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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1913
Page
9
Brief list of social events and movements in Cedar Falls Iowa centered on the holiday season. Includes birthdays engagements moves and travels of local residents with notes on school and church activities plus a few illnesses and a wedding in nearby towns.
Waverly boys defeated Bristow 81 to 0 in the Saturday forenoon football game, the last of the season. Locals hope to face tougher teams next year and show them now as visitors face woe if they return.
From DaPorte Daily Bulletin La Porte City Iowa November 24 Mrs Geo Lehman travels to Minneapolis to see son Verne at school. Several others return from visits to Beaver Pennsylvania Waterloo Cedar Rapids Rockford East St Louis and Brandon Illinois for Thanksgiving and family time. A separate Illinois report notes deputy pure fond inspector Herbert Seagraves shot while visiting and dying. a coroner's jury probes the incident.
Mrs Grant Harrington aged 84 of Cedar Falls died this morning at her home on Weal First street from pneumonia. Widow of an old soldier and early Cedar Falls pioneer, she leaves two children Grant Harrington and Mrs Charles Harrington. W R C will handle funeral arrangements.
National Engine Co of Waterloo, formed less than a year ago, expands with a third building planned for spring and a second to house 40 workers. The company, manufacturing kerosene and gasoline engines and power equipment, touts a patented kerosene head by vice president George Butler as a breakthrough. A major contract with a top national jobber will take years to fulfill at current capacity, as the plant operates with the latest machinery on Fourth Street East.
Street Weet is identified as president of the company while Harry Wilson serves as secretary and treasurer.
Representatives of operating employees on the Southern Pacific lines in Louisiana and Texas met road officials in Houston on November 24 to discuss grievances behind the recent strike. The talks aimed to avert recourse to the federal mediation board. Each of the four unions presented its complaints separately.
Lieu tenants Ellington and Felly of the first division Army Aviation Corps were killed when their plane fell about eighty feet at the Army school grounds on North Island across the bay from San Diego. The accident occurred this morning. Sheriff Shores reports a separate alert in Decorah for bloodhounds after a robbery last night.
Pittsburgh report says a wife endured 2080 beatings during a forty year marriage and has decided her spouse is 15 no good leading to a separation.
A woman testified in police court yesterday that her husband, arrested during his favorite pastime, has beaten her weekly since their marriage in 1873. The case centers on domestic violence and the husband’s arraignment on a charge brought by his wife.
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