Creston Daily Advertiser Key Details and Publishing Note
Creston Daily Advertiser published weekdays by The Creston Advertiser Gasette Co. Carl Davenport and W A Roseberry publishers. Phone numbers listed as 4. Official city and county paper entered as second class matter March 1904 at the Creston Iowa post office under the act of March 1897. Associated Press rights noted for republication of news dispatches.
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Creston Advertiser-Gasette Co
Carl Davenport
W. A. Roseberry Publishers
Creston
Iowa
Mareh
Associated Press
Delegates from Nine Nations to Attend Pacific Conference
More than 106 delegates from nine Pacific-bordering nations will gather in Honolulu from July 1 to 15 for the Institute of Pacific Relations. Participants will stay on Punahou School grounds and join meetings, round tables, and personal research aimed at peace, cooperation, and reducing racial antipathies.
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Adociated Press
Honolulu
iMore
Institute of Pacific Relations
Pacific
Hawaii
Punahou School
Punahou
Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Praised by LA Woman
Mrs. E Gounp of Los Angeles says the product saved her from an operation after years of fatigue and back pain. She credits Pinkham’s with restoring health before and after two pregnancies and notes frequent compliments on her improved appearance. Readers told by many women that the remedy helped after doctors advised operations.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Mrs. E. Gounp
East Side Boulevard
Governing Cost Discussed At Commonwealth Conference
Iowa City hosts the third Commonwealth Conference beginning today through July 1. Speakers include Martin Wade E L Hogue Harvey Ingham and several leaders from Iowa women’s groups and education boards. Professor Shambaugh notes uncertain future of government activity while Coker compares rising government costs to living costs in early 20th century cities.
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Hy Assoccaated Press
Iowa City
Shambhaugh
Indiana
F W. Coker
Ohio State University
United States
Coker
Poultrymen Battle Rats With Poison Gas Plan
Western Washington poultrymen, aided by the U S biological survey and the State College of Agriculture, plan a calcium cyanide gas attack on rat burrows under farm buildings. A test on a farm housing 3,500 hens killed 163 rats, with total annual losses estimated at $1,000.
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Tacoma
Washington
United States Biological Survey
Experiment Station
State College of Agriculture
Poultrymen
Here
Leo K. Couch
The
Biological Survey
Bids Opened for New Air Mail Feeder Routes
Washington June 29 bids for eight feeder air mail routes to support the trans continental service were invited by Postmaster General New. The routes include Chicago to St. Louis via Springfield Chicago to St Paul and Minneapolis via La Crosse and Chicago to Birmingham via Indianapolis Louisville and Nashville.
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Associated Press
Washington
Postmaster General New
Middle West
Chicago
St. Louis
Springfield
St. Paul
Minneapolis
la Crosse
Birmingham
Ala
Indianapolis
Louisville
Nashville
Dallas
Moline
St. Joseph
Kansas City
Wichita
Oklahoma City
Mail Rates Detail For Feeder Lines Across Continent
The plan sets a base rate of five cents per ounce and an added ten cents per ounce for each feeder line 1 006 miles or less. Few routes would provide daily service each way between the named points.
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Tra Ontinente
Addiion
American To Direct Joint Movement To Aid Youth of Turkey
A. K. Jennings travels to Turkey to direct a cooperative effort among church mission boards and welfare groups for Turkish youth. He will help establish Turkish American Clubs in Angora and other sites, run by a three Turks three Americans general committee, for an intercultural non political non sectarian program focused on intellectual physical social and spiritual growth.
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New York
A. K. Jenings
Turkey
Shurch Mission Board and Welfare Organization
New
Y. M.C. A. Boys
Smyrna
Mustapha Kemal
Jennings
Angora
Shoot Boys Returning From Baseball Game
Two boys, sons of L. B. Baker and James Zobrist of Fairfax S. D., were shot while returning from a baseball game near Bonsteel Nebraska. The Baker boy was wounded in the neck and the Zobrist boy in the shoulder. both in serious condition. A man on a running board fired from an automobile as it passed. police hunt for the car.
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Butte
Neb
L. B. Baker
James Zobrist
Fairfax
S. D
Bonsteel
Baker
Zobrist
Instructors of Deaf Hold Convention at Iowa School
The twenty-fifth convention of the American Instructors of the Deaf gathers at the Iowa school for the deaf in Council Bluffs with Supt. Elbert A. Gruver presiding. Lieut Gov Clem Kimball delivers the welcome. Dr N F Walker responds. Prof Howard W Driggs of New York University to give an address.
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Council Bluffs
Iowa School
Farmer Held for Slaying Landlord
Sioux City dispatch reports John Brechtel held responsible by a coroner's jury for the death of George E. Welch wealthy Parkston landowner slain at Brechtel's farm home on Welch property Brechtel to have preliminary hearing Wednesday morning at Tripp South Dakota
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Associated Press
Sioux City
Sioux City Journal
John Brechtol
George E. Wech
Parkston
Brechtel
Welch
Tripp
S. D
Fur Traders of North Win Battle With Artie Winter Fur Traders
Edmonton reports delayed summer word from Jack Hornby Malcolm and Allan Stewart and Capt Critchell Bullock recounting a Mackenzie Northwest Territories expedition to buy furs and explore. The party endured a dug-out winter shelter due to high winds and subsisted on below ice fish and caribou hunted near the Barrens with fuel hauled 30 miles to the dug-out.
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Associated’ Press
Edmonton
Alta
Jack Hornby
Malcolm
Allan Stewart
Critchell Bullock
MacKenzie
Northwest Territories
Canada
Barrens
Hudson Bay
Corn Growth on a June Day Measured by A L Bakke
Ames June 29 Dr A L Bakke plant physiologist at Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station measured corn growth on a real June day. From 1 30 p m June 20 to 1 30 p m June 26 six days the corn grew 26 34 inches about 2 5 inches per day. Growth varied with temperature with max 79 min 62 on June 24 yielding fastest 24 hour rise and 2 76 inches on June 25 1 30 p m. Temperature duration influenced results and blade height measurements will continue.
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Ames
A. L. Bakke
Lowa Agricultural Experiment Station
Bakke
King George Adopts American Style in Glasses
London society notes King George wears tortoiseshell glasses marking a trend toward American habits. Hostesses in fashionable London follow the American fashion of cabaret dinners and intimate table dining as evening music events grow rarer. A prominent American hosted a 60-couple dinner illustrating the shift and sparking chatter among English society chroniclers.
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King of
England
Associated Press
London
King George
English Educators Long For American Generosity
Oxford England June 29 English educators lament the lack of American philanthropy for education and warn that women's colleges at Oxford face slow starvation. Government grants of twenty thousand dollars yearly for ten years offer only minimal relief without expansion. Donations have been scant, leaving many qualified women on waiting lists due to space limits at existing colleges.
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Associated Press
Oxford
Eng
England
University College
Year In Jail for Embezzling Funds
C P Swan convicted of embezzling 320 dollars from Union Mutual Casualty while his agent at Burlington was sentenced to one year in county jail by District Judge W G Bonner. He allegedly collected insurance premiums and failed to remit them to the company.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
C. P. Swan
Union Mutual Casualty Company
Burlington
W. G. Bonner
Swan
Butter Sales Up in Seventh District While Overall Dairy Rebounds
A July 1 Federal Reserve report shows seventh district butter production up 48.5 percent from June but 2.1 percent below July last year. Total butter held by 63 firms rose 33.1 percent since April yet was 2.45 percent under May 1924. US dairy storage rose from May to June while poultry stocks declined. cheese and eggs advanced. Meat and fat production in May fell short of April. employment rose 3.1 percent in headcount, 6.1 percent in hours, and 6 percent in payroll value versus the prior period. UK demand improved amid import regulation fears. European stock values were down from May.
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Des Moines
Jungy
Iowa
Tools
Michigan
Wisconsia
Federal Reserve Bank of Cheage
United States
United Kingdom
Theiland
Brazil Probes Profits in Coffee Handling Trade
Brazil voices concern over high profits in coffee, with Sao Paulo officials and two Rio papers arguing Americans and middlemen reap large gains. Reports cite Brazilian grower profits of 25 to 100 percent and farm values rising, while producers deny 100 percent annual gains and defend current pricing as reasonable.
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Associated Press
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Sao Paulo
United States
Braglian
O Jornal
O Brasil
Americcan
Augusto Ramos
Start Trial of Alleged Former Vice Lord Looney
Jury selection began in Rock Island circuit court to try John P. Looney, alleged former vice lord, on conspiracy to protect gambling. Circuit Judge Nels A. Larson warned no delays will be allowed.
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Srees
Rock Island
John P. Looney
Nels A. Larson
Rockefeller Fosdick Combination Denounced by Baptists
Seattle June 20 The Associated Press reports the Baptist Bible Union of North America adopted a resolution denouncing the Rockefeller Fosdick combination. The action reflects dissatisfaction with collaboration between John D Rockefeller and Henry S Fosdick in religious and social reform efforts.
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Associated Pross
Seattle
Wash
Northern Baptist convention opens six day session
Erica reports closing sessions of a six day convention as 3000 delegates from across the United States prepare to convene. A debated resolution criticizes Dr Fosdick and the Park Avenue Baptist Church calling his pastorate part of a Rockefeller backed plan to modernize denominational life and extend influence beyond the local church. A controversy over evolution is also anticipated.
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Erica
Northern Baptist Convention
United States
Fosdick
Park Avenue Baptist Shurch
New York
Foadick
Rockefeller Foundation
Californian Seeks Restitution for Historic Lunch Basket
Williamsport postmaster reports a Californian, now with the Salvation Army, wishes to repay a lunch basket stolen in Williamsport in August 1887. He learned of the theft while in California and intends to make amends with the rightful owner, but the finder cannot identify the owner.
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Williamsport
W Stans Hill
California
Californian
Salvation Army
Hill
Frogs Imbedded in Cement Freed After Years
In Okanogan Washington June 29 a road crew cut into a country road freeing several green frogs trapped in cement three feet below the old highway. The frogs showed animation upon release. Trevor Kincaid of the University of Washington said such long imprisonment is possible though lacking data.
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Associated Press
Okanogan
Wash
Trevor Kincaid
University of Washington
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Reed
Trimmer
F. M. Trimmer
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