Widow seeks damages in poison beer death case in Iowa
Mrs. Anson Riesland seeks 50000 dollars in a damage action filed in Logan Iowa after her husband died from drinking grasshopper poison mistaken for beer. Defendant William A Hein admitted responsibility saying he picked the wrong bottle in a dark cave and later moved the beer bottle but did not tell authorities until toxicology confirmed the poison.
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Logan
INS
Anson Riesland
William A. Hein
Riesland
Hein
Farm Bureau
Woodbine
Dunlap
Iowa City
Bumping Down to Mexico Travelling in a Motorist’s View
Prof Clyde Tull reviews W Wilder’s Collier piece and notes travel risks while recounting a Cedar Rapids to Mexico City road trip. He recalls landslides floods bandits and the value of planning with A A A, Mexico’s carretera, and modern city contrasts in Mexico City Acapulco and Monterrey.
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Tull
Mexico
Popocatepetl
Xochimilco
Clyde Tull
Cornell College
Mount Vernon
Lois Taylor
Cedar Rapids
Betty Bakke
Cornell
Dorothea Cole
Jewell Bothwell Tull
New Mex
Wen P. Wilder
Collier’s
Mexico City
Coggon completes $46,000 school addition and gym
The Coggon public school district finished a $46,000 expansion funded by a prior grant and bond issues. A 51 by 60 foot gymnasium stands as a major feature along with a new heating plant and upgraded departments. The project received additional PWA support and aims to ready the school for fall enrollment.
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Coggon
Public Works Administration
Aes
PWA
Iowa Students Mock Arizona Vestal Virgins In Apollo Club Rally
The University of Iowa Sons of Apollo rallied against Arizona's campaign to market its campus as full of beautiful girls. Iowa players Dale Liddicoat Wayne Mason and Dick Chambers voiced mixed views on beauty versus football prowess and campus popularity.
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Iowa
University of Iowa
Sons of Apollo
University of Arizona
Vestal Virgins
Virgins
Dale Liddicoat
Chariton
Arizona
Wayne Mason
Logan
Dick Chambers
Hammond
Ind
Log Cutters Clearing Land for Dam on Mississippi
A crew of twenty one men from McGregor and Marquette work north of Harper's Ferry clearing 100 acres of timber for dam No 9 on the Mississippi River. William ONeill of McGregor serves as foreman of the wood cutting crew. The tract lies on an island across Harper's slough from the Iowa mainland.
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Mcgregor, Ia
McGregor
Marquette
Harper’s Ferry
Mississippi River
William O’neill
Harper’s Slough
Iowa
Blonde Miss West Chester chosen for Iowa State Fair
Miss West Chester Reita Willis age 15, a blonde, selected as Miss West Chester and slated to enter the Iowa State Fair beauty pageant. Runner up was Pauline Forinash, a brunette.
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West Chester
Reita Willis
Willis
Pauline Forinash
Iowa Proclaims Parent-Teacher Week in October
Gov. Clyde L. Herring proclaimed October 11 to October 17 as Parent-Teacher week in Iowa urging public cooperation in school activities.
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Des Moines
Clyde L. Herring
Iowa
Bandit Forcibly Gets 4000 Dollar Check From Grain Man
A lone bandit entered Geneva Lumber and Grain in Geneva Iowa and forced L. G. Clock to write a 4000 dollar check at 2 p.m. The payment, drawn on Hampton First National Bank, was quickly stopped. The man, aged 22 to 23, wore dark glasses and carried a gun.
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Hampton (Ins
Geneva Lumber and Grain Company
Geneva
L. G. Clock
First National Bank of
Hampton
Iowa City Seeks Vacating Judgment Against Engineering Firm
Iowa City lawyers petition district court to vacate a $1,737.50 judgment awarded to Lucas and Luick Engineering Co of Chicago on April 7, 1936. They claim the firm was unlicensed in Iowa when its appraisal services were performed and allege fraud in obtaining the judgment. Judge James P. Gaffney issued the original ruling.
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Iowa City
Lucas and Luick Engineering Company
Chicago
Towa
James P. Gaffney
Lucas and Luick
Penn College nominates Coffin for presidency
The Penn College board invited Roscoe C. Coffin of Minneapolis to succeed President Randolph Pyle, who resigned to join Earlham College. Coffin is currently state YMCA secretary for Minnesota and North Dakota. The board also named Dr. Floyd W. Perisho as dean, succeeding Dr. William E. Berry who resigned to move to Earlham.
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Oskaloosa
Penn College
Roscoe C. Coffin
Minneapolis
Randolph Pyle
Earlham College
Richmond
Ind
Coffin
State Y. M. C. A
Minnesota
North Dakota
Floyd W. Perisho
Penn College Chemistry Board
William E. Berry
Earlham
Talk Of Renewing Campaign On Iowa Nebraska Bridge
Des Moines AP Clyde L Herring said after telephoning Nebraska Governor Roy Cochran they may go to Washington to discuss a toll free Omaha Council Bluffs bridge without funding. They likely would be joined by chief highway engineers. Iowa won t use 1936 federal funds but may seek 1937 money for the toll free span.
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Des Moines
Clyde L. Herring
Roy Cochran
Nebraska
Cochran
Washington
Omaha Council Bluffs
Iowa
Delaware's Last Civil War Veteran Turns 96 in Manchester
Thomas Sedgwick of Manchester, the county’s sole Civil War veteran, celebrates his 96th birthday at his son Thomas Jr.’s home. A Thirty-sixth Illinois infantry member, Sedgwick recalls battle experiences from Pea Ridge to Chickamauga and a Nashville prison stay, noting resilience and long life shared with a large, aging family.
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Manchester
Thomas Sedgwick
Delaware County
Thomas, Jr
Oneida County
N. Y
Mr. Sedgwick
Buffalo
Chicago
Aurora
Ill
Pea Ridge
Kansas
Sedgwick
Perryville
Bowling Green
Nashville
River Stone
Amy Blanchard
John
Whitewater
Wis
Mead County
S. C
Cyrus
Portland
Ore
Seashore Tests Measure Musical Capacities at Iowa
Dr. Carl E. Seashore of the University of Iowa predicts future ability to gauge a student’s musical potential with six tests. The set covers pitch, intensity, time, consonance, tonal memory, and rhythm, recorded on phonograph records and used by conductors to assess applicants.
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The
Gazette
Iowa City
Johnny
Carl E. Seashore
University of Iowa
Seashore
Honor Among Thieves In Des Moines Youth Burglary Ring
City detectives arrested seven boys aged 15 to 17 for breaking into thirteen business establishments to steal cigarettes candy and small cash. Chief Jack Brophy said all had confessed and the youths were turned over to juvenile authorities for prosecution. One boy reportedly re stole all the cigarettes from the group. Names not released.
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Des Moines
INS
Jack Brophy
Iowa among top states in national retail and car counts
A Commerce Department handbook credits Iowa with a retail sales market of $479.7 million, 1.91 percent of the U.S. total, and a per capita $194. Urban Iowans drive 68.46 percent of sales and 60.42 percent of rural sales statewide. The report also lists 1934 car ownership, farm land value, farm counts, and relief expenditures through mid-1935.
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Washington
Department of Commerce
Iowa
East
Middlewest
Department
United States
California
Bureau
Nine Iowans Hurt In Collision With Stolen Automobile
Nine persons were injured near Sioux City when a stolen automobile crashed into their car early Saturday. Victims were taken to local hospitals. most released except Mrs. Walter Bonini and Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Dalson of Beresford S D. Robert Pierce and Paul Hammerstrom of Sioux City were arrested by Union county SD sheriff on the case. The group was en route to Vera Wilkinson’s home in Marshalltown Iowa.
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Sioux City
Here
Walter Bonini
Alfred Dalscn
Berese
Ford
S. D
Robert Pierce
Paul Hammerstrom
Tom Collins
Union County
South Dakota
Vera Wilkinson
Marshalltown
Lemke to Speak in Iowa on Sept 11 and 12
Congressman William Lemke of North Dakota the union party presidential candidate will tour Iowa on September 11 and 12. He will address the Newton Chamber of Commerce September 11 and then speak at the Farmers Holiday Association annual picnic in Harlan September 12.
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Newton
William Lemke
North Dakota
Union Party
Iowa
Neal Hamilton
Chamber of Commerce
Lemke
Hamilton
Harlan
Farmers Holiday Association
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