New Harvester Go to Get Three Story Modern Plant
Cedar Falls Iowa December 9 The International Harvester Co plans a three story basement building at Fifth and Main replacing years old quarters once used by Deering then IH The Dayton estate will own and lease the structure for a long term. In crops news Black Hawk County Crop Improvement group prepared to place Silver King corn on every township farm to promote its early maturing heavy yield variety Prof Hughes Iowa Experiment Station says it will be valuable north of Iowa yielding about 80 bushels per acre and demand exceeds seed supply.
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Cedar Falls
International Harvester Co
Fifth
Main Streets
Deering Company
International Company
H. &. Murphy
Dayton
Harvester Company
Black Hawk
Iowa
Reed
Cedar Falls Notes On Homes Courts Bank News And Local Happenings
Local notes from Cedar Falls Iowa detail Benedict Brown planning a corner entrance and remodeling his corner building for a tailoring business. Various clubs meet, a Christmas Savings club grows to about 10,000 for 300 members, and Yeomen elect officers for the year. A skating plan forms as yards flood, births are announced, and residents travel to Des Moines for a dental meeting while a hunter sighting is reported near Waverly Junction. The river ice remains thin and a state effort is urged to rescue fish before winter.
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Christmas Savings’ Club
Yeomen
W. EF. Noble
Blanch Thomas
Geo. F. Wood
Etta Revington
Appropriation To Be Fully Met For 1913 Federal Building
Iowa Falls December report clarifies that the 65 000 post office building appropriation remains intact and the 20 000 cited is to be used next year. Work on the new building will start in April on the aldistes homestead site, with the existing brick building to be removed or sold to clear the site.
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Iowa Falls
Daily Press
Secretary of the Treasury
Foster
The
Commercial Club
Pickett
Congressman Pickett
Aldistes
Spting
Iowa
Oregon legislator from Franklin County a former book dealer
The article notes E. H. B. Blanchard, a former Franklin county bookseller who later studied law at the State university and was elected to the Oregon Legislature in the last general election. He then practiced law in Montezuma at the Republican, moved west to Oregon and remained active in politics.
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State University
Hampton
Oregon
E. H B. Blanchard
Blanchard
Franklin County
Law Department
The
Montezuma
Many Arrested During November in Local Police Report
November arrests fell short of the six month peak with a dip early in the month after saloon closures. The 18th saw the highest daily total just before bans began. Offenses ranged from begging and drunkenness to vagrancy and traffic violations, with August and September figures showing higher totals.
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Nis
Clade Wren
Ieee Fugivites
Hal RP Keeters
Knoxville
Mission Talk With Views At First Congregational Church
Tomorrow evening at the First Congregational church a public meeting features Rev. William Marquis D D of Rock Island Broadway Presbyterian as principal speaker. He will discuss missionary work abroad, followed by Rev. H W Reherd with a stereopticon lecture on life and times in India. The follow up committee will present its statistical report in printed form.
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First Congregational Church
William Marquis
Broadway Presbyterian Church
Rock Island
Marquis
H. W. Reherd
Hfe
Times
India
Desdemona Club Postpones Meeting One Week
Arthur Matheny and Ida M Kennedy are licensed to wed in Steamboat Rock. Leo R Gould and Viola M Forrette in Sioux City. The Desdemona club meeting is postponed one week and will meet with Mrs Lucas next week.
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Arthur Matheny
Steamboat Rock
Ida M. Kennedy
Leo R. Gould
Sioux City
Viola M. Forrette
Desdemona Club
Mra. Lucas
Praise for Courier Editorial Effort Urges Bird Protection Bill
William T. Hornaday writes to The Courier praising editorial on National Bird Protection and urging passage of a federal migratory birds protection bill. He notes birds curb insect pests, many are slaughtered as game, and Congress should act this session to ensure enforcement.
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Courier
William T. Hornaday
Sc. D
New York Zoological Society
the Courier
National Bird Protection
Congress
Federal migratory bird bill urged to protect insectivorous birds
A petition letter urges citizens to contact senators and representatives to push prompt enactment of the federal migratory bird bill. Signed by W. T. Hornaday, the appeal stresses the valuable services of insectivorous birds to farmers and consumers.
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W. T. Hornaday
Good Roads Club Names Executive Committee
At a city hall meeting Saturday evening the Good Roads club selected an executive committee of five to plan road improvements into Waterloo. Members F A Ferguson presided with J I Kenyon secretary and Ben Schuneman treasurer. S B Reed and W C Kohl join with club officers as the committee.
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Good Roads’ Club
City Hall
Waterloo
S. B. Reed
W. CG. Kohl
F. A. Ferguson
J. I. Kenyon
Ben Schuneman
Mayor Thompson Warns to Suppress Gambling in Iowa
Mayor HR C Thompson received a circular from Attorney General Cosson urging county attorneys and mayors to help suppress gambling in Iowa. Candy gambling devices and candy cards are targeted as well as any gambling houses. merchants refusing to ban gambling could be prosecuted.
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HR. C. Thompson
Cosson
Iowa
Stoner Sues Reed and Reed for Promissory Note Debt
W. BE. Stoner sues Isaac J. Reed and Mary Reed for 276 dollars and 73 cents on a promissory note and account. A separate suit filed by W. BR. Walker & Co. against George Baldwin and others seeks 47 dollars and 25 cents on foreclosure of a mechanic's lien.
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W. BE. Stoner
Isaac J. Reed
Mary Reed
W. BR. Walker & Co
George Baldwin
Giraffe Removed as National Museum Plans Hall of Fame
Washington December 9 workmen moved the Bagantic giraffe from the main rotunda marking the removal of Col Theodore Roosevelt’s Africa hunting trophies. The giraffe along with other specimens was transferred to a less prominent area for an upcoming hall of fame. Dr Charles Walcott ordered the removals as plans call for international busts and statues.
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National Museum
Hall of Fame
Washington
Theodore Roosevelt
Taft
Smithsonian Institute
Chas. Walcott
Robt. Emmet
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