New Tenants in Business Block Spark Vehicle Services
Extensive alterations at PF A Fritz garage on Fifth and Water streets begin this week to host a new auto business and expand the Waterloo Vulcanizing company. The vulcanizing plant will add rubber boot and boot repair capacity and may enter boot manufacturing. Equipment from Central Marshalltown is being moved in, with a basement excavation and first floor vulcanizing space, plus a street entrance and sales office on Fifth Street. The former taxicab quarters will become a garage and repair shop run by J H Hadley and W W Brown, opening around January 1 with a yet undisclosed car make.
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PF. A. Fritz
Hawkere Taxicab ‘Company
Waterloo Vulcanizing Company
Mant
Smildins
P. F. Klein
Central
Marshalltown
Fifth Street
Hie
Tax! Company
J. H. Hadley
W. W. Brown
State Convention of Master Painters in Waterloo
A Waterloo meeting prompts a name change to Master Painters and Decorators of Black Hawk County. Dates for the state convention shift from January to January 21 to 23. The fragment includes stray lines about a missing dog and a reward, with disjointed chatter from a reporter.
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Waterloo
Eldoralion
Mawk County
Black Hawk
Rabbit Dog Missing Prompts Search in Blackawk County
Bert Willford reports the loss of Major the rabbit dog just as preparations for a rabbit drive begin in Blackawk county. He laments the frequent theft of prized rabbit hounds and expresses hope the dog is merely lost, not stolen, with a new owner possibly taking Major away during recent hunting plans.
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Bin
Rubidte
Dex
Nur
Yestar
Bert
Major
Durance Vilit
Odorkomi
Blackawk
Bert Willford
Tes Cue
Mus Jor
Social Welfare League staff to attend Iowa conference
Three members of the Social Welfare league staff will attend the annual conference of social workers in Muscatine Iowa on Sunday Monday and Tuesday Ada M Palmer is listed as supervisor and member of the National Committee plus headlay of community or jou Harriet McLaury staff visitor and Blanche Stewart supervisor of widow and blind pens Monday evening basin and professional men county officers have been invited to discuss organizing social service along the Iowa run with the aim of adoption
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Social Welfare League
Cial
Iowa
Muscatine
Ada M. Palmer
Harriet McbLaury
Blanche Stewart
Shoemaker Heads Iowa Waterworks Officials
George Shoemaker manager of Waterloo waterworks named chairman of the Iowa section of the American Waterworks Association. Frank Lerner of Burlington named vice chairman. Board will name secretary and treasurer. Directors include Robert B. Wallace Council Bluffs and D. B. Ross Dubuque. Directors to select next year’s meeting site. Separate army corps of non medical scientific groups to be established per a recent resolution.
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Son City
George Shoemaker
Waterloo
Iown
American Waterworks Association
Frank Lawler
Burlington
Meeting of the Laws Section of the American Waterworks Association
The session adopted resolutions thanking the city and the speakers and recommended raising water rates to cover higher material costs. The group discussed policy steps and future topics for the laws section.
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Laws Section
American Waterworks Association
Marital Strife and Custody Claims Roil Local Couple
Sarah L. Cooper seeks divorce from Thomas Cooper alleging gaming drinking and affairs. She requests custody of three children Ruth 8 Glen 5 and Kenneth 2 permanent alimony and an injunction barring contact at their home 207 Ash Street. Lilian Melhany sues Marley Melhaney in 1917 marriage claiming abandonment on Oct 5 of this year. Walter D Vines named in cabbage shipment suit by C G Reynolds Griswold Iowa potential damages sought.
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Thomas Cooper
East
Sarah L. Cooper
Son City
Ruth
Gien
Kenneth
Ash Street
Lilian Melhany
Marley Melhaney
Sces Hines
Carlagehs
Atlantic
Walter D. Vines
C. G. Reynolds
Griswold
Cabbage spoilage suit cites railroad negligence
Plaintiff claims Mr Hines railroads mishandled cabbages, causing spoilage with $801.92 sought includes $511.40 profits. Financial figures reference Coal Phase 1935 and Hines coal prices lump and mine run per ton.
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Hines
Car
Mine Run
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Waterloo Vulcanizing Co
Franklin County Lamp—Watkins Coal Company
California
Pitzgeral
Ohio
Jefferson ‘Street Atlas Grocery
Normandy
Brown
Navy
Green
Oxford
Hague
Reindeer
Yukon
Set Crean U UG
Anid Rece
Traye Craae
Raat
Toad Rae
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