Northwestern Iowa News Roundup and Local Updates
Reports from Sioux City and northwestern Iowa detail teacher meetings in early April, a Lake Park bank opening with $10,000 daily business, a Sherri Savings Bank revival after May closure, and patrols to curb off season duck shooting. Weather notes mark 1924 25 winter as the coldest since 1919 20, and Waterloo’s East Fourth Street mill to be torn down. Odd Fellows Cedar Rapids event set for April 24, Went Union joins newly formed Touriety Service Federation, and a Clinton Muscatine bus route denied by the railroad commission. Additional items cover Des Moines hot car profits, oats crop gains in 1924, bootlegger warnings, and county farm notes on crops, roads, and beets research.
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Northwast
Sioux City
Firat National Bang
Lake ‘Park
Firat
Sherri Savings Bank
Iowa
Ducke
Iowa -Weather Bureau
Tno
East Fourth
Clinton
Muscatine
State College
Des Moines
Palo Alto County
Tiquor
County
Tourists Service Federation of Laws
Helen Keller
Carroll County
Union
Afton
Jast
Avent Tha
Tas
Auilas
Acini
Ounties
Aasa
Asaocia
Federal Road Aid Provisions Highlight Legislature
The Shaft bill grants the highway commission supervision of maintenance on primary roads, with a $4,000,000 set aside from federal and state funds for county road improvements. Counties failing to maintain primary roads risk losing federal aid. the commission can initiate projects to connect county roads, shifting work from counties to the state. Additionally the legislature rejected new taxes, left education governance intact, and saw limited major banking law changes.
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Highway Commission Beuerm Authority
County Boards of Supervisors
Highway Commission
Fta Allottsd
Eb County Board of Supervisors
The
Border Counties
House
Senate
State Board of Education
New Treasury Unit Formed to Enforce Prohibition
A reorganized Treasury plan places the prohibition force under Assistant Secretary Lincoln A. Andrews who takes oath after Wadsworth’s resignation. The treasury groups the customs coast guard and prohibition unit under one head, signaling a vigorous crackdown on smugglers and bootleggers while the Internal Revenue Bureau handles legal aspects and remaining prohibition duties.
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Waarington
Creasury
the Treasury
Lincoln A. Andrews
Uilee
Kint Wadsworth
Andrews
Coast Guard
Treasury Mess
Treasury Organization
Prohibition
Internal Revenue Classification
Wealthy Illinois Realtor Ends Life With Bullet
Halph O Manning a prominent Dupage county realtor and secretary of the Dupage family Realty association fatally shot himself at the old Manning estate in Warrenville. He was son of the late Judge William Manning of Cook County Circuit Court and one of the county’s wealthiest residents. Relatives say he suffered from epilepsy and used a revolver in a suicide act observed in the family mansion.
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Warrenville, Jr
Halph O. Manning
Dupage County
Werrenville
Wheaton
Fie
Dupige
Manning
William 3
Grain Market Slump Delivers Losses Across Corn Wheat
In Chicago, grain prices fell again with corn and wheat sliding as delivery coins dropped. Markets showed a broad decline with near 7 cent drops and an overall weaker close, reflecting pressure from broader supply factors and weak demand across the sector.
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Chicago
United States
Plotters Use Emery to Disable U S Ship San Pedro
Fragmented OCR text describes alleged plotting against a U S ship San Pedro with references to Emery, damage to engines, and unnamed parties. The garbled report mentions a vessel and claims of sabotage with financial or tactical stakes, but lacks clear names or dates.
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U. S
San Pedro
Cal
Holtce
Anger
Judge Ends Gish Trial Hitting Duell With Perjury
In New York Judge Julian W. Muck ruled against Duell in the Gish trial, holding him for perjury and barring federal court appearances. Duell faced $10,000 bond, a grand jury tie, and later issued a suicide note while declaring Miss Gish the “world's worst witness” as details of alleged marriage plans surfaced.
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New York
Courtas
Duell
Impletwre
Tonko Luiin
Arnmatic
Julian W. Muck
Wabland
Acre
Abuck
Bint
Miss Gish
Osborne Wood Back Home After Gambling Scandals
Osborne Wood returns from Europe amid regrets over gambling losses and worthless checks. He says the four months abroad drained winnings on Wall Street, but his father Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood remains a positive influence. Wood plans to go to California soon, lamenting the unwanted notoriety.
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Wood
California
Fire Stock Bill Signed by New York Governor
Albany N Y The bill amends stock transactions law giving attaches general power to detect fraudulent securities. Governor Smyth signed the Webb measure drafted by Attorney General Ottinger to enable a program of cleaning up fake securities. Promoters must file advance notices of issues with the attorney general, enabling closer scrutiny of security values before sale.
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Albany
Bartin
Smyth
Webb
Iim
Ottinger
Keneral
Chaince
Jean De Reszke Dies World Famous Tenor
Jean De Reszke, renowned tenor linked to the Metropolitan Opera, died after influenza complications in France at an advanced age. The aging star, who once graced international stages, spent later years teaching and guiding students worldwide, especially in the United States.
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Jean de Reszke
Nica
France
Teun de Reszike
Dent
de Teszko
Metropolitan Opera House
New York
Rtoga
de Steszko
Evanaton Girl Vanishes in Fiynnaton Mystery
A missing person report centers on eighteen year old Sophio Nenning of 818 Tidge Avenue, Evanaton. Authorities seek clues as friends and family describe her last known movements toward a Maid minority group, with no trace found to date.
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Evanaton
Fiynnaton
Sophio
U S Government Market Quotations April 2 Prices
The report lists commodity prices across fruits vegetables grains hay and dairy, with figures for potatoes apples and citrus, along with stock prices for cattle and lambs. It includes wheat corn oats and dairy product prices from various markets and regions, highlighting regional variations and ranges.
Weeks Ill May Be Forced From Secretary of War Post
Washington reports Secretary Weeks may quit the cabinet after a serious illness following a trip. Doctors say he suffered a thrombosis in a small brain artery causing left arm weakness with no other symptoms. He regained some movement but faced potential paralysis and uncertain recovery.
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Ili
Washington
Yartin
Weeks
Ala
Uint
Increase in Business Failures in First Quarter
New York It G Dun and Company reports 6060 commercial failures in the United States for the three months ended March. This reflects a 10.8 percent rise from the previous fourth quarter of 1924. March defaults total 1859, amounting to 34 004 781 dollars in liabilities.
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New York
G, Dun & Company
United States
G. Dun & Company
President to Spend Vacation at White Court
Washington reports the president will begin his summer vacation on June 48 at White Court Bwampecott. He will maintain a summer capitol there, with advance parties preparing for his return and for Coolidge.
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White Court
Bwampecott
Mace
Cantidga
Washington
Wal
White ‘Court
Trankt W. Stenrna
Bary
Villo Toso
Wreige
Bien
Coolidge
Unclear OCR Coffee Trade Note From Rio Janeiro Market
Fragmented report shows U S cut to coffee purchases in Rio Janeiro with numbers misread and garbled wording. Mentions American imports and a two month period with quantities around several million units and a note of efforts to reduce prices.
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U. S
Rio Janeiro
Sontog
von Hand
Red leaders lift ban on private capital in Russia
Moscow reports the council of labor and defense, chaired by acting Premier Lea Kameneff, announces end of government control over industry and private capital. Reforms phase out private trade restrictions by state trusts, aiming to revive internal commerce after a damaging prior campaign. Dzerzhinsky rebukes past policies, insisting strength lies in facing defects and shifting toward private capitalization.
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Moscow
Russia
Council of Labor and
Defenge
Ioaic
Inustry
Lea Kaimeneff
Premer
Iecito
Captuilata Ta Enternite
Goois
Nikola Lenin Inau
Hussia
M. DaerJincky
Supreme Economic Council
Trie
Wan Kamenef
Indictment of Doheny, Fall and Sinclair Beaton
The government pursues oil scandal prosecutions as indictments are returned in Washington. Albert Fall former interior secretary Larry Sinclair Edward Doheny and Edward Doheny Jr are named. Oliver logan is noted as an attorney general aide in the grand jury. A new grand jury could be sought for conspiracy charges over oil leases to Sinclair and Doheny.
Dodge Auto Plant Sold to Bankers for 175 Million
Dettol Mich Dodge Automobile Company sold to a syndicate of New York bankers led by Dilton Tread Co for cash. The deal totals about 175 million to 200 million, one of the largest single cash transfers in U S industry. The property was owned jointly by the widows of John and Horace Dodge and will be paid in full in a single payment.
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Dettol
Mich
Dodge Automobile Company
United States
New York
Orm of Dilton, Tread & Co
Heacd
John
Horace
Dodge
Volunteers Halt Forest Fire Sweeps Through Township
In Hammond Indiana volunteers organized as a corps of volunteer firefighters aided by Heasville Dyer and St John fire departments to halt a spreading blaze that threatened forests and farms. Embers from a railroad train started the fire, with nearly the entire township of about 1,000 residents joining the effort to contain it.
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Hammond
Ind
Heasville
Dyer
St. John
MacMurray Chosen as U.S. Minister to China
President Coolidge selected John Von A. MacMurray, assistant secretary of state and noted expert on Far Eastern questions, to be the United States minister to China, a decision announced publicly.
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Whebington
John von A. Mac Murray
China
Coolidge
Morlatt Editor Dies in Kenogha Newsroom
Elaine Morlatt, a leading journalist and editor of the Kenogha News, died yesterday at home after a long illness. Willdr T. Morlatt, son of the deceased, confirmed the passing and said funeral arrangements will be announced.
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Morlatt
Kengaha
Wie
Elaine
Willdr T. Morlatt
Fittys
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