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Waterloo Charities Struggle With Poverty and Liquor
In Waterloo 1910 prosperity hides poverty in a city of 27 000. The Associated Charities Salvation Army and J F Klingaman oversee aid as liquor, sickness, and age drive need. Efforts show fewer expenses than prior years despite population growth. Enforced work and parole sentences push able bodied men to support families, while reform curbs drinkers from funds for booze. The piece also notes a Baltimore dinner tale about a Detroit heiress and a dollhouse financed by a Christmas gift.
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Waterloo
Salvation Army
J. F. Klingaman
Associated Charities