Unusual cement stockade for poultry and garden at La Porte
Landlord carpenter F B Carpenter builds a cement stockade pen on a four acre tract near the La Porte paper mill crossing to raise 41,000 chickens and beds of early vegetables for hotel consumption. The 130 by 130 foot square yard includes a potential glass roof and an incubating house, with walls below ground to exclude rodents.
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Carpenter
LaPorte Head
Rock Island
F. BE. Carpenter
Carpenter Hotel
la Porte City
Commercial Street
New Hotel to House Delegates for Winnipeg Conclave
Gavon E. Brebner of the Waterloo Real Estate board says Winnipeg plans a million dollar hotel to accommodate Real Estate Exchanges delegates attending the national convention in late July. C H Enderton of Winnipeg describes the aim to show thousands of visitors a good time and to spare no expense for a successful event.
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Gavon E. Brebner
Waterloo Real Estate Board
Waterloo Realty
Winnipeg
C. H. Enderton
Enderton
Royal Alexandra Hotel
Waterloo to Install Numerous New Street Lights
Waterloo will brighten as arc lights replace gas in several areas and tungsten and gas lights are added in different sections. Locations include arc lamps at West Park area and Mulberry intersections, with gas lights at Roby and Clay and Colorado streets, and tungsten installations along Park Road and Bluff districts.
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Waterloo
West Park
South
Wellington
Burton
Oakland
Wid Bluff
Whittier
Bluff
Bryant and
Linden
Rivaide
Maple
Jim
Riverside
Poplar
Rigside
Hawthorne
Elm
Grant
Misheard Introduction Sparks Laughter at Club
A gm club-vie note recounts Joseph Jefferson being introduced with misnaming as Mr Washington Irving I I I I Mr Rip Van Winkle prompting deaf misunderstandings. Jefferson misreads the crowd’s laughter and, once clarified, quips about the “rolonged” roar and a mistaken trip down the scale.
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Joseph Jefferson
Mary Shaw
Gm Club
Chaikap
Washington Irving
Rip van Winklie
Many Real Estate and Mortgage Transfers Filed in April
Black Hawk County records show 252 real estate transfers in four weeks ending April 24, mainly for Waterloo lots, totaling 318980 dollars. Mortgages filed totaled 161 with 487302 dollars, plus 62 chattel mortgages at 24221 dollars. week ending April 8 saw 164491 dollars in real estate transfers.
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Black Hawk
Wifey's Letters Used to Keep Husband Home At Night
A Caney man received multiple life threatening letters telling him not to be seen on the streets after dark. Post office inspectors traced the notes to his wife, who devised the scheme to keep him home at night.
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Kansan
Waterloo Sees Little Labor Trouble This Season
Waterloo reports minimal labor friction with most Building Trades contracts settled by May 1 and no major work stoppages. Painters briefly walked out but returned within two days, carpenters and plumbers received raises, others held firm, electricians seek 26 cent daily boost with contract due June 1.
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Waterloo
Building Trades Council
Electricians
Electrical Workers
Sleeping balcony added to Waterloo home for T M Buchanan
The only sleeping balcony in Waterloo is installed on a two story bungalow on Home Park boulevard for T. M. Buchanan. It extends from the second floor with eight feet of flooring as its foundation and uses adhesion for support.
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Waterloo
T. M. Buchanan
Home Park Boulevard
Suburban Lots and House Offer Amid Low Prices
Real estate notice advertises a two story modern house with BKovee furnace electric lights hot and cold water and cement walks for 2600 dollars with a down payment a few hundred cash. It also lists a Western Avenue lot for 1250 dollars and about 30 lots in Home Park Second Addition at 500 dollars and up plus unsold Sullivan Addition lots priced to sell this season.
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Alea
H. H. Fay
Waterloo considers buying block for city park
An ideal ground free of buildings between Grant avenue Leavitt street Eighth and Ninth Streets north of Presbyterian hospital in Waterloo may be purchased by the city to create a park. Emmons Johnson owns the plot. residents support the move and back park bonds secured by the park.
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Waterloo
Grant Avenue
Leavitt Street
Eighth and Ninth Streets
Presbyterian Hospital
Emmons Johnson
Johnson
Parella
Gates Park Place
East Fourth Street
Logan Avenue
Parker Street
Hope C. Martin
E. BE. Peek
W.H. Brunn
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Gavon Brebner
R. E. Conclave
New York
Lawrence I. Landers
Black Uawk Bank
Gages
Hammond Avenue
Bown & Bown
Fay
Dakota Land
Iowa
C. M. Allen
Commercial Bank
Atna
Western Avenue
Sullivan
West Fourth Street
Burton E. Wilson
West Third Ave
West Side Park
Western
Third Ave
Woods
Opportunity
The
Black Hawk National Bank
Bank of Stability and Progress
Prospect Hills
Middle West
Galloway Investment Company
Iowa Securities Company
Commercial National Bank
Wourlack Hawk Bank
Vermont Street
South Street
West Side High School
Waat
Fourth Street
West Side
Cloke
West First Street
POR Saln
Brown Hall
East Side Homes
Quick Gale
Logan Ave
Jnet
Independence
Riehl Street
Independence Ave
Des Moines
Rith Street
James Gardiner Co
Gates Park Place Syndicate
M. B. Neff Insurance
Cortlandt & Mobile
WM. Holland
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