Women Suffrage in Waterloo City Election Question
A Waterloo dispatch reports belief that women will be enfranchised as soon as 36 states ratify the federal amendment. Iowa signals may vote in municipal elections if ratification and notice reach Washington in time. Iowa, Washington, and Delaware state actions loom as key milestones. Local officials, including City Clerk A. E. Johnson, prepare registration and ballot plans, while official rulings determine exact effectiveness dates.
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Wil Wanton
Waterloo
Marth
Washington
Rev
Erener
Gourier
Delaware
United States
Secretary of State
Iowa
H. M. Havner
Volera
State
Washington, D. C
Havner
Washington State
A. E. Johnson
Commercial Travelers in Annual Session at Waterloo
Waterloo traveling men of Waterloo cordial No. 21, Tried Commercial Travelers of America, convene this afternoon at WK of P hall for annual business with 200 plus members expected. Officers plan to elect the new year’s officers and name delegates to the grand council at Davenport in May. An evening supper labeled a western style “hard times” affair will cap the gathering with a simple, no guns policy at the door.
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Waterloo
Waterloo Codaril No
America
P. Hall
Tt Council
Grand Council
Daveenwort
Committees Survey Housing Situation in Cedar Falls
Cedar Falls reports committees appointed to survey local housing, to aid a house building campaign. Attending conferences to discuss findings, they will report to the general organization within days. The item notes March 18 developments and upcoming discussions.
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Cedar Falls
Ben Gibson Possible GOP Run for Iowa Attorney General
Des Moines reports indicate Ben J. Gibson Corning retired state senator may announce a bid for the Republican nomination for attorney general. If he runs, a third candidate joins William T. Hume and Charles Lyon in the race. Gibson, 38, served in the Spanish American War World War I and has practiced law in Corning.
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Es Moines
Ben J. Gibson
Corning
Attoriey General
Des Moines
William T. Hume
Butlercounty
Charles Lyon
Gibson
Col
Smith Brookhart
Washington
A. B. Cummins
United States
Col. Brookhart
State Department of Justice
State of
Iowa
Republican
Demecravi
Last Night's News in Brief
Baltimore Supreme Court grants adoption petition for Perley Spiker and his wife Emily Knowles child of Emily now wife of Guy Spiker. Paris: refugees from a Steam vessel disaster, 600 red wounded and sick. Greeneville: a tornado in Washington county kills five, injures 20 to 28. Belfast: Constable Scully killed. two soldiers and civilians among those killed by Rang in Glenmire Cork. Warsaw: Poland pursuing peace with Soviet Russia per President Piłsudski statement. Skulski and Stanwick: Karl Helfferich convicted of libeling Mathias Mraberger, fined 300 marks.
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Baltimore
Stanton
Perley Spiker
Emily Knowles
Guy Spiker
Paris
Novorossisk
Constantinople
Greeneville
Washington County
Belfast
Scully
Glenmire
Cork
Rangs
Warsaw
Poland
Serior
Russia
Pili
Skulski
Stanwick
Karl Helfferieh
The
Treasury
Mathias Mraberger
Demonstrations on Orchard and Poultry Methods Next Week
Demonstrations in pruning and spraying Nuit trees and poultry handling will be given March 16 at several farms near Waterloo Cedar Falls and Janesville. The sessions, free to the public, are led by BH. EL Nichols and Ward from the Iowa State College extension department.
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1. Sage
Waterloo
Mount Uppe Churchy
Sie A. Ma
Briden & Sons
Panute
Janesville
James Bergstrom
Cedar Falls
Falls Avenue Road
Bunyan Smith
EL Nichols
Mr. Ward
Extension Department
Towa State
Burr G TS Contract Approval for New School Building
The board of directors of the Thusdaly consolidated school district commissioned How ard Bure, architect, to draw plans for a large school building. It will be fire proof with the latest construction and equipment. Cost estimated at about $100,000. Dinsdale is a small town seven miles north of Trier in Tamis County.
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Thusdaly Consolidated
Howard Bure
Mare
Dinsdale
Trier
Tamis County
Frisbie Ticket Endorsed at Waterloo Labor Meeting
At a Central Labor union gathering titled Eagles hail last night in Waterloo the Frisbie ticket was endorsed without dissent. N. W. Frisbie spoke against strikes, urging unity and a square deal, while candidates pledged loyalty to labor and a broad coalition. Campaign HQs open as talk of victory intensifies ahead of March 29 election.
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Central Labor Union
Frisbie
Courier and
Leon Link
Courier
B. I. Horns
Third Ward
H.R. Plowman
Riverfront
Watterloo
Mbt
J. B. Glaza
Virgi
James Register
John Boeller
Frishie
Labor
Gainlzation
Henry Hart
Miamis Central
France
Hart
Waterloo
Land Frisbie
Andy Art
Stuffieheam
N. Staffieheam
OW. Ywerns
Plowman
Black Mawk Electrical Company
Ralph Shippy
Emn
Lafayette
Kriebly
Joh
Prishie
Tllinois
Candidate Maintains Rail Position Despite Candidacy
A Waterloo rail official will not relinquish his post despite his candidacy and possible election. He will keep his senior holding and preferential standing as long as he maintains it. An absence of two months or two years was granted Me Kristie. Election results were discussed at last night's meeting.
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M. J
Jlaine Mission Society
M Murray
Walnut Street
Nelson
George Doeppler
Blink Hawk
Ingham
Abysti¢ia
Gil Wilson
Sartort Hospital
Tl-inois Central Freight Department
Parkersburg
Hoon
Burl A. Readaman
Upper Towa University
Fayelle
Spont
Jaesville
Methodist
Chuyeh
Waterloo
Fiy
Kristie
Linn County Accepts Bid For Lincoln Highway Paving
Linn County supervisors accept a bid for six and one half miles of Lincoln highway paving east of Cedar Rapids. Pine Grove Construction of Chicago won the contract at 4.14 dollars per square yard after bids opened Thursday and discussed Friday. The project follows a 1928 hard-surfaced mile and ties into existing paving.
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Linn County
Board of Supervisors
Lincoln Highway
Cedar Rapids
J. A. Francis
Marion
Black Hawk County
Linn
Pine Grove Construction Company
Chicago
Ford Construction Company
McKoss Construction Company
Des Moines
Francis
New Liberty Bonds Delay Affects Waterloo Banks
Due to U S treasury printing delays Waterloo banks cannot exchange the third Liberty 4 1/2 per cent bonds for the permanent issue when the final coupon due Monday arrives. Banks urge customers not to sell or exchange bonds hastily and warn against dealers. A banker notes no loss of interest in government bonds in history and never will.
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United States Treasury Department
Waterloo
Federal Reserve Bank
Chicago
Nervous Trouble Alleviated by Williams Pink Pills
Mary J Groener of Evansville Indiana describes relief from nerve strain headaches and thin blood after using Williams Pink Pills. She credits improved sleep strength and stability to the medicine and urges others to order from Williams Medicine Co. Schenectady NY.
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Mary J Groener
Mortis Avenue
Evansville
Ind
Williame
Dr. Williams
Farming School Idea Spreading in Iowa
The article notes expanding short term agriculture classes in Jesup Dunkerton La Porte City Jubilee and Hudson following a successful Ars. program in Black Hawk County. About fifty students across five schools studied stock judging farm buildings crop production and farm accounting with cooperation from county state and federal officials.
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Ars
Jesup
Dunkerton
la Porte City
Jubilee
Hudson
Black Hawk
United States
Iowa
RN. H. Bretzke
France
J. A. Linke
Federal Board For
W. Tf. Ben- Ger
Britzke
Clara Sutter
H.C. Moelter
A. A. Burger
Sutter
Annual Jowa Ice Dealers Convene in City
Between 159 and 200 ice dealers from the state will meet in the city March 17 and 18 for the fifteenth annual convention of the Iowa Ice Dealers Association. The event will be hosted at Hotel Russell Lamson. The first day will be taken up.
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Lows Ite Dealers’ Association
Russell-Lamson
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promoted as Blood Purifier and Tonic
After influenza it purifies blood and restores organs. Hood's Sarsaparilla has stood for four years as a general blood purifying alterative tonic. Widely trusted by families for a range of ailments and prepared by educated pharmacists with nearly 50 years of sales.
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Hood
Convention Opens with Planned Talks and Banquet
The article notes visitors registered for social enjoyment during the holiday. On Thursday the convention will take up annual business. The program is not definite but is expected to feature extemporaneous talks by leading state dealers. The meeting will close with a banquet and general discussion.
Osage to Build Soldier Memorial and Community House
Osage Iowa vows a memorial and community house funded by two donated building lots near the business center. Arthur Franks, a World War I veteran who was gassed in France, died en route to a government sanitarium after a Denver hospital stay and is buried in Stacyville. The fund drive will launch soon to erect the building.
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Osage
Women’s Relief Corps
2 Soldier Memorial
Arthur Franks
France
Camp Deadge
Denver
Orchard
Stacyville
Negress Dies at 113 in Natchez
Lydia Robinson a 118 year old negress died last night in Natchez Mississippi. One of her great grandchildren is 50 years old.
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Associated Press
Natchez, Miss
Lydia Robinson
Marguerite Sexton Wins Subdistrict Declamation Contest
Marguerite Sexton of West Water entered the Reinbeck subdistrict high school declamatory contest and won the dramatic class. She will represent the subdistrict in the district contest later. Ruth Copley of Reinbeck took second in the same division.
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Marguerite Sexton
West Water
I Leo
Reinbeck
Miss Sexton
Norman Bruce
Florence Baker
Mr. Middleton
Beumen, I
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James Regan, Jr
Knickerbocker Motel
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Tom Moore
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Mary Pickford
George H. Twaddle
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Rochester
Minn
Catherine
Evans
Lyon
Burr Gts
Vicker
Unequiv
Jan Her
Linn Co
Islack Hawk County
Jowa Ice Dealers
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N.H. Gilsdorf
Northwest
Twin City Barber College
Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis, Minn
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Simons, Day & CO
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