Grounders: Waterloo BBA shifts to baseball plans and players
Town notes show Waterloo BBA directors securing funds for a 4 team season with March 6 tag day. Baseball spirit rises in Lake City Mason City Waverly Parkersburg and others. Hobe Ferris joins Miller hold out as eastern press debate persists. Basketball schedules loom as East High faces Grundy Center and Cedar Falls meets. Brown may top Cubs salary with 35 wins while Murphy sets bonuses for Reulbach and others.
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Ee Lake City
Old West High
Grundy Center
East High
Cedar Falls High
Medecai Brown
Chicago Cubs
Charley Murphy
Christy Mathewson
Murphy
Brown
Reulbach
Cub
Kling Faces New Evidence In Holdout Baseball Case
Kansas City and Cincinnati dispatches report new evidence reaching the National Baseball Commission about Johnny Kling of the Cubs. As organizer, secretary and treasurer of a Kansas City group, Kling allegedly aided a rival league by promoting games on Sundays against American Association clubs. He admits holding office and fielding teams on AA dates, with critics saying his actions harmed organized baseball and diverted funds.
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Cincinnati
National Baseball Commission
Johnny Kling
Cubs
Kansas City
Kling
American Association
Baseball League
Association
A. A
National Commission
Organize Baseball
Return Contest Set for March 16 in Dubuque
The schedule notes a return contest to be held in Dubuque on Wednesday March 16 following the March 10 event held there. The two dates anchor a regional series with local venues and teams coordinating travel and timing.
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Dubuque
Bob Armstrong Joins Jeffries for Training Camp
Los Angeles March 4 Big Black Bob Armstrong visiting Jim Jeffries in his wood yard to begin training for a fight with Jack Johnson. Armstrong will work with Jeffries mornings starting next Monday. Jeff praises Armstrong's strength, a punching bag is installed, and daily workouts planned. Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets are advertised.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Bob Armstrong
Joe Woodman
Sam Langford
Jim Jeffries
Jim
Jim Corbett
Frank Gotch
Jack Johnson
Armstrong
Jeffries
Marnings
Jeff
Jef
Bob
Soash Company Fixtures Shipped to Soash Tex
The W. P. Soash Land company moves its office fixtures from Waterloo to Soash Texas, crating and shipping today. The old Waterloo building was vacated for a new concrete two story office. Nauman Co. oversees crating and loading of the fixtures, praised as among the finest real estate office fixtures west of Chicago.
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W. P. Soash Land Company
Soash
Tex
Nauman Co
Chicago
United States
Waterloo
Snow's College of Dressmaking Moves to Park Ave
Snow's College of Dressmaking relocates from Russell-Lameon Building to Federal Block above Kim dal's printing office on Park Avenue in Waterloo. The school has operated in Waterloo for three months, with an enrollment of thirty pupils, and invites local ladies to visit.
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Snow’s College OF Dressmaking
Russell-Lameon
Federal Block
Kimdal
Park Ave
Snow's College
Waterloo
One Day Cure Claims by Bromo Quinine Brand
Advertisement asserts a single dose of Bromo Quinine laxative quine cures a cold in one day and features signature attribution to W. Grove. The claim markets the product globally as a universal remedy with bold timing.
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Ofr
W. Grove
Fic
Dubuque to Be Satisfied With Home and Away Games
After a dispute over a Dubuque YMCA basketball game, Waterloo Y management quickly arranged two meetings, one here and one in Dubuque, aiming to deliver defeats to the visiting team. The first game will be played in this city.
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Son
Boyle
Dubuque
Waterloo
Tts
Elevenyearold injured by falling tree in LaPorte County
LaPorte City March 4 A timber accident near the Cole home left Ror Cole eleven with a severely mangled right arm after a tree struck him while wood choppers felled another. Doctors Fields and Kirkland report possible amputation and lifelong disability despite care.
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LaPorte City
Ror Cole
Will Cole
Spring Creek Township
Cole
Fields
Kirkland
Doctor Hull's Bail Set At Fifteen Thousand Dollars
Montesuity Indiana March 3 Dr Hull is indicted in the Vaughn death case and bail is set at 15000 dollars. Attorneys seek bond to secure his release as the investigation proceeds.
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Hull
Kirkaville
Montesuity
Vaughn
Telephone rates and competition in Waterloo debate
A reader argues against fixed tele phone rates citing the rising cost of living and gold production. He cites wage increases for farm workers and tradesmen, questions the logic of price controls, and discusses Iowa independ ent telephone firms, rate comparisons, and the impact of exchange consolidation on pricing and service. He notes industry figures from a 1910 Omaha convention and stresses the need to balance fixed charges, operating costs, and dividends.
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Liraedtindnod Gee
Courter
Times-Tribune Sbys
Taft
Times-Tribune
Nl- Hois
Cedar Falls
Waterloo
Black Hawk County
Iowa
Chicago
la Porte
Department of Commerce and Labor
Public Commissions
Massachusetts
United States
Iowa Telephone Company
Omaha
Woods
Lincoln
Kansas
Missouri
Iowa Independent Telephone Association
Washington
Des Moines
One System for Des Moines Phones Urged by Judge McHenry
Judge McHenry argues that consolidating the Mutual and Iowa Telephone systems in Des Moines would serve the public better by providing universal connection, removing competing but linked networks, and eliminating the benefits of split systems while not creating a monopoly in the legal sense. He urges readers to verify the facts rather than react rashly, urging informed action from telephone patrons.
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McHenry
Des Moines
Cays Eee
Mutual Telephone Company
Iowa Telephone Company
Towa
Girls Need A Good Tonic For Anemia Claims
An Iowa woman's testimonial promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills as a safe cure for anemia in school and working girls. The adurges parents to address pallor breathlessness and faintness with the tonic, noting recovery can occur after treatment and sale details are provided.
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C. M. Bently
State Street
Boone
Iowa
Dr. Williams Medicine Company
Schenectady
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