Pussyfoot Johnson to Speak in Waterloo Feb 7
Temperance advocate Pussyfoot Johnson will lecture in Waterloo on February 7 in the East High auditorium under the auspices of the W C T U. He is touring India and receiving honors from Indian patentates and will be brought to Waterloo by the Western Lyceum Bureau of this city.
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Pussyfoot” Johnson
India
Waterloo
W.C.T. U
East High
Johnson
Western Lyceum Bureau
School Nurse Takes Precautions Against Diphtheria
Three new diphtheria cases were reported to the city health department. Names and addresses include Charles James, 741 1-2 Logan avenue. Faith Fry, 4, 2320 Fourth street east. Merrill Gat, 7, 2012 2-2 Fourth street east. Marietta Bell, east school nurse, visits classrooms and instructs teachers on detecting early symptoms. Families with a possible case are excused from school until the illness is cleared. Four deaths have occurred. prompt antitoxin use has limited fatalities.
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Ciy Health Department
Charles James
Logan Avenue
Faith Fry
Fourth Street
Merril Gat
Fourt Street
Marietta Bell
East School
Rescued From Burning YMCA Building Fire
Five teen men and one firefighter were rescued when a YMCA building on Highland Avenue, Somerville, was partly destroyed. Damage is estimated at 1060 dollars. Fire occurred early today.
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Colted Precey
Somerville
Mass
Hwiehland Avenue
Mary Pickford Stars in Little Lord Fauntleroy and More
In this era program notes review several Mary Pickford led features. Little Lord Fauntleroy with Pickford as the boy and his mother, The Lady from Longacre with Lisa Parsinova, Footlights with Lizzie Parsons, and Doubling for Romeo starring Frank Mayo. Ann Hastings and Jackie Coogan are highlighted for their screen work.
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Lord Fauntleroy
Longacre
Footlights
Romeo
Frank Mayo
Ann Hastings
Jack Coogan
Frances Hodg- 300 Burnett
Mary Pickford
Lord
Stella Maris
Dearest
Miss Pickford
William Russell
Anthony Raymond Fulk Desmoleyn Conway
Tony
Isabel
Mary Thurman
England
Livadia
London
Mayo
Doctor Jim
Harol Lloyd
Blanche Sweet
H. B. Waner
Wand Hawkey
New York
Hurricane Hutch
Jackie Coogan
Students Back Jobless Aid Movement With 1 Percent
West High backed the relief effort today by forwarding a check for 1 percent of this month’s income to Waterloo Relief and Employment Commission. The plan seeks work-based aid rather than charity, with funds to be distributed by the commission’s executive committee. Follow up letters target those who have not yet contributed as four-minute speakers expand the outreach.
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West High
Waterloo Relief and Employment Commission
Waterloo
Illinois Central
E. W. Miller
Commission
Commercial National Bank
Jesup Man Revises His Lurid Tale of Slugging
Berlin Webber, a Jesup resident, went to the police with a bloodied head claiming slugging and robbery but later signed an affidavit in municipal court offering a different account. He says he rode to Waterloo Monday night with another man, later fell from an attempted train boarding, struck his head, and admitted drinking, which influenced his initial police story.
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Berlin
Webber
Jesup
Munnicipal
Waterloo
Illinois Central
Convicted Prisoner Arrested for Looting Church Poor Box
Sacramento police captured escaped Minnesota state penitentiary inmate All Wells in a Catholic cathedral looting incident. Wells was still inside the church when detention occurred, authorities said.
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United Press
Sacramento
Cal
All Wells
Minnesota, State Penitentiary
Dr Edwards Olive Tablets Promote Breath Freshening Relief
Advertisement touts Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a gentle, effective substitute for calomel, claimed to cleanse blood and purify the body. It notes 13¢ price and that the tablets are olive colored and sugar coated, with recommended nightly use for a week.
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Dr. Edwards
Salvation Army Appeals For Help With Cash And Coal
Close to two thousand dollars in cash was raised for next year's budget, totaling 1 944.63 dollars as reported by Adj Edward LaPlount. Additional pledges were given but not yet paid. Seventy-five men sought work, twenty six contacts were logged, and seven phone calls were answered as volunteers investigated a family lacking food and fuel. A Watering resident donated a ton of coal for two families and his wife pledged clothing for eight needy children. The adjutant withheld the donor’s name.
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Goodby
Edward Scanlon
Ballou Street
St Francis Hospital
Salvation Army
Adj
Edward LaPlount
Salivation Army Headquarters
Army
Chautauqua Bureau Plans Educational Disarmament Campaign
The Chautauqua Bureau will run an educational disarmament campaign for its ten million audience. Paul Pearson shaped the project after talks with President Harding and top officials. The International Lyceum and Chautauqua Association and its directors will cooperate in coordinating the effort with planned parliamentary conference as Washington engages Belgrade.
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Tan
Paul Pearson
Association
Harding
International Lyceum and Chautauqua Association
W. I. Atkinson
Waterloo
Paul Kemeter
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Bennett
Goodby LeRoy
Arletta
Goodby Herald
Scanlon
Frank LaTier
LaTier
Galloway
Building and Loan Association
Joe Friedl
Mulberry Street
Dike
Maoolngg
Vasile LL
FLAN
Ture
Lizzie Parsons
Oswald Kans
Lisa Parsinova
Brett Page
Page
Kane
Lisa
Lizzie
Miss Ferguson
Reginald Devny
Sam Cody
Arizona
Sam
Lulu
Juliet
Hel
Lucy
Monte
Coogt
Tor
Lulu Fos
Ollywoog
Douglass
Fairbanks
Uulu
Raun Cuayy
Luc
Jackie
Mayro
Hollywood
Qstilna
Olyteo
Eliosy
FE Laffo
West High Semis
Boston
F. E. McStay
Mer
del Monte
Hamburg
Chautauqua Bureau
Northwestern Bell Telephone Co
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