Uncle Harry Discusses New Session of Congress Today
Uncle Harry narrates the opening of the second session of the sixty-sixth Congress and debates the fate of the treaty with Germany. He explains two thirds Senate approval required, possible reservations, and the option of a separate peace if ratification fails. The dialogue names Wilson, the League, and ongoing postwar questions.
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Harry
Senate
House of Representatives
Uncle Harry
United States Congress
Joeaughing
Congress
Wade Harry
Washington
Germany
Helen
League
League of Nations
Wilson
Jimmy
Christmas Seals Placed On Sale In Waterloo
Red Cross Christmas seals go on sale in Waterloo to raise funds against tuberculosis. Aim is 350000 stamps at 1 cent Each person to receive 10 stamps per capita with 500 letters mailed. Local funds stay 65 percent. 70 percent if per capita target met. 60 percent if only seven stamps per person. Officials list volunteers and booth managers.
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Red Cross
Cay
Marian Chapman- McCoy
Waterloo Association
Waterloo
Local births and estate transfers reveal Cedar Falls and Waterloo notices
Notices report births to Leslie and Mangin families in November and transfers of property in Waterloo and Cedar Falls. Included are deeds from Stroebel to Claus ing and Lamson to Teter, with parcel details and price hints, plus a remark on Chinese coal fields’ vast value and idle status in Gun an province.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mere Estate Transferes
Black Hawk County Abstract Co
S. Stroebel
Carl Clausing
Seash Park Pidition
Waterto
Jalvis Jensen
Danish Baptist Church of
Cedar Falls
Pacific Addition
Cedar Walt” Key Auesae
C. Lamson
J. R. Teter
Kenwood Park Addition
Waterloo
A. B
China
Gunan
Hias
Don’t Be a Misery Factory Cascarets Advertisement
A period advertisement urges readers to cleanse the liver and bowels with Cascarets to relieve headaches coated tongue nausea and insomnia. It contrasts Cascarets with harsher laxatives and claims the product works while you sleep without griping or inconvenience.
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Gabriel
Mitla
Disfigured War Veteran Fails in Love After Jilt
Roy Canby of Portage, Wisconsin, disfigured by Mustard gas and a shell wound, attempted suicide after his sweetheart Gertrude Givens of Howells Nebraska refused to marry him. He had served in the Canadian army, was wounded in France, and later faced mental distress after the breakup.
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Council Bluffs
Gertrude Givens
Howells
Neb
Roy Canby
Portage
Wis
Canby
Samuel Schmeling
France
Miss Givens
Nebraska
March
Lolaw
Schmelting
Orca
Liberty Bond
Red Cross
United States
Germany
Hayes Healing Hondy Stop Throat Tickle Ad
An advertisement touts Hayes Healing Hondy as a remedy for throat tickle and early cold symptoms. It claims the syrup heals the throat and banishes coughing with a price of 35 cents per bottle.
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HAYES
Buliard Tournament Results At Chamber of Commerce
In the chamber of commerce billiard handicap event on Saturday Herman C. Miller scored 100 and Milo Miller 60 while Harry Dunkelberg posted 82 and D J Moore 40. High runs included 11 by C Pieres A Lovejoy and D J Walker 10. Miller, George B Miller and George F Scalas each had 9.
Thanksgiving dinner for county inmates from generous donors
The Church of the Brethren in Orange township inspired a spirit of thanksgiving that reached Mt. Vernon township and the county home with 30 inmates and the county hospital with 59 inmates. A large delivery of eatables arrived by auto the day before Thanksgiving including chickens cakes pies sandwiches apples cranberries pickles and more. Steward Glenn W. Morris thanked the donors saying he had never expected such generosity from people so far away.
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Church of the Brethren of
Orange Township
Mt. Vernon Township
Glenn W. Morris
Mr. Morris
Edwin H. Sands to speak on housing law in Waterloo
The council of social agencies invites the public to a 8 p.m. lecture in the new high school auditorium by Edwin H. Sands state inspector of the new housing law. Waterloo is one of 15 Iowa cities where the law is in force. He will discuss mining camps housing conditions and Americanizing residents while preserving health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council of Social Agencies
Edwin H. Sands
Waterloo
Iowa
Congress to debate railroads return amid unrest
A reader notes the coming session will tackle the peace treaty and questions over restoring railroads to private management, alongside issues like the army and navy, high air costs, strikes, and unrest tied to industrial conditions. The column mentions Uncle Marty answering inquiries by letter with full names and addresses hidden.
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Army
Congress
Uncle Marty
Seeds Robert S Seeds Delivers Farm Talk At Orange Township
Robert S Seeds former humorist of Birmingham Pa spoke at the Orange township consolidated school during the second lecture in the course. The hall was packed. He described building on a wornout Pennsylvania farm and selling soil for $1.50 a bushel and noted the state employed him to tell that story. He presented three lectures: How God made the Soil Fertile, Influence of the Home, and Mistakes of Life Exposed.
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Robert S. Seeds
Birmingham
Consolidated School
Orange Township
Seeds
Pennsylvania
Passenger Trains Dark After Lighting Failure
Passengers on a Chicago Great Western northbound train arriving at 9 40 p m rode in darkness from Marshalltown to Oelwein after the lighting system failed. The crew had no substitute lamps and relied on lantern light. Ida Surtees deputy county superintendent was a passenger from Marshalltown to Waterloo.
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Chicago Great Western
Marshalltown
Oelwein
Ida Surtees
Waterloo
Engineers in Iowa Must Be Registered New Law Provides
Waterloo Technical society warns engineers in Iowa to register with the state board of examiners under the new law. Two years of practice permits registration without examination, after which tests are required. The examiners board, based in Des Moines, enforces strict penalties for unregistered practice and invites applications from K. C. Kastberg, Des Moines.
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Iowa
Waterloo Technical Society
Atate
General Assembly
Jowe
Board of Examiners
Des Moines
K. C. Kastberg
Hunters buy over one hundred licenses at Rock Island station
Agents report more than 100 tickets sold to hunters yesterday at Rock Island station with many bound for Reinbeck and Hicks. Bucks show bags of rabbits and two badgers are listed as trophies for Tom Wren.
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Floyd Peterbon
Rock Island Station
Reinbeck
Hicks
Tom Wren
Local Marriage Licenses Rise in November
The clerk of courts records show 86 marriage licenses issued in November. The latest license was No. 16 830.
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Cupid
Ofice
Clerk of Courts
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Will Bickley
Grace Friend
May Wangler
J. E. Ridenour
J. L. Jones
J. T. Muldoon
L. C. Hems- Worth
A. G. Jaeger
H.C. Moeller
Frank Leslie Marquis
Seventh West
Robert William
Richard Charles
William J. Mangin
Broadway
Robert John
Janes McLaughlin
Dr. Edwards
Ohio
F.M Edwards
DR. Chase
U. S
Department of Agriculture
the Wolf Chemical Co. Department
la Salle St
Jowa
Cre-Sol Chemical CO
Guthrie Center
Des Moines and
Wangler Drug Company
Schuneman Drug Company
Basen Bros
Flow and Feed
Henderson Drug Company
Renner Tea Company
KR. Shvinhardt
Frank Clute
BP. Jepson
Iilloway Brothers & Loomis
M. Holt
Hershberger Bros
B. A Thang
L. L. Diekiman & Company
Bere Dre
H, H. Koeneke
Glen C. Brown
Dunham & Lohner
A. Berger & Son
Coonrod Brothers
O. EB
Stinchart
Modern Grocery
J. Ackerman
Hansen & Hansen
Moore & Moore
Ssa
Milton
Aynadtaersy Company
Edar’ Falls
Grove
Doan
West Eighth Street
J. E. Armstrong
Dean
Wangler Bros. Drug Co
Vinton Street
Chas. Bruwn
Vinton St
Devan
East Oak Avenue
Phebe Parsons
East Oak Ave
Maple Leaf
Jas. Doan
Lafayette Street
H. EB. Nemmers
Lafayette St
F. E. Moffitt
Almond St
Foster-Milburn Co
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