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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1915
Page
14
City finances show ongoing overdraws with warrants rising slightly. License revenue aided general funds, totaling more than $2,000. cash on hand $185,853.74, much in bonding funds. Detailed cash and warrants by fund listed, including general, East Sewer, West Street, and special improvements.
Albert Porter and O J Boyton attended a masons meeting at Caesar Rapids this week. Supper at M E church June 18. Mrs T S Carroll’s birthday gathering with ten children and several grandchildren. Geo Shaler to Walsett Iowa for the summer. Edith Ling visits Mrs G H Clark, teaching piano at Mt Morris College. E M Mitchel improving. Des Moines trip. Dr Fred J Waller returned from Florida to care for ill father. H G Mark to Vinton for Rock Island work. E K Greene elected to state historical society. Dave Dohrman underwent appendectomy. serious condition due to rupture and gangrene. L Ford Hilmer ill. pneumonia. Otto Hilmer summoned from Independence. Agnes Ohrt to wed Fred W praf of New Hampton. home at Spring Valley Minnesota after June 15. High school alumni meet June 22 with banquet at 1 30 p m and entertainment. J Q Robinson and daughter Helen visiting relatives in South Dakota and Aberdeen. Charles Klingaman and family visiting Waterloo relatives. moving to Florida. Waterloo households reached by Want Ad distribution. paper serves about 6 500 homes nightly.
Indianapolis June 11 Vice President Marshall defends US rights and refuses to sacrifice principle at sea while urging cautious guidance for citizens near danger zones. He praises the German reply if it aligns with American humanity and warns against undermining national sovereignty. Paris reports France expands munitions output with workers recalled to factories.
A Petrograd tale shared by Amelie Rives describes a young nobleman in an opera crowd who mocks a beggar, then pays him after being struck, revealing a curious side of Russian character as observed from abroad. The Buffalo Express reports this anecdote with a critical yet amused tone.
New York June 11 market notes show Buller easier with 12 602 receipts down 3. Cheese unsettled with 1 801 boxes of flats and twins sold. average fancy priced. Eggs unsettled with 18 786 cases unchanged. Poultry live firm with western chicks and broilers at 22 24, fowls 154 16, turkeys 12 13. dressed irreg ular. Western roasting chickens frozen at 25 28.
Mrs. B D Bray of Omaha visits sister Mrs James Duffy on Cortlandt street. W W Woolley travels to Grundy Center for legal business. Miss Beatrice Gates daughter of Judge J Howard Gates of Pierre S D visits grandparents Mr and Mrs Gates. YWCA business girls take a 5 AM Cedar River park picnic breakfast. Grace MB church children to meet at 2 30 Saturday for final rehearsal.
Mt. Auburn June 11. Mr. and Mrs. C. I. Fisher and family plan a forti vacation in Ladysmith Wisconsin. Ray Lee and son Harry with Ora Lee visit three weeks. Hugh St. Clair of San Diego visits Geo H Fisher and relatives. Cedar Falls summer students include Mire Wealy Edna Kitchen Pearl Garretson and E Tu Lane. Theresa and Iola Davis of Waterloo visit Mrs. Rawson. Iola Davis recently returned from Coleman South Dakota where she taught high school. Dodd Smalley returns home for summer from Ames. Huppert of Mooreville welcomes a daughter. Vernon Lee returns from Ladysmith after helping his sister, Mrs. Emil Fisher. Jonathan Jenks is very ill with slim chances of recovery. Elma Lupton Emma Amburn Iola and Theresa Davis plan San Francisco exposition trip. B A Rawson unable to join party due to Mrs. Rawson’s illness.
One third of the boys enrolled in free YMCA swimming lessons since Tuesday morning can now swim. Officials report satisfaction with early progress as water wings have been secured, boosting confidence to strike out in the water.
News notes a child named George Bunn nearly drowned during opening day at a pool. Officials say quick Y M C A response prevented a river drowning, with praise for Physical Director Bintz and volunteers. The report also touches on gypsy stereotypes and includes brief quotes from newspapers.
Classified note seeking a young girl for housework at 1518 West Fourth Street. Phone contact listed as 1021 Black. Plain spoken job listing from a mid century newspaper.
Fragmented notice items include a watch housekeeper ad, vehicle sale, loan and insurance mentions, real estate bargains in Monroe county near Albia, salesmen wanted for direct farming sales, California orchard promotion, and legal notices about wills and contract forfeiture in Black Hawk County Iowa with dates around 1918 to 1948.
Timetables show departures from Union depot and East side with noted times including 3:25 am 8:00 am 5:08 pm and 7:48 pm. Northbound services include 12:56 am and 1:05 am from Union depot and Twla C. plus Des Moines connections.
Fragmented railroad timetable notes list departures arrivals and routes including Minneapolis St Paul Dubuque Chicago Cedar Rapids and Albert Lea with various times and lines such as Illinois Central and Chicago North Western. shows daily and Sunday exceptions and local trains with obscure punctuation and typos.
The page lists train schedules for Waterloo and Waverly divisions, detailing departure and arrival times, stop patterns, and special notes for trains 7, 9, 15, 18, 22, 24, 26, and Cedar Falls Waterloo connections. It notes extra stops at Gilbertville Urbana Brandon and signal stops at sidings, with multiple daily service windows across morning, afternoon, and evening periods.
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