Board Boosts Assessed Farm Land Values by Township
Farm land values in Waterloo township average 108.58 per acre, Orange township 88.60, Eagle, Wuship 72.83, as the county board of equalization raises assessments. Increases range from 5 to 30 percent to align with other towns, including Barclay 10 percent, Bennington 5 percent, Mt. Vernon 5 percent, Spring Creek 30 percent, Union 30 percent, Washington 0 percent.
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Warloo Township
Orange Township
Eagle
Wuship
Board of Equalization
Barclay
Bennington
Big Creek
Lester
Mt. Vernon
Spring Creek
Union
Washington
Bolsheviks Claim Recapture of Sarapul and Czech Retreats
London reports Bolsheviks recaptured Sarapul on the Kama River southwest of Perm, a key Bolshevik advance point. Prague notes Czech minister Dr Srobar says Hungarian Bolshevik troops scored an unexpected success in Slovakia causing Czech retreat. Stockholm cites Estonian front claims German forces aiding Bolsheviks with three cavalry detachments mentioned.
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Associated Press
London
Sarapul
Kama River
Perm
Hich
Admiral Kolchak
Orces
Plshevik
Prague
Srobar
Slovakia
Teuts
Esthonia
Stockholm
Paris Rail Unions Stand Ground in Strike Impasse
Paris June 6 rail unions say they are not called on to strike as transport workers meet and pledge to stay out until demands are met. Subway workers condemn insinuations linking Bolshevism to the strike while the metal industry shows little settlement progress. A General Labor Federation meeting last night reviewed the situation.
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Paris
Associated Press
Subway
General Labor Federation
Eight Packers Merge Headed by Hawkinson of Wilson Co
Chicago reports the merger of eight independent packing companies announced in New York. Hawkinson, former Wilson & Co vice president, will head the new corporation. Capitalization not yet fixed. figures earlier cited as 165 million were said to be uncertain. Details to be released around June 12.
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Associated Press
Chicago
New York
Dani A. Hawkinson
Willson & Co
Hawkinson
First Step Toward World Anti-Saloon League
The Anti-Saloon League of America opened its convention in Washington with a special committee presenting a tentative international constitution. The draft calls for effective cooperation toward world-wide prohibition and is expected to be ratified after brief consideration.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Anti-Saloon League
The
Anti-Saloon League of America
International Organization
American League and
Foreign Prohibition Organizations
Bessarabia seeks self determination in Paris plebiscite
In Paris on June 4 a Bessarabian delegation led by Alexander Kroupensky urged recognition of Bessarabia's right to self determination under the League of Nations. They argue the region is essentially Russian and should not be absorbed by Roumania without local consent, noting Moldavian claims and a Jewish population of over 300,000. No peace conference action has sanctioned Roumanian claims.
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Paris
Besarabia
Denmark
Belgium
Roumania
Alexander Kroupensky
Vemstvo
Bessarabia
League of Mations
Kroupensky
Peace Conference
Seitz Despairs Over Treaty Terms Feeder of Bolshevism
Vienna dispatch notes President Seitz expresses despair over treaty terms and warns they may feed Bolshevism as he plans a brief country excursion for rest before leaving the city. The informal report outlines his concern about diplomatic concessions and their political consequences.
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Seitz
Associated Press
Vienna
Terms of Peace and Influenza Hit Alaska
The report notes Austrian peace mission head Dr Karl Renner pressing for verbal talks at El Germain amid critic of the terms by allies and Hungarian setbacks. Separately a Bristol Bay influenza surge in Southwestern Alaska has killed 160 natives in ten days per Alaska bureau reports.
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Armeren
Trolshevign
Gerimatt Austria
Karl Renner
el Germain
IPL
Samuel G. Schlette funeral at 2 P M
Samuel G. Schlette died at his Fairview home after long illness of heart trouble. Funeral services will be at 2 P M at the Roman Catholic or Evangelical church with Rev C H Vander officiating. Burial will follow. He was born July 30 1860 at Osterdock Iowa and married Bertha Henke July 4 1892. Surviving are his widow two daughters and a son, a mother and a brother in Idaho. He belonged to Calvary Evangelical church. The obituary notes the family resided in Oelwein and Waterloo before settling in Waterloo about 20 years ago.
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Eagle Lodge
Buthday
Vane Evan
C. H. Vander
Samuel G. Schlette
Seilf
Fairview
Fourth Street
Mr. Schlette
Osterdock
Willer
Bertha Henke
Guttenberg
Oelwein
Waterloo
Maude Kendall
Marl
Diamond
Milo
Idaho
Calvary Evangelical Church
The
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Beauty Parlor
Lafayette
Wilson Company
Dairy Products Store
W. 4Th St
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Anti-Saloon League For World
Rak Toquit
Romania
L. C. Lininger’s Grocery Store
West Fifth Street
Waterloo Glothing Co
Fae Sie
Antwerp
Brunsela
Brown Kid
Welch Cook
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Jake
Bill
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East Fifth Street
Cedar Rapid
Charles City
Morris Motor Car Co
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