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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1925
Page
1
A compact digest of midweek economic and political events. Grain export totals from Washington, labor strikes, court actions, and notable incidents across the United States are summarized with emphasis on entities like the Department of Commerce, United Mine Workers, and regional newspapers. Sums reach into millions for insurance, trade, and disaster relief.
The column records sudden deaths including Brig. Gen. George A. Dodd in Florida at 73, and Gov. Hellin S. Woodruff of Connecticut aged 71 in Guilford. It lists other obituaries and society news such as Miss Beico Douglas elected president of the Women’s Overseas Service League, and marriage plans of Mary Newcomb to Alexander Henry Blazin. The item mentions Loyola University New Orleans and references several prominent names and places.
Dated dispatches report heavy French repulsion of foreign forces on upper Leben outposts and a Vatican papal welcome at Te re. The American government buys Prince Schoenborn Palace at Prague for a legation for about 170000. A central Lezon typhoon kills over twenty and devastates property, while stock losses mount. Multiple arrests in Silesia follow shootings and murder charges. An Australia voyage references officials Faria and Jose Ricardo per public works, amid Geneva talks on pulsar gas and bacteria in warfare with France, Leonferences and related diplomacy.
Santa Barbara reels from a major earthquake and fires as aftershocks rattle the region. Parts of the water system fail, landmarks topple, and bankers mobilize funds for reconstruction while scientists warn of further quakes along the Pacific coast.
Fragmentary OCR text references American physicians, interns in radiology, and London but contains garbled phrases and missing context, making precise interpretation difficult. The readable elements hint at a wartime medical note or correspondence about radiology staff and conditions.
Two sisters from New York Mrs Morris Sempler and Mr Emil Berolzheimer spoke by wireless telephone across 250 miles of the Atlantic after the Columbus docked with a new duplex system from Telefunken. The device operates at 1800 or 1400 meters and overcomes antenna interference enabling simultaneous sending and receiving in shipboard use.
General Smedley Butler, director of safety in Philadelphia, said he will quit by year end after admitting he failed to eliminate political influence in the city. He vowed to continue fighting corruption while in office and criticized cooperation from locals, noting his long-running clean-up campaign has not achieved full support.
At the HalIan Hospital fund event at the Polo Grounds in New York fifty thousand spectators watched. Middleweight champion Harry Greb retained his title after a 15 round battle with Mickey Walker. Welterweight Harry Wills stopped Charney Weinert in the second round. California’s David Shade knocked out Jimmy Slattery in the third of six scheduled rounds.
In Seattle the Northern Baptist convention saw Modernists prevail in two sessions. Fundamentalists failing to seat delegates from Park Avenue Baptist Church of New York lost 912 to 304. A recall of modernist missionaries from foreign fields was voted down 742 to STL. After the victory, credited delegates were seated on motion of Dr. W. S. Abernathy. Fundamentalist leaders signaled a by law amendment to be proposed next year, a process requiring two years to complete.
Defense lawyers in the Scopes trial debated moving the case from the Tennessee circuit court in Dayton to a federal court in Nashville. They argued the antievolution law may be unconstitutional, seeking to shield the state from enforcing the statute.
Severe fighting at Sulai mamleh Mesopotamia ends with the rebel Kurdish chief Bheik Mahmood driven across the Persian frontier. British airplanes inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy amid the clash.
A reported body movement near the border involving revolutionaries and a Mexican figure was denied by Alfonso de la Buerta. The note references Cotua Bum in N A but provides few corroborating details.
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