Hudson man dies in Alaska without clear heirs
Will Waltman, long time Hudson area resident, died in March 1928 on an Alaskan island. His brothers Fred and Westley seek to locate heirs as administrators report a Kept niece Florence Lyden once dwelling in Waterloo Kansas and an insurance beneficiary in Kansas. Attempts to contact Lyden failed. Waltman, 57, born on a nearby farm, left Hudson 35 years ago for Seattle and later Alaska, where he worked in rail and freight boating. He was unmarried.
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Courier Special Service
Hudson
Wil Wallman
Hudson Vicinity
Northwest
Alaska
Fred
Westley
Leo Waltman
Wesley Weltman
Waltman
Waterloo
Florence Lyden
Y Waltman
Seattle
Wash
Independence adopts power rate cut ordinance
The Independence city council approved a scale reduction of 1 cent per step up to 200 kilowatt hours and a 10 percent discount for all usage over 1 000 kilowatt hours within 30 days of meter reading. A separate note reports injuries at the power plant and local birth and fishing highlights.
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Courier Special Service
Independence
Jan
George Pates
Independence Ice Company
People's Hospital
Joseph ‘Turley
Winthrop
James Bettle
Town City
George
Wendling
Fairbank
Here
OG. H. Haney
Nashua Congregational Church to Hold Yearly Session
Nashua Ja Jan 18 Annual business meeting of the Congregational church will be held at the church Thursday evening Jan 24 A pot luck supper will precede the session The Friendly society will be entertained the preceding day at the parsonage by Mrs J L Moorison assisted by Mrs C D Bushing Mrs J B Watson and Mrs A W Lemkuhle The American Legion will sponsor a play Sixty Miles An Hour at Seaman opera house Jun 21 and 22 Mrs Dee Butler Delhi is here because of the critical condition of her father Peter Bonzer who had an operation several weeks ago Mrs R L Gagley entertained her bridge club of eight members Wednesday afternoon
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Nashua
Congregational Church
Friendly Society
J. L. Moorison
C. D. Bushing
J.B. Watson
A. W. Lemkuhle
American Legion
Seaman Opera House
Dee Butler
Delhi
Peter Bonzer
R. L. Gagley
Repair Work Begins After Summer Floods at Dam
Workmen start repairing flood damage at the dam caused by summer rains. Steel piling is driven into the riverbed to stabilize the wall, with parallel work on the east bank. Tons of washed stone and gravel will be replaced. Mr and Mrs Frank Winter and son Lloyd move to a farm near St Ansgar as tenants. CG Lane appointed assessor of West Mitchell corporation
Todd Funeral Held at Manchester
Funeral services were held for Mrs. Havel R. Todd at Manchester. She died in Winnipeg after a four month illness while visiting her sister. Todd, 38, was born July 8 1890 on the Tucker homestead near Holy Cross, Iowa. She married Everett L. Toft in 1914. much of their married life was spent in New Mexico and California.
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Courier &Preial Serpica
Manchester
Havel R. Todd
Dubuque County
Towa
Everett L. Toft
New Mexico
California
Todd
Yist
Deaths in Dysart and Arlington Funeral notices
Obituaries note the services for Theresa Kuhmer 93 of Dysart and the funeral for Mrs Fred Gernand Arlington. Kuhmer died at her daughter’s home after heart disease and age infirmities. survivors include three daughters six sons and ten grandchildren. Gernand died unexpectedly. funeral at Presbyterian church Arlington. born in Diedenshausen Germany. survived by husband and five children.
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Dysart
Theresa Kuhmer
First Evangelical Church
Karl Kaupp
H. J. van Lackum
von Lacktuim
Elf £. Hoffman
Gheyenne
Wyo
Mario Kullmer
Des Moines
Edward J
Princeton
John H
Oskaloosa
Albert R
Wadena
Fred Gernand
Presbyterian Church
C. Reinbold
Arlington
Diedenshausen
Germany
United States
Pinckneyville
Gernand
Diedenhausen
Here
Minnie Nus
Fred
Volga City
Bertha
Henry
Los Angeles
Cal
Orange Seniors Deglam Contest Set For Jan Second
Orange Township January 18 preliminary declamatory contest for senior high school to be held Wednesday January 23. Oratorical entries include The Call to Arms by Paul Miller Universal Peace by Burlin Hamer Sparticus to the Gladiators by Mildred Saul The Immigrant Speaks by Edgar Blough Dramatic entries Madame X by Vera Fleming The Intervention by Max Ina Cunningham The Death Bed of Benedict Arnold by Edna Allison Humorous entries Biff Perkins Toboggan Slide by Mary Miller When Angry by Gount Gne Hundr Ruth Pullin Algermaen's Escape by Mary Cornelius The Initiation at Georgia Basseth by Martin Messer.
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Gourier
Orange Township
Paul Miller
Burlin Hamer
Mildred Saul
Edgar Blough
Madame X
Vera Fleming
Maxina Cunningham
Benedict Arnold
Edna Allison
Biff Perkins
Mary Miller
Ruth Pullin
Algermaen
Mary Cornelius
Georgia Basseth
Martin Messer
T. U
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Jay Schrock
Meyer Funeral to Be Held at Shell Rock Church
Henry George Meyer died Thursday after six years of invalidism from a stroke. The funeral is set for Saturday at 2 p m at the Baptist church in Shell Rock with Rev. B E True and the Masonic lodge participating. Born October 15 1843 in Hanover Germany he came to the U S at 23 and settled in Shell Rock in 1870. Survived by wife Miss Lacey Stevenson two daughters Mrs Minnie Wahl and Mrs Annie Clouse and five grandchildren Max Clyde Wahl Lucille Dorothy Clouse Garl Cleuze Council Bluffs. a son preceded him in death.
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Shell Rock
Henry George Meyer
The
Baptist Church
BE. L. True
Masonic Lodge
Mr. Meyer
Hanover
Germany
United States
Minnesota
Lacey Stevenson
Minnie Wahl
Annie Clouse
Max
Clyde Wahl
Lucille
Dorothy Clouse
Garl Cleuze
Council Bluffs
SEER FUNDS For County ML A ACTIVITIES
Cedar Falls men canvass residents today for contributions toward the 1700 dollar county US M C A drive quota. Births report Charles City couple Earl Loy welcome a daughter at Cedar Valley hospital. Byron Toepfer and wife greet a son at Cedar Valley hospital.
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Cedar Falls
Jan
Cherles City
Earl Loy
Cedar Valley Hospital
Byron Toepfer
Bixth Avenue
Postponed Operetta in Randalla Gym
The Randalla community postpones the operetta planned for Tuesday evening in the local gymnasium to a later date due to unspecified reasons.
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Randalla
Specan
Vought
Farmers Co op to Meet Feb in Cedar Falls
Cedar Falls Jan 18 annual business session of Farmers Co operative company of Cedar Falls set for Saturday February in Commercial club rooms. Stockholders to dine first under a committee plan, officers to present annual reports and directors to be chosen. El ke Anderson auditor to verify reports and certify accuracy.
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Courier
Cedar Falls
Farmers’ Co-Operative Company of
Commercial Club Rooms
el Ke Chosen
E. Anderson
Porter
James Porter
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Www. G Rowley
Greenwood Cemetery
Black Hawk
E. G. Miller
E. G. Miller, Mire
T. B. Keene
H. P. Hansen
Hotel Oxford
G. W. Walters
United States Patent Office
Washington, D. C
Woman's Association of
First Congregational Church
Tirese No. 1
T. &. Egbert
Circle 2
William Morgan
Circle 3
C. G. Grant
Joseph A. Miller
Tremont Street
William Hessa
St. John’s Lutheran Ladies' Ald Society
Main Street
Zion Evangelical Church
A. H. Mether
Oscar Hansen
Good Luck Cub
Cedar Falls Township
Neon
Debaters Defeat LeMars in Local Contest
In Cedar Falls on January 18 Teachers College team Debaters defeated Western Union in a two to one verdict supporting the motion that a substitute for trial by jury should be adopted. The event drew local spectators and highlighted the college’s debate program.
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Cedar Falls Building & Loan Ass'n
Steorkholders
E. G. Dahl
John Paul
P. J. Falkenberg
W. N. Hostrup
H. S. Gilkey
W. C G. Nuhn
H. C. Cummins
W.H. Mernor
Rebekeh Lodges
J. A. Sinden
GC. J. Shaw
William Payns
Rebekah Noble
Fred Oo
Odd Fellows
McCoy's Tablets Promise Weight Gain and Health Boosts
An advertisement touts McCoy's Tablets claiming underweight men and women can gain weight and improve health. It cites examples such as a woman gaining 10 pounds in 22 days and Alberta Rogers gaining 15 pounds, with an ironclad guarantee: if 4 sixty cent boxes or 2 one dollar boxes do not yield at least 5 pounds and satisfaction, the money is refunded. Sold at Robert Drug Co and G. J. Miller and other drug stores nationwide.
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Bmccoy
Alberta Rogers
Fayette Township Buys Equipment to Clear Roads
Trustees of Hyre township ordered ice and sow logs for the township tractor and will build a snow plow to clear roads. Many side roads were impassable after the blizzard, and men cleared the road north west of town for Louis Messerli funeral procession.
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Wadena
Hyre Township
Here
Louis Messerli
Woman's Face Cut in Fall Through Window
In Manchester on January 18 Mrs. Caro Sabin nearly 80, a prominent local pioneer, tripped and fell through a window, cutting cartilage in her nose in three places. Mrs. Albert Masterhan, nearby passerby, heard the crash and investigated.
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Manchester
Caro Sabin
Albert Masterhan
Sabin
City of Oelwein to Acquire Snow Plow
City of Oelwein contemplates immediate purchase of a snow plow to keep streets open for traffic. The influenza epidemic seems waning with many seriously ill now out of danger. H. V. Hoyer B. R. O'Brien and Howard Fuller attended the governor's inaugural at Des Moines. H. B. Arnold and family are home from Long Beach Cal.
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Courier
Oelwein
H. V. Hoyer
B. R. O'Brien
Howard Fuller
Des Moines
H. B. Arnold
Long Heach
Cal
Bible Class Hosts Dysart Women in January Meeting
Dorcas Bible class of the Evangelical church met at the home of Mrs. Ben Vaupel with Mrs. Henry Gunderman assisting. District residents report illness and quarantine updates including influenza cases and light smallpox cases in Dysart Iowa.
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H. G. Petersen
Iowan Doctor Tregloan Dies After Practice in Wadena
Word reaches the G. P. Clark family that Dr. Tregloan who practiced medicine in Wadena 30 years ago died in December in West. The cause was pneumonia.
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Iowan
West
Wadena
G. P. Clark
Tregloan
Annual Congregational session and church budget noted
Charles City IA residents packed the annual Congregational church meeting with a 250-strong picnic. Rev. Thomas Anderson led, budget plans were outlined, and 678 members were counted as a $ several thousand dollar improvement fund was discussed. Ladies Aid voted $500 toward the church bond.
Prescription for a Laxative Becomes Global Favorite
Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin, first prescribed in 1892, grew into the world’s best selling laxative. The mild vegetable remedy targets constipation and related ailments, with millions of bottles used yearly. Mothers and families widely rely on it, available at drug stores in generous bottles.
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Caldwell
Galdwell
Dr. Caldwell
Surily Pepsin
Ackley Man Wilke Groen Dies at 76
Wilke Groen of Ackley dies at home at 76 after living in Germany born Oct 20 1862. He moved to the United States with his family about 40 years ago, lived on a Grundy county farm, then with wife for 14 years with daughter Mrs Relka Grussing in Ackley. Survived by widow two daughters four sons 20 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Daughters Mrs Rudolph Meintz and Mrs John Abbas Ackley. sons Matthew northwest of here John Parkersburg Hermen Buk Grove and Bernard Clarke ville.
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Ackley
Wilka Given
Jong Ilineas
Germany
United States
Grundy County
Relka Grussing
Rudolph Meintz
John “Abbas
Matthew
Here
John
Parkersburg
Hermen
Buk
Grove
Bernard
Clarkaville
Hospital Plans for Western Home Adopted
Trustees of the Western Old People's Home will meet at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday to adopt plans for a hospital addition named Sunshine ward. Bishop Seeger of Le Mars will preside and W Lang superintendent will present plans by Ralston and Ralston. Luncheon to follow at noon.
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Cedar Falls
Bishop IL
HB. Seeger
le Mars
Sunshine Ward
Ralston & Ralston
W. ©. Lang
How Doctors Treat Colds and the Flu
Physicians and druggists now recommend Calotabs a purified calomel compound. One or two tablets at bedtime with water purges the system and ends the cold by morning no salts or nausea and no interference with eating work or pleasure. Family package with full directions only 35 cents at any drug store.
Pastor Kern Preaches at Shell Rock Union Service
The Baptist church pastor Kern delivered an evangelistic sermon at a union service in Shell Rock. The event united Baptists and Methodists as part of a weeklong series of meetings with joint congregations.
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Fabaches
Shell Rock
Kern
The
Baptist ‘Church
Methodist Church
Shell
Baptist, Krethontst
Influenza milder this year than 1918 prompts cautions
Health authorities urge treating even slight colds to avoid bronchitis or pneumonia as influenza runs lighter than the 1918 epidemic. A noted response is the use of Vicks VapoRub, with labs operating overnight to meet demand and producing large quantities daily.
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Vicks
Vicks Laboratories
Konjola touted as cure for stomach nerves across years of trials
The advertisement claims Konjola relieves long standing stomach disorders and nervousness. It describes a formula from twenty two roots and herbs and asserts rapid, lasting relief without narcotics or heart depressants. Mrs Harriet Schaffer of Fulton Iowa endorses it after gastrointestinal and nerve symptoms improve. the Konjola Man tours Waterloo at Wangler Bros Drug Store offering free samples.
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Harriet Schaffer
Fulton
Clinton
Iowa
Konjola
Wangler Bros
Fourth Street
Waterloo
Iola
Ife
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Will Waltman
Eotate
Nashua Cong’s
Orange
Far Bureau
Oregon
Frances Benedict
Hood River
Ore
Long Beach
Onl
Elmer Blough
Clarence Hamer
Allen Memorial Hospital
Viola Hoots
Decatur
Blough
Jay Summy
Waterloo Hospital
Emma Fike
Rock Lake
N. D
Lionas
George G. Robinson
Teachers College
Lions Club
John W. Holland
St. Paul
Flysit Methodist Episcopal Church
EH. J. Cable
LeMars
A. G., Fuller
Teachers College Extension Division
Kansas City
Omaha
T. C
Atlantic City
Fayette Township
Gong's Church
Chas
City
Charles City
Ladies' Aid and
Church Club
Thomas Anderson
M. G. Smith
Ladies’ Aid
Rotary
Clyde Hulsizer
Rotary Club
Mason City
Olis Eaton
Eaton
F. T. Nockles
Calmar
Joseph Bush
Woman's Club
Hildreth Hotel
Sarah Riges
Europe
Hildreth Theatre
John Clatridge
Marie Calhoun
Scott
Beott & Bowne
BroomGeld
J. Jaren
Northern Illinois
Young Coal Company
Wilke Groen
At ‘Ackley
Western Home
Ngitias Ene
J. C. Corsant
J. C. Corsaut
Cedar Falls National Bank
Oscar Tostlebe
J. W. Fleming
Limile
Orange Creamery
Harvey Hess
Guernsey
Duroc
Poland
China
Duroc Jersey Sons
Ferrow
Nota
Buick Master Six
Ususl
WM. Holland
Pioneer Natl. Bank
Walter Conry
Webber Farm
Eagle Center
Voorhies
Hampshire
McCormick & Ft
McCormick
Vaughan Harrow
Hayes Corm
Battley Gang
Oliver
John Deere
Dain
Litchfield
Manula
Peoria
Wm, Holland
Auct
Pioneer Natl
BANK
Bot Wicks Laboratories
Opawa
Konjela
Bhe
Nature
Mrs. Harrwt
Sci ‘Schaffer
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