Death of Edith Rockefeller McCormick and life reflections
The Chicago paper notes Edith Rockefeller McCormick’s death from cancer and contrasts it with a Mulvane Kansas birth service led by Dr S T Shelly. It recalls Amelia Earhart Putnam’s records and comments on life’s mysteries, economic unrest, and ongoing social issues including coal miners and farm protests led by Milo Reno.
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Chicago
Edith Rockefeller
McCormick
Mulvane
Kan
S. T. Shelly
DR. Shelly
John Smith
Hoover declares end of financial crisis with jobs drive
President Hoover ends the major financial crisis and urges business leaders to push a credit revival and job creation. A 60 day moratorium on mortgage foreclosures is announced to ease housing strain and a national key committee will coordinate sub committees to boost credit, employment, and home repairs.
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Washington
Hoover
Federal Home Loan Bank
Franklin Fort
Interstate Commerce Commission
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve District
Brewer At Hoover Parley Will Not Talk About Beer
Chicago report says Fred Pabst the only brewer invited to President Hoover’s conference will discuss agriculture and other topics. He quipped that he would talk about cheese as well, noting he makes cheese too.
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Hoover Parley
Chicago
Fred Pabst
Hoover
Milwaukee
Washington
Pabst
Agriculture
Child dies from overturned coffee pot burns
In San Bernardino California 8 month old Charles Hudson died Friday from burns after overturning a pot of coffee.
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San Bernardino
Calif
Ins
Charles Hudson
Cedar Rapids Unemployment Relief Fund Names 1932-33 Executive Committee
A 32 member executive committee for Cedar Rapids Unemployment Relief Fund was elected at a Chamber of Commerce dinner attended by 125 leaders. The report on 1931 32 fund receipts shows 127731.38 collected with 121838.19 disbursed leaving 5843.19 balance.
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Cedar Rapids
Chamber of Commerce
I. B. McGladrey Company
Unemployment Relief Fund
John C. Reid
Mark Anderson
Metta A. Burd
Robert Vesely
Roy Curray
R. R. Downer
W. H. Stepanek
George Laird
Frank Chambers
Florence Johnston
Edith Lowe
R. R. Epler
Harry A. Palmer
Howard H. ‘Cherry
John. A. Horan
E. M. Scott
R. H
Arthur Poe
J. Harold Horan
A. C. Deamer
Joe McCormick
Dave Williams
Estella Swein
John B. Northcott
Charles D. Manson
Papen to Seek Dissolution of German Parliament
Chancellor Franz von Papen plans to ask President von Hindenburg to sign a decree dissolving the Reichstag and to approve a vast reconstruction program that would employ millions of unemployed men at full pay to stave off a Nazi centrist coalition and win broad support.
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Berlin
INS
Reichstag
Franz von Papen
Neudeck
von Hindenburg
Adolf Hitler
von Papen
Cedar Rapids Auto Toll This Year
Report notes traffic toll in Cedar Rapids with figures of accidents injuries and deaths. The brief lists counts including six fatalities and multiple injuries across the year.
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Cedar Rapids
Pickets Lines Thinning At Bluff, Picket Movement Quiet
Reports of a gradual spread of the farmers holiday strike reached Council Bluffs as picketing narrowed to small groups along highways into the city. In nearby Sioux City Shenandoah and Blair Neb the movement steadied with plans to widen to Des Moines, while talks on opening a statewide higher price campaign continued without decision.
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Council Bluffs
P. A. Lainson
U. S
Sioux City
Shenandoah
Blair
Neb
Spencer
Des Moines
Iowa
Lainson
Omaha
Nebraska
Douglas County
South Dakota Farm Holiday Association
Friday Baseball Scores in Major Leagues
Summary of the day with American League and National League results including Cleveland Philadelphia New York Pittsburgh Chicago Boston Louis St Louis and others. Scores show a mix of wins and losses as teams faced each other with several tallies and late inning outcomes.
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Cleveland
Philadelphia
New York
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Boston
Mrs Edith Rockefeller McCormick Funeral Saturday
Edith Rockefeller McCormick lay in state at her Lake Shore Drive mansion as Rockefeller kin gathered for Saturday funeral services. John D. Rockefeller Jr. will attend the 3 PM rites at Graceland cemetery with Harold F. McCormick and family. Her vast fortune, once among the world’s richest, remains unsettled amid estate probate and 1929 real estate losses.
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Chicago
Edith Rockefeller McCormick
Lake Shore Drive
Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Graceland Cemetery
Harold F. McCormick
Standard Oil Company
McCormick
Texas Trio Charged With Gang Slaying
Three Texans Archie Jenkins C J Hester and Ralph Arnold face first degree murder preliminaries in Glenwood for the August 13 slaying of Angelo Sivigliano whose body was dumped on a highway. Bullets from Jenkins gun match those found in the Kansas City man.
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Glenwood
Mills County
Angelo Sivigliano
Here
Archie M. Jenkins
C. J. Hester
Houston
Ralph Arnold
Waco
Omaha
Iowa
Jenkins
Kansas City
Plan Effective In Iowa Andrew Says Plan Effective In Iowa
DES MOINES AP L A Andrew state superintendent of banking Friday expressed his approval of the 60 day suspension of mortgage foreclosure proposal saying the policy has been operating for months in the banking department He said he was in agreement with Fort that it would be shameful to take away homes and life savings and that it is better to wait for SperiDity for obligations to be repaid
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Des Moines
L.A. Andrew
Fort
Tesch
Ark Wee
Hopkinton
Monticello
Andover
Clineton
Lester Heaton
Central City
Coggan
Joe ‘Petrus
Ray Scott
Condon
Banker Amnesia Victim To Return To Bensonville Home
William A. Ernsting, a banker who vanished last Saturday, is expected to return home in Bensonville on Friday. He phoned his wife from Chelsea Michigan saying he woke up after a spell of amnesia and recalled only being in Washington Park in Chicago.
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Chicago
INS
William A. Ernsting
Bensonville
Chelsea
Mich
Washington Park
Southeast Iowa wins high honors in state fair show
Muscatine county leads with two championships and five firsts in a 4-H swine event at the Iowa state fair. Johnson, Washington, Poweshiek, Scott and Appanoose counties also place, with notable wins across Holstein, Duroc, Hampshire and Chester White groups and several fat barrow awards.
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Des Moines
Muscatine County
Southeastern Iowa
Johnson
Washington
Poweshiek
Scott
Appanoose
Muscatine
Hampshire
William Anderson
West Liberty
Johnson County
Johnson Lads
Washington County
Chester White
East
Iowa
Robert Naber
Holstein
Guernsey
Robert Lage
Davenport
James B. Lang
Brooklyn
Poweshiek County
Poland
Everett
Hayes
Duroc Boar
John Brockaway
Duroc Group
Chester Group
Roger Kretschmar
Hampshire Group
Duroc Barrow
Cleo Yoder
Wellifian
Hampshire Barrow
Junior McConnell
Tamworth Barrow
Howard Yoder
Wellman
Fat
Kenneth Johnson
Centerville
Fear Norway Ocean Flyers Lost At Sea
Clyde Lee and John Bochkon vanished after taking off from Harbor Grace Newfoundland bound for Oslo amid bad eastern Atlantic weather. The Green Mountain Bay carried gas to last about 30 hours and the pair planned a nonstop 39 hour flight.
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Oblo
Norway
Clyde Lee
John~ Bochkon
Oslo
Harbor Grace
Newfoundland
Green Mountain Bay
Atlantic
British Cotton Workers Strike Looms After Talks Fail
Lancashire cotton industry faces a shutdown as about 200000 workers plan to strike on Saturday refusing a wage cut. government will not intervene now, though a broader stoppage affecting 500000 may follow if no settlement emerges. Workers accept roughly six percent cut while owners push for more.
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Manchester
England
Lancashire
J. Ramsay‘ MacDonald
Henry Beterton
Chalmers Succeeds Reno as Strike Head in Iowa
Milo Reno resigns as Iowa chairman of the Farmers' Holiday association to devote full time to the national post. John Chalmers of Boone becomes Iowa state chairman as the farm produce movement moves to national leadership.
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Des Moines
Milo Reno
Iowa
Farmers’ Holiday Association
John Chalmers
Boone
Farm’ Produce Holding
Holiday Association
Reno
Clear Skies and Warm Friday in Cedar Rapids
Clear skies and moderate temperatures followed a rainy day. Light showers Thursday added 0.17 inches, total rainfall reaching 0.40 inches. Friday saw a low around 61 at 3 am, highs near 83, with morning readings in the 60s and noon at 79 to 80.
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Cedar Rapide News
Will Rogers patrons politics in Bishop rally
Will Rogers laments water loss and desertion of a fertile valley. He notes a local Democratic rally with all residents present except the lone Republican postmaster who switches sides for office. The writer claims politics are settled for four years.
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Bishop
Calif
Los Angeles
Chamber of Commerce
Wonton
John Garner Blames G O P In Acceptance
New York AP Speaker Garner, accepting the Democratic vice presidential nomination, blamed the GOP for most civic troubles and government overreach. He sent a post office stamp acceptance with a letter to the national headquarters while Barkley led the notification effort.
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New York
Garner
Mall
Barkley
Kentucky
Washington
Uvi Sunn Ee Rey
White House
Republican Party
Weather Delays Bendix Trophy Race to Monday
Adverse weather along the Los Angeles to Cleveland route postpones the Bendix trophy race, a dawn to dusk flight opening the 1932 national air races. Cc. F. Leinesch, manager, says six famous speed pilots in streamlined planes will depart Los Angeles at 2 am for Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Los Angeles
Cc. F. Leinesch
RIDDLED BODY HOPKINTON MAN FOUND IN WAPSIE
Hopkinton resident Luther Tesch pair killed his father Louis Tesch 48 near Hopkinton. Police found Louis’s body in the Wapsie river two miles northwest of Central City with more than 100 shotgun wounds. Investigators believe the crime occurred Friday night after Tesch left home.
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Luther Tesch
Louis Tesch
Hopkinton
Wapsipinicon
Linn
Del
of .Louis
Tesch
Wapsie ‘River
Central City
Sheen
Larry Harry
X G, Utley
Delaware
Luther
Moonee
Teach
BE. McLaughlin
Cedar: Rapids
Bandit Uses $17 Heist To Bail Out Friend
Madison AP reports a robber who held up Glenn Pelton's oil filling station demanded and received $17 then left a watch chain and a ring as security. He explained he needed the money to bail a friend from jail.
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Madison
Wis
Tobber
Glenn Pelton
Romance of two stars hinted at in Seattle air travel
The romance between Helene Madison, world leading amateur woman swimmer, and Paul Schwegler, University of Washington All-American football player, was hinted Friday. Madison and Schwegler, who called him a powerful admirer, departed for her home via Seattle on the same airplane.
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Los” Angeles
INS
Helene Madison
Paul Schwegler
University of Washington
Madison
Schwegler
Seattle
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Verne Marshall
Shelly
Mrs. McCormick
Leveler
Amelia Putnam
Newark
Amelia Earhart Putnam
Tee
John J. Raskob
Roosevelt
Raskob
Franklin
Conference of Business Leaders
Babe
Cedar Rapids News
Sescene Ld
Texas
Andrew
Ray Anderson
Gazette
FEAR
Lee
Bochkon
Chalmers
Will Rogers
Editor
John Garner
G.O.P
Wapsie
Louis ‘Tesch
Bandit
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