Social Obligations Courtly plans and party math
Mrs Westcott demands entertaining to avoid seeming stingy while Mr Westcott counts invitations as debts owed. She lists neighbors heading away and relatives, planning a large tea with about eight to ten guests to “pay” obligations, while he reluctantly compiles names and trips. A second vignette shows a sarcastic concertgoer joking about being obliged to a woman with an umbrella.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Westcott
Westcott
Ruggleses
Squires
Florida
Warrens
Smiths
Mr. Warren
California
Weatentt
Rochester
Birdsall Fund Scandal Report Seeks Disbarment Rebuff
Attorney Birdsall paid $100 in currency and $340 in orders to influence Indian officers for pardons of Waterloo defendants. The bar committee found his motive was to expose graft and not to benefit clients, recommending no disbarment while detailing concerns about a specific officer and calls for further inquiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valentine
Indian Affairs
Waterloo
Reed
Wickersham
Dubuque
Bey
McNish
Favijle
Birdsall
Williams
William Ewald
Iowa
Peely
Marshal Tracy
Tre
van West
Brents
Indian Service
van Wert
Tracy
Track
Sioux City
United States
Faville
Washington
Fowler
Indian Department
Fant
Favitle
Birds
Wupon
Department of Justice
Johnson
Salt Lake City
Walter L. Fisher
Secretary of the Interior
Adams
Bar Committee
Frederick F. Faville
Storm Lake
His Nature Informed Remarks Attributed to Informer
A fragmented wartime style item quotes insults about an informer calling him a pig and hints at motives behind his actions. The excerpt reads like a brisk social note or strayquotation in a local column.
Mittens to Children Under Charity Plan by Local Firm
Citizens' Gas and Electric company announces a Christmas goodwill program giving fleeced mittens to city children. Recipients must present a note signed by a public school teacher Salvation Army official or supervisor of the poor J F Klingaman showing they deserve the mittens. The firm abandons old gifts of calendars and blotting paper for this free distribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Citizens’ Gas & Electric Company
Buikema
Salvation Army
J. F. Klingaman
Citizens’ Gas& Electric Company
Sheriff Blocks Madison County Fight Between McCarthy and Curley
East St. Louis December 8 promoters of the McCarthy Curley bout were told by Madison county sheriff he would not permit the six round fight in a suburb of East St. Louis. Rumors had circulated that the contest might reach a finish beyond six rounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East St. Louis
Ill
Barney McCarthy
St. Louis
Jack Curley
Chicago
Madison County
Red Cross Seals For Sale In Waterloo This Christmas
The Associated Charities will sell red cross anti tuberculosis seals in Waterloo stores and at Grace M E church bazaar and Waterloo fair. Proceeds support the National Anti Tuberculosis Association and a local fund. Seals cost 1 cent and aid education and patient care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Charities
Waterloo
Red Cross
Iowa
National Anti-Tuberculosis Association
nubHoe
National Postoffice
Postoffice
Effie McCollum Jones
H. M. Reed
W. W. Marsh
E. GL. Johnson
A. D. Sumner
East Side
H. M. Kimball
West Side
Grace M. E. Church Bazaar
Waterloo Fair
Pythian Temple
Leavitt - Johnson Bank
Also Mentioned on This Page
Westecott
Rankins
Mira
W. N. Birdsall
U. S. Department of Justice
BIG Corporation
Santa Claus
E. ST. Louis
the Gem Jewelry Shop
Crem
Fourth Street
H. J. Bechtel
Hyde
Kansas City
Rose Churchill
B. C. Hyde
Thomas Swope
Margaret Swope
Miss Churchill
Elizabeth Gordon
May Pierce
J. Kk. Baumann
the Majestic
LY Stolt Bros
Father
Stolt Bros
Commercial Street
Stationery
The
Eaton. Crane and Fike Pa
Knapp
Zac
the Waterloo
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