Webster's New Standard Dictionary comes to Waterloo
Waterloo Evening Courier promotes Webster's New Standard Dictionary claiming it as the most complete dictionary with color illustrations and 650 color plates. The ad details six-pubs with bibLe-paper printing, phonetic pronunciations, simplified spelling, and an encyclopedic scope including the 1910 census and historical documents.
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Noah Webster
Waterloo Evening Courier
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Simplified
Board of Simplified Spelling
Oslerize
Professor Osler
United States
Official flirt too gaudy fired in Los Angeles
Miss Fay Evans, told by Chief of Police Sebastian she was dismissed after four more men were convicted for attempting to mask her. She had reported harassment by men following her and offered to help police curb the nuisance. The chief noted her attire as flashy and potentially attracting crowds.
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Los ‘Angeles
Cal
Fay Evans
Sebastian
Yrestembar
Rise in Sugar Cranks Up Prices in New York Market
In New York on August 31 standard granulated sugar rose and all refined grades climbed 106 cents per hundredweight. The move reflects broader gains in sugar prices across these grades today.
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New York
28 Caught in Police Dragnet in Municipal Court Arrests
The municipal court before Judge Caldwell heard 205 August cases over 31 days. Fines ranged from 2 to 100 dollars. sentences from two to thirty days. many confined on the streets or paroled. Causes of arrest included drunkenness eighteen dozen and vagrancy with numerous other offenses.
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Caldwell
Administratrix sues for 4850 in district court
Mrs. Caro Ryan executrix of Nellie A. Holbrook seeks 4850 plus interest from E. C. Litchfield for a May 23 1910 contract. She alleges three payments totaling 100, demand letters ignored, and requests judgment with 6 percent interest from Aug 28 1911. Household remarriage and an estate lacking assets noted. Also a social event at the Schmidt residence hosted for visiting Misses Schmidt and Linnie Hanneman.
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Caro Ryan
Nellie A. Holbrook
E. C. Litchfield
Ara Ryan
Irving Street
F. C. Platt
Nowill
Holbrook
Mary
Emma Schmidt
Independence Avenue
Linnie Hanneman
Logan
W. B. Schmidt
Hecht
North Waterloo rail workers attend Ackley picnic
A large North Waterloo delegation of railroad men travels to Ackley for the annual Sauer-Krant picnic. Attendees include machinist apprentices Harry McCormick Fred Kurth William Kurth Frank Harte Henry Winniger and others. Traveling Auditor Peabody checked inventory in the store department yesterday. An Atchison Topeka Santa Fe locomotive built in Topeka is 126 feet long with 20 driving wheels weighing 50 000 pounds and cost 43884.
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North Waterloo Railroad
Ackley
Harry McCormick
Fred Kurth
William Kurth
Frank Harte
Henry Winniger
William Eagle
Frank Grunwald
John Stallman
Mike Seiffert
David Roblin
Joseph J. Maleski
W. W. Wagner
Fuller
C. W. Anderson
Charles City
101 Ranch Show
I. C
Iowa Falls
Indians Gather for Great Rosebud Religious Meet
Mitchell S D August 31 The year’s largest Indian religious gathering will be held near Rosebud September 6 to 19. Sisseton Fine Ridge Sioux and Cheyenne agencies send delegates. 8000 expected from Dakotas Nebraska and Montana. Cattle for meat. women fund missionary work. Presbyterians and Congregationalists meet in separate sessions.
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Mitchell
S. D
India State
Rosebud, & C
Sisseton
Fine Ridge
Sioux
Cheyenne
North
South Dakotas
Nebraska
Montana
Rosebud
Presbyterian Indians
Congregational Association
Geneteral
MLC. Aa
Move to reopen Still College of Osteopathy in Des Moines
A campaign to reopen Still college of osteopathy, recently announced as permanently closed, began in Des Moines with a meeting of the old faculty and twenty former students. Plans for a new college government were discussed as osteopaths from across the United States rally to support the school. Notable attendees included Dr. Jerry Hossess of Kansas City Dr. M. A. Littlejohn of Chicago and Dr. W. B. Carpenter of Los Angeles.
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Des Moines
College of Osteopathy
United States
Jerry Hossess
Kansas City
M. A. Littlejohn
Chicago
W. B. Carpenter
Los Angeles
Governor Aids Female Mayor in Hunnewell Conflict
Gov. Stubbs ordered C. W. Trickett to assist Mrs. Ella Wilson the Hunnewell mayor in her clash with the city council. Trickett, former Wyandotte county attorney general, will assess legal rights to ensure a good and efficient city government. He previously enforced prohibition law in Kansas City.
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Trickett
Kansas City
Kan
Sells Carload of Seed for Eight Thousand Dollars
Halleck Minn August 31 A L Briggs sold a wagonload of timothy seed from this year’s crop for 850 He recently sold a carload of seed to a Minneapolis buyer for 8000 and has a large remaining inventory Briggs is a retired merchant who moved from Colorado two years ago He has just harvested 700 acres of timothy that will net about 39000.
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Halleck
Minn
A. L. Briggs
Briggs
Minneapolis
Colorado
Picnic marks Young People's Union plans and dinner
A Waterloo YPUs social committee event at the Y gym drew strong turnout despite moved venue. S H Liljestrand outlined plans for The World in Waterloo exposition and Armenian student Christie Tokas spoke on the Greek problem. A Men and Religion banquet tomorrow at 6:50 pm features A B T Moore Cedar Rapids Gideon president. Grant and Hughes notable in Friday auto races.
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Young People’s Union
Lafayette Park
S. H. Liljestrand
Waterloo
Christie Tokas
University of Chicago
St. Paul's Church
A. B. T. Moore
Gideon Society
Moore
Cedar Rapids
Last Survivor of Mill Creek and Deer Creek Indians Captured
In Chico California a sixty year old survivor of the Mill Creek and Deer Creek tribes was captured two miles from Oroville while attempting to steal meat. Starved and unresponsive, he wore a sleeveless canvas shirt and clawed meat with his hands. Indian survivors could not talk with him as the tribes were obliterated in the early 1860s battles.
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Chico
Cal
Ave
Mill Creek
Deer Creek
California
Oroville
Feather River
Elgin National Trophy Race Sets New Course Record
Len Zengel won the Elgin National Trophy on a National car and set a new course record by averaging 66.42 miles per hour over 305 miles. Ralph Mulford, the previous year's winner, averaged 62.5 miles per hour in the same event. Har- is mentioned in Saturday's contest.
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Grant
Hugh Hughes
Alco
Hughes
Mercer
Zengel
Len Zengel
Ralph Mulford
Har
Fire Works at Labor Day Show At Electric Park
The Labor day finale at Electric Park features a monster fireworks display with over one hundred numbers crafted by Gregory Fireworks of Chicago. Work on the display is nearing completion for Monday evening as a special pre Labor Day show Friday promises strong crowds.
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Labor Day
Electric Park
Chicago
Gregory Fireworks Company
Bank Clearings and Realty Transfers for Black Hawk County
Waterloo weekly bank clearings totaled 1 097 205.31 with daily figures listed and last year’s week at 1 629 738.14. Realty transfers show 29 deeds totaling 347 498.46 and mortgages 30 totaling 97 100. Include chattel mortgages 0 2 413.75 and mortgages released 0 23 175. Instruments recorded to date 4 529 vs 4 824 last year, a decrease of 295.
Community Notices From Walnut Street Baptist Church Events
The Agoga executive board meets Friday evening in the class room. Royal Neighbors plan a Friday country outing with a park meet at 96 oclock and a picnic dinner. Lincoln Circle Ladies of the G A R meet Friday at 2 30 pm in the Pythian temple. Lady Maccabees No 37 host a thimble bee at Mrs Sircey 414 Thompson Ave Friday Sept 1. Four men enjoy a day’s outing at Ackley on vacation from Illinois Central shops.
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Agoga
Walnut Street Baptist Church
Lincoln Circle
Pythian Temple
Lady Maccabees
Sircey
Thompson Avenue
Baseball Fans Meet Tonight in Waterloo Club Rooms
President H. B. Maynard and the Waterloo Baseball Association directors call a special meeting at 8 oclock this evening to discuss boosting the season attendance to 35,000. Five thousand paid admissions are still needed to hit the target, which would strengthen Waterloo for next year’s league considerations and bids before the national commission. Concert by Miss Kuittle and Miss Marsh Friday at First M. E. church.
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H. B. Maynard
Waterloo Baseball Association
Waterloo
National Commission
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Ole i
North Waterloo
Still College
Ste Mente
Marth
Plannet
A.B. T. Moore
Gideon
Burkett & Pedicord
Arci'ts
XEW Automobile Record
Elgin, m
Black Hawk County Abstract Co
Waterloo Bank
Anton Harter
Herbert Wahl
Wm. Kurth
Frank Harter
Illinois Central
Stolt Bros
Commercial St
Miss Kuittle
Misa
Marsh
M. E. Church
First
Nat'l Bank Bldg
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