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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1911
Page
12
City sealer of weights and measures and a pump company agent inspect grocery pumps after reports of short measures. Some pumps short by 3 cubic inches. others correct. Short gallons traced to a 228 cubic inch design. replaced with 231 cubic inch pumps to ensure buyers receive a true gallon.
Miss Elsie Theresa Davis of San Francisco will marry Benjamin W. Mayer a New York merchant. Davis is described as one of the coast’s most popular girls.
The water sewer and gas committee of the city council examined fountain designs from a Dubuque firm led by Mr Kretsmeier after Mayor Rector proposed buying sanitary drinking fountains for street installation. A report will be delivered at the next regular meeting.
Washington reports that 3,569,425 people have visited the Washington Monument since it opened nearly twenty three years ago. The daily average attendance runs about 500 visitors.
Representative Woods will introduce a bill to appropriate 30000 dollars to establish an experimental plant near Boone for making paper from corn stalks. Dr. Galloway says pulp from stalks matches wood quality but finer, and two thirds of stalks now go to waste. The project seeks cheap fuel, rail access, and regional benefits to corn growers and the paper market.
Illinois Central officials on a business trip to Denver arrive by special car on No. 5 with A S Baldwin chief engineer W L Baldwin engineer M E Baker chief signal officer F Parker general purchasing agent T H Sullivan of Dubuque accompanies the group. W L Park vice president and general manager and W K Barnum superintendent of motive power pass through en route to Los Angeles.
Paris July 14 threats of a revolutionary element to mar the national fete with violence failed by noon. Minor disorders were confined to a band of young royalists. The annual troop review at Long Champs drew five hundred thousand spectators as President Fallieres, with the diplomatic corps and the Abyssinian mission, presented colors to the regiment.
New York July 14 Mark Twain left actual property valued at 471136 to his only surviving child Mrs Gabril Owitsch. An appraisal filed with the surrogate lists securities and real estate as the bequest and notes he died on April 1 1910. The personal New York estate is 296476 and Connecticut holdings 174890. The will was made in Connecticut August 7 190%
Dr Carlos Pens the new Uruguayan minister to Washington plans moving the legation to Magnolia Maes for the summer with his family. A Curtiss biplane crash injured the amateur aviator during a test of five figure eights on James FE Clews machine. The accident left the craft nose down and the pilot stunned but the party proceeded with other duties.
Chicago July 14 D A Kreamer the first man to seek an air pilot license in this region was killed on the aviation field of the Aero club of Illinois at Fifty second venue and Twenty second street when an accident ended his attempt.
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