Inquest Finds Street Car Caused Mrs Rasmussen Death
Cedar Falls coroner’s jury heard twelve witnesses in an exhaustive inquest into the death of Mrs. Hane Rasmussen after a street car incident on May 18. Conductor Nightengale and the W C F N line faced questions about operating rules and courtesy to passengers. The jury ruled death due to injuries from the street car in motion near Blut and Thirteenth streets at about 9 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hane Rasmussen
Cedar Falls
Kistner
Lawn City
John A. Fearer
J. B. Jepsen
J. L. Haller
Blut and
Thirteenth Streets
J. P. Jepen
J. L. Bailey
Hans Rasmussen
Kristine Lund Christensen
Rasmussen
Courier
Lamb
Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern Railway Company
Gua H. French
BE. D. Cochonour
Cochon
Nightengale
O. S. Lamb
Coromer Kistner
Gifts and Gratitude in a Kindness Letter Column
Ruth Cameron asks why plain courtesy should accompany gifts and favors. Readers share woes of forgotten thanks for dresses, meals, and loaned items, noting ingratitude dampens generosity and urging polite acknowledgment. The column ends with an advertisement for Wang and Miller's shoe store specials.
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Express
Moe
Ruth Cameron
Farewell Service For Ensign Moyer
Salvation Army workers in Waterloo held a rally and farewell services at the army quarters on Fifth Street East for Ensign A. Moyer and five other Iowa officers who will depart Wednesday morning for London to attend the International Convention. Delegates will attend from 58 countries. Moyer will be accompanied by Alfrieda Swanson of Des Moines and Maj. William Harris, Capt. James Pookes of Dubuque.
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Salvation Army
Waterloo
Army
Fifth Street
Ensign
A. Moyer
London
England
Ensign Moyer
Alfrieda Swanson
Des Moines
Maj
William Harris
James Pookes
Dubuque
Press Agent Found By Gentry Brothers Show Founder
Henry B. Gentry recalls meeting a talented ad man in Danville Virginia who pitched stories about the Gentry Brothers shows and impressed the founder. The man, a skilled storyteller, becomes the press agent after a brief interview in Norfolk during the shows winter quarters. In Danville the crowd gathered as he spoke. Admission for this city event is reduced to twenty five and thirty five cents.
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Henry B. Gentry
Gentry Brothers
Mr. Gentry
Norfolk
Winter Quarters
Danville
Henry Gentry
Des Moines Brigadier Leads Delegates Farewell Tour
Brig. Robert Dubbin and wives Mesdames Dubbin and Harris will be honored at a farewell reception in Chicago next Wednesday. After the event the delegates depart for New York to board the steamship Olympic bound for Europe. Specials advertised this week.
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Robert Dubbin
Des Moines
Mesdames Dubbin
Harris
Chicago
New York
Olympic
Europe
Police Seek White Slaver Jesse Padden in Des Moines Case
Des Moines police seek 22 year old bookkeeper Jesse Padden for white slavery after he deserted Misa Viola Tuttle also 22 from Des Moines. Tuttle, from Chicago, was lured by the man who promised marriage then found he already had a wife. He traveled with her via Red Oak and Omaha before taking her to Des Moines and fleeing.
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Jesse Padden
Des Moines
Padden
Misa Viola Tuttle
Waterloo
Misa Tuttle
Chicago
Tuttle
Red Oak
Omaha
Post-Ly
St. Louis
Louis R. Patmont
Westville
Columbia
A Swim in the River Now is Good
A Want column in the Courier suggests it's never too early to think it over and join the swim in river activities. The note frames timely participation as a civic or leisure prompt in the newspaper's Want section.
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Courier
Missing preacher found in Illinois farm house
In Chicago a Presbyterian assembly urges stricter Sabbath observance. Reports from Niagara Falls to Huerta in Mexico, including a plot uncovered against General Huerta and police chief Guasque’s dismissal. Campaign expense filings list totals for several candidates in Washington. A Winnipeg abduction case linked to Elizabeth Huppertz moves to Washington for presidential signature.
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Chicago
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
Mexico City
Huerta
Manuel Guasque
Dubuque Declines to Fund Iowa Building for Panama Exposition
The Dubuque Industrial Corporation will not pledge toward the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition structure. A six thousand dollar request was declined citing Governor Clarke’s failure to appoint a local member to the exposition commission, while Dubuque’s fund still exceeds one hundred thousand dollars.
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Dubuque
Iowa
Dubuque Industrial Corporation
Ralph Bolton
Greater Iowa
Clarke
Iowa Exposition
Industrial Corporation
The
Industrial
Co. D. Cass
W. W. Marsh
Exposition Commission
The Green on the Market Inexperienced Help
Read the Want Help column for employment opportunities in Waterloo homes where this paper is circulated.
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Waterloo
Travel to Colorado by Rock Island Lines cheaper board
An advertisement promotes Colorado vacations with $7 to $10 weekly board and 420 days of sunshine. It touts the Rocky Mountain Limited with steel sleepers and reclining cars, affordable meals, and all-steel equipment. Des Moines agent C. A. Barton can provide illustrated booklets. June through September low fares.
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Colorado
Rock Island
Rocky Mountain Limited
C. A. Barton
Wonderful
Hall. Ray
A. G
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Grillo
Grills Conductor
Interurban
Frem Hansen & Pletcher
215 East
Fourth
Vertigement
Wang & Miller
Thin Weaelk
Cadvertisament
Woods Bros
Wang & Miller’s
Niagara Falls
Can
Washington, D. C
Trowans
Quiimins
Basher
Meredith
Connolly
Wilson
Franz Meyer
Winnipeg
Eizabeth Huppertz
Oelwein
Phone
Waterloo Cleaning and Dye Works
Black Hawk County
State of
Lee. Tullar
Republican Party
He, Tullar
Kathryn Ll, Walsh
Phono
Ninth Street
H. T. Eberhart
Wil Cail
F. H. Latier
Lafayette Street
Fourth Street
Proprieton
Lafayette Building
4Th
C. J. Miller
Ivers & Pond
Just
Ivers
Scott B. Prowelde
Black's Building
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