Hardin County Woman Dies at 103 in Kiui Township
Margaret Lavina Hillhouse, born in Kentucky and the oldest Hardin County resident, died Friday at the home of QC Carpenter in Kiis township at age 103. A lifelong tobacco user, devout Christian, she lived in Illinois and Indiana areas before moving to Hardin County in the 1880s. Funeral set for Sunday at the Carpenter home with interment in Union Cemetery.
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Margaret Lavina Hillhouse
Hardin County
Carpenter
Kiis Township
Wig
Wentucky
Lillhouse
Kentucky
North Carolina
Witnois
Dix
Mt. Vernon
Miss Hillhouse
Hubbard
Ellis Township
Xevor
Chris Sign
Carpenter Home
Union Cemetery
Warwick Store Rents Fiction by the Week
W. A. Warwick at 200 Fourth Street Gast opened a rental library in Waterloo offering popular fiction for 25 cents per week with 3 cents extra for overdue books. Newest titles rent for 40 cents per week plus 5 cents for each extra day. many titles are not in public libraries, and renting has been a thriving business in other cities.
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W. A. Warwick
Fourth Street Gast
Waterloo
Bocks
Turn Up Coat Collar as Winds Increase Sunday
Unsettled weather with rain or snow and shifting winds is forecast by the town official bureau for the weekend. Temperature no big change overall, though a slight rise is forecast in the western part of the state. A cold snap hit Waterloo last night with temperatures down to 33 degrees above zero.
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Altho
Waterloo
Piles Cure Book Promotes Non Surgical Treatment
An advertising notice promotes a book by Dr. A. C. McCleary, Kansas City rectal specialist, claiming twenty six years of success and over nine thousand cases cured without surgery. The method reportedly avoids knives, heat, electricity, or hospital care, with the book mailed postpaid to readers who mail their name and address to 576 Parkview Sanitarium, Kansas City.
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A. §. McCleary
Kansas City
McCleary
Parkview Sanitarium
Helped Her In Every Way Sharon Vermont
A Vermont woman Mrs Trombley reports weakness fatigue and bearing down pains. She started Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after seeing an ad and says it stopped her symptoms and keeps it on hand to recommend to others. A Brooklyn man Abel Hartmann testifies his back and side pains faded after using the product and he urges others to try it.
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Sharon
Vermont
Lydia E. Pinkham
Triad
Abel Hartmann
Greene Ave
Brooklyn
N.Y
Soldier Star Turns Dramatic Stock Hero at Waterloo Theatre
Berkell Players star Stilton Byron, famed for his returned-soldier portrayal, headlines the season opener at Waterloo Theatre on November 30. His World War I service with the Fifth Marines, severe injuries, and miraculous recoveries color his performance as a demob British soldier in Smiling Shru, earning praise from eastern press for vivid realism and veteran bearing.
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Tennel Wayne
Byron
Herkell Players
Waterloo Theatre
Fifth Marines
florLers
United States
Maine Woods
Garmany
American Theatre
Philadelphia
Milton Byron War Hero Returns to Stage and Life
Milton Byron, wounded with shrapnel and gas exposure, crawled to a support trench after a gas attack and three wounds. He was evacuated to Le Prinois and base hospitals, then demobilized at Camp Dix in May 1919. Byron recuperated in the Maine woods before resuming acting, hailed as a soldier of fortune and a darn good actor.
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Old Fairi Grounds
Syracuse
N. Y
Argonne
Clipstone
Byron
Brian
Caipstone
Siyron
Camp Dix
Jersey
Denver
Maine
Milton Byron
Radio Photography Seen as Carrier of Future Messages
Washington reports that photography with radio will transform communication. Maj. Gen. Saltzman notes future messages—written, printed, or diagrammatic—will be transmitted photographically by radio, much faster than Morse code methods. He cites stabilized high speed transmitters and growing US invention linking photography to radio as a likely revolution.
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C. M. Saltzman
Army Signal Corps
Gen
Saltzman Bays
Hagle
Brea
Reinbeck Power Co Reward For Pole Damage Looms
Reinbeck Iowa Nov 22 Reinbeck Power Co offers a $100 reward for information leading to the arrest of anyone damaging or molesting insulators on their poles. Several hundred dollars worth of property has been destroyed by shooting and related acts.
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Htelibeck
Iowa
All- Way & Ideht Co
Shootine
Courthouse Visit and Local Moves Reported in Grundy
G Strack appears at Grundy County courthouse while H H Szidon transfers to succeed HB Newmnan as salesman for Standard Ottcom UY. Guy Sibert of Sioux City visited Reinbeck. Mary Sbert noted. Garriett Gange marked eighth birthday with playmates. Florence Agy returns from Sioux Falls for a visit. Viola Grantwith travels to see daughter. Dodd to move December first. Gerald Campbell begins trouble shooter role at Holck garage replacing Ralph Bleck who resigned.
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Grundy Canter
H. H. Szidon
Maxon City
Newmnan
Standard Ottcom UY
Guy Sibert
Sioux City
Reinbeck
Sire
Mary Sbert
Henry
Raleigh Robertson
Garriett Gange
Yidae
Aun i
Misa Florence Agy
Sioux Falls
S. D
Fulie Ayr
Viola Grantwith
Ister Dodd
I. A. Duke
Innes House
Gerald Campbell
Holck
Ralph Bleck
Charles Ray Returns in Dyna mite Smith at Crystal Theatre
Charles Ray returns to a timid boy persona in Dyna mite Smith and will be seen at the Crystal Theatre in the first half of the week. The cameo signals the start of a series of big feature projects under development.
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Charles Ray
Hig
Dynamite Smith
Crystal Theatre
Dynamite Smith and the timid hero under Paths release
Ince supervised production and Paths released Dynamite Smith featuring Charles Ray as a shy young man who lacks physical courage yet shows moral resolve to protect the girl he pities. Gren Fairbanks and Gladys Schott star in a Pathé-backed tale with supporting players Bessie Love Jacqueline Logay Wallace Beery and Lydia Knott.
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Thomas H. Ince
Charles “Ray
Gren Fairbanks
Waterloo
Gladys Schott
Cal Ray
Cr. Gardner Sullivan
Thomas
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