Society News and weddings in Waterloo area events
Social notes from Waterloo and surrounding areas list honored guests at tea for Mrs H E Johnson in South Pasadena and Mrs John Heath of Waterloo, wedding announcements for Mabel West and Theodore Castle and Madge Parker and Jay Hertel, plus club meetings and society notices across Cedar Falls and nearby towns.
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H. E. Johnson
John Heath
South Pasadena
Cal
Sues
Carolyn Johnson
Mrs. Heath
Waterloo
Darwin Leonard
David McKee
Des Moines
Castle West
Mabel E., West
A. M. West
Theodore M. Castle
R. W. Carter
Jay Je Jones
M. J. Carter
George Webster
Ossian
WW. Carter
Chico
Hertel-Parker
Madge M. Parker
Jay
Hertel
Grace M. E. Parsonage
E. J. Lockwood
Enola Deeds
Alice MacHogan
Glove fashions and proper evening wear
Edna Kent Forbes discusses the importance of gloves as a costume element. She notes quality matters for overall effect and that fashions shift from white gloves for formality to more varied use in social settings.
Courage to be thrifty and cheerful in daily life
Side Talks by Cameron reflects on thrift as daily courage. A widow's story of sending a daughter to college through constant frugality illustrates the strain of watching every penny. The author praises steadfast thrift and hopes to encourage the reader toward patient self denial.
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Louise
H. C
Don
Auspicious Start to Cedar Valley District Fair
Cedar Falls September 6 Cedar Valley Mail association opens its seventh annual exhibit under favorable conditions attendance high and attractions strong Livestock entries exceed prior years with 420 head on grounds Nine carloads of cattle and swine arrive from the state fair Music by the One Hundred and Sixty eighth infantry band and Harts Girls band provides excellent programs Officials report smooth races under J W Ford and police supervision by Charles B Santee A H Refbauze John Fearer and S Q Bailey oversee amphitheatre activities
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Cedar Falls
Cedar Valley Mail Association
Tonigh
Carrier Boys
Waterloo
Lous
J. W. Ford
Charles B. Santee
World War Vet Robert Dawson Laid To Rest With Military Honors
Funeral services for Robert R. Dawson at his Linn Street home featured a full military honors ceremony. One hundred twenty five uniformed soldiers from the American Legion Rainbow Division and other comrades carried the flag draped casket to Fair View cemetery. A firing squad performed taps and a bugler sounded the final note as the Rainbow Division wreaths and others were placed on the grave. Dawson, a Rainbow Division veteran who served overseas, died Friday from gas attack effects.
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Robert
Dawson
Linn ‘Street
American Legion
Fair View Cemetery
Linn Street
Commercial Street
Bridge Street
Franklin Street
Logan Avenue
Center Street
Fairview Avenue
A. P. Blough
Church of the Brethren
Rainbow Division
Mr. Dawson
One Hundred Sixty-Eighth Infantry
Shores Fuel & Transfer Co
Robert R. Dawson
Priday J
Rainbow Divisio Overseas
55 Billion Cigarets and 7 Billion Cigars Made in U S in 1919
Washington bulletin on the 1919 tobacco industry reports 1.901 million acres planted and 7.629 billion cigars produced in factories plus 55 billion cigarets. Exports of leaf tobacco reach 765.9 million pounds. total revenues around 205 million with North Carolina and New York leading a state breakdown.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Sam, L. Rogers
Bureau of
North Carolina
New York
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Missouri
Ohio
New Jersey
Premier Lloyd George denies plea to free Cork hunger striker
In London Premier Lloyd George rejects Mayor Mylan of New Yorks plea to release Lord Mayor MacSwiney who remains imprisoned in Cork after a hunger strike. In Warsaw Lithuanians attack Polish forces near Selny with machine guns and artillery. In New York actor Robert Barron dies from self-inflicted wounds after an accidental shooting. In Springfield nineteen men are arrested on charges connected to a Diamond Express wreck. In Central they note a challenge by Maser Thompson to Gov Lowden over accusations. In Dallas the Lahoy day feature is a mile air race at Love Field involving five planes including a German Fokker.
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Innocerne
Lioyd
George J
Mylan
New York
MacSwiney
Cork
Warsaw
Selny
Robert Barron
Springfeld, T
Nhicue
Maser Thompson
Lowden
Lim
City in Brief: Local Notes and Visits
Short news items from Waterloo and nearby communities list arrivals departures visits exams and travels. Names include Ak Buchanan J G Snyder and J P Eves with events at Algona Sioux county fair and Oscar locations. Also notes on cataract surgery plans and scout tests with several residents mentioned by name.
Fast Drivers Race at Uniontown in 225 Mile Meet
Uniontown Pa Sept 6 drivers and cars entered for today's 225 mile automobile race at the speedway with prizes exceeding 24000. Notable entries include Ralph De Palma Ballot Waldo Stein Gaston Chevrolet Monroe L Cormm Benny Hill Eddie ODonnell Dusenberg Tommy Milton Eddie Miller Jimmie Murphy Eddie Hearne Denny Dickey and a G M C special.
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Associated Press
Uniontown
Speedway
Ralmh de Palma
Waldo Stein
Frontenac
Gaston Chevrolet
Monroe
L. Cormm
Benny Hill
Eddie O'Donnell
Dusenberg
Tommy Milton
Eddie Miller
Jimmie Murphy
Eddie Hearne
Revere
Denny Dickey
Swimming Champions Compete at Detroit
Seattle swimmer Harry Kono Waloff and Duluth’s Peter Cody led out of town entries at the national A. A. U. swimming events held at the Detroit Boat Club. The program included junior and senior national championships and the central AAU women’s diving title.
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Associated Press
Detroit
Sept
Harry Kono Waloff
Seattle
Peter Cody
Duluth
Detroit Boat Club
Two Hurt in Motor Mishap Yesterday
Charles W. Young and F. J. Sparks were injured in an auto wreck at Fifth street and Washington streets yesterday at 12 50 p m. Both cars were badly wrecked. The injured residents of 1128 Forest avenue were in a car that collided with another driven by F Little of Dallas City.
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Charles W. Young
F. J. Sparks
Forest Avenue
Fifth Street
Was
Washington Streets
Little
Dallas City
World Artisans Shaped Paris Icon Place de la Concorde
The article recounts how Paris Place de la Concorde was built with designs by Hitter in 1854, featuring the Horses of Marly by Guillaume Coustou and the red granite Ramesses II statue at its center. It notes the equestrian Louis XV statue by Bouchardon and other sculptors contributing figures of strength wisdom justice and peace. It mentions the 3 000 year old Ramesses II block weighing 249 tons, brought to Paris in 1838 from Thebes.
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Paris
Gabriel
Louis XV
Bouchardon
Hitter
Champs Lysees
Marly
Guillaume Cousiou
Turkeries
Covtevoz
Mercury
Abdotisr
Rameses II
Amenhotep
Thebes
Weekly Food Price Index For New York Drops Slightly
The weekly food index across 31 articles shows a price of 4.36 dollars per pound, down from 4.27 dollars the prior week and 4.91 dollars the week of September 4, 1919. Overall, 20 commodities rose or moved higher while 34 remained unchanged and 24 fell.
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New York
Speed Demons of Other Days
A retrospective on historic long rides and speed feats across the plains and trails. The piece highlights Pony Express riders from Missouri River towns to California, famed Santa Fe Trail riders like F. X. Aubrey, and notes a recent Cavalry journal by Col. Kara B. Fuller detailing enduring mounts and distances. It frames these exploits as a romance of endurance before modern motor travel.
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Ita
Empyrean
Kansas City
Knights of the Wheel
Ila
Missouri River
San Francisco
Pony Express
Plains
William WW. Russell
Alexander Majors
Leavenworth
St. Joseph
Jointy
Roosevelt
Succes
Rifdr
Port Sumter
Sacramento
Antietam
Santa Fe Trail
F. X. Aubrey
Santa Fe
Independence
Aubrey
United States
Kara B. Puller
Army Services
Reavenworth
Jomrpar
United States Cavalry
Dick Turpin
Rilack
Rand
Col. Fuller
Turpin
Tis Neck
London
York
Mulcarter
John Barleycorn Stages a Comeback Sunday
Prohibition backlash in Waterloo as ten drunks are arrested in a 24 hour period. One man, Andy Bean, drinks twice and is jailed, then released on bonds. Six others are freed on $25 bonds while the rest await police court, with Judge O B Courtwight presiding to clear Labor Day considerations.
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Waterloo
Singer
United Sta
Bert Gluck
Rob Allen
Harry Webber
Harry Yvons
Ed Suthering
Fred Tyson
Gen. Jeffries
Bert Swartnell
Jess Mu
Andy Dean
Iid
John Barleycorn
Andy Bean
National Prohibition
O. B. Courtwight
Endurance rides in cavalry history span ages and empires
A survey recalls famed horsemen: Osbaldstone’s 200 miles in 10 hours on 16 horses in 1831, Townley’s 1849 Belgrade to Constantinople ride with no rest, Carey’s Queen Elizabeth and Cardinal Woles legends, Peschkof’s 1882 Siberia to St. Petersburg trek, and U.S. Civil War dispatch riders like Douglas. It notes frontier feats by Tobin, Hirley, and Pershing era raids and long mileage with minimal mounts.
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Squire Osbaldstone
Charles Townley
Belgrade
Constantinople
Haustion
Robert Carey
Whitehall
Felinburg
Eizabeth
James VI
London
Netherlands
Cardinal Wolees
Gravesend
Peschkof
Siberia
St. Petersburg
St. Petersbire
Endurance Triumph by Ezra B. Fuller in 1877 Campaign
Col. Ezra B. Fuller of the Seventh Cavalry earned lasting fame for horsemanship during the Nez Perces campaign. Ordered to carry dispatches to Gen. Sherman at Fort Ellis, he led five troopers along difficult mountain trails, covering over 259 miles in four days and 13 hours without changing mounts.
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Ezra B. Fuller
Nez Perces
Fuller
Leutenant
Seventh Cavalry
Yellowsatone
Miles City
Miles
Sherman
Fort Ellis
Mont
Plant Wizard 15 Man of Mystery
The air of mystery surrounds removing the plant wizard Luther Burbank to a San Francisco sanitarium after a serious illness. He is hailed by the Philadelphia Record as picturesque and inexplicable, a peer among the hemisphere’s top fruit and flower growers. His labors yielded practical advances and remarkable fruit experiments including the thornless cactus and seedless orange, with other notable work on apples prunes peaches nuts and berries.
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Luther Burbank
San Francisco
France
Philadelphia
West
Money Wizard John Law and the 1716 financial boom
The article recalls John Law, a Scottish money wizard who, through royal favor, created a private bank and a vast Louisiana company. His paper currency sparked a European frenzy, culminating in 1719 bankruptcy and Law's downfall, followed by notes on Icelandic agates used in jewelry and instruments.
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Paris
Lois XIV
Duke of Orleans
Boston
John Law
Law
West
Louisiana
New Orleans
Europe
France
Lance
Patterns for sewing patterns available by mail
The Waterloo Evening Courier advertises up-to-date patterns from the fashion department. Readers may order by mailing the coupon with 15 cents per pattern and will receive patterns within ten days after sending the order.
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Fashion Department
Waterloo
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International Lyceum and Chautauqua Association
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