Personal Notes at Cedar Falls Thanksgiving Gatherings
Cedar Falls notes recount Thanksgiving at P Christensen home with guests B Brown J Markensen J Romme C Paulsen H Lauritsen Lauritsen Brown Paulsen. George Petersen ill with consumption suffered hemorrhage. Wm Coperny celebrated 34th wedding anniversary. W Keep travels south state for Cedar Falls Broom Co. W Francis of Havana Cuba visiting Prof Bruce Francis. Danish masquerade prizes awarded Mrs Cheeney and M Jensen. Cedar Falls Broom Co. expanding. three cars of broom form received. Rev Luke Donion undergoing operation in Chicago. Cedar Falls friends awaiting news. Waverly warns Cedar Falls Waterloo booze fighters. police vow action. Carter Sommers and Mrs Sommers visiting Dewitt Wilson family. Des Moines visitors join relatives for over Sunday. Parlor Reading circle to meet with Dr T C Stephenson. E A Snyder and H I Brown speak. Nolte of Belmond attends Frederick Martin funeral. T F Wise of Ames spent Thanksgiving with Wise family. Jessie Strawbridge returns home after visit with Robinsons. Grace Norton, former high school principal and Ames German teacher, in town. Presbyterian bazaar earns about $200. F F Strayer of Waterloo visits Cedar Falls. Episcopal Ladies Guild plans bazaar for Dec 5. James Gifford and son of Atlantic visit Fuller family.
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George Petersen
Tremont Street
Wm. Coperny
Fifth
Iowa
H. Keep
Cedar Falls Broom Co
Wm. Francis
Havana
Cuba
Bruce Francis
Collar Bone Twice Fractured In Cedar Falls Football Incident
Allen Bailey son of Mr and Mrs J L Bailey fractured his collar bone while playing football. The injury is his second recent fracture. He was taken to a physician where the break was reduced. Also noted trade extension edition praised and a typhoid scare returning to Cedar Falls with Albert Anderson ill four miles southwest.
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Cedar Falls
Allen Bailey
J. L. Bailey
Albert Anderson
Reduction of Paper Rates Fails to Profit Publishers
State papers note a rate cut from 18 to 15 rents per hundred pounds in new contracts between publishers and paper makers. The 11 cent target aligns with the Interstate Commerce Commission petition though few publishers will gain due to existing prior contracts. No definite term is set for the new rate in the contracts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interstate Commerce Commission
Waterloo Business Men to Greet AN Classes Sunday Night
Waterloo Evening Courier notes Waterloo Business Men's Temperance Association invites every man in Waterloo to a gathering at the east side opera house on Sunday night December 1. The note also mentions sale bills for farmers auctions as a specialty used in Courier advertising.
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Waterloo
Marshalltown
East Side Opera House
Waterloo Business Men's Temperance Ass'n
Widow of Waterloo Courier founder Hartman dies in Cedar Falls
Dorinda Z. Hartman widow of W. H. Hartman and mother of the Evening Courier editor died at 3 45 a m at Cedar Falls home of Mrs E Burroughs and daughter Olive Hayes after a brief illness. She had resided in Cedar Falls for two years. Her decline began with a cold two weeks earlier and a sudden collapse followed a peaceful death.
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Dorinda Z. Hartman
W. H. Hartman
Evening Courier
E. Burroughs
Olive Hayes
Cedar Falls
Hartman Widow Laid To Rest After 77 Years Of Waterloo Life
Mrs. Hartman of Waterloo aged 77, long a resident of Black Hawk county, died peacefully after a fall into sleep. Born March 16, 1886 in Scott, New York, she taught in western New York, married William H. Hartman in 1860, and raised three children. She supported her husband’s printing work, hosted printers in her home, and was active in the First Baptist church. Her funeral is set for Monday at 3 PM at Elmwood cemetery, with services at 408 Jefferson Street.
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John C
William D
Genevieve von Junckum
Colorado Springs
Judson Bellamy
Belmont
N. Y
First Baptist Church
Waterloo
Ladies’ Aid Society
Jefferson Street
Elmwood Cemetery
Evening Courier
Railroad Spur Brings Bus Line to Outlying Louisiana Town
A new railroad through Louisiana towns near the business district prompts a local bus line. A salesman asked a depot driver why the depot was far from center. The driver replied he did not know except perhaps to get it on the railroad.
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Louisiana
Darkey
Waterloo Invites All Classes to Perance Association
An invitation note urges all classes of men in Waterloo to engage with the Perance Association, signaling broad community outreach and a call to join the reform effort.
Farm Auction Sale Bills From Hartman Co. Ad
Advertisement from the Waterloo Evening Courier lists sale bills for farmers auctions by The W. H. Hartman Company at 209 218 Park Avenue.
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Courier
W. H. Hartman Company
Waterloo Evening Courier
Park Avenue
Wast
Also Mentioned on This Page
McCune’s
New Clothing Store
Cedar Fallg
Rews
Live Town
P. Christensen
Messrs
B. Brown
J. Markensen
J. Romme
C. Paulsen
H. Lauritsen
Lauritsen
Brown
Paulsen
Luke Donion
St. Patrick's Church
Chicago
Waverly
Mrs. Carter Sommers
Mason City
W. R. Graham
W. A. Graham
Gus Graham
Des Moines
Parlor Reading Circle
T. C. Stephenson
E. A. Snyder
H. I. Brown
Chas. Nolte
Belmond
City
Frederick Martin
T. F. Wise
Ames
A. A. Wise
Jessie Strawbridge
Sigourney
T. E. Robinson
Grace Norton
Ames College
The
Presbyterian Church
F.F. Strayer
Ladies Guild
Episcopal Church
Corning
James Gifford
Sen
Atlantic
Chas. Fuller
First
M. E. Church
West Side
Grace M. E. Church
East Side
Rosa Liebig
Waterloo Business Men’s
Temperance Association
All Express
Company
Park Avenue West
Hartman
Waterloo Courier
Mrs. Hartman
Josiah Clark
Happy Valley
Windsor County
Capt. Safford
Fletcher
Vermont
Adeline Babcock
Lyden
Mass
Fred Laans
High Forest
Winona
Minn
Foley
H. W. Taggart
Iowa Homestead
James M. Pierce
Gear FaLl & Northern Railway
Dental- Duy
Union Painless Dentists
Waterloo— West Side
Commercial Street
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