Waterloo bankers depart for McGregor meeting
Three Waterloo bankers Carleton Sias J Q Trumbauer and C J McNulty will travel today to McGregor for a Group 4 Iowa State Bankers association gathering. Mayor Sullivan will welcome them and F A OConnor of New Hampton will speak on the banks public role. Banquet river cruise and other entertainments are planned at the Zimmermann Hotel. The travelers depart at noon via the Chicago Great Western.
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Waterloo
McGregor
Iowa State Bankers’ Association
Zimmerman
Mississippi River
Messrs. Trumbauer An McNulty
Chicago Great Western Railroad
Narrow escape as motorcyclist avoids train at crossing
W J Simonds of 116 Wellington street narrowly escaped being ground beneath Chicago Great Western engine No 4 at Fourth Street West crossing yesterday at 12 45 PM. He jumped from the motorcycle before impact as witnesses watched near Union Station. the bike was hurled into the engine and wrecked while Simonds was picked up uninjured.
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Chicago Great Western
Fourth Street
W. J. Simonds
Wellington Street
Simonds
Union Station
Jefferson
Indian made item repaired at sport ing goods house
An Indian made article was taken to the sporting goods house of Guy Campbell for repairs after purchase at that shop.
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Guy Campbell
Many Fail to Pay Dog Taxes This Year
A large drop in dog tax payments is reported with only twenty-one tags issued so far. City dog catcher C. E. Jones warns the tax will double after June first, with males charged $2 and females $4, as enforcement efforts begin.
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C. E. Jones
Music to Portray Man's Seven Ages at Grace Church
A Grace church concert tomorrow evening will revive Shakespeare’s seven ages of man through music. The program uses organ and vocal pieces to evoke the progression from infancy to old age, aligning each section with the famous classification.
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Grace Church
Greeks Read the Courier in Quest For Knowledge
Two Greek immigrants Panagiotes Luca demis and Ioannes Asspropaeta, both from Hal Kidd a near Athens, plan to naturalize after returning to Greece for army service. They read the Courier in Chicago, work as carpenters, and have shortened their Greek names to Peter Lucas and John Metes. They attend church and YMCA.
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Panagiotes Lucademis
Ioannes
Peter Lucas
Pan
Father Nemmers to Observe Corpus Christi Festival
Loyal Catholics from the Hawkeye state will journey to Gilbertville on May 29 for the Corpus Christi festival led by Father John Nemmers rector of the Gilbertville parish. The day's program opens with a 9 o'clock solemn high mass followed by a parade to the grove for the stations of the cross and a simple noon pie dinner inviting all to join in a reverent communal observance.
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Father Nemmers
Corpus Christi
Hawkeye State
Gilbertville
Hawkeye
John Nemmers
Catholica
Black Hawk
Waterloo
van Pienice
U G T Invites Marshalltown Unit For Secret Class
At the U C T Saturday meeting an invitation from the Marshalltown unit asked local members to help teach a class of fifteen to twenty new applicants the order’s mysteries. A May 17 banquet at six features eats spicy spell binders and mirth, with a special coach arranged for fourteen stand patters and their spouses to travel to Marshalltown.
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Marshalltown
Great Western
Waterloo
Mrs Townsend Dies En Route Home to Cedar Falls
A telegram reports the death of Mrs Edward Townsend at a Fort Dodge home. She had traveled from California to Cedar Falls and stopped to visit a son when she died at noon today.
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Cedar Falls
Gickey
Edward Townsend
Fort Dodge
Youths target Paul Davis store in daytime break in
Three boys aged 12 and 10 three of them taken into custody after breaking a rear window at the Paul Davis dry goods store. About eight to ten dollars stolen from a cash drawer. The youths confessed to the crime and await juvenile court action. Police traced them to a near by location near Dewar where an effort was made to recover hidden coins. money remains unfound.
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Paul Davis
John Googan
Kenneth Davis
George Meggitt
Dewar
Youths to Face Judge Platt After Disturbance
Three youths believed to be involved in a disturbance will be brought before Judge Platt either this afternoon or tomorrow for formal proceedings.
Grand Army Officials to Attend Event Day
The department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic and the department president of the Ladies of the G A R will be present on that day.
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Grand Army of the Republic
Ladies of the
Veterans to visit Soldiers' Homes in Marshalltown
John Call of Waterloo township heads a committee of state old soldiers who will visit the Soldiers' home at Marshalltown in May. The Leon Reporter carries a liberal summary of an address to the Decatur County Medical Society on Public Health and Municipalities by Dr. G. H. Sumner, former Waterloo resident and current secretary of the Iowa State Board of Health.
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John Call
Waterloo Township
Marshalltown
Leon
Decatur County Medical Society
G. H. Sumner
Waterloo
Iowa State Board of Health
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