Honors to first dead in France headline
Government paid unusual honor to Private Merle D. Hay and two comrades as the first American soldiers killed on French soil. The record details their funeral at Bathelmont on Nov. 4 with French and American troops present and a solemn procession, the flag over the caskets, and a salute by Gen. Bordeaux and staff. West Point candidate list from Iowa seniors announced. Revival meetings at African Methodist Church begin tonight with evangelist Mrs. Delia Carey.
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Washington News Bureau
Waterloo Evening Courier
Washington, D. C
Merie D. Hay
Gildden
Enright
Gresham
Committee “Ah
United States
War Department
Ney
W. L. Sibert
Bardeaux
Bathelemont
Bordeaux
Horight
Hey
U. S. Infantry
U. S. Field Artllery
USB
Delia Carey
Chicago
Lutherans Call For End To German Language Teaching
In Seward Nebraska pastors and teachers of the German Lutheran church in Nebraska of the Missouri Synod resolved to show loyalty to the United States government and urged stopping German language instruction in all parochial schools for the duration of the war.
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Lincoln, Nebd
Seward
Neb
German Lutheran Church In
Nebraska
Missouri Synod
United States
Lighthouse employees to get war insurance ruling
Washington announces that lighthouse service personnel transferred to the war and navy departments are to be treated as defense forces and eligible for war risk insurance. More than 1,100 men and officers are affected.
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Washington, D. C
Department of Commerce
War
Navy Departments
Peerless Bakery Grows With Modern Plant Upgrade
Peerless Baking company 402 04 Commercial street successors to the Bakied Baking company plans a $22,006 equipment upgrade. New machinery will include an electric wrapper to handle 1800 loaves per hour a seven barrel mixer and electric bread bun divider and moulder. The firm now employs 29 people with a $3000 monthly payroll and aims to expand across towns in the region. Grand opening slated for late February or March inviting public inspection and emphasizing cleanliness and efficiency under new officers E M Black president and W F P Schrag secretary treasurer.
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Peerless Baking Company
Commercial Street
Bakied Baking Company
E. M. Black
W. F P. Schrag
Black
Waterloo
Charles City
Schrag
Iowa Telephones Company
Aunde
W. F Sohrag
Modern PLC
United Neckwear Manufacturing Company Rise in Waterloo
The United Neckwear Manufacturing Company grew from a 13 by 8 room behind the Hummel hotel to the largest neckwear firm west of Chicago. It now employs 65 in Waterloo, produces over 3,500 numbers, and has a Minneapolis branch with Henry W. Mahler handling Minnesota sales. The firm surged with a major advertising push by N. W. Ayer & Son and expanded into new quarters and a public campaign, aiming for further growth in 1915.
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UNITED NECKWEAR MANUFAC _TURING COMPANY
Bluff Street
Hummel Hotel
Waterloo
United
United States
Robert C Pedersen
Cleveland H. Pedersen
Parkersburg
Pinkerton
Minnesota
Minneapolis
Henry W. Mahler
Mahler
United Neckwear Manufacturing Company
Chicago
N. W. Ayer & Son
R. Francis
Fice
East
Mississippi River
Neighbor Watchman Helps Empty House Case
A neighbor, warned by a caller, alerted police about a possible intrusion at an empty house on Second Street East. Officers rushed the scene at 1:30 AM and found three pale faced girls and two boys, all nervous, with several daughters of the household among them.
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Nolice
Joe
Second Street
Sho
Lin Place
Rome
Trio Hangs After Dance Trip Ends On Second Street
A woman who lived on Second Street and two daughters planned to stay at one girl’s home but altered plans after a dance. The three then decided to remain for the night on Second Street, with Wora escorted home by ercorta.
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Wora
Ercorta
Second Street
Small Towns Lax on Wheatless Meatless Days in Iowa
Reports from Clayton County and northern Iowa allege small towns ignore wheatless and meatless days. Jacob Lovingston of the Iowa Hotel and Restaurant Men's Association chairs the inquiry. WHT will investigate and inform food administrator J. F. Deems if findings prove the claims true.
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Iowa
Clayton County
Cra United States
Jacob Lovingston
Goven, Iowa Hotel & Htastaurant Men‘s Association
Toviogston
WHT
J. F. Deems
Salvation Army Aid and Christmas Gifts in Waterloo
Voluntary relief sustained by the Salvation Army under Capt John Paton with Good Fellows aid, distributing 126 haskats of dinners to the city poor at Christmas. Subscriptions neared 500 with 183 families and 614 children receiving remembrances from Water loo Good Fellows. Also notes a national expert Ray Berger to speak at Calvary Evangelical on organized Sunday classes. The Whip at Palace promises lively drama with strong cast and spectators immersed in life-like scenes.
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Salvation Army
John Paton
Church
Calvary Evangelical Church
Berger
International Sunday School Association
Chicag
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Foxxx
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Supreme Chorus
Joyland
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Prious
Gyan Thage
Vanity Fair
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William S. Hart
Thos. H. Ince
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