Get Acquainted Special Boosts Waterloo Tour
Waterloo booster train travels northeastern Iowa for a four day tour. Welcoming receptions in Shell Rock Clarksville Greene and Rockford feature autos roses and handshakes. Mayor officials and local hosts express warm hospitality as the party continues along the line with strong community spirit and planned cross town visits.
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Edward L. Corton
Evening Courier
Greene
Waterloo
Iowa
Hut Waterloo
Heck Island
Shell Rock
Robert Richardson
M. M. Williams
D. P. Best
F. C. Harmen
W. F. Brown
Mann
Ler
Richardson
Charles With
Clarksville
A. G. Ward
The
Methodist Episcopal
EB. C G. Pitch
Ed Maddigan
Mad
Goigan
Mason City
Rockford
Hone
Cadillac
Inter
Rock Island
Get Acquainted Train On Its Way To Waterloo
The 1916 Get Acquainted special train, carrying fifty business leaders, departed Waterloo Union Station at 7:30 a.m. amid a lively send off with band music and cheers. The train comprised three Pullmans a diner and a Leary car, and a large flag adorned the observation car. Mayor W R Law and local business figures joined judges and bankers in saluting the crowd as the party began a goodwill tour to sister cities with planned stops in several towns tomorrow.
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Union Station
Waterloo
Franklin C. Platt
W. C. Logan
Waterloo Sayings Bank
W. R. Law
Hi. B. Cropper
Black Hawk Coffee & Spice Co
We. Lesan
Waterloo Savings Bank
Rath Packing Co
Dams
Adams Laper
Howler
Smith
E Watman Cox
Associated Manufacturers
George Uuncley
Cutler Wardware Co
Frank Warner
Leavitt & Johnson National Bank
Delivery error notice prompts newspaper reissue
If the paper is not delivered by 6 o'clock due to carrier error or other cause, readers should call 2330 for a duplicate copy. After 6:30, call Tel. No. 2 for a reprint.
Seek Men Implicated in Wholesale Copper Loot
Police pursued two suspects in a wave of copper thefts that rose in value during the past year. One arrestee allegedly confessed as investigators recovered linotype metal zinc copper electrotype plates and brass parts from Waterloo area sites and located additional copper wire tied to Cedar Valley line thefts.
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Waterloo
Jlo
M. A. Welsh
Supectil
Tom Morris
Cednar Valley
Streetest Company
Hhe
Stolom
Linotype
Kimball
Piiny
Waterloo Brick Co
Cedar Valley
la Porte City
Sioux City Nan Named Missionary Bishop of Africa
Saratoga Springs May 23 Rev Eben S Johnson of Sioux City Ta today was elected missionary bishop of Africa by the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in session here. Rev Mr Johnson is to be bishop of all Africa outside of Liberia. A negro missionary bishop is assigned to that country. The conference adopted a resolution favoring woman suffrage with only six delegates voting in opposition.
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Saratoga Springs
N. Y
Eben S. Johnson
Sioux City
Africa
Methodist Biscopal Church
Johnson la
All Africa
Liberia
Atlantic City
A. J
Union Seminary
Presbyterian Assembly
Boards of Education and College
Chicken Thief Uses New Device to Move Prize Pullets
Des Moines reports a clever chicken thief chlora formed 83 prize winning pullets of A. J. Cody and used a new device to aid his escape. The incident raises fears hens may squawk and disclose the thief's movements.
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Des Moines
Orpet murder trial jurors to be seated by night
In Waukegan Illinois May 28 Judge Donnelly told the court that the Orpet murder jury would be completed before adjournment. Eight jurors remained seated as gossip spread that the poison bottle the state claims to have carried may be with the prosecution. The sheriff and attorney Unady declined to discuss the report.
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Waukegan
Charles H. Donnelly
Will Orpet
University of Wisconsin
Marian Lambert
Lake Faresi
Orpet
Unady
South Dakota Votes for Senator Cummins
In May 24 Terre, D. D., voters in South Dakota prepare for a primary election under good weather. Senator Albert B Cummins is unopposed on the Republican presidential preference ballot, and President Wilson appears on the Democratic ballot, though many voters plan to write in Roosevelt. The Democratic delegates to St. Louis pledge to Wilson and Marshall, while the Republican delegation to Chicago pledges to Cummins.
Father of Marian Lambert seeks to adopt replacement daughter
In Waukegan on May 23, Marian Lambert's father recounts the death of the Wisconsin university student and discusses adopting a younger girl to fill Marian's place at home. He says the new daughter should be of good stock, 5 or 4 years old, and raised with old fashioned strictness, to become part of their hearts while Marian remains in memory.
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Marian Lambert
Waukegan
Will Orpet
Wisconsin University
Marian
Lambert
Jim
Mother
Mrs. Lambert
Frank
Doctors Describe Walte Murder Case and Chloroform Evidence
New York May 28 The state builds its murder case against Dr Arthur Warren Walte for killing his father in law John Peck with chloroform and arsenic Testimony from Dr Albertus A Moore and Dr Victor G Vaughn details Purported statements that the victim did not want to live and the role of chloroform in hastening death Wifes testimony expected and other witnesses corroborate the clinical findings
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New York
Arthur Warren Walte
John &. Pack
Albertus A. Moore
Peck
Walte
Swoon
Watten
Bia
Vaughn
Victor G. Vaughn
University of Michigan At
Ann Arbor
Waite
John ii. Peck
Dorothy van Palmenberr
Margaret Horton
Benedict
Indictment for Wiretapping Nets Two Charity Officials in New York
In Kings County, two New York charities officials face indictments over tapping telephone wires. John A Kingsbury and W H T, special counsel for the charities department, appeared in county court posting $1,000 bail each. Hotchkiss, former superintendent of insurance, was named as counsel for Kingsbury. The case ties to a statewide probe into charitable institutions receiving city funds.
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New York
King’s County
John A. Kingsburg
Mer
Charities
Charities Department
Trook
Hotchkkies
Kingsbury
Courthouse Not Zoo Bit See bounty paid for whelps
Samuel Fleisher of Spring Creek township discovered a courthouse mix up when he brought three wolf whelps to Rainbow’s office seeking a bounty. Rainbow paid after Fleisher dragged the whelps by the tail from the courthouse engine room, ending the incident.
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Samuel Fleisher
Spring Creek
Mer. Fleisher
Audltor
Rainbow
Sibley Troops Return From Bandit Hunt In Mexico
Colonel Shley and Major Langhorne rejoin American forces after a tough trek through northern Coahuila in search of bandits. Reports say a band of about nine hundred fifty men crossed the river from Leba, Tex. into Mexico, while Washington orders 34 000 troops to confront border bandits.
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Marallon
Tés
Shley
Langhorne
Coahuila
Marathon
Mexico
Af Pandit
Leba
Tex
Valentine
GC. A. Wiecescrek
Maranthon
Wort Wwington
F. C
Carrana
OAH
State Department
Chihustua
Beeratory Baker
Crowder
General Scott
Texas
War credit asked for 200 million pounds in Commons
London May 23 In moving the vote of credit for 300 million pounds as forecast in the House of Commons today Prettier Asquith commented this was the eleventh vote since the war began and the second for the current fiscal year The total granted this year if added was therefore 600 million pounds making a grand total of 2 252 million pounds
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London
House of Commons
Prettier Asquith
Col Roosevelt testifies as character witness in Riggs bank case
Former President Roosevelt appears in Washington as a character witness for Charles Glover, a Riggs National Bank official charged in a pretrial parjury case. He testifies Glover knew him since 1859 and that their dealings were social and business, not political. The Roosevelts and Glover were linked through White House and bank circles.
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Riggs National Bank
Charles Glover
Mr. Glover
Civil Service
Imeers
District of Columbia
Rooskervelt
Washington
Glover
White House
Mr. Wilson
Tattaml
Weather and travel timetable ad for Chicago connections
A clipped timetable and travel ad notes temperatures for May and multiple dates, touts Great Western Special for Chicago connections, and advertises a Waterloo sleeper at 2:00 p.m. with a 11:49 p.m. departure. It urges readers to phone for berths and includes railway timings and stops.
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Chicazoo
Chicago
Waterloo
Berlin Admits Peng Gains At Aqu RAising Verdun Front
Berlin reports slight French gains north of Verdun but Fort Donon remains German held. Paris says extreme violence on Verdun front with German counterattacks on Allie No 304 failing. French gates advance within Douaumont while Germans use asphyxiating gas and hold a small northeastern angle. Main fighting east of the Meuse between Thiaumont and Douaumont sees massed German assaults and heavy losses while they retake a trench north of Thiaumont farm.
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Berlin
Annowes
War Offices
Verdun
Fort Donanment
Paris
Maus
Fort
Douaum
Garmany
Meuse
Thiaumont
Douaumont
Aregard
Thigumont Farm
Dreamed Tickets For Big Democratic Convention
Washington May 23 More than 22000 applications have been received for the ten thousand seats in the St Louis convention hall. The national committee subcommittee headed by McCombs meets June 2 to decide on convention staff. Former Governor Glynn is slated for temporary chairmanship and Speaker Clark is expected to be asked to be permanent chair.
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Weahington
D. C
St. Louis
National Committee
McCombs
Martin H. Glynn
New York
Champ Clark
Congress
Note to Britain about interference with U S mails
Washington May 23 The state department receives a complete draft note to Great Britain protesting interference with United States mails. The cabinet was told in general terms and the note will be cabled to London with a duplicate to the French government. Ad insert mentions a cigar.
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Washington, D. C
Republican Convention Sparks Intra Party Clash
Four years earlier in 1912 Republican politics Roosevelt issued a sharp attack on Root. Roosevelt supporters denied the Arizona Republican convention and renamed six delegates. Senator Burton attempted to salvage a Taft Roosevelt truce as Ohio pressed for unity.
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Roosevelt
Burton
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Rockford Greetings
Greene Dog
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Fred Disdale
Joe Klemish
A. Bort
MLOT
A. Morris
Mr. Morris
Wasverly
C. Flodin
Black Hawk Fruit Co
C. A. Morris
Morris Motor Car Co
R. L. Carex
Western Union Telesreph Co
Waterlow Fruit & Com
H.C. Schultz
Cornational Bank
Mercial
Fowler
Pred Wartong
Trawler Co
Tudge F.C. Platt
George Neuman
Nauman Co
T. I. Crowail
Waterlow Ice Cream Co
Carleton Sigs
Lengitt. & Johnson Trust Co
I. TL
Corton
George Miller
N. Braden
Waterloo Gas Engine Co
Hichard
Swea City
Armstrong
Mape Ili
Martin Clear
Black's
Method T
Mr. Johnson
General Conference
South Dakota
Senator Cummins
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N. Y. Charities
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Arthur Warren Waie
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Carranza
Col. Roosevelt
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