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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1925
Page
6
The notice explains home delivery by 4 30 and offers a reshipment if the paper is not received due to carrier error. It asks customers to call 5100 with unreadable days and to ensure calls reach the office before 8 20 p m for a replacement copy.
New York July 4 Mary Newcomb divorced wife of actor Robert Ede son announces engagement to Henry Higginson sportsman and son of the late Major Henry Lee Higginson Boston banker.
About 800 armed Chinese soldiers stormed Asiatic Petroleum property in Chungking with destruction of offices and staff quarters. A British gunboat Teal arrived to scatter the mob. Separate attack on a British wharf led by boys ended when British Marines and bayonets dispersed the assailants. one Chinese was injured. Local Chinese officials took no action.
A severe wind and thunder storm sweeping Indiana late yesterday caused heavy crop damage. One man, Donald Kirkung, 22, was killed by lightning near Brazil while seeking shelter under a tree. Wiliver Reed of Brazil was knocked unconscious but expected to recover.
A Russian settlement named New Petrograd is planned for New Jersey. Organizers secured land near South Plainfield and aim to build a town of Russian architecture. The site will be dedicated tomorrow. About 400 Russian families have indicated plans to buy lots.
Mary Ripaiski, 44, a restaurant owner in Kenosha Wisconsin, was shot alone in her restaurant late last night and died 15 minutes later. Police suspect bandits attempted a robbery at the establishment.
Des Moines sees minimal disruption on July 4 as motormen and conductors strike to push for nonunion drivers to be discharged and for union recognition. City officials hope bus service could be organized by Monday while the company contests wage-deduction provisions in the union contract.
Waterloo marks the nation’s 149th birthday with a Defense Test Day parade through downtown and an hour program at Lincoln Park led by Rev. J. M. Malfoy and Rev. E. W. Maine. The day sees widespread closures and public gatherings at picnics and veterans events while fireworks light the city skies.
A Casrade fundraising drive was launched in Dubuque to raise 460000 for rebuilding flood damaged areas. Reports note wage talks in Cedar Rapids ended with a 212 cent hourly increase offer accepted by streetcar motormen.
New Iowa laws effective at midnight grant drivers 35 mph on public highways, allow forming credit unions and banks, permit investment in federal farm loan bonds, and raise Supreme Court justices’ salaries to 7500 dollars. Prohibitive rules include canned heat sales ban, elevator safety doors, and fishing licenses for residents.
County Attorney W A Cook files fifty prior charges as State agents raid Trover home on Thursday night seizing homebrew. Fritz Knipp arraigned on liquor purgance. trial set for Phatsday July 3. Most defendants freed on bail with bonds from two hundred dollars upward. 26 actions begun in municipal court. 16 arrests by county and police.
In Dubuque Iowa on Independence Day two men died when a storm damaged wiring sent a live line to a water pool. William J Milligan fifty one and Fred Maseey were electrocuted instantly. Milligan later touched a live wire while repairing damage and died at the scene. Maseey leaves a widow and children. Milligan is survived by two children.
A military funeral will be held tomorrow for Cor Fred J. Vetsch 38 years old former United States Veterans Bureau special representative with headquarters at Des Moines. He died yesterday in Excelsior Springs Missouri from tuberculosis Vetsch served in the One Hundred Ninth ammunition train Thirty-fourth division during World War I.
President Coolidge marks his birthday and the nation's aboard the Mayflower yacht in Seabreeze Swampscott. The trip also honors the first anniversary of Calvin Coolidge Jr.’s fatal illness and death, with intimate friends aboard.
A cloudburst flooded a mountain stream near Hay Junction Wye as an automobile carrying six people was swept away. All six occupants perished except the driver S A Fertig. Victims include Mrs S A Fertig and three children Louis J Robert Leo and Miss Sarah Casagrande and Ben Andrietta. The crash occurred near a railroad trestle on Union Pacific tracks.
Des Moines curator B R Harlan told Keokuk on July 4 about letters Key wrote to Daniel Kilbourne, part of 500 exchanged, including a postmark from 1842. The remarks accompanied a tablet dedication marking Keokuk’s first house and illustrated long travel times between East Coast figures and Iowa residents.
In Marquette Michigan on July 4 three of four state prison escapees were wounded and seized near Tron Mountain by Sheriff Frank Cleveland after a roadblock. The captured Detroit men Eddie Weisersman Joe Deflores and Isa d ore Londe plus companion Vance Tardy were pursued as authorities hunted the last fugitive. A separate report from Kakomo Michigan notes a collision where Harry G Butler and another man were killed when a car hit a fishing party's vehicle.
Rescue crews in Boston search the wreckage of the Pickwick Club on Beach Street after a wall and three upper floors collapse during a dance event. Dozens of guests are unaccounted as firemen pull bodies and mangled victims from rubble amid muffled cries from beneath the debris.
A three story apartment house fire in Saranac Lake left seven dead and two others injured or dying. The deceased include Peter Dewer and George Dukett of Saranac Lake and Kenneth Monakey, a 12 year old, plus a infant of the Dukett family and two unidentified men. Mrs Dukett is believed to be dying. Mrs Monakey is hospitalized with non life threatening injuries. Several others suffered minor injuries.
More than 200 cowboys in bright shirts and high boots gathered in Mandan North Carolina as William J Jardine secretary of agriculture arrived to deliver an address at the Mandan roundup. A bucking bronco ride was planned as the climax, but the bronco had not yet been selected.
Tremors again today sent residents into the streets at 3:45 after two second temblors that shook buildings heavily. Damage was believed slight as crowds gathered at street corners and vacant lots while Independence Day events faced cancellations and a band prepared to play at Alameda Park.
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