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Newspaper

Waterloo Evening Courier

Location

Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 05, 1921

Page

3

Nine Soft Drink Parlors Raided by Sheriff Wagner

Sheriff H. T. Wagner led about 25 officers in raids on nine soft drink parlors at 4 05 p m Saturday citing evidence from a judicial investigation. No proprietors were arrested. minor liquor quantities found in a few locations. The office holds the seized liquor as the investigation continues with county attorney action to follow.

H. T. Wagner Wagner Charles Gentle Barton Thomas Fifth Street Claire Ludden Commercial Street Alva J. White Water Street O. J. McManus J. L Jolly Fifth Street West Jagsk

Salvation Army Tag Day Nets $382 For Fund

Tag day conducted by the Salvation Army on Saturday raised 381.98 dollars adding to a budget total of 6,103.59 cash. Workers in Cedar Falls in full uniform solicited. canvass nearly closes the budget. Funds will support relief work and Christmas baskets. separate canvass planned for the Christmas fund. Adjt LaPlount notes basket expenses cannot be drawn from the other fund.

Salvation Army Army Cedar Falls Adjt LaPlount

Beck Suffers Severe Pains After Scaffold Fall

Frank W. Beck injured in a fall from a scaffold last Thursday afternoon at about eight feet. He remains in severe pain at Presbyterian hospital. Doctors held consultations at 10 p m yesterday and this morning. Five more X rays were taken but showed no fractures. Attending physician fears possible internal injuries. Beck is brother of Mrs Mose Frank who died in the same hospital last Saturday.

Frank W. Beck Presbyterian Hospital Beck Mr. Beck Mose Frank

Real Estate Auction On Delinquent Taxes At Courthouse

More than 40 men attended the sale of delinquent real estate in the small courthouse room led by county treasurer Ed Madigan. The sale began at 10 a.m. and may continue tomorrow due to a long list of parcels and no bids being received. between 3000 and 4000 parcels are to be offered. A. I. Bunn read the delinquent list as deputy treasurer. Rainbow Veterans King Marson post will meet at Memorial hall at 8 p.m. today, with the Rainbow circle also meeting there.

Washington, D. C Congress Dawes Legislative Rteessia State Department Treasury Department War Department Panama Canal Navy Department Postofice Department of Agriculture Department of Commerce Department of Justice and Judicial Shipping Board and Set Corporation United States Veteranns’ Bureau Railroad Administration and Trans District of Columb Civil-service Columbia Teachers’ Retirement Fund Ed Madigan A. I. Bunn Rainbow King Marson Rainbow Veterans Memorial Hall Rainbow Circle

Garden Theatre Blaze Destroys Building and Organ

Fire at the Garden Theatre, rear section, damages interior and partially installed pipe organ valued at 7500, with total loss estimated at 27000. Building not insured. organ partly insured. Origin undisclosed, started under stage near organ. electrical work recent but not active. Owner H L McMurray, Legoner, Pa. local agent Norman M Beekly.

Garden Theatre H. L. McMurray Waterloo Ligoner Norman M. Beekly Commercial Street Beekly

Fire destroys Garden theatre organ and sparks local losses

The Cremona Organ company delivered an organ in Chicago that was unpacked Saturday and set up under supervision, but a fire destroyed the instrument. First payment of 600 was made by Alexander Frank, the Garden theatre leaseholder. The fire also impacts nearby theatres, with the Majestic closed for alterations and Plaza rebuilding underway after weeks of earlier theatre fires in Waterloo.

R. D. Colvin Alexander Frank Garden Cremona Organ Company Chicago Frank Plaza First Methodist Church Garden Theatre Majestic Waterloo Crystal

Football player Lloyd Dean suffers torn ligaments

An X-ray at St Francis hospital shows ligaments around Lloyd Deans hip torn and badly bruised from yesterdays Cedar River park game between Waterloo Athletic Club and Moline Indians. Dean walked off but had to be carried home to 76 Mulberry street and will rest for several days.

Lloyd Dean Cedar River Park Waterloo Athletic Club Moline Indians St. Francis Hospital Altho Dean Mulberry Street

Ruth Barnstorming Jolt Shocks Baseball World

United Press reports Babe Ruth and fellow Yankees Bill Piercey and Bob Meusel were fined their World Series shares and suspended until May 20, 1922 for exhibition games after the World Series. Landis warned Ruth against barnstorming. he later answered a landis questionnaire that influenced the ruling.

United Press Chicago Babe Ruth Homerun King K. M. Landis Ruth Bill Piercey Bob Meusel Yankee Landis

Flag and Country School Themes for Education Week

Waterloo schools emphasize Education Week with National Education Association and American Legion National Americanism commission plans. Observation spans December 4 to 10. Superintendents 4H L Lee and C W Kline have outlined programs to principals.

Waterloo National Education Association American Legion National Americanism Commission L Lee C. W. Kline

Cascarets Ad Promote Digestive Candy Pledge

A vintage ad touts Cascarets as a candy like laxative promising gentle relief by morning. It extols education value and patriotism while claiming to cleanse bowels without griping or stirring digestion. It targets children and mentions a ten cent per box price.

Amer Mylis Republic

Fragmented 1930s notes on flag history and public events

A string of brief items from Washington and other cities references flag history and etiquette, figures like Washington Jefferson Hamilton and Adams, Americaism programs, a Lost Battalion commander, pogrom reports in western Ukraine, a tariff referendum, labor picketing plans, railroad board comments, a court restraint on UMWA officers, unemployment trends, and prohibition apathy remarks.

Jslands Washington Jeferson Hamilton Adams Becker-Chapman Post American’ S Legion Mander New York Ukraine Washington, DC Chamber of Commerce of the United States of Lye Detroit Mich White House Capitol Chicago Ben W. Hooper Railroad Labor Board Kansas City Samuel A. Dewees John L. Lewis International Presiden United Mine Workers To America District 14 D W D. C Labor Department United States Washington, D.C Prohibitio Haynes

Telegraph briefs from Havre and beyond

Havre ship builder Charles W Morse plans to return to the United States today under an order from Attorney General Daugherty. In Illinois, lawyers for Gov Len Small and banker Vernon Curtis prepared to begin a fight to save them from trial on conspiracy and embezzlement charges. Unconfirmed reports from Washington note Japanese delegates pushed for extending the Chinese consortium as a substitute for the Anglo Japanese alliance. London Irish committee gathered at Premier Lloyd George’s residence to discuss Irish situation phases. Toledo reports six drownings after an automobile plunged over a river embankment. Pensacola yacht Glendoveer explosion results in one death, one missing, two injured. New York memorial services for Col. Charles W Whittlesey attended by about one thousand people.

Associated Preas Havre Charles W. Morse United States Daugherty London Lloyd George Toledo Pensacola Fla New York Charles W. Whittlesey

Mother of Senator Underwood Dies in Alabama

Mrs Frederica Virginia Underwood mother of Senator Oscar Underwood Alabama died at her son Fred V Underwood Sr home early today from heart trouble in Birmingham.

Associated Press Birmingham Ala Frederica Virginia Underwood Oscar Underwood Alabama Fred V. Underwood

Also Mentioned on This Page

Waterloo Insurance Agency Lamar J. Duke Lafayette Iowa F. W. Beck The RETEN Bridge Street Flag Safe Insurance Inurance Agency Cascarets Senator Underwood Sive Waterloo
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