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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1914
Page
11
Cedar Falls brief notes recount visits to relatives in Williamsburg Kansas and Waverly Iowa. Local residents travel, weddings postponed due to typhoid fever, school officials study in Chicago, and community events include open air concerts. Funeral plans and assorted social calls fill the scene.
City brief lists many residents traveling for business and visiting relatives in Cedar Rapids Fort Collins and Denver. It notes births illnesses hospital care appendicitis operations and a camping party at Sunnyside park plus a few residents resuming work and attending funerals and conventions.
A historical notice describes a rise in auto license fees set by the state treasurer, detailing that the annual rate is eight dollars and ten cents, varying by horsepower and car value. It explains fees fund transportation improvements and that some classes are exempt, with specific assurance of collected taxes supporting improvements. The notice ends with a personal acknowledgment and thanks.
Ackley Aug 21 Mr and Mrs Will Tucker Mrs Stock and Miss Mabel Armstrong residents east of Dumont were injured in an auto wreck near New Traftford. The car driven by Mr Tucker left the road after a tire blew out on a hill and turned over twice. Mrs Stock and Mrs Tucker were unconscious, Mrs Tucker severely bruised, Armstrong also hurt. Windshield top and rear wheels damaged. Mrs Bradford and children returning to Waterloo after visiting Dublinite relatives.
President Wilson announces a conference of leaders after proposing McRae Reynolds as associate justice, but faces Senate opposition from Kern of Indiana and other Democrats. Shively, long an adviser, joins the opposition, signaling a major setback for the nomination during the Mexican crisis era.
In Fingland, services were held across churches to mark the war effort. A special prayer was offered for the success of British arms as nations engaged in the conflict unite in devotion.
Classified line lists at Savoy Cafe 610 Sycamore Street seeks waitresses. Bush & Pilsyn at 627 Lafayette Street advertise rent and furnished rooms. Tent and Modern Home flat at 310 West 20th Street phone 1818 Black. For Rent two room house near Home Park School asking $32. Ath Cole, Real Estate.
A jumble of classified notes seeks workers like waitresses and a bookkeeper, plus rental ads for a modern apartment and a well furnished high sleeping front room. Also listed are a family cow, Indian Runner ducks, furniture, and a sheriff sale notice for Black Hawk County Iowa with the 1924 sale details.
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