Value of Cement as Construction Material Grows
Linton J. Murphy, Iowa State College engineer, told over 100 contractors from Waterloo Cedar Falls and nearby cities at a Waterloo Technical Society short course that cement strengthens building material. He outlined the water cement ratio’s effect on concrete strength and cautioned that water control yields uniform strength rather than merely dry cement.
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Linton J. Murphy
Iowa State. College
Ames
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Charles City
Mason City
Marshalltown
Waterloo Technical Society
Murphy
Concrete mix strength tests cited in Cedar Rapids case
Waterloo residents attend a W O W meet discussing concrete mix ratios 61 2 gallons water per sack yielding up to 4850 psi, with strength dropping to 2540 psi at eight gallons water. Tests by Mrs Helen Schultz Brewer, president of the company, were presented in Linn County District Court at Cedar Rapids on June 3. Brewer filed an appeal yesterday as Waterloo Cedar Falls Northern Railway protested the petition. Cattle were first brought to this country by the Spaniards in the sixteenth century.
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Murphy
Helen Schultz Brewer
Idnn
Cedar Rapids
Brewer appeals rail veto on Cedar Rapids bus line expansion
Brewer appeals a five week old rail commission veto denying Red Ball Transportation's bid to extend the Mason City Waterloo passenger route to Cedar Rapids. Town board decision previously disallowed the petition, setting up an appeal over authority and route extension.
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Pars
Brewer
Rail Commission
C. R. Bus Line
Town Board of Refiread Commissioners
Red Ball Transportation Company
Mason City-Waterloo
Cedar Rapids
Oell Rock High Plans Operetta
Shell Rock High school pupils will stage an operetta titled Lotta in the auditorium Friday evening March 29 under Miss Ferguson supervision. Cast includes Reid Van Black Robert Dewey Paul Karns Beryl Watters Edward Thies and others. R K Thompson re elected superintendent. Henry Renning president and Mrs B Ensley secretary. Ladies Aid meets March 28 at Mrs John Gaston. Rev F Witalgman to speak April 16 and Easter sermon planned by Rev A R Grant with sunset program by the Sunday school. local minister T Clarksville services this week. nephew Rev Willard Grant pastor.
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Shell Rock
Shell Rock High School
Miss Ferguson
Lotta
Reid van Black
Robert Dewey
Paul Karns
Beryl Watters
Edward Thies
Ethel van Vlnck
Esther Adair
Stuart Shipman
Dorothy Neal
Mary Willey
Maxine Remington
Harriett Boeths
Mildred Hunt
Gordon Shipman
Ladies' Aid Society
M. E. Church
John Gaston
Floc. Witalgman
M. E
A. R. Grant
Clarksville
Willard Grant
Flowers Untended on Grave as Death Calls Aged Widow
Chicago March 27 Aged widow Emily Kiely 73 kept fresh flowers on her husband’s grave at Niles Center Lutheran cemetery. After visiting the grave she failed to return. her niece found Kiely’s body at a pool near the cemetery edge, the water covering her.
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Chicago
Emily Kiely
Lutheran Cemetery
Niles Center
Kiely
Fred Lumpp
Mrs. Kiely
Temutory’s
Smedley Granted Patent on Swing of Recker Design
T. D. Smedley of 208 Recer avenue has been issued a patent on a lawn swing with five claims allowed. A model of the swing is displayed at the Waterloo Bulb farm on da Porte.
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Smedley
T. D. Smedley
Recer Avenue
Waterloo
da Porte
Smedley discusses swing device and garden planting stick
Smedley, a proprietor, describes a swing combining swinging and rocking on a balance principle with minimal effort. He says no plans exist to manufacture the swing. He is also inventor of a finger marking planting stick made at the bulb farm. South African farmers seek bricks for farm buildings, often making their own bricks.
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Toad
Smedley
Torde
Bulb Farm
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Technical Society Concrete School
Waterlooans
Mr. King
Hawkeye Camp
J. B. Hayes
Des Moines
W. D. Spencer
Sioux City
Iowa
W. A. Fraser
Omaha
Sovereign
HH. E. Chidester
Ottumwa
Oell Rock High
Kaynee
Phoenix
Steely
East Fourth Street
Harold Lyman
Musicians’ Union
Phono
Buehler Bros
New England
National Bank
Nature
Dobbs
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