Endowment tag day set by Waterloo Legion tomorrow
About 100 young women and ex servicemen conduct a citywide tag sale while over 5,000 school children donate to teachers for the American Legion endowment fund. A joint Becket-Chapman post and auxiliary meeting in Memorial hall tonight allocates money and final campaign plans.
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Tomorryw
American Legion Endowment Fund
Waterloo
Becket-Chapman Post
Memorial Hall
Herman C. Miller
Miller
Colonel Commends Company B on Snappy Drill
Colonel Neely praised Company B of Iowa’s Waterlo o unit for precision and snap in drill and arms during a night armory inspection. He commended Captain Clyde Davis for the company’s bayonet practice and noted 51 of 65 rostered men were present, with several out of town. The unit has served in the Spanish American War, Mexican border actions, and World War I.
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Co. 8B
Waterloo
Iowa National Guards
Cal
Co. B
Spain
Commodity Rate Granted on Arms and Ammunition
Waterloo improves its transport terms after C A Hanson reports from Chicago on the Western Trunk Line. he argues Waterloo should receive a commodity rate like Des Moines Shenandoah Fort Dodge and Ottumwa, currently facing a higher class rate by 3 to 9 cents per hundred pounds.
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Waterloo
C. A. Hanson
Greater Waterloo Association
Chicago
Western Trunk Line Committee
Hanson
Des Moines
Shenandoah
Fort Dodge
Ottumwa
East Alton
Nesbit, Longtime Black Hawk Resident, Dies at 78
T D Nesbit of Volga and Barclay township, born in Ireland July 10 1850, died yesterday. He lived in Waterloo and Barclay township for over four decades, survived by a sister Mrs Anna Whitehall and four sons Ralph Jay Will Donald plus four daughters Hazel Eva Ollie Hope. His wife died nine years ago and he had three brothers Edward Will and Robert Nesbit.
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Nesbit
Volga
S. D
Waterloo
Barclay Township
Edward Nesbit
Will
Robert Nesbit
Dunkerton
T. D. Nesbit
Ireland
Anna Whitehall
Ralph
Jay
Donald
Hazel
Eva
Ollie
Hope
University of Tata Opens Radio College Second Year
The world's first radio college returns for a second year in Iowa City with Edward H. Lansz as ex-officio dean. Seventy six students enrolled last year from Oklahoma and Wyoming. Lectures broadcast on WSUI Mondays and Wednesdays 7:30 to 7:50 pm, disrupted by static, with extension division supplying the lectures. The line to Monta Rosa, Italy, at 14,960 feet is noted as the highest telephone line in the world.
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Iowa City
Edward H. Lansz
University of Iowa
Parsons
Oklahoma
Wyoming
WSUI
Extension Division
Potatoes as Payment in Early Newspapers Then and Now
A retrospective notes how 1920s editors accepted potatoes as subscriptions, with two yearly trainloads of spuds for Courier readers and reporters paid in produce. It contrasts past barter with modern cash payments, recounting prices, quantities, and the impracticality of potato wages in today’s journalism.
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ABC
Courier
Delegates Elected to Memorial Hall Trustee Convention
Delegates from each post and camp of veterans of all wars in the county elected three delegates for the Memorial hall trustees under a new law. G A R named Amos Wheat T R Shannon and G A Bothwell. Spanish war veterans chose A G Morrison J A Trimble and Frank Swartz. Becker-Chapman post will select tonight. There are five posts in the county. County Auditor F W Esher will announce the convention date after all delegates are chosen. Old law had a three member G A R board. A Cleveland streetcar incident mentioned a goose in a market basket.
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Memorial Hall
Robert Anderson Post
Fred wWillier
Col
Amos Wheat
T. R. Shannon
G. A. Bothwell
A. G._ Morrison
J. A. Trimble
Frank Swartz
Becker-Chapman Post
American Legion
Old Law Memorial Hall
G A. R. Veterans
East High Classes Nominate Officers for Friday Election
East High will elect senior and junior class officers Friday. Senior candidates include President Thomas Carpenter and Eugene McKeon. Vice President Helen Bird and Miriam Boysen. Secretary Eneatha Kenyon and Gertrude Borchers. Treasurer George Heath and Winam Coonrod. advisers Mary Ethel Dixon and Viola Knoche. Junior candidates list Mildred Chaplin and William Stevenson. Vice President Lionel Rose and Rex Smith. Secretary Kathryn Connelly and Frieda Steege. Treasurer Donald Ferguson and Dee McElhinhey. advisers Eva Smith and Mary Ethel Dixon.
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East High
Viola Knoche
Marge Dizon
Thomas Carpenter
Eugene McKeon
Helen Bird
Miriam Boysen
Eneatha Kenyon
Gertrude Borchers
George Heath
Wi- Nam Coonrod
Mary Ethel Dixon
Sunior
Mildred Chaplin
William Stevenson
Lionel Rose
Rex Smith
Kathryn Connelley
Frieda Steege
Donald Ferguson
Dee McElhinhey
Eva Smith
Minneapolis Man Pays Drunk Fine On Way To Funeral
A veteran of the Spanish war, traveling to Wichita to attend his brother’s funeral, was taken off a train at 4 p m while in a drunken condition. In municipal court he listed Minneapolis as home and was fined $10 plus costs by Judge John W Gwynne. Two other drunks and several violators also faced fines.
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Wichita
Kaw
Minneapolis
John W. Gwynne
Floyd County Farmer Found Dead in Home
Services were conducted today for Warren Howell, whose body was found by neighbors several days after death at his home west of town. He had been missing from his usual pursuits for days and investigators located him fully dressed on a couch with cash on his person and bank pass books showing a large balance. He and his wife had separated years earlier, his wife and a son, John, moving east to live.
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Markts Rock
Warren Howell
Howell
John
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