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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1922
Page
7
The community of Akron is thanked for care shown during Mrs Moupe illness and two week stay at her parents home. Members of WW, C A towers, Belief Corps, neighbors, and Mrs Gust Lund kren helped. Mr and Mrs Al Troupe and family also expressed gratitude.
Mrs Winifred Simester Nicholas, after eight years in China, has returned to the United States with a message she believes the Chinese themselves think should be delivered. She warns of rapid damages in the great empire and says knowledge of Chinese character aids understanding the changes. Her platform eloquence and access to prominent Chinese homes support her view.
Dr Sudhindra Bose of Calcutta has just returned from a world tour to lecture on Oriental politics at the State University of Iowa. The native of India is praised as an interesting speaker who broadens his students’ knowledge with stories from personal contact with many of today’s world leaders.
Dr Ray is highlighted as a premier interior South America explorer. For fifteen years he pursued knowledge of the continent’s vast unknown interior and earned high honors, including a Brazil honor and fellowship in the Royal Geographical Society of England. An accompanying illustration shows him on horseback in Gaucho attire.
The speaker is praised for describing only what he has seen and for uncovering much about his investigations. His claim to have passed guards of the Cathedral of St Marks at Vellies and to have sat astride the Bronze Horses over the Parties is cited as proof of his descriptive genius and the lecture’s beauty and fervor.
Akron residents marked the Fourth with picnics and a Brule Creek Brunsville celebration drawing thousands. A lively program featured speeches by T. M. Zink, Elite Orchestra, and Brule Creek events, while local visitors and residents shared greetings.
At the regular meeting of the tawi council July 1 Mayor Replogle presided with Swinson Shoubberg Speirs Palm present and Anderson absent. Bills were audited and paid. repairs to a water pump by Worthington Pump Co. at 128.00 were approved. Poll tax set at 3.00. Lone Hansen and Edgar Sipes were sentenced to five years each in separate facilities for cattle theft, with prior Leeds farm thefts noted and links to Sioux City case. The Sioux City Journal item notes impact on local farmers and stockmen.
A Sioux City banquet followed by election of Vern Erickson as president of the Interstate Horseshoe Pitchers Association. The group, including G W Cunningham and H Van Dyke, will hold the first tournament in LeMars late this month with clubs from Iowa Nebraska South Dakota and Minnesota to attend and prizes promised.
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