City in Brief Highlights Local Notices and Encounters
Local items include travel updates and visits by residents to Chicago and Hot Springs Arkansas. A KOTM meeting, a Fraternal Union regu lar session, and a penny concert postponement are noted. Events at East Side schools feature a basketball win by seniors over freshmen 18 to 0.
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C. W. Kline
East Side
Alcott School
Ballimore
Queen Lodge
Fraternal Union of America
East High School
Testimony on Swamp-Root Cures Kidney Trouble and Back Pain
A reader testifies that Swamp-Root cured years of kidney trouble and a lame back after taking three bottles. He says friends also found relief from kidney and bladder issues, with one case dissolving a bladder stone after two bottles. The testimonial is unsigned but later sworn before a notary.
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Springfield
Ohio
Springfield Metallic Casket Company
M. Spencer
Western Union Tel. Co
Bowling Green
State of Ohio
Wood County
Charles 4
Spencer
Abel Comstock
Prove What Swamp Root Will Do For You
Advertisement offering a sample bottle of Swamp Root by Dr. Kilmer & Co of Binghamton New York. Encourages sending ten cents and requesting a booklet about kidneys and bladder. Mentions Waterloo Evening Courier and notes full size bottles available at drug stores.
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Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Waterloo Evening Courier
Thompson Slate 5 Complete as Hellen Joins Ticket
Thompson slate ends uncertainty as Warren A. Hellen of Dart Manufacturing accepts candidacy for river front commissioner. Nomination papers filed and more Thompson filings expected. Rector ticket remains incomplete with rumors of substitutions scrapped. No debate planned. election filings due by Thursday. three tickets likely.
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Thompson
Warren A. Hellen
Dart Manufacturing Company
River Front
Heller
Mr. Hellen
Rector
Frank Fortunski
City Awilter
George C. Welker
Just Government League
Iin
Behning Concert Showed Wonders of Player Piano
Gustav Behning, a member of the Behning piano family, gave a recital at the Early music house last evening. He demonstrated the player-piano's capabilities with 20 or more selections including the Hungarian Rhapsody and Kaminon Ostrow, proving the instrument can render expressive music indistinguishable from human performance.
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Gustav Behning
Behning
State Agencies Buy Holsteins for Various Institutions
The state board of control bought 15 Holstein Friesian dairy cattle for distribution to Clarinda Cherokee Mt Pleasant and the soldiers' orphans home in Davenport. The purchase follows a national trend valuing the breed for high milk quality and quantity and marks the third sale in two years with rising prices. The report also notes the Edison school in Westfield will be ready for occupancy next fall with the contract set to align with school opening in September.
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State Board of Control
Clarinda
Cherokee
Mt. Pleasant
Davenport
Edison
Westfield
Washington Irving
Mrs Forsyth Dead In Vinton Iowa
Mrs J E Forsyth of Vinton dies at her parents home in Garrison from blood poisoning while caring for her mother. Funeral services were held at the Christian church in Vinton with Rev M Warren presiding. She is survived by her husband, four children, and her parents along with two brothers and one sister.
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Richard Holmes
Rock Island
Hot Springs
Ark
James Landers
Winterset
L. L. Landers
H. J. St. John
Traer
Waterloo
James H. Dunn
T. A. Trimble
Mt. Auburn
Dike
A. H. Petersen
Durant
Forsyth
Vinton
J. E. Forsyth
Jackson Donald
Garrison
Fredeerika and Nearby Social and Death Notices
Frederika March 17 reports Mrs Brav ener and others visiting or illness in the area. Ed Losee of Douglas dies after a long illness. New York stock closes with prices listed for major rails and industrials.
Fire rule upheld against repairing wooden buildings
The North Carolina Supreme Court in State vs Lawing holds that a fire regulation banning wooden buildings aims to end their use. Minor repairs to make a wooden structure habitable are still a violation as the ordinance envisions only brick, concrete or stone construction in the district.
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Supreme Court of North Carolina
State Vs. Lawing
Southeastern Reporter
Brother Kills Young Farmer in Iowa Farm Tragedy
Carl De Weese aged 29 died after a blow from a club in a family quarrel at the De Weese farm three miles west of Delta Iowa. Ike De Weese was arrested after an inquest found death resulted from the blow. The incident followed a dispute over a horse and occurred around 4 PM.
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Delta
Carl de Weese
John de Weese
Here
Ike de Weese
Sigourney
Assailiant
de Weese
Ike
Harry
Kopp Installed as Pastor of New Christian Church
Washington Iowa March 18 The Rev Lewis P Kopp was formally installed as pastor of the new Christian congregation Monday evening The service drew a large congregation with ministers addresses a song service and a violin solo by Malcolm Dowell Presiding was Rev George E Roberts Des Moines state superintendent for the Christian church Roberts praised the occasion noting his Scotch Covenanter mother and United Presbyterian roots in Kansas.
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Washington
Lewis P. Kopp
New Christian Congregation
Malcolm Dowell
George E. Roberts
Des Moines
The
Christian Church
Seed potato growers urged to secure hardy seed stock
Iowa State College warns potato growers to replace seed stock this year to avoid weak seed and crop losses. Prof. A T Erwin notes last season’s heat harmed Iowa seed potatoes and advises obtaining vigorous seed from Minnesota Wisconsin or northern Iowa with Maine seed discouraged due to powdery scab quarantine.
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Ames
Iowa
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station
A. T. Erwin
Iowa State College
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Maine
Former Waterloo Man Dies Sudden Heart Failure
A special dispatch reports 77 year old Robert Bruce Hadley, a former Waterloo Cedar Falls and Waverly resident, died suddenly of heart failure this morning in Binghamton New York. He was Civil War veteran and Comanche lodge Mason. His wife Harriet Rood Comanche preceded marriage. He was father of Mrs. G H Comstock of Waverly.
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Robert Bruce Hadley
Waterloo
Cedar Falla
Waverly
Binghampton
N. Y
Hadley
Comanche Chapel of
Masons
Harriet Rood
G. H. Comstock
Verharen Funeral Rites Set for Thursday
Funeral services for Byron Verharen who died Monday morning will be held Thursday at 3 o'clock in the First Methodist church with Rev. William F. Spry officiating. Interment will be in the mausoleum at Fairview cemetery.
St Patrick themed gathering hosted by I J Tunis
I J Tunis entertained about thirty friends last evening at his Columbia street home. Decorations were green and white, echoing St Patrick. The informal party ended with a two course luncheon. Phone 2178 White advertised work on a farm.
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I. J. Tunis
Columbia Street
St. Patrick
Tunis
White
Horse in Brooklyn office and lift ride surprising crowd
A horse wandered from a stable into a Brooklyn office area, then climbed two flights to a freight elevator before calm returned. The animal wore a halter and blanket and was led away after the incident.
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G. M. Cowenhoven
Brooklyn
Illinois Central Rail Timetable Eastbound and Westbound Notes
Daily railroad time table snippets show eastbound departures from Dubuque and Chicago with 12:40 am and 4:15 am starts, express arrivals at 10:15 am, westbound local and express trains including Omaha and Sioux City, and northbound services to Twin Cities and Albert Lea with varying times from Dubuque and Minneapolis origins, plus Des Moines connections and Union Depot references.
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Dubuque
Chicago
Ft Dodge
Omaha
Sioux City
Ft. Dodge
Twin Cities, Limited
Twin City
Albert Leaf
Fecal
Albert Les
Minneapols
Albert Lea
W. R. RR
South Bound
Minneapolis
St. Peat
St. Paul
Twin Cities
Manly
Shell Rock
Interurban Timetables Include Waterloo Cedar Falls and La Porte Runs
A detailed schedule lists departure and arrival times for interurban routes among Waterloo Cedar Falls Dublin La Porte City and nearby towns. Services include Cedar Falls to Waterloo Glasgow Denver Waverly Gilbertville and La Porte Bailey with running times of about 35 minutes and daily car operations except Sundays.
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Waterloo
Glasgow
Denver
Waverly
Tihoa
Gilbertville
Porte—Bailey
la Porte
Warrerty
la Porte City
Brandon Id
Brandon
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Ray Parks
Canada
Fern Strain
Paul
Muscatine
Belle Parks
W. W. Marsh
Thomas Duffy
Area
Central Labor Body
Labor Temple
Sam
Laura Garrabrant
Walnut Street Baptist Church
Edward M. Rhoades
M. E. Church
Linnie Whitfield
Fred Kokas
Miss Seidler
T Tait
Ilinois Central
Thompson Slate
Warren Hellen
RIVER
George Ackerson
New Hartford
Doris Codner
Parkersburg
F. F. Knapp
Fred Ranville
Wourth Street
St. Francis Hospital
Alberta
Fredeerika
Frederika
Bravener
Ida Adams
Wheo
Pauline Bremer
Will Segebarth
Tripoli
Ackley
Stevens
O'Day
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Dresden
Clyde Cleary
Winfred Dawson
New York
Stock Exchange
Canadian Pacific
Pennsylvania
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Percency
AZ Atchison
American Smelter
Union Pacific
LST
Baltimore
Illinois Central
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New York Gentral
Anaconda
American Sugar
Northern Pacific
Stihs
Great Northern
Ienders
Stalker
Drake
Pacific Reporter
Kansas
Kansas Supreme Court
Newcastle
Harriet Austin
London
Britain
Quanrel
Rev. Kopp
Christian Church At
SRE
England
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Germany
France
Wilte
Pasa
Leva
Illinois Central Railroad
Tllinois Central
Des M. & K. Cc
Union Depot
Des M. & K
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Union
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Oelwein
Rl& FP. RR
Burlington
St. Louis
Kansas City
Ottcago
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Falls
Fourth
Lafayette Streets
Watarice
Galloway
West Side
Mulberry
Pinkerton Hall
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Boxer
Ldc
Scott B
Prowele
Black's
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