Pueblo Flood Strain Worsens Across Colorado Front
Flooding narrows Pueblo south side isolation as river levels drop after a heavy rain. Rescue teams resume search for victims while a precautionary antitoxin supply is sent. Refugees crowd schools and churches, but train service remains stalled. Denver and nearby cities report continued flood impacts and evacuations.
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Pueblo
Arkansas
Associated Press
Colorado Rangers
Colorado Fuel & Iron Co
Colorado Southern
Trinidad
Lake Charles
St. Charles River
Lake Charlies
South Side
Sheriff Recalls Graphic Flood Horror on Train
Mesa county sheriff Frank Ducray described a Pueblo Arkansas River flood aboard Denver and Rio Grande Train No 3. He recounted passengers clinging to car roofs and windows as water swept through coaches and a lumber fall knocked riders off. About 60 survivors walked out as dawn broke, witnessing demolished houses and a scene of devastation.
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Associated Preas
Colorado Springs
Colo
Frank Ducray
Mesa County
Grand Junction
Pueblo
Sheriff Ducray
Denver & Rio Grande
Sp. m
Arkansas River
Seds Station
Missouri-Pacific
Chicago
Missouri Pacific
Town Labor and Trade Conditions Are Improving
Washington reports June 6 that May brought improved labor conditions and stronger trade in wholesale and retail across Iowa. Cedar Rapids shows better retailing and steady jobbing with some labor demand. Des Moines notes road work and farm labor activity with no skilled unemployment. Dubuque sees rising manufacturing orders and near full capacity. Sioux City and Ottumwa reflect reduced hog and steel inputs but improving jobbing and overall activity.
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Washington News Bureau
Waterloo
Evening Courier
Washington, D. C
Iowa
Employment Service of
Department of Labor
West Northcentral
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
Minnesota
Dakotas
Cedar Rapids
Dubuque
Des Moines
Leiy
Sioux City
Expert to teach stammerers tongue mastery at Waterloo school
The Waterloo West district school board hires O. H. Ennis of Los Angeles, a noted stammering authority, for a course of ten lessons aimed at school children afflicted with speech stuttering. The plan follows local interest in improving articulation among youths.
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School Board of
Waterloo West District
O. H. Ennis
Los Angeles
Cal
Instruction Lessons Attract Local Attention
Supt H D Lee notes Konig has had success in Minneapolis Kansas City and Rochester N Y and believes similar results will follow here About 10 children enrolled for lessons expected to begin next week Parents should contact Mr Lee while Ennis will offer private lessons to adults during the visit
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Konig
Minneapolis
Kansas
Rochester
N.Y
H. D. Lee
Lee
Cars Needed for Soldiers Parade and Accommodations
With hundreds of veterans and visitors arriving, a shortage of cars for transporting the troops to hotels and parade venues became urgent. General Chairman G W Harbin appeals for donations of cars and drivers, with a record kept to know availability, asking contributors to bring vehicles to Memorial Hall or call the auto committee.
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G. W. Harbin
Memorial Hall
Auto Committee
Strand Theatre Manager Adopts Tin Can Cleanup Plan
Charles McGuire, manager of the Strand theatre, used hundreds of old tin cans collected from a matinee to fund a town cleanup. A truck delivered the cans to the city dump, with proceeds used to improve the theatre area after assisting the city during G. A. R. encampment week.
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Strand
Charles McGuire
Strand Theatre
McGuire
Pythian Medals for Americanism Essays Tonight
At the Knights of Pythias lodge meeting tonight prizes will be awarded for the Americanism essay contest conducted among grade schools on the east and west sides. West entrants Laxton Bennett, Robert Tabor, Blair Ward. East entrants Max McLaughlin, Eddie Herron, Joyce Thornberg will receive medals engraved with a large eagle. First prize details incomplete in fragment.
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Knights of Pythies Lodge
Laxton Bennett
Robert Tabor
Blair Ward
Max McLaughlin
Eddie Herron
Joyce Thornberg
Spedals
Pythian Contest Awards and Program Highlights
Judges J W Arbuckle W A Reed and Rey H B Mounsey pick winners with J C Hartman A Hukill and A Lovejoy for west schools. Programs include new oral musical selections by the Pythian quartet and remarks by J S Tuthin on Americanism and its relation to Pythianism.
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J. W. Arbuckle
W. A. Reed
Rey. H. B. Mounsey
J. C. Hartman
A. T. Hukill
Pythian Quartet
J. S. Tuthin
World War Vet Freed After Milk Theft Notice
Kenosha Wisconsin June 6 Helmer Mowdy a World War I veteran who served on four fronts and was wounded in France was arraigned for stealing milk from front porches to stave off starvation. He admitted guilt saying he would be fed in jail. Municipal Judge Tully freed him saying the court will not sentence him and thanked his service to the United States.
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Associated Press
Kenosha
Wis
Helmer Mowdy
France
Marne
Maody
Europe
Tully
Moody
United States
Reparations Body Seeks Neutral Arbitrator Signaling Change
Paris June 6 The reparations commission presented to the council of ambassadors a proposal to authorize refer to a neutral arbitrator on questions it cannot agree. The idea drew criticism in French quarters as it would shift decisions on key reparations issues to a neutral. The peace treaty allows procedure questions to be referred to a neutral but omits policy arbitration.
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Associated Press
Paris
Reparations Commission
Council of Ambassadors
Gas Company to File Petition for Review
United Press reports that the Lincoln Gas & Electric Co. was granted 60 days to file a petition for rehearing after the Supreme Court ruled that the district court has jurisdiction to compel full refunds of gas overcharges, affirming the validity of a dollar gas ordinance.
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United Press
Washington, D. C
Supreme Court Today
Linrcoln Gas & Electric Co
District Court
Keep on Learning Advise from Waterloo Men of Affairs
A dozen Waterloo professionals urge graduates to pursue further education. They stress college or business training, noting higher earnings, broader opportunities, and personal growth. Advisors include attorneys bankers professors and merchants urging college study and lifelong learning.
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Waterloo Men of Affairs
Waterloo Business
Verne L. Bartling
Waterloo Savings Bank
J. Levingston
Russell Lamson
H. D. Simons
Palace Clothiers
J. E. Brinkman
Ae Ny
Ben J. Howrey
Waterloo Bank & Trust Co
Estate Tax Deduction Upheld by Supreme Court
Washington June 6 The supreme court ruled an estate tax is an allowable deduction in computing net income, affirming the Court of Claims in the Alan H Woodward estate case from Alabama. The decision affects executors and mentions the 1915 income deduction. The same session denied review of Lehigh Valley Railway damages in the Black Tom explosion and referred several cases back to the docket for reargument before a full court.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Supreme Court
Court of Claims
Alan H. Woodward
Alabama
New York
Lehigh Valley Railway Company
Western Union Co
United Shoe Machinery
Wyoming
Colorado
Confessed murder by woman two years after Lakewood publisher slaying
Miss Marion McArdie 20, daughter of Mrs Eva C Kaber and Mrs Mary Brickel 69 have been indicted for first degree murder in the death of Dan F Kaber wealthy Lakewood Ohio publisher. Mrs Eva Kaber widow of the slain man now held in New York awaiting extradition. Indictments rest largely on a confession from Mrs Brickel who says Mrs Kaber planned the crime and the Kaber home was ransacked as a ruse to blame burglars.
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Cleveland
Marion McArdie
Eva C. Kaber
Mary Brickel
Kaber
McArdie
Dan F. Kaber
Lakewood
Eva Kaber
New York
Brickel
Stanton
Christensen
Miss McArdle
Price of Wives Fixed by Liberian Treaty
London reports a new convention between Great Britain and Liberia sets the price of a wife at five pounds sterling and no more. It governs border tribes between Sierra Leone and Liberia, guaranteeing a wife’s rights by her husband and prohibiting involuntary return to a claimant.
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Associated Press
London
Great Britain
Liberia
Sierra Leone
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