Big Family of Chickens Reared by Setter Dog
Council Bluffs Iowa May 8 A setter dog has hatched a nestful of chicks. Page Morrison owns the unusual pairing. Eleven of sixteen Rhode Island Red eggs produced chicks and three resemble the dog in color. The dog has long shown affection for chickens and once guarded a setting hen for two years. After the hen died the dog instinctively cared for the hatched chicks, feeding them and guiding them as a parent would.
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Council Bluffs, Is
Page Morrison
Rhode Island
Mr. Morrison
Fearless crank calls for fly swatting reform
A spirited polemic urges aggressive fly control citing flies as disease carriers. It argues filth breeding grounds in stables and garbage attract flies which spread typhoid cholera and tuberculosis. It explains fly life cycle and urges decisive action to kill flies and prevent breeding.
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L. C. Howard
United States Department of Agriculture
Churches Begin War at Altar for Eugenics
In Montclair New Jersey a religious movement seeks health certificates before marriage. Rev Henry EB Jackson and Rev Edgar Wiers say ministers will require a physician's health certificate for brides and grooms. The plan aims to ensure and verify perfect health prior to weddings.
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New York
Henry EB. Jackson
Christian Union Congregational Church
Montclair
N. J
Johnson
Unity Church
Edgar §. Wiers
Misa Rose Livingston
Angel of Chinatown Featured Social Worker at Jackson Church
A New York social worker known as the Angel of Chinatown spoke at Mr. Jackson's church Sunday evening a week ago about white slavery. The piece notes Mr. Jackson's insistence on proper health certificates for impending brides and the congregation's approval, then urges health as key to success and promotes Chamberlain's Tablets for constipation and appetite and digestion, ending with an ad for window screens and measurements.
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New York
Chinatown
Mr. Jackson
Chamberlain
Communication of AL and AM Opens Monday Afternoon
Waterloo lodge No 105 A F and A M calls a special communication for work on the third degrees next Monday at 1 30 PM. Supper at 6 30 PM then continued degree work with Senior Warden Ralph A Dunkelberg and Junior Warden Merrill C Coburn guiding the sessions. Welker invites all regular attendees and welcomes lapsed members back.
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Welker
Two Bankers Charged After Hazelton Bank Failure
Adam Kiefer president of Kiefer Bros Banking Co and Will Smith cashier of Kiefer Savings Bank Hazel town were arrested on warrants for receiving deposits while knowing the bank was insolvent. The Hazelton failure affected many depositors including one with about $20,000. Bonds of $1,000 each were posted and they were held for the September term.
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Independence, In
Adam Kiefer
Kiefer Bros. Banking Co
Hazelton
Will Smith
Kiefer Savings Bank
Hazeltown
Tuberculosis Fight Grows in National Movement
The ninth annual meeting of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis reports a jump from 1,325 to over 3,000 connected agencies in two years. There are 677 sanatoria and hospitals, 1,049 associations and committees, 400 dispensaries and clinics, and 169 open air schools nationwide. Additional cooperation comes from 40 state boards and 200 local boards of health, with total agencies surpassing 2,600 when including specialized hospitals and penal institutions. The association ran an 8,000-newspaper publicity drive, distributed 186,000 bulletins, and Tuberculosis day sermons topped 60,000. Red Cross seal sales totaled over $400,000, up nearly 25 percent from 1911.
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Washington
Livingston Farrand
National Association For the Study and Prevention
United States
State Boards of Health
Boards of Health
National Association
Red Cross
Book Distribution Ends Saturday Great Cyclopedia Deal
The Waterloo Evening Courier advertises a final sale for Everybody's Cyclopedia, a five volume set with color plates and engravings, offered for 2.35 dollars with a certificate presented today. Mail orders accepted and must be posted by midnight tomorrow.
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Waterloo Evening Courier
Initiation for the X. 6. Order in Waterloo Sunday
Waterloo hosts initiation into the Knights of Columbus with 46 candidates. Mass at St. Joseph's Church in the morning followed by a banquet at Ellis' Hall in the evening where toastmaster John T. Sullivan will preside. Local and regional attendees from Waterloo and nearby cities are expected to attend.
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Order of Knights of Columbia
Waterloo
St. Joseph’s Church
Ellis’ Hall
Iowa
John T. Sullivan
Viaitera
Edward Slattery
M. F. Healy
Ft. Dodge
D. D. Murphy
Elkader
Hart
Walker
H. P. Rohlman
Hon
EB. G. Dunn
Mason City
Mourning Aileen McKean Remembered by Family
Mr and Mrs Walter McKean and family thank neighbors and friends for help during illness and death of Aileen McKean. They recall floral offerings and appreciation for Aileen's teacher and schoolmates who attended the funeral in a body.
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Aileen McKean
Aileen
Walter M'Kean
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MAES
the Nauman
ALF
Gree
Adam Kiefer and
William J. Jasper
Minnie Pages
Lester J. Ross
Alice Cropper
Panta
the Bell Outfitters
East Fourth Street
Waterloo Thrift Club
Waterloo Citi
Zenship
Ber
Thrift
Waterloo Savings Bank
Harvey Plodgatt
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