Waterloo pad check artist fails at five firms
A well dressed man aged 40 to 50 attempted a confidence game in Waterloo visiting five business houses. He presented a $57.75 check drawn on a non existent account and was refused at four coal firms and a dairy, while a bank found no such account. Police and detectives search for the suspect.
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Waterloo
McMillan
E. A. McFarlane
Fourth Street
McFarlane
Yremont Street
Waterloo Savings Bank
J. M. Davis
C. G. Carter
Watkins Coal Company
Mullan Avenue
Home Coal Company
Malab Avenue
Waterloo Co-operative Dairy Company
Commercial Street
Volica
Fayette Merchants Fleeced by Stranger Posing as Student
A man using the alias Rene La Duce posed as a college student enrolling at Upper Iowa in Fayette Ia. He bought $170 in goods with fraudulent checks and cash, then fled toward Ames before being captured in West Union. Student Waylard Hurmence alerted authorities leading to his arrest. he confessed after showing a registration slip.
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Fayette
Rene la Duce
Ames
Upper Town
Waylard Hurmence
Upper Iowa
Rene Ha Duce
Hurmence
van Horn
West Union
Wright
Frentress Funeral Conducted Today at Manchester
William M Brentress died December 9 at his daughter Mrs Bert Childs home in Manchester Ia aged 87 years He was born December 12 1837 in Jo Daviess county Illinois son of a pioneer He moved to Iowa in 1966 lived in Honey Creek township then California and returned to Town five years ago Surviving children include Henry Cedar Rapids Bert Childs Mrs Charles Robinson Frank Waterloo and May in California One brother and one sister also survive Funeral services were at the Childs home led by Rev E D Wells and burial will be beside his wife in Oakland cemetery
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Manchester
William M. Brentress
Bert Childs
Jo Daviess County
Minis
Honey Creek
California
Mary V. Hull
Henry
Cedar Rapiis
Charles Robinson
Edgewood
Frank
Waterloo
May
Fred N. Front
Charles City approves high school student dances this winter
Charles City Iowa school board letters parents and finds most support dancing parties for high school students this winter with parental permission required. A high school orchestra will provide music for the dances as part of the event.
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Charles City School Board
Charles City
Iowa Walnut Lumber Shipped to Missouri
Two carloads of walnut logs were loaded at Montour for shipment to a Kansas City lumber firm. This marks the first of about 14 carloads cut that winter north of Montour, all to be shipped from Montour. An oil prospectus development last year highlighted the seismograph and torsion balance applications.
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Iowa
Missouri
Montour
Alontour
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HVE
Frentress
Indianapolis
Ind
NSI
Teventy
St. Elizabeth's Orphanage
E. Std &T
E. Fourth
Economy Center
Kidlyn
cAdler& Glickman
Coats
Willinery
aAdler
East Fourth Street
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