Hawkeye State News Highlights Farm and War Service Notes
Iowa items report Frank Speight worth 150000 found dead near West Liberty. Farm Bureau strides toward 1200 members. many Iowa farms and houses noted. Grinnell Drake game chatter. Roosevelt memorial drives and bank drives in Polk county. County institutes, corn yields, auto theft rise, and missionaries from Waterloo alum. Hardin leads Farm Bureau growth. Boone Pure Bred Livestock discuss TB eradication and sales. Census schedules ordered for 14th decennial census preparation.
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Frank Speight
West Liberty
Story County Farm Bureau
Iowa
State University of Iowa G. C
168Th Infantry P. C
Rainbow Veterans
Farmers’ Co-operative Elevator
Aaron Packing Company
Creston
Simpson College
Indianola
Grinnell
Drake
Polk County
Howard Clark
Lake View
Farmers’ Union
Adair County
Adair
Wilil
Office of Sheriff
Church of the Brethren
Waterloo
Dunkard
South Waterloo
Orange Township
County Institute Committee
al Marengo
Farm Bureau
Agricultural Extension Department
Iowa State College
Ames
Wayette County
Fayette County
Boone, County
Boone
Boone County
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
County Farm Bureau
Hardin County
Bureau of the Census
Wartime Prohibition Ends as Congress Overrides Wilson
Congress passes the enforcement act by large margins 176 to 55 in the House and 65 to 20 in the Senate, effective to bar beverage sales over one half of 1 percent alcohol. White House signals wartime prohibition will end when the German peace treaty is ratified, while the president calls for separate handling of issues and urges repeal of wartime provisions. The Justice Department readies enforcement under the new act, promising stronger prosecutions.
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Washington, D. C
Congress
Wilson
House
Senate
White House
Department of Justice
Bank Robbery in Nemaha County Nebraska City Heist
Thieves used nitro glycerine to blast the Bank of Juan 10 miles south of Nebraska City at 2 am on October 28. They opened the vault and looted customer boxes of coupons Liberty Bonds jewelry and valuables while damaging the vault door lock. The money in the bank remained untouched and registered bonds were not taken. The telegraph line was cut isolating the town and no tracks were found.
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Nebraska City
Neb
Bank of Juan
Nemaha County
Roosevelt Fund
Fall of Petrograd Unlikely Threat Increases For Yudenitch
London reports dimming prospects for General Yudenitch to take Petrograd before winter as bolshevik reinforcements and counteroffensives retake Krasnoyo and push the Yudenite line south. Britain says it will not fund or indefinitely supply Kolchak or Denikin amid a large deficit from military costs.
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Yudenitch
London
Petrograd
Krasnoyo
Great Britain
Kolchak
General Denikine
Russia
Paris Fashion Tops Costs With Gold Worthy Garments
Smart clothes in Paris this season are the costliest on record with many articles valued higher than their weight in gold at three francs ten centimes per gramme.
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France
Paris
October cold sets new record in Bismarck
The weather bureau in Bismarck N D reports the lowest October temperature to date as 10 degrees below zero reached the morning of the 26th marking a new record for the period.
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Bismarck
N. D
Weather Bureau
Muskegon Steamer Muskegon Dismasted in Harbor Disaster
Eighteen dead and three or more missing as the Crosby passenger steamer Muskegon formerly City of Holland is driven onto Muskegon harbor piers after striking the bar. Survivors recount heroism and Captain Edwin Miller's leadership as women were prioritized during evacuation.
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Muskegon
Mich
Crosby
City of Holland
Muskegon Harbor
Milwaukee
Edwin Miller
Miller
Fred L. Beerman
Milter
Letters Show Big Packers Invested in Hotels
Inter state Commerce hearing reveals that Chicago packers especially Armour and Swift & Co held large hotel stock in New York. Louis I Swift wrote in 1917 urging investment in Biltmore Commodore and Hotel McAlpin to secure provisioning business. Armour had already stock.
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Chicago
New York City
Interstate Commerce Commission
National Wholesale Grocers’ Association
Swift & Co
Louis I. Swift
Armour & Co
Biltmore
Commodore
New York
McAlpin
Armour
Americanize Aliens Bill Aims at Education Pact
Washington report on a senate labor committee bill to cooperate states and the federal government in educating aliens. Senator Kenyon said 8,000,000 literate aliens over 10 await education as fuel for the melting pot and to curb radicalism, amid steel inquiry findings. The bill awaits early calendar consideration.
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Washington, D. C
Senate Labor Committee
Senautor
Kenyon
Iowa
Senate
World Derby Starts July 4 1920
The first aerial world derby for a $1,000,000 prize runs from July 4, 1920 to no later than January 8, 1921. Alan St. Hawley of the Aero Club of America announces the race. Routes lie between 60°N and 15°S with mandatory controls on at least one continent and crossings of the Atlantic and Pacific.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Alan St. Hawley
Aero Club of America
Aera
Movie Actress Becomes Girl Scout Captain in New York
Miss Marguerite Clark, a popular motion picture star, offers to head a Girl Scout troop in New York. She arrives at Scout headquarters and is immediately accepted to lead the group.
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New York
Marguerite Clark
Scout
Postal Workers Get Moderate Pay Increase Pact
Congress approves higher wages for postal staff with general employees receiving 100 to 200 dollars a year and smaller raises for rural service workers.
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Washington
Congress
Two American aviators slain by Mexican fishermen identified
Bodies of Cecil H. Connolly of San Diego and Frederick L. Waterhouse of Weiser Idaho were recovered aboard the destroyer Aaron Ward. The two aviators, missing since August 21 during a border patrol flight, were slain on a Mexican sloop in Lower California. The incident, confirmed by Maj. R. S. Bratton, prompts efforts to capture the accused fishermen. A portion of translated notes on the aircraft wards off publication out of respect for families.
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San Diego
Cal
Lients
Cecil H. Connolly
Frederick LB. Waterhouse
Weiser
Idaho
Lower California
Aaron Ward
Bah
Los Angeles
Gulf of Lower California
Border Patrol
Yuma
Atiz
R. S. Bratton
United States
de Haviland
Connolly
Waterhouse
Bratton
Maynard the Winner in Cross-Country Air Derby
Lt Belvin W Maynard wins the army transcontinental air derby with fastest across and back times. Lt Pearson flies San Francisco to New York in 21 hours 51 minutes 24 seconds at 123.6 mph. returns in 26 hours 45 minutes 52 seconds at 100.9 mph. Gan Tam Donaldson wins reliability as second to arrive and completed the trip without engine changes.
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Washington
Belvin W. Maynard
Maynard
Pearson
San Francisco
New York
Gantam Donaldson
Not to Obey Strike Order Warns Railroad Brotherhood
Timothy Shea acting president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen said the union would not observe anti-strike legislation if enacted. He argued such a law targets railroad workers and their economic right to strike, and suggested railroads expect wage cuts if government control ends to avert a strike.
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Washington
Timothy Shea
Congress
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Five Die As Train Strikes Hastings Car
Five of seven passengers in a Hastings sedan died when a mail train struck their car on a rural crossing on Saturday night. Two others were seriously injured. The victims include Elmer O. Snell of Juniata, Arthur Stewart a visitor from Winots, Leslie Landon, Mrs Emmeline Potter and Herman Knedler, all of Hastings.
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Hastings
Neb
Elmer O. Snell
Juniata
Arthur Stewart
Winots
Leslie Landon
Emmeline Potter
Hernan Knedler
Plot to Kidnap Edsel Ford Arrests in Toledo
Private detective Floyd Gray testified to uncovering a plan to kidnap Edsel Ford son of Henry Ford for 200000 dollars. Four men were arrested in Toledo Ohio after Gray claimed he learned of the plot while traveling from the east. Plans allegedly targeted a house in Mount Clemens Michigan for detention.
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Young Ford
Toledo
Edsel Ford
Henry Ford
Floyd Gray
Mount Clemens
Mich
Palmer plans deportation of most enemy aliens
Attorney General Palmer announced government plans to deport a majority of enemy aliens still in the country, along with their dependents. The move aims to reduce potential threats while addressing wartime loyalties.
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Washington
Palmer
Corn Export Boom Amid Global Demand
Reports from Buenos Aires indicate corn exports are rising sharply with estimates of about 100,000 tons weekly. Vast shipments head to the United States, Italy, France and Spain, reflecting strong demand and the crop’s continued expansion in Argentina.
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Brazil
Buenos Aires
United States
Italy
France
Spain
German minister urges patience on emigration to Mexico and Argentina
The article reports on Fritz von Hekardt, German minister to Mexico during the war, warning fellow Germans against emigrating until conditions in Mexico and Argentina are favorable. He says Germany remains popular and urges sending capable, trustworthy men to Mexico to restore and expand connections.
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Felonee von Hekardt
Mexico
Argentina
Washington
Germany
von Hekardt
Hamburg
Wartime Women Paid Labor Force Totals Revealed
Statistics show that about 15 million women earned pay during the war, with volunteers adding roughly one million more. Red Cross and war drives mobilized thousands of women, including clerks and stenographers, while the list of paid roles spans manufacturing, transportation, domestic service, and public service, totaling around 2,000,000 in professional and industrial positions and additional millions in various wartime duties.
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Liberty Loan
United War Drive
Red Cross
Sessereveverevereee Public Service
Wissesees
Ee Sebo
Keating Mistaken for Watchman While Smoking
The public mistook Howard Keating, secretary of the congressional commission on reclassification of salaries, for a guard and saw him smoking in the watchman’s box. In truth he was simply outside the building, since smoking is prohibited inside by order of General Menoher.
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Dprsons
Missouri Avenue
Howard Keating
Congressional Commission On
Keating
Hfe
Congress
Menoher
Edward Keating
Samuel Weller Transforms From Slacker Janitor to Model Caretaker
A Washington apartment building janitor, Samuel Weller, once sulky and careless, changes after a tenant baby repeatedly says bye bye. Prompted by the child, he begins cleaning the yard and hall, and his work improves markedly, earning him renewed respect as a proper janitor.
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Ickens
Samuel Weller
Washington
Sam
Samuel
Dickens
Dickeng
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