Eight Hurt On July Fourth At Waterloo Celebration
Fireworks and auto accidents marred Waterloo’s Fourth of July events. At Pat’s Pond crowds of 7,500 watched balloon races and a 250 dollar fireworks display. nine entries started a trans-city balloon race and 13 auto crashes left two injuries. Police logged numerous firecracker disturbances and a shooting at a Walnut Street parking area. Eight people were injured in crashes and fireworks incidents, with weather and crowd behavior shaping the day’s events.
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Waterloo
Syinglass
Pat's Pond
Lower
Lafayette Stréet
Lafayette Park Improvement Association
Melvin
Cleven
State Street
Association
Cedar ‘River
Sunnyside
H. B. Cropper
Edwards
Paul Walker
Bayard Street
F. N
Falls Avenue Crossing
le Roy
Third Street West
Berne
St. Francis Hospital
West Fourth
Fourth
Allen Streets
Haven Paulsen
Western. Avenue
Willie Hansen
Dysart
Hansen
Allen’ Memorial Hospital
Paulsen
Presbyterian Hospital
Allen
Fourth Street
Grant Highway
Orin P. Harwood
Sunnyside’ Country Club
Waterloo-leiter
Byrnes Park
Banana Stub Used to Make New Sack Cloth
Havana on July 6 report: Dr Maximo Garcia of Santiago de las Vegas has evolved a durable fiber from banana stubs. The Cuban planter says the material yields excellent sack cloth and other textures at low cost, potentially saving millions yearly. It could replace jute for sugar sacks and wrappings, reducing shippers costs.
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Havana
Cuba
Maximo Garcia
Santiago de Las Vegas
Garcia
Siam a Paradise for Biologists in Siam
Washington July 5. Fish that climb and crawl on land reptiles birds insects and mammals many new to science lure Dr Hugh M Smith honorary curator of zoology at the National Museum He heads Siamese fisheries and has sent many natural history specimens to the Smithsonian Finds near his Bangkok home and garden provide amphibians and reptiles A climbing perch is noted for its remarkable ability to ascend canal banks by tail and fins.
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Washington, D. C
Siam
Hugh M. Smith
National Museum
Howe
Bangkok
Doris M. Cochran
Division of Reptiles and Batrachions
Museum
Pectoral Finger Goes Overland Aquatic Trade
A fragment notes a peculiar aquatic creature traveling overland between water bodies, moving as fast as five men walking. The same variety is popular in markets, sold alive in moist baskets.
Carol Cautions on Politics During Stay in Belgium
Brussels July 5 Prince Carol has taken a quiet residence at Chateau d Ardennes and avoids any move that could clash with the Belgian government. Expelled from England for political activity, he fears a similar ejection in Belgium. The former Romanian heir spends mornings with Madame Lupescu and companions, enjoys hiking in the Ardennes, and passes time at the chateau golf links and tennis courts, among the best in Belgium.
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Brussels
Carol
Chateau d'Ardennes
England
Belgium
Roumania
Madame Lupescu
Ardennes Forest
Cow Payouts and Squirrel Fines Highlight Indiana Case
Indianapolis July 5 four dead squirrels were valued near a live milk cow in a report to Indiana state conservation by Fred Ehlers captain of the southern district game warden service. Ray Lane of Greenfield paid a $97.50 court fine after being charged with killing squirrels in the closed season and hunting without a license. Lane was arrested by Ehlers who said Lane carried a silenced rifle and had four squirrels when stopped.
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Indianapolis
Ind
State Conservation Department
Fred Ehlers
Southern Indiana
Ray Lane
Greenfield
Route 2
Bhiers
QO. C. Bebinger
Survivor of World War Terrors Dies From Cat Bite
Col. Edgar Armstrong Hamilton, 39, wealthy Long Island real estate operator and former Army officer, died two days after being bitten by a breed of street cat while feeding it on his porch. He served in World War I, traveled submarines zones, saw action on the western front, and later sat on the Army board of contract adjustment.
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New York
Edgar Armstrong Hamilton
Long Island
Murray Hil
Hamilton
Army Board of Contract Adjustment
Col. Hamilton
Baltimore executive left large real estate holdings
Executives head of the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Baltimore, a Cornell graduate with B A and LL D, member of the Lawyers club and Maryland club of Baltimore, leaves a wife. Funeral services were held at St John s Church on 11th Street and Seventh Ave, burial in Mount Olivet cemetery.
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Fidelity and Deposit Company of Baltimore
Gare
Cornell
Lawyers Club
Maryland Club of Baltimore
St. John's
11Th Street
Seventh Ave
Hue
Mount Olivet Cemetery
Widow Mrs Hetts Visits Here From Glendale Cal
Mrs May Hetts widow of William Hetts a longtime cement contractor arrived yesterday from Glendale California to visit her daughter Mrs L F Potter at 928 First Street West She plans to stay in the city for the rest of the summer.
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Hetts
May Hetts
Willian Hetts
Glendale
Cal
L. F. Potter
First Streep West
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L. F. Hastings
Locust Street
Vivian Bellmer
Waterlolo
Cedar River Park
Buz
Ralph Davis
Hugh Crumrine
Eighth Street West
Lafurence Payton
Fritz Kolpp
William Unie
Charles Pickens
George Prugh
Jefferson Street
Prugh
C. L. Foote
Storm Lake
Walnut Street
G. W
Foote
Lafayette
Sycamore
Forum
Eleventh
Nancy Y. Haffa
Walnut
Court Apartments
Iowa
Walnut Streets
Ford ‘Motor Company
Ford Motor Company
Ford
Detroit
Michigan
Saul
Rose
Nile
Beile
NEW York Life Ins
Darwin P. Kingsley
Carl
Guy H. French
Pioneer National Bank Bldg
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