Peoria Boosters Tour Waterloo in City Reception
About 190 Peorians from Illinois invaded Waterloo by train and forty-eight cars for a Town Criers club welcome. Mayor Thompson and Peoria Association of Commerce President Causey led a brisk motor tour of parks, new homes, and downtown sights, praising Waterloo and promising future cooperation.
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Waterloo
Peoria
Town Criers' Club
Walter G. Causey
Peoria Association of Commerce
Harry E. Kiester
Town Criers
Cedar Falls
Rock Island Road
Muscatine
de Luxe
Kiester
la Porte City
Fourth Street
Lafayette Street
Riester
R. C. Thompson
Causey
Chautauqua
Byrnes Parks
Highland
Prospect
Evening Courier
Thompson
Willis’ Evans
Peotia Association of Commerce
C. L. Kirk
Evans
Don’t Wash Your Hair With Soap or Alkali
The ad advises avoiding soap and high alkali shampoos which dry the scalp and brittle hair. It promotes using refined coconut oil as a pure, grease free cleaner that produces rich lather with water, rinses easily, leaves hair soft and shiny, and helps remove dust dandruff. Classified coconut oil available at pharmacies.
Peoria Delegation Receives Warm Welcome Abroad
The visiting Peoria Association of Commerce delegation rode in a local mayor’s auto, missed a planned stop, and toured Cedar Falls with colleagues. Secretary Willis Evans praised Peoria’s Waterloo convention bureau as a booster for gatherings. The Town Criers club, led by Hickley, Brepner, and Hadley, organized the entertainment and received hearty thanks from all hosts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Town Criers
Peoria Association of Commerce
B. W. Schuneman
Cedar Falls
Willis Evans
Waterloo
Illinois
Cinera' Club
Charles Hickley
George Brepner
J. H. Hadley
Peoria
Muscatine
Iowa City
Cedar Rapids
la Forte
Pearings Travel Tour Across Midwestern Cities
Friday the Pearings will have been on the road four nights and three days visiting eighteen cities ten in Iowa four in Minnesota two in Wisconsin and two sister cities in Illinois. The special train was elaborately equipped with a barber shop telephones typewriters and a Victrola aboard.
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Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Inois
New Charges Against Insects Raise Health Concerns
The study notes insects beyond mosquitoes and fleas may spread disease. Cockroaches spread germs through contact with food and filth in kitchens. Ants in homes and stores may carry pathogens, while bees linked to garbage in canal zones are suspected of aiding transmission. The Journal of the American Medical Association is cited on these cautions.
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Wheeler
Journal of the
American Medical Association
Contamination fears arise from contaminated honey source
A fragment discusses concerns over eating honey and the possibility of disease germs being carried by insects. The wording implies worry about contamination from unsanitary production or handling environments.
Unidentified body in morgue linked to A T Cassidy doubt
A coroner jury could not confirm identity of an unclaimed body at O Keefe Towne s morgue. They ruled death from a fall from a train with skull fracture and that the May was on an eastbound Illinois Central passenger train. A single clue was the name A T Cassidy on cigarette papers. Body held pending claimant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O'Keefe & Totwne
A. T. Cassidy
Ilinois Central
Smith
O'Keefe & Towne's
J. G. Sherbourne
N. M. Beckley
G. H E. Otis
Pickett Swisher Farwell Form New Law Partnership
A third partner joins Pickett and Swisher to form Pickett Swisher Farwell. Farwell, a 15 year trial lawyer from Bremer county, leaves Hagerman Warwell in Waverly to team with Pickett of Waterloo and Swisher, a 16 year veteran and former city attorney. The firm will operate as Pickett Swisher Farwell.
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Pickett & Swisher
WB. Farwell
Bremer County
Waverly
Hagerman & Warwell
Cc. E. Pickett
B. E. Swisher
Tune 1
Pickett, Swisher & Farwell
Pickett
Waterloo
C. W. Mullan
Swisher
Farwell
Sen
Cutor Hagerman
Runaway Girl in Waterloo Sparks Carnival Romance
Frances Norman, 16, of Hannibal Missouri, ran away after meeting Ralph Lyons of the rango troupe in the Waterloo carnival. Taken by police, she will be returned to Hannibal tonight. The affair followed the carnival’s visit to Hannibal and involved an attempted departure with Lyons after a brother’s $5 loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Lyons
Frances Norman
Hannibal
Carnival
Norman
Lyons
Girl Follows Lyons to Peoria Amid Show Troupe Pursuit
A 14 year old girl, Hazel Gartner, believed to have assisted the Norman girl, is sought by Hannibal officials after the younger girl fled to Peoria with Lyons and joined the show troupe. Local authorities are asked to locate Gartner who was not with the show.
Germans Build New Warcraft at Antwerp
Glen Morris and W. D. Strayer traveled to Independence to study transferring ten to fifteen more incurable insane from the state hospital to Webster county's new county home and hospital. Webster county plans a $50,000 home and hospital. London dispatch notes German builders at Hoboken shipyard near Antwerp launched a new torpedo boat and would tow it to Ghent then Zeebrugge, with three torpedo boats and two small gunboats built for Zeebrugge.
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Glen Morris
W. D. Strayer
Independence
State Hospital
County Home
Webster County Board
Webster County
London
Daily News
Rotterdam
Hoboken
Scheldt
Antwerp
Ghent
Zeebrugge
Club Women Rushes to Overtake Car
Mrs Clay of Cedar Falls raced to catch the interurban carrying delegates to the State Federation of Woman's clubs convention in Iowa City. Press representative D N Hurd was told to buy her ticket. After Hurd found Clay left behind, another auto rushed up and stopped at a crossing to take her aboard.
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Clay
Cedar Falls
State Federation of Woman's Clubs
Iowa City
D. N. Hurd
Mrs. Clay
Mrs. Hurd
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Peoria Bunch
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Chamber of Commerce
Harold F. Whittle
Northwestern University
Rotary Club
Leavitt & Johnson National Bank
Black Hawk National Bank
Russell-Lamson
James A. Black
Klesler
John Smithson
Proria Engraving Company
Ecity
Fred Twerk
Peoria Star
A. T. Griff__th
Peoria Transcript
W. A. Leach
Peoria Journal
All City
Ladd Trae
Burton W. Post
Broadway Five
Causey's Glee Club
Reed
Rawa
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Peoria Boosters
Bank of Life
Nesilé
Nestl
Nestle's Food Company
Woolworth Bldg
New York
Alidresa
UTK Save LD
National Bank Building
Patent Colt
Goodyear West
Club
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Atlanta, GA
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Waterloo Auto & Supply Co
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