Society Notes From Waterloo Chronicle
A lively roundup of upcoming events and club gatherings in Waterloo includes details on the Siama Delta sorority dinner and Blue Hawk fraternity, showers for brides elect, caprise birthday party, and numerous park picnics and church group meetings. Guests from Ames, Des Moines, and Santa Monica appear alongside local organizers and club chairs.
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Harry Padgol
Fred Padget
Dewar
Orpha Lezenby
Fern Emert
Marie Heinle
Harry Pines
Geneva, Padget
Leo Brooks
Waterloo
Josie Bunn
Des Moines
Piano Factories Consolidate and Move Operations to Chicago
The F. C. Evans Piano factory of Des Moines merges with Evans Piano of Chicago forming a single large Chicago facility. Des Moines storage must be vacated with pianos moved to Waterloo and other branches, as pianos arrive by carload. An enormous sale offers purchases during the consolidation period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. C. Evans Piano Factory
Des Moines
Extraordinary Inducement for Piano Sale Campaign
A local store promotes a piano sale with a 30 day free trial and two years of free tuning and piano instructions. Any piano purchased during the sale can be returned at purchase price within two years with payments credited toward a new piano. No payments until September with tiered small payments afterward. Duet bench scarf and souvenir offered. buy or not, no strings attached.
The Other Half Lives In Ruth Cameron Essay
Ruth Cameron contrasts the life of a devoted housewife with a physician’s friend who hosts a family in a suburb. The visiting woman learns that housekeeping is not life’s sole aim and gains a broader, healthier outlook from observing the other half’s balance of home duties and personal interests.
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Jacob Riis
Ruth Cameron
Courier Patterns Coupon Request for Fashion Department
To obtain the Courier up to date pattern of accompanying design fill out the coupon and send it to Fashion Department Evening Courier Waterloo enclosing 10 cents for each pattern. These patterns allow for seams. All orders filled as soon as possible but should reach you in ten days after sending in your order.
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Fashion Department
Evening Courier
Waterloo
Dress for Misses and Small Women Pattern Yardage
Dress pattern listing for misses and small women sizes ages 14 to 18. Notes elastic sizing and 488 yards of 44 inch material required for a 16 year size. Private sale.
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Elas
Prive Loc
Glad Hand Week Sparks Waterloo Welcome Spirit
Waterloo rolls out Glad Hand week August 18 to 21 with Pain's fireworks at Red Cedar Park three nights, motor boat pageants, bright illumination, and a thorough hospitality push. The event aims to attract visitors from Waterloo and Black Hawk County plus nearby areas, featuring a vivid open air fireworks show and a period drama set in Old Mexico 1847 with faithful detail.
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Waterloo
Black Hawk
Pain
Red Cedar Park
Tawans
Mexico
United States
Waterloo hospitality shown to visitors during Jubilee
The piece outlines Waterloo’s plan to host a Jubilee with a focus on hospitality and local trade. It notes retailers will extend railroad fare credits for larger purchases, typically five percent, to visitors and residents alike. Visitors lodging in spare rooms will register with city commercial bodies.
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Waterloo
Sunday School Picnic Proves A Big Neighborhood Event
About 200 people attended Walnut Street Baptist Sunday School’s annual picnic at Chautauqua park. A noon dinner and baskets preceded an afternoon of swimming games boating and amusements. A featured ball game saw Walnut Street Baptist defeat First Baptist 4 to 2 with Gilley Thomas Eby Stocker in the battery.
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Merry-Go-Hound Club
Cedar Falls
Waldon Taylor
Crescent Lodge
Degree of Honor
Cedar’ River Park
Walnut Street Baptist Sunday School
Chautauqua Park
Walnut Street
Sunday School League
First Baptist
Walnut Street Baptist
Gilley
Thomas
Eby
Stocker
Costs Defined From Bond In Liquor Case
The record notes that costs consist of witness fees and court reporter salaries among others, to be paid from a $4,000 bond posted by the retail liquor dealers and their friends. Attorney fees are excluded from court costs.
Track Scales Wrong In Freight Weighing Disparities
Washington reports an Interstate Commerce Commission investigation into freight weighing irregularities. The panel finds most track scales require rebuilding to ensure accuracy, condemning grain coal and lumber weighing methods as biased against shippers. The American Railway Association will publish weight regulations soon.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
American Railway Association
Saloon Hearing Costs Estimated at About 350 Dollars
The appeal from the board of supervisors to the district court will incur court costs near 350 dollars, with exact amounts still to be determined. The figure is said to be in the neighborhood of 250 dollars for related expenses.
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Board of Supervisors
District Court
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g@ay
Diane
Willard
Sigma Delta Praternity
Court of Hone
Merry Go Rau Vlub
Waldo Turton
Kon Falla
Helen Gould
Thimble
Ernest Baldwit
Perteh Avenue
Got Alto
Wurper
Julia Pett
Ald Allen
Milton Norges
Commercial
Ladies’ Aid Society
First Luthereran Church
John Becker
E. Griefnow
Gs. Hartman
Chures
Burejors
Siama Delta Properuity
Kaipt Marsh
Bi. Paul
Fans Peterson
Dayton
Joe Chipman
Para
Stan Henderson
Los Angeles
Carlton Walker
Con Fourth
Cosors
AJ TL
Waller
Mass Neva Walker
Marjorie Rahe
Hollowiays
Craternity
Alfred Evans
Dayton Floud
Hans Deter
Sam Hender
Homer Smith
Ralph Marsh
Tome
Horace Roittle
Fred Wray
Electric Park
Esther Page
Katherina Siberling
Harrison L. Stuck
Harry W. Nankervis
Port Uuron
Mich
William Well
Third Street West
Tieton Hotten Elup
Page
M. J. Butterfield
Entre Nous Club
Sans Souci
Marshal Horton
Forty-seventh District
Washington Street
F. K. Fowlie
Tracey
Betty Stapleton
Spirit Lake
Mae Tarrison
George Mills
Bend View
Cedar Inn
Jansing
Reuben Harrison
Miss Stapleton
Marshalltown Times-Republican
Ella Skegg
North Senior Street
Florence Richardson
Coggan
Richardson
Miss Skegg
Iowa State College
Ames
Helen Snyder
Oskaloosa
Audrey Strayer
Eva May Moore
Rose Waldb
Walter
Loly Rollins
Walter H. Rollins
J. D. Club
G. B. Cook
J. R. Rector
Warren Cranston
B. F. Lichty
Cranston
Country Club
Prospect Park
Waterloo Business College
N. S. T. Circle
Esther Willmore
Ricker Street
Anna Thierman
Ida Hanlon
Willard Hall
M. G. Munn
Lady Maccabees
Waterloo Hive
Alo
W. Hall
Ethel Lyon
Cedar
Hazel Manning
Imrs
FL Muterbaugh
Ninth Street West
Mis
Emily Spangoele
Lanark
Paverbaugh
George Lichty
Anna Tady
Mary Millp
Somerset
John Saylor
Hiram Lichty
Mathia Miller
W. H. Benedder
Miller
Lydia Sweitzer
Ruesta
Woman's Working Association
First Presbyterian Church
Cedar Hiver Park
Daughters OF the King
J. Cecil Bickley
Pine Street
EVANS
Knabe
Shoninger
Story & Clark
A. B. Cameron
Melville Clark
Chickering
Hallet & Davis
Wagner
National
Nelson
Ant
Don’ Watt
Sig Bridgh Street
Rent Majestic Theatre
East Fourth Street
Ben
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