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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1913
Page
8
Benedict, buyer for the James Black Dry Goods Co., has gone to New York for ten days to purchase goods for the company. He is well known in major eastern markets. The firm expects to move into a new building by February 4, abandoning hopes to enter for holiday trade.
A fragment reports camp life with mentions of convulsions and improvements in health. It notes Mrs. Borchers of Waterloo visiting the camp and staying through the encampment. Ralph Bandy of Cedar Falls is wounded in the foot. other injuries are described as not serious. A Courier want ad is referenced for time and worry.
Construction begins on a large eight story edifice intended to become one of the finest stores of its kind in the area. The project covers erecting the structure finishing work and equipping the interior for operation. The completed building will enhance the town’s commercial landscape.
Two sizable crowds packed the Waterloo theatre to see Thomas Edison’s kinetophone sound film show. The varied program included musical numbers, stunts, comedies and operas, with audiences marveling as words and sounds accompanied the moving pictures.
The 1.8 Parsons music house has begun a major piano sale, highlighting its 37 year rise from a Fourth Street room to a Sycamore street flagship. L. B. Parsons founded the firm, now led by Harry D. Parsons, with high grade pianos and broad regional trade, expanding to a three story building in a once remote east city district.
Cedar Falls notes include visits by George Winters and Mrs. Haradon, a birthday party for a daughter, camping chaperones, and a son born to Mr. and Mrs. Doak. Others travel to Canada and Reinbeck while residents attend picnics and social events at Stevens and with the A D K club.
County Treasurer Frank T. Bentley reports 1913 automobile tax receipts totaling 6 219 41 as two installments of 2 298 30 and 3 921 21. The record shows a sharp rise from last year and funds will be spent on highways outside cities. debates over equity between rural counties and urban areas continue. Edwin Hoppe from Spring Creek brings in a wolf scalp and learns he can claim 29 dollars, up from the prior 5 per head. A deed records Chicago Great Western purchasing a 15 by 118 foot strip near Falls Avenue for one dollar and other considerations.
The article lists Iowa members on a national committee with Charles H. McNider of Mason City First National Bank and J. Lyman Edwards of Burlington Merchants National Bank among the lineup. The piece notes the country is represented by the committee members.
In Los Angeles the Rev. I H Evans, president of the conference, condemned modern women’s fashion calling the slit skirt and X ray dress deliberate lures for men. Mrs Merritt Graven and her son James visit Mrs Graven’s sister Mrs John Sine on Western avenue, with Miss Ella Buchanan ill prompting the Hutchinson Kansas trip.
Johnson of Louvitt and Johnson Trust and Waterloo Savings visits Minneapolis for talks with a bankers’ committee from Wisconsin Minnesota North and South Dakota Montana to craft proposed amendments to the Glass Owen currency bill for regional use and benefit.
Cedar Falls Iowa Aug 8 special. The band of 47 men will travel on two Pullmans and a special Illinois Central Rock Island route to Omaha then Denver. A large Cedar Falls delegation will accompany them as the band leads the grand parade in Denver. Also listed are local hosts and visiting guests from Wisconsin and Montana. Funeral today for Emmett Langdon Miller. burial Greenwood Cemetery. Olive Hines and John Beers will visit Ufford and Brame homes.
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