Cedar Falls approves sale of gas plant to city
Cedar Falls officials authorize purchase of Iowa Public Service Co gas plant for 83 000 plus 60 000 bond issue, establishing a three year wholesale gas contract with a sliding scale and three master meters. City to acquire plant, mains, meters, and real estate with a 70 000 balance in city funds to be redistributed. 125 000 bonds authorized for municipal plant construction.
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Courier Special Service
Cedar Falls
Ows Public Service Company
Iowa Public Service Company
Cedar Fells
Ralph Christy
Don Stearns
Fort Dodge
Consolidated Fund
Gannon backs tire test cars with head protection
Mike Gannon test car driver for General Tire & Rubber Co asserts averages predict more accidents for testers. He outfits himself and crew with football helmets during duty and pushes new Ford and Chevrolet trials to 52 000 miles in 50 days, comparing tire longevity and pressure effects on mileage.
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Mike Gannon
General Tire & Rubber Co
Jon
Gannon
General Factory
General Tire and Rubber Co
Mike Fitzpatrick
Town Public Service Company Merchandise Sale Not Acquired
Mr. Christy announced that the city does not acquire the merchandise and fixture business of the Town Public Service Company. The statement clarifies the city's stance on acquiring local utilities and related inventory.
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Lic Servce Company
Christy
Doctor Hull and Family Visit Friends in Waterloo
Dr Eugene Hull former pastor and Grace M church builder travels with his wife and daughter Eva a teacher in Chicago to visit son Dwight Hull Cedar Falls and friends in Waterloo he plans Waterloo as future home and motored to Waterloo from Fairmont Nebraska after dinner with Mr and Mrs W F Mack at Sans Souci the prior evening
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Eugene D. Hull
Pasetor
Grace M. 5
Eva
Chicago
Dwight Hull
Cedar Falls
Waterloo
Hull
Methodist Episcopal Church
Fairmont
Neb
Smith Rosenkrans Announcement Cards Reache Marble Rock
Marble Rock Indiana May 2 Cards have been received announcing the marriage of Mrs Floyd Usenkrans formerly of this place and S Howard Smith New Carlisle Ohio Saturday April 22. Miss Izan Walster and Mrs Albert Gates were patients in St Francis hospital Waterloo have returned to their homes here. A son was born to Mr and Mrs Vern Stroud on April 27. Mr and Mrs M T J Ackley have been advised of the birth of a daughter to their son and daughter in law Mr and Mrs Loren Ackley Topeka Kansas. Mrs Anna Ewen is in Waterloo to visit her daughter Jennie a patient in St Francis hospital. Fred Rex who was stricken by illness on Sunday has been taken to Waterloo to enter St Francis hospital. His brother Claude and physician accompanied him.
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Courier Sporial
Marble Rock
Floyd Usenkrans
Howard Smith
New Carlisle
Izan Walster
Albert Gates
St. Francis Hospital
Waterloo
Vern Stroud
M. T. J. Ackley
Loren Ackley
Topeke
Kan
Anna Ewen
Jennie
Fred Rex
Claude
Rath Boiler Room Addition Delayed by Steel Shortage
The Rath Packing boiler room expansion, worth 25 000 dollars for H A Maine Co as general contractor, is held up by late steel for reinforcing the superstructure. The 43 by 56 foot, fireproof addition will add 2408 square feet of floor space and allow a 500 horsepower powder fuel boiler plus other new machinery to bring total cost to 100 000 dollars.
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Rath Packing Company
H. A. Maine Company
Stops T B Tests in Two Counties Until Court Rulings
Des Moines May 2 In a state action officials of the department of agriculture were ordered to halt testing of cattle in Cedar and Muscatine counties. The halt follows a state supreme court ruling that testing be stopped until appeals and pending cases are decided. The cases will be heard in September.
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T. B
Des Moines
INS
State Department of Agriculture
Cedar and Muscatine
Mark G. Thornburg
Secretary of Agriculture
Thornburg
Albert
State Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Death of Mrs. L. C. Burkitt Humane Society Leader
Mrs. L C Burkitt 68 longtime organizer and former secretary of the Black Hawk County Humane Society died at 5 a m at her Waterloo home after two years of illness. Born March 16 1860 near Waukon Iowa she married L J Burkitt in 1880 and lived in Plainfield before moving to Waterloo. She was active aiding animals and aiding the poor and attended First Congregational church. Body at Kistner Mortuary waiting for services.
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L. C. Burkitt
Black Hawk County Humane Society
Washington Street
Ida A. Cole
Waukon
L. ©. Burkitt
Palatine
Plainfield
Waterloo
Burkill
Humane Society
First Congregational Church
Kistner Mortuary
Readlyn Church elects officers for Sunday school year
Readlyn Iowa May 2 Officers for St Matthew's Sunday School association take office May 6 Meta Klemp president Mabel Tiedt vice president organist Ruth Hagenow secretary Leo Klemp treasurer Also notes Ladies Aid at Mrs John Hagenow home W Niedert recovering from fractures from ladder fall Daphne Warnecke funeral held for 73 year old Christ Warnecke in Readlyn.
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Courier Syeeial Servicn
Readlyn
V&i, Matthew's Sunday School Association
Meta Klemp
Mabel Tiedt
Ruth Hagenow
Leo Klemp
Ladies’ Aid Society
St. Matthew's Parish
John Hagenow
W. Niedert
Focal Hospital
Selma Knief
H. G. Moeller
Moeller
Oscar Thrall
Herbert Seehose
Sumner
Joy Street Romance in New York Cloak Model Plot
Gay Hilton, a private secretary in a fading firm, accepts $500 to vanish to New York. In the city she becomes a cloak model, dodging a looming murder case involving Samuel Howells while pursued by a mysterious man. She forms ties with coworker Pat and rich Wall Street men as she navigates fashion, danger, and ambition.
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Gay Hilton
Howard Weston
H. & H. Manufacturing Co
Weston
New York
Gay
Samuel J. Howells
Samuel Howells
Louis Bruck
Madge
Picture Theatre
Girth
Lucia Carters
Pat
Woman Discovers Charming Stranger Is Married
A conversation reveals Oxy believes a charming man will never be met, but learns he is married. The snippet ends with “To be continued” signaling a cliffhanger in a serialized tale.
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Oxy
Ackley Firm Files Bond for City Contract
Carstens Bros. Ackley Inc. has filed a general contractor’s bond with the city clerk covering heating, plumbing, and electrical work. The firm holds the contract for the James Black Dry Goods Company annex project.
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Ackley
Carstens Bros
Heave
James Black Dry Goods Company
Western Girl Strengthened by Vegetable Compound
Otto Geren of Manchester South Dakota reports improved strength and weight after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. He describes initial weakness and dependency on help, then regained energy and noticeable weight gain following use.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Manchester
Dakota
Das
Otto
Geren
Box
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