Waterway Beautification Debated by Waterloo Motorboat Club
Waterloo Motorboat Club guests, including 30 city and county officials, toured the Cedar River banks and dam area six miles from the Fourth Street Bridge to explore beautification. They discussed removing unsightly features and promoting riverbank beauty as a regional draw. Mayor Gnagy and other officials lauded the prospects for turning the river into attraction spots and improving upriver scenery.
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Cedar River
Cadar River
Waterloo Motorboat Club
Fourth Street
Waterloo
Mullan Avenue
Gnagy
Red Cross Pills and Ekluge Music House Ad
An advertisement promotes Red Cross Pills claiming boosts for liver stomach bowels and other ailments with fever relief and cold dispelling effects, priced at 25 cents. It also advertises Ekluge Music House offering violins banjos accordions harmonicas wind instruments drums and used gear with record exchange and repairs at 606 Jefferson St Waterloo Iowa.
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RED Cross
Ekluge Music House
West Side
Jefferson St
Waterloo
Mrs Wm Butts Credits Pinkham to Health Recovery
Mrs Wm Butts of Wellston Ohio says Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured back and side pain and irregular cold reactions after illness and childbirth. She reports improved strength, the ability to work and care for her children, and plans to start Blood Medicine in spring. She invites inquiries from women about the medicine.
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WM. Butts
Lydia E. Pinkham
Wellston
Winuiaw Yatts
Weillston, Chisse
One Per Cent Know Destination Says Waterloo Elevator Man
Richard W. Wolseley known as Dick is a longtime Waterloo figure tied to the Black Hawk building. He notes only about one per cent of elevator riders know where they are going, cites women as less decisive at boarding and exiting, and recalls a fatal incident where a passenger died during an attempted exit while the car moved. He cites riders who have never seen cars, cars, or streets.
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Waterlooan
Ups and
Doris
Richard W.dicky Wolseley
Black Hawk
Waterloo
Bank
Richard
Wolseley
Lirsc Atu Inn
Phil
Cuba
Oddities of Elevator Etiquette and Office Directories
A Cuero Texas student misdefined stomach location in a physiology exam, writing it as northwest of the “ver.” The scene shifts to remarks about elevator usage, office directories on streetcars, and people misunderstanding floor offices. The era notes politeness norms and misread maps of access in shared spaces.
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Cuero
Tex
Cuero High School
Messrs
Rand & Me
Nadly
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NT River Beauty
Tokio
Tsujido
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Joneses
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Rialto
Plazi
Piaan
Rink Theatres
Iigeest
Briallo Theatres
Poret
Alexander Frank
Olinor Glyns
Man
Maid
Lew Cody
Renee Adoree
Harriet Hammond
Bennie Levance
Eesists
Trey Bennie Leonard
Worll
Paris
Orgasm Gaask Presents
Cohen
Depinto
Orpheum
Plaga
Saterr Operaza Concert Orchestra
Ona
NAY Brothers
RAND
Shvyen
Memputs
Blu
Lars Demons
Aala Sant
Palmetto Quartette
Mary Pickford
Rosita
Holbrook
BLINN
John G. Wright
Jefferson
Miller Cleaning & Dye Works
Electric Park
Wells and His Orchestra
Nagel
Strand
Tho
Jeanie MacPherson
Caramount
Rod la Rocque
Vera Reynolds
Lilian Rich
Warner Baxter
Theodore Kesloff
Julia Faye
Robert Cain
Henry B. Walthall
DE Mille
McIlee
DN Miele
Wallace Lewin
Che
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Lindsey Coons
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