Watchmakers Raise Prices Amid Tariff Boost
Chicago reports that Elgin and Waltham announce price increases of about 7 12 percent on American made watches. Jobbers say the rise reflects the revised tariff, though reps deny tariff ties, and independent firms received no notices. Prices vary by model with additive box costs, affecting about forty items overall.
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Chicago
Elgin and
Waltham
Rupert A. Kettle
Waltham Watch Company
Elgin
Waitham
Waltham Company
Elgin Company
Personal Mentions of Waterloo Residents at Leisure Time
Local society notes list Mrs. C W Rehe visiting relatives in Oeltein while William Galloway returns from an eastern trip. Attorney J D Liffring visits West Union on legal business. Blanche Balese visits Grundy Center. Arthur and Blanch Larson head to Iowa City for university entry. Frank Satchel and Clara Althouse visit Waterloo friends. Mrs Bertha E Burton plans an over Sunday in Independence. Charles Bratnaber from Minneapolis attends to business. Mrs C D Glinstead of Denver spends a week with her parents in Waterloo. Mrs A R Griffith of Sioux Falls visits daughter on Firth Street. Edith Korinke visits Charles City over Sunday. Florence H Barber returns east and takes rooms at 706 Park Ave W. Mrs James Larson and Cedar Falls family visit Waterloo. Mrs C A Beatle and Marian visit Beatle’s mother in Waterloo. F H Winslow to Detroit for building superintendents convention, returns tomorrow. Mr and Mrs W C Logan depart for Des Moines for vacation with relatives. Carrie Brown leaves for Davenport to teach. spent summer with uncle F W Warren. Rev W N Blair of Pyongyang, Korea, cousin of Reherds, to give missionary addresses at First Presbyterian Church. EB Sadler and wife return from wedding trip. home after Oct 1, then Melrose apartments after Nov 1. Mrs O H Leonard, Mrs Thurston McGill and Miss Ella Huffman attend Waterloo school flower shows. McGill leads Civic League. J K Dougherty and wife visit F B Giles. plan Sunday visit, then Dougherty to Des Moines for Taft visit. Dorothy Cushman and Naomi Cushman head to Houston for kindergarten work. Patti and Louise Lindner and Helen Putnam depart with them.
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Bertha E. Burton
Independence
Charles Bratnaber
Minneapolis
C. D. Glinstead
Denver
Col
B. Stilson
A. R. Griffith
Sioux Falls
T. J. Moore
Firth _Street
Weet
Enthusiasm over King Cork grows in Black Hawk County
Black Hawk county shows strong support for the seventh annual corn exposition to be held in Des Moines from November 29 to December 11. More than $1,000 in prizes are offered for county exhibits, including $10 gold for the best ear and $10 for the best ten ears. Dr. B Knowles, exposition manager, reports fine samples from La Porte City and nearby farms.
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Black Hawk County
Des Moines
First National Bank
W. P. Spash
Kimball
B. Knowles
Black Hawk
Knowles
la Porte City
Hiram Parks
Jack Frost
Will Peck
Notable speaker George FE Pike to headline event
Attendee notice credits Attorney George FE. Pike, a prominent First Congregational Brotherhood member and entertaining speaker. Special music led by Mrs. B. Duhert's Cedar Falls quartet and a violin piece by Prof Leon G.B. Prowen. All friends invited.
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George FE. Pike
First Congregational Brotherhood
B. Duhert
Cedar Falls
Leon GB. Prowen
City in Brief: Parkersburg Eclipse Update and Local Moves
Robt F Camp, reported much worse at a Chicago hospital, faces grim prospects as doctors offer little hope for recovery. Meanwhile Mrs Will Calderwood and her mother Mrs Johnny Huey plan to move to Waterloo, Iowa, and unite there. Local ads note stable and chair services and cigars.
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L. B. Cigars
Parkersburg
Robt
F. Camp
Chicago
Tracr Star
Mason cars sweep Clarksville auto races in a sweepstakes
In Clarksville events on Thursday and Friday Mason cars won all prizes. Sutcliffe drove the Mason to victory in the two mile open race and the five mile handicap on Friday with times of 3:20 and 7:20. Buick and Oakland competitors followed. Mason will be manufactured in Waterloo after this year.
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Clarksville
Mason
Waterloo
Sutcliffe
Waterloo Auto and Supply Company
Buick
Oakland
Thompson
Moore
Crosby
Guests at Old People's Dinner Honor Elder Attendees
At Grace May Church seven annual old peoples dinner lists guests aged 60 to 85 plus. The register notes sixteen attendees over 80 with names including Elizabeth Hubbard Aunt Becky Avery Martha Ellis Elias Skinner Mindes John Gotton Rev Elias Skinner and many others, ages ranging from 60s to mid-80s. The record preserves a community snapshot of long-lived attendees and their ages.
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Grace
Church
Elizabeth Hubbard
Becky” Avery
L. ¢. Brown
D. G. Eilis
Martha Eilis
John Gotton
Elias Skinner
Wim. Starr
T. W. F. Cooper
C. G. Spears
J. M. Steely
J. ©. Gates
Charles Gibbs
Cc. B. Stilson
Phoebe A. Skellenger
Nancy M. Fisher
Margaret Stark
B. F. Rager
Mary Spears
A. Alyea
C. B. Stilson
Julia Carer
Mariette Hill
Catherine Eighmey
Wm. Weatherill
Meee Bidwell
M. E. Davis
Mars R. Duff
Nettie E Cowles
Elizabeth Critchfield
C. B. Taylor
L. H. Brown
Charles Stokes
C. J. Beach
Sophia Krueger
Thomas Lytle
S. E. Gibbons
Caroline Shorey
S. J. Ferguson
John Steely
Dorcas A. Brown
J. C. Gates
Wm. Starr
George W. Harbin
T. David Horton
Elizabeth Thompson
Flower Show A Great Success At Waterloo Exhibits
Civic Society praise follows the first school tower flower show held yesterday. Over 300 children from East and West Waterloo contributed. prizes awarded to Emerson and Central schools on the west side, Hawthorne and John Fiske on the east. Brown Crockery donated vases, and 100 plus vases were rented for the event. The show drew many parents to the new Manual Training building as the Hast Waterloo building opened to the public.
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Civic Society
Hitle
East
West
Waterloo
East Side
Brown Crockery Company
West Side
Emerson
Central School
Lowell and Whittier
How insects breathe explained by Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune notes that land animals use lungs and sea creatures use gills while insects live with a unique system. It describes their respiratory method as neither lung nor gill, hinting at an intricate tracheal network enabling air flow direct to tissues.
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Plex
Chicago Tribune
Wanted Young Men Learn Automobile Business by Mail
Ten week program promises expertise and help securing positions as chauffeurs and repairmen. Em pire Automobile Institute in Rochester, New York advertises high pay and strong demand. Also notices for ten men for general work at Waterloo Gasoline Engine Co. and un furnished rooms for rent at 200 Washington St.
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Jesson
Empire Automobile Institute
Rochester
N.Y
Waterloo Gasoline Engine Co
Brotherhood Rally Service Promised by First Presbyterian Church
The Brotherhood of the First Presbyterian Church plans a rally day service for tomorrow evening and invites all members and friends to attend. The address of the evening is to be announced.
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Brotherhood of the First Presbyterian Church
Dry Run sewer extension begins in West Waterloo
Contractors started work yesterday on extending the Dry Run sewer along Berth avenue crossing West Fourth street and to Home park back area. The line will drain low land, serve Brown-Hail addition, Cascaden tract, Prospect Hills, Home Park additions, Kingsley estate, and new city park, paving the way for hundreds of new homes in West Waterloo. Work will move quickly and completion is expected soon with laterals to follow.
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Berth Avenue
West Fourth Street
Home Park
West Waterloo
Prospect Hills
Kingsley
New City Park
Waterloo
Right of Way Dispute at Eleventh Street Bridge
A drunken man lay head on a rail amid a dispute over right of way between a teamster with a brick load and an automobilist on the narrow Eleventh street bridge. After an hour and a C. Q. D. call, Officer Dahl brokered a truce as trains bore down. A separate report notes a man asleep across Illinois Central tracks, found by police and removed before a passenger train arrived.
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Eleventh Street Bridge
Polce
Dahl
Illinois Central
Illnois Central Belt Line
Mercury vapor lamp rays sterilize water without heat rise
It has been demonstrated that blue rays from mercury vapor lamps kill bacteria and sterilize water in which the lamps are placed without appreciable increase in temperature.
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Geo. E. Pike
Iowa
The
Congregational Brotherhood
First Presbyterian Church
Brotherhood OF the Church
Quartette
Prof
Scott B. Prowell
Waterloo Conservatory of Music
Elgin and Waltham Compan
Ellis’ Hall
Christ
Episcopal
Ida Copley
Hermann Miller
Washington Street
Copley
William Galloway
aAttorney J. D. Liffring
West Union
Blanche
Grundy Center
Arthur
Blanch Larson
Iowa City
University
Frank Satchel
Clara Althouse
Waverly
Edith Korinke
Charles City
Florence H. Barber
D. L. Lamb
Park Avenue West
James Larson
F. M. Wilson
South Street
C. A. Beatle
Marian
Creston
F. H . Winslow
Commercial Bank
Detroit
C- W. Knoop
Maud
Werner
Kenneth
W. C. Logan
Carrie Brown
Davenport
F. W. Warren
Waide Brown
W. N. Blair
Pyong Yang
Korea
H. W. Reherd
First Presbyterian Manse
First Presbyterian’ Church
EB. T. Sadler
Melrose Building
Third Street
O. H. Leonard
Thurston McGill
Ella Huffman
McGill
Civic League
J. K. Dougherty
Ottumwa Courier
F. EB. Giles
Second Street West
Dougherty
Taft
Dorothy
Naomi
Houston
Tex
Patti
Louise Lindner
Helen Putnam
Frank Putnam
King Cork
DE. Knowles
A. D. Woodruff & Co
Victor
Bethel
Ind
Detroit News- Tribune
Sonny
Papa
Washington St
Brothrhood
Black Hawke CO
West Third Streets
Allen Street
Cavalieria
North Dakota
Shannon & Banton
Fast
Fourth Street
Man
Mobile Street
Grand View Place
Allen & Young
Ilinois Central
Cali
Fornia
Northwest
W.L. Buckley
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