Attendance Card Bank Night Scheme Ruled Illegal
AP reports Iowa cases where attendance card bank night schemes and suit clubs were ruled lotteries. Maley says money paid for a chance to win a prize of value constitutes a lottery, contradicting prior rulings. He notes similar weekly drawings for suits violate Iowa law.
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DES Moines
Walter Maley
Iowa
Maley
Carl A. Burkman
Polk County
Supreme Court
Burkman
Edgar A. Traeger
West Union
Traeger
Fire destroys two Waterloo buildings and damages four
A morning fire in Waterloo started at 3 a.m. Tuesday, consuming an old planing mill and spreading to adjacent structures. Damage reached about 40000 dollars, affecting two brick buildings and two frame structures, with five freight cars and a car containing 35 new autos damaged.
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Waterloo
Nauman Company
Park Avenue Company
Rock Island
Repass Automobile Company
Nauman
Waterloo Sand and Gravel Company
R. W. Hasner
Herrick Refrigerator and Cold Storage Company
Alburnett Booster Day Celebration Highlights
Alburnett plans its third annual Booster day with events starting Wednesday night featuring wrestling boxing and a concert by the school band conducted by Howard Ellson. Thursday brings joint bands from Alburnett Newhall and Shellsburg plus a County Attorney King Thompson address and a slate of free attractions and sports including a 2 o'clock baseball game followed by more contests and an evening band concert and bowery dance.
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Alburnett
Booster Club
Howard Ellson
Newhall
Shellsburg
King Thompson
Cedar Rapids
Alburnett and Coggan
Iowa News In Brief: Weddings, Marriages and Local Events
Special to The Gazette aggregates notes from Brandon Delaware Lost Nation Decorah and more. Items include a Brandon picnic program led by Pauline Treazona with local delegates. a St Pauls Lutheran confirmation in Delaware. a Waterloo WaterLOO wedding of Polly Ludwig and Kenneth Daniel. bond arrivals for veterans. Wilton Junctions 7th annual Wilton college reunion. weddings in Wyoming Decorah Wapello and Waukon. obituaries and community notices across Belle Plaine Toledo Monona Masonville Monona and West Liberty with local officials and family details.
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William SS. Schrieber
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Ruth Mussehl
Marietta Maurer
Norma Meyers
Elvin Gienapp
Marvin Maurer
L. C. A. Hall
Lost Nation
Polly Ludwig
Waterloo
Kenneth Daniel
Arthur Daniel
B. H. Cheney
Federated Church
Hazel Daniel
John Ludwig
Ben Ludwig
Waterloo High School
Cornell College
Mount Vernon
Brandon
Wilton Junction
Wilton College
D. A. Burrows
William Scott
Frances Boot
Kathryn King Herr
Wyoming
Otto A. Kimball
Las Vegas
N. M
Lydia F. Busick
Washington
Decorah
Karl Hanson
Hanson
Luther College
Will Smith
Madonna Lodge
Rebekah
Howard Demoss
Kyle Poole
Roy Bender
Belle Plaine
Tracy Bloudek
John Bloudek
St. Michael’s Catholic Church
E. S. Flynn
Frank Bloudek
Bessie Stone
Cecar Rapids
Emil Bloudek
Norfolk
Neb
Josie Loveland
Wapello
Louisa Ellen Burch
James H. Burch
Louisa Wa — Eee
Warsaw
Bogota
Iowa Democrats Chart Course for Roosevelt at Democratic Convention
Iowa with forty four delegates plans to cast twenty two votes for Roosevelt and push a Roosevelt platform. Leaders including Senator Louis F Murphy and Capt Dan McEniry outline a anti G O P stance and endorse a Roosevelt driven program while arriving in Philadelphia to attend the convention.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa
Roosevelt
Philadelphia
Tuesay
G.O.P
Louis F. Murphy
Dubuque
Iowa Group
Dan McEniry
Aurora Couple Observe Their 55th Anniversary
Mr and Mrs Herman Graves longtime Aurora residents celebrated their fifty fifth wedding anniversary with a family dinner open house afternoon ceremony date June 14 1881 their marriage occurred in Dyersville Agnes Kramer became Mrs Graves. The couple raised ten children eight living at home and present at the event include Ernest deceased 1929 John in Oelwein Nick near Stanley Andy Grey Eagle Minn Steve Edgewood Rose Stoke Walter Waterloo Clara Curry Independence Herman Jr Albert and Ralph in Aurora.
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Gazette
Aurora
Herman Graves
Graves
Dyersville
Agnes Kramer
Ernest
John
Oelwein
Nick
Stanley
Andy
Grey Eagle
Minn
Steve
Edgewood
Rose Stoke
Walter
Waterloo
Clara Curry
Independence
Herman, Jr
Albert
Ralph
Curry
Iowa Chain Store Tax Argument Presented Before High Court
Frank Messer of Iowa City argued the Iowa chain store tax is constitutional, aimed at preserving independent business. Fred H. Schmidt countered that the tax seeks to destroy chain firms and is discriminat ory and due process deficient. The court also heard a request for a rehearing on a pension commission issue. no decision was released.
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DES Moines
Frank Messer
Iowa City
Supreme Court
Iowa
Messer
Tollerton and Warfield Company
Sioux City
Benner Tea Company
Burlington
Polk County
Fred H. Schmidt
Sioux City Company
Schmidt
All Institutional Coal Contracts Go To Iowa Operators
Des Moines AP says the state board of control awarded 130 500 tons of coal for fifteen state institutions with all bids from Iowa operators. Prices ranged 210 to 420 per ton with deliveries to the institutions. Northeast Iowa awards include Man's Reformatory Anamosa Numa Coal Co 400 tons lump 389. Empire Coal Des Moines 3 000 tons stoker 350. Oskaloosa Coal 7 000 tons stoker 350. State Hospital Independence Numa 600 tons lump 413. Iowa Coals Inc 16 500 tons screenings 307. State Sanatorium Oakdale Empire 4 000 tons screenings 287. University Avenue Coal 4 000 tons screenings 287. T J Mulgrew 300 tons range 369. State Juvenile Home Toledo Scandia Coal 800 tons screenings 272. Scandia Coal 1 600 tons nut 372. Valley Forge Coal 50 tons egg 380.
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Des Moines
State Board of Control
Iowa
Robert Miller
Control Board
Man’s Reformatory
Anamosa
Numa Coal Company
Numa
Empire Coal Company
Oskaloosa Coal Company
State Hospital
Independence
Iowa Coals
Valley Forge Coal Company
Yeggs Blast Safe At Calmar
Burglars blasted a safe in Calmar and escaped with about $50 in cash. The blast tore the safe door from its frame and blew a hole in the wall after forcing a rear door to enter. Neighbors heard the explosion but were not alerted. Police investigation underway.
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Calmar—Yeggs
N. R. Becker
Florence Brookhart To Marry Arizonian in Prescott
Dr. Clarence E. Yount Jr., a young Prescott physician, leaves for Washington Ia to wed Florence Brookhart daughter of former U S Senator Smith W Brookhart. The couple graduates of George Washington University two years ago and plan a Prescott partnership after marriage.
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Prescott, Ariz
Clarence E. Yount, Jr
Prescott
Washington, Ia
Florence Brookhart
U. S
Smith W. Brookhart
Clarence E. Yount
Martha
Yount
George Washington University
False images spark marital strain says university expert
Iowa City AP reports Prof. Floyd Allport of Syracuse University told over 500 at the University of Iowa child welfare conference that false personality images during courtship lead to disillusionment and marital tension. He linked juvenile delinquency to misdirected activity and urged directed outlets for youth.
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Iowa City
Floyd Allport
Syracuse University
University of Iowa Child Welfare Conference
Allport
Hornell Hart
Hartford, Conn
Theological Seminary
Eugene A. Gilmore
University
Farm Worker Burned After Contact With Electric Wire
Tony Aller of a west of town farm was shocked by a high tension wire while using haying equipment on Sunday. He was unconscious for about an hour and suffered severe hand burns before Frank L. Fivecoat of Cedar Rapids helped until a doctor arrived.
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North Liberty
Tony Aller
Here
Frank L. Fivecoat
Cedar Rapids
Compton to Speak at University of Iowa Summer Session
Arthur H. Compton, University of Chicago physicist and Nobel laureate, will appear in Iowa City as the second of the universitys six distinguished summer session lecturers. He is famed for the cosmic ray survey of 1931 33 and Nobel prize awards in physics. He will lecture Friday evening and preside at a Saturday morning round table conference.
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Iowa City
Arthur H. Compton
University of Chicago
University of Iowa
Compton
Swedish Academy of Science
Round Table
Grand jury begins Chine murder probe
A district court grand jury was impaneled Tuesday to probe the murder of Dan Shine, a farmer who was killed a week after his marriage. County Attorney A H Borman directs the investigation with witnesses called including Mrs Shine and Maynard Lenox, alleged plotters who signed confessions.
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Eleader
Dan Shine
W. C. Monlux
St. Olaf
J. R. Moser
Guttenberg
Robert Duff
Volga City
Henry Henning
Farmersburg
Arthur Jennings
Garber
William Kuehl
Littleport
Phil Miller
Elkader
Moser
A. H. Borman
Maynard Lenox
Smart Family Reunion Held at Boltz School
The annual Smart family reunion was held at Boltz school Sunday with a basket dinner at noon. Secretary Mrs Nan Hamilton of Cedar Rapids was absent, so no new officers were elected. Seventy six relatives attended.
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Boltz
Nan Hamilton
Cedar Rapids
Drunk Driving Conviction Leads to Three-Year Term
Robert DeBont, 51, of Cedar Rapids, a drainage contractor with Benton county work, was sentenced to three years in Fort Madison state prison for a drunken driving charge. It is his third Benson county conviction on the same charge. He filed notice of appeal to the supreme court and posted $3000 bond after two trials stemming from a December collision with a truck near Atkins.
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Vinton
Robert DeBont
Cedar Rapids
Benton County
Fort Madison
B. O. Tankersley
DeBont
Supreme Court
Atkins
Stolen Guns and Ammunition From Hardware Store
In Stuart Iowa burglars broke into a hardware store Monday night and stole a repeating rifle a double barreled shotgun a single barreled shotgun and ammunition for all three police said.
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Stuart, Ia
INS
Benedits
Lamont Men Hurt In Accident Near Volga
Four Lamont men Lester Wessels Irvin Jinks Lee Donald and LeRoy Ruel were injured in a Sunday automobile accident near Volga near the D and Lowe farm. Jinks suffered broken ribs a crushed chest and possible internal injuries and was taken to Mercy hospital Oelwein. The others escaped with minor injuries.
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Volga City
Lester Wessels
Irvin Jinks
Lee Donald
LeRoy Ruel
Lamont
D. &. Lowe Farm
Jinks
Mercy Hospital
Oelwein
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