Iowa Architects Discuss Housing and Nesting in Waterloo
About 25 members of the Iowa Branch of the American Institute of Architects convened in Waterloo for their eighteenth annual convention to discuss housing law changes, light and sanitation standards, yard space, window specifications, and fire protection, with Des Moines activity noted as high and an exhibit of plans and photos displayed at Hotel Russell Lamson.
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Iowa
American Institute of Architects
Waterloo
Lions Club
Black’s
B. H. Sands
Des Moines
Mr. Sands
Fledgling
Sands
Institute
Mortimer B. Cleveland
Hotel
Russell-Lamson
C. P. Shockley
Allen. Holmes Kimball
Ames
George H. Washburn
Burlington
Eugene H. Taylor
Cedar Rapids
Eie Run
Hotel Russell-Lamson
Teachers’ College
Cedar Falls
Oakdale sanatorium charges for Black Hawk county patients
Twelve Black Hawk county residents were treated at the state sanatorium in Oakdale during the quarter ending Sept 20 at a cost to the county of 1273.61 dollars. The rate was 50 dollars per patient per month, though some were not at the institution the full period.
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Black Hawk County
Oakdale
Roumanian Gypsies Die of Starvation in Devastated Lands
A dispatch from Bucharest notes widespread hardship among Roumania gypsies amid famine. Families wander in caravans begging and working small trades while many starve. A relief worker recalls a gypsy mother inflicting self harm after a child’s death as superstition and poverty take a toll.
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Bucharest
Associated Press
Roumania
America
United States
IGovernment Opens New Army Hospital
The United States Public Health Service opens a new government hospital in Perryville Ma for shell shock treatment with 100 patients transferred from Cape May. The facility offers specialized care for mild mental disorders and cottage-style living. 12,000 discharged shell shock cases are under treatment nationwide, including 5,578 in Public Health Service hospitals.
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Perryville
United States Public Health Service
Cape May
Public Health Service
Wea
Shutins May Vote By Absentee Ballot Under Law
The article explains that electors confined to home by disability may register and vote via absent voter's ballots. A registration board can visit a home to register a shut in, and the law covers those unable to visit polls due to disability. Waterloo and surrounding county expect many to seek this option.
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Waterloo
Champion Indians Disband for Season 1
The Cleveland baseball champions began disbanding today with most players headed home across the country. Several will winter locally while others return to residences in Cleveland, Philadelphia, Augusta, Paterson and Tuscaloosa. Many plan fishing, hunting, or business pursuits in the off season.
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Associated Press
Cleveland, O
Cleveland
Ray Caldwell
Tris Speaker
Canada
Les Nunamaker
Texas
Nunamaker
Hubbard
Tex
Gulf of Mexico
Stanley Coveleskie
Shamokin
Joe Wood
Wood
New Jersey
Jim Bagby
Augusta
Larry Gardner
Enosburg
Charlie Jamieson
Paterson
N. J
Mississippi
Joe Evans
St. Louis Hospital
Harry Lunte
St. Louis
Chester
Thomas
Los Angeles
George Burns
Philadelphia
Joe Sewell
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Guy ‘Morton
Vernon
Walter Mails
Pacific Coast
Bob Clark
Newport
Chicago Trade Board Grants $10000 for Grain Exhibits
The Chicago board of trade offers ten thousand dollars in prizes for the best grain hay and seed exhibits at the international grain and hay show set for November 27 to December 6. Prof G J Christie Purdue supervisor says all farmers in the United States and Canada are eligible to compete with educational exhibits from colleges and strong representation planned from the U S department of agriculture. Prizes cover small seeds and major grains to boost quality and yield.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
G. J. Christie
Purdue University
Christie
United States
Canada
United States Department of Agriculture
Board of ‘Trade
Park Cars in Street to Preserve New Paving on Sycamore
In Leavenworth Kansas traffic officials announce that cars must park crosswise in the center of Sycamore Street between Park and Third Avenues to tamp down a tarvia and granite surface. Two men will direct vehicles starting tomorrow morning. Eckhard F H von Schack, ex German vice counsel, has been paroled and left the federal prison for Washington D.C.
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Sycamore Street
Park
Third Avenues
Wall
Leavenworth, Kas
Eckhard FH
von Schack
San Francisco
Washington, D.C
Deaths and funeral notices from Waterloo area
Obituaries report Louis Eugene Altstadt of 226 Alta Vista avenue died at Mercy hospital after three years of morbid illness. Services set for First Evangelical Church with burial at Fair View cemetery. Also listed are Hugh Ballantyne 77, Civil War veteran, and Mrs Isaac Spoors whose funeral in Union Congregational church preceded burial at Fairview. A G A R and auxiliaries plan a memorial hall gathering.
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Tous LE. Auistadl
Louis Eugene Altstadt
C. F. Altstadt
Alta Vista Avenue
Mercy Hospital
Town City
Waterloo
Staunton Military Academy
Staunton
Charlotte Elizabeth
Petersen Bros. Undertaking
Hugh Ballantyne
Mullan Avenue West
Janesville
G. A. KR. Post
Mr. Ballantyne
Ireland
America
New York Infantry
Wallace
Elizabeth Ballantyne
Isaac Spoors
Union Congregational Church
W. A. Peterson
Fairview
Funeral services for Jacob Hoff man at Ulleman chapel
Jacob Hoff man will attend services at Ulleman and Giodt chapel with a 2 30 funeral led by Rev B J Lockwood of Belates. Burial will follow at Fair iview with arrangements in the local obituary notice.
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Jacob Hoffman
Ulleman & Giodt Chapel
B. J. Lockwood
Belates
Fairiview
Turanian forces drive on Kars amid Armenian advance
Reports from Washington indicate Turkish armies occupying Tilil Bordus and Karakurt launched a major drive on Kars after crossing into Armenian territory. In diplomats news Luxembourg’s Baron Dewha presented credentials as charge d affaires, establishing Luxembourg’s first US embassy in Paris. Concurrently the council of ambassadors moves toward a Polish Danzig treaty under Versailles Article 104. US wheat stocks on October 1 stood at 608 million bushels.
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Washington, D. C
Tilil
Bordus
Karakurt
Kars
State Department
Baron Dewha
Luxembourg
United States
Paris
Council of Ambassadors
Tried and Proven Family Friend Ad
A father credits Father John’s Medicine for fifteen years of use curing his colds and giving his children relief from coughs. The note, signed by Aug J Morneau of Boylston Fitchburg, endorses the product as safe for all the family.
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Father John
J. Morneau
Trial of Carl Wanderer Opens in Murder Case
Reports from Chicago recount the Wanderer murder trial as it begins, detailing the alleged slayings of his wife Ruth, their unborn child, and a ragged stranger in a staged kidnapping. Illinois joins a nationwide inquiry into infant mortality with a proposed federal tabulation by the census bureau.
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National
Shnesota
Kansas
Ilinois
Tahlana
Chicago
Carl O. Wanderer
Ruth
Ragged Stranger
Oe Ae
Louis
United States
Consim’ Bureau
American Child Hygiene Association
Kidneys Act Bad Take Salts Ad
An advertisement touts a remedy for sluggish kidneys claiming meat causes uric acid buildup. It promotes four ounces of salts nightly, made from grape and lemon acids with lithia, to cleanse kidneys, neutralize urine acids, and end bladder weakness.
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