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Newspaper

Creston Weekly Advertiser

Location

Creston, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Sep 08, 1927

Page

6

Haman Rules as Creston Grid Teams Prepare

Over 60 Creston area players, 45 high school and 21 junior college, undergo conditioning under L W Pawek and Lemuel C Wires. Wires warns discipline will be strict, with suspensions for training breaches as crews prep for nine game schedule including Abraham Lincoln on Armistice Day and tough foes Tarkio Graceland Des Moines Catholic college.

Creston L. W. Pawek Lemuel C. Wires Wires L. L. Wright Winterset Abraham Lincoln Des Moines Tarkio Graceland Des Moines Catholic College

Iowa News Briefs Highlights Local Bond and Medical Society Events

Bonaparte petitions seek a special election on bonds to pave Van Buren County primary roads. Des Moines doctors of national repute will lecture at a post graduate course during the Missouri Valley Medical Society convention with 1,000 expected attendees. Alta Forrest McDeid, be drowned in a gravel pit near Alta. Burlington police probe the death of Enoch Wheatphalen 56 whose body was found in the Mississippi near Fort Madison amid foul play suspicions.

Associated Press Bonaparte County Board of Supervisors van Buren County Des Moines Medical Society of the Missouri Valley Burlington Enoch Weatphalen Mississippi River Fort Madison

Iowa Road Conditions Report

Road conditions across Iowa vary with counties reporting clear or good travel in Dubuque Clearing Des Moines and Fort Dodge while Keokuk and Iowa City show showers and rain with muddy or slippery roads. Marshalltown and Waterloo note clear main routes but secondary roads muddy and Council Bluffs and Creston remain fair to good with scattered moisture.

Associated Press Iowa Dubuque Des Moines Keokuk Kboone Iowa City Council Bluffs fFair Fort Dodge Waterloo Creston Marshalltown

Life's Niceties Hints on Etiquet

Questions on opera etiquette are answered with bold guidance. Women in boxes or orchestra seats should wear evening dress for opera, matinee box parties require afternoon or semi formal attire, and hats are worn at opera matinee boxes. Also noted is the rose's high commercial value with forty thousand flowers needed for one ounce of attar of roses.

Meighans night club rise and romance in a play

A dramatic tale follows Meighan climbing to proprietorship of a night club amid determined romance. An aristocratic beauty played by Marietta Milner and a cast including Cullen Landis Philo McCullough Gunboat Smith Gertrude Claire and Spe O'Donnell support the story as love and conflict unfold.

Meighan Marietta Milner Philo McCullough

Baseball scores and schedules from yesterday and next day

Yesterday New York defeated Boston 12 to 10. St Louis beat Chicago 6 to 4 and Philadelphia lost to Brooklyn 1 to 2. Cincinnati edged Pittsburgh 6 to 5. Next day matchups include Chicago at Washington Detroit at Philadelphia St Louis at New York and Brooklyn at St Louis Philadelphia at Pittsburgh Boston at Cincinnati. Western League standings show Wichita and Des Moines atop the table with varying records.

New York Boston Chicago Washington Detroit Philadelphia St. Louis Cleveland Brooklyn Cincinnati Pittsburgh W. L. Pet. Reet Chatencves Wichita Lincon Mee Tulsa Omaha Lincoln Oklahoma City Amarillo Des Moines Denver Chikaro Pet Louis

Fight results from the Associated Press

The report lists bouts with mixed outcomes including draws and decisions. Stanislaus Loayza and Bruce Flowers fought to a draw, Ramon Castillo defeated Sam White, Lou Barba and Roberto Roberti drew, Tommy Cello beat Pal Moran, Des Hoines outpointed Joe Lohman, and la Bearcat Wright defeated Toledo’s Joe Lohman.

Associated Press New York Stanislaus Loayza Chile Bruce Flowers Ramon Castillo Cuba Sam White Lou Barba Roberto Roberti Italy Tommy Cello California Pal Moran New Orleans Des Hoines Bearcat Wright Omaha Joe Lohman Toledo

We're All Gamblers headline and life scenes at Strand

New York Life seen in Tom Meighan's color picture shows ambitions clashing with dramatic results. The Strand offers this Paramount film today through Saturday. East Side set depicts a heavyweight boxer's career disrupted by an automobile crash driven by a Fifth Avenue aristocrat.

New York Tom Meighan Thomas Meighan Paramount Strand Theater East Side Governor Smith James J. Walker Fifth Avenue

Woman Sues Husband in Auto Crash Case Over Beauty

Mrs. Hennan sues her husband John Herman after an automobile collision while he drove, seeking $25,000 claiming injuries and damage to her appearance. The case hinges on fault and damages from the crash.

Washington John Herman Hennan

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HAMAN Alta—Forrest McDeid Jess McDeid William HULLO Papa NEA Service, Inc Cullen Landis Fannie Cianci Caledonia Lynn Mass Longini Billicki Agnes United States Lisen BR. J. Reynolds Tobscco 2 Lssentelen N. C
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