Utilities Bill Hearing Today Prominent Iowa Officials Attend
Des Moines Iowa February 9 special report city officials from Waterloo Cedar Rapids Owatonna Davenport Atlantic Marshalltown and others attend a senate committee public hearing on the Samine bill to create a five member Iowa board of railroad and public utility regulation. Des Moines opposes ceding control arguing for state oversight. The house commerce committee considers a separate counsel bill to prosecute public utilities for poor service or high rates. Bob Fitzsimmons appears at the Crystal Theatre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa League of Municipalities
Senate
Waterloo
Cedar Rapids
Ows City
Davenport
Atlantic
Marshalltown
Iowa
Railway Commission
Samimis
Iowa Board of Railroad Commissioners
Railroad Commission
Vormamerce
House of Representatives
Committee On Railroads
Commerce Counsel Bil
Laxative Cough Syrup Claims Quick Cures at Home
An old home remedy advertises a laxative cough syrup that allegedly cures coughs and colds within hours. It promises relief for grippe sore throat and bronchitis, claims one pint costs under 30 cents, and provides a simple formula using essence menthol laxene and granulated sugar.
Sunny Monday soap promotes fabric care over rosin soaps
The ad contrasts rosin soap with Sunny Monday claiming rosin soaps wear fabrics due to 20 to 40 percent rosin. Sunny Monday supposedly lasts longer and contains no rosin, using fats and vegetable oils for cleansing, urging readers to choose the gentler, superior option.
Amusements This Week Norwoods and Sherman Stock Co
The Norwoods continue at the Syndicate this week with hypnotic and telepathy acts drawing big crowds. The Sherman Stock Company performs the Waterloo theatre all week with new plays. box office seats before 6 pm cost 10 cents, and a Saturday matinee at 2 30 offers 10 cent tickets for all.
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Norwoods
Sherman Stock CO
Sherman Stock Company
Waterloo Theatre
Suit Over Life Policy Payment Seeks Balance
Ladema A. Hall sues American Nobles to recover 766.72 plus full face value of a 1000 life policy on Charles D. Hall who died December 9, 1916, claiming partial payment and a later contract change while Hall was mentally incapacitated. Also notes two other civil actions including Vorbeck grocery account and Byvank vs Chicago Great Western about a wrecked automobile.
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Ladema A. Hall
Charles D. Hall
Clarinda
Clais
Castle No. 16
Winterset
District Court
Meisch & Pint
Carl R. Vorbeck
Lottie Vorbeck
Carl Vorbeck
B. H. Byvank
Chicago Great Western Railway
Byvyank
North Waterloo and Railroads and Local Personal Note
North Waterloo and Railroads features multiple movements as E. and Streamer plus several residents attend the Blackman funeral at Iowa Falls conducted by the Knights of Pythias. Others travel for business, private car policy inquiry, and notices on Louis Brandies and Mrs. F C Odell amid Waterloo area activity.
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E. &. Streamer
North Waterloo
Blackman
Iowa Falls
Knights of Pythias Lodge
F. A. Sparle
F. 5. Lucas
Cedar Rapids
Shriners
Dr. Mason
M. H. Loomer
T. A. Sweeney
Great Western
Des Moines
T. B. Crockerly
George Sitts
Los Angeles
W. Bown
Galveston
Texas
Ralston
P. Jensen
Brownsville
Matt Vaughan
Portales
New Mexico
Vaughan Land Company
Louis L. Moore
Dallas
Dubuque
Chicago
St. Louis
W. B. Addy
Interstate Commerce Commission
The
Louis D. Brandies
Ernest Poole
Mr. Brandies
Gravis-Ballinger
Atlantic Seaboard
Farm group plans funds to save road in Atlantic region
President H S Rattenberg of the Atlantic Northern Southern has gathered signatures from about 100 farmers in Cass and Audubon counties for 125000 dollars in paper to raise cash and lift the road from financial trouble. About 25000 dollars in tax money is available, enabling liens to be cleared and first mortgage bonds issued for more funds. The effort, chiefly from Danish farmers, aims to avert receivership for the road and secure its future.
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Atlantic
H. 5S. Rattenberg
Atlantic Northern & Southern
Cass
Audubon
Orange Township School Meeting Set for February 17
District representatives announce a program for patrons pupils and teachers at Orange township hall February 17. The morning session features talks on The Teacher as a Housekeeper Primary Language Primary Geography Penmanship in the Rural Schools with noon lunch and afternoon talks on The School Heating Plant Present Arrangements of the School Term Nine Months of School Why the Parents Do Not Visit the Schools Unnecessary Absence and more led by a roster of teachers and local officials.
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Orange Township
Clara Tutt
Miss Wirt
Bennett
Lizzie Fike
Lilian Blough
Tannreather
W. H. Manst
Silas Mijer
EB. M. Lichty
Ed Stokes
P. J. Blough
Bontrager
Party Leaders On Sick List Threaten House Session
Washington February 9 With three and a half weeks left in the session a serious strain looms as leaders Payne Daizell and Champ Clark are reported ill The ailing Speaker Cannon battles a severe cold and often yields the gavel to Olmstead or Mann while remaining at sessions for long hours
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Washington
House of Representatives
Payne
Daizell
Champ Clark
Missouri
Cannon
House
Olmstead
Pennsylvania
Mann
Inois
Indians in council claim Black Hills
An Indian council near Cherry Creek on the Cheyenne River draws delegates from Sioux reservations across the northwest. They assert they never relinquished title to the Black Hills, claim a right to the entire area with mines ranches and towns, and seek government compensation rather than possession. Delegates traveled by train and auto for a business like gathering without ceremonial pageantry.
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Pierre
D. D
Cherry Creek
Cheyenne River
Northwest
Black Hills
Standing Rock
Pine Ridge
Rosebud
Lower Brule
Dakotas
Santee
Nebraska
Tongue River
Montana
Wisconsin bills target dangerous deer hunting practices
Madison Wisconsin February 9 Assemblyman Fred W Draper of Neillsville introduced a bill making it a felony to shoot at a person under the impression they are a deer with penalties of three to five years in prison. If death results the offense is manslaughter with three to seven years. A second bill limits deer kills to one per hunter and requires an affidavit for shipment.
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Madison
Wis
Fred W. Draper
Neillsville
Socialist Lehr Reich: Oscar Ameringer Lectures on Class Struggles
Oscar Ameringer of Oklahoma City delivered a two hour talk on Class Struggles in the junior senior assembly room of the manual training building. He argued that democracy is a class rule and that finance and politics serve the rich, urging workers to study problems and use the ballot as their weapon.
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Oscar Ameringer
Oklahoma City
Spielers
John B. Shank
England
Boy Dies of Grief Over Exam Failure in New Jersey
Morris Henkel, 13, of Orange New Jersey, collapsed and died after a teachers error announced he failed his eighth grade final. The principal later rechecked papers and found Henkel had passed. the miscalculation caused the tragedy.
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Orange
N. J
Morris Henkel
Henkel
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Bob Fitzsimmons
Crystal Theatre
N. K. Fairbank Company
A. D. Woodruff Co
West Fourth Street
Consolidated Service Phone
Night
North Waterloo and Railroads
Waverly
Louis Murray
H. A. Murray
Louis
Geneva
Neb
F. C. Odell
Orange School Meeting
Payne, Dalzell, Cannon and
Clark
J. K. Yoder & Son
Indians IN Council
Bill
Wisconsin
Qogiligt
South
Bob Fitzsimmon
Branpreth
Allcock
Laster Aflf
Grocer’s
Tone Bros
Lows
Miliers
Tome Bros. Spices
California
Kansas City
B. I. Lines
el Paso
MO. G. Farmer
America
All-Steel 20Th Century Limited
New York
Lake Shore
Niagara Falls
Michigan Central
Wolverine
Michigan Central Limited
Grand Central Terminal
L. P. Heusner
L. S
M. S
J. P. Spining
Ae Sa Lines
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