Address by Judge Grosscup at Augustana College
Judge Grosscup of Chicago urged that America faces the supreme test of self government as it confronts future economic questions. He warned that spiraling costs threaten political balance and stressed the need for intellectual honesty and public accountability to solve complex issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Island
Augustana College and Theological Seminary
Grosscup
Chicago
America
Universities and Colleges of
Schools of
Teachers of
Knowledge of Food Promotes Infant Digestion
A Texas mother praises Grape-Nuts as safe easy to digest for infants and adults noting its partial predigestion during manufacture. The letter claims the product aids rapid cell rebuilding and cites a booklet titled The Road to Yellville as supportive reading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Yellville
Hogs Cattle and Sheep Prices in Chicago Market Report
Estimated receipts for today show hogs 13,000 head and cattle 5,500 with sheep around 16,000. Hog prices opened up and closed up with mixed and butchers near 9.40 to 9.75. cattle market opened steady and closed strong with ranges across beef, Texas and western categories. Also notes intellectual counterfeit warning and Chamberlains Liniment ad amid market listings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Beeveg
Texas
Bae
BTR
Tae
Cedar Point Kans Town Noted For Many Widows
In Cedar Point Kansas a high widow ratio draws letters to the postmaster from bachelors and clubs seeking brides. The town has twenty seven families with sixteen widows, a rate unmatched in the county and likely the state. Postmaster Grimwood discourages a matrimonial bureau while widow lists shrink as marriages form with Cedar Point men. A Swiss steamboat of 229 feet is being built for Lake Geneva commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cottonwood Wraths
Kas
Topeka
Cedar Point
Chase County
Kansas
St. Louis
Chicago
William Grimwood
Cedar
Grimwood
Commencement at St Marys A Historic First for Grads
The first graduation exercises of St Marys High School will be held at the Waterloo theatre Friday evening. Cecilia M Wagner Josephine M Reihsen and Mary M Geib will receive diplomas. Hon G A Feely addresses the graduates on The Necessity of Education. The public is invited with no admission charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Mary’s High School
Waterloo Theatre
Cecilia M. Wagner
Josephine M. Rejihsen
Mary M. Geib
G. A. Feely
Oplenen
St. Mary's Church
H. H. Forkenbrock
M. Dominica
Merle Danner
Josephine Bernard
Josephine M. Reihsen
Cecelia M. Wagner
H. H. Folkenbrock
Urban Gindt
John Beck
Lawrence Kascht
Peter Winnegar
Raymond Reihsen
George Baier
Joseph Heinen
Edward Knipp
Martin Geib
Hermann Otto
Carl Reihsen
Josephine Reihsen
Anna Kurth
Agnes Geib
Helen Darrah
May Carson
Irma Wagner
Josephine Chevalier
Frances Adrian
Theresa Kuschnick
Margaret Witty
Martha Adrian
Henry Carson
Magdalena Schmitz
Palmer
Lawrence B. Kascht
Pauliner A. Rebsen
Mathilda Hoffer
Josephine M. Bernard
Bertha M. Kiein
Bernard B. Linder
Anna M. Kurth
John J. Beck
Lawrence 8
Kascht
Josephine M. Rebsen
Mary M. Gelb
Waterloo Busy Week Promises Big Conventions and Park Opens
Waterloo gears for a busy week with 1400 Masonic delegates and 300 at the labor convention while Electric Park opens for the season. The week features the Masonic meeting, the state labor convention, a fat men's ball on June 14, rural eighth grade graduation, and a list of circulating ads and letters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Ihe
Masonic Grand Lodge
State Labor Convention
Cosmopolitan Carnival Co
Electric Park
Teachers’ Normal Institute
Masonic Convention
Higgins Laundry Burglary Sparks Citywide Alarm
A Tuesday night burglary hit Higgins Laundry in North Waterloo with about 50 dollars of tools and braay stolen, likely by youths. The piece recalls a string of two months of burglaries and holdups targeting homes, businesses, a Campbell bicycle and sporting goods store, McStay meat market, a hotel, and forged checks, none fully solved. Police are strained and residents fear the surge, while reports of scarlet women appear with the approaching summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Higgins
Waterloo
Mulberry Street
Great Western
J.T. Suingard
Campbell
Quy Campbell Bicycle and Sporting Goada
Commercial Street
McStay
Total Abstinence League Meeting Attends Cedar Rapids
Miss Anna E Crowe and her nephew Willie Stewart attended Cedar Rapids annual Catholic Total Abstinence society meeting. The gathering drew representation from all state towns and noted no Catholic run saloons in Cedar Rapids. Next annual meeting set for Dubuque with plans for a banquet reminder issued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna E. Crowe
Willie Stewart
Cedar Rapids
Total Abstinence Society
League
Dubugne
Dennison Defeats Murtagh as Governor Porter Tops GOP Ticket
In Tuesday's primary, J W Dennison Jr of Dubuque defeats J Murtagh of Waterloo for the Democratic nomination in the Third District, while Claude R Porter of Centerville beats GB Basher for governor. Republican tickets nominate C A Kennady, Carlos Grilli, EB Pickett, Gilbert N Hall Ben, James W Good, N B Kendall, S W Priney, H M Towner, Walter I Smith, Frank P Woods, E H Hubbard, and others across districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. ©. Murtagh
Waterloo
John WD. Dennison, Jr
Dubuque
GB. H. Basher
Wax
Claude R. Porter
Centerville
C. A. Kennady
Carlos Grilli
Sresatve
C. EB. Pickett
Gilbert N. Hall- Ben
Wfth
James W. Good
N. Bl. Kendell
Hevanth
S. WF. Praniy
Progresaive
H. M. Towner
Walter I. Smith
Frank P. Woods
Progressive
Miss Virginia Walker Heads for European Summer Tour
Miss Virginia Walker daughter of Mr and Mrs W R Walker leaves tonight by Rock Island for New York City then sails June 14 with Northwestern University friends on the New Amsterdam for a summer tour of Europe The trip includes a Passion Play visit at Oberammergau and Miss Walker will visit Miss Ruth Shoemaker at Oberlin on the way to New York She has been at Northwestern this year and is visiting at Waterloo at present Her friends wish her bon voyage
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Walker
W. R. Walker
Rock Island
New York City
Northwestern University
New Amsterdam
Europe
Oberammergau
Walker
Northwestern
Waterloo
New York
Ruth Shoe
Unrequited Love S Love-Driven Double Tragedy in Chicago
Chicago reports a grim double tragedy as Dr Frank Campbell and Lena Hansen die in the city’s southwest. Campbell, a married starch factory foreman and father, is believed to have killed Miss Hansen in a suspected unrequited love case before shooting himself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Frank Campbell
Lena Hansen
Campbell
Miss Hansen
What Everybody Ought to Know
An account notes a girl employed in the establishment and references Foley Kidney Pills by Wangler Bros and H. W. Taggart containing ingredients to tone and regulate kidney and bladder function.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wangler Bros
H. W. Taggart
E. Weakley
Kokomo
Ind
W. Taggart
Auctioneers urge professional licensure in Iowa ruling
The Iowa State Auctioneers association at its tenth annual convention petitions the next Iowa legislature for a law requiring appointment of professional auctioneers rather than improvised scribes to sell under sheriff executions. They allege estates and individuals are harmed by inexperienced sellers. Also notes ad for Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and a licensed marriage in Waterloo linking J D Knapp Daisy Jones Herman Soll Alma Fredin Cedar Falls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Fivening Press
Iowa State Auctioneer’s Association
Iowa
J.D. Knapp
Waterloo
Daisy
Jones
Herman H. Soll
Cedar Falis
Alma Deli Fredin
Waterloa
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Augustana
Hyver
Richardson & Larrabee
Chicago Board of Trade
Lamson Bros. & Co
Sycamore Street
H. W
N. S
N. Ba
Stock Exchange
Alions Central
New York Central
Pennsylvania
Reading
St. Paul Race
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
Atchison
United States Steel
Great Northern
Wolaway Northern Pacific
Prairie Bay
Tame Bay
Colin
Ile
Kan
Switzerland
Lake Geneva
ST. Mary's
Sasons
LABOR
L. J. Brett
Myrtle Cordell
A. H.colton
Laura J. Dittman
Dot Dorester
May Harris
Minerva. Howard
Ivan James
Fred Knaebber
Charles C. Lacy
J. J. Longhurst
Mattison
Carrie Mason
Inez Mose
Nora Moody
Mattie V. Newton
Ella O'Donnell
Edna Dwyer
Mary Currey
Iva Palmer
Mae More Patterson
Alice Perry
Connie Reynolds
Remington
Anna Riley
Kate Rowan
Nellie Ryan
Mary Shearod
Sarah J. Steel
Jaydin Tanner
J. O. Thompson
Lillian Trenary
Mable Vanschick
EB. £. Ward
Anna Wright
W. J. Glenney
Gussie Griffin
Frank Griffin
Melvin Guthrie
Walter Hanks
Independent Chemical Co
M.E. Jones
Z. Johnson
Harry Kilgore
John Kuskera
Dannie Long
Joe le Martelle
Leo B. McCar
George Prides
George Priedy
The
Russells
George Scaggs
EH. Shannon
Nick Shirnalone
Clyde Smith
Burton Snell
Frank Stevens
Rinner Stapele
Stanley Taylor
Walter Todd
Walter Trautman
Sol Urbach
John B. Varallo
Louie Wade
EW. Wells
Henry West
Rev. Wilson
Jack Wilson
W. Wirnisuski
Leo Worden
H. L. Wright
Col. R. Triem
Thomas Willams
W. RB. Law. P
Soash Hall
A. O. U. W. Hall
Florence Club
Charles Guy
Bratnober Street
Ladies’ Aid Society
First Presbyterian Church
J. S. Jackson
Franklin Street
Mizpah Circle
King’s Daughters of the First. M. E. Church
S. J. Finley
Fourth Street West
Higgins Laundry
TOTAL
Abstinance Union
Clinton
Total Abstinance Union
Lin~ton
DR. Notts Pan Warr
Dr. Nott
NOTT
K. Sth Sr
Dennison
Murtagh
J. H. Basher
Claude
E. H. Hubbard
J. A
Pollard
Penner
John Dennison
D. D. Murphy
Huber
Dan Hamilton
Clint L. Price
F. Q. Stuart
W. J. Cleveland
Will J. Whiting
Smnith
Rogers
Yor Byers Smith
Adair County
Guthrie
Harrison Wees Beeen
Hoo Montgomery
Pottawattamte
Shelby
Chamberlain
Noaa
HvertAnaAn Optical Co
VIA
Pullman Sleeper
Englewood
South Side
la Salle
C. F. Hays
Besl
Waa
Osthtler
Ieg
Fowler CO
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