Pioneer Testing Assn Marks Seventh Year of Progress
The Pioneer Testing Association, the oldest organization of its kind in Iowa, completed its seventh year on September 1. Waterloo Jersey Farm’s Miss Marigold was the top producer, yielding 12,429 pounds of milk and 742 pounds of butterfat, valued at $372.87 after feed costs of $142.91. The association tested 25 herds, totaling 1,018 cows, with an average test of 5.97.
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Pioneer
Yowa
Marigold
Waterloo, Jersey
City Council Ends Carload Food License Fee
In Waterloo the city council repealed a $5 license fee on each car of vegetables or fruit shipped for sale to consumers. The change allows sellers to use boxcars as temporary merchandising spaces without visiting city hall or paying for permission, enabling open competition and potential price reductions.
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Waterloo
Armstrong Assets Sold Under Court Orders
The Armstrong Manufacturing assets in the hands of receiver Harold B. Plumb have been sold privately for 76000 to W. L. Cherry and others of Cedar Rapids. A new Delaware incorporated Armstrong Manufacturing Company of Delaware will take over with Cherry as president, J. F. Armstrong as general manager, and C I L Armstrong as sales manager to continue manufacturing well drills iron drills tools and related devices.
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Armstrong Manufacturing Company
Harold B. Plumb
W. L. Cherry
Cedar Rapida
Delaware
Armstrong Manufacturing ‘Company of
Mr. Cherry
J. F. Armstrong
Gets-It corn remedy promise and sales claim ad
A promotional advertisement touts Gets-It as the sole effective corn and callus cure. It claims quick relief, wide usage, and safety, urging readers to buy for 25 cents at drugstores or via E Lawrence & Co Chicago Inl. Several drug firms endorse the product.
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E. Lawrence & Co
Chicago
Wangler Bros
H. W. Taggart
C. J.miller
Hansen & Hansen
B. W. Schuneman Co
Horns Drug Co
Henderson Drug Co
Households in Waterloo Combat Rising Costs in 1917
Waterloo housewives report varied plans to keep expenses within fixed income as prices rise. Many cut back on groceries and meat, use cheaper foods, and adopt cash payments or savings shifts. Some families use garden produce, fireless cooking, or insulation of funds through insurance as a substitute for a savings account.
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Waterloo
Courier
Oscar Berry
Mobile Street
Berry
George W. Logsdon
Mullan Avenue
J. J. Foutch
Pork Street
Foutch
Homer Bittner
Hawthorne Avenue
S. A. Dudley
Englewood
Janney Streets
Dudley
A. W. Carney
Mulberry Street
Arthur V. Cox
Eleventh Street West
Cox
Iowa Dairy
President Wilson May Visit War Cantonments
Secretary of War Baker plans a tentative schedule for visits to war cantonments but has not set dates for a tour of camps. President Wilson faces cabinet urging to visit the camps, while Iowa drafted men at Camp Dodge in Des Moines protest beef supplies as the War Department sends veterinarians to inspect meat sources for troops.
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Washington
Mews Bureau of
Waterloo Evening Courier
Washington, D. C
Baker
Camp Dodge
Wilson
Iowa
Des Moines
War Department
Quartermaster
Chicago
Laurence Jones the Busy Negro of Piney Woods
Laurence Jones, a prominent Black educator in Braxton at Piney Woods, runs a 200 acre farm with a dozen young colored boys and assists the state department of education in training teachers. He manages the farm and a state normal school during a session with teachers from multiple counties.
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Daily News
Jackson
Misa
Laurance Jones
Piney’ Woods
Braxton
Piney Woods
State Department of Education
Jones
Don
Piney Woods Jones Urges Negroes to Buy Land and Build Homes
A speaker addressed several hundred Black residents at G M Odom’s yard urging land ownership and home building as paths to opportunity. He praised Mr Odom’s showplace, electric plant, and waterworks while describing simple goals like owning a car, a wife, and children as markers of progress. The talk inspired a sense of forward momentum and practical steps toward self-improvement.
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Ul Star
G. M. Odom
Odom
Old- Uume Darkey
Jones
Piney Woods Jones
Towa Man Kgled WW Action on West Front
Ottawa Ont Sept 11 The names of W Dinsmore Cambridge Ia and Pp Ro McVey Charleston Il appeared in the casualty list issued today as killed in action. Its common experience when the British sweep over the German position for them to make captures of troops housed from 20 to 30 feet below the surface.
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Towa Man
West Front
Ottawa
Ont
W. Dinsmore
Cambridge
Ro McVey
Charleston
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Pioneer Testing Assn
Sis
Waterloo Jersey
McKay Bros
Wnaterloo
Jersey Farm
W. H. Maust C. Bechgelheimer
Messer ‘Farms Co
G. B. Cunningham
M. Forney
Wee Miller Bros
O. Tarnreuther
MH. A. Smucker
Brown
H. Miller
Saa
Schrock
Ancesta
John Cunningham AR
Cornelius Oe
A. B. Zuck
Hamer Bros
Thay Marne
AL Wolf
Ae Everest
Armstrong
Laurence Jones
Pig
Iver tCne
LLU
Monarcha
Toe LaAtorm
Detroit
LaAzora
LaAzora Factory
Forest Ave
Martin Bros. Coo
Waterloo, Ia
Wue Davis
Tia
Sile
Dr. Parker
Regotian
Jergen’s
Woodbury’s
Woodbury
Eversweet Nodor
William
Zié
Bergen
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