Thousands Seek Outdoor Joys at Waterloo Parks and Beach
Thousands of Waterloo residents enjoyed public parks and the Cedar River beach with over 1,000 bathers and 250 in water amid hot weather. Chautauqua Park hosted Evangelical camp meetings drawing about 2,000 attendees. Auto traffic surged on Independence Avenue with cars every five minutes, while parks, ball games, and picnics filled the day as park officials plan improvements for next year.
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la Rus
Des Moines
Cedar River Park
Waterloo
Park Commissioners
Chautauqua Park
Evangelical Association
T Em
Electric Park
Prospect Park
Independence Avenue
Heart Breakers at the Waterloo Tonight
Amusements notes describe Manager Mort H Singer presenting The Heart Breakers at Waterloo with a fifty-strong company and a praised chorus. Songs include My Honolulu Honey Lou and If I had a Hundred Hearts. The two-act piece tours from New York to Adi randacks. Also listed are Edgar Selwyn's orient play The Arab opening Monday, plus Electric Park season finale and Labor Day events with athletics and vaudeville.
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Mort H. Singer
the Waterloo
Honolulu
Lou
New York
Munger Castle
The
Adirandacks
Carnival Vaudeville Opens With Daring Acts At Majestic
At the Majestic theatre the new vaudeville season starts with a strong bill. The Chartres Holliday company presents An Amnsae Honeymoon with scenic effects and dancing. The Ebr Troupe performs a death defying Cage of Hazard act. Carl Randall and others provide varied entertainment. No arrests were made during the city’s carnival games. The Democrats of the Twelfth judicial district plan a convention on Aug 28 to nominate a district court judge. The James Gardiner company markets real estate rentals and insurance. Brady War Pictures are featured in the Waterloo Evening Courier sixteen part series.
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Vaudelille
Chartres-Holliday A
Amnsae
Thandeme Wardrabbe
Alaska
Stene Tin
Ebr
Motorcveles
Monahats
Luce
Poverty Instrumen
Aulidt Miebald
Herald
Carl Randall
Carl Randalls
Boston
Jonka
Monte Charies City
Ang
Walker
Sheriff H
Jur Meinl
District Court
Fox Township Weather Cites Bumper Corn Prospects
In Fox Township Aug 22 residents report abundant fall rainfall boosting corn prospects if frosts stay late. Farmers prepare for sweet rain harvest as shock threshing nears completion with many machines operated. A note on local farming tasks and upcoming harvest activity appears amid sporadic storm mentions.
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Fox Two
Frank Younghlur
J. P. Bearnone
Tom Wester
Ravi
Sundar
Lloyd George to be invited to visit the United States
The article reports plans to invite former British prime minister David Lloyd George to visit the United States next year. Details on dates or recipients are not specified, but the outreach reflects ongoing diplomatic engagement between Britain and the United States in the postwar era.
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Lloyd-George
United States
Welsh festival may host Lloyd George in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh officials say British chancellor David Lloyd George may preside at two Welsh international festival sessions here next summer. Secretary Robert H. Davis failed to invite him previously, but Welsh organizers expect a visit in July during the first week of the Pittsburgh convention.
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Pittsburgh
David Lloyd-George
Robert H. Davis
Pittsburgh Eisteddfod Association
Lioyd- George
Wales
America
Eisteddfod
Wiloyd-George
Deny Roosevelt Early Hearing Delays Penrose Action
Washington Aug 26 Progressive senators press for adoption of the broadened Penrose resolution. Col Theodore Roosevelt will not be examined by the senate subcommittee until late September. Roosevelts requestto appear today to deny Standard Oil campaign contributions in 1904 was refused. Senators press the measure amid filibuster tactics as quorum issues stall action.
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Washington, D. C
Theodore Roosevelt
Senate
Poindhester
Borah
la Follette
Penrose
Crane
Congress
Massachusetts
Heyburn
Bailey
Townsend
Michigan
Col. Roosevelt
Smoot
Plums Ripen as 200 Bushels Expected at Westphal Nursery
Julius Westphal's Mt. Vernon nursery displays heavy plum crops with over 200 bushels ripening, signaling a market glut and anticipated lower prices. Growers Teal and Brown distribute market placards to identify produce sellers. Drought dampens melon yields. C E Brown reports watermelons half of last year, though muskmelons promise better later.
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Henry Frost
C. E. Brown
Cedar Falls
Mr. Brown
Julius Westphal
Mt. Vernon Township
Formulas to Eradicate Hogs Worms Promoted at Picnic
W J Kennedy of Iowa State College in Ames sent the worm elimination formulas to the Courier after a Janesville farmers picnic. The hog dose uses santonin areca nut calomel and salts with instructions for 100-lb pigs, with 18 hours fasting and a repeat dose. A preventive mixture combines Glaubers salts salsoda copperas common salt sulfur and is priced at 2 to 3 cents per pound in bulk.
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W. J. Kennedy
Iowa State College
Ames
The
Courier
Janesville
Harter property auction at 3 PM August 31 1912 Waterloo Iowa
Auctioneer K Noland offers residence No R32 Williston Ave West Waterloo near West Ninth street car line. House features five main rooms and bath room on a 36 by 127 foot lot in a good neighborhood. Immediate possession, part cash with easy payments. Also lot No 364 Galloway first sub-division Waterloo offered with one third cash and easy terms.
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Williston Ave
West Waterloo
Town
Harter
West Ninth Street
Galloway
Waterloo
Iowa
K. Noland
Pettit Family Injured in Rockford Meeting
Pettit family returned from a visit with Mr and Mrs John Kizer at Rockford. They spent the summer at Lake Wino na Ind. in Rockford Mrs Pettit sprained her foot stepping off a street car and may take two to three weeks to heal.
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Pettit
John Kizer
Rockford
Merchants Seek Greater Trade Volume This Fall
Henry Clews reports that crops, especially wheat and corn, are set to be large this year, boosting farm incomes and purchasing power. Railways fear traffic congestion unless shippers boost volume, while prices rise and money markets harden. Exports and imports show a rare trade balance reversal, with rubber and other goods driving higher imports despite breadstuff declines.
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Northwest
Water levies for past seven years in city limits
A historical note lists water tax levies over seven years. In 1911 the levy was three mills on all property. In 1910 it was three mills. 1904 to 1909 levies ranged from two to three mills within the water district and fire district.
School Children Coupons Advise Week's Wa Page
Fragmentary note mentions school children and coupons with a reference to a page 3 coupon. No clear names or places available to confirm specifics.
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