Glider First In Series Of Plane Making
Instructional note from The Daily Advertiser on building a practical model glider. It covers materials including wood cardboard wings a rudder and rubber band launch mechanism using a Y shaped support and wedge to adjust flight. Emphasizes learning by glider experiments and gentle launches for longer flights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daily Advertiser
Playground and Recreation Association of America
Wilbur
Orville Wright
Glider Building Leads to Motor Powered Plates
After assembling and test flying a glider the next step is adding motors and plates. Tomorrow's article will explain how to make propellers.
Light frost reported near Cherokee with no crop damage
In Cherokee Iowa on the morning of August 9 light frost was unofficially reported in the vicinity. No crop damage was recorded according to local observers.
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Cherokee
Iowa
Daily Advertiser Praised for Chautauqua Support
Rev. N. P. Patterson lauds The Daily Advertiser for extensive publicity and cooperation with the chautauqua program, noting the paper’s policy of aiding beneficial community events.
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Daily Advertiser
Chautauqua
Rev. N. P. Patterson
Local Clubs Visit Atlantic For Rotary And Kiwanians Dinner
Creston Rotary members and guests traveled 120 miles to Atlantic to meet the local club. Cres ton Kiwanians and spouses planned a Platter Center church dinner in Creston with speakers including Henry Kastlin Frank Agnew Arthur Glick J. E. Deitrick and Elmo Roper among others. Mayor George Newcomb and State Representative Frank Ickis spoke at the gathering.
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Creston
Will Trump
P. K. DeVoe
Kenneth Davenport
John Young
Frank Ickis
George A. Croft
James Martin
Leon Morrison
Ray Emerson
Arthur Glick
Elmo Roper
Lloyd Kenney
A. R. Maxwell
Carl Gehrecke
Mr. Kastlin
Agnew
Roper
Newcomb
Ickis
Creston Leads County in Highest Salaries for Women Teachers
County report by Miss Ella M Day shows Creston schools pay the top average for women high school teachers at 163.92 for 1926 27. Lorimer and Thayer follow with 150 while county men average 194.99 and women 132 80. Lorimer grades pay 120 00 top in the county with Creston leading high schools in salaries. Rural unions average 75.20 monthly Spaulding tops township pay at 88 57 monthly. Only three county schools ran less than nine months all in Said Creek township. The report details school work attendance costs and other state required data.
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Creston
Ella M .Day
Lorimer
Thayer
Miss Day
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Kent
Union County
Spaulding
Said Creek Township
Prospects for More Building Reported Good
Prospects for fall building are promising as contractors note extensive remodeling and new residences in Creston. Ed Fils H W Kinkade Leslie Ramsbottom and G W Oyrs built modern farm homes while several town and rural houses gained electric generators and refrigerators.
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Ed Fils
H. W. Kinkade
Leslie Ramsbottom
G. W. Oyrs
Creston
East Howard Street
North Oak Street
Ray Emerson
Horatio Brotherton
Emerson
North Sycamore
Coakley Hospital
Former Boxer James Miller Arrested in Burlington
James Swede Miller of Burlington, a former boxer, was arrested last night at the request of Lyda Larsen the woman sheriff of Beadle County South Dakota. He is believed wanted on a check deal.
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Burlington
James
Miller
Lyda Larsen
Beadle County
South Dakota
Thirty Three Chinese Die as Market Shelter Collapses
A Reuters dispatch from Shanghai reports 33 Chinese were killed and 150 injured when an open shelter 450 feet long collapsed in the city on the border of the French concession. The roof was heavy tiles and the market structure had no adequate foundation.
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London
Reuter
Shanghai
Doctor's Parents Will Visit Here
Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Parsons of Geneseo Illinois will arrive this evening for a visit at the home of their son Dr. John C Parsons 404 North Sumner Avenue After Creston they will travel to La Verne Minnesota and then Rochester Minnesota where they will stay with Dr W V von Lackum Dr von Lackum is with the Mayo clinic Mrs von Lackum is a Parsons daughter
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Arthur Parsons
Geneseo, Ill
John C. Parsons
Sumner Avenue
Creston
la Verne
Minn
Rochester
W. V. von Lackum
von Lackum
Mayo Clinic
Parsons
Union County Residents Tour Ak-Sar-Ben Show
Union County residents return from the annual Ak-Sar-Ben show in Omaha. W. H. Brady led arrangements as the local ambassador. The trip by motor included Creston and surrounding areas with den members providing free tickets.
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Union County
Cnaha
Omaha
Creston
W. H. Brady
Akar-Ben
Den
Creston Chautauqua relies on patron pledges for funding
About 300 tickets had been pledged by patrons as Creston Chautauqua organizers strive to reach the 550 goal for the 1928 program. The event relies entirely on ticket pledges with officials planning a final drive in the business district and tonight's program at McKinley park.
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Creston Chautauqua
Chautauqua
Ttaent
Creston
Full Honors Of Military Shown Wood
Major General Leonard Wood received full military honors at Arlington Cemetery as funeral rites followed his death in Boston. The procession included high government officials, War Department officers, and family members with Philippine Commissioner Pedro Guevara among observers.
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Washington
Leonard Wood
Pennsylvania Avenue
Potomac
Arlington Naciema Cemetery
Boston
Union Station
Rough Riders
Heroes
Strike Orders Issued to All Convicted Men
The Associated Press reports Judge Webster Thayer denied revocation and a stay of execution for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. In response, widespread strike actions began with New York City reporting up to 750,000 workers idle. Thirty meetings were set in the metropolis, notably at Union Square.
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Associated Press
Nicola Sacco
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Superior Court
Webster Thayer
Dedham
Mass
New York City
Metropolis
Union Square
Father Charged With Carrying Away His Own Daughter
Preliminary information filed in Justice of the Peace Ross Peterson's court accuses Cres ton man David E. Griswold of taking his daughter Mary from her aunt Mrs. M. E. Kivett at 707 North Cherry Street. The case stems from Griswold objecting to custody by a relative in Omaha. the warrant had not yet been served this afternoon.
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Justice of the Peace
Ross Peterson
M. E. Kivett
North Cherry Street
David E. Griswold
Creston
Kivett
Mary
Griswold
Omaha
Local Salvation Army Leaders Temporarily Recalled
Captain and Mrs. A Sious of the Keokuk corps are called out of the city due to the serious illness of Mrs Sious father in Estevan Sack Canada. Captain Carl T Post is sent to take charge of the work until their return.
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A. Sious
Salvation Army Corps
Creston Police Add Second Hand Car For Quick Calls
Creston city officials buy a second-hand light touring car at $200 to aid patrols. Mayor George Newcomb says the vehicle will cut taxi costs, averaging about $25 monthly, and be ready for rapid officer response when calls come in.
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Creston
Cnly
George Newcomb
Operators Insincere Says Labor Leader in Iowa
Albia Iowa August 9 J H Morris president of district 13 United Mine Workers says coal operators are insincere offering to end the miners strike by opening mines at the wartime $5 a day scale The miners demand the Jacksonville agreement wage scale of 7 50 a day and will press for a meeting of state committees to advance that demand.
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Albia
Iowa
J. H. Morris
United Mine Workers Today
America
Jacksonville
Move to save two radicals sparks city protest
Boston August 9. Police dispersed 40 to 50 pickets from a line of about 100 outside the state house protesting the Sacco and Vanzetti execution after warnings were ignored. Placards denounced Harvard President A Lawrence Lowell, shown as part of Governor Fuller’s advisory group, with one declaring the university president may switch the execution switch.
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Boston
State House
Nicola Sacco
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
A. Lawrence Lowell
Harvard
Fuller
Pickets Sympathy for Sacco and Vanzetti Outside State House
Thirty pickets with placards sympathetic to Sacco and Vanzetti gathered outside the state house at 3 p m. A squad of police officers arrived and positioned along the sidewalks but no arrests were attempted as the demonstrators moved about the area.
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Boston
Sacco
Vanzett
State House
Salesman Hurt In Road Crash Near Orient
L. S. Miller a Kansas City salesman narrowly escaped serious injury when a sedan collided with a ditch on primary road No 25 about three miles south of Orient. Miller said a fast car passed on the wrong side causing him to pull away and overturn. A scale in the back seat struck him on the head while he was unconscious for a time as his car and the scales were damaged.
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L. S. Miller
Gcales
Kansas City
Orient
Miller
Miler
Coolidge Stands Firm on Sacco Vanzetti Case
Rapid City South Carolina August white house remarks reiterate that President Coolidge views the Sacco Vanzetti matter as for Massachusetts courts. He knows of no appeal from defense counsel. Clemency recommendations have reached him, but are referred to the justice department.
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Fuler
Rapid City
S. C
White House
Coolidge
Sacco-Vanzetti
Massachusetts
Department of Justice
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Rex Coal and Ice Company
Klan Magazine
Fellowship Forum Publshing Co
Ku Klux Klan
Brady
W. J. Colbert
Rev. J. Hamilton Woodsum
J. W. Goodsell
McKinley Park Auditorium
Charles A. Hayden
T. KE. York
Ralph Tallman
C. W. Graham
Scott Armstrong
H. J. Trusty
J. Kirk Hawk
Wayne Berthof
Bessie M. Stearns
George E. DeWolf Frank PD. Main
Matt Conway
ID. W. Higbee
Tal'min
Woodsum
Trust
Tom Corwine
G. Magnus Shultz Company
State Supreme Court
Supreme Court
George A. Sanderson
Sanderson
Rchard C. Evarts
Defense Legal Staff
Evarts
New York
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