Typhus Outbreak Traced to Mexican Laborer at Fort Madison
Fort Madison Iowa Nov 20 Dr Mark F Boyd of the state Board of health began tracing the itinerary of a Mexican laborer who brought typhus fever to Fort Madison Four patients are in the local hospital all likely to recover The source says contagion is limited to bites and fumigation of railroad cars used by the workers is underway An investigation to see if the man passed through Dodge City Kan or had long stops en route is also started.
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Fort Madison
Mark F. Boyd
Iowa State Board of Health
Madison
Boyd
New Boston
Dodge City
Kan
Aberif
Ira
Falkland
Ralg
Sacerety
Anwar
Bishop Starts Big Fund for Retired Clergy Aid
Bishop Harry S. Longley of Des Moines announced the Protestant Episcopal Church aims to raise 5 million dollars for a permanent annuity fund to support retired clergymen their widows and dependent children. The drive is three-fifths complete with 13 people confirmed at St Marks Church and two more at a private residence. The plan relied on expert actuaries and backing from New York business leaders led by Bishop Lawrence of Massachusetts. The bishop urged every Iowa parish to contribute the state’s share to finish the fund.
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Protestant Episcopal Church of America
Harry 5. Longley
Des Moines
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
Longley
Lawrence
Massachusetts
New England
Lawrences
New York
Iowe
Tidal Wave Hits South French Coast in Severe Storms
Paris reports extraordinary weather across France with a dramatic tidal wave in the Gulf of Marseilles. Vessels foundered as barometer swings shattered sixty year records, and heavy rains and winds swept Paris and the Atlantic coast. Many ships were driven ashore and coast roads damaged.
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Paris
France
Gulf of Marseilles
Mediterranean
Atlantic
M. Angot
Weather Bureau
Marseilles
Cabina
Catalan
Corinche
Atonpine
White House china collection on display in new room
Washington November 20 The Hamans White House collection of china from the presidential staile service is now shown in a specially prepared room under Mrs. Wilson in the executive mansion. Mrs. Wilson plans to enlarge the collection and cabinets allow future expansion as Mrs. Baker oversees the move and selects additional pieces stored in White House closets.
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Washington, D. C
Hamans
White House
China
Wilson
Executive Mansion
Shadow Lawn
Waterloo in Brief Sees Local Movements and News
City editor summary notes C L Hawklin Davenport transacting business in Waterloo day, along with Sherman T Mears returning from Battle Creek Michigan and W M Highea visiting. Several local visits, a death in Oelwein prompts relatives’ travel, and sheriff D B Henderson heads to Montana for a week on business.
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C. L
Hawklin
Davenport
Sherman T. Mears
Rip
Battle Creek
Mich
J. A. Eller
Oelwein
J. B. Eller
D. B. Henderson
Black Hawk County
Montana
Pay-Up Voucher to Be Watched in Waterloo Week
Merchants to accept the pay up voucher as payment on account during Pay-Up week. The Commercial club will circulate a dollar voucher among at least 250 people to demonstrate how money works when properly circulated. The voucher will be endorsed and tracked from hand to hand, with final redemption at the Commercial National Bank.
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Waterloo
Charles van Vleck
Robert Law
Law
Commercial National’ Bank
Commercial Club
Commercial National Bank
Former steel magnate wheel in war machine
Hamborn on the Rhine Nov 20. August Thyssen, once a top steel magnate and confidant of Hindenburg, now leads in the industrial war effort. Though powerful, he clings to old methods, writes by hand, and travels on foot or streetcar, living modestly at his castle near Kettwig while shunning titles.
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Hamborn-on-the-Rhine
August Thissen
Hindenburg
Kettwig
Germany
Herr Thyssen
Woodmen and Masonic Orders See Tuesday Meetings
Local fraternal groups schedule Tuesday gatherings in Waterloo venues. Hawkeye camp 127 Woodmen of the World meets in Labor Temple hall, while Waterloo lodge 10% A F and S M holds a third degree communication at Masonic temple. Woodmen camps 412 and Woodmen circle 179 plan a social at Sam and Mrs Lambertson’s home, 211 Oneida street. Poultry group Waterton association meets at 214 14 Commercial street, and O E S chapter 128 holds its annual meeting at Masonic temple with a 6:20 p.m picnic supper and initiation set later in the evening. Royal Neighbors of America convene Wednesday in A Co. U W hall.
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Hawkeye Camp
Woodmen of the World
Labor Temple Hall
Waterloo Lodge
Masonic Temple
Woodmen Circle
Sam Lambertson
Oneida Street
Waterton Poultry Association
Commercial Street
Wot
A. ML
Q. U. W. Hall
Royal Neighbors of America
Co. U. W. Halt
Mortuary notices at Waterloo area deaths
Multiple obituaries from Waterloo area list mid December burials. Flora A Byestone dies at home of daughter in Mount Vernon township aged 51, survived by four children and 13 grandchildren. burial at Mount Vernon cemetery after services. Thomas O Connor dies of pneumonia at his brother's home. funeral from Sacred Heart Church then Gilbertville cemetery. Arza John Tyler, 19, dies at home. funeral at Union Congregational Church then Waterloo cemetery. B B Phillips dies. service at Hileman Gindt chapel followed by Elmwood cemetery. Mrs George H Roberts of Minneapolis, widow of Dr Roberts, offspring Edna and Dr William B Roberts. stroke and paralysis preceding death.
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W. A. Eyestone
Flora A. Byestone
We. A. Deeming
Mount Vernon Township
Hse
W. A. Byestone
Mra.Myestone
Tous
Beotland
United States
Milwaukee
Wils
Eynstone
Phare
Waterloo
William S
Mary Ff. Gilbert
Exhrelda Deeming
W. A. Myestong
Mount Vernon T&ynahip
Ldos
Kistner’ Mortuary
Deewing
J. E. Snowden
Mount Vernon Cemetery
Thomas O'Conner
John J. O'Connor
Fifth Street
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Iown
Albert
Frank
Gertrude
Columbus
Thurston
Neb
Mra. L. Zulke
Denver
Calo
John
James
Arza John Tyler
B. W. Tyter
Jefferson Street
Hileman & Gindt
Union Congregational Church
W. A. Peterson
Waterloo Cemetery
B. Phillips
B. B. Phillips
J. DB. Johnson
Elmwood
Minneapolis
Minn
George H. Roberta
Roberts
Roberta
Shue
William B. Roberts
Edna
Telephone Men Are Given Promotions
Changes likely to the Corn Belt Telephone Company involve a name change to the Iron Telephone Company and promotions for two local officials. George Bickley would become district plant chief for northeastern Iowa and move from Cedar Rapids. D W Stewart shifts to special commercial work under Cedar Rapids. W F Schrag remains Waterloo commercial manager as final confirmation awaits from Omaha.
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Corn Belt Telephone Company
George =. Bickley
Bickley
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
D. W Stewart
W. F. Schrag
Waterloo
Omaha
General Company
Women protest civil service bias against female applicants
Washington records a formal protest by the National American Woman Suffrage Association to President Wilson over alleged federal discrimination in filling civil service posts. The complaint cites scarce appointments for women in the War Department since 1916, unequal pay for stenographers, and exclusion from certain special and monthly examinations across 490 cities. The group demands equal access and advancement for women under civil service rules. Marriage licenses follow.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
National Board
National American ‘Woman Suffrage Association
National T Suffrage Board
White House
Association
War Department
Altho
Civi
Woman Describes Alleged Plot to Kill the Moores
Red Oak reports Mrs. Thompling of Marshalltown testified in a $60,000 slander case against Detective Jon Wilkerson in Montgomery County district court. She described a meeting in a riverbank slaughterhouse where three men plotted a murder for money, naming an elderly bewhiskered man she identified as possible Jones in cross examination.
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Red Oak
Ving Thompking
Marshalltown
B. F. Jones
Jon. Wilkerson
Kansas
Montgomery County
Witeh
Thomphing
Nodaway
Pola
Frawood
Hie
Omo
Senator Jones
Thompkins
Lilken
Rotarians Assist With Feast Fund
Rotarians at the club meeting raised thirteen dollars and eighty cents for a Guardsmen recognition fund. The balance, eight dollars eighty cents, went to the Courier and Reporter editor for treats. The meeting was moved due to the Cattle Congress, and guests heard a talk from B S Shortess on expanding the use of Iowa State College engineering facilities to train tradesmen.
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W. F. Parrott
Rotary Club
Courier
Cattle Congress
Galloway Club
Uma
Hotary
B. S. Shortess
Engineering Extension Department
Iowa State College
Waterloo
Galloway
Litchfield
Iowa
Waterloo Giusellus
Clerest
Merrimen
Suffragists Predict Victory in Congress Race
Washington, Nov. 20 The National American Woman Suffrage Association says a federal suffrage amendment may pass in the next session starting December 4 and be sent to the states for ratification before the newly elected congress adjourns. Over 25 percent of the next House will be suffrage workers, with Miss Teanette Ruackie aiding from the floor. Mrs. Walter McNab Miller of Missouri will stay in Washington through the campaign.
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Washington
BD. C
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Teanette Ruackie
Congressional Committee of the
National Association
Walter MoXah Miller
Missouri
Association
Miller
Washinrt
Burglar Doves Family Steals Gems Then Is Caught
Terre Haute Indiana November 20 home of Charles Mancourt city controller robbed early hours after family rendered unconscious with chloroform diamonds jewelry currency and checks to the tune of thousands taken but most recovered hours later when police arrested George Scales aged 25 a paroled Ohio convict at his room Mancourt awoke to open windows and police called the thief abandoned Mancourt's trousers with two diamond rings a diamond stud valued at 1000 and a diamond studded watch in an alley evidence led to the capture Mancourt a noted diamond collector refused to disclose jewel values Two boys injured in La Porte street crash Barron 14 and Swynn 15 both on Jefferson Street suffered scalp wounds and a fractured shoulder in a car rollover with two other boys uninjured.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Charles D. Mancourt
George Scales
Ohio
Maencourt
Hwart
Womer Barron
Jefferson Street
Wiliam Swynn
Joerson Street
la Porte
Batron
Swyer
A Tale of West Point Romance Recalled on a Porch
Lieutenant Colonel Beverage recounts a twenty year old courtship at the West Point cadets porch. He recalls a young East Coast woman who rejected his earnest vows after four proposals, a witty exchange about cadet reputations, and the lasting lesson that such stories linger beyond time.
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Beverage
Cadeta
West Point Military Academy
Tha Corps of Cadata
Wear Point
West Pointico
Abe
Wan
Academy
Erceta
West Potneta
Bays
Agnio
W'burston
Madge Thurstup
A Shrewd Ruse A Railroad Conductor Unmasks a Prisoner Escape
A railroad conductor recalls a ruse by a fake sheriff and a staged prison escape on a local train near Falkland. The tale shows how detectives later used the ruse to trap actual train robbers, revealing a coordinated caper that yielded a $20,000 ransom plan and multiple arrests.
Keokuk Council Closes 14 Temp Bars After Raids
Keokuk authorities shut 14 temporary taverns following a joint city county and state probe into liquor law violations. Proprietors were notified to close immediately and no new licenses will be issued. The revocation reduces city revenue as operators paid monthly fees under an ordinance passed after saloons were closed.
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Keokuk
Keokukay Council
State Department of
Jundes
Uia
Temp
Woman killed by ax in McDaniel case at St Joseph
Mrs Anarriot Moss McDaniel died from ax blows in St Joseph Missouri with testimony from Dr A B McGlathlan saying wounds could not be told as left or right handed. Prosecutor Oscar B McDaniel sits on trial for murder while physician's testimony favored the defense.
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St. Joseph
Anarriot Moss McDaniel
A. B. McGlathlan
Oscar BD. McDaniel
McGlothlin
Altho
Pay for Wives Caged 16 to 80 Cents an Hour
Chicago with the division of the Allen Taskforce federation receiving an estimate from Mrs. A L Marlatt director of home economics at the University of Wisconsin. The work of the average house wife is worth from 16 to 30 cents an hour. She urged that wives demand the money for the satisfaction it would bring to her soul.
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Chicago
Chicago Divinjion
Alnels Tanchera Federation
A. L. Marlatt
University of Wisconsin
Stakeholder Missing After Gary Election Bets
Gary Indiana November 20. Several local bettors who won wagers on Wilson's election fear the stake holder, Jon Hodish, who held 1506 dollars pending the official count, is gone. Paul Ihle, Hodish's employer, has issued a warrant for Hodish's arrest.
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Gary
Ind
Wilson
Jon Hodish
Paul Ihle
Rodish
Firm Increases Stock for Overland-Hanson Automobiles
An amendment to the articles of incorporation for the Overland-Hanson Automobile company was filed today. It provides for the issue of 76,000 dollars of stock with 50,000 dollars to be common stock and 325,000 dollars in preferred stock. Holders of preferred stock shall be entitled to semiannual dividends.
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Overland-Hanson Automobile Company
Old Adam Scolds Local Footballers On Sabbath
A devout man warns a group of boys playing football on a Sabbath waste ground. He questions their intentions, urges them to repent, and cautions the captain to shoot more often, saying they are not proper players.
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The
Kirk
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