Big New Factory Deal Will Boost Waterloo
A 23 member Enterprise Place syndicate buys 300 to 400 acres on Waterloo edge to locate three big factories and aid existing plants. Land north of Cedar Falls line near Fourth Street hill and Hawver grove to be platted for industries with 80 acres for factory lots. The group, including executives from First National Bank and local firms, will not profit but aims to hire 1,000 workers and boost population. deeds delivered to trustees A. M. Place and E. W. Miller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Fourth Street
New North Waterloo City Park
Enterprise Place Syndicate
A. E. Ellis
Charles City
G. W. Dawson
F. J. Highmey
J. T. Sullivan
Wiram Knowles
Cedar ‘Alls & Northern Railway
Logandale Heights
L. S. Cass
Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern Railway Company
First National Bank
Geo. E. Lichty
Smith, Lichty & Hillman Co
H Schultz
Comercial National Bank
F. J. Fowler
Fowler Co
H. L. Litchfield
Witchfield Manufacturing Co
Marsh
Iowa Dairy Separator Co
J. R. Rector
Praterloo
F. L. Benedict
James Black Dry Goods Co
EB. W. Miller
Commercial National Bank
J. ¢. Payne
S. L. Kern
H. W. Grout
Black Hawk County
H. A. Maine
James Maine& Sons 'Co
Hi. B. Plumb
P. J. Rechtfertig
Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern
A. M. Place
BE. W. Miller
5. L. Kern
Weather Prophet Busby Foretells Warm Wet Start Then Snow
A 1910 Independence Iowa weather column by John C. Busby claims a November with warm wet first week, cold second week with sleet to rain, a warm spell with hurricanes on the Great Lakes, a third week of heat and then a cool period. A total lunar occultation on Nov 16 is noted, plus multiple planetary conjunctions predicted to bring snow, sleet, and cold. Busby, dubbed Goose Bone Prophet, cites three men as today’s greatest and signs the forecast.
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Coursier
Great Lakes
Mercury
Venus
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Theodore Roosevelt
Walter Wellman
John C. Busby
Cyclone Disaster Blights Naples Coast Fatalities Rise
Disaster reports from Naples on October 23 25 recount a cyclone and Vesuvius eruptions killing hundreds along the Gulf of Naples Ischia Amalfi Sorrento and Portici with mud floods lava and widespread destruction. No Americans reported casualties. Communications were down and losses run into millions.
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Naples
Centra
Gulf of Salerno
Bay of
Ischia
Provide
Vesuvius
Mount Epomeo
Epomeo
Sorrento
Amalfi
Lucullus
Portici
Torre Dei Grace
Resina
Maiorit
Ravello
Angri
Pontecagnao
Cetara
Montecorvino
Lfe
Torre del Greco
Herculaneum
Mount Vesuvius
Portlei
New Lake Found Claimed As Large As Superior
A dispatch from Windsor reports a lake in the Canadian northwest said to rival Lake Superior in size. Government surveyors are said to have made the discovery, as Indians from the far north brought the tale to Edmonton. In other notes, a license to wed was issued to William Joseph Murphy and Ethel Grace Terwilliger, both of Waterloo.
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Winnipeg
William F. Drulard
Windsor
Ontario
Edmonton
Alberta
Lake Superior
Canadian
William Joseph Murphy
Ethel Grace Terwilliger
Waterloo
Mrs Leneve Acquitted in Crippen Case Trial
London, Oct. 25. Ethel Clara Leneve was acquitted as accessory after the murder of Belle Crippen. Crippen, convicted and to hang Nov. 8, was alleged to have influenced her. She claimed she had no knowledge of the crime and had been under Crippen’s sway since age sixteen.
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London
Ethel Clara Leneve
Belle Crippen
Dr. Crippen
Brouugeht
Sesson
Crippen
Miss Leneve
Alverstone
Collision injures Mrs Burroughs and daughter in Ta
Mrs John Burroughs and her daughter Margaret were badly hurt when their buggy collided with an automobile driven by Herman Wild near Allison on Saturday afternoon. The girl suffered arm and side injuries and cannot resume teaching. Doctors attended them. Wild offered to settle for damages.
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Clarksville
John Burroughs
Margaret
Tay Place
Allison
Herman Wild
Burroughs
Miss Burroughs
Paul Burroughs
Alison
Rolfe
Waverly
Wild
Self-inflicted death of William Cofflin in Jesup Iowa
Jesup Iowa October 25 William Cofflin aged thirty nine a nonresident laborer died by suicide at 10 25 this morning revolver bullet entered the mouth and passed through the right ear death was almost instantaneous He had threatened self harm yesterday a watch was kept his widow and an adopted daughter Miss Mabel survive a sister Mrs John Johnson is critically ill at Independence another sister Mrs Ed Sullivan resides in Jesup a brother John Coffin lives in Independence the mother is in Independence Cofflin born in Independence where his parents were early settlers
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Jesup
William Cofflin
Cofflin
Independence
Ed. Sullivan
John Coffinn
Two more join Progressives in Indiana race
Clinton, Ind., Oct 25. C. W. Beebe of Charlotta and HH. C. Joelink, candidates for senator and representative, have declared themselves progressives and say they will support a progressive United States senator if elected.
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Clinton
Evening Press
C. W. Beebe
Charlotta
HH. C. Joelink
United States
Detective Falls Dead Arresting Doctor In Indianola Case
Arcas Brenemer city detective dies at noon while placing under arrest Dr. O H P Shoemaker charged with performing a criminal operation on Stella Thorne of Simpeon College. Miss Morris of 721 Sixth Avenue allegedly aided in burning a baby’s body in a boarding house furnace. Brenemer a Spanish War veteran and central west police figure. Shoemaker helped tend the detective after collapse. Thorne reportedly dying. Morris confessed to police this afternoon.
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Evening Press
Arcas Brenemer
O. H. P. Shoemaker
Central West
Shoemaker
Miss Morris
Miss Thorne
Rural Mail Carrier Sets 53 Minute Route Record
L Fitkin, rural route No 2 carrier from Charles City Iowa, drove an Auburn to cover 25 15 miles in 53 minutes. He delivered 140 pieces of mail to 11 boxes, collected 33 cents for stamps and sold stamps totaling 1 15. Present were Postmaster L H Henry R L Brown Joe Treat C C Hicks. Witnessed by Congressman G N Haugen.
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Charles City
L. Fitkin
Auburn
New Hampton
Fitkin
L. H. Henry
R. L. Brown
Joe Treat
C. C. Hicks
G. N. Haugen
Iowa
Funeral for Rev. Father Fogarty in Dubuque
In Dubuque Iowa on October 25 over 290 priests from the Dubuque diocese attended the funeral of Rev. Father Fogarty at St Columba Columkill church. Father Flattery of Garry Gwen preached the sermon and Archbishop Keane rendered a prayer. The funeral cortege was the largest ever seen in Eastern Town.
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Dubuque
Evening Press
Father Fogarty
St. Columbkill’s Church
Flattery
Garry Gwen
Keane
Workmen Buried Nearly Suffocate In Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids October 25. At the Northwestern Stone crusher three laborers Alex George John Hallity and N S Samuel were buried under a large dirt pile while at work and nearly suffocated before fellow workers could rescue them.
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Cedar Rapids
Evening Press
Northwestern
Alex George
John Hallity
N. S. Samuel
Editor Fined for Contempt in Crippen Case Sequel
The high court fined Assistant Editor Percy $1,000 for contempt after a London Chronicle publication claimed Crippen bought poison and confessed to murdering his wife. The court ordered Percy imprisoned until the fine is paid.
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Crippen
High Court
Percy
London Chronicle
Hyoselae
Perris
Take Definite Action Against White Slave Trade
Washington Oct 2 U S district attorney Howard W Sims left for Chicago after a conference with Attorney General Wickersham and Kenyon The government weighs definite action against the white slave traffic following repugnant conditions unearthed in Pittsburg and Chicago DAs nationwide will focus on the subject and Justice Department investigators will continue work
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Washington
D. C
Howard W. Sims
United States
Chicago
Wickershaw
Kenyon
The
Trust
Bureau of Investignation
Pittsburg
French Ministers Under Guard Amid Anarchist Threats
Paris Oct 25 President Fallieres and cabinet members are under constant guard as a threatening anarchist pronounces ministers doomed for convicting militant railway strikers.
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Paris
Fallieres
Shively Barred From Campaign by an Operation
South Bend Indiana October 25 Senator Shively to undergo surgery to remove a dead bone from the foot. The physician says his condition has been exaggerated but the senator likely will not recover in time to rejoin the campaign.
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South Bend
Ind
U. S
Shively
Ministers' conference names Baptist officers
In Des Moines on October 26 the State Baptists Ministers' conference elected officers led by President Rev J W Graves of Des Moines Vice President Rev E A Valiant of Waterloo and Secretary Rev Heary Secor of New Hampton all announced by the Evening Press
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Pes Moines
Evening Press
Ministers' Conference of the State Baptists
J. W. Graves
Dessoines
E. A. Valiant
Fof
Waterloo
Hearey Secor
New Hampton
Record breaker flies over three hours
Darmstadt Oct 23 Aust Euler set a German aviation record by flying 3 hours 6 minutes 11 seconds in a military aircraft of his own design. Lieutenant Mote killed Macdeburg Prussia Oct 25 Lieutenant Mote fell from a Wright aircraft and was killed.
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Darmstadt
Keese
Euler
Mote
Macdeburg
Prussia
Wilson Leaves for Iowa Campaign Speech Tour
Washington October 5 Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has left for Iowa where he will deliver a campaign speech at Atlantic tomorrow and at Audubon Thursday. He is scheduled to speak in New York and likely in Cleveland, Ohio thereafter.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Iowa
Atlantic
Audubon
New York
Cleveland
Dogs as bridesmaids derail New York wedding tale
At a New York wedding Mrs. Mary Bowen and Percy W. Livans faced a canine interruption as three pedigreed dogs, dressed in pink bows and Japanese satin, leaped along a leash during the ceremony. The dogs, not bridesmaids in truth, caused amusement before calm was restored by the best man.
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New York
Mary Bowen
San Francisco
Percy W. Livans
Searele
Tucker
F. 1
Copeficht
Arthur Delroy
Urek
Montin
Census figures show farm wealth surge in midwest states
Washington reports the 13th census likely to reveal U S farm wealth around 50 billion dollars as value of Iowa farms climbs about 2 billion since 1900, with 117 percent increase in farm land value and 50 percent rise in labor costs. The data links farm consolidation to fewer farms and more tenant managers amid rising land values.
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Washington
D. C
Iinois
Iowa
Indiana
Census Bureau
United States
Middle Western
Illinois
Minneola
Wisconsin
North
South Dakota
Damage suit seeks $25,000 in railroad injury case
Ottumwa Iowa October 25 Evening Press A large damage suit centers in U S court as Clyde Stansbury seeks 25000 for personal injuries from the Wabash Railroad He was injured in Appanoose county by falling beneath a train while filling water tanks on passing cars His left leg was amputated As a federal grand jury returned indictments for bootlegging against Charles Candiano R C Gailey of Avery and W W Henry of Mystic
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Ottumwa
Evening Press
United States
Clyde Stansbury
Wabash Railroad Company
Stansbury
Appanoose County
Federal Grand Jury
Charles Candiano
R. C. Gailey
Avery
WW. Jenry
Mystic
Young Jesup Girl Is Dead
Jesup, Oct 25. Margaret Pendergast sixteen daughter of Mr and Mrs Michael Pendergast died last evening at 5 o clock after several weeks illness of tuberculosis. She was a Catholic and funeral will be at 11 o clock tomorrow from Independence church conducted by Father Hornfield of Jesup and Father O Dowd of Independence. General sympathy extended to the bereaved family.
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Jesup
Margaret Pendergast
Michael Pendergast
Iitnese
Father Hornfield
Jeeup
Father O'Dowd
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Prophet Busby
Elements Fury
Italy
Superior
Leneve
Ocean
Mrs. Burroughs
Miss Margaret
Howe
Des Moines
James A. Howe
Board of Supervisors
Polk County
Hubert Utterback
Weaup
Progressives
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San Felice
Owa
Il Veres
Havana
Lic Cig
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