New Light on Going Is Split in Waterloo Split council resists mayor on civil service
Insurgent Waterloo councilmen challenge mayoral authority to appoint civil service for fire and police until the 1910 census. They cite the 1900 official census as still controlling, threaten to block bonds for appointees H. B. Kelly Paul W. Smith and Dr. J. A. Terger, and resist police court interference while debating bonds and appointments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dell Service Commission
Waterloo
Civil Service
H. B. Kelly
Paul W. Smith
J. A. Terger
Civil Service Commission
Executive Council
Town
Secretary of State
Cannon Yields To Will Of House In Precedent Fight
Washington report on the House ruling after Representative Hughes assailed precedents. Speaker Cannon allowed a vote to decide whether to proceed with a bill, adopting a ruling that the House would determine its course by majority action. The chamber approved 346 to 61 to take up the measure. Licensed to wed notices listed couples including Lorenzo D. Cook and Jessie V. Wright and others. Waterloo lodge meeting announced at K P hall with business on agenda.
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Washington
Hughes
New Jersey
Cannon
House
Lorenzo D. Cook
Cedar Rapids
Jessie V. Wright
Onawa
Wilbur F. Gammon
Waterloo
Geneva
Boomhower
Waterloo Lodge
L. C
K. P. Hall
The Sixth Senses in a Primary School Exam
A pupil answered questions on the fire senses with sneezing sobbing crying yawning and coughing. The student claimed a sixth sense an extra one that some folks have for this smoring.
Sunday Sermon Draws 1200 as Anti-Saloon Campaign Surges
Rev W A Sunday spoke at the Waverly opera house to about 1,200 men in support of the anti-saloon effort. He urged signers to back the petition and warned that most counties require 65 percent to activate the measure. Mrs Sunday addressed local women, and delegates from Frederika attended.
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Sunday
Albert Rice
Congregational Church
Frederika
Opera House
Billy Sunday
Temperance
Waterloo
Roosevelt Praises Chief Justice White at New Haven Banquet
Col Theodore Roosevelt addressed about 600 business leaders at Yale Commons in New Haven praising President Taft and the selection of Justice White as chief justice. Baldwin was absent from the event. Gov Weeks and congressional delegates were also not present. Roosevelt's remarks drew vigorous applause and a standing vote of thanks.
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New Haven
Conn
Mr. Baldwin
Chamber
Taft
Gov. Weeks
Meriden
Grand Army of the Republic
John &. Citman
Yale University
Commons
Ullman
Chamber of Commerce
Col. Roosevelt
Teddy
Justice White
Jelief
United States Supreme Court
Co. Roosevelt
United States
White
Dinner guests surprise Bingo household with three friends
Mrs. Bingo learns her husband has invited three friends for dinner, and he plans to improvise in the kitchen if needed. The exchange shows humor and tension as they discuss preparing for unexpected company. The article also notes a magazine excerpt on little known republics in early American history and reports the sudden death of Mrs. Isaac Bennett.
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Bingo
United States
Republica
Mary W. Hazeltine
Trarper's Magazine
Commonwealth of Watauga
Alleghenies
Tennessee
Watauga River
Commonwealth of
Transylvania
Kentucky
Continental Congress
Franklin
Frankland
North Carolina
White 1 Choice of Goal Miners
Reports from Illinois mining districts indicate John P. White of Iowa is set to be elected national president of the United Mine Workers of America with a 40,000 vote plurality in Illinois. The official result will be announced at the national convention in Columbus, Ohio, January 17.
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Des Moines, Inc
Evening Press
Illinois
John P. White
Iowa
United Mine Workers of America
White
T. L. Lewis
Columbus
William Wilson Charged With Check Forging In Waterloo
William Wilson, accused of forging a check for 18 dollars, was returned to Waterloo from Freeport Illinois by Sheriff F M Shores after waiving extradition. A preliminary hearing before Justice A B Switzer was delayed when Wilson requested an attorney over identity doubts regarding the forged instrument signed as Adam Hankner.
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William Wilson
Waterloo
Freeport
F. M. Shores
A. B. Switzer
Wilson
Adam Hankner
Civic association meets in Washington DC
The American Civil service association gathered in Washington to promote higher civic ideals and beauty in America. Speakers included Henry B. MacFarland of Washington, William Dudley Foulk of Richmond Indiana, Mrs. Edward W. Riddle of Carlisle Pennsylvania, Charles Mulford Robinson of Rochester Minnesota, and the Cuban minister of justice.
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Washington
D. C
American Civile Service Association
America
Henry B. MacFarland
William Dudley Foulk
Richmond
Ind
National Municipal League
Edward W. Riddle
Carlisle
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Charles Mulford Robinson
Rochester
New York Knights of Pythias Face Receiver Bid
Milton G. Bucky asks the New York attorney general to seek the removal of the Knights of Pythias life insurance certificate in the state and to appoint a receiver. He cites alleged insolvency and reports cash on hand and growing assessments for fourth class members including Thomas Barber of Brooklyn.
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New York
Milton G. Bucky
Albany
Knights of Pythias
Bucky
Supreme Lodge
Order
Thomas Barber
Barber
Supreme Government
Knights of
Insurance Department
Mary J. Reid Joins Swope Settlement as Advocate for Working Girls
Mary J. Reid, new Brookhouse veteran from Boston, joins the Thomas H. Swope settlement in Kansas City. She champions working girls and explains Brookhouse blends wage earners with students, offering housing for about 200 boarders with a $12 weekly wage cap and a focus on refinement through community life near Nineteenth and McGee streets.
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Kansas City
Mary J. Reid
Thomas H. Swope
Miss Reid
Boston
Brookhouse
University of Boston
Nineteenth and
McGee Streets
Leper Archie Thomas Becomes Wireless Operator on Penthese Island
Archie Thomas, confined in the leper colony on Penthesea Island, has become a skilled wireless telegraph operator. His station keeps him in touch with events nationwide, despite supposed isolation. His mother chose exile to stay with him, enabling daily contact through the telegraph.
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Boston
Mags
Archie” Thomas
Upton
Penthese
Thomas
Letter from Archie Thomas on Penikese Island comforts lepers
The note describes Archie Thomas living on barren Penikese Island with other lepers, the doctor, and his family finding solace in his letter. Written from a typewriter, Archie thanks Bernard Pease for friendship and urges wireless stations for future cross communication, noting he learns world news before Upton residents.
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Archie” Thomas
Penikese Island
Bernard Pease
Upton High School
Thomas
Upton
Bernard
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Waverly
Opera Home
Evangelist
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Roosevelt
Baldwin
G. F. Thurston
J. W. Thurston
Isaac Bennett
Clarksville
Owa
Thi
T. EL. Lewis
Civic Association
Uages
N.Y. Pythians
Working Girls
Leper
Steinway Lyon & Healy and
Hardman
Ahlstrom
Emerson Winter & Co
the Taylor Music House
East Fourt
Waterloo, Iowa
Washington Street
Walgate
Bismarck Streets
Galloway
E. Daniels
Mason City
Didicult
Coser Seliind
G. E. Boyce
Optometrist
Syndican
United
The
House of Quality
West Fourth Street
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