Weaned Waukon free mail delivery expansion Iowa
Iowa State News reports Waukon will receive free mail delivery. The piece covers banking mergers in Floyd, farmland sales near Dallas Center, long serving Des Moines teachers, and various regional municipal and economic updates across Iowa.
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First National Banks of
Floyd
Dallas Center
E. J. Macy
Des Moines
Guthrie County
Burlington
Coolidge
Ninth Judicial District of
Iowa
Polk County
Ackley
Prairie Farms
Fort Dodge
First’ National Bank of Denison
Horse Arrow
Standard Oil Company
Rockefeller
Shenandoah
Los Angeles
Toledo
Towa
Mason City
Blue Valley Creamery Institute
City Council of
Argonne Post
American Legion
Grand Avenue
Charles City
State Highway Commission
Floyd County
Knoxville Journal
Jawa
Congress
Three Road Plans Before Assembly In Iowa
The Forty first general assembly faces three road programs tied to a $25 million bond. Governor Hammill backs a 3 cent gas tax with fourteen to fifteen year paving, while highway committee plans favor 2 to 2.8 cent taxes and direct highway control. Budget debates loom over income tax and taxation bills as sessions move toward crucial votes.
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Iowa
Forty-first General Assembly
Hammill
Joint
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Senate
Highway Committee
State Highway Commission
Special
Fortieth
Isle of Pines Pact Ratified Senate OKs Isla de Pines Treaty
Washington reports the Senate voted 68 to 14 to ratify the Isle of Pines treaty with Cuba, ending a long dispute from the end of the Spanish War. The vote included Borah and Reed reservations to apply Pratt provisions and assure rights for Americans on Isle of Pines. The treaty, signed March 12, 1904 by John Hay and Cuban Minister Gonzalo de Quesada, aims to settle ownership and improve Lat in American relations.
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Senate
Isle of Pines
Republic of Cuba
Roosevelt
Coolidge
Cuba
Latin America
Borah
Boreh
Isla of Pines
Reed
Missouri
Cubs
John Hay
Gonzalo de Quesada
Wheat Suffers Greatest Break in Board History
Wheat slumped at the Chicago Board of Trade in an unprevented turnover with no news to justify it. May wheat fell 14 to 15 cents from Thursday’s close, trading as low as 89 cents a bushel, a plunge veterans likened to the Leiter deal of 1908 and the most dramatic movement in Board of Trade history.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
The
Wheat PLC
Leiter
Board of Trade
Jury Finds Stokes Not Guilty of Defaming Wife
A Chicago jury acquits W. D. Stokes in sixty-two minutes of conspiring to defame his wife Helen Hillwood Stokes and drag her name through the city underworld. The defense labeled the case a goose chase and freed co-defendant Robert Lee, an investigator.
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Stokes
Chriago
W. D. Stokes
Helen Hillwood Stokes
Chicago
Robert Lee
Five in Auto Killed by Train Near Cairo Danville
Five people perished when an automobile was struck by a Big Four passenger train between Cairo and Danville Tl. The deceased include Joe Akin twenty five of Lawrenceville IL his wife their three year old daughter and an unnamed baby and Rance Akin twenty An unnamed child died three hours after the crash in a local hospital from injuries and premature birth
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Lawrenceville
Cairo
Danville
Joe Akin
Rance Akin
Weeks Orders Study of Air Defense Effectiveness
Secretary of War Weeks directed the army general staff to thoroughly study the effectiveness of anti-aircraft guns against airplane attacks. Major General Hines and high officers criticized the recent Fort Monroe demonstration for using outdated guns and ammunition.
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Washington
Weeks
Army
Hines
Fort Monroe
Senator Smoot Stricken in Senate Hospitalized at Home
Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, a veteran GOP leader, was stricken with indigestion in the Senate and after medical treatment was sent home. His physician said the condition was not serious.
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Smoot
Wasington
Reed Smoot
Utah
Senate
Fear Many Die in Storm Off Japan
Fifteen survivors were cast ashore at Takashima after the small steamer Uwa-Silly Maru foundered in a gale along northeastern Japan. The disaster is believed to have carried about 100 passengers.
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Tokyo
Takashima
Japan
Coolidge Greets New German Envoy Baron von Maltzon
President Coolidge welcomed Baron Ago von Maltzon the new German ambassador saying Germany can return to prosperity and peace he urged studying America s century and a half of democracy the envoy thanked Americans for reconstruction aid and cultural help noting the late Reich s leader would have valued amicable ties President replied that America seeks lasting peace through mutual understanding and shared duty
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Washington
Germany
Coolidge
Baron Ago
von Maltzon
Ambarandor
Relch
United States of America
America
Nnion
Coolidges
Woman Says Ex Grid Star Gave Her Poison
In Kansas City Missouri Mrs Dora Gage dies after accusing ex grid star R M Turner of poisoning her. Turner former Kansas University football figure denies the charges as two maids force entry to the hotel room where Mrs Gage lay dying and claim she said he sought her life insurance and forced her to drink poison.
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Kansas City
R. M. Turner
Kan
Sng University
Dora Gage
Atchison, Kan
Gage
Turner
First President of China Sun Yat Sen Dies in Peking
Sun Yat sen founder of the Chinese republic died in Peking after a winter illness. He had been provisional president in 1911 and elected President of all China in May 1921. His leadership linked radical forces while denying communism. Canton remained the capital of the South China republic.
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Sun Yat-Sen
South China Republic
Canton
Doctor Sun
Jver
Herle
China
Chinese Republic
All China
California Wine Association Receives Taxes Rebate Check
The California Wine Association received a treasury check for 1,000,000 dollars as excess federal palitsives duties refund.
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Wine Association
San Francisco
California Wine Association
The
Treasury
Three Bank Robbers Captured Near North Wild Wood
Three men who robbed the Tuckuhse National Bank shot director Edward Tomlo and assaulted the cashier and his wife, were captured by North Wild Wood police in the woods beyond the town.
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Tuckuhse National Bank
Edward Tomlo
Hig
North
Wildwood
United States Sues Mrs Vanderbilt in Federal Court
A suit in equity was filed in federal court by United States Attorney Buckner against Mrs William Vanderbilt for 288,248 dollars. The action seeks recovery or settlement in a civil equity dispute involving the Vanderbilt estate in New York.
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Vanderbilt
New York
United States
Buckner
William US Widdebilt
Senate Rejects Charles Warren For Attorney General
Washington report on the Senate rejection of Charles Beecher Warren for attorney general due to one missing vote. Vice President Dawes absence prevented a decisive ballot amid partisan attacks over Warren’s ties to the sugar trust and Havemeyer. Debate stretched long, ending with Warren’s defeat and lingering political contention.
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Dawes
Senate
Charles Beecher Warren
George H. Moses
Capitol
Reed
Pennsylvania
Walsh
Overman
North Carolina
Farmer- Labor
Senator Shipstead
Qyerman
Warren Down
Borah
Idaho
Brookhart
Town
Cookens
Michigan
Frazier
Ladd
North Dakota
McMasters
Norbeck
South Dakota
Johnson
California
Normia
Nebraska
Michiigan
Hia
Bugar Trust
H. C. Havemeyer
Thia
Mr. Warren
Trust
Montana
Missouri
Shepherd and Wife Held in McClintock Death Quiz
Chicago reports William D. Shepherd and his wife were taken to the state's attorney's office on technical arrest amid new evidence in the death of ward William Nelson McClintock from typhoid fever. Dr. Charles C. Faiman testified Shepherd learned to recognize typhoid germs and to inject them in food, and that Shepherd paid $50 to recover a letter evidencing bacteriology interest. Shepherd allegedly laughed when accused of stealing test tubes.
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Chicago
William D. Shepherd
William “Nelson McClintock
Shepherd
Mrs Joseph Pulitzer Dies After Auto Crash
In New York Mrs Joseph Pulitzer wife of Joseph Pulitzer Jr publisher of the St Louis Post Dispatch and secretary of the publishing company died in Manhattan Dye Worona Throat hospital following an automobile accident.
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New York
Joseph Pulitzer
Joseph Pulitzer, Jr
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Conmpany
New York World
Manhattan
Sviettia
Tax Returns Publicity Delayed By Officials
Internal Revenue Bureau announces a multi month delay before authorizing public filing of income tax returns. Some mentions indicate income tax returns will be filed in 1924, with officials signaling postponement of publicity.
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Washington
Internal Revenue, Bureau
Equitable Building Sold for 88.5 Million
New York reports the Equitable Building at 1 Broadway, touted as the world’s largest office structure, sold for 88.5 million dollars. The price would set a new city real estate record, while a separate Senate resolution calls for FTC inquiry into recent gasoline price hikes.
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Equitable
Broadway
Wag Ré
Porte
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