Magnificent Waterloo public buildings program under way
A sweeping Waterloo building program for 1922 aims at 1.5 million dollars in major projects including a Masonic temple Allen Memorial Home Ellis house and several churches and apartments. West High School will finish next summer at 850000. Numerous smaller offices and business structures are planned as financial conditions normalize.
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Currie-Simpson Gomneny
Papers Filed With County Recorder In 1925
A 1925 record shows Miss Jennie S Bird county recorder in 1921 with filings totaling 12 035. The year reflects a drop of 3 665 instruments from 1924 while noting 1920 was unprecedented in recorder history.
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Jennie S. Bird
Waterloo public works expenditures exceed two hundred eighty seven thousand
Waterloo's city council reports 12 month outlays topping 287000 with 257688.19 spent on paving and improvements including 40 and 22.23 for municipal waterworks. paving covered Fletcher avenue Byrnes drive Smith street Arlington street and others. 1.8 miles of sanitary sewers cost 26976.07 across Campbell Sixth West Newton Vaughan Avalon Ballou Forest and other streets.
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Campbell Avenue
Sixth Street
Newton Street
Westfield Avenue
Vaughan Street
Avalon Avenue
Ballou Street
Forest Avenue
Cutler Street
Oliver Street
Gable Street
Kern
Hope Street
Arington Street
Cottage Grove
Illinois Central Spends $404000 Here During Year
The Illinois Central Railway, The Old Reliable, and Waterloo's leading industry spent $404,000 on permanent city improvements in the past year. About $216,000 went to Waterloo shops for enlarging equipment for new high power locomotives, including a 100 foot electrically controlled turntable and expanded roundhouse facilities. Additional improvements covered yard trackage, heavier rails, and improved icel ose capacity. An interlocking switch at the northern junction with W. C. FL & N cost $60,000. Thirty-two new engines were assigned to Waterloo, each valued at $1,000, totaling $2,850,000 if assembled locally. Waterloo’s shops rank second largest in the system, with capacity to rebuild 10 engines monthly and to ice 26,900 to 30,000 cars of perishable freight yearly. Approximately 1,806 employees work in Waterloo, with a payroll around $2,000,000 for the year.
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Waterloo
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Marsh Place
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Ilinois Central Company
Teames
Illinois Central Railway System
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Fourth Street East
Europe Peace Seen Key to American Prosperity
Chicago December 31 1921 commentary notes a continued postwar depression driven by European instability. It urges patience with debt laden European nations, supports James Simpson’s plan to fund debts over twenty years, and forecasts armament conference progress and lower interest rates as vital to restoring prosperity. Economic risks loom from tariffs taxes and uncertain policy.
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Chicago
Europe
James AB. Forgan
First National Bank of Chicago
First Trust & Savings Bank
James Simpison
Washington
Damocles
Federal Reserve Banks
Federal Reserve
Spirit of Progress in Waterloo Building Boom Shines
Waterloo's 1921 building year totals 2 201 286 with $519 000 in business buildings schools and churches and 505 305 in new residences plus 136 725 in private garages and 257 688 municipal paving. The report credits civic effort and notes First Presbyterian and First Baptist churches and Allen Memorial hospital began, with 201 garages and numerous remodeling jobs. Major improvements by Illinois Central RR add 404 000, while city projects cost 257 688.
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First Presbyterian Church
First Baptist Church
Allen Memorial Hospital
Bankers Brace for Lower Rates and Weaker Earnings
The speech warns that rediscounting should remain above market to aid banks as a final resort, not for profit. It predicts interest rates will fall next year amid bank losses, with earnings likely weaker than in war years. The convalescence after the war is expected to be lengthy, though progress and scar removal are noted.
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Federal Reserve Anks
County treasurer reports 1921 tax take over two million
Ed Madigan county treasurer reports 1921 tax collections up to December 24 totaling 2,805,066.47 with allocations to regular tax, specials, auto licenses, and miscellaneous. Deputy A Bunn tabulated results. 9,100 automobiles licensed in 1921 and daily over the counter motor vehicle license receipts ranged 6,000 to 10,000 in late December. Spain eyes bus concessions with Madrid rights seen amid British competition.
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Ed Madigan
Waterloo
A. Bunn
Waterloo Phones Serve 60,000,000 Persons In Year
The Northwestern Bell Telephone Company's Waterloo office reports about 63,000 local calls daily and 22,955 total connections in the year 1921. Conversations reached nearly 146,000,000 people. 2,600 long distance calls daily added 949,000 talks. About 100 operators were employed. $10,000 was spent on 1921 construction with a net gain of 200 station telephones. Upgrades included cafeteria and restrooms. long distance facilities expanded by roughly 50 percent with new copper circuits to Minneapolis and Omaha. Future plans include $20,000 for cabling Homes Park and Prospect additions.
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Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
New York Trust Company
Hawkeye
Enaretore
Tocal
Northwestern Telephone Company
Waterloo
Minnneapolis
Omaha
Homes Park
Prospect
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