Cedar Falls Personal Notes Ahead of Independence Meeting
Local notes from Cedar Falls recount teacher participation in the Independence convention, concerts by the College Symphony Orchestra under Dr H W Merrill, and community events. Updates include shop and bank activity, visits, marriages, a potential summer baseball team, a funeral, travel to Omaha, and lightweight Friday and Monday registration ahead of Monday elections with a single ticket in the field.
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Cedar Falls
Narthersterm Teachers’ Association
College Symphony Orchestra
Dror. H.W. Merrill
Congressional Church
Rescue and Rumors From Delaware Flood Eyewitness
Reverend E R O Neall recounted grim flood scenes from Delaware to Prospect with rescues and near deaths. He described a boat owner who refused to lend his boat, calling him the meanest man, amid heroic efforts by a Baptist minister and locals to save women and children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delaware
Enliese
Ain
If Qian
Ivins
Thereset
Sas
Prospect
Fox Grocery Specials Saturday and Monday
Fox Grocery lists weekend and Monday specials with items including dried peaches corn flakes and strawberries. The rough OCR notes prices and items such as Tawa potatoes pure cane sugar full cream Wis cheese and frost strawberries with unclear amounts.
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Fox Grocery
Koeneke’s Cash
Lafayette St
College Head Delivers Address During Chapel Visit
President Hawkins of Warrensburg Normal School, Missouri visited Cedar Falls College yesterday morning and spoke to students during chapel. He toured Nebraska schools gathering ideas to bring back to his college and also visited Omaha to assess the devastation from the recent disaster.
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Cedar Falls
Hawkins
Normal
Warrensburg
Hawking
Nebraska
Missouri
New Sartori Hospital To Be Erected In Cedar Walls
Sartori hospital trustees to receive bids for a new building on the Overman tract west Sixth street. Architect J G Ralston of Waterloo prepared modern plans. Joseph Sartori of Los Angeles pledges 25900 for maintenance, city adds two mill tax levy totaling about 2000 yearly. Construction to begin when weather allows.
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Cedar Walls
The
Sartori Hospital
Overman Tract
West Sixth Street
J. G. Ralston
Waterloo
Joseph Sartori
Los Angeles
Bidmen Enroute to Flooded City
Two aviators travel east on the Rock Island with planes in the express car bound for Dayton Ohio to aid flood victims in Cedar Falls and surrounding districts. They plan to drop provisions and water to people stranded on building rooftops as boats cannot access the area.
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Cedar Falls
Rock Island
Dayton
Ohio
Farmer and minister risk river boat capsize in daring rescue
In a dangerous bid to move the boat across a swift river the farmer and a Marion newspaper man rowed by the minister. The boat capsized midstream, both men drowned, preventing hundreds from being rescued. A bread famine grieves Delaware as Wesleyan students volunteer to leave town to ease the shortage.
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Marion
Delaware
Wesleyan College
Flood causes of more worry at Fifth and Commercial
The Doft family fears for relatives in Dayton Ohio and Greenville Pennsylvania after widespread floods. W. E. Doft, grocer at Fifth and Commercial, awaits news as his sister in Dayton and Rev. A B Bauman in Greenville report severe flood damage. If details do not arrive soon, Mr Doft plans to travel east to seek word.
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F. H. Parker
Lorenzo
Lake Mills
F. H. Mathews
Washington Street
Mildred Wilcox
Renwick
W. E. Doft
Dayton
Lodge Members Headed to Waverly
Seventy five members of Melchoir court No. 5 of the Tribe of Ben Hur are set to travel to Waverly for a lodge gathering.
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LODGE
Waverly
Melchoir Court No
Tribe of
Ben Hur Char
Waterloo Degree Team Initiates Fifty CandIdates
A Waterloo degree team started a class of fifty candidates for Cedar River court No. 96 in Waverly last evening after a car trip. An elaborate banquet followed by dancing closed the event. Cordes and Wright advertise matzos and kosher sausage at 612 Sycamore Street.
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Waverly
Waterloo
Cedar River Court No. 96
Matzos
Cordes & Wright
Sycamore Street
Carpenters Near Completion on Gas and Electric Building
The Citizens Gas and Electric building by Black Hawk Construction aims for practical completion by April 1. Woodwork work is nearly finished and painters have been busy interiorly in the final stage of construction.
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Black Hawk Construction Company
Citizens’ Gas & Electric
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Cedar Falls Daily News
Live Town
Commercial City Rooms
Bruce Francis
George Bancroft
Stork
A. A. Thurger
C. H. Wise Wild
Simster Process Concrete Company
Dennis Oleson
Hans Haraum
Omaha
Oleson & Thorndehl
Cecelians
Teachers’ College
Christ Episcopal Church, Waterloo
Migs Giberson
Cedar Falls National Bank
Thos. Clark
Kansas City
Orville Hamilton
Walnut, Street
F. H. Lamson
College Hill
Iowa Falls
George Samson
Anna Nelson
H. Nelson
Bluff Streat
Mayie
Christensen
Betheleen Church
Re. J. Christensen
Greenwood Cemetery
HW. J. Chase
Independence
Fred Henry
Mt. Vernon Township
California
Woodbine
H. 2. Brown
That City
Charles W. Whitworth
Minneapolis
A. C. Mallum
Manly
Harold Minkle
Fort Dodge
Mr. Minkle
al Larkins
Thad WR. Carpenter
Sam Gibson
Ruth Saul
Des Moines
C. P. Cosgrove
Anamosa
Northeastern Iowa Teachers’ Association
Chin
E. R. O'Neal
Min
Woman
Tosa
Leendram
Voenetatites
W. B. Fox
Opera Houze
Hawkins OF War
Rensburg Head
Deta
Cordes & Wight Co
J. 8
Kraft & Bros. Co
O'Neill and
Wamsley
Indanias Troupe
Dick Crolius & Co
Oxfords
Nubuck
Stolt
Commercial Street
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