Franklin of Fay on February 2 a son named Donald.
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Jacob C. Schaefer
Eagle Township
Teinsone
Ralph Harbaugh
Manchester
Waterloo
Ena
Thomas Pearson
Woorhier
Tarkett
1802
Oe Franklin
Fay
Donald
Waterloo Mother Sees Her Boy In War Pictures From France
Mrs. S. F. Koch of 214 Bates Street cried out with joy when her son Walter Koch appeared in a film from France shown at a local theatre. Walter and his brother Fred, Rainbow Division veterans, were shown near a trench with a shovel. Mrs. Koch called the scene a welcome home and watched the pictures repeatedly, noting Walter’s presence while Fred did not appear in those scenes.
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Waterloo
France
Walter
Gen
J. J. Pershing
S. F. Koch
Bates ‘Street
Fred Koch
Rainbow Division
More Girls Needed for Nurse Reserve
Recruiting stations at the public library opened at noon today and enrollment resumed. Nineteen young women signed cards in two days, with 42 on Thursday and five on Saturday. Mrs. J L Buechele urges prompt registration as the government seeks 25 000 trained nurses to free others for training. Miss Beck and Miss Louise Mann will be at Library West tomorrow to provide information and help enrollment, with Miss Marion Ransier and Mrs Hugh Van Pelt at the same library posting similar duties.
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Me Hbrary
J. L. Buechele
Women’s Defense Council
Beck
Louise Mann
Public Library West
Mar ‘Ion Ransier
Hugh van 'Pelt
Deaths of Frank Crecelius and Emma Magee in Waterloo and Dunkerton
Funeral news from Waterloo area notes the death of three year old Frank Alton Crecelius son of Mr and Mrs W A Crecelius at Winnipeg Manitoba where he died Saturday at 1 30 pm The body will be brought to Waterloo for burial Emma Magee wife of David Magee died at her Dunkerton home Saturday night after ill health Mrs Magee was an early Lester township settler from Illinois Surviving children are Lillie Jefferson Dunkerton Spencer Independence and Henry Mountain Grove Missouri
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Frank Alton Crecellius
Frank Alton Crecelius
W. A. Crecelius
Winnipeg
Can
Dorothy
Bernice Hunt
G. L. Hunt
Broadway
Hunt
Waterloo
Emma Magee
Dunkerton
David ‘Magee
Leas Health
Lillie
Jefferson
Spencer
Independence
Henry
Mountain Grove
Philippine Vet Routed by Little Old Game of Golf
Sergeant G. I. Brown in charge of the army recruiting station tried golf at Byrnes park with friends. He failed to hit the ball, tearing up greens instead. After hours of fruitless effort he returned to the recruiting station, declaring there is nothing doing on this golf question.
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G. I. Brown
Philippines
Sergeant Brown
Byrnes Park
Brown
Soung
Uncle Sam
Falan Fleming Improves Millinery Space On Second Floor
The Falan Fleming store finances a remodel of the second floor to enlarge the millinery department with direct management, full stock for fall and winter, large mirrors, seating tables, and a new first floor fitting room. Other departments are rearranged for better space and a less crowded look.
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Falan- Fleming
Falan-Fleming Company
Milady
Falan-Fleming
He Who Runs May Road of Big Trip to Berlin
Private T. A. Kerndt linked to the army recruiting station paints patriotic sidewalk slogans on downtown streets at 3 a.m. to spur enlistments for a record August. He knelt and painted this Way to Berlin and Help Hurl the Huns Across the Rhine, claiming strong results.
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Berlin
T. A. Kerndt
Army
Sergst
G. I. Brown
Kernet
Sam
Rhine
Kerndt
Alleged Hoarder of Flour Arrested
Jen Schurman, a Butler county farmer, was arrested Saturday afternoon by deputy marshal J. K. Baker and arraigned before US commissioner J. E. Dempster on charges of hoarding about 700 pounds of flour. She waived preliminary examination and was bound over to the federal grand jury at Fort Dodge in a $5,000 bond. Schurman owns rich Butler county land.
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Jen Schurman
Butler County
J. K. Baker
United States
J. E. Dempster
Schurman
Federal Grand Jury
Fort Dodge
Rich
Mooney Perjury Claim Sparks Debate on Justice
San Francisco editor protests California Supreme Court denial of a new trial for Thomas Mooney. He argues lack of a writ coram nobis blocks remedy, urging executive clemency as the only equitable option. The piece links Mooney’s case to international opinion and warns of broader diplomatic harm.
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San Francisco
Mooney
San Francisco Bulletin
Istate Supreme Court
Thomas Mooney
Court of
California
Mooney’srial
United States
Birthday Party for 12-Year-Old Fanchon Powers
Twenty eight boys and girls attended a Saturday afternoon party at the home of Fanchon Powers in observance of her twelfth birthday. Games music and dancing entertained guests. Refreshments were served at five o'clock by Evangeline Powers and Kathryn Lumry. Church notices include Womans Missionary Society meetings at United Presbyterian and Grace M E with programs and reminders to bring old silver or trinkets for French relief.
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Fanchon Powers
Evangeline Powers
Kathryn Lumry
United Presbyterian
Woman's Missionary Society
W. J. French
Pp. K. Jaggar
Grace M. E
Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society
W. B. Small
Red Cross Notes
Children near Grant and Hammond avenues held an entertainment Saturday. Voluntary contributions totaled 2.81 dollars and were given to the Red Cross. The Cedar Heights Red Cross will meet Wednesday to work on gauze.
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Grant and
Hammond Avenues
Red Cross
Cedar Heights
Two Stores Entered by Night Prowlers
Burglars entered two grocery stores from closing Saturday night until morning. Lynch & Quinn at upper Fourth street east lost $2 in cash and a small amount of merchandise including gum and candy. Harry Shaw at 453 Parker street had merchandise stolen valued between $50 and $75.
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Lynch & Quinn
Upper Fourth Street
Harry Shaw
Parker Street
Fire alarms report minor hotel kitchen blaze and chimney fire
A small kitchen fire at the Hotel Ellis prompted a fire department response at 4 45 p m Saturday causing slight damage from the sprinkler system. At 6 p m the department was called to inspect a chimney fire at Henry's Court with no damage. Advertisement for Bronson Insurance Agency.
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Ellis
Henry’s Court
Eyes of the Army: aerial photography in war zones
Capt. H. A. Wilsdon of the Royal Flying Corps spoke at a Cleveland Rotary luncheon about aerial photography over French battlefields. He showed 200 stereoscopic slides illustrating locating lost detachments, revealing fortifications, battery progress, and bomb effects, and noted aerials aid map making by stitching overlapping images into accurate regional maps.
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Cleveland
Rotary Club
Hotel Statler
H. A. Wilsdon
Royal Flying Corps
Wilsdon
United States
France
Music House of L S Parsons Celebrates 42 Years
L S Parsons Music House marks its forty second anniversary as a Waterloo institution. Founded by L S Parsons 42 years ago, it has seen 53 stores come and go yet remains a leading midwestern piano retailer. The firm moved to Sycamore street in 1962 after 26 years on Fourth street east. son H C Parsons has managed the business for 16 years after joining 21 years ago.
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L. S. Parsons’ Music House
Waterloo
L. S. Parsons
Fourth Street
Sycamore Street
Qquarters
H. C. Parsons
Return of $14,000 in taxes urged by board hearing
J W Arbuckle and J T Sullivan, legal counsel for Iowa Life Insurance and Iowa Manufacturers Insurance, urged the county board to refund about $14,000 in taxes over the past five years. A Cedar Falls council committee asked the county to build a sluiceway in the city dump to prevent overflows during high water. The adjourned monthly board meeting planned bill auditing.
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Iowa Life Insurance Company
Iowa Manufacturers Insurance Company
J. W. Arbuckle
J. T. Sullivan
County Board
Supreme Court
Cedar Falls
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BET Aebe
War Labor Board
Steel Castle
War Jayor Board
Animal Circus
Athletic Park
Italy
London
Courier
Pacific Coir
News of Society
J.D. Club
I. L. Whitney
Christ Episcopal
Bronson Insurance Agency
Crystal
J. Warren Kerrigan
I Am
Christine Mayo
Music House
L.S. Parsons
Buchanan Optical Co
Wang & Miller Shoe Co
Camp Pike
Depot
Baby Pentre Osborne
Billy” Parson
Palace Theatre
Gladys Hulette
Creighton Hale
Fatty’ Arbucele “Moonshine” . and
Hearst Patherews
Baby Marie Osborne
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