Black Hawk County Schools Report Details 1952 Figures
County records show 152 schools with 9,297 pupils enrolled and total education spending of 320,078.64 dollars. Male and female teachers earned 206,873.41 dollars, with 2.08 dollars average monthly wages for males and 54.77 for females. The county maintains 22 Waterloo city buildings and 130 rural schools, totaling 39 rooms for graded instruction and 209 nongraded rooms, with library holdings of 14,832 volumes and 12,608 school-age residents. The compulsory education population (ages 7 to 14) numbers 6,845, including 3,436 boys and 412 girls, and daily attendance averages 984. The average schooling duration is 8.3 months.
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Black Hawk County
Arry A. Moore
Treas
Waterloo
Hudson
Cedar Alls
la Porte
Waterloo Bread In Many Towns
More than three score towns within a circle around Waterloo rely on its bakeries for bread cakes pies and pastries. Alstadt Langlas and Friedl Son plants lead with modern machines large ovens and robust delivery undermining city and regional demand. The industry employs about 209 workers across plants and smaller bakeries with clean sanitary facilities, high wages, and extensive shipping reach.
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Waterloo
Alstadt & Langlas
Fried & Son
Friedl & Sons
Healthier Babes to Solve Social Moral Problems
Dr. Margaret W. Clark of Waterloo leads a movement to judge babies by physical, mental, and moral traits, likening infant scoring to farm contests. She travels Europe with her husband to study conditions, hoping healthier births curb crime and vice and spread nationwide.
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Iowa
Margaret W. Clark
Waterloo
Iowa Mothers’ Congress
Iowa Federation of Woman's Clubs
Clark
G. Hardy Clark
Europe
Berlin
British Isles
Egypt
Babe
Drs Clark to study child life in Europe tour
Drs Margaret V Clark and spouse plan a Europe trip to study child life and eugenics as part of a broader campaign involving baby contests in Iowa districts and nationwide propaganda under women’s clubs auspices. The journey marks their twenty fifth wedding anniversary and their third European visit. Dr Margaret Clark, 45, is a native of Elkader.
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Woman's Clubs
Wil
Drs. Clark
Iowa
Grave blunders of a thief banker and his remorse
A bank embezzler's friends praise him yet he laments grave missteps. He admits failures to win the Sunday school superintendent post and attend prayer meetings, laments missing a missionary fund, and confesses amateurish conduct that kept him from joining a tri weekly poker gathering, ending in sorrow.
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H. M. Silvers
Sunday Magazine
A Beautiful New Park Side Home at 1007 Park Drive
A suburban Waterlon residence near a sixty acre city park and Cedar River features a spacious two story plan. Dr H A Boysen’s house offers six rooms on the first floor plus baths a maid’s room on the second floor and ample attic space. The layout separates living and sleeping areas with flexible front rooms and a brick hearth. A full basement houses laundry boiler fuel and workshop with a hot water heating system and a motor pumped water supply from a deep well.
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Park Drive
Waterlon
Iowa
H. A. Boysen
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OUNTY
Joal Man
Drew
Ferry
Model Bakery
Life
Margaret V. Clark
Admira Ha
Missionary Fund
Dce
Tritz
State Convention of Photographers
Tritz Studio
W. Fourth Street
Ph Seceen Pareb
Black Hawk
Auto Top CO
Fifth St. West
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