Armour Morris merger completed in meat packing industry
The formal merger of Armour & Co and Morris & Co was completed with about 100 signatories on the transfer order. The Morris merger price totaled roughly 27.45 million dollars with cash and stock, and government opposition is anticipated as Secretary Wallace confirms a contest. The combined assets approach 530 million, with 23 plants and 496 branch houses worldwide.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Armour & Co
Morris & Co
North American Provision Company
Delaware
Minots
Francis Nailson
Edward Morris, Jr
J. Ogden Armour
California
Wallace
Perent
Fivo
Humie
Armour
Amour & Co
Illinois
Hot Cross Buns for Good Friday Bake in Waterloo
Bakers in Waterloo prepare for Good Friday with hot cross buns as a regional treat. A large firm plans to bake 400 dozen buns while smaller shops will also produce these raisin filled rolls with a cross on top to meet expected demand.
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Waterloo
Watar- Joo
Women Hunt in Enguants Too Tame for Women
Vancouver March 28 British sportswomen Lady Yule and her daughter return from a northern Canada hunting expedition near the Cassiar. They sought挑战 big game including grizzly bears and moose and endured wasps and fallen trees before returning with trophies.
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Vancouver
B. C
Canada
Scottland
Yule
Hertfordshire
England
Tig Gama
Cassiar
British Columbia
Greeks Appreciate Red Cross Work in Their Native Land
Several hundred people attended the opening of the Liberty cafe where roses were given to women and cigars to men. Mrs Georg e Worthen thanked Stelios and Louis Myrsias for donating the day’s receipts to the Red Cross as the Greek refugees in Asia Minor face sanitation care and famine. The American Red Cross aids Greece with medical and sanitary work and a child health program aiding refugee children.
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New Liberty Cafe
George B. Worthen
Imfrican Red Cross
Stelios Myrsias
Louis Myrsias
Red Cross
Ited Cross
Greece
Granece
Meir
American Red Cross
Milan
Asia Minor
The
Office Force Embraces Daily Office Exercise Routine
Des Moines March 23. Pratty stenographers are training muscles like athletes in the office of BE W Brown head of a local insurance firm. Dr M D Cramer conducts 10 minute deep breathing and calisthenics at 3 p m daily. workers rise, inhale, stretch, and exercise behind desks. Brown notes improved efficiency and health with nearly no sickness since the program began. he is an outdoorsman and sportsman with a passion for deep sea fishing and big game hunting.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
BE. W. Brown
M. D. Cramer
Drake University
Mr. Brown
Brown
Cramer. Jepen
Mother Jesson
Lor
Cramer
Florida
Rock Formations Shape Lincoln and Animals in Colorado
Denver reports sculptors have carved rock profiles and figures along major rail lines and canyons from the Rockies to Colorado Springs. Names include Lincoln profile near Boulder Green, Jumbo Elephant at Palmer Lake, Whistling Swan in Platts canyon, Mother Grundy in Clear Creek canyon, Hu aman Skull on Skyline drive, Sphinxhead near Corona, Wise Owls in Estes Park, and Lingering Lion in Garden of the Gods.
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Denver
Colo
Eroslow
Lincoln
Immortal
Colorado Rockies
Bhvtergreen
Palmer Lake
Denver & Rio Grande Western
Whistling Swan
Platts Canyon
Mother Grundy
Clear Creek Canyon
Colorado & Southern Railway
Canon City
Sphinxhead
Corona
Moffatt
Wise Owls
Estes Park
Lion
Garden of the Gods
Colorado Springs
Jack the mule breaks ice to drink water at Tiltonville
In Tiltonville on March 29 a mule named Jack, hauling for a local spelter company, bored a hole through frozen water in a half barrel to drink. A separate note mentions a Yerkes Observatory photographic method achieving precise distances to 250 stars, improving prior accuracy.
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Tiltonville
Jack
Spelter Company
Yerkes Observatory
Measure in Commons for Rum Prohibition Proposal
London reports Ed win Scrymgeour introduces a bill to ban manufacture importation and sale of alcoholic liquors for beverage use. It sets April fifth as the cutoff for licenses and outlines penalties up to penal servitude. controls apply UK wide with backing from Robert Jones and others.
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London
House of Commons
Edwin Scrymgeour
United Kingdom
Robert Jones
David Grenfell
Captain Hay
John Williams
Thomas Henderson
Electing an Empress and carnival vote plan announced
Interest in the week long baseball carnival begins as candidates Mrs George Shoemaker and Misses Helen Davis and Eisie Buryank join the field. Votes are bought by tickets with season tickets worth 165 votes and single admissions 50 votes each. The Empress will travel to California with the runner up. The Pageant of Progress parade starts at noon April 9 and Waterloo night leads the week at the Forum offices with themed club nights. Tickets go on sale Saturday.
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California
George Shoemaker
Helen Davis
Eisie Buryank
Kiwanis Club
Rotarians
Atwill Promoted to General Superintendent of Southern Lines
Promotion of Wittam Atwill former chief empaat cher and superintendent Minnesota division of Illinois Central to general superintendent of southern lines with headquarters in New Orleans. He rose from worker to leadership in Dubuque and St Louis areas, reflecting a series of rail changes following L W Baldwin becoming Missouri Pacific president.
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Wittam | Atwill
Minnesota
Illnois Central
Southern Ines
New Orleans
AtwHl
Dubuque
St. Louis
Carbondale
Atwill
L. W. Baldwin
Missouri Pacific Railroad
W. Scott Williams
Vilinolg Central Western Lines
A. E. Cutt
J. C. System
Mr. Baldwin
J. J. Pelley Ie
Mr. Atwill
Southern
Nes
J. M. Egan
Dodge Auto Show Highlights All Steel Dodge Display
Harter B. Hull Auto company hosts a two day Dodge auto show in Waterloo featuring exclusive Dodge Brothers models from early to latest all steel designs. Attendants guide viewers through parts comparisons, Gabriel snubber model, and a repair shop demonstration. Building on Franklin and Fourth streets is decorated, with a film on Dodge performances and music tonight plus prizes for attendees.
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Harter B. Hull Auto Company
Waterloo
Dodge Brothers
Altho
Hull
Dodge
Gabriel Snubbers
Chicago
Franklin and
Fourth Streets
Powder River Protest Over Old Wild West Slogan
Helena Mont March 29 Farmers along Powder River in southeastern Montana protest the cry Powder River Let Er Buck saying it no longer fits a modern productive farming region The slogan once linked to the Ninety first division in World War I and European civilians but locals fear it conveys a wild and woolly image contrary to the current tranquil agricultural district.
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Helena
Mont
Powder River
Montana
Ninety-first National Army
Meuse-Argonne
Ninety-first
France
Belgium
Evangelist Cassie Ravane Gains Fame In Kansas
Ex Waterloo singer Cassie Ravane, son of Matt W. Ravane of 717 Franklin Street, famed as a boy soprano in Waterloo, now leads evangelistic singing across Kansas and the Southwest. He was the official pep leader at the Fifteenth Rotary district convention and lauded for his rich voice that rallied crowds. Ravane, long connected with Christ Episcopal Church choir, left Waterloo 20 years ago to pursue solo and motion picture stage work before dedicating years to evangelistic ministry.
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Cassie Ruvans
Matt W. Ruvane
Frankin Street
George C. Welker
John W. Miller
Kansas
Southwest
Rotary
Parsons
Kan
Daily Republican
Cassie Ravane
Thad Guernsey
Cangsie
Bang
Mr. Ravane
Waterloo
Valea
Christ
Episcopa Church
Ravane
Par- Bong
Minnesota Vacation Lakes Special Train Arrives in Waterloo
A Chicago Great Western moving advertisement train labeled 10,000 lakes will reach Waterloo tomorrow morning and stay three or four days. The exhibit train promotes Minnesota lakes region to vacationers with circulars detailing various vacation centers.
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Chicago Great Western
10,000 Lakes
Waterloo
Lakes
Minnesota
Lions pledge support to baseball carnival and pageant
Lions club members at a noon luncheon pledged enthusiastic support for Baseball Carnival Week April 9 to 16. They voted to enter a club float in the Pageant of Progress opening day and to impose a $5 fine on absentees to insure full parade attendance. The meeting focused on business with a closing song. The club also voted to enter a bowling team in the Town Nebraska.Lids championship games to be played soon.
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Lions Club
Leons Club elects delegate to district convention
The secretary Gil Thode was chosen as delegate to the district convention at Sioux City. As a special compliment, he will attend as the guest of the club. Next week the Leons will have a quiet meeting to discuss plans and local telegraph scoring.
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Ture
Gil Thode
Sioux City
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