Hotel Finance Plans Progress Amid Odd Claims and Suits
Emma Wiggin sues for divorce from George G. Wiggin alleging cruelty and adultery. She seeks custody of three children, permanent alimony, and maintenance funds, while detailing his departure with another woman to Omaha. An Injury suit asks $5,000 from the city for a fall on a public walk. Multiple note suits follow as plans advance for a seven story hotel in Waterloo with 870 lots to be sold at $400 each and staggered payments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Wiggin
George G. Wiggin
Des Moines
Charles City
Omaha
Annie Overton
Fourth Street
East
Stotts
F. A. Schroder
Stolla
H. B. Sellack
H. B. Sellack Et al., $500. EB. &, Stotts
William Fairfield
Cedar Rapids Auto and Supply Co
Adolph Closz
Cedar Rapids Auto and Supply Ca
Ve. C
Gladstone
Fifth and
Jefferson Streets
Janney
W. W. Majors
Northwestern Land and Investment Company
Mercantile Warehouse Company
Hagerman Place
Downing Place
James E. Sedgwick
Waterloo
Frost Visible On Low Ground In Wa terton Township
Supervisor W. Virden reports seeing white frost on the lowland near his Wa terton township home this morning. The thermometer was 44 on higher land, while frost was plainly visible on the dead grass in the lower ground. No damage is expected from the frost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Virden
Waterton Township
Burned unruly horse trader jailed for cruelty
A traveling horse trader in Pipestone County will spend ninety days in Dundee jail after pouring gasoline on an unruly horse and setting it alight. The animal suffered severe burns and had to be killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pipestone
Minn
Dundee
United Doctors Dear Patients Advice Plea From An Advert
A historical notice touts the United Doctors in Marsh Place offering free examinations and refunds if not cured. A patient letter from Mrs. A. A. Parker praises their treatment and urges others with long standing diseases to seek care, saying doctors are honest about cures or failures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. A. Parker
Marsh Place
Buffalo Bill Wild West Show Declared Circus
Kansas City officials rule the Buffalo Bill Wild West exhibition a circus and thus ban the labor day performance under city ordinance. The industrial council intends to enforce the ban and prevent the traveling troupe from appearing on Labor Day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Industrial Council
Winnipeg Papers Detail Capture of Smith and Mecum
Mrs. Peter Rivera has received Manitoba Free Press reports from Winnipeg detailing the capture of Smith and Mecum, two Iowa youths described as brothers, after their escape attempt at Anamosa. The papers include their pictures and note a chase following Mecum’s shooting of Guard Hamaker as he rescued Smith from the reformatory. Full particulars of the Winnipeg capture and the fatal shooting of a constable are given elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Rivera
Manitoba Free Press
Winnipeg
Smith
Mecum
Anamosa
Iowa
Regal 30 Touring Car Promises Value Investment
The Regal 30 five passenger touring car priced at $1000 claims superior value with low upkeep and strong performance. It highlights reliability across 48 states, 10,000+ units in operation, and a growing dealer network, urging buyers to compare and test before purchase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Regal
Death of Belle Cadwallader Former Janesville Resident
Former Janesville resident Belle Cadwallader died last night at her sister Mrs. W Eddy’s home 1109 Sycamore street Waterloo after a period of illness including tonsillitis. Pneumonia caused her death. She was born in Evansville Wis and lived in Janesville over thirty years before moving to Waterloo. Survived by her mother Mrs Mary Cadwallader a brother M W Cadwallader of Waterloo and a cousin Mrs J E Jonnyson of Waterloo. Short services will be held Wednesday at 3 am at Dr Eddy’s home conducted by Rev Walter H Rollins with burial in Janesville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belle Cadwallader
Janesville
JW. Eddy
Sycamore Street
Miss Cadwallader
Evansville
Wis
Mary Cadwallader
Waterloo
Eddy
M. W. Cadwallader
J. E. Jonnyson
Cadwallader
Methodist Church
Flist Congregational Church
Eddy On
Walter H. Rollins
Pedagogue Walters Seeks Game Hunts For Museum Study
Prof. G. W. Walters of the Cedar Falls State Teachers College obtained a hunter’s license this morning. He enjoys Saturday outings to hunt game and carries a special permit from the Game Warden Lincoln authorizing collection for the college museum. Walters has long been a pedagogy and psychology instructor and is noted for his outspoken faculty presence and broad state-wide circle of friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. W. Walters
State
Teachers’ College
Cedar Falls
Lincoln
Walters
Prisoners Receive Final Release From Iowa Penitentiaries
Official discharges from Governor Carroll release Ed Foley of Black Hawk County after a February 1908 forgery sentence at the Treformatory and Frank Miller of the same county after a spring 1904 rape sentence at Fort Madison. Foley paroled July 30, 1910 and Miller August 8, 1910. Both cited as model citizens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll
Black Hawk County
Ed. Foley
Treformatory
Frank Miller
Fort Madison
Death of Mrs. W. M. Brooks in Spokane
Waterloo friends mourn the death of Mrs. W. M. Brooks, mother of Mrs. Place Myers, who died at her Spokane home Saturday after a stroke a week earlier. Survived by husband and three daughters, with Mrs. Myers likely to stay in the West for some time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Place Myers
W. M. Brooks
Spokane
Wash
Plum Orchard 15 Best in 70 Years at Fairbairn Farm
A Fruit exhibit at W. C. Fairbairn farm south of town on Eagle Center road features Waterloo Prolific and Miner plum trees loaded with red fruit. Fairbairn, with sixty years in nursery work, notes unprecedented bearing this year. Some branches bend to the ground. one Miner branch weighs about forty pounds of plums. Twenty-five bushels have been picked and sold. over 109 bushels remain to be gathered. Plums weigh about an ounce each and sell for a dollar per bushel. The farm also bears large apples and a small garden corner leased to a cousin yields beans and vegetables, illustrating gardening income near Waterloo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. C. Fairbairn
Paf Town
Eagle Cenater
Waterloo
Fairbairn
Maywood Cottage Raid Leads to Vagrancy Charge
Police visited the Maywood cottage in Chautauqua park arresting Nellie Grant age 43 on a state vagrancy charge. She is to appear before Judge Caldwell at 9 am Wednesday. Neighbors are subpoenaed as witnesses. the case draws local interest. Keith Crowthers, general timekeeper of the Illinois Central, returned from a vacation through Colorado and the West.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maywood
Chautauqua Park
Nellie Grant
Maywood Cottage
Keith Crowthers
Milnois Central
Colorado
Prairie Schooner Birth and Iowan Pioneer Dies After Illness
Mason B. Cottrell, 64, longtime Marion county resident, died at Soldiers Home Hospital after a long illness and multiple operations for a disorder. Born Feb 27 1847 amid a prairie schooner in Rees Pela, Iowa, he built and lost a fortune in land ventures, served in Company L Ninth Iowa Cavalry, and returned from Atlantic with his wife Aug 21 1907. Survived by wife, two sons Lyle of Sumas Washington and E G Cottrell of Weteree, and daughter Maude Brown of Denver, along with C H Cottrell family members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshalltown
Mases B. Cottrell
Marion County
Soldiers Home Hospital
Mr. Cottrel
Mr. Cottrell
Cottrell
Iowa
Mason
Rees Pela
Cottrel
Ninth
Iowa Cavalry
Prairie City
Little Rock
Ark
Atlantic
Lyle Cottrell
Sumas Wash
G. Cottrell
Weteree
Maude Brown
Denver
Cole
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Claims Hasband
Geo. D. Wiggin
Black Hawk Co. Abstract Co
United States
Gustavus B. Easte Taan
Frank J. Eighmey
H. G. Doege
Block
Blower’s
C. N
Noggle
Horace Gilbert
West Waterloo
Riverview Development Co
M. J. Sookup
Riverview
Lizzie M. Grosse
R. A. Howe
Johanne H. Pommer
John Zanoni
Prospect Heights
C. D. Pedersen
R. C. Pedersen
Home Park
B. T. Steuben
Elizabeth Vc
Brinkman
Buckingham Place
Galloway-Gibson Investment Co
J. E. Brinkman
Prospect
H. M. Bandfield
Et al
Earl Hook
Linden Place
BE. Sedgwick
Ellen Gilbert
Woodlawn Addition
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Woodlawn
RE. M. Shores
Smith, Lichty & Hillman Co
United Doctors
Buffalo Bill
Mulberry St
Glide Auto CO
Waterloo, Iowa
Mrs. W. Eddy
Plum Orchard
Prairie Schooner
C. H. Om
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