Iowa Falls officials plan own cabins for scouts
Iowa Falls officials plan to let boy and girl scouts own their own cabins. The Mago ue association of southwest Iowa holds an annual picnic in Red Oak in August. Plans are being made for the 1926 town state fair and exposition in August. A new Presbyterian church at Alta has been dedicated debt free with a $35 000 pipe organ.
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Iowa Falls
Magouie Association
South West Iowa
Red Oak
Presbyterian
Alta
Webb
West Nishna River
Iowa
Jozef Mikulowski-Pomorski
University of Warsaw
Iowa State College
Traer
Reinbeck
LB. Schmidt
Iowa Conservation Society
Belle Plaine
Oskaloosa
National Livestock Producers’ Association
Malcolm Shipping Association
Malcom
Iowa Bankers' Association
Dubuqué
Iowa Experiment Station
Farmers’ Co-operative Society of
Sioux Center
Guthrie Center
C. G. Richardson
Beg Moines
Indianola
Iowana
Des Moines Street Car Company
Grand Army of the Republic
Senate
Des Moines
Towa
Chicago
United States
Garden Club
Iowa Senate Likely To Kill Income Tax Measure
Iowa’s senate appears poised to defeat the proposed income tax bill as a constitutional majority opposes its passage. Governors Hammill and lawmakers consider revising all state tax laws, with past committees spearheading a comprehensive revision, though debate continues over replacement provisions and road funding tied to federal aid.
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Senate
Thirty-Ninth General Assembly
Hammill
van Alstyne Committee
Thirty-Ninth Assembly
Iowa
House Highway Committees
Banking bills emerge in legislature amid split Senate
Banking legislation advances with a bill allowing reorganization of closed banks without full creditor consent becoming law after approval by both houses and the governor. The Senate remains evenly divided, making attendance crucial for pivotal measures and faction control across the Forty-first General Assembly.
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House Banking Committee
Senate
Forty-first General Assembly
Labor backs Iowa bid to require state printing contracts
Iowa labor groups press a bill to direct all state printing contracts to Iowa firms if capable, amid a busy session with 417 bills pending. February enlistment data show 64 Iowa men ages 18 to 35 join Uncle Sam’s forces. Iowa City claims the nation’s largest city by appointing a woman as chief executive. Northern farmers seek legal means to curb pheasant depredations damaging corn. Fort Madison ministers seek blue law revival urging churchgoers to avoid dancing, polygamy, and Sunday movies.
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LABOR
Iowa
Organload Labor
Missouri
State Printing Board
Towa
Uncle Sam
Iowa City
United States
Ministerial Association
Fort ‘Madison
Fortress Monroe Air Demonstration Blows Off Map
At Fortress Monroe Virginia a dramatic night air attack demonstrated that airplanes can overwhelm land and sea defences. Quick pursuit planes cleared skies while Martin bombers dropped nine tons of flares, silencing anti-aircraft guns and disabling fortifications amid a large crowd and high-ranking observers.
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Monroe
Fortress Monroe
Mitchell
Fortress
Mon- Tog
O'Sullivan
Rogers
Strauss
Moffett
Patrick
Drumm
Fries
Callan
Martin
Wheat Prices Drop as Hogs Rise in Chicago Trading
May wheat slipped about one cent to 115 percent while July wheat fell seven cents in Chicago markets. Hog prices surged Friday with a 60 to 75 cent gain, closing near 1.81 and signaling a broad rise since the prior week.
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Chicago
Chicago Markets
Chicago Board of Trade
Two Women and Four Children Die in Train Crash at Williamsport
A car carrying Mrs. Fred Bodine of Williamsport and four children was struck by a Wabash freight train at the Williamsport crossing northeast of Here. The victims include Gertrude Bodine, Elwood Bodine, Mary Bodine, Mabel Bodine, and Clara Hurd of Marysville Ohio, Mrs Bodine’s cousin visiting.
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Danville
Williamsport
Ind
Here
Fred Bodine
Gertrude
Dred, Jr
Elwood
Mabel
House backs U.S. adherence to World Court
The House approves a declaration by a 301 to 28 vote urging the United States to join the World Court on terms supported by Presidents Harding and Coolidge. The Fish resolution states it is the sense of the House that the U.S. should become a member of the court.
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U. S
Washington
House
United States
Harding
Coolidge
Dies While Crossing Ocean on Berengaria
Milton 8. Barger, treasurer of the New York Central railroad, died aboard the Berengaria crossing the Atlantic. His body was transferred to the Leviathan and returned to America.
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Ocean London
Milton
Barger
New York Central Railroad
Per Berengaria
Ale
Leviathan
America
Postal Workers to Get Raises on March 14
Postal employees nationwide will see pay increases in their March 14 envelopes. The raises come from the new postal pay and rate bill approved by lawmakers, boosting earnings and benefits for workers.
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Washington
Supreme Court OKs Auto Searches for Liquor
Washington reports that the Supreme Court ruled federal agents may stop and search autos for contraband liquor without a warrant in a Michigan case by George Carroll and John Kiro. In a Georgia decision by Sig Samuels the court allowed states to ban possession of liquor legally obtained before prohibition. Chief Justice Taft stated states may outlaw such possession despite federal permit.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Michigan
George Carroll
John Kiro
Lquor
Georgia
Sig Samuels
Carroll
Kiro
Grand Rapids
Mich
Sumuers
President Signs Bill Giving Solons Pay Raise
Washington reports the Sixty-eighth congress closed without major legislation but Coolidge signed the legislative appropriation bill at the Capitol minutes before adjournment. The measure raises cabinet, speaker, and vice president salaries from 12 000 to 15 000 dollars and members of the House and Senate from 7 500 to 10 000 dollars, effective with the new term starting March 4.
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Washington
Muscle Shoals
McFadden Banking
Coolidge
Capitol
House
Ferma
Dawes Administers Oath to Eleven New Senators
Washington report notes eleven men from the Sixty-eighth Congress were sworn in as senators, ten seating for the first time. Among them is T Coleman Du Pont of Delaware, a Republican who previously served. All reelected senators also took oath for new terms. Vice President Dawes administered the oaths as the senators-elect appeared before the joint rostrum groups.
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Washington
Senate
T. Coleman du Pont
Delaware
Dawes
New G. O. P. House Chief to Europe on Dual Mission
Representative Jonn Q. Tilson of Connecticut, the new Republican leader in the House, has traveled to Europe on a dual mission. He will study parliamentary bodies in several capitals for possible reforms in Congress and, for President Coolidge and Secretary Weeks, compare mass production of ordnance in France England and other countries.
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Washington
Jonn Q. Tilson
Connecticut
House of Representatives
Europe
Congress
Coolidge
France
England
Swanson Recovers From Peritonitis Operation in Paris
Actress Gloria Swanson and her husband Marquis de la Falaise de la Coudray left the clinic at Au tens, after an operation for acute peritonitis two weeks ago. They moved to a Versailles hotel for convalescence, as the couple continues to recover.
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Gloria Swanson
Paris
Mres
Gloria ‘Swanson
Almistar
Autens
Marquis de la Falaise de la Coudray
Versailles
Leningrad Blast Kills Twenty Six
A blast in Leningrad claimed twenty six lives and left many injured as oxygen tanks exploded, witnesses said. The incident occurred during an event at a local facility, with authorities treating it as a catastrophic accident and investigating causes.
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Leniingrad
Leningrad
RULES U S CAN SEIZE RAM SHIPS
New York reports a Brooklyn federal judge ruled the United States may seize a foreign-flag vessel outside the twelve-mile limit if there is proof of intent to land liquor on American shores. The Zeehound seizure, with 2,180 cases of liquor valued about 200000, upheld though crew were acquitted in a separate Volstead action.
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New York
United States
Eewin L. Garvin
Brooklyn
Zeehound
Coast Guard
Army Base
Birth Street
H. J. Evans
Howard Osterhout
Garvin
Twenty-Eight States Oppose Child Labor Law
Missouri house rejected the proposed child labor amendment on March 8 and Nebraska senate followed on March 4, raising total state disapprovals to twenty eight. Ratifications remain in three states, with New Mexico recording partial ratification and Arkansas rescinding earlier approval. Ten more legislatures in session are expected to act against the amendment.
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Washington
Missouri House of Representatives
Nebraska Senate
National Committee For
Arizona
California
Wisconsin
New Mexico
Arkansas
Colorado
Florida
Inois
Iowa
Maine
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
Rhode Island
West Virginia
Alabama
Kentucky
Mississippi
Maryland
Virginia
Fechet Named Air Chief Replacing Mitchell
Col James E B Wechet commander of the Kelly Field San Antonio Texas chosen by Secretary Weeks to succeed Brig Gen William Mitchell as assistant chief of the Army Air Service. The appointment awaits Senate approval and will take effect April 27 when Fechet is promoted to brigadier general and Mitchell returns to colonel.
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Washington
James EB. Wechet
Kelly
San Antonio
Texas
Weeks
William Mitchell
Army Air Service
Senate
Gooll
Fechettf
Mitchell Yvill
New York Banker Stabs Self to Death at Calveralty Club
Morris K. Parker, vice president of Equitable Trust, was found dead in a locked Calveralty Club room with an ice pick embedded near the heart. Missing Persons bureau had been quietly seeking Parker as authorities say his bond department affairs were in A-1 shape.
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New York
Bureau of Missing Persons
Morris K. Parker
Equitable Trust Company
Calveralty Club
Truat Company
Parker
Bandits Threaten Ranch Manager Near Mrs Evans Estate
Mexico City reports bandits threaten the manager of Mrs. Evans ranch and the San Pedro Cortocan haciendas once owned by Rosalie Evans. Mrs Hoang, an American widow of a British subject, was killed in August in an ambush near the ranch. The Mexican government is taking steps to protect George Camp, an American and administrator of the haciendas.
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Mexico City
George Camp
San Pedro Cortocan Haciends
Rosalie Evans
Hoang
Bat August
Germany tries 23 Communists for conspiracy and arms plot
The trial of 23 Communists in Beathen Germany concluded with nine acquittals and three sentences including three imprisonments and fines. authorities say the case centered on undermining the republic and arming efforts.
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Beathen
Germany
Women reelect Mrs Wilson as honorary president
Washington. Mrs Woodrow Wilson was reelected honorary president of the Women’s National Democratic critic club at the annual meeting here.
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Wilson
Washington
Woodrow “Wilson
Women's National Demo Critic Club
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Air Chief
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Ruby Brendon
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