Get Rich Quick Scheme Goes to Tree Top Laughs
A lower Jefferson Street youth rents out maple tree limbs as an observatory scheme, charging a dime to a quarter per person nightly for curiosity seekers. Police may intervene as the plan attracts night hawks and risk of mischief grows.
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Lower
Jefferson Street
Wallingford
Young Wallingford
Sheeney
Sam Shapiro
Stern
Shapiro
Jacob Graver
Morpheus
McKinley School
Graver
Recalled Draft Men for Y M C A Work Sent Back to Army
Exemption board announces recall of men released for Y M C A work who were subject to draft. Army does not recognize Y M C A as an army branch. Iowa Rock Island railroad employees linked to robberies held after secret-service era. two switchmen from Davenport named among suspects. Tire shipment to Waterloo reportedly recovered among loot.
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Army
Iowa
Rock Island Railroad
Secret Service
Davenport
Waterloo
Realized Blame on Our Country, Miss Sutter Reports
Miss Clara M. Sutter, Black Hawk county home demonstration agent, summarizes Oct 1, 1917 to June 26, 1918 results. She reached 18,442 people in personal visits and meetings, traveled 5,031 miles, held 368 committee meetings, wrote 1,708 letters, answered 1,607 calls, and gave 40 canning demonstrations and 8 conservation talks.
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Clara M. Sutter
Black Hawk County
Itle
Miss Sutter
Cleanest fighting men praised by Army Y M C A leader
Rev John Bunyan Smith, back from Fort Sheridan Alabama, lauds U S fighters as clean morally and physically. He notes cadets in Taylor Field and says many soldiers are college graduates who left good jobs to serve. He plans recruiting drives to attract men for overseas Army Y M C A work amid pressing need.
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America
France
John Bunyan Smith
Fort Sheridan
Montgomery
Ala
Army Y. M. C. A
Taylor Field
Mr. Smith
Lift Off Corns Doesn t Hurt Freezone Discovery
A Cincinnati inventor’s freezone solution promises painless corn removal. Tiny bottles sold at drugstores for a few cents allow direct application on tender corns or hardened calluses. Drops relieve soreness instantly and enable easy removal without skin irritation or pain.
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Cincinnati
Why TowA on a Iowa tour with Edward Howe founder of the Globe
Edward Howe, veteran newspaper man and founder of the Atchison Globe, tours Iowa to study why the state leads in agriculture. He will interview Waterloo business leaders and local farmers to uncover the formulas behind Iowa's prosperity and high farm yields. Howe, once a print shop worker, founded the Globe forty years ago and later handed it to his sons. He has traveled the world twice and witnessed the 1914 war era spread with his niece Adelina Howe.
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Edward Howe
Atchison
IMS
Iowa
Howe
Iown
Waterloo
Ed. Howe
Missouri
Bing
Union
California
Montana
Gaya
Hows
Atchison, Kan
Glebe
New York
Boston
Adelina Howa
Globe
Housework Excluded From Jobs, Waterloo Applicants
Office files at the federal state employment bureau reveal that applied girls and young women learn every kind of work except cooking and housework. Bureau records show applicants are barred from housework as assistants sift through files to find maids for Waterloo homes.
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Federal-State Employment Bureau
Waterloo
Red Cross Amrico Tooth Paste Ad Claims Enamel-Friendly
A vintage advertisement touts Red Cross Amrico Tooth Paste as an antiseptic refreshing paste that cleanses without harming enamel. It claims antiseptic properties aid in healthy teeth and gums and notes over one hundred other Red Cross Remedies and Pellet Preparations sold and guaranteed by Red Cross Drug Co.
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Red Cross
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