Illinois Central to Aid Employees Against Loan Sharks
Illinois Central Railroad launches a bureau to educate workers about loan sharks and to aid employees in trouble from salary loans. The circular notes confidential help, protection of employment records, and free legal guidance to resolve debt issues while building trust and better service.
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Illinois Central Railroad Company
D. C. Buell
Educational Bureau of the Road
Educational Bureau
Cate
Barclay Township Republican Caucus Emh 2 30 P M
The Barclay township republican caucus meets at the Centre school house on Monday at 2 30 PM to elect a delegate for the county convention to be held in Waterloo on April 4. Autumn fashion ad copy runs beside the notice. First selections best. Glasgow Tailors at 603 East Fourth Street advertises spring suits for fifteen dollars. Courier want ads perform.
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Barclay Township
Cente
Waterloo
Hess
Glasgow Tailors
East Fourth Street
Honest advertising and a cancer cure claim
A local column warns against fake doctors who promise cures and profits from hope. It cites a Des Moines specialist who charged $100 to treat throat cancer and died within months, then invites readers to discuss a liquor cure at 207 Russell Lamson Ride with discreet hours.
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Des Moines
Aget
The Third Man by Annie Hinrichsen unfolds a riverbank encounter
A man washing hands after a supposed crime recounts a tale of an adventurous life and a criminal past to a young woman. Their dialogue shifts from accusation to curiosity as she confronts him about ridicule and motive. In a separate scene in Florence Gatesy’s hearing, Gordon Amherst quietly helps troubled children become citizens.
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Shikmess
Florence Gatesy
Gordon Amherst
Florence
Children’s Court
Amherst
Nicholas I sought to use Mazzini and Garibaldi against Austria
The archives reveal Czar Nicholas I proposed to back Italian liberation with rubles and monarchical aims. Mazzini refused a Russia pact unless Italy became a republic, and the emissary was Tamberlik Tamberlik the tenor from St Petersburg.
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Italy
Nicholas I
Mazzini
Garibaldi
Austria
St. Petersburg
Europe
Crimea
Nicholas
L’etolla di Sud
Rio de Janeiro
House of Savoy
Russia
Czar
Tamberlik Tamberlik
Evar
Spanish Industry Produces Classic Jute Sandals
A Spanish industry thrives on alpargatas hemp sandals worn by the working class year round. The footwear is also exported in large numbers to Latin America. Alpargatas are made by winding hemp or jute rope into a foot shaped mat and securing cords to form a rope sole about a quarter inch thick.
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Spain
Latin America
Girl May Be Living Here Now
A handwritten appeal from St Louis seeks Miss Charlotte Miner, once living in Waterloo Iowa, with a request for information on her whereabouts. The letter, unsigned by a business, names 1020 South Street residents and hints at local figures who aided in locating the girl, who previously resided with relatives and worked in a laundry.
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Charlotte Miner
Waterloo
St. Louis
South Street
Iowa
Thomas A. Guodmian
Courier
Sou’h Street
St Juan
Waveriog
Towa
la Crosse
Miner
F. A. Deshon
Fourth Street East
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Township Meeting
Story NO
DR. Cothern
Russell-Lamson
Annie Hinrichsen
Associated Literary Pres
West Indies
New York
Mazzini and
Woods Millinery
Cate Charlotte Miner
Jar Sehiel
Hawkware
Sycamore St
Martha Higeiia
London
Johanne Meyer
Universal Race Congress
Peace Society of
Copenhagen
Litchfield Mfg. Co
Franklin
West Side
Cane Way
M. J. Sogtella & Co
First Nationals Bank Bldg
Owen Olver & Co
Vesper, Wood Co
Wis
Sas
Katchewan
Alexander Reglan
Yourth Ave
Hibbing
Minn
Mason City
W. F. Fee
Nora Springs
Ellis Hotel
N.Y. Floral Co
Syramore , Se
Dart
W. H. Steigelman
Kor
West Fifth
Waterloo Tardsware de Sycamore Si
Jeffersson
B. Scrogsey
Sis
Getenon RE
Newell Sorbets
Universal Food Chopper
Lebe
Brighton
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