Local Girls Camp and Community Events Highlight Waterloo Page
News items from Waterloo describe a new Lake Okoboji summer camp for the north central field of the YWCA with a $49000 budget and a name contest offering one delegate to attend. A citywide membership drive aims to grow from 800 to 2000 members. Also planned is an annual WCTU musical at Walnut Street Baptist with artists Miss Florence Otis Miss Florence Austin and Josef Martin. Other notices include a surprise pastor welcome at Logan Avenue church a Janesville booster meeting a kitchen shower for Miss Ferne White and an I O O F Halloween event with a memorial hall gathering.
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YWLC
Lake Okoboji
North Central
Association
Iowa
Waterloo Association
Cty
Taverage
Walnut Street Baptist Church
Florence Otis
Florence Austin
John McCormack
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Altho Josef Martin
Mr. Speaker
Logan Avenue
United Evangelical Church
Pimples and skin care advised in old column
Readers receive home remedies for pimples blaming diet, constipation, and nervousness. Advice promotes hot water, simple foods, laxatives, and alcohol for drying skin, plus scalp treatments with hot oil and vaseline substitutes. also mentions ear binding remedies.
Among the Churches Election of Deborah Society Officers
The Deborah Society at First M E elected officers: Mrs. Thomas Reaney president, Mrs. Olive Stavens vice president, Mrs. James A. Cook secretary, Mrs. Eliza Odell treasurer. Social hour and refreshments followed. officers mentioned from Shell Rock and Charles City.
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M. E
The
Deborah Society
Thomas Reaney
Olive Stavens
James A. Cook
Eliza Odell
Sherwood
Shell Rock
William Brinkwan
Chares City
A. H. Holt
Waterloo
Household Hints From A Fragile Clipping
A damaged clipping offers a household hint about using buttermilk or sour milk to remove ink from cards. The text then trails into a garbled instruction about washing and a final line about cooling something near sixty degrees.
Social climbing, ambition, and better games for women
A town discussion reframes social climbing as a game driven by misdirected ambition and self discipline. The writer argues many women stay in the social circle to avoid effort and urges a shift to more meaningful pursuits as society evolves for women.
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Attex
Scalp care ad and obituary report
An item notes scalp massage for dandruff and hair growth. It also reports the death of Mrs. Lewis from a stroke suffered Monday, survived by her husband six sons and three daughters, with funeral planned at 2 p m Saturday at the family home in Shell Rock Iowa.
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Hilly
Dandraff
Shell Rock
Lewis
Women plan memorial for Waterloo soldiers during city meeting
The Civic department of the Woman's club in Waterloo will host a meeting at Hotel Russell to discuss a community memorial building for World War veterans. Relatives of veterans and representatives of city service groups are invited to share ideas and potential fundraising and site options.
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Iupetus
Waterloo
Civic Department
Woman’s Club
Russelliwamson
Heroce
L Library
Civics Department
Seasion
P. G. Osterhaus
Engerjed
Osterhaus
Alfred Longley
Longley
R. A. Folk
Census Takers to Face Tests for Eligibility in Third District
A schedule of examination hours and locations for census enumerators in the Third district was announced by A. T. Hukill. Sufficient applications exist in Black Hawk and nearby counties though several townships still lack applicants. Examinations will be held in Waterloo on Oct 29 at the federal building with the supervisor in charge, and in Waverly for Bremer County.
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Jcensus
Black Hawk County
Washington
Union
Butler County
Bremer County
Lafayette
LeRue
Polk
Warren
Buchanan
Buffalo
Homer
Newton
Perry
Franklin County
Waterloo
Federal Building
Waverly
Postmaster Appointments Across Iowa Counties
A list of postmaster in charge designations and locations across several Iowa counties. Entries include dates in October and November, noting sites such as city halls courthouses high school buildings federal and post office facilities with supervisors and postmasters in charge. Counties mentioned include Hardin Buchanan Delaware Dubuque Butler Franklin and Hampton.
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Kicora
Hardin County
Independence
Buchanan County
Manchester
Delaware County
Dubuque
Alison
Butler County
Iowa Fells
Federal
Hampton
Franklin County
Waterloo firm to move operations and hire more staff
A Waterloo company will remove its plant on November 1 and move into the office building at the plant. Frank Hadish, ex secretary of the Waterloo Manufacturers' Association, becomes general sales manager. Fifty mechanics are already at work in the new shop. the old Hawk eye foundry is manned by 30 workers until its own building is finished. The firm, selling kerosene engines and influence spreaders, expects rising sales and plans to hire more as equipment is installed.
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Frank Hadish
Waterloo Manufacturers’ Association
Hawkeye
Production Begins With 70 Workmen at Miller Factory
Production starts at the George B. Minter & Son plant in Westfield with 70 workers. machinery is installed rapidly to meet backlogged orders from former firms acquired by the company. General offices remain at the Black Hawk location.
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Miller
George B. Minter & Son
Westfield
Altho
Black Hawk
Free Night School Attracts Many Under Supt Kline
Waterloo residents enrollments for a free night school begin Monday night under Superintendent C W Kline who has arranged classes. More than a dozen applications have been filed for entrance to the night school program.
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Supt. Kline
Waterloo
C. W. Kline
Colored students enroll in preliminary night class plan
At a meeting last night, many colored adults expressed strong interest in elementary English and arithmetic. Foreigners are present among enrollees but most are young adults seeking to return to school. Mr. Kling and Mr. Kline plan to appoint capable instructors for typewriting, shorthand, commercial arithmetic, and other subjects as enrollment justifies.
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Kling
Kline
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Jackson Club
C. C. Welker
Janesville
Methodist Episcopal Church
Ladies’ Aid Society
Mmes, Marle Je Rue
D. HE. Tyler
Misa Ferne White
Walter D. Jones
W. RR. GC
Ww. R. C
Memorial Hall
Wallowe'en
Hallowe’en
I. O. O F. Lodge West Fiesday Gverre
Mey
Ps Outlook Circle
Ethel DeLong Fonda Jameson
Vesta Paul
Gra Wilcox
Lucile DeLong
Miltrad Gleason
O. Graves
Franklin Gramm
Buntley
R. +. Coates
Pirst
Te FP
iallJowe
Mra. Ti
A. Artus
Betty Lou Farnham
St. Mary' S
Cecelian Society
St. Mary's Auditorium
Imiusic
Mi Jell
Helen Voellinger
Opal Pender
Tertha Hogan
Florence Tati
Kathryn Meek
Hat Shop
East
4Th St
Service
Optical Service
iCensus
Brownatone
Kenton Pharmacal Co
Coppin Bldg
Covington
Fashion Department
Evening Courier
City and
Orrin Heffernan
Lorene Ortman
Dunkerton
Edward C. Hoff
Nellie O. Rose
Thomas Parr
Westsminster Abbey
Miss Hirst
Bilis
Troco
Troco Nut Butter Company
Chicago
Smith, Lichty & Hillman Co
Park Ave
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