Cedar Falls to Seek Gas Probe Funds by Voluntary Help
Cedar Falls council schedules voluntary contributions to finance a gas production and distribution inventory. Gas & Electric Co. must provide property inventory and access to records, while monthly receipts expenses and gas analysis reports are required. An estimate from Brand & McDonnell outlines fees up to 6,500 for citywide inventory work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Falls
Citizens, Gas & Electric Co
Austin Burt
Citizens Gas & Mleeting Co
R. B McDonnell
Brand & McDonnell, Engineers
Kansas City
Potatoes Scarce in Scott County
Davenport reports scarce potato supply as several loads arrive daily at Locust and Harrison streets. Prices reach $1.10 per bushel while peddlers buy the entire crop. Scarcity attributed to reduced acreage from high seed potato prices and last year’s crop failure. Eldridge remains major shipment point with minimal daily input.
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Davenport
Scott
Locust
Harrison
Eldridge
Lacey Powers Through in Easy Victory at Clinton
Bob Lacey, a Waterloo area light titles contender, scored an easy win after six rounds in a semi windup at Clinton. Heavyweight Alexander, fresh from the Near East tour, drew cheers in Cincinnati and hinted at future bouts as promoters circle him for bigger matchups.
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Bob_ Lacey
Waterloo Fight
Paul Ailes
Clinton
Paul Kier
Alexander
Cincinnati
Instruct Women How to Vote in City School Event
A school of instruction to teach women how to vote will be held next Tuesday at 7:30 p m in the Jom Fiske school building at Broadway and Rieh streets. Registration and voting will be conducted by competent instructors with a full supply of registration books pollbooks and voting papers on hand to demonstrate the entire citizen voting process.
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Jom Fiske
Broadway
Rieh
Powers Employees Anniversary Banquet Held At Black's Tearoom
About 25 department heads and office staff of Powers Manufacturing will meet at 6 a m today at Black's tearoom for a dinner and sit together meeting. The company was organized by L J Powers 18 years ago today to promote fellowship and discuss matters of importance.
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Powers Manufacturing Company
Black's Tearoom
Powers Company
L. J. Powers
Girl Hurt by Truck in Davenport Near Rock Island Firm
Elizabeth Clevenstine, 14, daughter of H A Clevenstine of Battles and Clevenstine Grocers, Rock Island, was struck by a horse drawn truck on Second Avenue between Eighteenth and Seventeenth Streets. The girl was knocked down twice and narrowly escaped serious injury while trying to open an umbrella as she crossed the street.
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Davenport
Elizabeth Clevenstine
H. A. Clevenstine
Battles & Clevenstine
Rock Island
Second Avenue
Eighteenth
Sevguteénih
Iowa High School Bans Tobacco Use by Officers
Charles City Iowa October 1936 faculty unanimously bars all officers of school organizations from tobacco use. A tobacco abstinence rule will be designed to require nonusers for office. Athletes in the local school are prohibited from using tobacco under a school rule.
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Charles City
Sf Tobacco
Highool
Mystery Fire Kills Man Near Ringsted Estherville
A late night blaze at E R Giffin farm home outside Ringsted, estherville area, destroyed the house with a body found in the basement. The burned remains are unidentifiable, believed to be Sifin, a reclusive 65 year old man, father of Grant Giffin who once attempted an abduction in Illinois. Officials, neighbors, and rumors surround the case as inquiries begin.
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Estherville
Ins
Oet
Ringsted
Fried
E. R. Giffin
Arrimatrong
Sifin
Giffin
Lttle
Mr. Giffin
Grant Giffin
Ilinois
Local Men Help Write Iowa Vocational Textbook
R H Bretzke of Waterloo joins Roaabeuen of West Liberty and C F Sarle of Indianola as organizers and instructors in a short term agricultural program. They prepare two part volumes including a Student Farm Account Book and a study text for fieldwork to guide teachers and check student work after classroom recitations. The book will be published under state board direction and is awaiting finishing touches before printing.
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R. H. Bretzke
Waterloo
SEB
Liberty
C. F. Sarle
Indianola
State Board For Vocational Education
Iowa
W.H. Bender
Mock Election at Cedar Heights Benefits Women in Waterloo
A mock election was held at the Cedar Heights schoolhouse this afternoon to train women voters for Waterloo township. Mayor Parrott led a session guiding 50 plus women through ballot marking, poll-book procedures, and tallying. Judges were Mrs. David Stevenson, Mrs. Thomas Eaton, and Mrs. Thomas Wells with clerks Mrs. C. W. Stilson and Mrs. A. T. Morehouse.
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Cedar Heights
Waterloo
Ee Parrott
Cedar
Heights
David Stevenson
Thomas Eaton
Thomas Wells
C. W. Stilson
T. Morehouse
Ain't It a Grand and Glorious Feeling
A reader from Omaha compares the Omaha paper to the Waterloo Courier, praising the local paper amid print costs and subscriber complaints. The publisher faces ads, misprints, and ad value concerns, yet occasional letters lift morale.
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Courier
J. H. Pardon
Omaha
Waterloo
Mayor Frisbie Denies Gas Rates Rift With Cedar Falls
From a sick bed Mayor N W Frisbie firmly denies breaching faith with Cedar Falls officials over the gas rate dispute. He says he told Waterloo mayor Morgan to bring the matter before Cedar Falls council, but no meeting was pursued due to lack of benefit and rising costs. Frisbie asserts Cedar Falls can pursue cheaper gas independently and notes no petition was filed. he defends open council hearings and says city business is conducted openly to allow citizen input.
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N. W. Frisbie
Cedar Falls
Frisbie
Hill, Bickelberg
MacSwiney Act Not Death by Own Action Vatican View
London reports Terence MacSwiney, Cork hunger strike leader, had a fairly good night but remained very weak on the sixty fifth day of the fast. A Vatican view relayed through church contacts says the pope does not deem the hunger strike self destruction, only motive may determine justification.
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Associated Prass
London
Terence MacSwiney
Taxyer
Cork
Brixton
Irish Belt
Determination League
MacSwiney
Pope Benedict
Western Illinois State Teachers End Meeting Urges Levy
The Western Illinois State Teachers association closed its annual meeting in Galesburg urging a law for a special high school levy, a two million dollar state education appropriation, and larger school administrative units, reported by the Associated Press.
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Associated Press
Galesburg
Western Illinois State Teachers’ Association
Western States Favor Harding in Varied Election Outlook
A North Western and Rocky Mountain political forecast suggests Montana Idaho Washington Oregon and California lean Harding with several Senate races shaped by party loyalties and local figures. Oregon may reelect Chamberlain while California’s Phelan appears safe. Nevada leans Republican but Henderson could survive. Utah Utah Cox may carry but Smoot likely wins. Colorado edges Harding with Senate still unsettled.
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Harding
Cox
Roosevelt
Joseph M. Dixon
Montana
Dixon
Gld
Progressive Party
Wilson
Magne
Leagnoe
Nonpartisan League
Idaho
United States
Washington
Jones
Seattle
Fialding
Chamberlain
Oregon
America
Orégon
California
Geublican
Shortridge
Phelan
New Mexico
Arizona
Nevada
League of Nations
Henderson
Ulab
Utah
Smoot
Senate
Colorado
Harling
Forecast of 1920 election outcomes by state
The author predicts Republican gains in most western states with strong GOP support for Cox in the presidential race. He sees Missouri and Oklahoma as competitive but leaning Republican, Iowa vulnerable to Cummins, and the three southern states Louisiana Arkansas and Texas firmly GOP. Overall, Republican strength dominates the presidential ticket amid anti-Democratic sentiment.
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Kansas
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Cox
Missouri
Cummins
Iowa
Cumming
Harding
Senate
Mississippi River
Gox
Louisiana
Arkansas
Texas
McGraw Assault Case Continues Into Monday Testimony
State testimony in the assault with intent to murder case against R B McGraw continued, with police witnesses detailing events at the Melvin home and at McGraws home. Witnesses included Deputy Baldwin and chief Wailgin, who testified McGraw was intoxicated. Mrs Melvin is slated to testify Monday morning.
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R. B. McGraw
G. W. Melvin
Melvin
McGraw
Ernest Baldwin
E. J. Burk
Ray Burch
Lee Smith
J. A. Collins
George Wailgin
J. C. Murtagh
Baldwin
Weilein
Wenner
Me’ Graw
Grand Jury
F. S. Pettit
iWenner
Trageau
Hunter Is Chosen Leader of County Motor Trades Body
B. B. Hunter of Waterloo was reelected president of the Black Hawk County Motor Trades bureau at a Cedar Falls dinner. Officers elected included Frank Weisbard of Cedar Falls as first vice president Howard M. Conrow of Waterloo as second vice president William R. Brown of Waterloo as secretary and Charles A. West of Waterloo as treasurer. Plans were made to secure a speaker for each monthly meeting from the National Automobile Dealers Association.
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Hunter
County Motor Trades
B. Hunter
Waterloo
Black Hawk County Motor Trades Bureau
Black Hawk Hotel
Cedar Falls
National Automobile Dealers’ Association
Motor Trades Bureau
Frank Weisbard
Howard M. Conrow
William R. Brown
Charles A. West
Assassin Governor of Azores Target Named in Lisbon
Lisbon reports Dr. Felix Hor te, judge of the tribunal of public defense who was shot by a syndicalist in the Lisbon street weeks ago, has been appointed civil governor at Ponta Delgada in the Azores and will return to Lisbon to sit on the tribunal during November. Antonio Vieira and 30 other syndicalists await trial in the Limoineira prison.
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Lisbon
Get
Felix Horte
Tribunal of Public Defense
Ponta Delgada
Azores
oMce
Antonio Vieira
Foley Cathartic Tablets Ad Claims Military Benefit
An old advertisement touts Foley Cathartic Tablets as a cure for indigestion and related issues. It features a testimonial about a soldier with a "good stomach" and invites readers to write to Arthur L. Lyons in Dayton, Ohio for proof, claiming the product relieves biliousness bloating and constipation.
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Arthur L. Lyons
Cincinnati St. Dayton
Ohio
Foley & Co
Big crowd hears El doctrines in Waterloo theater
A large audience of teens and women heard Pa Christensen of the Farmer-Labor party at the Waterloo theatre last night. He attacked Harding and Cox and urged the party’s program while a 50-50 collection was taken. U S candidates and local officials also spoke on the platform in support of the F-L ticket.
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Pa Christensen
Farmer-Labor Linket
Waterlootheatre
Christensen
White House
Barking Dog Saves Family From Burning Home
Coin Ta. Oct. 16 A family dog aroused Mr and Mrs John Maloney who escaped a burning home northwest of town just as walls began to collapse. The couple had been sleeping in a room that narrowly withstood the fire. The dog’s barking alerted them in time to flee the danger.
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Coin
John Maloney
Man Charged With Child Abandonment Wins His Freedom
A writ of habeas corpus freed Bernard J. Iranzi, who faced Milwaukee child abandonment charges after his arrest for allegedly deserting his four children. Iranzi’s attorney argued he couldn’t have abandoned them while they were under his estranged wife's custody, noting she had been divorced from him for three years. The court granted the petition after the state's case, with prosecutor Hal Mosler presenting.
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H. J. Young
G. W. Wood
Bernard J. Iranzi
Ilwaukee
Franz
Franzl
Babe Bors
Iowa
Hal Mosler
Milwaukee
Letter Reveals Vast Harvesting Efforts in West
A letter from Miss Margaret Aeils of Dayton Washington to her uncle Poppa Aeils at the Hotel Albert describes immense harvesting operations in the West. The 22 year old college student outlines scale and scope, noting substantial activity and regional implications.
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Washington
Margaret Aeils
Dayton
Wash
Poppa Aeils
Albert
Fourth Street
Aels
Incorporation Flourishes for Allen Memorial Hospital
Black Hawk county records show Hogerlal Allen Memorial Hospital Association filing articles of incorporation this afternoon. The organization’s purpose is to receive property from HB Allen, pioneer banker of Waterloo, to erect buildings and operate Allen Memorial Hospital as a self sustaining, non profit sharing institution with no dividends to be declared.
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Hogerlal
Allen Memorial Hospital Association
Black Hawk County
H B
Allen
Pioneer
Waterloo
Aflen Memorial Hospital
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U. S
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