City Finances Show Mixed May Improvement for May
May reports by City Clerk and Auditor Charles C. MacKay show cash balances total $102,678.87 with $61,023.10 in outstanding warrants. Five Fund shows $15,946.82 cash and $3,483.34 in warrants, while the fee fund holds $3,483.34 cash and $22,845.15 warrants. East and West street funds are depleted but poll tax reforms are expected to provide summer funds. Warrants issued in May total $30,02.56 across General and West Sanitary funds.
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Charles C. MacKay
Consolidated
Warants
Mackay
Oe Fls
Max Levingston Wins Lowden Oratory Prize
Max Levingston son of Mr and Mrs Jacob Levingston distinguished himself as a debater at University of Iowa the past year and will receive part of a 50 prize for his accomplishment as one of five prize winners.
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Max Levingston
Jacob Levingston
University of Iowa
Prize awards announced for Iowa U students and others
Frank C. Lowden funded prizes for proficiency to Iowa U students and others. Recipients include Huel G. Beems Anamosa Harold D. Read Des Moines Paul C. Bucy Hubbard Kenneth M. Dunlop Jefferson George C. Hurlby Rolfe and Walter Y. Seuright Ebolt for geology Frances E. Duker Iowa City for Greek Dorothy M. Cagtey Iowa City for Latin and Harold G. Hickox Manchester for mathematics.
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Frank C. Lowden
Ilinois
Iowa “U
Speed Up Unloading Coal in South Carolina Yards
A Chicago contractor will bring a clam shell steam shovel from Fort Dodge to speed up coal unloading at Illinois Central yards. He has worked on western lines, with about 12 000 tons unloaded by hand here and 18 000 tons or 400 carloads remaining. The shovel should unload 60 to 75 cars daily for 24 hours, finishing in about a week. A two months supply of coal is stored for emergencies.
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Chicago
Era
Fort Dodge
Illinois Central Yrds
Council Bluffs
No Other Coffee Equals It Says Mrs Bottorf
Mrs G M Bottorff of Everest Kansas praises Chocolate Cream Coffee as the best she has used. She notes its superior flavor strength and the golden brown color when brewed and mentions the paraffin-walled can keeps it fresher. She adds that men also say it is the best coffee. She urges readers to ask their grocer.
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Mrs. Bottorf
Everest
Kas
G. M. Bottorff
Whitfield murder suspect tale ends with wrong tip
A Waterloo man, Whitfield inspired sighting, and a Packard driver mistaken for the Cleveland police killer led to a Waterloo chase. Capt. Verley crew nabbed a white Packard driver at a local service station after a report tied to Rainbow Drive sightings.
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Waterloo
John
Whitield
Cleveland
Wham Verley
Whitfield
John Kistner
Kar
Commercial
Whitfeld
Atore
Rainbow Drive
Farley
Unidentified Woman Found Dead in Lake Michigan
A grayhaired woman was recovered from Lake Michigan. At the morgue, pockets of her coat held bricks, confirming a deliberate drowning. The body, found seated on the water, remains unidentified.
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Chicago
Lake Michigan
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Rena
Fowler Company
James
Minis & Co
Libby
Welfare Bldg
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West Fourth St
United "Fruit CO
Sanitary Meat Market
Sycamore Street
Armour
Queen Anne
Sinnards East Side Grocery
Chase
Sanborn Seal
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A&p
Campbell’s
BOO
Fourth Street
4Th St
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Cedar Palle
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