Saloons in Waterloo Face Renewal Petition Debate
The 1911 petition for renewing Waterloo saloon licenses for five years will trigger a lively campaign. Proponents say licensing raises 30 000 yearly revenue and regulates sales, while opponents cite police and public welfare costs, crime, and poverty linked to saloons. Thirty days to collect signatures and verify eligibility. Board members oversee sufficiency and canvass poll records.
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Waterloo
Business Men's League
Good Citienship League
Board of Supervisors
C. Av Rownd
Cedar Falls
John McQuilkin
la Porte City
Thomas Welstead
C. W. Virden
G. F. Johnson
Lincoln Township
C. J. Kirby
Barclay Township
D. G. Boomer
First
Much Pleased With Idaho Dress of Boise Visitors
Miss Anna Mendenhall and Miss Stella Bourns visit Boise Idaho enjoying warm days and cool nights. Irrigation keeps lawns green. berries plentiful and fruit crops look good despite late frosts. Boise, a city of about 26 000, builds a new capitol building. Mendenhall is a stenographer and Bourns a court house clerk. Willis B Brown of East Waterloo praised the area.
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Anna Mendenhall
Stella Bourns
Boise
Idaho
Logan
Miss Bourns
Idaho Title & Trust Company
Willis B. Brown
East Waterloo
Curtiss Sets New Air Record in Fifty Mile Flight
In Atlantic City Glenn Curtiss increased his title as King of the Air by setting an American record for a fifty mile aeroplane flight. He completed 50 miles in 1 hour 14 minutes 59 seconds with five mile laps on the beach, and later achieved a rapid climb to 1 600 feet in 5 minutes 51 seconds. Mrs Curtiss greeted him as he finished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
N. J
Glenn Curtiss
Curtiss
Church to care for own insane in Michigan plan
In Holland Michigan on July 12 prominent Christian Reform leaders proposed a church run insane asylum. The project aims to buy a large farm and set up the facility between Muskegon and Grand Rapids, which are the denomination centers in America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holland, Mich
Christian Reform Denomination
General Synod of
Muskegon
Grand Rapids
America
Fourth international conference opens in Buenos Ayres
The fourth international conference of American republics opened in Buenos Aires with delegates including Paul Revich of Wisconsin and David Kimley of Illinois. A humorous exchange about air travel interrupts the proceedings as observers discuss future transport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buenos Ayres
Paul Revich
University of Wisconsin
David Kimley
University of Illinois
Market Roundup From Lamson Bros on Hogs and Sheep
Chicago July 12 report shows hogs opened six cents higher and closed strong to five cents higher with estimated tomorrow receipts of 20,000. Sheep market opened weak then steadied with native lambs and Western lambs priced up to seven dollars and fifteen cents for yearlings. Cash wheat across multiple grades listed with New York and St Louis closes. cattle and hog price ranges provided along with various hides and poultry items from Colin Bros. and C. H. Fightney's.
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Chicago
New York
Stock Exchange
Missouri Pacific
Wabash
New York Central
Pennsylvania Lee
Erle
St. Paul
Rock Island
Chicago Great Western Qn
Northwestern
Atchison
American ‘Smelting
Mon Pacific
Louisville
Nashville
Eee
Chesapeake and Ohio
Tnd
Southern Pacific
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Car
United States Steel
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Illinois
Waterloo
Kansas
Wellington
Aristos
Cuban Conspiracy Allegedly Fake Explains Arrests
Havana July 12 The government says the Mulatto Cal Valera and associates plotted a conspiracy to force American intervention. One conspirator claims the plan was a fake designed to fake a conspiracy, suggesting it was started by a stock broker to disrupt the local stock market. Four people were involved.
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Havana
Cal Valera
New Revenue Collector Named for Dakota Districts
Willisey Cook of North Dakota has been appointed collector of internal revenues for the district of North and South Dakota, succeeding Herman Ellerman who resigned. A tiny daughter was welcomed into the home of Mr and Mrs R E Dean at 213 Summit Avenue this morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW Revenue
Washington
Willisey Cook
North Dakota
District of North and
South Dakota
Herman
Ellerman
R. E. Dean
Summit Avenue
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Republics OF
Wit
Madras
Poplins
Gnam Sisters
Lamson Bros. & Co
Chicago Board of Trade
Offie
Sycamore Street
H. W
N. S
Louis Close
BROS
Ek &E
Colin Bros
C. HW. Fightney's
Reeves
Texas
Easley’s Big Clothing Sale
Iowa
Waterloo Fruit & Commission Company
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