Garment Factory Grows From Tiny Pettigoat Shop
Waterloo Garment company rose from a Maple street home operation to a factory at Glenwood and South Barclay employing nearly 100 workers in normal times and up to 200 during rush periods. George B. McWilliams presides, a venture started by his mother making petticoats over twenty years ago. The firm runs two retail stores at 426 Fourth Street East and aims to expand across Iowa with Fonda Mae frocks and international sales. Guy N. Lee manages Waterloo Garment. local and other city businessmen hold stock.
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Maple Street
Waterloo, Garment Company
Glenwood
South Barclay Streets
George B. McWilliams
Waterloo Garment Company
McWilliams
McWilliama
Fourth Street East
Fonda Mae
Iowa
United States
South America
Cape
Guy N. Lee
Waterloo. Garment Company
Waterloo
New Presbyterian Hospital Building Plans Under Way
Architects draft tentative plans for a new Presbyterian hospital to replace the current building, which is too small. A fundraising campaign will launch soon led by committees of citizens, physicians, nurses, and board members. About 30,000 is on hand including 16,000 from the hospital auxiliary. Plans place the new facility on Leavitt street near the present site.
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Planus
Presbyterian Hospital
Presbyterian Hospital Auxiliary
Leavitt Street
Eighth
Ninth
Clinton Shockey
Lichty Group Buys Hillman Interest in Grocer Firm
George E Lichty and Associates acquire Worth B Hillman’s stake in Smith Lichty Hillman Co a wholesale grocer. Change in stock ownership effective Jan 2 leaves policy and name unchanged. The firm traces to 1890 with Lichty Hillman and Smith as original officers. Lichty remains president with Burr Lichty and Louis Fowler in key posts.
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George E. Lichty
Worth BG. Hillman
Smith, Lichty & Hillman Co
Lichty
Hillman
Billman
Finn
E. B. Smith
Hen S. Hilliman
George B. Lichty
Smith
Hilliman
Annie Hillman
William O. Illingworth
Worth B
Worth Hillman
Worth B. Hillman
Lows State
Sycamore Street
Burr Lichty
Louis H. Fowler
W. J. Banks
Robert J. Lichty
HB. Harmon
Fowler Company
Hung
A. T. Weatherwax & Son
Foreigners return to quake wrecked Yokohama after decade
After the 1923 Yokohama earthquake, foreigners dwindled to a few hundred. By October, about 3,500 foreigners remained, less than half the pre quake total, while construction progress drew some back to the port. The report contrasts crime rates with Chicago versus the British Isles.
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Tokio
Yokohama
Black Hawk County Home and Hospital Housing 89 Inmates
Black Hawk County operates a county home and hospital on 280 acres near Mt. Vernon, housing 89 inmates with 54 in the hospital for incurable insanity and 35 in the county home. Stewards Morris and Morris supervise 15 years of farm management, with 14 horses and 36 cattle and 120 other animals on the farm. The 1924 administration building includes a chapel and dining room connected to the hospital by an underground passage, and meals are carefully portioned for inmates. Management emphasizes economy and sanitation, costing about 12 dollars per patient monthly.
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Black Hawk County
Mt. Vernon Township
Waterloo
Morris
Glenn W. Morris
Home and Hospital
Seattle
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McWilliams Home
New Presbyterian Hospital
George E. Lichty and Associates
Grocer Concern
Black Hawk Coffee & Spite Co
Smith, Lichty & Hullman Co
National
Whole Sale Grocers Association
Ben Willman
George Eblichty
Selzer
Commercial St
Chicago
British Isles
Massachusetts
Waterloo Savings Bank
Emmons Johnson
E. L. Johnson
Carl R. Davis
Greten Furs
H.F. Greten & Co
Bridge Street
Burch’s Womens Misses & Childrens Apparel
I Et Tishey
East Fourth Street
Bolivia
Children’s Department
Nrica
England
Germany
Mittens
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