Cedar Falls Briefs on Travel Visits and Local News
Cedar Falls Iowa notes report Mr and Mrs Forrest Lawrence and two daughters heading for Port Jana Oregon after visiting relatives. Others take auto trips to Mason City Marble Rock Nora Springs. Local business and social updates include a law man fined for speeding a church meeting led by Rev Elmer M Cable and a baby born to Mr and Mrs Noward Lantz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Falls
Forrest Lawrence
Jana
Ore
H. L. Woeishard
Emma Smith
Frank Weishard
Masonity
Marble Route
Nora Springs
Elmer M. Cable
Korea
College Chapel
Noward Lantz
J. Bryant
Waterloo
Merner
Stahl Likely to Manage St. Louis Browns Next Year
Chicago Sept 10 Jake Stahl, once deposed as Red Sox manager and who said he was finished with baseball, is rumored to be slated for the St. Louis Browns helm next season if plans hold. Ron Johnson seeks Brown ownership support while Colonel Hedges resists giving up stock. Branch Rickey may be in line but stock demands cloud the chances.
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Chicago
Jake Stahl
Red Sox
St. Louis Browns
Ron Johnson
Stahl
Colonel Hedges
Stt. Louis
Hedges
Branch Rickes
Psent
de Brow
Stackuaa
Jimmy
Stovall
Austin
Johnson
Browns
Conductor Morriial Struck By Auto In Cedar Falls
A Cedar Falls street car conductor Morriial was struck at Thirteenth and Main as he threw the block signal. A warrant was issued for a young man driving a car bearing a faded license, feared to be involved. The rider on a Waterloo man’s motorcycle skidded on debris at Twelfth and Main but escaped serious harm. Fishermen worry as a Des Moines man seeks evidence for illegal fishing. Mr and Mrs Woodruff arrive seeking their son missing from a cannery restaurant.
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Mabel Ferry Owens
Cedar Falls
Cumming
Lcense Guinder
Twelfth
Main
Waterloo
Des Moines
Fire destroys grain storage building in downtown blaze
Fire roared from the basement through chutes to the second floor, burning the entire facility and thousands of bushels of grain. Machinery on the first floor survived except for damaged bearings, and a grain-bin explosion mildly injured a firefighter who was hurled twenty feet to the ground.
Prominent Citizen Dies at Creston
Robert Finley Hanna aged 73 United States commissioner and deputy clerk of the federal district court prominent in Iowa politics as a Republican died today at Brights disease in Creston Iowa Funeral arrangements not listed.
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Creston, Ln
Robert Finley Hanna
United States
Federal District Court
Iowa
Bright
Trichinosis Fatality Reported From Undercooked Pork
In Michigan City Indiana an eight year old girl died from trichinosis after eating uncooked pork ten days earlier. The father Everett Green a laborer and four other children are in critical condition with the illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan City
Ind
Everett Green
Papers Found in Icy Greenland Reveals Peary Records Return
New York reports that Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen recovered Admiral Peary records left in Navy Cliff Greenland in 1892 and delivered them to Denmark in 1912. The incident echoes a 1810 event when Peary records also resurfaced after long separations, marking early Arctic explorations and boundary discoveries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Thomas H. Hubbard
Peary Arctic Club
Admiral Peary
Denmark
United States
Navy Cliff
Greenland
Knud Rasmussen
Peary
Eivind Astrup
Rasmussen
Milwaukee street lighting contract saves city money
Milwaukee officials report that purchasing lighting through an electric company costs 46,873 dollars annually less than running a municipal lighting plant. The finding was sent to Alderman W. I. Greene, chair of the street lighting committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Wis
State Railroad Commission
W. I. Greene
Common Council
Licensed To Wed in Cedar Falls and Waterloo Areas
A notice lists marriage license issuances for Arthur Schmitt and Carrie Gram Cedar Falls. Warren A. Pierce Chicago and Lacey Westgate Waterloo. George Harter Waterloo and Florence Webber Waterloo. Willie Bath Burley Belle Plaine and Delilah M Tharp Vinton. Albert R Moore Waterloo and Inez M Stuff Waterloo with numeric codes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Schmitt
Cedar Falls
Carrie Gram
Warren A. Pierce
Chicago
Lacey Westgate
Waterloo
George Harter
Florence Webber
Willie Bath Burley
Belle Plaine
Delilah M. Tharp
Vinton
Albert R. Moore
Inez M. Stuff
Culled Gall for Aid from Public
The Associated Charities head J F Klingaman issued a call for clothing, shoes, bedding, stoves, furniture, or anything to ease winter suffering among the city’s poor. Many children lack school clothing. donations of attic clothing are welcome. The wagon will call at homes. contact number 244%. Also notes a split skirt sighting on East Fourth Street and mentions Fred Stoesicker of Freeport visiting Waterloo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. F. Klingaman
Associated Charities
FL Klingaman
Fred Stoesicker
Freeport
Waterloo
Woolworth
J. J. Rice
Independence Avenue
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Lawn City
William Mexis
The
Stiles Electric Company
Hampton
LeClair Martin
Oshkosh
Martin
Richmond Smith
Brookina
M. D
William Benton
J. S. Benton
Jamestown, N, Y
Etta Watson
Ladies of Greenwood Cemetery Association
West First Street
Viola Hurlburt
Spokane, Wass
Willian Trimble
Thomas Hansen
Qute
Teachers’ College
Peter Falkenburg
Arthur Kingman
Id Battenfeldt
Minnesota
England
George Hurd
William Hedelock
Max & Weishard
Express
Charles Connell
Margaret Morgan
Newton
Connell
Connel-Cowan Company
Franklin Street
Cedar Pals
J. F. White
Mr. White
Hagerman
Northwestern Land & Inv. CO
West Fourth St
Jake Otans Miay
Otovall
Charles City
Charles City Mills
Charles City Water Power Company
Witerioo
R. A. Woodruff
Waverly
Canning Company
Creston
ROYAL
W. A. Covell
Clift
Pole
East Fourth Street
Frank Bros
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