Trains cut back across Waterloo region begin Monday
Railroads announce drastic cuts in passenger service across Waterloo and surrounding lines. Chicago Great Western and Rock Island routes are reduced with multiple trains discontinued and sleepers moved to different services, while Illinois Central awaits orders and others maintain minimal operation amid coal shortages and fuel conservation. Mail service will be affected, delaying Christmas mail rush and prompting warnings to mail early.
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Chicago Great Western
Waterloo
Chicago
Oelwein
Des Moines
Chicago Sleeper, Which Has Been Handled By No. 55, Will Now, Be Carried By No
Twin Cities
Tock Island
Whierloo
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Cedar Rapids
Minnearolis
Burlington
Manly
St. Louis
Ilinois Central
Ilinois
Poslar
M. H. Kelly
Pope receives New York milk relief head in audience
In Rome on Friday December 5 Pope Benedict XV welcomed Mrs. John Adams Drake of New York City, president of the American Free Milk and Relief for Italy Society. He congratulated her on her work supplying milk to Italian children and invalids and her group will supply milk to a tuberculosis sanatorium near Rome.
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Associated Press
Rome
Pope
Benedict
John Adams | Drake
New York City
American Free Milk and Relief For Italy Society
Waterworks Saves Coal As Heat Users Curtail
Voluntary curtailment of heat from the Municipal Waterworks plant promises big coal savings. Institutions except Jilingis Central and the Tec Telephone Co cut heat to one hour daily. others like Waterloo Saddlery and Adams Paper receive heat. Iowa Telephone Co keeps coal on hand, heated by Exchange Building, with strict fuel-saving rules in effect.
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Muunicipal
Jilingis Central
Tecs Telephone Company
Waterloo Saddlery Company
Adams Paper Company
Iowa Telephone Company
Fifth Street
G. J. Tosselman
Railway Administration
Sugar Seizure Orders Reissued Over Hoarding Claims
Spokane dispatch reports United States District Judge Cushman reissued seizure orders for 45.3 million pounds of sugar stored at Wakins and Toppenish Washington by the Utah Idaho Sugar Company. Action followed a government suit alleging hoarding and price manipulation. Deputy marshals were dispatched to take possession under the district attorney’s charges.
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Associated Press
Spokane
Wash
Wakims
Toppenish
Utah-Idaho Sugar Company
United Sates
E E. Cush- Mian
Tacoma
United
CITY TO WANE 4 SERVICES SUNDAY
Cedar Falls reports the Ministerial Association has arranged three morning services under fuel board rules. The Catholic service remains at St Patrick's. Methodist Congregational Baptist and Episcopal join at First Methodist. Danish denominations at Bethlehem. Christians Presbyterians and Evangelicals at Zion Evangelical.
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Cedar Falls
Ministerial Association
Fuel Board
St. Patrick’s Church
First Methodist Church
Bethlehem Church
Zion Evangelical
Plen
J. R. Charles
R. D. Dougherty
Henry R. Hess
J.R. Slacks
Rasmus Morgensen
Bailey
Change of Venue in Wright Trial at Clarion
Fort Dodge reports Robert L. Wright will be tried for assault with attempt to commit rape in Clarion Wright County Iowa. Judge H E Fry granted a change of venue over local prejudice and date set later. Wright bonds total 7500 dollars. His wife Freda Becher supports him saying he is punished enough and intends to stand by him through the proceedings.
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Fort Dodge
Robert L. Wright
Clarion
Wright County
H. E. Fry
Wright
Robert Wright
R. M. Wright
Freda Becher
Moth
Bob
Compulsory Training Dropped From Army Reorganization Bill
Washington December reports no provision for compulsory military training in the house military committee draft of the army reorganization bill. The Benediction plan would raise 300,000 officers and men as urged by Gen. Pershing, who also pressed a universal reserve for war preparedness. The War Department had recommended an army of 629,000.
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Associated Prasa
Washington, D. C
House Military Committee
Gen. Pershing
War Department
Iowa Coal Operators Move to Reopen Mines and Open Books
Des Alpines Dec 6. Iowa Coal Operators meeting agreed to reopen mines next Tuesday with available qualified labor and to grant public access to the books of all Iowa coal companies for investigation into profiteering. If workers do not return by Monday volunteers will be sought and mines opened to other qualified labor. Initial actions focus on a few mines, with more to follow. complete company records offered for inspection by any accredited business committee.
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Frst
Operators’ Association
Prayers Held For Temperance Union Members
Prayer meetings under the Women's Christian Temperance Union are set for tomorrow evening at homes on Fourth Street West Commercial Street Prospect Boulevard Fifth Street West and Locust Street. Leaders include Rev J H Johnson Mrs Martin Burke Mrs Ida Mitchell and Mrs A Cottrell with replacements noted. Marriage licenses issued to couples including Roy Bisby and Victoria Ulenhake both of Waterloo and others in New Hartford Cedar Rapids and Hudson.
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W.F. Noble
Clara Riley
Washington
Orlando
Fla
Mrs. Noble
Floyd Wilson
Savannah
Ill
S. A. Caley
Charles S. Royse
W. Ht. Silliman
Nevada
W. T. Cumming
Reinbeck
Fairgrounds
J. M. Church
Berdin
Anna Severin
Gladys Severin
Raymond Alden
Auburn
N. Y
J. K. Fox
Bancroft
N. Smith
Walnut Street
Cedar Falla
S. F. Bister
Washington, D. C
W. D. Lashbrook
Joseph W. Hegston
Rock Island
Louisville
Rock Inland
Ladies’ Association of Bethlehem Church
Ida Berg
Jens L. Markhesen
Johanna Schmidt
John Watters
Sanborn
Charles Watters
Cyrus Strayer
Ocheydean
H. I. Metz
Lake Park
Peter Watters
Primghar
Willam Epping
Hartley
Alfred Wilson
H. H
J Watters
Ethel Miller
Sioux Falls
William Tostlebe
B. Santee
Kansas City
J. B. Smith
Grinnel
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
A.W. Holt
Fourth Street
J. HE. Johnson
Martin Burke
Commercial Street
Burke
J. E. Johnson
Prospect Boulevard
Court
Ida Mitchell
Fifth Street
A. Cottrell
Locust Street
Roy Bisbey
Waterloo
Victoria Ulenhake
New Harte
Ole Havake
Jennie A. Nigson
New Hartford Rank Sprynel
Cedar Rapids
Marla Warner
Cedar Rapida
Edwin Palmer
Hudson
Rubie Marston
Eys Delmar We Hockman
Mary
Issor
Red laws to curb radicals in new Congress
Washington reports Congress resumes with bills to curb radicalism and deport aliens. King in Senate and Kelley in House push drastic penalties for teaching crime or overthrow of government. Ellis Island probe finds radicals freed after deportation orders.
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Washington News
Waterloo
Washington, D. C
Congress
Iowa
Senate
King
Utah
Department of Justice
House
Kelley
Michigan
Labor Department
Department of Labor
United States
Ellis Island
New York
Labor
Department
Federal Department
Wilson
House Immigration
Ell Island
Camminetti
Frederick C. Hows
Ellis 1Sland
Louis Post
America
Union
Soviet executes Yekaterinburg killer of Nicholas
A dispatch from Kovno reports Soviet authorities in Russia executed M. Tchontof, a Yekaterinburg Soviet member, for ordering the 1918 execution of former Emperor Nicholas and his family. The Pravda account states the deed was carried out as Czecho-Slovak forces neared the city.
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Associated Press
Copenhagen
Russia
Nicholas
Yekaterinburg
Politiken
Kovno
Pravda
Moscow
M.tchontof
Yekaterinburg Soviet
Perm
Medical science gains via 46 immunised horses serums
New York December report from the Rockefeller Institute credits 46 immunised horses in Princeton New Jersey with major serum contributions for meningitis pneumonia and dysentery. Output rose from 3 000 doses in 1917 to 26 000 in 1918 and continued strong into 1919.
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New York
United States
Princeton
N. J
Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research
Simon Klexner
Army and Naval Medical Schools
Washington
United States Army
A&a
Rockefeller Institute
Rabbit Hunting Yields a Profit in Iowa
Reports from all sections of Iowa indicate rabbit hunting has become a grand roundup. Hundreds of hunters scour fields daily as conditions favor tracking and marksmanship. Some use guns and ferrets while others employ nets or clubs to capture rabbits and sell them, with a party of three or four often bagging up to 76 rabbits in a day.
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Iowa
Towa
City halves lunch time as fuel plan moves forward
The city adopts a half hour noon lunch for all institutions while a committee led by Mayor T. E. Leeper studies wood supply and transport from native timber to Waterloo to ease the fuel famine. A Warford fuel board meeting names A. W. Chamberlain, F. M. Shores, Harry Dunkelberg, Joseph Shirley and the mayor on the timber committee. Potential timber sources and delivery methods will be investigated with city aid offered to gather and transport wood.
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Waterloo
T. E. Leeper
Fuel Board
A. W. Chamberlain
A Scotch Ordeal and Political Talk Report
A Birmingham Age-Herald social snippet notes Bilfour inviting a friend for Scotch at his house, the guest reluctant, and Bilforn distressed as a decenter snifter is poured. The piece shifts to Rome where Socialist MPs plan to join Tuesday’s throne speech discussion. Signor Bentini to speak for the Socialists. Advertising is always news.
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Bilfour
Wagavn
Lin
Bilfonur
Birmingham Age-Herald
Agocdated
Rome
Victor Emmanuel
Signor Bentini
Mission Worker Describes India Perils and People
Misa Beasla Campbell, a social worker with the United Presbyterian mission, spent 18 years in Pathankot Punjab as a missionary. She details Indian women’s predicaments, schools and dispensaries for women, risks from leopards and centipedes, river crossings on turtles, and the threat of snakes while highlighting Hindu and Muslim daily life.
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Misa Beasla Campbell
Bred Daniels
Hourth Atroot West
India
Pathankot
Punjab
United Presbyterian Mission
Miss Campbell
Ajthand
Tima
Jhelum Rivar
Water Wonders and Woes in Jericho Region
The Jericho region offers three kinds of water and a famed Jordan valley bathing ritual for pilgrims. Visitors ride from the Dead Sea to the muddy Jordan pool near the Sultan's spring, washing away heat, wrinkles, and travel fatigue amid stark hovel surroundings.
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Jericho
Jordan Valley
Dead Sea
Maynard O. Wilams
National Geographic Magazine
Jordan
Elisha
Early public health roots traced in ancient civilizations
A discussion notes that systematic sanitation dates to early civilizations such as Assyria Babylon Egypt Crete Greece and Rome. It cites wells aqueducts sewers and bath practices from Samarians Hebrews Egyptians and Romans, highlighting ancient engineers and public health awareness across eras.
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Assyria
Babylon
Egypt
Crete
Greece
Rome
James A. Toey
Joseph
Great Pyramid
Jerusalem
B. C
Graveshear Springs
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