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Newspaper
Creston Daily Advertiser
Location
Creston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1925
Page
3
A classified notice notes The Associated Press holds republication rights for all AP credited dispatches and local news in the Creston Daily Advertiser. Rights for special mis matches are reserved.
Veteran Brooklyn infielder Jimmy Johnston, age 25, who has played multiple infield positions and hit above .300, trains at the Dodgers camp in Clearwater Florida. His varied career spanned Keene Seattle Ottumwa Chicago Oakland Brooklyn Newark and the Federal League before settling with the Robins.
In Baxter Kansas Newton wins a three way A district playoff, Mingo and Colfax eliminated. Des Moines announces new sites for district games in A and B Southwest districts at Shenandoah Victor and Menlo with reallocated venues. Tama Clinton Elwood move to southeast, Boone and Beaver shift to northwest. Valley Junction tops Perry in a playoff. Omaha hosts welterweight Morris Schlatter versus Jack Britton on March 20. In Des Moines Almon Heath, 12, of Vinton, suffers repeated arm breaks in a ball game. Rusty Evans and Abe Mishkind battle to a 10 round draw in Scotts Bluffs.
The piece explains that about half the price of cigarettes goes to taxes. It cites a 309 million federal tobacco tax last year, with 182.7 million paid by the cigarette segment. It touts Lucky Strike’s value, toasting process, and sanitary factories as reasons to buy, claiming a trial will win permanent customers.
In Dubuque Iowa the Columbia college tournament for Catholic high schools in the archdiocese of Dubuque ran late in the afternoon with five teams Cascade Immaculate Conception Cedar Rapids Sacred Heart Monticello and St Joseph Bellevue the finals winner faces Columbia academy for a shot at the national Catholic tournament in Chicago later this month.
Recent estimates show about three million electric washers and roughly 4.2 million electric fans in use across the United States.
New York March 10. The financial underworld uses boiler rooms to sell fake stocks by telephone and telegraph. Swindlers lure victims with active stock promises then switch to worthless mines, often after profits appear. Postal inspectors nabbed a swindler. two others arrested later.
A review of the 1924 25 winter shows forecasts calling for severe cold and frequent cold waves did not materialize. The season began late and ended early with above normal temperatures across much of the nation in January and February, and only mixed snow patterns outside the Ohio Valley to New England. Fruit buds advanced early in the south as warmth persisted.
Clinton D. Smith, manager of two street railway companies in New Brighton, introduces an honor system for fare collection. He claims losses from fares have dropped and revenues are recovering since its adoption.
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