Lime Stone Underlies Waterloo Ditching For Drainage
Excavation along Park Avenue between Jefferson and Commercial streets exposes a thick lime stone layer hindering sewer trenching for a new gas office. Workers suspect a former ravine, while a pioneer map shows a line from the river near Union mill to Black Hawk Creek. Mr Doty, former city minister, replies to a prior river front story, stating plans for riverfront development were abandoned due to river front commission actions, not Mayor Doty’s objections.
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Jefferson
Park Avenue
Union Mill
Bridge Street
Commercial
New Gas
Jowerson Ane
Black Taw
Lima
Waterloo
Mullin
Cowmiell
American Express
Fifth Street
River Front
River Front Commissioners
Tam
Edunei
Erecting Exact Replica Trading Post Near Iowa City
Old settler plans spring construction of two cabin replicas in city park to mirror the historic 16 by 20 foot trading post once on the T. McCallister farm. The project aims to use original dimensions and style based on colony memories and data from nearby elders. Georges W Siman, longtime local, died after months of illness. born in Germany in 1848 he moved to Iowa nineteen years later and left three sons Fred William and Wesley. Funeral services set for morning and afternoon at the residence.
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Iowa City
Aso
T. McCallister
McCollister
Wadsen
Jia
Georges W Sim
Germany
Iowa
Here
Fred
William
Hudson
Wesley
Oregon
Flinn Returns to Republican Party in Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh dispatch reports William Flinn Roosevelt leader in Pennsylvania will rejoin the Republican Party. He has grown tired of the Washington progressive label and plans to devote effort to preserving control of the Republican organization he won from Reniter Hales Penrose, with Pennsylvania politics in flux.
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Flinn
Washington Party
Bull Moose
Legare
Republican Party
Finn
Assembly
Pittsburgh
William Flinn
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania
Oyster Bay
Flynn
Washington
Reniter Hales Penrose
Infant Death Tragedy Shocks Parents in Payne Street Area
Tarkware WwW, infant son of Mr and Mrs Payne of Gam Payne, died after a few weeks with pneumonia. Deceased born here on December 20, 1992. Remains to be taken to Osage, the former home of the parents, this evening for burial.
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Gam Payne
Payne
Twelfth Street
Osage
St Margaret's guild meets at Vermont street home
Society notes report St Margaret's guild guests at Mrs Harry Kiester home on Vermont Street for a sewing afternoon followed by refreshments. Other groups mentioned include the Sisterhood of a First Bret ren church, Arista Mona club at Pine Street, St Mary's Sewing Circle at St Mary's auditorium, and Prudence Society at Mrs William Weilein's on Blut Street with sewing and refreshments. County education brief notes a teacher shortage with ten to twelve positions offered for rural schools amid winter term openings.
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St. Margaret's Guild
Harry Kiester
Vermont Stret
Joseph Attman
Busby
Marlon
Ansel Milphries
Roe. Crowther
T. Kelloge
Buzzard
A. Parker
Arista Mona Club
Pine Street
T. J. Fills
Ethel Ware
Clay Street
ST. Mary's
William Ikaseht
J. J. Kahn
Prudence Society
the .Rudence Society
William Weilein
Blut Street
Marshalltown
Mary Ilostetler
Tama County
Professor Is Pet on Trial for Perjury
Champaign Illinois November 22 Professor Charles I Stal of the University of Illinois faculty was arraigned on an indictment charging perjury in connection with an inquiry into student voting in the last election.
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Champaign
Chas
Stal
University of Tlinois
Suffragists Meet at Philadelphia during 49th NAWSA convention
Philadelphia hosts delegates from across the nation for the forty ninth annual National American Woman Suffrage Association gathering. A mass meeting in Independence Square opens with five platforms and a Declaration of Rights reading. Notables include Miss Jane Addams, Miss Florence Allen, Mrs. Robert M. La Follette, Mrs. Caroline Bartlett Crane, and Mrs. Camelia from Rhode Island.
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Philadelphia
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Independence Square
Otis Skinner
Wisconsin
Caroline Bartlett Crane
Kalcamazoo
Mich
Camelia Rom Klenzo
Rhode Island
Samuel Russell Led Strike Band Run Down by Hounds
In Charleston West Virginia on November 22 Samuel Russell, alleged leader of a coal strike sympathizer group, was tracked by bloodhounds and mine guards through the mountains and captured near Paint Creek Junction, then taken to military headquarters.
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Charleston
W. Va
Samuel Russell
High Coal
Paint Creek Junction
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Burch Bros
C. E. Burch
New York
Wales
Burch
Panta
Dr, Denton
Baby
Rubens
Ness In
Waterloo, West
R. A. Doty
Setilers
Republican
Society News
First
Bretren Church
Iladive
Spencers
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