Waterloo Woman's Club maps 1920s season plans
Waterloo Woman's Club outlines a 1920 71 season with active civic literary musical and commercial programs. Mrs S A Boggs takes the chief office backed by long service and lectures and exchanges including open meetings Sept 11 and a Sept 10 teachers reception, plus department led programs by Langlas Ridenour McCoy and others.
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Althe
Waterloo Woman's Club
Women’s Liberty Loan’ Committee For
Laws
Altho
5. A. Boggs
Cvic Department
Des Moines
F Literary Department
J. B. Ridenour
Rt. Leeper
H. B. Boies
Flef. McElhinney
Will
Nave
Civic Department
W. H. Langlas
Mmes. Jackson McCoy
C. F. Altstadt
A. G. Sawyer
S. M. Wallace
Mmes
W. L'Atkinson
Claude Bennett
M. L. Bowman
Jessie Cooley
Maud
B. J. ‘Howrey
G. M. Young Misses
Bid Powning
Flora
Subscriptions Pledged for Artists Course in Waterloo
Ross Conservatory of Music announces all subscriptions for the fall and winter artists course in Waterloo have been pledged. Tickets will be mailed September 1 to supporters. About 200 single seats remain unsold and must be reserved before September 1 for guests.
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Waterloo
Ross Conservatory of Music
Num
Ber
Frederick Mills Ross
Ross
Beauty Chats By Edna Kent Forbes on Morning Looks
Edna Kent Forbes discusses real beauty as a morning test, advising readers to observe themselves on the commute or mirror, and offers steps for a fresh look including cool baths, eye care, early rising, exercise, careful dressing, and forthright tips for freckles and blemishes. It also mentions wart removal via tying hair, nasal care, and scalp health as part of daily upkeep.
Picnic at Elk Run Hotel After Rainy Day Trip
A Bickley company and Harris-Bick ley Insurance staff joined picnickers who drove to Elk Run in rain to dine at the hotel. Horseshoe pitching was the main pastime while Burr A. Brown oversaw guest comforts. Marriage news: Stanford Johnston and Josephine Johnston wed in Independence Ja on Aug 6. They later visited both sets of grandparents and the bride’s family in Janesville. First Methodist church teachers honored Ruth Evelyn with a baby record book at a party hosted by Mrs Karl Arthur, with refreshments served.
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Corrine Sadler
Walter Stoner
Fraude Knoop
Sigua Phi
T.C
Miss Sader
Hittle Jeathryn
Paul Loomis
W. J. Zitterell
Webster City
W. H. Hoover
C. W. Knoop
Ruth Nolte
Sheffield
Bickley Company
Harris-Bickley Insurance Agency
Elk Ilun
Burr A. Brown
Elk Run Hotel
Stanford-Johnston
Josephine Johnston
Edward Stanford
Waterloo
Independence
L. Hammond
First M. KE
Karl Arthur
Ruth Evelyn
Stop Using Electric Curlers and Return to Old Hair Method
Advice suggests abandoning electric curlers and reverting to traditional styling for several months. By avoiding heat and using natural methods, hair may recover and regain its former appearance without curling. Medical or cosmetic guidance implied, with emphasis on patience and consistency.
The Age of Color and Modern Sweaters
Ruth Cameron reflects on how today’s colors and sweaters differ from the past, celebrating vivid hues and diversity in fashion. She recalls blues, greens, and reds expanding beyond older limits, notes new color names and shades, and praises the modern age of color.
Glaza Buys City Block For 9500 Dollars
L. E. Glaza furnace and sheet metal contractor buys the building at 11 Commercial Street from A. B. Glenny for 9500 dollars. He plans to convert it into a leading up to date shop with several thousand dollars spent on equipment and improvements. The Cascaden Store Co formerly occupied the property and has moved to Joliet, Illinois.
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L. E. Glaza
Commercial Street
A. EB. Glenny
Glaza
Cascaden Store Company
Joliet, Ik
Former Waterloo Man Is Official in Film Firm
W Ray Johnston of Arrow Film corporation is cited by Moving Picture World as a prominent independent film executive. Johnston, once private secretary to Waterloo banker FP F McElhinney, left Waterloo for the West years ago and has since led eight years with Arrow. His former home was in Janesville, Ta.
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W. Ray Johnston
Arrow Film Corporation
Moving Picture World
Waterloo
Johnston
F. McElhinney
West
Janesville
Lightweight Autos Prove Endurance In Transcontinental Run
Essex cars staged a four car cross country sprint from New York and San Francisco. The quartet completed the trip in four days 14 hours 43 minutes carrying U S mail, approaching the speed of fast mail trains. Essex claims the transcontinental record with no professional drivers. State tennis tourney in Des Moines resumes after rain with finals expected tonight.
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New York
San Francisco
Essex
Des Moines
Americans Lead In Olympic Games Scores at Antwerp
The United States led with 21 points in Olympic contests at Antwerp on August 21, Sweden 18, Finland seven, Australia seven, Canada three, South Africa four, and England 49. Totals to date show Czecho-Slovakia four six, Belgium 24, Sweden nine, Finland 86, France 20, Canada 0, Denmark five, Estonia none, Holland two. F. J. McDonald New York A C won the final 56-pound weight put at 11.265 metres. Ryan of Loughlin Lyceum New York was second with 16.95 metres. A movement to abolish the marathon as a feature of Olympiads is underway among national Olympic committees. A Belgian committee sought rule changes to allow refreshments during the marathon, but only water remains permitted.
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Assochuken
Olympic
Antwerp
America
Sweden
Finland
Australia
Canada
South Africa
England
United States
Souths
Africa
Czecho-Slovakia
Belgium
Vis
Weevenes
France
Desiitans
Ataweeea
Denmark
Esthenia
Seesseeseenees
Holland
F. J. McDonald
New York
A. C
B. Ryan
Loughlin Lyceum
Epetee
G H Phillips Estate at Oelwein Divided Among Three Heirs
In Oelwein on August 21 Judge Taylor approved referees verdict dividing over a quarter million dollars of G H Phillips estate property among three heirs. Ellen Phillips gets Nutting Young Palace store buildings and Glenn. Ray Phillips gets Niblick Tousley Lazio Arnold & Lucas buildings. Lena Hscantilla gets Latimer Brown Haskins Wallace Schaller meat market buildings, plus other lesser property. Referees A Hanson John Jamison and H R Martin.
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Oelwein
Taylor
Arnold & Lucas
Lena Hscantilla
Latimer & Brown and
Haskins Wallace
Schaller
A. Hanson
John Jamison
H. R. Martin
Socialist Kate O’Hare to Speak in Waterloo
Waterloo committee announces Kate Michards O’Hare recently released from federal prison and J. P. Solomon will address the public at an open air meeting Friday August 27 at 8 p m in Lincoln Park. The event aims to rally local supporters and discuss socialist principles.
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Kate O'Hare
Waterloo
Kate Michards O'Hare
J. P. Solomon
New York State
Lincoln Park
Children of Pioneer Meet Here for First Time in Thirty Years
First reunion of four of five surviving Lichty children who settled in the county in 1562, meeting in Waterloo. Attendees include Norman Lichty president of Bankers & Merchants Calendar Co. Des Moines, Mrs. William Mead Long Beach, Calif., Mrs. Dexter Wood and B. F. Lichty Waterloo. Emma Edwards of Long Beach absent. Mrs. Mead plans a Des Moines visit after Waterloo.
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E. M. Lichty
Waterloo
Norman Lichty
Bankers & Merchants Calendar Co
Des Moines
William Mead
Long Beach
Cal
Dexter Wood
B. F. Lichty
Emma Edwards
Waterloo Gideons Meet In Cedar Rapids Convention
Waterloo travelers and notable locals Sheplee Bunnell and F Willis Jenks attend the annual Gideons organization convention in Cedar Rapids. About 100 delegates gather as A B T Moore speaks on The Modern Gideon. Officers chosen this afternoon and a banquet, with Jenks as toastmaster, closes the event tomorrow night. Cricket at Byrnes Park features a Sunday match between W Kings eleven and Arthur Tomlin's side.
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RW. Sheplee
Henry Bunnell
F. Willis Jenks
Waterloo
Cedar Rapids
State Gideons Organization
Byrnes Park
W. King
Arthur Tomlin
Church Services Deliver Messages Across Local Congregations
Rev C F Purmort will preach at First Presbyterian Sunday morning and evening. Prof D Sands Wright of Cedar Falls will deliver a sermon to United Presbyterian in West High School assembly room. Rev Robert Brown from Battle Creek Mich will preach at Walnut Street Baptist Sunday morning and evening. Advertising is always News.
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C. 4. Purmort
First Presbyterian Church
D. Sands Wright
Cedar Falls
United Presbyterian
West High School
Robert Brown
Battle Creek
Mich
Walnut Street Baptist Church
Waterloo
Burton Avenue
Murton Ave
Lev
V. C. Kelford
Wenior
Bom Brotherhood
Gurver
Jefferson Street
Park Avenue
Nev
Clyde J. Askine
Yaator
Bunday
B. P
Simon
Walnut Street
Lime
Walnut Streets
John Bunyan Smith
Antioch
Douglas
W. W. Owing
Gos
Goya
Tiret
Randolph
Frank W. Court
D. D. Bible School
Epworth League
Grace
J. Lockwood
Pester
Jia
Sundsy School
At. Paul's M. E
Lues
Broadway
Sundaen
A. Cohagan
Cc. A
Archer Avenue
John C Olson
Nevada Street
Falsdyterian
Lark and Mulberry
Joan Robertson Macartney
D. D
Besson Geiger
Wible
Tayside Werle
Thoradiy
First United Presbyterian
Second
Wellington Streets
Ible
Westimide Wigh School
Weatminuteml
Wellington
Archibald
Campbell Vereston
Ghrietlan Enitaguer
GM Pe
Howland Hitnson
Lie Moines
Ansen
Kirst Baptist Church
Les Dorney
Chicka
Baptist Church
Beet Park
Curn
Culler
Cutler Street
George Moody
Waterloo churches calendar of Sunday services
The notice lists church services across Waterloo from Plymouth Congregational to various Lutheran, Baptist, and Brethren congregations. It details sermon times, Sunday schools, youth and prayer meetings, and notes multiple pastors and church locations including Union Corner and Walnut Street.
Not at All Bad But Set Aside for Produce Market
A local fishing discussion notes minnows as prime bait with bass catching two four pounders in the past ten days. Carp and redhorse draw crowds as river fish. Chicago reports a 25 000 appropriation by the Wisconsin Agricultural association for its crodes marketing department to fund dairy poultry and fruit produce divisions with an estimated annual income of 75 000 000 from non grain and live stock produce.
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Waterloo
Bluefire
Brimstone
Wapsie
Redhorse
Fourth Street
Chicago
Winais Agricultural Association
Crodes
State Farm Bureau Federation
Two Des Moines Women Robbed Near Clear Lake Iowa
Ella Walcott and Mrs Ed Wilcutts were assaulted and robbed by a man and woman after being hurled from a Ford near Clear Lake at 430 pm. They were treated at Park hospital and later released. Suspects, described as a man and woman, were seen at Cerro Gordo hotel and are believed to have fled to Des Moines.
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Mason City
Des Moines
Ella Walcott
Ed Wilcutts
Clear Lake
Park Hospital
Cerro Gordo
War mysteries seek clues from readers
The American Legion Weekly lists unsolved wartime cases and asks Evening Courier readers to aid families. Notes include Willer W. Craig missing since Oct 4 1918, George A W Kilborn wounded then listed killed, Harold M Radows killed in action, Guy White missing, Ralph Whittle wounded and reported dead, Walter A Sayers missing then returned, Orville J. Anderson death in action, John Victor Bryan wounded with unknown burial, Gerald Kingsley Northrup killed or missing, and others seeking confirmation from comrades or reporters
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The
American Legion Weekly
Evening Courier
Willer W. Craig
K Company
Bass Fay
Clark Millan
Oriental Street
Newark
N. J
George AW. Kilborn
C Company
One Hundred Twenty-seventh Infantry
Fismes
Onna
Devails
C. F. Kilborn
Mesa
Harold Mradows
Aa Company
Three Hundred Twenty-fourth Infantry
Argonne
Jeudidies
Anne Philip
Pine Street
San Francisco
Guy . White
M. White
Coln Street
Coffeyville
Ralph Whittle
Preny
Argonné
F. E. White
Fourteenth Street
Des Moines
Walter A. Sayers
Kotor Pny
United States
William Sayers
Melannsboro
Orville J. Anderson
One Hundred Twenty-eighth Infantry
Juvigny
A. G. Swanes
Flathead Post
American Legion
Kalispell
Mont
John Victor Bryan
Seventysix Company
Sixth Marines
Soissons
Jobn
Bryan
Downers
Rove
Gerald Kingsley Northrup
D Company
Highth A. G. Bn
Maine
Mottier
M Slater Northrim
Sherman Avenue
New Haven
Conn
Associated Presa Downy
Rabineau
Chicago
Rmoulder Engineers
Belleau Wood
James B. Todd
Berlin
A. W. Ratineau
Germany
Calon
Richmond
Yaz
New York
la Berlin
J. T. Todd
Moreliso la Rochelle
Joe Childres Released After Gun Charge Sparks Dispute
County attorney failed to prosecute Joe Childres on carrying a firearm. George Hayes turned the gun into police claiming Childres pointed it at him while driving Mrs Childres to her rooms. Childres denied wrongdoing and sought arrests against Hayes and his wife. Police hold the gun as a souvenir of the unresolved case.
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Joe Childres
George Hayes
Childres
Couple Found Dead in Fashionable Mohawk Hotel
An unidentified man about 32 and a woman about 40 were found dead in a room at the Mohawk Hotel in Brooklyn as the room filled with gas. The report notes the couple were in a fashionable setting and does not identify names. In Paducah, a habeas corpus case involved restoring a 13 year old bride Mary Brewer Johnson to A B Johnson from McCracken County.
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New York
Mohawk Hotel
Brooklyn
Paducah
A. B. Johnson
McCracken County
Mary Brewer Johnson
World War I Letters and Missing Action Notices
Local wartime notices list several soldiers with ranks and units including James KR Miller private G Company Mightesnth Infantry reported in action May 20, 1918. W K Landrum of Stockton California wrote letters to family. Robert C Gosswilter private reported killed in action with 1 company One Hundred Twenty seventh Infantry. Mrs Charles Gunswiller Rice Minnesota and Thur K Larson private K Company One Hundred Fortieth Infantry reported missing in action October 1 1914 and later killed the same day. January 1919 he reportedly returned to his regiment but did not come home. Address Prather Arthur Larson Minnewaukan.
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Charles Gunswiller
Rice
Minn
Atthur
K. Larson
Pany
Fortieth Infantry
Prather
Arthur Larson
Minnewaukan
President Godfather to All Seventh Sons in Argentina
Buenos Aires August 21 reports that when a seventh son is born the president becomes his godfather in Argentina. A recent seventh son was baptized with a large church ceremony attended by the ranking officer of the Argentine army who represented President Irigoyen, illustrating the president’s growing list of god-sons.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Republic
Ja Cusiom
Irigoyen
Hoppers hinder harvest in Maple Creek country
Grasshoppers cut two on the winter rye stocks delaying harvests in Maple Creek region of Saskatchewan. Field crops branch reports the damage as officials in Moose Jaw relay the advisory. In other news, Colonel Manus McCloskey is named commander of Camp Knox in Kentucky succeeding Col Gatley. The Guadeloupe island plans an 218 mile electric railway using two waterfalls for power.
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Moose Jaw
Sask
Maple Creek
Apartment of Agriculture
Camp Knox
Louisville
Manus McCloskey
Henry Knox
iJeland
Guadeloupe
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la Salle
W. Reccord
Mae
Ben Tur Auditorium
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I H. McCarty
Frederick M Ross
Edna Kent Forbes
Charles S
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Nkes
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Alice
G. H. Phillips
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Nymond W. Cruna
Mater
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Saden
Young People's Meeting
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Lin
Instilde Wreacht
Tish Gym
Fhuraday
Peervdee
VL B. Watty
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Jefferson
Thirteenth Streets
W. A. Peterson
Ihony Hk
Junto
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Christian Endeavor
J. J. Gillan
Wisconsin State University
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Semmons
Bijan
Canroh
Canroh of the Brethren
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South
A. P. Blough
Christian Workers Meeting
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Dav
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Tor
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Seelstant
Sacred Heart
John Molroy
J. F. RicMahon
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St Mary's Church
Corner Lafayette Ace Park
Cvenue
Franciscan Fathers Tey
Harry Kuester
Maurie Eberle
Theodora Worn
Noop
Ad & A
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Medesia
Fifth and
Randolph Streets
Central
Fourth and South
G. D. Serrill
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Church OF Christ, Scientist
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Knights of Pythias
Moor K. of PB
Fred J. Clark
Ounce Pal
Christ
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Mark
Atreata
Thomas Horton
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Munth
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Court Home Square
Cluton
Saith
Eunn
Kervle
Calvary
Nowell
I. L. Baumgartner
Juntos Y. Pla
Benlor
Bogen
Unitet
Loran and Dane
J. G. Speaker
Ser
Syfeez
Heeecw
Flame of
Jacob
Fifth Street West
O. Zackhaim
Emmanuel Lutheran
Walnut and Vine
If Prekel
Paxtah Lutheran
Fouth
Lakes English
Campbell Avenue
Leland H. Lesher
Prent—Maple
Hirh
P. Bible Study
J. Waller
Heoiloh
Churh
Franklin and Laine
Alang
Mo- Olle
C. Boyd
Young Man's
Worthinmeter
Nation
Avalon
D. J. Gretzinger
Cua Heights
I Presbyterian
N.S. MethCemel
Christian Eueaeavor
United Bexthaen
Graves Mamoral
Alten
Hav
B.S. Suiek
Audtor
Ali
F. Mahes Intermediate
Walvation Army
Big Brother Mission
Water Street
Ensign
Dre
Monty Nicholls
Young Pro Je
Vetur
Stone
Curaur
Parker and
Columbia
Sia Welter
Ceammeredal
Ing
Mission Hall
Mitt Street Weal
Ore Pro
Waynesday
Metropolitan Holiness
Fifth Street East
Netcott and
Netcott Architects
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