10 May 1923
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Newspaper
Anita Tribune
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1923
Page
1
News brief highlights devastation from 20 000 forest fires destroying 10 million dollars of standing timber across states. Navy confirms 16 inch gun tests around June 1 using the Maryland. Shipping and labor talks gather with the International Seamen's Union as transport strikes unfold.
Domestic Cleveland selected for the White Shrine convention. Missouri's Jacob L. Babler predicts Chicago hosts the 1924 Republican gathering. Reports from St. Louis show 400000 used cars in stock. Wall Street cites Henry Yord's cash on hand exceeding U S Steel. Coast guard halts liquor smugglers near New York. five indictments for murder tied to a Missouri lynching.
Obituaries and dispatches note the deaths of John Howard Parnell in Dublin and E. R. Campbell in Fort Dodge after brief illness. Other casualties include John W. Rainey, Howard Saxby, Rear Admiral Cowles, and executions in Ennis. World events cover Germany rejecting reparations, Soviet prison data, Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul conflict, and Argentina’s League of Nations stance.
Florine Findlay DeHart sixteen from Bristol Virginia chosen as the nation’s most beautiful girl in a magazine contest. She will visit New York as a guest of the publishers and pose for renowned American painters and sculptors.
Raymond Knutson seven year old of Minneapolis finds a bundle of papers in an alley and sells them for five cents. A buyer shows the bonds to a banker triggering a swift police action that recovers 19275 in bonds and 14690 found in a coal pile. The bonds were part of a 33875 robbery from the Bank of Rock Maiden Rock Wisconsin.
A new mechanical mail sorting device has been installed in the Washington post office to speed dispatch. Five operators at key boards feed letters into the machine, using two keys to direct each letter into its designated cell.
A jumble of notes from Iowa towns details plans for a National Women’s Service league, park plantings by the Manning American Legion, a Wool Growers meeting in Washington County, a park fund in Burlington, and various civic actions including school bonds, director appointments, and rural directories.
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