Hawkeye State News: Tragic Local Incidents Across Iowa
A roundup of Iowa events reports multiple fatalities and legal changes. Charlies Billings of Dubuque dies in a car crash caused by William Leidinger. Insac Coulter kills wife and self in Kansas City. Merton Johnson dies from a ladder fall near Story City. Magma Miller’s runaway leads to injuries. a Dubuque city hall electrification project begins. Boxholm ties to Central American railway work. Ottumwa sees real estate growth and cigar production. others include a fatal air tank explosion in Sioux City, a death from a cornstalk scratch, a tarantula bite illness in Decorah, bank robbery loot recovered near Grand River, and several suicides and accidents across the state.
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Charlies Billings
Dubuque
William Leidinger
Insac Coulter
Cemterville
Kansas City
H. English
Wilton Junction
W. E. Goodrich
Logan
Merton Johnson
Story City
B. F. Larson
Sac City
Des Moines
Magma Miller
William A. Burke
William War- Rack Company
Sioux City
Johen Dubuque
Boone
Boxholm
Ottumwa Realtors Board
Ottumwa
Matt Spellerberg
Cedar Rapids
Lydia Kulhavy
Johnson County
Walter K. Flynn
C. EB. McCormick
C. A. Reese
Lake Craybill
Clarinda
Captain McCormick
Howard Bower
Folletts
Clinton
Bower
Dorothy Brown
Decorah
Grand River
Uncle Sam
Riley S Downs
Waterloo
Wine of Dandelions Under Official Ban
Newark readers learn dandelions are not fruit and cannot be used to legally make wine for family use. Federal Prohibition Commissioner Haynes and Internal Revenue Collector Ferguson announce the ruling after inquiries on whether dandelion wine could be stock for household permits. The question remains unresolved on how to classify dandelions for legal status.
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Newark
N. J
Haynes
Internal Revenue
Ferguson
Washington
Nebraska National Forest aims at vast sandhill reforestation
In western Nebraska along the Ismal river Lincoln reports a giant public works project to plant 3 to 4 billion pine trees in the Nebraska National Forest. After years of failed attempts, the Bessey nursery developed a hardy stock, and 50 workers with horses are planting on 205,000 acres. The plan targets soil trenches and deep moisture storage to sustain trees through the dry sandhill conditions.
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Lincoln
Nebraska National Forest
Great National Forest
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Bessey
Charles Ao Bessey
Nebraska Reforestation Transforms Sand Hills Landscape
The Nebraska National Forest program, starting in 1912, has planted climate suitable trees freely to ranchers, with 60 to 80 percent survival. Windbreaks and woodlots are expanding across sand hills within fifty miles, turning barren terrain into a growing forest as tall trees reach thirty feet plus and pine needle floors enrich the ground. The project aims to create one of the world’s largest artificial forests.
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Sand Hills
National Forest
Nebraska National Forest
Seek for buried Lusitania gold salvaging bid turns to ocean depths
Benjamin Franklin Leavitt sails from New York for a salvage off Ireland seeking about 11 million dollars in gold from the Lusitania and Arabic. The plan costs 250000, backed by around 00 stockholders. Leavitt has designed a deep diving suit with manganese bronze components and air supply for hours at depths up to 500 feet. Divers would descend to 385 feet to reach the Lusitania and 815 feet to reach the Arabic, under a salvage ship held by heavy anchors.
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Philadelphia
Benjamin Franklin Leavitt
New York
Ireland
Leavitt
Lake Michigan
Aly
New Parties Barred by Communist Monopoly of Legality
A fragmentary report discusses the Communist Party restricting membership to sympathizers with dictatorship and blocking rival groups. Zinovief and Petrograd officials are quoted warning that future entrants may dilute party unity and threaten Bolshevik control.
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Communist Party
Mostow Nuew Polirien
Russia
Communist Party Dist
Hint
Zinovief
al-Russian
Communist Party Congress
Zinoviert
Iird
Petrograd
Lenin
le Bs Atery
Revo Hatlimayev
Ovusaden
Trally
Rock Dislodged by Cow Kills Boy in Pikeville
A family cow toppled a 25 pound rock that rolled 100 yards down a hillside and killed Luther Lamb, five, as he walked with his mother and brother near Ratliff Creek. The tragedy occurred in the Ratliff Creek area while he visited grandparents. An investigation noted the rock had rolled a distance before striking him.
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Pikeville
Lipside
Luther Lamb
Myr
Ricard Lamb
Ratliff Creek
Press Independence Fears Grow Across Ranks
M Zlnovleff warned that bourgeois writers seek an independent press while officials reveal journalists registered as newspaper employees are largely from the old intelligentsia class. The remark underscores concerns over media control and the influence of established elites on reportage.
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M. Zlnovleff
Relief Aid Deportees Return to Istanbul Area
U S relief workers deported from Kharput in Turkish Armenia have arrived in Constantinople. The group includes Yowell of Washington, Ward of Newton Cotter, Musseller Sigeon, Parulee of Boston, and Miss Isabel Hurley of Pawtucket. They accuse authorities of mistreatment and cruelty toward Christians in Asia Minor.
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Constantinople
Kharput
Armenia
Diurhekr
Yowell
Washington
Mark L. Ward
Newton Cotter
Musseller Sigeon
de Rath Parulee
Boston
Isabel Hurley
Pawtucket
Yowett
Asia Minor
Hoover Sets Coal Prices to 25 Cents Below Garfield Scale
Washington reports Secretary Hoover reached agreement with operators in five coal districts to hold prices at a reasonable level during the strike. Albania district mine price is fixed 25 cents below the Garfield scale, while other districts see both increases and a $3.50 maximum in several Appalachian and Virginia-West Virginia fields. Alabama district prices rise from 2.20 to 2.60 per ton.
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Washington
Hoover
Albania
Harlan and
Hazard
Kentucky
Appalachian
Tennessee
Pocahontas, New River
Tug River
Winding Gulf
West Virginia
Alabama
Ford Rejects Elimination of Gorgas Plant at Muscle Shoals
Henry Ford's reply to the house military committee rejects removing the Gorgas steam plant from government disposal. In a letter to Chairman Kuhn, Ford insists the plant is essential to operate Muscle Shoals economically and states that acceptance of Muscle Shoals as a whole depends on retaining Gorgas. Z W Worthington delivered the Ford response after returning from Detroit.
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Washington
Henry Ford
House Military Committee
Muscle Shoals
Ala
Z. W. Worthington
Ford
Detroit
Gorgas
Five Hurt As Auto Skids Into Crowd Near Race
Five injured when a racing car skidded into the crowd near the end of a 20 mile automobile race in Decatur Wisconsin. One man, Irving G. H. Grubb of Decatur, suffered a fractured skull and is believed fatally hurt. Also injured were Tosa Hopkins, Wallace Ness, Donald Moran, all of Decatur, and S C Young of St. Louis, spectators.
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Decatur
Irving GH. Grubb
Tosa Hopkins
Wallace Ness
Donald Moran
Decator
S.C. Young
St. Louis
Fall Kills Sir J. D. Rees in Chesterfield Express Train
Sir J D Rees sixty seven long serving member of Parliament for East Nottingham died from injuries after a fall from an express train in Chesterfield on June 5. He joined the Indian Trail Service in 1875 and served until 1901.
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J. D. Rees
Chesterfield
Eng
East Nottingham
Indian Trail Service
Ex Senator Pollock Olea Dies in Cheraw
Former United States Senator Ww Pollock of Cheraw died here. He served in the senate from December 1918 to March 1919, filling the unexpired term of Senator Tillman.
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Pollock Olea
Calmatta
United States
CP. Pollock
Cheraw
Senate
Tillman
Ulster border crisis prompts British force deployment
Sir James Craig asks Britain to act against republicans on the Ulster frontier. Belfast reports soldiers replacing police in Tyrone with entrenchments under heavy fighting in Tyrone and Donegal. Craig, Londonderry, and Churchill confer with Lloyd George as British troops, artillery, tanks, and airplanes mass in Ulster. unionists urge a systematic offensive.
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London
James Craig
Ulster
Belfast
Tyrone County
Marquis of Londonderry
Lloyd George
Winston Churchill
James
Treland
Donegal
Tyrone
James Craig Mow
West
Murphy Wins Auto Race at Indianapolis 600 Miles
Jimroy Murphy won the Indianapolis 600 in a record smashing ride before about 185,000 spectators. He earned 38,000 dollars, cut over sixteen minutes from the previous mark, with a time of 5 hours 17 minutes 80.79 seconds at an average speed of 94.48 mph, beating Ralph DePalma’s 1915 Mercedes record.
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Indianapolis
Jimroy Murphy
Hall of Motorpy Fame
The
Speedway
Ralph DePalma
Harding May visit Canada during Alaska trip
President Harding tentatively accepted an invitation from British ambassador Sir Auckland Geddes to visit Vancouver and Victoria in British Columbia this summer if Congress adjourns early. He noted his Alaska trip plans depend on that adjournment but would include the two Canadian cities if it proceeds.
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Washington
Harding
Aueldand Geddes
Vancouver
Victoria
British Columbia
Alaska
French Debt Talks Set With U S Mission
Washington reports the United States will receive a special mission of French financial experts to discuss France's war debt after the allies debt funding commission's second meeting. No date fixed yet. Cheyenne Wyoming notes light snow across central regions marking first white June in memory.
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Washington
Aliles
Cheyenne
Wyo
Central
Grouthern
Wyoming
Lady Du Cros Granted Divorce in London
Lady Du Cros was granted a divorce from Sir Arthur Du Cros on desertion and misconduct grounds. The decree, issued in June, confirms the couple’s separation and notes a prior decree of prostitution in April 1921.
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Lady du Cros
London
Sir Arthur du Cros
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Hawkeye
State News
Broadcaster
Mellon
T. C. Gaie
Mr. Gine
Postoffice
Lusitania
Benjamin F. Leavitt
U. S
Harriet Woods
Harriet de Kraft Woods
Congressional Library
Library of Congress
House
Iil
Special Constabulary
Frontier
Sir James Craig Gonfére
Murphy
Canada
Paria
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