Cedar Falls Notes Wide Interest and Local Events
Cedar Falls society and civic notices dominate this town column. Parties, meetings, and entertainments fill the week including a Mythian Sisters card party at Macatee hall, a Cedar Falls Traveling Men's banquet with Paul M. Ray as president, and several church and club gatherings led by local figures such as Mrs. Nellie Pierce Woodruff and Prof. H il Hells.
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Wodar
Mythian
Maccatee Hall
K. Tms
Cedar Falls
Commercial Clubs
Saturda
Paul and Mahoney
Naw
Paul M. Ray
C. F. Brown
Commercial Street
Waterloo
Ak & Courte
Nellie Pierce Woodruff
Boston
Edward ¥. Smith
Chicago
Mary Consigney
Nora C. Crandall
Leso
Main Street
Alpha Beta Gammi
F.C
Flack Hawk Hotel
Evenins Cay Mire
Anna Severin
Anne Severin
Rochester
Minn
West Fourth
G. W. Sarason, Jr
Firs Methodist Church
GG. Orcutt
H. Il Hells
O. TB. Reed
A. IL. Speer
Fir Methodist Church
John Caldwell
Junior High School Plan to Ease Overcrowding In Waterloo
Waterloo school board meets to study a junior high system as a solution to overcrowded grade schools and an impending inadequacy of the new high school. The plan would create elementary, junior high, and high school divisions, using existing buildings in John Fiske and a new high school slated for completion in September 1918. It aims to keep students in school longer by eliminating the current eighth grade jump and distributing grades across three campuses. In Atlantis, Lenna Bakerink, 5, died from poisoning after ingesting strychnine and bella donna tablets. parents and doctors attended to the child during and after the incident.
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Ast Waterloo School Board
Levery
John Fiske
C. W. Line
Atlantis
Lenna Bakerink
Chester Wakerink
Atlantic
Dleath
Snow storms make washing a drudgery aded health risk
An old advertisement from Ware LG Laundry Co promotes pound rites claiming washing becomes tedious and dangerous during snow storms, urging readers to use their service to avoid hardship and preserve health.
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Ware LG Laundry CO
Waterloo Laundry
Waterloo Laundry CO
Valveless Courte Pump Demonstration Impresses Engineers
Engineers from Filecirical and sVatemony witnessed Saturday's basement demonstration of the Courte valveless plunger pump at the Citizens Gas & Electric building. The vertical duplex single-acting displacement pump impressed observers as a radical departure from prior designs, featuring a rotating hollow piston with a lower open half and a shifting port mechanism for suction and discharge.
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Filecirical
sVatemony
Citizens Gag & Electric Company
District prayer meeting schedule by division and volunteers
District No. 1 west division sets 2 30 p m prayer Tuesday with other districts at 7 30 p m As usual a long list of volunteers hosts across districts including Bernheisel Moss Mesick Lowe Call Grunig Dozier Walker Vans Colton Newell Dawson Mopes Jobson Allen Cleveland Thompson and others at various streets and avenues across the city
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West Division
Bernheisel
Black Yinwit Fond
Vic M. Moss
Edwin Mesick
Ani al
Lowe
Jefferson
W. Call
Mr . Gruni
J. K. Mandy
Sheldon
Carrie Pettierew
Cottage Street
Sen. F. McCleery
Beech
H. Lt. Arthur
Jitens
J. BG. Tells
Center
David Stevenson
George Smith
Itsehl
W. Thomas
Reed Street
Hood's Sarsaparilla and Peptiron Pills Ad
The advertisement promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as a remedy for rheumatism catarrh scrofula eczema and other blood conditions. It touts Peptiron Pills as a companion tonic enhancing nerve and blood health. It urges daily use before meals with after meal Peptiron intake and claims thousands of families use them.
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Hood
War Front Moves and Aerial Sinking Reported
British and German reports recount heavy German casualties on the Ancre front as waves attacked under British artillery, with 730 German prisoners taken by the British and 130 Britons captured by the Germans at Ducre. Submarine actions claim multiple vessels sunk, signaling intensified naval warfare while crop forecasts in Indiana show corn prices rising and farmers expanding beef and dairy ventures.
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Ancre
France
British War Office
Berlin War Office
Ducre
Back To Farm Fever Grips Illinois Residents
M L Bowman reported a clear back to the farm trend across Illinois after a ten day state tour. He held short courses and judged corn shows in Adrian Dallas City and Naperville. Bowman noted wealthy residents in Page County returning to farm life, building new homes and commuting by automobile to work, prioritizing rural living over urban amusements.
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Ilinois
M. L. Bowman
Adrian
Dallas City
Naperville
Illinois
Page County
Mr. Bowman
Record Cab Price Hit Amid Blizzard Frosts
San Benito Texas February 19 cab pages have risen to 125 dollars a ton, the highest level in the lower Rio Grande valley. Commission men attribute the surge to the recent freeze, saying demand and supply pressures drive the record.
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San Benito
Tex
Davenport Manufacturers Offer War Supply Services
Davenport Iowa February 19 Davenport members of the Iowa State Manufacturers association will unanimously answer the plea of the state association for information on what war supplies they can produce if needed They will offer the services and equipment of their organization to the government according to local officers Secretary Wrightman said they received requests for this information today
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Davenport
Iowa State Manufacturers ‘Association
Wrightman
Pershing Followers Returned to Mexico
In Columbus New Mexico on February 19 the last of about 2,700 Mexican refugees have left for various New Mexico work sites. Only 516 Chinese remain, with the Chinese consul arriving to coordinate with immigration over their future. He requests merchants may stay in U S while laborers are interned or sent to Juarez. A local want ad is noted as likely to produce results.
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Columbus
N. M
New Mexico
Gen. Pershing
Immigration Department
Juarez
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