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Meany Company Invites Undertakers for Midwest Display
Three hundred undertakers from Iowa Illinois Minnesota Wisconsin South Dakota Nebraska and Missouri are invited to the J. J. Meany Casket Company of Waterloo annual display at K C Hall on Sycamore Street Thursday and Friday this week. Goods on display include burial cases dresses and robes all made locally. Luncheon at noon and dinner in the evening will be served. Prof Thornton Barnes from New York will lecture on The Neo Cardinal Method with demonstrations each forenoon and afternoon. Hugh Orchard Cedar Rapids and Swanee River entertainers will perform. First evening features a dance and music. second day includes factory inspection and orchestra. The two day program ends with 20 rounds of boxing.
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Iowa
Ilinois
Minnesota
Wisconsin
South Dakota
Nebraska
Missouri
J. J. Meano Casket! Company of
Waterloo
K. C. Hall
Sycamore Street
Thornton Vb. Barnes
New York
Hugh Orchard
Cedar Rapids
Swanee River