Pioneer Marshal Describes Long Night Duty and Early Police Pay
Charles Mantle, sr., longtime Waterloo city marshal, recalls serving as sole officer for years. He earned 40 dollars monthly as patrolman and 60 as marshal, with 10 percent deductions, and paid all expenses himself. Mantle details duties, travels, and conflicts with council over enforcement, plus humble beginnings and later life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles ‘Mantle
Locust Street
Mantle
Wmpayor
Harvey W. Jenney
Mr. Mantle
Billy
Democrats Plan Whirlwind Finish in Iowa Campaign
Des Moines reports outline a final state campaign conference at the Kirkwood hotel next Saturday with state committee members and candidates present. Dr. J. W. Reynolds will preside as about 100 attendees map a “whirlwind finish” while GOP speakers tour Iowa.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Kirkwood
J. W.reynolds
Gard
Ohio
Hamburg
Moses Clapp
Minnesota
On"awa
Ida Grove
Sibley
Orange
Tenth
Water Streets
Ted
Waterloo
T Lucy Leavitt
Inyone
Absent Women Seek Election Dope in Waterloo Area
County auditor J A Francis reports inquiries about absent voters ballots come predominantly from women. He notes about three times as many requests from women as men and says many expect to register and vote on November 2. Francis orders ballots printed with extra allocations for women and a 25 percent bonus over the last general election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Francis
Mr. Francis
Black Hawk County
Waterloo
Francis
Fifteenth Murder Case For Wagners Brother
Sheriff I Wagner has received news from his brother Roland M Wagner an attorney at Quincy Illinois that another murder was committed near that city Oct 4 and he has been engaged to defend the main accused of the crime This will be Mr Wagner's fifteenth murder trial In the previous 14 murder cases he represented the state in seven of them and the defendant in seven winning all of them He was prosecuting attorney for the county for several years.
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I. Wagner
Roland M. Wagner
Quincy, I
Mr. Wagner
Wild Woman Driver Sent Cars Flight in Marshalltown
In Marshalltown Iowa on Friday night a sedan believed driven by a intoxicated woman crashed into three cars on North Third Avenue. Police traced the license 222948 to J H Kinzie but could not locate him, suggesting the vehicle may have been sold to a Tama resident and not properly registered.
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Marshalltown
North Third Avenue
Citizens Lumber Company
J. H. Kinaie
J. H. Kinzie
Tama
Charles Buchwald
Center Street
Kinzie
Last Night's News in Brief highlights wartime and fire reports
London reports a Soviet peace delegate meeting Gen Wrangel's antipolshevik army in southern Russia. Paris notes a decree ordering mobilization of Soviet citizens born 1886 to 1888. Vienna records Italy taking control of southern Tyrol per the Austrian peace treaty. Washington cites John Skelton Williams on banks liberty ponds. Bisbee reports a fire destroying much of Lowell. St Louis notes 16 acre plant of St Louis Cay Co except admin and woodworking plants ruined by fire from crossed lines.
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Associated Press
London
Wrangel
Antipolshevik
Russia
Warsaw
Paris
Vienna
Italy
Washington, D. C
John Skelton Williams
Bisbee, Arty
Lowell
St Louis
Moz
St.Louis Cay Company
Woman Pedestrian From New York to Frisco Dies
Mrs. Eugene Havens, 34, walking with husband and 7 year old son from New York to San Francisco, died at Immanuel hospital Omaha from a hernia. The group attracted Cedar Rapids attention two weeks ago with two police dogs from Selznick Film Co. Burial will be in Vinton Iowa. child sent to Stanton relatives. trip abandoned.
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Cedar Rapids
Eugene Havens
New York
San Francisco
Immanuel Hospital
Omaha
Selznick Film Company
Havens
Five Year Old Dies From Bonfire Burns in Dubuque
Ambrose Phillip Hird age five died at Mercy hospital after sustaining burns from a bonfire on Grace Street Saturday. While children piled leaves for a blaze, his clothing ignited and burned away above the waist. he suffered chest back and arm injuries before aid could arrive.
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Dubuque
Ambrose Phillip Hird
Mercy Hospital
Hird
Grace Street
Ambrose
Waterloo Guernsey Breeders Winners at National Show
Chicago Oct. 12 Special Joseph Golinvaux Waterloo took first honors in the two year old and under three class of Guernsey bulls at the national dairy show in Union stockyards. Junior grand championship went to Golden Laddie of the Prairie owned by W. W. Marsh Water- 00 Iowa In college cattle judging Towa took second with Kansas first and Kentucky Indiana and Pennsylvania following.
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Chicago
Joseph Golinvaux
Waterloo
Union Stockyards
Golden Laddie
Prairrie
W. W. Marsh
Iowa
Towa
Kansas
Kentucky
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Librarian Brace to Give Welcome at Iowa Library Meet
Brace, librarian of the Waterloo library and president of the Iowa Library association, will respond to the welcome address at the thirtieth annual meeting of the association in Des Moines. J. B. Weaver of the Des Moines library board will deliver the welcome address. About 200 librarians are expected to attend.
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Maria €. Brace
Waterloo
Iowa Library Association
Hotel Savery
Des Moines
J. B. Weaver
Births Reported for James Waller Family and Goslin Couple
Mr and Mrs James Waller of Craft Spring Creek township welcome their eleventh child born October 9 a son nine living. Mrs FE Claire Goslin at St Francis hospital delivers a son named Joseph Claire October 10.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Waller
Craft
Spring Creek
FE. Claire Goslin
St. Francis Hospital
Joseph Claire
Lincoln nominaton helper dies in Springheld
Noted in Springheld, AL, at age 78, lin ton Conkling, who personally informed Abraham Lincoln of his nomination for president, died at 4 am after a long stomach cancer illness.
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Lincoln
Associated Prune
Springheld
Linton Conkling
Abraham Lincoln
Kellogg's Tasteless Castor Oil Ad Promotes Convenience
An old fashioned oil is reformulated to remove its nauseating taste, marketed as Kellogg's Tasteless Castor Oil. Bottles are lab filled by Spencer Kellogg & Sons Inc, with plain Kellogg's labeling. Sold by druggists in three sizes 15c 18c and 65c.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kellogg
Spencer Kelloge & Sons, Inc
Kelloge’s
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C. A. Farwell
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Ambia Ride
Todianapolis
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Guernsey
Lucko Drug Co
Glen Bide
Seace
Lucko
Earth
United States
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J. B. Allen Castle
Rainbow Drive
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First National Bank Building
E. T. Wright
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