Landlady Denies Townsend Sold Liquor to Hart at Trial
Chester Townsend, on trial for dis orderly conduct and bootlegging, denied selling liquor to undercover man Fred Hart or ever seeing him before the case. Mrs Mabel Willis testified to Townsend's good character and nightly companionship, while Hart testified he bought two pints on different days. Hart described purchases at 1008 1 2 Commercial Street near Cohn's junk yard and a later delivery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred G. Hart
Chester Townsend
Mabel Willis
Commercial Street
Townsend
F. W. Edwards
Altho
Aberdeen
S. D
Hart
Cohn
R. W. Getchell
Jake Reinstein
Reinstein
Willis
Rath Packing Company
Milton F. Fields
Undercover Liquor Probe Details Unfold in Court
Hart testifies he worked six weeks for Sheriff Wagner to gather evidence against liquor law violators. He claimed to ingest and rinse with alcohol to mask a undercover role. Case expected to go to jurors later today with a panel including Sibert Higdon Baxter and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jennie Baxter
A. B. Cavert
D. T. Trusty
Effie I. Sheldon
Frank Klingaman
E. F. Jago
Harold Miller
Henry Tegtmeier
W. A. Covell
A. G. Lawrence
Walter Hagen Drops Out of Metropolitan Open
New Rochelle New York May 26 Walter Hagen withdrew from the Metropolitan Open golf tournament citing illness and business obligations. He started with an 82 yesterday and never recovered his form for the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Hagen
Metropolitan
New Rochelle
N. Y
Real Estate Boomed Here in the Fifties Waterloo
The Waterloo real estate boom of the 1850s is chronicled with records from Black Hawk County Abstract noting multiple rapid transfers on corner lots at Third Avenue and Commercial Street. The piece traces owners from 1853 to 1856, mentions the Main Street plan, the dam site on Cedar, and early builders like Henry Sherman and M. H. Moore, plus the 1859 Cedar River bridge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black Hawk County Abstract Company
Third Avenue
Commercial Street
J. E. Ridenour
Main Street
Park Avenue West
Ridenour Corner
Waterloo
Jefferson, First, Cedar
Fifth Streets
Jefferson
Bridge Street
Mullan Avenue
Stony Hollow
Francis Gregg
David Denlinger
J. RR. Mullard
Charles B. Sawyer
Axaiel Hungerford
George F. Schaad
John H. Williams
George W. Couch
Henry Sherman
C. J. Pla
M. H. Moore
Stanley JD. Moore
Jefferson Street
la Porte Road
Cedar River
Fourth Street
Notable 1920s film names and figures listed
The list names include Chaplin Willan Haines The dark Angel Dolorea dai Rio The Big Parade Theodore Roosevelt as leader of The Rough Riders Rex Ingram Wallace Noah Beery Ronald Coleman in The King of Kings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fyd .Chaplin
Willan Haines
The
Dark Angel
Dolorea Dai Rio
Theodore Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Rex Ingram
Wallace
Noah Beery
Ronald Coleman
Also Mentioned on This Page
H. A. Maine Company
S. Perfection Stove CO
St Paul
Branet
Pittsbury Bt
Harwich
East Fifth St
Nichols & Gates
Ridenour
G. W. Hanna
H. E. R. Hill
Hill
John Cantonwine
Cantonwine
Augustine Beauchaine
Beauchaine
Willam Miesel
Kiesel
Charles Rauch
Rauch
A. P. Hosford
Edmund Miller
Ent House
Lucy L. Johnson
Enmmons Johnson
EF. Lefhneon
Mrs. Ridenour
Sts
Rialto Theatre
Second Street
Gates College
Middle West
Nets
Anry
Davenport
Jacquard
A, Leath & Company
Court House
Lafayette St. and
Park Ave
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