More Buildings for WCFN and New Waiting Station
W C F and N officials plan extensive improvements for the coming year including a new waiting station on the Grace M B church site at Fourth and Mulverry streets. A 147 by 154 foot two story warehouse with elevators is under construction at Fairview and Conger, and a $50,000 freight depot rises at Lafayette. The Town Warehouse Co. will take over the new facilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace M. B
J. F P. Gass
Iowa Investment Corporation
Cedar Valley
Street
Fourth and
Mulverry Streets
CG. P, N
Lafayette Street
Fairview Avenue
Conger Street
Waverly
Town Warehouse Co
L. M. Kessler
Kessler
Waterloo
Michigan City
Willesa
W., C.F. & Shops
Carpenters In Waterloo Hit Fall Building Boom
Waterloo carpenters report a fall spurt in building activity with 130 members employed outside the city and over 180 leaving Waterloo to build cribs and granaries in agricultural districts. Secretary Henry J. Amos says demand is due to bumper crops and storage needs rather than a local boom, keeping all union members on the job.
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Carpenters of
Waterloo
Carpenters' Union
Henry J. Amos
Amos
Northwest
Iowa
Fine Displays Celebrate Paige Jubilee and Car Progress
The Paige jubilee marks Paige Six success with factory expansions and nationwide dealer showcases. Early sales outlook tops prior records as Detroit displays highlight models from the 1909 two‑cycle runabout to the six‑cylinder Six‑46, with $1,295 price and decades of development. The Waterloo dealer Central Auto & Supply Co. hosts the exhibit and urges visitors to admire the evolving Paige story.
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Paige
Paige Company
Detroit
Harry H. Burr
Atlantic Seacoast
Waterloo
Central Auto & Supply Co
Sixth
W Franklin Streets
Independence Notes and Local Happenings in October
Independence reports a ladder accident injuring Chris Meythaler and a broken collar bone after a 16 foot fall. Capt. Currier leaves for Washington, D. C. and friends visit. A new Borst poetry book arrives for the library and a fire destroys straw and machinery at A. R. Henderson’s shed. Myrtle Miller marries H. B. Lake at the Dake Lang barber shop. City talks consider a city hall and keeping the old curfew bell. Queensland forests are vast with forty million acres untouched.
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Independence
Chris. Meythaler
Mr. Meythaler
Capt
BL. Currier
Washington, D. C
O. M. Gillett
Batavia
X. Y
E. R. Gzias
Chicago
M. D. Ozias
Fred Gifford
Kansas City
W. H. H. Gifford
Mr. Gifford
Richard Warner Borst
Independence High School
A. R. Henderson
Myrtle Miller
H. B. Lake
Dake & Lang
George W. Horner
Allensburg
Wash
Ww. R. C
Economical up to date breakfast porch house plan
Design 80 by Genn L L Sexton and partners from Minnesota outlines a modern breakfast porch living room piazza and portico entry. Features include a glassed piazza parlor option, two French doors with copper bars, year round glassing, four bedrooms and bath, rough cast cement exterior with white trim, low hip roof and attic elimination. Basement dimensions 34 by 28 feet, total price $4200 with $1 to receive Saxton's book of plans American Dwellings and interiors add ons.
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Saxton
New Fruep Warehouse Under Construction on Water Street
The Blackp Hawl Fruit company is building new warehouses on Winter Street. Completion is expected by Dec 1. Basemen t work is done and brickwork to the second floor is underway. The Water Street front will feature face brick and cutstone trim with a modern refrigerated plant. Offices on the second floor will be attractively furnished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blackp Hawl Fruit Company
Winter Street
Waterstreet
Watersstreet
Tyne
WATERLOO'S NEWEST SCHOOL BUILDING
The U S Grant school at Cotline Grove arene and Mobile Street showcases modern water tight construction with red brick and terra cotta ornament. Interior features include pine maple floors in classrooms, concrete doors, a large 42 by 40 foot gymnasium with locker rooms and gallery, basement shop rooms, boiler plant, and separate cloakrooms. The first and second floors hold standard classrooms, a kindergarten, a principals office, and women teachers rooms, with ample playground space and landscaped grounds reflecting a modern, fireproof design by the board of education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cotline Grove Arene and
Mobile Street
Waterloo
Controan
Board of Education
Fragmentary legal notice item with scattered names and places
Fragmented OCR text mentions funds, a Max payer, a building case, various garbled names and locations, and disjointed phrases. Core elements resemble a public or legal notice with referenced entities such as Watertog Electric and Cleveland. Overall content is unclear and partially unreadable.
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Adilay
Egio
Hve Gyaul Schon
Gener
Hauritgen
Newon
Watertog
Eleblenl Sipply Coutts
Arehtteer
Mortimer Te
Cleveland
New Buildings Rise in Westfield and Chattangia Park
New homes and a storefront rise in Westfield with Mieney project near AvHLO and Duryea, cost about 2000. Within store and residents occupy upper floors. Aungst project near Jim collage and Pargen street progresses at cost around 1800. Green barn and modern residences at 410 and 442 Norwood street in Chattangia park have leases for one year. N. M. Dyer moves into a new home as Hare Brown will occupy another.
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Mieney
Lwvealory
Avhlo Avebud
Duryea Street
Dist Oor
Within
Winitiey
On Rovers
My Witter
Neatyeiilllen
Green Barn
Norwood Street
Chattangia Park
N. M. Dyer
White Hare Brown
Living on Credit in the Bying Courier and Reporter
A brief note discusses men’s willingness to show virtue only if others assure them credit. The item cites the Bying Courier and Reporter, reflecting on social norms and financial trust in the period.
Panama CanalDelay Claim by Pem Banton
Pem Banton formerly of this city now in Balboa Heights Panama says the canal is blocked for two weeks due to aides opposite Culebra. He predicts another week to ten days for passage with about six awaiting clearance. He reports his family is well and he works daily at his government job on First Street Gas Lamp. Street gas lamps were first seen in London in 1807.
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Wiyfes Prom
Panasia
Pem Banton
Balboa Heights
Canal Zone
Panama Canal
Culebra
Sis
Banton
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the Nauman Co
Bruner & Salz
Hall-Ekirst CO
Bovee Furnace Works
West Eighth Street
Westfield
Renda
London
Herrick Refrigerator CO
Waterloo, Iowa
Iodale
Hamilton
J. W. Brandt
County Engineer's Office
Office
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Oal
Geo. W
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New York, Insurance Co
North America
Etna
Springfield
the Hawkeye Oil Co
Call Citizens Gas and Electric Company
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