Bank Robbers Steal 20000 From Des Moines Iowa Bank
Des Moines bank bandits after opening the vault abducted bookkeeper H. Hunter and assistant cashier M. R. Pharmer, locked them in the washroom, stole $20,000, and escaped. Other items note a San Francisco murder suicide, Alaska quarantine, and postwar financial moves.
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Iowa State Bank
Des Moines
H. Hunter
M. R. Pharmer
Pharmer
D. H. Ricker
Associated Swine Breeders, Inc
San Francisco
Skagway
Alaskan
Mackenzie
Yukon Territory
Vera May Nelson
Yoshio Hosada
Hosada
Liberty
Supreme Court of Nebraska
Aurora
Neb
Supreme Court of the United States
Nebraska
Senate
House
Arizona State News Highlights 1919 Local Reforms and Trials
Governor Campbell signed bills to improve highways and regulate child labor and education. Basil Pandar received 30 years to life for murder. Arizona leads in war bond pledges with 96 percent paid. The 1919 1920 appropriations total 12 716 170 compared with 7 414 441 for 1917 1918. A Nogales teen hunter set a predator record as his father broke lion-killing marks. Supreme Court upheld eight hour work law for women, Arizona joins soldiers settlement plan with federal funds. Truthful advertising law signed. Sheriff reports a desert crossing by two Mexican girls and two men with horses. State Supreme Court revived 160 000 tax suit against copper firms. Hubbell murder fire at Oraiba trading post. Distillery raid near McNeal nets two arrests. Big Bug copper ore shows high values. shaft expansions planned. Whisky hidden in trunk metal containers seized in Phoenix. Jerome gains local bills despite Legislature delays.
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Campbell
Basil Pandar
James Antonio
Stanford
Phoenix
Arizona
United War Work Campaign
S. B. Lind
Hack Townsend
Nogales
Big Bug
Mayer
Big Bug Company
Arizona Eastern
C. Verdugo
House
Senate
Jerome
Peace Delegates Push Work on Treaty Amid Bolshevik Tensions
European affairs quickened as peace talks pressed toward a final treaty. German and Hungarian protests rise over borders and a league of nations covenant drafts progress in Paris. Debate centers on reparations, security guarantees for France and Poland, and the fate of colonies under mandates.
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Paris
League of Nations
Germany
League
Wilson
Lloyd George
Clemenceau
Orlando
France
Italy
Poland
Doctor Dernburg
Doctor Schiffer
Prussian National Assembly
Rhine
Saar
Brockdorff Rantzau
Hungary
Russia
Mangin
Mayence
Pressburg
Vienna
Danube
Budapest
Bela Kun
Count Karolyi
Roumania
Raab
Karl Kramarsz
Moscow
Petrograd
Stephen Pichon
French
Chamber of Deputies
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Western Newspaper Union News Service
Washington
George Fort
United States
Palmere
Oceania
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
General Staff
Chemical Warfare Service
Navy
Daniels
Europe
T. J. Cowie
Pershing
Young Men’s Christian Association
Greece
Cassetta
Frascati
Holy Roman Church
Alexandre Millerand
Alsace-Lorraine
Richmond
Amelia
Portugal
Emperor William
Frederick William
German National Assembly
Frederick J. Horne
Tokio
London
Army Council
Queen Mary’s Auxiliary Corps of Women
Buenos Aires
Emperor Charles of Austria
Feldkirch Station
Switzerland
Emperor Charles
Wartegg
Staad
Rorschach
Lake Constance
Duke of Parma
Coblenz
Rotterdam
Third Army
Ted Lewis
St. Vincent's Hospital
Tom Cowler
England
Billy Miske
St. Paul
Minn
Baltimore
Cowler
Miske
Benny Leonard
Harvey Thorpe
Joplin
New York
Kansas City
Thorpe
New Zealand
Vancouver
Chicago
Levy Mayer
Mars
William Henry Pickering
West Indies
Edward Pickering
Harvard
St. Louis
Bridge Junction
Ark
United States Steel Corporation
Congress
Panama Canal
Panama
Cristobal
Julio Zamora
George Crager
United States Army
Arizona State News
Western Newspaper
Union News Service
Supreme Court
McNeal
Douglas
Matt Keaton
James Alford
Central
Edward W. Pickard
Galicia
Lemberg
Bessarabia
Bessarabian
Czecho-Slovakia
German Austria
Turkey
Bulgaria
Austria-Hungary
Hoover
Austria
League of Nations Commission
Commission
Executive Committee
Charles E. Hughes
Taft
Japan
Great Britain
Industrial Conference
National Industrial Council
Ufa
Wellnich
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