Waterloo traveling men protest high hotel and cafe prices
The Waterloo Traveling and Business Men’s Association passed resolutions condemning current hotel and restaurant rates. They cited rising costs, lagging service, and prewar prices, urging investigations and price reductions while noting 500 members back the movement.
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Waterloo
West Club
Waterloo Traveling and Business Men's Association
J. Levingston
Hotel
Russell Lamson
Mr. Levingston
Iowa
New York
Chicago
Belgian Youth Held in City Jail After Language Barrier
Florent Svensen a 23 year old Belgian who speaks little English is held in the city jail awaiting action by authorities. He was found in the 400 block of Newell street amid a report of a crazy man and was brought to the station where he drank coffee and ate eagerly. He has a small sum of money and appears well dressed despite his apparent mental strain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florent Svensen
Svensen
Newell Street
Lincoln era village New Salem restored into state park
The state announces completion of New Salem restoration near Springfield in Menard county. Log huts and structures exact to 1831 1837 period will open as Old Salem State Park with a museum housed in a new frame house modeled after a Missouri residence.
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Associated Press
Springfeld
New Salem
Abraham Lincoln
Ann Rutledge
Clary’s Grove
Old Salem Museum
Old Salem State Park
Edgar Martin
Lincoln
Sangamon
St. GeneiVieve
Martin
General Assembly
Springfield
Menard County
Immigrant with Belgian passport found in New York
A man identified as Florent Soesen from Belgium, who arrived in the United States recently, was found with a Belgian passport. He appeared in New York on November 26, 1920, spoke in a foreign language and may have worked in Britt, Iowa sugar beet fields. His case will be forwarded to federal commissioner J. E. Dempster for immigration review.
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Britt
Florent Soesen
Belgium
New York
Britt, In
J. E. Dempster
Federal
Immigration Bureau
Waterloo to Host Iowa Hotel Managers Convention
About 250 Iowa hotel men are expected in Waterloo December 17 and 18 for the Iowa Hotel Managers association annual meeting. J Levingston arranges the program at Hotel Russell Lamison with Max Levingston welcoming and J H Moore replying. The schedule includes luncheons, tea and music for women, vaudeville, a Dutch lunch, and a dinner dance at the hotel.
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Iowa
Waterloo
Iowa Hotel Managers’ Association
J. Levingston
Russell Lamison
Levingston
Des Moines
Russell-Lamisen
Max Levingston
J. H. Moore
Clarion
Ian Thema
St Mark s Church to Conduct 3 Day Mission This Week
St Mark s church hosts a three day mission led by Rev George R Chambers rector of St Paul s Episcopal Church Harlan Ia with a retreat style of quiet worship across Advent. Wednesday program opens with communion at 730 am meditation at 10 am children service at 415 pm evensong and sermon at 720 pm. Thursday and Friday mirror the schedule except communion at 10 am. Christchurch meetings will delay attendance of the officiating clergyman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George R. Chambers
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Harlan
St. Mark’s Church
Christchurch
Iowa Dairy Products Valued At Over 150 Million
Des Moines reports Iowa dairy products from July 1919 to July 1920 totaled 150,268,448 dollars. Butter production reached 86,219,612 pounds valued at 47,864,453 dollars. Ice cream, market milk, cheese, cottage cheese, farm dairy butter, condensed milk, skim and buttermilk, and fertilizer contributed the rest per state dairy commissioner W. B. Barney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
W. B. Barney
Businesswoman with court reporting roots plans January banquets
A woman noted for good business judgment and executive ability, once a court reporter from St. Louis, will host three January banquets in Indianapolis with Howe Landers as speaker on insurance replies. The first targets attorneys and district judges, the second bankers and bank directors, the third contractors.
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St. Louis
Young
Howe Landers
Indianapolis
Ind
Colored attorney sues after restaurant refused service
Milton F. Fields, a young colored attorney, files information against Charles Neubauer, leading to an arrest on a state charge and a municipal court warrant. P. E. Ritz for the defendant sought a continuance of the preliminary hearing, granted with a $200 appearance bond. Fields alleges civil rights infringements when Neubauer & Crowther’s restaurant refused him service. a prior similar local race case is noted.
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Milton F. Fields
Charles Neubauer
J. W. Gwynne
P. E. Ritz
Attorney Fields
Neubauer & Crowther
Estel and Bailey to Attend Fair Meeting
Estel and Bailey plan to attend the annual meeting of the Iowa Pair Secretaries and Managers association in Des Moines on December 7. The Iowa State Agricultural Board will meet December 8. Officials say state aid to fairs is insufficient for fair promotion of agriculture. Spangler argues drainage districts raise land value, noting Wright County has 200 districts and many acres reclaimed.
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E. S. Estel
Dairy Cattle Congress
Land
J. L. Bailey
Cedar Falls
Cedar Valley
Iowa
Des Moines
Iowa State Agricultural Board
Estel
C. M. Spangler
Eagle Grove
Wright County Board
J. A. Francis
Spangler
Wright County
Goldfield
Rover
Iowa Corn Crop Won’t Pay Entire Automobile Costs
Waterloo statistician estimates Iowa’s 440 million bushel corn crop at 50 cents per bushel would bring 220 million dollars. With 500,000 cars, annual maintenance at 225 dollars totals 122.5 million. New cars for 1920 at 100,000 units at 1200 dollars each amount to 120.06 million, bringing total costs to 242.5 million.
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Iowa
Waterloo
Prominent Insurance Woman to Live Here in Waterloo
Mrs. Lottie Vineyard, reportedly the highest salaried woman in Black Hawk County, arrived from Des Moines to Waterloo to settle as office manager for C. M. Young. She will oversee surety bonds and compensation in insurance, and her youngest daughter will also reside there. Previously superintendent of agents for the Southern Surety Company, Vineyard was well known in the insurance world for her extensive network of contractors.
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Lottie Vineyard
Black Hawk County
Des Moines
Waterloo
C. M. Young
Hood's Sarsaparilla Advertises Health Benefits
An old advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as improving appetite, aiding digestion, purifying blood, and relieving ailments such as scrofula and rheumatic pains. It claims nearly five decades of phenomenal sales and positions the remedy as the medicine you need now.
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Hood
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