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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1919
Page
11
Cedar Falls reports a religious conference memorial for clergy and laity, election news for Evangelical agencies, Danish Nazareth church fall festival, and Masonic conclave outcomes. The week includes a Cedar Falls church focus, civic notices, and local staffing changes at a dental office and Star laundry, with collisions minimal and campus library expansion plans underway.
Brigadier General I A Allen will address Rotarians at their weekly lunch in Untel Russell-Lamson Monday. He served in Cuba as a captain in the 49th Iowa Infantry and rose to brigadier general in France. He has long military experience and is regarded as well informed on national defense. An agreement has been reached between Argentina and Paraguay on a wire service treaty, with initiation delayed by Argentina’s failure to notify the convention.
Graduate engineer associate member of American Society of Civil and Water Ward Tocatelot joins Oelwein city hall staff. He handles drainage and structural engineering, land surveying, estimates, and reporting from the city office at City Hall. Office phone 505. residence 99% likely a placeholder.
A west coast bound auto party was halted near Phoenix when federal grand jurors indicted several members for a white slave charge. The group linked to Waterloo and included D T O'Brien and Lucille Secor among others, with the scheme allegedly involving larceny tools and a traveling life. Confessions from two women described their entry into this life during the transcontinental trip.
A damaged OCR fragment mentions a house fire near Waterloo and references a street date and observers. It hints at a discussion of automobiles and a trip to Cedar Virus Jows Malis, with unnamed individuals described as girls. The text is incomplete and difficult to interpret clearly.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions two girls and a case involving adults with references to a Torah context. The readable facts are sparse and unclear, but imply an incident or report with named individuals and allegations.
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