Finger Prints Taken of Maw and Suspect Fred Thomas
Police hold Fred Thomas as a suspect linked to the Industrial Workers of the World while awaiting a broader inquiry. Captain Garrison sent prints to the national bureau of investigation and Chief Caldwell seized a Savage revolver and I. L. W. literature from Thomas’s room. Thomas silent, offering no aid to officers. A tramp who demanded a ride on an Illinois Central engine was stopped by the engineman and disappeared. New Year’s Eve drunks were released to start 1915, and one patrolman sent home 21 intoxicated individuals.
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Fred Thomas
Industrial Workers of the World
Howard Garrison
National Bureau of Investigation
J. D. Caldwell
Ll. W. W
Thomas
Aes
Bum
Katte
P. R. Griffin
Illinois Central
Griffin
Stewburns
J. C. Beem
Templar Rites to Be Memorable
Plans are underway for the installation of officers of Ascalon Commandery Knights Templar at Mason Hall Friday evening. Eminent Grand Commander Charles Schlechter and J. C. Elwell will attend with installing duties. An illustrated address by T. F. Tobin on Jerusalem follows a dinnerserved at 6:30 by Eastern Star members. The banquet emphasizes food conservation with no white bread beef or pork.
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Ascalon
Knights Templar
Masonic
Eastern Star
Huntington
Charles Schlechter
Burlington
J. C. Elwell
Des Moines
T. F. Tobin
Vinton
Jerusalem
Yankees Like Real Scrappers In Europe Tale
Paris reports a breezy diary note from an American officer who signed in the visitors’ book as First Lieut. John Blank from North Platte Nebraska with M O R C initials. He reveals Missouri Oklahoma Rifle Corps as his unit, illustrating Yankee spirit in Europe. A Paris incident then follows, a quarrel between a veterinary lieutenant and a dentist lieutenant over which branch was nearest the front.
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Paris
London
Diehonnair
American Express Company
John ‘Blank
North Platte
Neb
United States
Blank
Missouri-Oklahoma Rifle Corps
Europe
Leutenant
THINGS THEATRICAL HERE AT HOME AT WATERLOO AND PLAZA
A multi venue notice covers Waterloo and Majestic Plaza theatres. It highlights Any Man's Sister at Waterloo Theatre with moral themes and charity, burlesque The Girls From Joyland, Vanity Pair at Majestic, war pictures The Retreat of the Germans at Arras, and Baby Osborne’s A Little Patriot at Plaza, plus The Whip at Palace with famed train wreck and Saratoga horse race scenes.
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Waterloo
Arras
Majestic Theatre
Saratoga
Palace Theatre
The Heart of a Lion at Crystal Theatre
Wim Farnum stars in The Heart of a Lion at the Crystal Theatre tonight through Thursday. Based on Ralph Connor novel The Doctor the film is touted as one of his best efforts with dramatic action and emotional moments.
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Wim. Farnum
the Crystal
Wm. Farnum
the Doctor
Ralph Connor
Crystal Theatre
Boy of 61 Punches His Father in Court
Salem Massachusetts Jan 1 Thomas Chadwick of Manchester New Hampshire age 32 and his son William just turning 61 faced Judge Battis in the local district court on mutual assault charges. The pair argued over food conservation and exchanged black eyes and swollen noses before a policeman separated them. The judge released them after they promised to stop quarreling. Young Chadwick admitted fault saying he got excited and punched his father adding the elder has some jowl left.
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Salem
Mass
Thomas Chadwick
Manchester
N. H
William
Battis
Chadwick
Picketts Oratorical Impact Praised In Iowa Letter
Des Moines correspondent G. Pugh reviews Charles B. Pickett of Waterloo after a loyalty meeting in Des Moines. The Stuart Herald excerpt calls Pickett one of Iowa’s best speakers, praising his war earnestness and how his address spurred Red Cross support and Army aid, inspiring Americans to live up to democratic traditions.
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Cc. G. Pugh
Des Moines
Charles. E. Pickett
Waterloo
Mr. Pickett
Stuart Herald
Iowa
Charles B. Pickett
Clay
Red Cross
Bargains in Used Furniture and Home Goods
The ad lists bargains on kitchen cabinets, a princess dresser with mirror, a library table, oak furniture, a square dining table, an Eclipse gas range, a washing machine and wringer, a hitchin base, and a dresser. It notes accepting used furniture, stoves, and refrigerators as part payment on new, with packing and prepaid freight on town shipments.
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St Oven
Eclipse
Central Labor Union Nominating Night Wednesday
The Central Labor Union will meet in Maxwell hall tomorrow night to nominate officers for the ensuing term. The session will focus on business with no address this time. Reports on petitions for free textbooks to voters in two city school districts will be reviewed and, if sufficient, presented to education boards soon. Representative A W McFarlane has written to local chambers seeking positions on the issue. A Red Cross auction in Elma Iowa raised 567365 dollars.
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Maxwell Hall
Boards of Education
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I. W. W. May
Templar
Waterloo Theatre
Joyland
Baby Marie
Miss Liebrand
Pacific Coast
Plaza Theatre
W. J. Nichols
Central Labor Union Meeting
A. W. McFarlane
General Assembly
Commercial Club
Chamber of Commerce
Elma
the Waterloo
Funny Billy Gilbert
Charus
Joyland Beauties
Captain Kidd
Ender
the Master Mind
Murice
Tourneur
Palace Pictures
Wastic
Vanity Fair
Waterloo Evening Courier
Daily Reporter
Middle West
Decatur
Ibnois
Danville
Winois
Cedar Rapids
Davenport
Marshalltown
Minneapolis
Carrier Boys
Cedar Falls
W. H. Hartman CO
Family Theatre
Dorothy Phillips
Bluebini
Billie West
Nestor
Vivian Reed
Ormi Hawley
Earl Metcalf
Crystal
Farnum
Ham and Bud
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