Waterloo Gly Held Meeting Names Officers and Fees
The Waterloo Chamber of Commerce and Waterloo club elected officers for the coming year led by President C. L. Kingsley and Vice President Paul Davis. A three-tier membership plan was proposed with fees of 25, 10, and 5 for business, social, and traveling members, aiming to reduce costs for commercial travelers.
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Chamber of Commerce and Waterloo Club
Waterloo West
Dosen
Board of Directors
Chamber of Commerce
Waterloo Club
Ularly
Pinkerton
Fourth Street West
Waterloo club elects Kingsley president in booster move
In Waterloo the Chamber of Commerce and Waterloo club elected C L Kingsley as president, with Paul Davis and F W Powers named as democratic nominees. Lamson declined re election after six years as retiring president. Membership grows to over 100 with plans for a paid secretary and further canvassing.
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Chamber of Commerce
Waterloo Club
Paul Davis
F. W. Powers
C. L. Kingsley
Kingsley
Waterloo
FL. Northey
A. W. Brown
C. Ju. Kingsley
Lamson
Dry town praise ad urges Waterloo temperance test
Waukon notes 17 months of dryness with population 2500 and only one arrest for drunkenness in initial six months after saloons closed. Advertisement from Waterloo Business Men's Temperance Ass'n urges trying prohibition in Waterloo, arguing absence of drunks is noticeable and predicting improvements or possible worsening over a couple of years.
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Waukon
Waterloo
Postmaster Race Heats Up In Waterloo Contest
Congressman Connolly of Dubuque plans a quick Waterloo visit to canvass post office sit uation. Two main candidates, M H Kelly and Jack Cayebeer, seek endorsements as party factions rally. The postmaster role pays 3600 to 4000 annually and a Waterlooan will likely be chosen as secretary even as Leeper and George Lonergan vie for that post.
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Waterloo
Maurice Connolly
Dubuque
M. H. Kelly
Democratic County Central Committee
Jack Cayebeer
Nusby
Connolly
Attorney Leeper
George Lonergan
Irish Priest Denounces Saloons in Forceful Appeal
An Irish Catholic priest voices strong condemnation of saloons urging all Catholics and men to read his sermonful statements today. The piece frames temperance as a duty and references a temperance association backing the stance.
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Waterloo Business Men's Temperance Ass'n
Waterloo Business Men's Temperance
Christmas Music at Grace Church Celebration
Grace Church invites a festive program for Christmas Sunday with organ preludes of hymns, a carol and anthem by the choir, and duets by C Whitney Coombs. Miss Beulah Bingham and others join for the evening cantata The Shepherds Vision by Horatio Parker. Adeste Fideles will be sung by Trinity choir.
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Grace M. KE
Kenneth Thinkel
C. Whitney Coombs
Beulah Bingham
Harriman Heads Talk With Taft
Robert Lovett head of Harriman railroad and Maxwell Evarts chief counsel met President Taft and Attorney General Wickersham at the White House after breakfast to discuss the Supreme Court ruling dissolving the Union Pacific merger. They reportedly submitted preliminary outlines for reorganizing railroad properties in line with the decree.
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Washington
Robert 5. Lovett
Harriman Railroad
Maxwell Evarts
Taft
Wirckersham
White House
Supreme Court
Union Pacific
Wickersham
Bereaved Appreciate Sympathy From Friends
I C Munger died in Houston Texas and his wife was too ill to travel with the remains to Waterloo. A notice from Houston Men and Boys, a M G A publication, says Mr Munger and his mother thank friends in Houston Chicago Waterloo and neighbors for loving sympathy, flowers, and ministrations during their bereavement.
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I. C. Munger
Houston
Texas
Waterton
Houston Men and Boys
I. FE. Munger
Chicago
Waterloo
Death by own action testified in Emelius case
Houston Me December 11 Further testimony in support of the contention that August Jacobson committed death by own action was presented today at the trial of his family members charged with his murder The examination of Mrs Bell Emelius wife of Rev Charles N Emelius one of the defendants occupied most of the day and thirty other witnesses remained to be examined when court resumed The defendants Mrs Anna Jacobson widow of the man alleged to have been murdered and Edgar Jacobson her son will be the last witnesses called it was announced
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Houston
August Jacobson
Bell Emelius
Charles N. Emelius
Fimelius
Anna Jacobson
Edgar Jacobson
Labor Leader Accused of Perjury in Dynamite Conspiracy Case
Indianapolis report states William H. Quigley, Detroit carpenters union business agent, was held before a federal grand jury on perjury charges arising from his testimony at the dynamite conspiracy trial. The district attorney's office accuses him of false statements as a witness.
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Indianapolis
Wm. H. Quigley
Detroit
Carpenters’ Union
Ile
United States
Mysterious assault by veiled woman strikes again
In St. Louis on December 11 a second mysterious assault occurred as Mia T. J. Stephenson answered a door summons and was slashed twice by a knife wielded by a tall veiled woman in black. She was not seriously harmed.
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St. Louis
Mia. T. J. Stephenson
Best Wheat Wins $5,000 Prize At Northwestern Exposition
Joseph H. Nash and Charles Bridgeman of Nash & Bridgeman Clyde Park Montana won the $5,000 first prize for the best fire bushels of Turk Red wheat exhibited at the Northwestern Produce exposition in Minneapolis. The grain from Shield River valley 70 miles north of Yellowstone Park weighed just over six ty pounds to the bushel and scored 92.5 in grading. milling and baking tests yielded 104.7.
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Minneapolis
Joseph H. Nash
Charles Bridgeman
Nash & Bridgeman
Clyde Park
Mont
Shield River Valley
Yellowstone Park
Death Corner toll rises with 12th murder in area
An unidentified laborer was shot in the head near Death Corner on Chicago's north side Italian quarter, marking the twelfth murder there in a year. Police call the spot Death Corner. Two men sprang up and fired as the victim hurried to work. the assailants fled.
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Chicago
North Side
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