Waterloo to add precincts and boost campaign costs
City officials plan enlarging Waterloo from 14 to 20 precincts, enabling about 50 voters per precinct. Last election expense accounts show totals around 2930.07 with major items for ballot publishing and other election costs.
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Bille
Aterloo
Waterloo
W. J. Burbank
E. J. Wenner
Miss Bird
J. Rainbow
B. H. Kascht
F. &. Pettit
FSS
Rural home life gains from survey in Minnesota township
The University of Minnesota surveyed one Iowa township, revealing shifts in farm home routines. Improvements in living conditions reduce domestic work, with 47 percent homes having stoves, 15 percent furnaces, 44 percent hard coal stoves, 10 percent washing machines, and 60 percent soft water.
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Iowa
Minnesota
Tetin
Local Fund Adds Gift for Belgian Boy De Wagenaere
The Waterloo fund notes gifts totaling seventeen dollars, eighteen sixty five, toward Edmund De Wagenaere, the Belgian boy who lost a limb in a recent accident. The report lists additions from the Waterloo Skirt and Garment Company and others, including previous totals and new subtractions.
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Edmund de Wagenaere
Waterloo
Hudsom
Waterloo Briefs Reflect Local News And Guests
Waterloo items note Mrs Fred A Winslow in 11 M Dr Cliveland in Cedar Rapids today. George McLellan critically ill. George Carson on vacation, Ruth HAL returns from purity congress. Lawyer C E Bronson to Des Moines next week. Football game at Ames draws Waterloo attendees. Marriage license issued in Chicago to Pearsall Adams. Typhoid recovery for attorney Ralph Dunkelberg. Galloway office staff surprise Mrs Hennagir. Greater Iowa public service planned. Billiards expert George Speers to visit and play local champ. Several ministers assigned for Greater Iowa talks and church duties.
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Cliveland
Cedar Rapids
H. C. Wangler
Colfax
Wm. Hartman
Fifth Street
George McLellan
St. Francis Hospital
Ruth Hal
Kungas City
Chicago
Max C. Pearsall
Emma Adams
Waterloo
Ralph Dunkelberg
Presbyterian Hospital
First Shout West
Villa Orders Attack on Tampico from San Luis Potosi
Washington reports General Villa has ordered an attack on Tampico. His army operates from San Luis Potosi, a city occupied without resistance. Dispatches say locals greeted Villa with enthusiasm as he advances. Aguas Calientes convention reportedly seeks Villa’s removal, but Gutierrez rejects it. General Natera cited as authority.
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Washington, D. C
Villa
Tampico
San Luis Potosi
San Antonio
Tex
Carranza Press Bureau
Mexico City
Aguas Calientes
Gutierrez
Natera
Speeding Excuses Enter Court as Courtroom Satire
A courtroom exchange mocks excuses for fast driving with a judge insisting on time in the courtroom as a lesson. The snippet includes quirky lines about speed and a humorous note on earnings versus practice. The text also contains fragmented recipe and literary snippets from various papers.
Colored man uses knife in quarrel over woman
Thomas Mann, colored, fought with Gertrude Jones, colored, leading to Mann producing a knife after outtalk. Mann posted bonds but failed to appear in police court. Judge Meyers ordered re arrest and set bonds at fifty dollars.
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Thomas Mann
Thomas
Gertrude Jones
Mann
Jynx
German Press Satisfied With Emden Record
German papers express pride over the Emden’s record despite its loss to the Australian cruiser Sydney off the Cocos Islands. They note England’s need for Australian, Japanese, Russian, and French help to pursue the Emden and claim the defeat ends the myth of British naval supremacy. Regret is tempered by Dixmude victory and other bulletins.
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Berlin
Sydney
Cocos Islands
England
Dixmude
Austria Holds Many Prisoners In Concentration Camps
Vienna reports 79 814 prisoners of war in Austrian camps with officers interned in castles and grand houses while captured soldiers stay in large barracks. An Amsterdam dispatch also notes wounded are being treated as the war continues. Miss Laura Kohler from the Majestic lobby candy and cigar stand collapsed from pneumonia and was rushed to the Presbyterian hospital. her condition was uncertain this morning.
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London
Vienna
Amsterdam
Reuter
Laura Kohler
Presbyterian Hospital
Argyle Street
Waterloo plants expanding with new equipment
The Unique Cleaners at Fourth and Blift streets invested hundreds for new gear this fall and can now handle rugs and heavy fabrics. Dyeing, once sent out, is done entirely at the Waterloo plant. Government in Bombay district urges farmers to grow wheat and other grains instead of cotton.
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Fourth
Blift
Waterloo
Bombay
Italian Steamer Citta di Sayo n Appeals for Help at Sea
A Rome dispatch reports the Italian steamer Citta di Sayo n on fire 150 miles off Catania. The vessel carrying 600 soldiers from Massawa to Italy sent an SOS. Two other steamers have responded to aid the distressed ship.
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London
Rome
Citta di Sayon
Catania
Massawa
Africa
Italy
Prominent Hotel Men Visit Waterloo in City
H J Bohn publisher Hotel World and John Willy publisher Hotel Monthly of Chicago visited Waterloo today as guests of Holden Horton managers of the Russell Lamson hotel. They praised Waterloo progress and the new hotel, saying the town would become a metropolis with such leadership and development.
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H. J. Bohn
Hotel World
John Willy
Hotel Monthly
Chicago
Messrs. Holden and
Horton
Russell Lamson
Waterloo
Mr. Bohn
Russell-Lamson
Holden
New Hotel Russell-Lamson Impresses Visitors in Waterloo
In Waterloo the 35 000 population area notes the newly built hotel Russell Lamson admired by Mr Bohn and Mr Willy who traveled the country in publication work and stopped to visit their old friend Mr Horton while touring. The ad highlights Footwear at T and M Shoe Co 210 W 4th St with prices 3.00 and 3.50.
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Russell-Lamson
Bohn
Willy
United States
Waterloo
Horton
T. & M. Shoe Co
Want Ads from Jesup Iowa Items and Contacts
Additional Want Ads list black dirt buyers and wood cutting jobs. Missing items include a lost treasurer's record book near Jesup dated Oct 31 with a reward from Nick Terns. Rental notice covers an eight room modern house at 913 Washington Street via Hallowell Co. and mushroom delivery orders from Prospect Place with contact 2891 Red.
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H. J. Tullar
David Johnson
Electie Park
Jesup
Nick Terns
Iowa
Washington St
Inquire Hallowell Co
West Fourth
Prospect Place
Mushrooms From Prospect Redirects to Red Market
I take orders and deliver fresh Mushrooms direct from Prospect. Place Mushrooms Red. Phone 2301-Red.
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POX M. Shoe Co
India
Napoleon
Wellington
Glucher
Wallace
M. Bennett
United States Department of Agriculture
Tlinois
Ywenry Clews
de Wagenaere
Fred A. Winslow
George Carson
Charles City
Irene Fergeman
Dr. Magee
James Shinn
Burlington
J. E. Bates
Eula Trunkey
Elma
Waterloo Business College
Lee Eldridge
Des Moines
Clayton Bronson
William Hardcastle
Iowa Falls
Plymouth Congregational Church
C. E. Bronson
Ames
J. F. McSweeney
Justice McQuilkin
Joe McAllister
New York City
Harrison
Mr. McAllister
Galloway
Roy Hennagir
Logan Avenue
Grace M. E. Church
Hood
Sarah E. Talley
Cherokee
Greater
F. Searles
Littleton
William Galloway
F. Swisher
George W. Hunt
Ley
Towne Cece
George Speers
Universalist
L. S. Cass
Walnut Street
San Luis Poto Tampico 13
Louisville Courier-Journal
Bertie
London Telegraph
Lenrned
Eliopadess
M. L. Bowman
Bowman
Crossley
Corn Belt
State
Vera Rock
Grinnell College
Calacagathian Society
France
Germany
Waterloo Savings Bank
Waterloo Savings Bank Commercial and
Bridge Streets
W. C. Logan
J. J. Miller
Cash
Frankelin GC
Platt
Savings Bank
Waterloo West
Emden
Austria
Jefferson Street
Choice Reef
Porter House
York
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