Red Cross Aids War Veteran Rastus After Hard Struggle
Bastus, a World War I veteran who faced gas injuries and unpaid benefits, sought help at the Red Cross in Waterloo. They secured his back pay, travel allowances, and a discharge uniform, helped him find restored liberty bonds in a Chicago bank, and funded training in automobile repair. The Red Cross states they assist many veterans with similar needs.
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Rastus
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Waterloo
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Rastue
City in Brief Sieve your senses insured Ask Buchanan about it
Local notes mention visits and travels including Mr and Mrs Banks, Mrs Winnie Eggleston to Sumner for the Fourth, Miss May Brown to Chicago, and Miss Juanita Pollack and Miss Esther Klinefelter to Chicago for ten days. Dr D C Huntoon reports a missing medicine case from his car, suspected theft by a drug addict.
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May Brown
Chicago
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Wet or Dry Issue Debated At Democratic National Convention
A fragmented report describes a Democratic convention scene in San Francisco with debates over prohibition planks and party unity. It mentions figures like Bourke Cochran and William Jennings Bryan, and notes party resolutions to present their stance to the national electorate amid scattered local notices of accidents and personal visits.
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Ion
San Francisco
Wiliam Jennings Bryan
Bourke Cochran
New York
High scores at Rotary trapshoot near Waterloo
The Waterloo Rotary Club shoot at Byrnes park followed a national invitation to trapshoot on July 3. Weather was favorable and high scores were posted. O A Repass, H G Northey, F M Shores, and Burr Lichty contributed top marks. The team averaged 93.6 percent with 234 total broken targets of 50 per man. Five costly knitted shooting jackets await winners. Rotaries across the United States and Canada competed.
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Duluth
Mion
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Byrnes Park
Waterloo
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H. G. Northey
F. M. Shores
Burr Lichty
Canada
Convention Pays Tribute to Bryan in Defeat
The article notes a calm, witty administration response to William Jennings Bryan's appeal on prohibition during a convention. Wilson’s spokesman dismissed Bryan’s arguments, turning the focus to the administration’s platform. Senator Glass led a platform committee ensuring an apparent landslide for the dry plank, despite audience reactions.
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Bryan
Wilson
Senator Glass
Tribune
Debating Votes Echo Against Mr Bryan Proposals
Fragmentary quotes show Mr Bryan facing strong opposition as votes on his proposals went against him. Subsequent ballots carried only a faint murmur of approval, overshadowed by the thunder of the negative.
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Bryan
Funeral to honor William Goodenbour in Tripoli
Mayor N W Frisbie Chief of Police H H Young and many officers will drive to Tripoli Ia by auto to attend the funeral of William Goodenbour who lost his wife Thursday in an attempted arrest. The body has been moved to Tripoli and the services will be held at the opera house tomorrow at 2 pm with the Masoule lodge in charge.
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H. H. Young
Tripoli
William’ Goodenbour
Crobk
Goodenbour
Masoule Lodge
Outlaw's Gun Bought in St Louis March 1920
The revolver used by the bandit j in killing William Goodenbour has been traced to the Shapleigh Hardware Co in St Louis. Colt’s Arms Co says revolver No 20774 was believed sold by Shapleigh. With the bandit identified, further tracing is unnecessary.
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Young
Colt’s Arms Company
New Hartford
Two Armed Suspects Halt as Officer Fires Over Them
At 1:10 a m today Officer Venable fired shots into the air as three fleeing negroes resisted arrest near Water street. Two halted and were arrested after a pursuit along the railway. The third escaped. The pair gave names Dave Smith and Leonard Wright and were detained as vagrants after arriving by the Illinois Central blind.
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Venable
Water Street
Dave Smith
Leonard Wright
Illinois Central
Funeral services for Mrs Rath at Lafayette street home
Funeral services for Mrs. Johanna Rath will be conducted at her daughter Mrs George Weicholds home 1314 Lafayette street Sunday at 2 30 p m Rev L W Bock will be in charge The tor ment will be in Fairview.
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Johanna Rath
George Weichold
Lafayette Street
L. W. Bock
Fairview
Wilson Confident of Victory in World War I League Stance
President Woodrow Wilson telegraphed Homer S. Cummings praising the League of Nations policy and pledging that the United States would go from victory to victory. He spoke of fidelity to founders, the war for human freedom, and the goal to vindicate republican traditions worldwide. The message echoed the convention's appreciation and formal leadership.
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Cal
Wilson
Homer
Cummings
League of Nations
White House
Homer S. Cummings
Democratic National Committee
Republic
United States
Flanders’ Fields
Last Night's News in Brief
The second fatality in the clash between two religious factions last Sunday night was Morris Drouillard. A wage scale increase affecting 35,000 workers in Chicago, Pittsburgh and eastern Ohio districts was granted by conference committees of the Western Sheet Tin Manufacturers and Amalgamated Association of Iron Steel and Tin Workers. A decree to create the Bank of Industrial Credit with capital of 187,000,000 pesetas will be published in Madrid. Two new bubonic plague cases developed in Beaumont Texas. The public debt decreased by more than a million dollars in fiscal year 1919 and by over two billion since last August. Maj. Gen. William G. Gergas, former surgeon general, was reported dying in London. BPOBs meet July 5 to 10 with Harry W. Hartong accompanying Waterloo’s official representative. Iowa to have one of the great floats in Elk pageant. ceremonies to begin Monday night with a reception.
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Poledo
Morris Drouillard
Columbus
Chicago
Pittsburgh
Ohio
Madrid
Bank of Industrial Credit
Beaumont
Tex
Washington, D. C
London
William G. Gergas
United States Army
Large Elk Crowd To Leave Waterloo Sunday For Chicago
Waterloo Elks will depart tomorrow evening for Chicago where the grand lodge of the Woman in Smoking Cab is to meet. A New York report notes women arriving on a Long Beach bound train refuse to accept William J Bryan's moral standard and insist on the smoking car. A Panama hat wearing passenger asks the brakeman which end is the smoking car, and, after clarification, says she is looking for it. The car’s smokers, surprised, offer no seating as the woman enters the smoking car.
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Waterloo
New York
William J. Bryan
Long Beach
A Lady Smokes on the Train in Curious Encounter
A woman sits beside a middle aged man while fishing, pulls from a beaded bag a pack of 20 cent cigarets and begins to smoke. An old fashioned passenger questions her origin and a conductor answers she is a lady. The scene ends with the narration of impending departure.
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Europe
Motive inspection enough for him
In a Minnesota border town a traveler boarded a train and demanded bag contents. He found several bottles of liquor and seized them, posing as a revenue agent. When asked if he was a revenue agent he replied, No, I’m just dry, and jumped from the moving train.
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Minneapolis
Pilins
Minnesota
Winnipeg
Revenue
American Head of Rusinia Leader Satkovich Leader of Rusinia
Gregory Satkovich an American born in Carpathian Russia now heads the independent state of Rusinia formed in Czecho Slovakia after 1919 Paris peace talks. He governs about 700000 Russianians from a medieval castle above the River Ung. A candlemaking note mentions an auto snuffing candlestick.
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University of Pennsyvania
Pittsburgh
Rusinia
Carpathian Russia
Czecho-Slovakia
Czecho- Slovakia
Satkovich
Paris
America
Wilson
Ung
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