Waterlooo Ministers Busy This Week At Waterloo
Waterlooo Methodist ministers are busier than bees this week as Illinois Central trains run through Waterloo this year. The big hog sale in Winton on Sept 21 saw 424 hogs averaging 214 pounds each, total weight 90 736 pounds, sold at 10 90 per head for a buyer total of 9890 22. An exposition with flying machines draws crowds to Dubuque, costing over 25 000 and expected to attract about 200 000 people to the city during the week.
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Winton
Charles R. Fowler
Basset & Hill
Dubuque
Old Waterloo road surveyor recalls Civil War era visit
Robert Alexander, former surveyor for the Dubuque and Sioux City railroad, returned to Waterloo from Brookings South Dakota to visit his niece Mrs. M. E. Smith. He recalls fording the Cedar River in a wagon in 1858 and the excitement of locals over a railroad through town. He described sparse early settlement, days of long treks, and the initial name of the line before later changes.
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Waterloo
Robert Alexander
Dubuque
Edmund Miller
A& Wagon
Dubuque & Pacific
Dubuges & Sijoux City
Fort Dodge
Dubuque Plans Large Scale Prosperity Week
Dubuque officials announce Iowa Prosperity Week to begin October 2 with seven bands engaged for the city celebration. The week will cost a little over $4,000 and final plans are nearing completion as preparations proceed.
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Dubuque
Iowa
JuffrIR Gets Plan for Work of Year
Miss Anna B. Lawther of Dubuque outlined the policy of the Iowa Equal Suffrage Association for next year during a talk at the annual convention yesterday afternoon. She said the political equality movement faced three enemies minor interests vice interests and reactionaries who could never be won over. The suffragists must win the indifferent men and women of the state and Iowa has a better organization than ever before.
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Anna B. Lawther
Dubuque
Iowa Equal Suffrage Association
Iowa
Misa Lawther
National Board
Atlantic City
Lawther
National Association
Misa Mas Peabody
Elizabeth
Pleasant Dreams Advertisement for Ohio Instant Bath Heater
Pleasant Dreams advertisement extols restful sleep and quiet nerves aided by a hot bath. Promotes the Ohio TM Instantaneous Now Vent Pipe Water Heater for instant hot bath water with a 30 day trial, via Dayton Manufacturing Company of Dayton, Ohio.
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Dayton Manufacturing Company
Dayton
Ohio
Natural acting remedy promising constipation relief
Lazy Liver Stomach promotes GAR-OLA and DAXS-ODA as a chocolate flavored laxative. Claims include relief from constipation and biliousness, no griping or habit formation, gentle action, and benefits to stomach, kidneys, and overall health. Includes price 25 cents per box and satisfaction guarantee.
Suffrage Funds Pace Iowa Drive as National Board Backed
Women delegates at a suffrage convention in Des Moines pressed for stronger organization and education to support the national board’s plan. They urged coordinated effort across states and voted to seek Iowa’s share of the national budget, raising pledges totaling over six thousand dollars toward the sixteen thousand needed, with large donations from multiple counties and individuals.
Six Bishops Connected to Towa Church History
The board of bishops of the Math odat Episcopalian church comprises 22 members. Six began preaching in Towa or have preached there during their ministerial careers. Bishop W. S. Lewis served as president of Morning Stue College in Sioux City, while Bishop Thomas Nicholson spent many years as a faculty member.
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Board of Bishops
The
Mathodat Episcopalian Church
Towa
W. S. Lewis
Morning Stue College
Sioux City
Thomas Nicholson
Doane Kidney Pills Help Nervous Women Says Waterloo Claim
A promotional notice claims nervous troubles stem from kidney weakness and credits Doane Kidney Pills with relief. It features a Waterloo resident testimonial describing back pain, fatigue, and anxiety alleviated by the remedy alongside notes on bladder issues.
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Bright
Early Methodist Leaders and Clergy in Iowa History
The text recounts early Methodist figures in Iowa including Bishops Ed Hughes and Matt Hoghon preaching near Grinnell while their father led in the Oskaloosa district. Homer Stuntz of Omaha served many pastorates in the Upper Iowa conference. Bishop Johnson recently elected to the board has led the Sioux City church and now serves with the army, with future foreign assignment likely. A Grace M. E. church event notes Edith Lowney.
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Cornell College
Mt. Vernon
Ed Tughes
Matt Hoghon
Grinnell
Ouskaloowa
Homer
Stuntz
Omaha
Upper
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Illinois Central
J. Lockwood
Frank W. Court
W. F. Spry
Upper Iowa
Grace M. E. Church
B. J. Lockwood
Grace M. E
First M. E
George B. Shoemaker
St. Paul's M. E
Earl A. Baker
Linden M. B
Fr. Spry
Clinois Central
Great Western
St. Louis
Reinbeck
Marshalltown
Des Moines
Pullman
T. J. Cleary, Co
Juffrir
Anna
Earl W. Jacoby
Lafayette
Methodist Church
Ellen Markham
Lafayette St
Doans
Foster Milburn Co
Buffalo NY
Ble Methodist
Hea
Edith Lowney
Grace M. BE
Buck
Hallekfest CO
Aviinue
Lafayette Street
Baxins
Dairy Cattle Congress
Tare Courier
Franklin Car
Zane Naweane
Franklin
Cramer
Motor Car Co
West Fifth
Cedar Valley Fair
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