Forty Years Ago Wednesday November 4 1874 Waterloo notes
A fragmented 1874 local page lists Wlerks of Waterloo petitioning employers with signatories including George R Uighty, Heres Miurst, June 2 Snawdee, and others. It notes high school students with expellent markings and lists students in first and second years. Reports a death from whooping cough, a snow-covered ground, a sheriff raid on Te land No. 10 Cedar Falls, and a new mail law allowing packages under four pounds to be sent by mail.
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Wlerks
Waterloo
George R Uighty
Heres Miurst
Juin
Snawdee
Frank Garlanider
Pred Krasner
Wiehewan
W. W. Strayer
HL W W. Brown
Dro
Asa
B Park
Uinil
How It All Happened In The 1914 Election Returns
The piece surveys 1914 election returns showing Republican gains in the House and little change in the Senate. It notes the decline of the Progressive party, cites Penrose in Pennsylvania, Cannon in Illinois, Longworth in Ohio, and other figures, and attributes results to discontent with business conditions and a return to normal Republican sentiment after 1912.
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Indi Cummins
Clarke
House of Representatives
Senate
Penrose
Pennsylvania
Sullivan I Ilinois
Cannon
Illinois
Longworth Io Obio
Brandeges
Gallinger
Sereno E. Payne
Kansas
Beveridge
Indiana
Wilson
Council Bluffs officials weigh concrete paving plan
A reader laments Waterloo and Council Bluffs stance on pavement. Council Bluffs approves five miles of concrete at about $1.48 to $1.86 per yard, with expectations of expanding to ten miles, while questioning local attitudes toward paving options and costs.
A Point of Education on Halloween Pranks
An unsigned editorial condemns Halloween vandalism as dangerous showy mischief. It cites stunts: a stump on a Waterloo road causing near disasters, a cement barricade in Manchester, a boy wounded in Des Moines after gunfire, and a fatality in Harlan. It urges education of youths and stronger measures to curb such acts.
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Hallowe'en
Waterloo
Manchester
Providence
Des Moines
Harlan
Something Must Be Done In The Courier And Reporter Style
A reader criticizes speeders and police, urging impartial plain clothes enforcement. Scranton reports a hen attack, prompting mockery of sensational reporting. The piece laments reform battles in Tammany era, mentions Cape Cod’s oldest couple Captain John Hopkins and wife at 96 and 93.
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Courier
Joe
John
Cape Cod
John Hopkins
East Orleans
Twenty Years Ago Local Notes and Vital Events
A Wisconsin region item recounts a $154 relief payment to Ste Han cock county for cyclone sufferers. Marriage licenses issued include Dunnwald Guy, Smith Gardner, Shum bus, Clark, and Tardy Sandburg. Diarrigd at Milwaukee Oct. 10 lists Anna Tardy and Joseph Sandburg. Olin Taylor and Hana Pattison wed by Rev. Pliner. Republican stumping by Mullan, Dawson, Tuthill, Reed, Courtright, Pickett, Jackson. Semper Fidella lodge mourns Mrs. Griffin. Rasher defeated by Henderson in Third district by over 4,000. Rev. Paxton dies in San Francisco. John Thompson reports aid calls rising. Henry Mapes, 78, dies near town.
Concrete paving expands in Connell Bluffs southward plan
City council approved three miles of granite concrete paving and bids for two to three more miles on the Lincoln highway route. South Avenue paving is 20 feet wide eight inches thick at center six inches at sides with crushed rock road retainers. US$160,000 planned for next year. Tata Portland cement and Carey's Blastite joints used for durable surface.
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South Avenue
Lincoln Highway
Connell Bluffs
Carey's
Tata Portland
Paris siege history and a Halloween kindness tale mixed
An old Paris siege narrative is interwoven with a Des Moines story about W. W. Wilcox offering a dinner at the Chamber of Commerce for mischiefmaking boys who shot holes in tires. The piece notes Paris 1870 events and ends with Mrs Cynthia Hall’s $26,000 bequest to the McGinleys and a nearly $1,000,000 estate.
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Des Moines
W. W. Wilcox
Hallowe
Wilcox
John Doe
Chamber of Commerce
Mr. Wilcox
Gambetta
Parise
Paris
Jess
Joseph McGinley
Cynthia Hall
Albion
Ind
Poor couple on farm inherit siple fortune
Claremont Iowa report: A farm home four miles from Claremont burned with two year old child perishing, an infant injured. Parents left children with an elder boy while they worked in a field. The boy ran shouting “Sirs La Crosse” as flames reached the house, and the parents rushed back to find the interior engulfed.
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Claremont
Fred Hager
Irving
Hager
Selfishness vs duty in personal success lessons
A Ruth Cameron column argues that few people balance care for others with care for their own interests. It cites examples of overcommitment to others and neglect of self, urging readers to recognize duty to oneself alongside duty to family and others.
Five Miles of Concrete Paving Planned for Council Bluffs
After more than two years of inquiry by city officials and commercial club members, council officials decided concrete paving has proven successful elsewhere and ordered nearly five miles of streets in Council Bluffs paved this year.
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Counel Bluffs, Ja
Comerl Bluffs
Mass flame rescue ends in tragic ditch incident
A fire rescue saved a baby but the body of the other child was not found until the next day at the ditch bottom. Hutcheson, a former West Branch resident en route to a village reunion, avoided naming his companion and remained reticent about details as he returned home last evening. He left for Cedar Rapids on business this morning.
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Sam
Bss
Alan
Woukin
Hutcheson
West Branch
Auto Mishap In Waterloo Rider Escapes Unharmed
C R Hutcheson of Waterloo drove a touring car that locked wheels and slid over a 12 foot embankment near North Liberty. Hutcheson leaped to safety. his companion, a Waterloo traveler, remained in the auto and also escaped injury though injured by a broken arm.
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Iown City
C. R. Hutcheson
Waterloo
North Liberty
Hutcheson
Belgium’s Capital Renamed Hruessel by German Rule
Germans rename Brussels Hruessel and impose German time on the city. The article notes measurements of brain weights, stating the average male brain weighs three pounds eight ounces and the female brain weighs two pounds eleven ounces.
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Hruessel
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