Demand Cut In Legal Liquor Prices To Curb Bootleggers
Iowa moves to end state profits on liquor and push drastic federal tax cuts. Crusaders leader Colonel G Watson French says high taxes fuel bootlegging and urges legislative action to make all liquor legal and taxed. He argues drastic price competition could drive bootleggers out and reduce lawlessness, while noting reform will take persistent effort.
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Davenport
INS
Iowa
G. Watson French
The
Crusaders
French
Town General Assembly
Congress
Colonel French
State Eiquor Commission
Iowa Delegation Nets Big Gulf Stream Catch at Miami Meet
Seven Iowa attendees at the national American Legion convention join 300 others in a Miami fishing outing. The group hauled in three sailfish, 6 to 7 feet long and 45 to 55 pounds, plus barracuda dolphin and blue runner near eastern Florida. Members pictured include James Oakes Davenport Leo Custer Cedar Rapids Ray Murphy Ida Grove Earl Hall Mason City Father Paul La Valette Rockford John W Hall Ida Grove Wesley G Henke Charles City C R Fine guide for Herbert Hoover in 1929.
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National American Legion
Miami
James Oakes
Davenport
Leo Custer
Cedar Rapids
Ray Murphy
Ida Grove
Iowa
Earl Hall
Mason City
Paul la Valette
Rockford
Iowa Daily Press
John W. Hall
New York
Wesley G. Henke
Charles City
Americanism
Iowans
C. R. Fine
Herbert Hoover
Gulf Stream
Florida
Morley to Open Times Club Course in Iowa City
Christopher Morley, contributing editor of The Saturday Review of Literature, will open the Times club lecture series in Iowa City on Nov. 12 with a talk on Stream lined Literature. He will stay with Prof. Grant Wood and follow a schedule featuring Gertrude Stein on Dec. 10 and other noted speakers through April.
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Gazette
Iowa City
Christopher Morley
Saturday Review of Literature
Times Club
Morley
Grant Wood
Graphic and Plastic Arts Department
Manhattan
Internal Revenue
Gertrude Stein
Paris
Miss Stein
Ralph Borsodi
W. Leigh Sowers
Rousseau Voorhies
Macmillan Publishing Company
Gertrude Stein Club
J. Middleton Murry
the Athenaeum
Katherine Mansfeid
Gupert Seldes
Marceleric
George R. Davies
The
College of Commerce
Stew North
Cr Repo Daily News
Guiter
We Rovel
Plowi
Lew N Ford
Genewel
Grossman Insurance Suit Still In Court
In Manchester Delaware County, the Mutual Life Insurance Co of New York faces heirs of Adelbert G Grossman over a $1 policy. Died Feb 11, 1932 from a revolver wound. dispute whether death was suicide or accident and if misrepresentation occurred on policy application. The case has dragged into its third week with arguments expected next week.
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Steel Ty
Gare Manchester
Unclear meeting minutes list officers and names
Fragmentary note from a meeting lists members and officers including George Morreur G Mo Smuth FP J Raan Kenneth Laece sergeant at arms Roy Car and Ellsworth Vin Fleet with finance duties. The text is garbled and IDs a post meeting lineup.
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Nortil
Cst Legon Post
Offcera
George Morreur
Mender
G Mo Smuth
Tar’ FP J Raan
Chamain
Kenneth Laecendge
Roy Carprol
Ellsworth Vin Fleet
Cheney Resigns CCC Post for Erosion Technician Job
Maquoketa CCC camp superintendent C. T. Cheney left Thursday for Ames to assume a new erosion technician office. He will visit state camps doing erosion work as a promotion from camp supervision. Fred Larson will succeed Cheney as senior engineer at the Cresco CCC camp.
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Maquoketa
C. T. Cheney
CCC
Ames
Fred Larson
Cresco
Cheney
Kraschel Questions Turner on Iowa Record in Town Meeting
Lieut. Gov. Kraschel grilled Republican governor candidate Turner in Dan Turner’s hometown. Kraschel pressed Turner on bonds taxes mortgage foreclosures and relief programs saying Turner did nothing as governor while the state faced bond issues and high costs. He likened Turner to a truck driver who failed to stop.
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Kraschel
Iowa
Turner
Sun-Goddess Lured From Cave by Legend of Music
A Japanese legend says music was devised by the gods to lure the sun-goddess from a cave where she had retired. The tale explains why music captivates and draws divine light back into the world.
Cadman Urges Iowa Teachers to Strip Lies From History
In Des Moines the Iowa State Teachers Association convention drew over 5,000 attendees with up to 8,000 expected. Dr S Parkes Cadman urged educators to purge propaganda from history to stabilize a tense world and build truth in the Chronicle of the past.
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DES Moines
Iowa State Teachers Association
Anna Lyman
Corning
Friends of Education
S. Parkes Cadman
Brooklyn
Cadman
Mechanicsville Masons Honor 60 Year Member
Mechanicsville will honor Lazareth H. Andre the lodge’s oldest living member at a Friday dinner in the hall. Grand Secretary Co C Hunt of Cedar Rapids will speak after the meal as the Masonic quartet performs. Andre is 90 on May 13 and a member for more than sixty years, born in Appella Pennsylvania and moved to Iowa in 1848.
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Mechanicsville
Masonic Lodge
Lazareth H. Andre
Co. C. Hunt
Cedar Rapids
Masonic Quartet
Andre
Appella
Iowa
Parker Farm
St. Augustine
Fla
Farmer 44 Died After Corn Picker Accident in Castle Grove
Robert Howie, 44, a Castle Grove farmer, was found dead after his clothing became entangled in a corn picker. Coroner J J Hayes ruled death by strangulation from tight fabric around the neck. Survived by wife Alice formerly Deischer, four children, two brothers, two sisters. funeral planned at Castle Grove Presbyterian Church with Rev. Harry Kremers.
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Monticello
Robert Howie
Castle Grove
Howie
J. J. Hayes
James Howie
Alice Deischer
Olin
Lynn
Merle Cass
Norman Bringard
Detroit
Castle Grove Presbyterian Church
Harry Kremers
Cedar Rapids
Attorney General's Son Remains Seriously Ill
Martin O Connor 14 son of Attorney General Edward O Connor is in a Des Moines hospital after a second operation for infection following an appendicitis surgery. Doctors performed a blood transfusion to try to save him as the attorney general left Davenport to return home and cancel a speaking trip in eastern Iowa.
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Des Moines
Martin O'Connor
Edward O'Connor
O'Connor
Davenport
Iowa
Maquoketa O E S Plans Novembers Reception
Maple Leaf chapter O E S hosts a November 8 reception honoring R. B. Grapengeter of Maquoketa newly elected worthy grand patron. Officers and guests from district chapters plus Lyons Clinton and Dubuque expected.
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Maquoketa
Maple Leaf Chapter
R. B. Grapengeter
Lyons
Clinton
Dubuque
Old Time Dance Causes Farmer to Suffer Broken Rib
Brandon farmer J F Naylor injured during a square dance at the Henry Naylor home near Independence. He collided with another couple and was thrown against a door. the door knob struck his rib.
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the Gazette
Brandon
Henry Naylor
Independence
J. F. Naylor
Brandon Farmer
Naylor
Evangelist Foote Frees Penalty Acceptance After Mann Act Case
Iowa evangelist Basil William Foote sits in Polk county jail awaiting legal penalties after admitting traveling with Mrs. Pearl Baker to Texas for what he described as love. He says God forgives him and he is prepared to answer man’s laws. Foote and his wife Blanche have five children. Mrs Baker, mother of three, was arrested in Galveston and left Foote with federal officers in Kansas City.
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Des Moines
Basil William Foote
Iowa
Polk County
Foote
Pearl Baker
Samaritan Union Church
Council Bluffs
Texas
Evangelist
Blanche
Baker
Galveston
Tex
Kansas City
Woodshed Fire Threatens Home of Joe Mattice
A woodshed behind Joe Mattice's Manchester home burned to the ground on Thursday. The blaze destroyed the winter coal and wood supply but firefighters saved the residence from total destruction. The loss amounted to several hundred dollars.
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Manchester
Joe Mattice
Ames Homecoming Celebration Opens With Festivities
Ames State College gears up for homecoming with a pep barbecue and week of decorations. Chuck Downie leads the celebration as 2 000 students rally for a records breaking crowd. A pep queen from fourteen entrants will be crowned at State field before the game.
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The
Gazette
Ames
George Veenker
Cyclones
Iowa State College
Chuck” Downie
Des Moines
R. M. Hughes
Don Theophilus
Jean Edwards
Humboldt
Martha Roberts
Mason City
Florence Klock
Sioux Falls
S. D
Rhoda Craft
Old Town
Dorothy Geiger
Vinton
Marjory Hes
Millie Martin
Helen Alexander
Irvilla Winton
Melford
Grace Raffety
Oskaloosa
Becky Hayward
Sioux City
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Vineton Beh
Gare Club
Stite Fish
Gare
Difon
Howard R. Churchill
Towa Legionaires
Dier
Grossman Insurance
Mechanicsville Masons
Potullalon
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