Iowa State News Roundup Reflects Autumn Notes and Local Progress
Iowa teachers receive praise for appearance while state university summer school ranks fourth nationally with 2604 registrants. County petitions for tuberculosis tests rise as winter wheat grows well. Des Moines milk quality tops twelve cities per inspector Barney. Oelwein nursery ships evergreens to Norfolk for landscaping. A White Leghorn hen lays 306 eggs in a year, setting a record at Quincy. Jasper county corn contest yields top 93 bushels 28 pounds per acre. Burlington bond issue for high school gym passes. State politics slow with fewer public gatherings. Miss Mae Francis urges progress against ignorance at teachers association. Farmer Wilson notes signs of harsher winter. Wool prices expected to rise with tariff help. Local Woodmen group shells 3,000 bushels for a sick neighbor. Iowa Outdoor Sportsmen plan hunt November 25. Several consolidation schools grant corn husking vacations. huskers paid 5–7 cents. Armistice Day not publicly observed due to Sunday. sermons focus on world court. Jesup school girls help establish Hampshire hog herds. Junior farmers to report swine-raising successes. Des Moines leads private home construction April to October with 1,048 houses, up from 689. Cigaret inspectors funded by stamp revenue. Des Moines notes capital-plot anniversary with the old capital building.
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Des Moines
Iowa
B. Barney, Jr
Oelwein Nursery Company
Oelwein
Norfolk
H. B. Hammer
Weaver
Quincy, Ill
Jasper County
Burlington
Mae Francis
Iowa State Teachers Association
George Wilson
Grimes
Woodmen Lodge
Bates
Manson
Zearing Consolidated School
Kelly
Napier Consolidated
Huskers
Ames
George Ekstrom
R. C. Williams
Consolidated School of
Bureau of Housing
Burbank
Ben J. Gibson
Iowa City
State of
Capitol Grounds
Slayer of Officer Dies by Own Hand in Muncie
Claude Michaels, 46, who killed Patrolman Anthony Helis, shot himself on the front porch of his wife’s home in Muncie Indiana. He fired with the same revolver used in the patrolman killing after creeping back to the house may have planned to kill his wife. The inquest found Michaels had gone several days without food and had no safe hiding place. Local authorities believe he had threatened to kill his wife and had previously spoken of hiding in abandoned ovens at a steel plant.
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Muncie
Ind
Claude Michaels
Anthony Helis
Michaels
Michael
Wounded convict fails escape at Baltimore station
Frederick Ramos twenty one attempted a prison break by scaling a 24 foot wall at the state penitentiary. He reached the wall top before a guard fired. Ramos fled to a passing car then bought a ticket to New York and rode to the station concourse. He could not rise when his train was called and was hospitalized.
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Baltimore
Union Station
New York
Frederick Ramos
State Penitentiary
Ramos
Autoist Hits Sleeping Man on Road in Boston Area
Ralph Campbell of West Lynn drove near his home and struck a man sleeping on the road. The sleeper, waking after the bump, told the driver he had hit him and warned of danger if he keeps his legs out. The incident occurred along the roadside near Boston.
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Boston
Ralph Campbell
West Lynn
Ralph
Two Sisters Die in Apparent Gas Self Annihilation Pact
In Ocean Grove, New Jersey, Mrs. Gussie M. Durr and Miss Tillie Bang were found on a cot at home with a gas stove jets open and notes hinting at a death by own action pact. Both women in their forties had feared one would die first, and on the dining room table lay two bundles of clothes marked with each sister’s initials for burial.
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Asbury Park
Gussie M. Durr
Tillie Bang
Ocean Grove
Firemen Save Corpse From Burning House
Cincinnati firemen answer alarm at a Pendleton Street residence and discover the body of Harry Frank a forty year old shoe worker inside a coffin. Candies ignited draperies at the head of the coffin causing flames to incinerate the shroud and coffin lining, but firefighters removed the body and extinguished the blaze.
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Cincinnati
Pendleton Street
Harry Frank
Excelsior
Mellon proposes tax cuts totaling 391 million
Secretary Mellon in a letter to Representative William Green outlines a plan to reduce the tax burden by 323 million net, proposing earned income relief, surtax readjustments, and repeals of telegraph and telephone taxes, offset by 68 million in increases. He warns a soldiers bonus would require new expenditures.
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Washington
William Green
Iowa
Ways and Means
Mellon
United States
Federal Judge in Philadelphia Limits Brewery Seizures
Federal Judge McKeehan ruled that seizure warrants in the Philadelphia area may not authorize taking entire brewery plants. He said warrants may seize only intoxicating liquor and items necessary for production and urged prohibition agents to use discretion. He warned of penalties for overstepping authority.
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Philadelphia
Prohibition
McKeehan
United States Refuses France Reparations Inquiry
Washington states it will not participate in any expert survey of Germany's capacity to pay reparations. French ambassador Jusserand outlines the French position as Hughes argues that proposed limits would frustrate the inquiry's purpose.
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Washington
United States
Germany
M. Jusserand
Hughes
Hughes New Haven
Great Britain
Drys seek Congress funding for coast guard liquor war
The United States coast guard outlines plans to crack down on rum runners. Congress will be asked to appropriate 26 million dollars for the next fiscal year to fund coast guard operations and to buy and build fast seagoing cutters able to chase the swift rum runners inside U S territorial waters.
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Washington
United States Coast Guard
Congress
Coast Guard Service
United States
Former German Crown Prince Returns to Native Soil
Crown Prince Frederick William resumes residence in Germany after fleeing exile. He crossed the border near Oldenzaal with only his aide Major Munidler at around ten o'clock, leaving Wieringen at four in the morning.
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Berlin
Frederick William
Wieringen
Major Munidler
Oldenzaal
Treaties and Prohibition in Washington
Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel for the Anti Saloon league, asserts treaty provisions will prevail over the Volstead act but will not affect provisions of the Eighteenth Amendment.
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Washington
Wayne B. Wheeler
The
Anti-Saloon League
German Rich Live High amid German Starvation Crisis
Berlin reports a class divide as profiteers spend 0 to 60 gold marks nightly on dinners and wine while unemployed workers and the moneyless middle class fall toward starvation amid the inflation era.
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Berlin
Supreme Court actions stir war era legal cases and banking reach
The Supreme Court denied review in Edward Rumely’s wartime failure to report debts to Germany over the New York Evening Mail. It granted leave to file briefs in the Missouri banking case, opened a broader national banks branch question, and ruled express firms not liable for full value in interstate shipments in the Levee case. Four states joined petitions to participate.
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Federal District Court
Washington
First Circuit Court of Appeals
Tlirst National Bank of
American Railway Express Company
Lucius P. Levee
Madisonville
Tex
Thibodaux
Court of Claims Begins Busy Winter Term
The Court of Claims re convenes with a winter calendar totaling about 2.5 billion dollars in claims many from World War I. Major totals include War department 5 billion dollars, railroads 2.25 billion, shipping board 850 million, patent infringement 800 million, and other government departments with large pending claims. Numerous novel issues arise in patent suits and miscellaneous cases including a $1 million claim for stamp books and a $10 million potential award for a 1905 gliding machine.
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War Department
Bureau of Internal Revenue
The
Shipping Board
Department of Justice
Railway Administration
Housing Corporation
War Risk Bureau
Food and Fuel Administrations
Num
White House Guests Dine Then Walk to Treasury in Morning Visit
President Coolidge hosted a rare early morning visit by Chicago visitors William Wrigley Jr and Fred Upham. They walked to the Treasury and back, dining with Republican leaders at the White House luncheon. Upham and Wrigley returned to Chicago and New York respectively, amid talks on the 1904 convention site with Chicago favored.
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Treasury Department
William Wrigley, Jr
White House
Fred Upham
Coolidge
Washington
Arly
Ton Capitol
Upham
Chicago
Wrigley
New York
Republican National Committee
C. H. Huston
Committee
Ways and Means
William Wrigley
William C. Sproul
Pennsylvania
E. T. Stotesbury
Philadelphia
James H. Stanley
Denver
Frank W. Stearns
Boston
Kaw Strikes Oil and Three Guardians
Kaw Indian Kaw Thompson gains oil wealth with the Discovery well drilled January 18 by Sapulpa Refining near Ponca City. He marries Claviene Bell mard and, under U.S. guardianship, loses private control as the federal government becomes his third guardian, extending restrictions on his land and finances for years.
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Verett Thompson
United States
Thompson
Senator Curtis
Kansas
Ponca City
Sapulpa Refining Company
Claviene Bell
Mard
Curtis
Kay County
United States Indian Department
Kaws
He Didn't Leave It Stanza Echoes In Twenty-One Chance
A cryptic note hints at a poem with twenty stanzas and a caller adding one more. The editor contemplates discarding the extra stanza as waste while preserving the curious count and unfinished verse.
Bayer Aspirin Ad Claims Authentic Tablets Guarantee
Aspirin is the Bayer trade mark and genuine Bayer tablets are sold only with Bayer name on the package or tablets. Proper directions accompany each unbroken package. Boxes of twelve cost a few cents, druggists offer bottles of 24 and 100.
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Bayer
Newsboys Recall Hamlet Extra Moments After Finale
Two newsboys attended a Hamlet performance. In the final scenes after the deaths of Laertes the king and the queen and Hamlet, one exclaimed that it must have been a time for extras.
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Hamlet
Laertes
King
Golly
Jim
California Fig Syrup Advertisement Claim
An old advertisement promotes California Fig Syrup as a gentle laxative for babies and children, claiming it is non narcotic and effective without griping, urging buyers to insist on genuine California Fig Syrup with directions. The piece ends with a cryptic line about burial and cremation.
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California
Mrs. Van Arnam Davenport Praises Favorite Prescription
Mrs. Alice Van Arnam says Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription restored her health after a difficult pregnancy and approaching middle age. She reports relief from pain and classic symptoms, crediting the remedy for lasting strength and well being. She invites readers to write for medical advice or try a trial package.
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Davenport
Ilona
Dr. Pierce
Alice van Arnam
Fourth St
Invalids
Buffalo, N. Y
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Board of Supervisors
Secretary of Treasury
U. S
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Drys
National Capital Affairs
Supreme Court
Rumely
Court of Claims
Kaw
Guardians
A. van Arnam
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