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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1913
Page
13
The message promises quality furniture at low prices and emphasizes improving home appearance. It pledges satisfaction and offers to source items not in stock. The focus is on value, service, and customer commitment from the seller.
Isaac Lebowich, Waterloo clothing merchant, plans a three story brick building on the corner of Fourth and Water streets to replace an condemned stone structure. The $15,000 structure will include offices on the second floor and a third floor suitable for fraternal meetings. Construction to begin next week with basement work under sidewalks. Also notes football officials for a Thanksgiving game and a prep school vs State Teachers match at Cedar River park.
Testimony in the U S government anti trust suit on the Pacific coast exposed a plan by Theodore Nail and H P Davison to fuse independent telephone firms with American Telephone and Telegraph. The proposed group would involve 20 000 independents and a total capital of 1 300 000 000, with 400 000 000 from independent companies.
List of patent grants to Iowans announced by patent attorney Wilfred C Lane Des Moines. Names include Campbell Bridgewater Cole Sanborn Conners Sioux City Fleagle Farrer Frank Howe Bancroft Keltner Des Moines Kinkead Traer Munson Truro Owens Rockwell City Quintus Garner Rickards Seymour Slattery Perry Tate Buxton.
The Daughters of Isabella concluded their first annual convention with a banquet at Our Lady of Victory academy. A state organization was perfected and five hundred attendees enjoyed entertainment and prize awards before final resolutions thanking the local court and Miss Kelly, the deputy.
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled in the Fort Dodge case that petition signers must be citizens who voted at the prior city election not the preceding general election. The ruling forces petition circulators to restart their work and seek more dividends from breweries, per James Cook and Eva Spiker of Waterloo.
A long lived Jamestown resident dies leaving rare sketches and patterns tied to Jane Arden Macfarlane the creator of Imperial Patterns. Her grandmothership links to English mills and British royalty. The Waterloo Evening Courier offers the 16 designs at ten cents each with six year certificates for full collection.
In Seattle on November 21 the American Federation of Labor settled jurisdictional conflicts among trades. The brewery workers gain full control over brewery teamsters while teamsters join the brewery workers. Other actions settled include unions over printing, bookbinding, and various trades affecting factory and laundry organizations.
London reports Lloyds places total shipping losses from recent Great Lakes storms at seven million five hundred three thousand dollars.
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