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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1912
Page
5
North of the Illinois Central depot Cedar Falls reports Greek laborers living in a small section house. A constant American flag flies above a flower filled yard and a well kept garden frames the scene. They cook and enjoy a phonograph after work, content in their community.
The State Board of Education announced hires for the music department at the Iowa State Teachers' College Cedar Falls. Harriet Case of Chicago will teach voice, T Stanley Skinner of Albion will teach organ harmony and piano, Lola Kofoed of Rutland Vermont will teach piano, Grace Giberson of Ypsilanti will teach public school music, and Miss Cage, formerly of Waverly, joins as voice instructor succeeding Robert Fullerton.
Cedar Falls will install a postal savings bank at the local post office. The department seeks data on foreign patronage, origin of foreign patrons, local banking facilities, and foreign money orders issued in the past year. Sarah Timion of Mt. Vernon township suffered a dislocated shoulder and a broken shoulder blade after a swing fall.
Miss Mary E. Pratt, longtime missionary with the First Presbyterian church, visits Waterloo for two weeks or more. Stationed at Ambala, India, she helped fund a middle school for girls now named The Mary E. Pratt School for Girls. She plans talks at church meetings and will preach next Sunday, sharing details of her foreign work.
Fifty years after a cottonwood twig was planted north of Winthrop by Henry Payne as a boy, a tree now stands with a girth of 14 feet 9 inches and nearly five feet in diameter. The Payne family once lived on the farm nearby, and ruins of the original home are visible amid dense weeds.
Chicago August 8 The progressive platform praised direct elections judicial reform and protective tariff. It urges direct primaries for state and national officers and the nationwide use of the short ballot with initiative referendum and recall. The platform calls for social welfare reform labor protections a national health service and regulation of interstate commerce and corporations. It condemns the Aldrich currency bill praises resources development and a nonpartisan tariff commission while supporting inheritance and income taxes and warship limits in an international agreement.
Waterloo Cleaning and Dye Works promotes dry thorough fabric cleaning removing soil and stains and brightening colors. Expert pressing removes wrinkles and creases shaping garments with prompt reliable service and reasonable charges. 101 West Fifth Street phone 101.
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