Senate Debates Arming Merchantmen In Navy Bill
Washington February 27 Open senate discussion on arming merchant vessels arose during naval bill debate. Senators Lafollette Swanson Lodge Norris Fall weighed rights to arm private ships with or without congressional authorization. The debate paused as revenue consideration resumed.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
la Trollette
la ¥Ollette
Swanson
Congress
Loge
Senator Lafollette
Lodge
Norris
Fall
Postoffice Bill May Fail To Pass
Washington reports the postoffice appropriation bill in doubt over the Reed bone-dry prohibition amendment. Conferees remain deadlocked on renewing pneumatic mail tube contracts in major cities for another year. The District of Columbia committee backed a senate bill with prohibitions for the capital and added amendments including a referendum. Prohibition advocates oppose any amendments.
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Washington
D. C
Postoffice
Senate
House
District of Columbia
National Capital
Proposes 6 Millions for Food Relief
Washington February 27 Senator Borah introduces resolutions to provide five million dollars for government relief in the food shortage. Attorney General Gregory replies that the Department of Justice cannot enforce the Sherman Antitrust Act without federal court cooperation. He notes some federal judges resist enforcing the act, and suggests policy views influence their interpretation.
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Washington, D. C
Borah
Senate
Gregory
Department of Justice
Executive Department
Atttorney
Germans Rush To Become Citizens
Germans seek naturalization across Iowa and other states as diplomatic ties with the United States break. A. H. Bode notes Germans filing first papers due to concerns about governance and long residence. In Grundy county five residents applied recently, with higher numbers in larger German communities.
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Iowa
A. H. Hode
St. Louis
Tice
Germany
United States
Bode
Grundy County
Bade
Women Withdraw From Inaugural Parade Over Protest
Washington D C Feb 27 Mrs James E Boggs president of the Womens Wilson union and her followers withdrew all women from the inaugural parade claiming executive board support and backing from many senators wives and other women s organizations The action followed a ruling by inaugural committee chairman Harper that state boats and automobile representations would not be allowed in the parade.
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Washington, D. C
James E. Boggs
Women’s Wilson Union
Borge
Harper
Two U S Passengers Die on Cunard Laconia Sinking
Reports from Washington say the Cunard liner Laconia was torpedoed off the Irish coast with no warning. Of 294 aboard 13 are lost including two American women and six crew members. Berlin claims Haig advances as British push toward Bapaume and Reims amid Meuse front actions.
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Cunard
Taconis
Guconia
Washington
Wilson
Lee
Somme
France
Haig
Bapaume
Eut-el-Amers
Laconia
Na- Hong
Berlin
Open Specifications Save City $30,000
It is estimated that 339,000 was the saving mave to Waterloo tax payers by open specifications on paying rather than closed bids for contracts. City engineer C. T. Wilson and asphalt expert John Baker pushed open specifications to admit materials on an equal basis, yielding notable savings amid higher material costs. Closed specifications have prevailed, but this precedent may popularize openness and ease taxpayer burdens.
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Waterloo
C. T. Wilson
John Baker
Iowa
German Retreat May Be Coup to End Trench War
Geneva via London reports German forces withdrawing from the Ancre region may signal a regrouping to seek a decisive open field engagement. The move follows Hindenburg’s prior command and sparks talk of a bold strategy to end trench warfare with a “warfare of motion.”
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Géneva
London
Ancre
Wesr
von Hindenburg
von Hindenhurs
Gerard Warned Not to Sail From Spain
Corunna Spain Feb 27 It became known that on the day he left Berlin ex Amb Gerard was warned personally by a German high official against sailing from Spain for the United States The warning known only to a few in Gerard s circle creates anxiety among Americans aboard the Infanta Teacher Gerard takes the warning seriously and considers it a grave notice
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Corunna
Spain
Paris
Berlin
Gerard
United States
Investigators Mum on What They Saw
Mayor W. St. Law and Councilmen J. W. Rickert and M. J. Morgan plan to submit their report on the one-man street car system at the adjourned city council meeting Thursday evening. The officials will meet to prepare the report but will not reveal recommendations until after the session. They have just returned from a tour of Kansas Texas and Oklahoma cities where they studied one-man car lines and expect to discuss plans for a new street car franchise at a later joint meeting with commercial and labor groups.
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W. St. Law
J. W. Rickert
M. J. Morgan
Kansas
Texas
Oklahoma
Workingmen-Patrons
Bad Check Penalty Made Less Severe
The legislature reduced the penalty for passing a bad check from six months in jail or a $500 fine to a $100 fine or 30 days in jail. The revised bill has passed the senate and is endorsed by Waterloo bankers and merchants. Also noted is a request to the state railroad Commission to prevent railroads from requiring 40 000 pound carloads of flour, which would burden grocers.
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Fred Fenton
Waterloo Retail Merchant's Association
Arch McFarlane
Senate
Waterloo Bankers
The
Metall Merchants’ Association
State Railroad Commission
Fenton
Cowan Completes Purchase Of Leavitt Estate Property
W B E Cowan of Gronen and Cowan buys the Leavitt estate parcel at 534 Commercial Street part of the store site used by Paul Davis Pry Goods. The deed signed today transfers the property portion, leased to the Davis company for years, with a 2 foot frontage and 140 foot depth. Purchase price not disclosed.
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Paul Davis Pry Goods Company
W. BE. Cowan
Gronen & Cowan
Leavitt
Commercial Street
Davis Company
Men Guests At Frotherhood Dinner At Linden Church
The first Brotherhood of Linen M. E. church supper drew male guests who brought a guest each. After talks by Dr J Lockwood and Walter Mead the evening featured music. The group plans to make the men and boys supper an annual event. Dr J W Holland of Cedar Falls will present a monolog The Singular Life at Linden church Friday evening.
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Bors
Brotherhood of Linen
M. E. Church
J. Lockwood
Walter Mead
Brotherhood
J. W. Holland
Cedar Falls
Linden Church
Trial of Dr Anna Longshore Delayed Again
Judge W Mullan ordered two physicians to examine Dr Anna Longshore and report before the case is called tomorrow. Early today it was reported she had suddenly fallen ill and is under medical care, prompting a possible further postponement of the long delayed trial.
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Anna Longshore
W. Mullan
East High Students Tour Black Hawk Coffee Plant
More than 200 students from East High School visited the Black Hawk Coffee and Spica company plant, touring the building and learning the various processes from firm staff. An eighth grade class inspected in the morning and another in the afternoon.
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East High School
Black Hawk Coffee & Spica Company
Yeomen and Watering teams prep city initiation event
The Yeomen degree drift team of William Tell homestead plans initiation ceremonies at Cedar Falls Friday evening after a long membership contest. The Watering team, among the state’s best, expects to join national contests in Detroit Michigan next June.
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William Tell Homestead
Cedar Falls
Detroit
Mich
Reno Divorce Upheld in New York Appeal
The New York appellate division denied Joseph Kaufman’s bid to annul his marriage to Angela Kaufman citing a Reno divorce decree. Kaufman financed the Nevada suit and supported his wife during the residence there, arguing her Reno marriage to actor John David Buckley was invalid.
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New York
Reno
Supreme Court
Joseph Kaufman
Angela Kaufman
Kaufman
Nevada
John David Buckley
Buckley
Congress Work on Armament and Civil Bills
Foreign relations committee began consideration of a bill to empower the president to arm ships. Military affairs committee continued deliberation on the army appropriation bill. Naval bill’s mending resumed and revenue bill debated. House discussed the sundry civil bill. District committee reported that the Senate prohibition will be amended. Foreign affairs committee considered the Flood bill to empower the president to arm ships and adjourned at 4 p.m.
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Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
Hoube
District of Committie
Foreign Affairs Committee
Peace Federation Protests President Over War Powers Request
Washington February 27 Senators and representatives received telegrams from the Emergency Peace Federation protesting the authority asked from Congress by the president. A delegation led by Jane Addams of Chicago would seek an audience tomorrow with the president and the foreign affairs committee to oppose steps described as aimed at war between the United States and Germany.
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Washington
Emergency Peace Federation
Congress
Jane Addams
Chicago
Foreign Affairs Committee of Congrees
United States
Germany
City in Brief Items From Waterloo and Surroundings
A patchwork city in brief covers local notices from Waterloo. Residents report travels, births, and community events, including license issuance and announces of visitors to and from Chicago, St Paul, and Santa Fe, with several names and addresses noted alongside updates on family matters and local appointments.
Closing prices today of wow York stock exchange
Special wire from New York lists closing values for many major stocks including American Sugar Anaconda Copper Baldwin Locomotive California Petroleum Canadian Pacific Central Leather Colorado Fuel Electric Power General Electric Great Northern Ore Chesapeake and Ohio International Paper Louisville and Nashville Mexican Petroleum Northern Pacific Reading Republic Iron and Steel Southern Railway Texas Corporation United States Steel Western Union and more.
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Courier
New York
Allin Chalmers
American Beer Sugar
American
American Locomotive
American Smelting
American Sugar
Anaconda Copper O
Alchienm Cocci Ee
Baldwin Eacomotive
Baltimore
Central Leather
Chesapeake and Lihte
Vt Mand
Colorado Fuel
Crucible Steel
Cuba
Fin
SRM
Minois Central Tercester
Er Marin
Internati
Heligh Valles
Stand ard Oil seeks indemnity for Roumania losses
New York February Standard Oil Company will seek indemnity for destruction of its oil properties in Roumania during the German invasion. The action targets damages caused to the company’s assets amid wartime upheaval and seeks recovery of losses sustained.
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New York
Standard Oil Company
Roumania
Missionary Society Meeting and Prayer Session Announced
The Woman's Missionary society of the United Presbyterian church holds an all day meeting at Mrs. David Gibson's home 4058 Talmeres street with lunch at 15 cents. District No 7 west division cottage prayer meeting is at William A B Graham 626 Park Avenue West. Kawkere camp No 137 WL meets at 83 p m today in Labor Temple hall.
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Woman's Missionary Society of the
United Presbyterian Church
David Gibson
Talmere Street
Noted Publisher Howland Dies in New York Office
William Bailey Howland, president of the Independent Corporation and publisher of The Independent, Harper's Weekly, and The Countryside Magazine, died suddenly in his office today from angina pectoris. War department opened hydro airplane bids. prices showed about 12 000 to 15 000 per machine. Census estimates place New York City's 1916 population at 5 692 800.
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New York
William Bailey Howland
Independent Corporation
Whed
The
Independent
Harper's Workly
Countryside Magazine
Mumber
Census Bureau
New York City
Aeroplane Story of a World War I Pilot
In a wartime reminiscence Joe Goodall recalls flying toward a German munitions complex at low altitude. He explains bombing and grenade tactics, a horse charge, a wrecking auto pursuit, and a dramatic escape back to British lines, ending with his injury from a pursuing foe. The account blends wartime bravado with peril and survival.
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Alan Hinsdale
Joe Goodall
Moe
England
Flanders
Aeroplane Corps
Renan
Splea
Korea
Paul T
Antoine's dash earns praise after brave misstep at front
A French boy Antoine de Faire, seventeen, longs for war but is kept from enlisting. He is later accused of cowardice for retreating with shells, yet a court martial reveals a clever ruse: shells were wooden and filled with sand due to enemy substitution. He is vindicated and promoted, with Louise praising him. Ordinary paper is reborn as pulp. a tiny radium pinhead is valued at $5,000.
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Loulan Boyer
Wsiognene Antonna
Antoine
Ipi
Lonise
Ike
Jon Gap Hetsteen
Jon Gap Hetsteen Tre Rinpes
Tro ¢Annon
Comrae
Tia
Louise
Battlefeld
France
Heutensat
Louigs
Tagore Fame in India Revealed by Tale of a Forest Fire
Ernest Rhys recounts Rabindranath Tagore's rise to fame in India through a story told by Montague, an Indian official. A night ride ends by a forest clearing where a poor boy sings beauty new to the listener, and the boy’s songmaker is revealed as Tagore.
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Tagore
India
Rabindrapath Tagore
Ernest Rhys
Montague
Suite For
Mouth antisepsis and prolonged rinsing advised
The article argues that tooth brushing alone is insufficient for germicidal action and antiseptics must remain in contact with teeth for minutes. It notes that laboratory tests overstate effectiveness and emphasizes longer exposure for real mouth care. It cites London Lancet on extended antiseptic rinsing.
Courier patterns and apron pattern order form
Courier Patterns offers up to date designs with a coupon and ten cent charge per pattern. Send orders to Evening Courier Fashion Department for patterns including the 10W A Neat Cover All apron in small medium and large sizes requiring five yards of 36 inch material for medium size.
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Dessign
Pashion
Evening Courier
Waterloo
Price Lite
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Santa Fe
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Lester Township
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