Bryan says Scopes harms teachers by evolution views
Dayton Tenn July 9 Associated Press William Jennings Bryan argues that John T Scopes trial views threaten teachers independence and that only employers and taxpayers should dictate curriculum He warns nullification of the anti evolution statute would force teachers to reveal beliefs and invites control by employers and boards of education An investigation in Dayton finds a hotel raising room rates to eight dollars per day after Friday
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Associated Press
Dayton
Tenn
William Jennings Bryan
John T. Scopes
Scopes
Mr. Bryan
Bryan
City Commission
Bryan at Scopes Trial Broadcast Plans Take Shape
Through a corps of workers on the ground a Chicago newspaper is finalizing arrangements to broadcast the Scopes trial proceedings. Mr Bryan has appeared without a coat amid hot weather, a comfortable custom gratefully followed. Dayton has not duplicated his white subtropical helmet.
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Chicago
Bryan
Dayton
Mr. Bryan
Courthouse Opens Open Air Auditorium For Public Access
An open air auditorium with platform and bench seating was built on the courthouse north side to serve the public. Ampliers will relay court proceedings for those outside and band concerts will be held between sessions.
Newspaper men receive admission cards for trial room
About 150 newspaper men were issued admission cards for entry to the trial room, granting them access to the proceedings. The distribution likely supported press coverage and observation of the event.
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Theday
Books on topical issues fill shelves in stores and offices
Books and booklets on current popular topics circulate widely in shops and business offices where they rest on tables and desks for display or reading by clerks and customers. Titles include The Earth Speaks to Bryan One Scientific Man and the Bible and Hell in the High Schools.
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Bryan
Anti-Evolution League HQ Open Near Court House
Headquarters of the anti evolution league have been established across the street from the court house. L L Martin, evangelist, is in charge of the station.
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Anti-Evolution League
L. L. Martin, Evangelist
Bryan Jr Joins Dayton Prosecution Team
William Jennings Bryan Jr. arrived in Dayton from Los Angeles this afternoon to join his father and other prosecution counsel gathered in Dayton on July 9.
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Dayton, Tenn
William Jennings Bryan, Jr
Dayton
Los Angeles
Mayor Resigns After Charged Kidnapping Wife
Shelby Mississippi headline: Mayor Jesse L. Sutton resigns after arrest on kidnapping charge for confining his wife to their home. He is bound over to the grand jury for September on a $1090 bond. Sutton, 73, is charged with tying his 71 year old wife to a chair and denying meals. He claims her condition required the act. Mrs. Sutton is ill and unaware of the arrest.
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Associated Press
Shelby, Ja
Jesse L. Sutton
Shelby
Sutton
Oil Company Sued Over $3,000 Note and Insolvency Claim
The Iowa bank sues Sheridan Oil of Creston and officials for 1333.37 judgment on a 17300 promissory note dated March 12, 1924. A temporary receivership had been ordered for Sheridan Oil, amid claims of insolvency and mismanagement by Leo J. Sheridan, with a Standard Oil sale of a Creston station in January 1925. Hawkeye Lumber sues R F E Wimmer and Earl Waltz for 138.68 and 121.23 on accounts to establish liens. G A Teal appeals a 60 judgment in a Peterson case from Justice Pickett's court.
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Sheridan Oil Company
Creston Corporation
Leo J. Sheridan
J. F. Sheridan
Iown State Savings Bank of
Creston
Sheridan Oil Company Whig
A. R. Maxwell
Rose Peterson
Justice of the Peace
Adam Pickett
Peterson
Final Hearing In Judge English Quiz Began
Six congressmen who investigated Federal Judge George Washington English reassembled in St Louis to hear final testimony. They will decide whether to recommend impeachment. The inquiry concerns private transactions with Merchants State Bank of Centrali TI where English was a director and stockholder. He denied salary beyond five dollars per day on board days and admitted borrowing money while stating he did business with the bank as with others.
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St. Louis
George Washington English
English
Cattle Die After High Voltage Line Breaks Near Creston
Two cows were killed in a county farm pasture east of Creston when they touched a broken transmission line owned by Iowa Southern Utilities. Thirteen thousand volts surged through the animals. A hunter shot an insulator, blamed for the break, with rain and a short circuit cited as contributing factors. The line burned and dropped to reach the cattle.
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Creston
Towa Southern Utilities Company
Ed Witham
Scopes Trial Set to Open Tomorrow in Evolution Case
The trial of John T. Scopes begins tomorrow on a charge that he violated Tennessee's anti evolution teaching law in public schools. The case centers on the legality of teaching evolution in classes and drew wide national attention.
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John T. Scopes
Tennessee
Iowa Storms Cause Deaths, Damage Across Several Towns
A string of July 9 weather events swept Iowa and Minnesota. Lakonta and Cherokee reported injuries and destroyed homes while Sioux City faced blackout and halted streetcars. Fort Dodge saw leveled buildings and flooded sewers as storms raged. Minnesota counties endured tornadoes and heavy damage with multiple fatalities and widespread losses.
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Associated Press
Algona
Lakonta
Fort Dodge
Wire Service
Bell Telephone Company
Minneapolis
Minn
Minnesota
Twin Cities
Arrest Frenchman For Failure To Pay Tax
Eugene Constantin, a French emigrant who worked in Louisiana rice fields and on a Mississippi steamboat, struck oil in Oklahoma and amassed a fortune of 10 000 000. He faces extradition to Tulsa for unpaid income taxes and penalties totaling 482 565.69 for 1920 and 1921. Federal agents arrested him in a hotel as he prepared to depart for France. bail set at 3 000. He had planned a vacation in a France chateau from wealth earned in earlier days.
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Associated Press
New York
Eugene Constantin
France
Louisiana
Mississippi
Oklahoma
Tulsa
Reynolds Funeral Friday Morning Service in Rochester
Funeral services for J. T. Reynolds who died Tuesday evening at Rochester Minnesota will be held at 9 o clock Friday morning at Immaculate Conception church. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery.
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J. T. Reynolds
Rochester, Minn
Immaculate Conception Church
Calvary Cemetery
Sioux City Officers Hunt Lillie Relatives
Police seek relatives of a deceased tramp killed when struck by a south branch Burlington freight train near Creston. The man bore a tattooed name A. Q. Lillie on his left forearm and claimed Sioux City as his home. An inquest is set for 10 AM Friday at Alafid's funeral home.
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Burlington
A .Q. Lillie
Sioux City
Creston
James McKee
Alafid
Ward Purchases Gault Brothers Business Firm
Arthur E. Ward of Creston has bought the feed, flour and coal operations formerly run by Gault Brothers in Creston. Ward now occupies the 104 East Montgomery Street building and owns the Union Street coal yards. The Cromwell operations remain with James and David Gault. Sale handled by John F. Golden.
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Gault Brothers
Arthur E. Ward
Creston
Mr. Ward
East
Montgomery Street
Union Street
James
David
Cromwell
Creston Busines
John F. Golden
Affairs Of Grain Co To Be Liquidated
Gray Silver president of the Grain Marketing company announced that affairs of the organization would be liquidated at once. He stated that all accounts will be settled in order and that payments on close A or common stock will be repaid in full. The dissolution will not end options for farmers to market grain through cooperative agencies this season. A board meeting Monday will plan disposition of funds from stock sales to farmers.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Gray Silver
Silver
Wants Consolidation of Church Societies
In Indianapolis on July 9 Rev. Merk F. Sanborn urged consolidating all undenominational young people groups into a Christian youth movement of America. He, president of the Baptist Young People's Union, argued such an organization could unite idealism and support social programs, envisioning a world youth auxiliary.
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Associated Press
Indianapolis
Young People
America
Christian Youth Movement of America
Merk F. Sanborn
Baptist Young People’s Union of America Today
Sanborn
Christian Youth of America
Hell
American Youth Auxiliary
World Youth Auxiliary
Scrapping bids for 200 vessels rejected by Shipping Board
Washington July 9 the Shipping Board ordered further negotiations for scrapping 200 vessels and did not accept President Palmer of the Fleet Corporation bid of 1 370 000 from the Boston Tron and Meta Company of Baltimore. A separate drive in Waverly aims to raise 40 000 to fund a Mason American Legion home to be debt free at completion.
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Washington
The
Shipping Board
Palmer
Fleet Corporation
Boston Tron and Meta Company
Baltimore
Wverly
Mason-American Legion
Stat
Judge J W Ross Indicted Then Killed in Auto Crash
Judge J W Ross of the western Tennessee district federal court, indicted yesterday on forgery and related charges in the Jackson People's Savings Bank failure, died in a car crash east of Jackson. The 47 year old jurist, appointed by President Harding in 1921, was alone in the wreck.
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Tennessee
Federal Court
Harding
Associated Preece
Jackson, Tenn
J. W. Ross
Western Tennessee District Federal Court
People’s Savings Bank of
Jackson
Judge Ross
State Bank
Rees
Hardine
Denies Riffians Capture Town In Morocco
Paris July 9 Premier Painleve denied before the chamber rumors that Taza a key town in French Morocco had fallen to Abd el Krims Riffians. Communist deputies led by Marcel Cachin assailed the government for waging war in Morocco and threatened a general strike of French factory workers to force peace with Abd el Krim.
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Associated Free
Paris
Painleve
Chamber of Deputies
Taza
French Morocco
Abd Ol Krim
Riffiana
Marcel Cachin
Morocco
Abd-el-Krim
M. Clachin
France
Triple Wedding Ties Three Couples in New Orleans
In New Orleans a single ceremony united three couples with one set of bridesmaids a single best man and a shared ring bearer. Twin sisters and their siblings participated with Ethel Pepper marrying George Parenti and Edna Pepper marrying Constance Manghine. Each bride is 20.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Ethel Pepper
George Parenti
Henry Pepper
Mary Parenti
Ethel
Edna
Constance Manghine
Death Probe Into Swift & Co. Manager John Long
Iowa Falls coroner to conduct an inquest into the death of John T. Long a Swift & Co. plant manager who died suddenly after a wedding celebration He had married Irene M Shannon of Minneapolis Monday and allegedly drank liquor at the celebration Local authorities review cause of death and circumstances surrounding the illness last night.
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Associated Press
Iowa Falls
John T. Long
Irene M. Shannon
Minneapolis
Swift & Co
Jardine Address Most Important On Tour
Des Moines July 9 Governor Hammill and state executive council members will motor to Ames to hear William A. Jardine secretary of agriculture deliver an address at Iowa State College. Reports from Washington say the Ames talk will be the most important of his western tour.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Hammill
State Executive Council
Ames
Willam A. Jardine
Iowa State College
Washington
Jardine
Man Sentenced for Bootlegging Slashes Wounds in Hospital
Louis Egleston, 33, of New Hampton, was jailed a year for bootlegging, appealed, and was released on bail. In July he attempted suicide twice, and while recovering at his mother's home he slashed his wrists with a razor. He pulled out sutures after nurses saved his life.
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Associated Press
New Hampton
Louis Egleston
Cooney
Creaco
Meredith Wins in Shenandoah at Southwestern Iowa Tennis
Meredith, Creston Tennis Club champion, defeated Russell to defend the singles title in three sets at Shenandoah. He teams with Willis Royce to defend the doubles crown as the Southwestern Iowa tournament opener faced rain delays and ongoing pairings.
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Leo Meredith
North Sycamore Street
Creston Tennis Club
Shenandoah
Iowa
Creston Club
Willis Royce
West Mille Street
Meredith
Creston Courts
Paul Runsgell
Russell
Young Married Woman’s Tragic Route Ends in Gas Suicide
Mrs. Charles P. Philebar, 19, ended her life Wednesday night by inhaling gas over domestic troubles. Her body was found by her husband at 2:30 a.m. in Davenport. No children reported. George Underwood, 50, shot himself yesterday in his Davenport office dwelling, using a revolver hung on a light fixture with a cord. His aim was to reach 100 years old.
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Associated Press
Davenport
Tla
Charles P. Philebar
New Hampton
George Underwood
Des Moines inmate’s suicide at Mount Pleasant asylum
Des Moines reports William Morteley aged 50 an inmate at the state insane asylum at Mount Pleasant hanged himself in his room yesterday afternoon. In Rockwell City Mrs. Mattie Gordon aged 55 hanged herself in her garage last night amid grief over her husband’s death a month ago and poor health.
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Des Moines
William Morteley
State Insane Asylum
Mount Pleasant
State Board of Control
Rockwell City
Mattie Gordon
Lake City
Pirates Crush Giants 12 to 3 in opener of doubleheader
Pittsburgh built a big lead in the pennant race by routing the New York Giants 12 to 3. Emil Yde scattered eight hits while Pittsburgh totaled 16 safeties led by Meusel's two on homer. Meusel drove in four runs as the Pirates opened the day with a decisive victory before about ten thousand spectators.
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Associated Press
New York
Pittsburgh
Giants
Emil Yde
Meusel
Yde
Gooch
Scott
McQuillan
Bentley
Weisner
Snyder
Hartley
Larson Killed After Stepping Before Burlington Engine
Chester Iowa July 9 Lawrence Larson aged 25 was killed Tuesday in Chicago after stepping in front of a Burlington switch engine near the tracks.
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Chester
Lawrence Larson
Chicago
Burlington
End of Des Moines Street Car Strike Hailed
A compromise offer from Des Moines City Railway and the street railway men union was praised as a likely end to a strike that left trolley service halted since Saturday. The plan would have the company release the check-off funds to the union and resume service, with a non union worker to be discharged. The Des Moines city council warned both sides that bus franchise actions could replace street cars if the dispute is not settled soon.
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Sioux City
Whiting
Farmers
W. D. Whiting
Associated Press
Des Moines
Des Moines City Railway
Street Railway Men’s Union
Street
Downtown Concert Tonight by Creston Band
The Creston band directed by Charles A. Hayden performs tonight on the north lawn of the old high school. It is the second July downtown concert aimed at those who cannot attend Sunday shows at McKinley park with a July series featuring marches, overtures, choruses and waltzes. The fund drive to cover weekly expenses continues with a likely completion next week.
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Creston
Charles A. Hayden
McKinley Park
King
Faust
Gounod
Selection
Balfe
Clarinete
Gautier
Tubasolo
Beelzebub
Catozzi
Dr. A. BE. Perry
de Byl
Looney Trial Halted By Defense Motion
The John P. Looney trial paused as defense argued for the state to turn over papers and exhibits taken from the Looney home during a raid linked to Rock Island's vice troubles. The state denies possession of the material. A further motion and witness Pedigo’s testimony will guide next steps.
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Associated Press
Rock Inland
John P. Looney
Looney
Rock Island
Lawrence Pedigo
Akcetaol
I T
Pedtgo
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