Toy shop offerings delight Webster City youngsters
Mrs. Ed Brown's Gift Shop highlights include a large Volland line with Quackadoodles and colorful books from 35c to 2.00, Japanese wooden animals, ring toss games, and five piece Japanese tea sets. Also featured are sturdy wood puzzles, bead and craft toys, baskets, purses, leather bean bags, skipping ropes, and catnip mice for kittens.
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Ed. Brown
Volland
Ring Lardner
Webster City
Chicago Tribune
Clare Brigg
Bobby
A Webster City Reunion in Chicago Causes Pleasant Gatherings
Monday night in Chicago brought together many Webster City natives at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Gerber. Mrs. Gerber, formerly Miss Wilma Zitterell, and her husband, Northwestern University student Fred Maynard, music student Rosalind Cook, and others from Webster City attended.
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Webster City
Chicago
Ralph Gerber
Gerber
Wilma Zitterell
Windy City
Walter Stevens
Henry A. Stevens
Waterloo
Fred Brown
Renwick
Brown
C.H. Brown
George Brown
Woolstock
Peter Carpenter
Alma, Brown
New Deputy Clerk Named by County Clerk Swiney
County Clerk elect Swiney selects Miss Esther Greenwood as deputy clerk. Greenwood has served in the city clerk’s office for five or six years and is regarded as fit for the post, with Swiney expressing high confidence in the choice. A Des Moines charity concert plan features community singing with citywide appeal and no admission fee.
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Esther Greenwood
Swiney
Des Moines
Iowa
Ames
Webster City
The
Register
Homer Miller
Iowa National Bank
Kentucky
Ralph Faxon
Chamber of Commerce
Faxon
Commissioner Barney Urges Egg Boycott To Lower Prices
State Commissioner W C Barney of Des Moines urges Iowans to stop using eggs until prices fall from 35 to 60 cents a dozen. He blames market manipulation and cold storage and says demand drop will prompt more sales from storage. Weather warming could boost hens and production. Community Christmas plans progress with decorations, free treats, music, and Santa on the streets with more details to come.
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W. C. Barney
Iowa
Mr. Barney
Des Moines
Santa Claus
Constante Kopp Loses Job as Hackensack Undersheriff
Miss Constante Kopp, longtime under sheriff and four time winner, is fired after Republican John W. Courter wins the Hackensack sheriff seat. She argues the new civil service law should guarantee her job amid the G O P landslide in New Jersey.
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Hackensack
N. J
Constante Kopp
Miss Kopp
John W. Courter
New Jersey
Christmas at the Orpheum Delights Webster City Schools
The Harmony club plans a free Christmas program at the Orpheum for Webster City schoolchildren on December 20 featuring The Christ Child in Art Song and Story with moving pictures and music. Evening show likely for adults at regular price. any excess proceeds go to local charity.
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Harmony Club
Webster City
Orpheum Theater
Christ Child
Red Cross Christmas Seals Sale Aids Tuberculosis Fight
Webster City prepares for Red Cross Christmas Seals sale mirroring prior years. Proceeds fund tuberculosis prevention and health campaigns with Mrs. F R Mason leading state efforts. Governor Clarke designates December health focus week urging schools and organizations to promote health topics.
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Red Cross
Webster City
F. R. Mason
Iowa Association For the Prevention of Tuberculosis
Iowa
Dea Moines
Ironing Board Fire Threatens East First Street Home
In Ber 1916 G W Clarke reports a fire in the Arnold residence on East First Street. A clothes closet near the dining room burned after an electric iron allegedly left on a board burned through its cloth cover. Flames were extinguished quickly, preventing wider damage to the house.
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East First Street
Arnold
Letters from Germany And Local Court Case Highlight War News
A German mail flow yields another letter from Hanover showing family wartime life and prisoner labor on a large estate. Also reported a county clerk hearing on Lizzie Divine's insanity, with transfer to Cherokee. real estate transfers and a note on local property sales and a Tribue ad.
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Deutschland
America
Germany
C. C. Imelmann
Shipley & Black
Hanover
Imelmann
Mr. Imelmann
Our Steel Industry When Peace Comes
Washington reports show 1913 iron and steel exports at 226.5 million under a Republican tariff, 1914 exports at 152.8 million, while 1915–16 rise to unprecedented 620 million. Analysts note wartime demand shifts and potential postwar competition from Germany England and France. Millard Tatham loses Russell grocery route to Ed Allman. Nels Nelson hires Millard as teamster. C. C. Stone, 10-20t-12moa
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Washington
Wilson
Germany
Association of German Steel and Iron Manufacturers
England
France
Iron Age
Great Britain
Millard Tatham
Russell Grocery
Mercanilla
Ed Allman
Millard
Nels Nelson
Teamater
Illinois Central pleads for empties to move cars
Illinois Central railroad is soliciting empty coal and other cars from every branch. Commercial agents in key cities urge shippers to unload all available cars, with a record kept for each car. The drive aligns with fall railroad requests to speed car utilization. In town news, eight pound baby girl born Nov 27 to Mr. and Mrs. J W Mumm, Herald pressman, with nurse Mrs. William Renslow arriving from Lake View. A nine pound baby boy arrived Tuesday to Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Arnold on a farm northeast of town.
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Illinois Central Railroad
J. W. Mumm
Mumm
the Herald
William Renslow
Lake View
Elmer Arnold
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Magele Divine
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