Explosion at Du Pont factory kills two workers
An explosion in the nitro starch dryhouse at the Gibbstown New Jersey Du Pont Powder works instantly killed two men, with a third missing and another seriously injured. The one story building was isolated and no other damage occurred. Authorities reported no suspicion, but echoing fears spread through Philadelphia and nearby towns as reports of a large disaster circulated.
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Philadelphia
du Pont Powder Works
Gibbstown
N. J
du Pont Powder Company
New Jersey
Delaware
Heavy Potatoes Bought At High Prices In Waterloo Area
Reported heavy buying of potatoes shipped in as tubers sell quickly at 1.15 to 1.20 dollars per bushel. Farmers near St Ansgar and Waterloo booked large quantities, with yields around 178 bushels per acre of Rural New Yorkers. Dealers plan more purchases, some selling from rented store rooms, while rail yard deliveries face past restrictions.
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Waterloo
St. Ansgar
Community Socials and Club Notices Parade in Cedar Falls Areas
Local clubs, churches, and societies report meetings and events in Reinbeck area news. Mrs. Thomas Wells hosts. Iowa Falls football players visit Miss Lu Ella Burk. Cinderella to be staged in K P hall with proceeds to lodge flower fund and Red Cross. Hobo dancing party features teams from nearby towns. Anniversary and birthday celebrations, dinners, and relief corps reminders populate the social calendar.
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Cinderella
K. of P. Hall
Edna
Ruth Fitzgerald
Lodge
Hoover Ball
Dubuque
Iowa Falls
Marshalltown
Reinbeck
Federal Hearing on Portland Strike
Portland Oregon October 15. Federal adjustment board arrived to study a shipyard strike of more than 7000 workers and wage increase proposals. In Seattle the board spent a week on a 12000 worker stoppage and will likely do the same here before moving to San Francisco to seek a permanent accord for about 30000 metal trades workers and employers. The San Francisco action follows a temporary settlement awaiting federal adjudication.
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Portland
Ore
Federal Adjustment Board
Seattle
Wash
Adjustment Board
San Francisco
Metal Trades
Iowa Odd Fellows Open Annual Session Opens in Des Moines
Des Moines October 15 Independent Order of Odd Fellows opened its seventieth annual assembly with several thousand delegates. The Rebekahs meet tonight and officers elected in June will be installed. Clarence Alexander of Des Moines will become grandmaster, eight of Des Moines chosen as officers. Mrs Leah Washburn of Mason City is new Rebekah assembly president. Grand lodge may join Masons and Knights of Pythias to establish a fraternal hall at Camp Dodge cantonment.
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Des Moines
Independent
Order of Odd Fellows
Rebekahs
Clarence Alexander
W. 5S
Grand Lodge
Leah Washburn
Mason City
Rebekah
Masons
Knights of Pythias
Camp Dodge Cantonment
Kitchen Wagon to Serve Free Lunches to Troops
A kitchen wagon begins operation in Chicago to provide visiting soldiers and sailors with hot lunches free of charge. It is the first of five government planned wagons to be installed, featuring compartments for coffee soup and solid foods with stoves to keep items hot.
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Chicago
Westminster church notices outline meetings and events
Westminster Presbyterian Debor ah chapter meets tomorrow evening with Miss Lina Moore. Mrs Beal and Mrs Jensen host missionary society at Mrs Beals Wednesday afternoon with a study by F J Hadish C G Sweltzer and G M Nesbit. G R Loomis reports on synod. An all day Westminster Workers meeting Friday at Mrs Beals with luncheon and a picnic supper. Red Cross and hospital work noted. United Presbyterian Ladies Aid meets with Mrs Nauman Wednesday. Informal reception for Miss Elsie French at the French home Wednesday evening. she leaves for Egypt mission work. Monday evening and all day Tuesday mission conferences scheduled.
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Westminster Presbyterian
Deborah
Westminster Guild
Lina Moore
W. W. Beal
Jensen
The
Missionary Society
Westminster
United “Presbyterian
Ladies’ Aid Society
C. H. Nauman
M. EB. Hutson
Elsie French
W.J. French
Freezone promised to remove corns painlessly
Local druggists report high demand for Freezone the new corn remover. A few drops on the tender area relieve soreness and soon the corn lifts out with the root using only fingers. The sticky liquid dries quickly without inflaming surrounding tissue and costs little in quarter ounce bottles. No infection or lockjaw risk from cutting corns.
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Corp
Wellesley Girls to Get Instruction in War Work
Wellesley college in Wellesley Mass announces nine emergency courses for the current year focusing on war relief. Subjects include home nursing first aid wireless telegraphy history of the war home economics garden and conservation of produce statistics and filing surveying and map making.
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Wellesley
Mass
Wellesley College
Red Cross Ships Flour to Serbs in War Camps
Washington Oct 15 The American Red Cross in cooperation with the Serbian government announced the shipment of 5000 bags of flour for Serbians in Austrian prison camps. This is the first in a series of food purchases planned for prisoner relief in this country.
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Washington, D. C
American Red Cross
Children of Iowa Remembered by Edgar W Cooley
Edgar W. Cooley a Waterloo journalist now with an international firm in Chicago attended a mass meeting in the Auditorium theater where the Children's Patriotic League of America was inaugurated. He bought a membership certificate in the name of Iowa children and wrote Gov. Harding to share the news. Harding thanked him and praised the effort.
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Edgar W. Cooley
Waterloo
Chicago
Auditorium Theatre
Lil- Han Bell
Mmne
Sarah Bernhardt
Children’s Patriotic League of America
Cooley
Children of
Iowa
Harding
Tapan Leases Railway From China With Loan
Paking Oct. 16 China and Japan signed an agreement governing the lease of the Kirin Chang Chun railway in Manchuria. Japan will loan China 6,500,000 yen at percent for 30 years. Revenue from the railroad will secure the loan during the term. The Kirin Chang Chun line will be managed by the South Manchuria Railway company.
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Paking
China
Japan
Manchuria
Kirin- Chang Chun Railways
South Manchuria Railway Company
Nurse Had Poor Health Propels Evening Talk Ohio
In Toledo a widow describes relief from female troubles after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports back and abdominal soreness easing after days of hard work and credits the remedy as effective. The advertisement notes the product is made from native roots and herbs with no narcotics and cites testimonials from the Pinkham Laboratory in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Toledo
Ohio
Lydia E Pinkham
Lydia B. Pinkham
Elizabeth Joan
Lydia EB. Pinkham
Pinkham
Lynn
Bmass
Things Theatrical Here At Home At Waterloo And Majestic
Waterloo Theatre presents Pat White and His Gaiety Girls in Casey at the Derby and The Hurly Burly Hotel with a fine chorus and strong cast. Majestic Theatre features Vandeville Bass and Alton with Army Captain and Italian comedy, plus Lascorn Gilmore and Duval Simonds acts and The Admiral's Reception before a Pathe news finale.
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Pat White
Gaiety Girls
Waterloo
Casey
Derby
White
Anna Grant
Walter Brown
Marty Pudig
Gene True
Thomas and Ryan
Sidney Harmilton
Aig
Waterloo Theatre
Vandevile
Bass
Alton
Majestic Theatre
Greenwood
Lascorn
Glimore
Duval
Simonds
William de Hollis
Pathe News
No-Freze auto radiator solution patent secured
Thompson Hollister and Kirkpatrick of BIS First Ave North Fort Doda Iowa announce a government patent for Na-Vrezo a radiator non freeze and heat solution. It withstands 40 degrees below freezing and 240 above boiling lasts winter and won t evaporate unlike alcohol priced at 1 ic per gallon seeks dealers and filling stations for agency in widespread auto usage.
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Thompson, Hollister
Kirkpatrick
Conqueror star Farnum headlines Crystal Theatre feature
The Conqueror details William Farnum in the title role of Sam Youston a frontier hero whose rise from rugged frontiersman to Texas governor frames a vivid portrait with the Tennessee Rose and a dramatic battle scene between Mexicans and Texas Rangers. Also at Crystal are other early Texas frontier drama and love story elements.
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the Conqueror
Wm. Farnum Ia
the Crystal
Farnum
Sam Youston
Texas
Touston
Texas Rangers
Crystal Theatre
Shere Madge Kennedy Stars in Baby Mine at Palace Theater
Goldwyn presents Margaret Mayo farce Baby Mine at the Palace this week with Shere Madge Kennedy, famed for Twin Beds and Fair and Warmer, cast as Zino. The stage version ran nearly two seasons in New York, and the film opens Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
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Goldwyn Pictures
Margaret Mayo
the Palace
Shere Madge Kennedy
The Other Man's Wife at Waterloo Theatre
A large crowd enjoyed The Other Man's Wife at Waterloo Theatre last night. The cast smoothed weak parts, while George Sharp earned several curtain calls for a vivid portrayal of the demented station master. Lord Northcliffe, head of the British war mission, departed for Canada tonight from New York.
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Waterloo Theatre
George Sharp
Red Cross Campaign Opened in Toronto
In Toronto today it was announced that he will launch the autumn campaign in Canada for the British Red Cross. The event marks a push to expand fundraising and relief efforts across the region.
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Toronto
Canada
British Red Cross
Woman Under Tension Takes Vinol, Promoters Claim
A weak nervous woman, cited in an advertisement, is said to have taken Vinol. The booster text by Wrangler Bros. Co and Druggists G. J. Miller markets Vinol as a tonic and frames it as a national remedy available at leading drug stores in towns and cities across the country.
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Barneveld
Wrangler Bros. Co
Druggters
G. J. Miller
Waterloo
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Clio Club
Thomas Wells
J.D. Club
J.E Black
Woman's Club
Neva Walker
Evelyn Foote
Russell-Lamson
Luella Burk
Fred Burk
Ninth Street East
Burk
Miss Burk
Marjorie Whitney
W. W. Wagner
Adams Street
Helen Carolyn Hartman
Godfrey Hartman
Granetta Snyder
Girlie Davis
Helen Place
High Street
Dubuque High School
Women's Relief Corps
Memorial Hall
Club
Seema Society
Cedar Heights
Presbyterian and Union Sunday Schools
Cedar Falls
King's Daughters
J. H. Easley
Red Cross
Ladies’ Aid
Carey
A. J. Wittick
First Evangelical
Woman’s Missionary Society State Conference
Paul S. Mayer
Mayer
Graves Memorial United Brethren
Liberal Christian
Ladies’ Social Union
Henry Grout
Chester Cadwallader
Burton Avenue Baptist
Anna Kepple
Walnut Street Baptist—Ladies’ Aid Society
First Brethren
Grant Miller
ODD Fellows Open
Cincinnati
RED Ross
TAPAN
Lydia E. Pinkham
Morris Plan Sells
Bridge Street
Jiffy
Tom Forman
Vivian Martin
Plaza Theatre
Thesea Clover
Opuule
Paris
London
New York
Rome
BON Ton
Modart
Burch Bros
Misses Bi Apparel
Citizens Gas & Electric Company
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