Voters to register as new precincts take effect
Registration boards will meet for three days as new precincts split the city into four wards. Fourth street and Fifth street serve as new dividing lines, with wards restructured to ease congestion. Registration sites include Libby Bros, Ackerman drug store, city building, U B church basement, Masonic temple, Rechtferting shop, Sherwood greenhouse, ball, Johnson drug store, and Moore & Moore lumber office.
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Fourth Street
Fifth Street
Clty
Allen Street
Mullan Avenue
Sunnyside
Cedar Falls Avenue
South Street
Fourth
Hammond
Hammond Avenue
Argyle Street
Park Road
Fairview
Weyhtory
Argyle and
Columbia Street
Vine Street
Pourth
Lane
Issane Street
Lafayette
Lafayette Ito Elm
Film Street
Cedar River
First Ward
Libby Bros
T. Ackerman J Drug Store
West Third
Bluff Street
U. B. Church
Allen Streets
Fourth Ward
Johnson Drug Store
Independence Avenue
Moore & Moore Lumber
East Fourth Street
Colored woman seeks aid after husband deserts her
In court Mrs Irene Glipse, a colored boarding house operator from Watervalley Mississippi, appeals to Judge Meyers after her husband Jerry Glipse, employed at the master mechanic's office, took her money and vanished. She asks to return home with some coin and a safe future, recounting hardship and a rough marriage. Officers later learn he cashed his paycheck and vanished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Watervalley
Mise
Water loo Greeks Face Recruiting Fees for War Service
Thousands of Greek volunteers in New York City seek ships home to Greece but transport limits delay departures. To cover costs each volunteer must pay 20 dollars, with the rest funded from other sources. In Waterloo thirty six volunteers were ready to sail, but the new fee may halt departures. Peter Mavrelis reports the change could stop the recruitment effort. He and others plan to speak in Cedar Rapids to rally support for a Greek unit.
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New Yurk City
Waterloo
Peter Mavrelis
New York City
Mavrelis
Cedar Rapids
Rapids
Greece
Coal output doubles each decade says US geological survey
Washington report notes a doubling pattern in United States coal production per decade. Bituminous output rises steadily, while anthracite grows slower due to limited fields and market constraints. estimates place anthracite at 100 million tons annually at peak.
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Washington
United States
United States Geological Survey
Production totals and Roosevelt quarrel headline
The record coal output through 1875 to 1911 shows steady growth with a decade of gains and a grand total near 9.7 billion short tons. In Philadelphia, Democrats walked out of a noon meeting after Dr. Christoper Van Artsdalen condemned Roosevelt, while Mabel Hite died in New York at age unclear from the fragment, cancer cited by doctors.
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United States
Agtron
Christopher van Artsdalen
Ashbourne
Col. Roosevelt
Ananias Club
Roosevelt
van Artsdalen
New York
Mabel Lite
Michael Donlin
West
One Hundred and Eleventh Street
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Dotson Verwm
Sycamore Street
East Sixth Street
General Automobile
Stewart & Borchers
A. A. Stewart
City
Registration Board
Sion
Masonic Temple
Rechtferting & Sporle
Sherwood’s Greenhouse
Irene Glipse
Coat
Olepot
Stewart-Borcher Auto Repair Company
H. J Borcher
Indianapolis
Frank Wooley Smith
Frank Foxall
Phillip Lepper
State Fair Ground
Smith
Seite
JOE @ LOU
Irving Hotel
Fitform
Hurt Schaffner
Marz
Fall
Philadelphia
Mabel Hite
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