Moving Picture Show Walks Cedar Falls Gingham Exhibit
Local Robinson Dry Goods Co offers a free moving picture show at the opera house detailing ginghams lace curtains blankets and hosiery production. The feature is praised as an engaging exhibit. Farmers and hunters report a successful day on the river with strong birds in the stormy conditions. Community notes mention relocations social meetings health updates and upcoming industrial plans for Cedar Falls.
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Cedar Falls
Robinson Dry Goods Co
Opera House
Lafayette Street
Cedar Heights
Whitney Road
Independents in Caucus Tonight in Cedar Pill Iowa
A Cedar Pill Iowa report notes a caucus at city hall to nominate an independent ticket opposing the non partisans. The town faces a municipal light plant purchase funded by $60,000 bonds, with voters and citizens urged to support the project and oversee its success. Civil and social events fill the day including a Civic League banquet for working girls and a funeral for Joseph Bancroft. Patrick Corbly, America bound longtime resident, marks St Patrick's day at 101.
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Cedar Pill
City Hall
Olf Council
Weart-Frisby Lumber Co
Pasini
Nashua
H. H. Seerley
Cedar Rapids
Clark
Civic League
Postoffice site options mulled in Cedar Falls
Cedar Falls eyes multiple downtown parcels for a new postoffice with the Arlington Hotel site and several nearby lots on Main State Fourth and Washington streets under review. Officials anticipate sewer gas and electric utilities will support a swift site decision by the government expert.
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Main Street
Arlington Hotel
Close
Walters
State and
Fourth Street
J. W. Ford
Washington
Second
Pfaiffer
Fourth
Prohibitionist Candidate’s Long Lincoln in Wisconsin Politics
The passage tracks a prohibitionist figure’s long career starting in 1882 as a Wisconsin Congressional candidate, then governor bid, 1900 attorney general run, and presidential nominations through 1912. It notes repeated defeats but hints he might pursue another presidency in 1915 if prohibitionists support him.
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Congress
Wisconsin
TSS
Chating
Contier
Culgars
Prohibitionis
Prohibitionist Eugene Chapin Defends Party Resolve
Eugene W Crafin recounts prohibition history and vows continued fight despite defeats. He notes the party has never carried a county or state, yet remains active, urging unity and persistence ahead of future elections amid shifting political currents.
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Prohibition Party
Aftie Mate
Engene W. Crafin
Progressive Party
Hill Moosers
Ttter
Chitin
Waukesha
Wis
Repays $6,000 After 20 Years in Bank Settlement
Kansas City notices a long tale of debt and duty as Willard R P Helmes describes a 1849 panic bank failure. Over twenty years a financier earned enough to repay 62 000 of the failed Security Trust Company liabilities. Holmes spoke of laying final plans with assignees Gossch and Gossert to settle with depositors and clear the bank’s last dollar.
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Kansas City
Willard RP
Helmes
Security Trust Company
Holmes
Charlotte Street
Thad
AON
Gossch
Gossert Alen
Holmes Refuses to Fault Management in Bank Debacle
In 1887 Holmes organized a local bank joining good people and investors. He recalls the 1893 collapse others faced, but notes he shouldered debts and rejected bankruptcy. His wife supported him, helping to rebuild while he shielding depositors’ losses.
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Holmes
Mr. Holmes
Mrs. Holmes
Jalse
At the Majestic Presents From Uncle Tom to Vaudeville
The Majestic bills Fay, Two Coleys and Fay with a lively mix including singing Motous comedy and dancing. Samuel Liebert stars in The End of the World a famed Toffman comedy. Also on the bill are Tyler St Clair Trio Wilton Sisters and Frank Smith an aerialist.
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Uncle Tom
the Majestic
Fay
Tyler, St. Clair
Wilton Sisters
Prank Smith
Uncle Joe Cannon Retires From Public Life After Forty Years
Joseph Gurney Cannon, longtime House leader, leaves Washington with private papers after nearly four decades in public service. He plans limited travel and says he will remain active in politics as a private citizen. In Osage, Chief E A Leighton mourns his mother Mrs Byron Leighton of Rochester Minnesota who died after cancer surgery. Funeral arrangements pending with services likely at the local Methodist church.
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Joseph Bancroft
Titus Lowe
Methodist Church
Fairview
A. O. U. W. Lodge
A. Wise
W. H. Harddoo
McCarran
John Call
W. S. Rownd
Washington, D. C
Joseph Gurney Cannon
Danville
Vermilion County
Joe
Washington
E. A. Leighton
Byron Leighton
Rochester
Minn
Mr. Jeighton
Osage
Chief Leighton
Two Bridge Contracts Likely To Be Awarded This Evening
City council meeting tonight may award two bridge contracts for Falls avenue and Mullan avenue. Bids for the Mullan avenue bridge will be opened and the bridge committee report on Falls avenue bids will be received amid ongoing east vs west side disputes. Council members have delayed action while debating plans and specifics, now faced with a decisive vote to finalize both projects.
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Falls Avenue
Mullan Avenue
East Side
Falls Avenue Bridge
West Side
Greek Consul in St Louis Describes Smyrna School Provide
Acting Greek consul for Missouri Kansas and Colorado Hector Pasmezogi awaits completion of his role as interpreter in the Gust Bekiares murder trial. He notes Smyrna’s American and English educated International college and calls it magnificent. His wife Mrs Pasmezogi also highly cultured and educated in the United States.
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St. Louis
Hector Pasmezogi
Greece
Missouri
Kansas
Colorado
Gust Bekiares
Pasmezogi
Smyrna
Asia Minor
American Collegiate Academy
The
International College
American College
Pasmezog
Boston
Examination Notice for Department Clerk Position
This morning I Munger local secretary of the civil service commission announced an examination for general clerk in the departmental service to be held at the post office tomorrow. Three applicants will undergo the test.
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Caldwell
I. Munger
Civil Service Commission
Reeder Reopens Dry Cleaning Plant in Waterloo
J. B. Reeder has opened a dry cleaning establishment at 95 Franklin Street. He previously installed Waterloo’s first dry cleaning plant eighteen years ago and now owns the building, though it has been leased to another firm this past year. Reeder has installed the latest machinery and will deliver goods by automobile, promising the highest class service.
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J. B. Reeder
Franklin Street
Reeder
Waterloo
St Patrick Day Special Delivers Treland Crystal Today
A St Patrick Day special notes Sajngh raun and a Treland Crystal presentation set for today featuring a crystal display and related events. The item references a festive showcase and associated imagery.
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Sajnghraun
Crystal Today
Treland
Falls Avenue Bridge Bids Upheld For Council Review
City council opened bids for Falls Avenue bridges with Miller Hey Construction as the low bidder. Councilman Burk moved to refer bids to the bridge committee and the motion passed. An adjourned meeting tonight will consider Mullan Avenue bids and dispose of both contracts together.
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Falls Avenue
Miller-Hey Construction Company
Burk
Mullan Arenue
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