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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1920
Page
16
County auditor J A Francis estimates December overdrafts on the poor fund will reach about 60000. The 1920 tax intake of roughly 336000 plus overdrafts pushes total 90000 in spending for the year on the unfortunate classes. Influenza emergencies last year and pensions for widows and the blind contribute to the draft.
Earthquake reports from Brindisi say Tepeleni near Avlona, Albania, was destroyed with at least 22 dead. Tsunami and landslides buried a commander’s house on Sazeno island, and communications are disrupted. Buenos Aires reports a violent tremor in Men doza city lasting 30 seconds, with no casualty details. Other tremors felt in La Rioja without deaths.
Des Moines Register summary notes contract prices for print paper jump from 90 to 140 per ton in 1921, with freight up about 30 percent and express/postage increases. It discusses open market prices, mill dependence, and the impact on newspapers like The Register and Tribune and Chicago Tribune, predicting more consolidations as costs rise.
Emergency tariff legislation to aid farmers from falling crop prices moves toward completion in the House Ways and Means Committee. A joint conference with the Senate Finance Committee approves a one year measure likely to embargo imports of wheat cotton wool beans potatoes livestock and meats. Separately the steamer Chicago City, awash after a shifted cargo, sent an urgent call for help. The Queen Louise was directed to assist, with Cape Race wireless relaying signals.
Montreal dispatch reports a distressed vessel listing severely as hatch combings show flooding. Wireless contact enabled timely assistance and aid arrived to stabilize the ship and evacuate crew.
Washington D C Dec 18 draft for a bill to reapportion house membership on 1920 census population gains was begun today by the census committee Pursuant to a caucus decision by Republican members to push the legislation at the current session of Congress
Announcement from Mr. and Mrs. J. Ogden Armour reveals engagement of Lolita Armour to John J. Mitchell Jr. Mitchell, son of a Chicago bank chairman, survived a wartime aviation crash near Key West after a student aviator crashed into his plane.
Independence Kansas reports after a night of quiet as national guard troops patrol following Thursday's race disorders in which two people were killed and five wounded. Noble Green, a black man held in the county jail, was not lynched. Home guardsmen and American Legion members kept watch with no incidents. Miss Lenora Watson of Parsons carried a revolver and remained at her corner post throughout the night saying she came to help after hearing of the trouble.
A suit filed in municipal court seeks damages from Charles McLaughlin and his father M. H. McLaughlin, arguing that a man who buys an automobile for family use is legally responsible for any accidents while it is used, regardless of his presence. The claim notes no liability due to the son being a minor.
Silly telegraphic fragmentary notices report Ridge Buchannin seeking glasses, Wade Hubbel of Chicago visiting relatives at 63 Franklin street, State Fish and Game Warden W E Albert in Waterloo on office business, a Waterloo Collegiate Alumni meeting postponed to January, fourth street bridge repairs completed at a cost of 8340, R H Bretzke traveling to Ames for a short term agriculture conference, hotel Russell Laminson hosting New Year’s ball on Dec 31 with dancing and orchestra, tickets listed as $4.
Mrs John A Tatbor died at her Tacoma Washington home on December 4 at age 74 years four months. She formerly lived in Waterloo and Clinton Iowa. She married John A Taylor in 1868. he died in 1906. Survived by five children Mable McConnell Estella Remmel John James Lee and Lee's a Waterloo resident. Lee B Taylor attended the funeral.
Berlin delegates at the second financial conference outline a plan to pay Allied reparations with bought goods. A supervising body would arrange shipments from manufacturers paid by a German reparations fund. Dr Gustav Stresemann urged US policy over League action and called for a world economic clearing house.
Health officers seek typhoid germs in water samples from wells used by an ill patient. Dr H W Sigworth sent samples from Henry Fee sales barn at 722 Sycamore St and will send residence water to the state lab. Miss Manetta R Bell reported the case and no additional cases have been found.
Co. T. MeuNeil, a railway switchman, was taken into custody last night on a complaint that he shot a hole in the floor of Central cafe on Fourth street east after an altercation. He was released without charges after the county attorney ordered it.
Rag Apple Corndyke VIII Holstein bull once valued at 50000 was tied to Countryman bankruptcy and sold at public auction for 41100. Buyer was Davis Stines of Capron Illinois. Seventeen Detweller cattle brought 7405 at the sale.
A Norfolk reader endorses Foley's Honey and Tar as reliable against colds and croup. The ad claims the remedy acts instantly, reduces phlegm, soothes irritated membranes, and stops throat tickling. Thousands of bottles were bought recently by careful mothers. Sold everywhere.
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