Amusements Announced for Electric Park Season Opening
Arch Webb leads a 16 piece band as Electric Park opens on June 10 with flying airship, figure eight and spiral thriller rides. The Orpheum theatre presents four acts from Sullivan & Considine circuit with an eight piece orchestra. Local concessionaires and booths, including R. E. Peterson and Mauritz Peterson, will run games and food stands. Officials list Lorre Alford as owner and Waterloo Amusement Co. as lessee.
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Electric Park
Western Flying Airship Co
New York City
Coaster Construction Company
Chicago
Elsworth Adama
Orpheum Theatre
Sullivan & Considine
Lou Galyean
Arch Webb
James Ratchiford
Elsworth Adams
Galloway-Gibson Invvestment Company
R. E. Peterson
Waterloo
Venice
Ocean Park
California
Mauritz Peterson
A. E. Weld
Bert Smith
Chas
Sheldon
Waterloo Ice Cream Cone Company
WU Bray
Kenneth Boyd
Ellis
Lore Alford
Waterloo Amusement Co
Herbert Parker
James Ratch- Korn
Fred Robertson
Fred Voorhees
George Evans
Jake Anton
Lightning Strikes Barn Near Dunkerton Wrecks Farm
Lightning hit the Tim Meany place four miles southeast of Dunkerton Ia yesterday morning. The barn and corn crib hog house and chicken house burned with seventeen cows six horses a sow and pigs inside plus grain and hay. Two cattle escaped and were saved. only partial insurance coverage noted.
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Dunkerton
Tim Fleany Place
Here
Meany
Joes
Sidney Co. Offers Early Morning Value at 3.95
A local notice advertises a sale by The Sidney Company at 214 East Fourth Street. The first 75 women arriving Wednesday morning can buy a $22.50 value for $3.95 and are urged to have a call back early.
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Sture
Sidney CO
East Fourth Street
Hogs Die From Cholera On Local Farm Prompt Burn or Burial
Nearly 200 pigs on Dennis Shrock’s Eagle Center road farm near the city die from hog cholera. A veterinarian treats the herd as owners curb spread with precautionary measures. Past outbreaks suggest winter snow may have preserved the germ and spring reinfection. State law requires burning or burying infected carcasses. vaccination is recommended for prevention.
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Dennis Shrock
Eagle Center Road
Worden Miller
Sisters Hurt at Cedar Falls Crossing Seek Damages
In Cedar Falls district court, Lida B Baumeister and Marie M Fredericksen sue Waterloo Cedar Falls & Northern railway for injuries from a carriage collision at a street crossing. Plaintiffs' attorneys are H M Boarman and J B Newman. Notation of settlement and dismissal filed.
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Lida B. Baumeister
Marie M. Fredericksen
Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern Railway
Cedar Falls
H. M. Boarman
J. B. Newman
Mabel Palmer
L. J. Palmer
Platt
Alice Jennings
B. E. Jennings
H. J. Barrett
B. O. Bunch
Acme Harvesting Machinery Co
Carroll
Henry Paulson
Henry Paulson & Co
Theodore Bahrens
Adolph Block
Labor Fight in Police Court Points to Brewery dispute
George Bloeser a striking machinist pleaded guilty to disturbing the public quiet in police court. He was fined six dollars with half suspended and faced a similar guilty plea on another complaint by Fred Leeper with the same sentence. The case stemmed from a north end saloon disturbance where Higgins claimed a tooth was knocked out and he was knocked down. Higgins testified that Bloeser called vile names though he admitted Bloeser did not strike him. Other arrests followed for drunkenness with sentences ranging from two to ten days. Trials for Joe Tierney and Jack Mulcahy were set for 6 p m today.
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George Bloeser
I. C
E. L. Higgins
Fred Leeper
Higging
Bloeser
North End
Higgins
E. J. Casey
Dan Shean
Herman Huls
Ole Legande
F. S. Wortington
Burlington
Joe Tierney
Jack Mulcahy
Moore to open racket store at Fourth street west
J M Moore, who split from the grocery business with H D Baker at 710 Jefferson street, will open a racket store about mid next week at 225 Fourth street west. Baker becomes sole owner of the grocery.
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J. M. Moore
H. D. Baker
Jefferson Street
Fourth Street
Mr. Baker
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Sa aaIn Ranan
Uun Anu Fahm
Timothy Meany
Barclay
Orange Township
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Cedar
J.M. Moore
Touhey
New York
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Sidney Company
Iowa
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