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Newspaper
Creston Daily Advertiser
Location
Creston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1925
Page
4
Creston Daily Advertiser issue details the Creston Advertiser-Gasette Co. publishers Carl Davenport and W A Roseberry with contact lines and city notes. It references post office registration in Iowa and AP affiliation, outlining republication rights.
In his Forum piece Arthur Symons outlines a fifty year literary authority's picks of fifteen great novels. He names Don Quixote Gargantua Clarissa Harlowe Tom Jones Gulliver's Travels Le Bierre Goriot Le Roque et Le Noir Salammbo Anna Karenina Lavengro Mademoiselle de Maupin The Scarlet Letter.
The Des MoinesRegister muses on classic and modern novels. Barbey d Aubervally Laclos and d Annunzio stand alongside Hawthorne Tolstoy and Cervantes as it weighs enduring status and the Nobel prize’s reach.
A New York American item notes many beauty parlors show customers not waited on. An accident in Flushing this week reports a man losing car control after failing to keep up payments.
National and Western leagues report standings with leading teams Philadelphia New York Boston Chicago St Louis and Cleveland. Yesterday scores include Chicago 6 Philadelphia 5 and New York 5 Chicago 2. Tomorrow features multiple interleague matchups across cities including Philadelphia St Louis Washington Detroit New York Cleveland Boston Chicago and Cincinnati Boston. Western league and Mississippi Valley standings list Oklahoma City Wichita Tulsa Des Moines Lincoln Omaha Denver St Joe with upcoming games.
London reports Kagewa Toyo hike a Kobe labor leader arrived to study the British labor party and aid forming a Japanese labor party modeled after Britain yet aligned with German democratic ideas. The party would unite Japanese Federation of Labor socialist groups Fabian society peasants union and possibly liberal government and opposition members.
The undersigned is appointed as Executor by the District Court of Union County Iowa for the estate of John Frederick late of Union County. All indebted persons must pay the undersigned and all claims must be proved to the court for allowance. Dated May 4 1925. D Davenport Executor. Pub dates May 5 12 19.
State of Iowa Union County District Court in Vacation No 3066 notices that an instrument purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Ida J. Peterson deceased was read. The hearing on proof is set for Saturday June 13 1925 at 1 30 p m before GEO CG FIGGINS Clerk of District Court with the seal affixed.
Los Angeles police statistics reveal that burglars are busiest from 7 to 9 p.m. with 2,290 burglaries at 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in October to December, mainly in residences and apartments. The report notes many break ins occur through picked locks or unlocked doors while families are away or occupied.
Agricultural price data reveal astonishing low costs from the 1800s. Examples include 35 dozen eggs at 3 cents a dozen sold in 1860, 98 pounds of raw cotton at 8 1/2 cents a pound in 1848, 30¢ a bushel for corn and 75¢ for wheat in 1860 Minnesota, and hogs, beef, tobacco, and stove wood priced in various years across Ohio, Mississippi, Illinois, and Maryland.
Cresco May 19 The state begins its bid to prove the sanity of Dennis J Murphy a Waukan lawyer and capitalist so he can face charges of forgery and embezzlement in district court. Murphy arrived with his wife daughter and son for the opening of the trial as his attorneys knew of his presence.
The Creston Choral Club performs its final season concert at the high school. Soloists sing Tadian pieces, followed by Cole ridge Taylors setting of Longfellow Death of Minnehaha. Wartime program and locally active musical groups noted. Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra just returned from a 5000 mile tour playing 24 concerts.
In Iowa, Murphy prepared for trial as if sane after 14 indictments by Allamakee juries. County Attorney Pieper leads the prosecution with Senn eff Sheridan Nelson. defense is headed by James I Trewin. Noted Chicago alienist James Whitney Hall arrived to observe and may testify. Venue moved to Howard county two months ago.
A compilation of brief Iowa items reports John Reinke found dead on his Larchwood farm possibly by his own hand. Clair Swank in Kirksville sentenced to 15 years for forging a check. J F Garnes responds to charges about rural school standardization. A N Bertelson elected Iowa Bankers’ group chairman. Fred Davis seeks U S marshal reappointment. Charles Kloster is boosted by younger Republicans. Steffa Baker, 16, seriously wounded by an accidental gun discharge near Mapleton. E Beman to become state banking superintendent on July 1, meeting with Governor Hammill.
Dexter reports the school refused to designate a commencement speaker and nearly all graduates stayed away, leaving only two class members in attendance.
Mrs. Burton praises Karnak after claiming relief from three years of nervous indigestion and stomach trouble. She says the medicine let her eat and sleep like a healthy child and regain strength, urging others to try Karnak sold by Newcomb & Matthews and local druggists.
A. R. Conklin, 59, died after falling from a scaffold in Council Bluffs on May 19. In Ames on May 19 two men from Clinton to Omaha were arrested for transporting liquor with 300 gallons of grain alcohol and dope found in their car, named Pat Burkley and Harold White. Iowa City hosted a tennis finale where Alberts defeated Dick Boyles in the singles of the Iowa intercollegiate tournament.
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