Iowa Farm Deals And Legal News Dominate State Briefs
A spring sale of 206 acres near Marshalltown priced at 400 per acre leads state highlights alongside a murder acquittal in Marysville California. Iowa records show 106 miles of paving contracts worth about 5.53 million, and 35 fires in Washington last year with 19 since January. A new fruit company forms in Charles City to grow and sell apples.
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Des Moines
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Calif
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Iowa
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Ralph Host
Grinnell College
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Iowa Apple Growers, Inc
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C. I. Snyder
Mason City
I. N. Snyder
Owa
World events quick summary highlights Ireland to Chicago
Three killed and one wounded in a clash at Miltown Malbay Ireland amid alleged police and military involvement. Escalating raids in Dublin with about 100 arrests. Mountjoy prison gains inmates as hunger strike shifts. Paris talks outline aliens being depor ted. Miners vote 65 188 to accept 2 percent wage rise. Kapp and associates meet in Danzig amid tensions. Londonderry councils walkout over hunger strike sympathy. Soldiers fire over crowds injuring two. Sixty four hunger prisoners released in Dublin ending the strike. Paterson man linked to bolshevist groups amid Ruhr killings. Russian Japanese battle at Khabarovsk yields many casualties. Agua Prieta calls citizens to arms under local council sign. Polish front reports bolshevik setbacks near Warsaw. Northwestern train crash observations amid wreckage and injuries. Fires and accidents claim several lives in various locales. Irish immigrant arrivals top 1 000 to assist domestic labor. Chicago troops end city riot as rail workers face back to work or be replaced by strikers.
Pershing Declares Presidential Candidacy at Nebraska Banquet
General Pershing forges a first formal move toward a presidential bid at a Nebraska Society banquet in Washington. Governor Frank Lowden, despite a Chicago defeat, secures Illinois Republican endorsement by an estimated 80,000 plurality.
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Nebraska Society
Washington
Frank O. Lowden
Wood
Chicago
Deaths of American and British Leaders Mark Endings
Roger C. Sullivan, longtime Democratic boss of Cook County, died at his Chicago home from a sudden heart attack precipitated by bronchial pneumonia. Dowager Viscountess Wolseley, widow of the former British army commander, died in London.
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Cook County
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Viscount Wolseley
London
Washington Strikes and Political Tensions Highlight Wilson Era
In Washington a proposed military budget covers 175000 troops and 16900 officers for the year starting July. Chicago sees 30 strike leaders bound over on bonds. the railroad labor board moves to organize after senate confirmation. A House resolution targets Assistant Secretary Post over deportations, while contributions call for calm amid perceived anti-government actions.иро
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Senate
Washington
Lansing Heads Fight On Reds Against Radicalism
Robert Lansing former secretary of state has become honorary chairman of the National Interchurch board forming a broad alliance of denominational bodies to fight radicalism. The group representing about 70 percent of Protestant churches plans to spend millions to curb radical influence and promote citizenship education for aliens. Leaders including Franklin K Lane A Mitchell Palmer and William B Wilson back the move as far reaching.
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National Interchurch Board
Senate
the Interior
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A. Mitchell Palmer
William B. Wilson
Department of Labor
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Interchurch
Inter Church Board
United States
Theodore N Vail and the rise of the Bell telephone era
Theodore N Vail head of the American Telephone and Telegraph company rises from modest beginnings to lead a booming enterprise. The article notes his early work in medicine telegraphy and the railway mail service before becoming assistant superintendent then general superintendent around age thirty. It also places his timeline near Alexander Graham Bell’s 1876 Philadelphia Centennial demonstration.
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New Jersey
Iowa
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Vail
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Philadelphia
Bell
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Sherwood on House Service and Term Limits
Representative Sherwood argues merit over residence for congressional service. He notes experience matters, cites South has long-serving members while the North shows many first and second term members. The letter discusses chairs, committees, and parliamentary rules shaping career length.
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Byrnes
South Carolina
Sherwood
Ohio
House of Representatives
Giulitiaiship
Congress
Marriage that Amazes England and America’s Four Hundred
The former duchess of Westminster wed Capt. J Fitzpatrick Lewis in a celebrated match that surprised both sides of the Atlantic. The bride is the stepdaughter of Mrs. Cornwallis West, once Jennie Jerome, a New York heiress, linking a high society alliance to Churchill lineage. The couple’s age gap stands out with the duchess much older, and details note the duchess’s divorce and settlement while Lewis’s war service as an aviator precedes his career in insurance.
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Milka Emulsion touted for lung and appetite health
An advertisement from Terre Haute Indiana promotes Milka Emulsion as a remedy for lung trouble and digestion. It claims relief for coal miners with chest pain and sleeplessness, promising restored weight and strength with six bottles, money back if not satisfied.
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Guat
G. H Bunh
Ave
Na Haute
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Terre Haute
Child Refuses Song in Sunday School Class
A fragment from the Indianapolis News reports a boy, son of Rev Rhys Price Jones of the First Presbyterian, declined to sing with his class. He stated his father would not sing songs of death and attributed his choice to personal belief.
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Rhys Price Jonesy
First Presbyterian
Ed Franklin
Kidney health tonic ad and stray dialogue snippet
An advertisement touts Jad Salts and lithia in a kidney cleansing drink with claims of relieving back pain and boosting urinary function. The piece also includes assorted dated chatter about social scenes and a humorous exchange among locals, ending with a note about a zoo outing and a wife joke.
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