City in Brief Finds Hustle Across Waterloo Area
City residents and visitors fill the town with brief notes on travel and work. John Hollcroft visits from Marshalltown to see Police Sgt W H Hollcroft. Elks convention attendees head east. A K E Glenn starts an $8000 Prospect Hills home. smallpox cases surface. Dr Dunkelberg returns to practice. Dr Rolfe and Fred Hagerson in town on business. hospitalizations follow an abscess at 1411 Commercial. auto trip reports cite 787 miles with no tire trouble.
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Beecher Payne
Commercial Street
E. R. Baker
Thos. Robinson
Lake Renton
Minn
W.A. Rolfe
Fred Hagerson
Wfaverly
Gladys
Carrie Lauritson
Riehl Street
City News Roundup Acts And District Projects
Reports of ongoing street work include brick relaying on Third Street West and completed double tracking from Wellington to Third. Sullican Avenue and Bayard Street paving finished with Home Park Boulevard curbing done. Local injuries include Jerry Rust recovering after a motorcycle collision. A $17,000 damages suit seeks compensation for eye loss due to defective goggles at William Galloway Company.
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Third Street
Wellington Street
Sullivan Avenue
Bayard Street
Home Park
Jerry Rust
Fowler Street
F. A. Bradford
J. J. O’hearn
B. H. Bradford
Dubuane
Frank Cole
Wm. M. Trueblood
William Galloway Company
Young Man Nelson McKinnon Laid to Rest
The last rites for Nelson McKinnon who died Tuesday from tuberculosis were held at 3:30 this afternoon in the Hileman and Gindt chapel. Rev. Robert C. Westenberg of the Presbyterian church led the service, as McKinnon was a member. Attending friends followed the casket to Fairview cemetery for burial. Word came from an eastern aunt and a Chicago friend hoping to attend.
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Nelson MacKinnon
Hileman & Gindt
Robert C. Westenberg
Presbyterian Church
McKinnon
Fairview Cemetery
Chicago
Two Trains of Shriners Coming to Omaha
Two Mystic Shriners trains are reported to pass through Omaha on Sunday carrying members from Los Angeles and San Francisco temples en route to Rochester New York for the national convention. The trains are scheduled to arrive in Omaha Saturday evening and then proceed to Chicago via the Illinois Central. Sindlinger Ice Cream Co. advertises parity Vienna Ice Cream as a pure food product compliant with state and national laws.
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Fred Austin
Illinois Central
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Rochester
Omaha
Chicago
Sindlinger’s
Sindlinger
Vienna
Sindlinger Ice Cream CO
Watch Stolen From Electric Park
Miss Evelyn Boyd of Oskaloosa lost her gold ladies watch at Electric Park in the city on the Fourth. It bears the inscription Mae A. Lee September 21, 1889 inside the case and may have been stolen. An effort will be made to locate it.
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Evelyn Boyd
Oskaloosa
Electric Park
Mae A. Lee
Hardin County Editors In Session At Radcliffe Iowa
Radcliffe Iowa July 7 Hardin county editors are in session today with President C O Meyer presiding. The meeting aims to discuss local publishing issues and county correspondence.
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Radcliffe
Hardin County
C. O. Meyer
Death summons Calkins. Waterloo mother of engineer dies
Phoebe Jane Moore Calkins mother of Charles G. Calkins died at Presbyterian hospital after gall stones operation. She lived in Waterloo six years. Funeral Saturday at 3 PM from her home conducted by Rev E D Hull. Burial at Amboy, Illinois. Survived by husband Henry and two sons Charles and Frank. seven grandchildren. She was born June 7 1845 in Lockport New York.
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Henry G. Calkins
Charles G. Calkins
Waterloo
Presbyterian Hospital
Vine Street
New York
Phoebe Jane Moore
Lockport
N. Y
Amboy
Ill
Tyne
Madison
Wis
Methodist Church
Charles Calkins, Jr
Brown denies candidacy for United States Senate
W C Brown president of the New York Central lines denied a report that he planned to run for the Senate to succeed Senator Kenyon. He said he never considered such a step and that retirement would mean abstaining from hard work, not taking another demanding role.
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Chicago
W. C. Brown
New York Central Lines
United States Senate
Kenyon
Brown
Lime Springs
New York
United States
Potatoes Costly In Portland Story From Iowa Lady
A Waterloo woman who moved with her husband to Portland Oregon reports that potato prices are high there. She bought 15 cents worth of new potatoes but received only two medium ones. when purchasing a quarter's worth of old Murphies she was handed six.
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Waterloo
Portland
Ore
Complaints About Uncovered Garbage Wagons Rise
Several residents filed reports at the police station over city garbage wagons roaming with no covers on their loads. Officials expect action and some licenses may be revoked if laws aren’t followed. Complainants say passing these wagons is difficult when covers are missing. Lost calves notice appears at Courier office.
Cattle Congress Aims to Grow into Waterloo Staple
Waterloo plans a cattle show and machinery exhibit from October 9 to 14 drawing national attention. Over 500 dairy cattle will be shown with attractive awards as Waterloo manufacturers buy booth space. A Friday meeting will discuss making the congress a permanent Waterloo feature. Herman Forster, father of Rudolph Forster, White House chief clerk, dies at 80 in Washington.
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Waterloo
Waterloo Club
Herman Forster
Washington
Herma Forster
Rudolph Forste
White House
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Prospect Hills
Grundy Republican
Gertrude, Bickley
C. I. Kelter
Olive H. Corwin
H. E. Corwin
Mabel Anderson
Webster City
J. E. Webb
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H. D. Melius
Elmer Dunkelberg
Reading
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Charles City
Thompson
Council Bluffs
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MONS
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Maurice Tabuteau
Bristol
London Daily Mall Aviation
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