Interesting Events Of Iowa News In 1924
David Gilbert of Bancroft in Kossuth county accompanied hog shipments to Chicago where the pigs sold and he kept 100 for personal use and sent the rest to a local bank. He vanished en route home and despite searches no trace was found. Insurance payouts were made after seven years as allowed by law. Near Woodbine a wind gusher blew from a 225 foot well and produced water then disappeared with sand and gravel. A Plymout h county tale reports Mrs. Jenkins at the Little Sioux river calmly letting a bull snake crawl along her shoulder before it slid away.
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David Gilbert
Bancroft
Kossuth County
Chicago
Gilbert
Equitable Life of Iowa
Royal Insurance Company
Mason City
Woodbine
Harrison County
William Umphalbaugh
Plymouth County
W. R. Jenkins
Little Sioux
William G. Adkins
Milford
Dickinson County
Elizabeth Sperry
Luton
England
Calcutta
British India
Java
William Sheppard
Algeria
Africa
Frank Ainsworth
St. John's
Canada
Oregon
Liverpool
St. George Channel
Queenstown
Ireland
Sarah Ann Adkins
Queenie
Tala
Polluted Iowa river blamed for fish deaths and foul smell
Izaak Walton league members in Tama county circulate a remonstrance over water pollution killing thousands of fish in the Iowa river. Shell Rock residents unite to curb the stench from Lime Creek now called the Winnebago river, flood with sewerage from Mason City and a beet sugar factory. A single crew buried 140 bushels of carcasses as authorities blame poisonous factory effluent and low water for the contamination. County boards report wide cost gaps in feeding inmates with Appanoose at 1.68 per week and Davis at 6.91, while Polk county shows about 20 per month for Des Moines enrollments.
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Izaak Walton League
Tama County
Iowa River
Shell Rock
Mason City
Boards of Supervisors
Iowa
Appanoose County
Davis County
Polk County
Des Moines
Appanoose
Centerville
Two Indian Women Rob Lamont Farmer of $40
In Lamont Buchanan county two Indian women asked for potatoes and water at farmer Alex Pazen dack’s home four miles east of Lamont. While he turned, one woman stole his pocketbook containing $40 and fled in an auto. Sheriff Ray Burch arrested two Indians named Steve and Miller Ziko and held them in Independence jail. they were ordered to leave the county after the money was returned.
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Lamont
Buchanan County
Alex Pazendack
Ray Burch
Steve
Miller Ziko
Independence
Aerial Armies Fly Over Iowa in Formation Toward Dayton
In the early morning, 64 airplanes in tight military formation passed over Iowa towns between Council Bluffs and Davenport. The group was a sample of Uncle Sam's aerial force converging on Dayton, Ohio for mobilization. The whine of propellers resembled a whirlwind across the countryside.
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Iowa
Council Bluffs
Davenport
Dayton
Ohio
Uncle Sam
Pheasant Shatters Car Windshield Injuring Boy
Edward Kienitz returning home with his four year old son Dean had a broken windshield when a pheasant struck it at dusk. A sliver of glass pierced the child’s eye and he was taken to a Mason City hospital where the eye was removed. The article notes a new windshield glass that does not crumble on impact.
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Edward Kienitz
Kossuth
Town Family Heads to Soviet Model Farm Opportunity
A. E. Augustine, then manager of Fox Chemical farm north of Des Moines, accepted a post directing hog section activities in Soviet Russia. His wife Mrs. Augustine and their three sons plan to join him from Delta Iowa as Soviet officials arrange a new home and cover transportation. The piece also notes a historic 100 year old metal trunk journeying with various relatives, and the sale of Rockwell Granite the champion Percheron stallion to a Montreal horse association for $5000.
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A. E. Augustine
Fox Chemical Company
Des Moines
Russia
Hell week opens at Grinnell College with freshman stunts
W G Ray of Grinnell reports that Hell week began Thursday night May 14 at Grinnell College and runs to Sunday morning. The event, run by the freshman class, features Smith hall freshies ringing a bell at Wardfield and being assigned hours on the bell watch. Freshmen also wear backward clothing and perform other antics.
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W. G. Ray
Grinnell
Grinnell College
Watch Found On Farm Returns To Owner In Washington County
Roy G. Miller recalls Edwin Bushek losing a watch while plowing corn on the Schmidt farm near Riverside Washington county sixteen years ago. The watch was finally recovered by Mr Schmidt last week and returned to its owner with a remarkably well preserved case shining as when new.
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Schmidt
Riverside
Washington County
Roy G. Miller
Edwin Bushek
Des Moines Draft Horse Market Sees Strong Spring Sales
In Des Moines the Elder Cattle Sales Co. runs weekly auctions attracting eastern buyers and local bidders. About 300 to 350 head sell each Saturday with totals of 20 000 to 30 000 dollars, top prices reaching 540 dollars for matched Percherons and high grades sold to New York Connecticut and Maine. Most draft horses head to Michigan for work on farms or tractors while hard rural roads aid truck delivery with over 90 percent transported by truck and no shipping fever reported. The Des Moines Chamber of Commerce agricultural committee backs Talbott yards as a premier western source for quality drafters fresh from the farm.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Elder Cattle Sales Co
Michigan
New York State
Connecticut
Maine
Agricultural Committee
Des Moines Chamber of Commerce
Talbott
Improvements Planned at Iowa State Fair Grounds
The Iowa State Fair plans more than fifty thousand dollars in repairs and improvements over three months on the Des Moines 360 acre exposition grounds before the 1931 fair. A public bath house for campers will be built on the 100 acre free camp ground with 20 showers for men and 20 for women and a hot and cold water supply. A small user fee will be charged.
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Des Moines
Decorah man buys first Mississippi bridge trip ticket
B M Graham of Decorah has bought the $150 ticket for the first journey across the new Black Hawk bridge at Lansing. He plans to be present at the opening around June 15.
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B. M. Graham
Decorah
Mississippi River
Black Hawk
Lansing
Mr. Graham
Overfed public disrupts city dining scenes
Minneapolis Journal notes Roger Babison cites public fatigue with stocks. Some citizens have reportedly overindulged and suffered digestive issues, sparking calls for dietary reforms and better food regulation.
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Minneapolis
Roger Babison
Sea lions trained to hunt submarines in 1917
The British admiralty archives reveal a 1917 scheme to train sea lions to detect submerged U boats by hearing electric motors. Queenie the seal proved an apt pupil, swimming to a sound device then returning to the boat for fish. Whether they were used in action remains secret.
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London
Admiralty
Balalake
North Wales
Glanilyn
Billiken
Beatty
Joffre
Queenie
Royal Navy
Old Timer Demonstrates Old Style Football at Yale
The story recalls Pudge Heffelfinger who after fifty years charged Yale's line as in his youth, shredding the varsity and prompting Tad Jones to beg him to leave the game. The incident fuels debate over whether modern football has softened from earlier days.
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Yale
Pudge Heffelfinger
Old Elf
Tad Jones
Jones
Pudge
Tad
Yale Blue
Oxford Union President Found in Wheelbarrow at Piccadilly
In the early hours the Oxford Union president, ending his term, was found resting in a wheelbarrow in Piccadilly Circus. Before the magistrate he claimed the reason was valetudinary, prompting the judge to remark on responsibility and status. The president whispered a soft acquiescence, saying we are.
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The
Oxford Union
London
Union
Piccadilly Circus
Coast Guard as Part of US Military Under Navy, Treasury Roles
The Coast Guard is part of the U.S. military by law, operating under the Treasury in peace and under the Navy in war or as directed by the President. It traces to the former Revenue Cutter Service and Life Saving Service and has a history of distinguished wartime and peacetime service at sea.
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Coast Guard
United States
Treasury Department
Navy
Secretary of the Navy
Revenue Cutter Service
Life Saving Service
Portchester Ghosts Myths Grow Over Ancient Castle
Residents of Portchester Bushland claim ghosts inhabit the famed castle after three skeletons were found at a site where apparitions were sighted during three winter accessions. The fortress has served as a British camp Roman fortress Norman stronghold and Napoleonic era jail for French prisoners. Smallpox epidemics struck prisoners with many deaths and burials recorded there.
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Portchester
Man nets Pike and Hawk in One Catch
Karl Sohlman of Toemte Vermland Sweden achieved a rare feat by trapping a large pike in his net while a hawk attempted to prey on the struggling fish. The hawk entangled in the net, yielding a double catch including a hawk over one meter across its wing tips.
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Karl Sohlman
Toemte
Vermland
Sweden
Sohlman
Ouston Named For Gen Sam Houston And Civil War Era Growth
The city grew from a shipping point and industrial center with a romantic backdrop. It bears the name of Gen Sam Houston, hero of San Jacinto, honoring Texas independence. The battlefield is now a state park about twenty two miles away.
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Ouston
Sam Houston
Battle of
San Jacinto
Republic of Texas
Mexico
Venice Mirror Making Forged in Century Old Gang Lore
A long article cites Robert B. Locher claiming Venetian mirror making inspired Chicago crime tactics. It traces glass elaboration from Tyre to Venice, then decline and shift to France, noting rulers punished outsiders and that mirrors evolved from industrial craft to decorative prestige by Victoria's era.
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New York
Chicago
Robert B. Locher
Destener
Home and Field
Mr. Locher
Republic
Tyre
Sidon
Victoria
Skeleton of Ancient Man Found in Lava Near McArthur
A well preserved skull and bones were found four miles east of McArthur by a highway crew after a lava flow from Mount Lassen. The skull shows edgewise teeth and high cheekbones, suggesting a prehistoric victim. The find, kept at the highway headquarters at McArthur, may be sent to the state university for study.
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McArthur
Frank Slussenl
Tte
State University
Starvation Plea Fails to Stir Arkansas Judge
Walnut Ridge Arkansas judge J F Israel 72 says thieves rarely deserve sympathy and notes in his 50 years in law enforcement he has never seen real reason to steal because of hunger He would release a hungry man with a starving family if charged with stealing food.
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Walnut Ridge
Ark
J. F. Israel
Tsrael
Lawrence County
Israel
Farmer Battles Fierce Owl in Ontario Canada
Henry Whitney of Orilla Ontario shot at a large Arctic owl after it snatched a turkey. The bird roosted in an apple tree and attacked when Whitney tried to recover the turkey, leaving him with a badly macerated arm and the owl measured at a five and a half foot wingspan.
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Farmer
Fierce Owl
Ontario
Canada
Orilla
England Speeding Up Its Fighting Planes
The air ministry approves faster speed for day bombers fighters and army co operation aircraft. In the next month over 200 Trunker planes will be built with Rolls Royce FF engines. New fighters include the Pury and Norn with speeds above 200 mph and high altitude capabilities. The Norn variant is adapted for deck landing and possible catapult launch.
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London
Royal Atr
Air Ministry
R.A. F
Urs
Norn
Airplane to Replace Broncs on Nebraska Ranch
Car, Neb. a trim sport model Airplane will soon replace the traditional cowpony for riding drift fences and spotting cattle on the W.7. Shanks ranch near here. Shanks operates extensive ranch interests in this section of Nebraska and has purchased no plane yet learning to fly. He intends to use the plane for inspecting fences boning stray cattle and general supervision of his ranch.
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Shanks
Nebraska
Scottish dancer Lena Doty Adorns Medal Riches
Scottish woman Lena Doty, champion dancer, displays over 1,000 medals at public appearances. She has earned wide recognition for her dancing yet cannot wear them all. Page boys carry many medals shown to crowds as proof of her fame.
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London
Lena Doty
Scotland
Oh What Girlst Glasgow Mootle Family Farmers
A Mootle farmer vows to challenge the world to match his family of ten daughters all six feet two or taller. Each daughter is described as an efficient scientific farmer and none is married yet.
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Glasgow
Tie
Holy Cats 5 Bucks for Mending Holy Chicken
A humorous wartime note describes a Marine quartermaster puzzled by a bill for mending a lectern labeled Holy Chicken. A Chinese clerk explains the lectern from the marines chapel was sent out for refurbishing and eyed by locals as a humble chicken from a church.
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Sthenghal
Hair Dyeing Machine Enables Daily Hair Color Change
A new hairdyeing device showcased at the Hairdressers' exhibition promises daily color changes. It can turn black hair blond or any shade in between, tested on many women to demonstrate its versatility.
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London
Welcome Beacon on Oasis Palm in Desert Travel Tales
The palm tree signals welcome water in arid eastern plains where springs fail. Natives dig near the roots to find water and shade, and the oasis palm, tall and feathery, promises refreshment and dates in season.
Dog in Ash Pit Rescued From Cruel Furnace Heat
A Stamford Connecticut dog owned by Stanley Gavel sought warmth in an ash pit of a furnace. The animal warmed quickly but became scorched as coals drooled on its hide. The Gavels called the fire department. three firemen freed the dog with hooks.
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Stanley Gavel
Stamford
Conn
Authorship dispute over famous saying credited to John Bradford
The saying but for the grace of God has been misattributed to John Wesley and others. The Dictionary of National Biography assigns it to John Bradford, English Protestant martyr executed by burning at Smithfield after two years in prison for preaching. A tradition says he uttered the line upon seeing criminals headed for execution.
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John Wesley
Dictionary of National Biography
John Bradford
Smnithfield
Divisions of Poetry and its principal types
The text explains three main poetry types epic dramatic and lyric. Epics are long narratives about heroic events while lyrics express the poet’s sentiment. Drama centers on action and is a dramatic poem.
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Wiliam A. Wilbur
King Alfonso May Lecture Here Over Vacation Plans
In a lighthearted note the Ames Tribune Times hints King Alfonso might visit to deliver a lecture while a Eugene ONeill play runs, touching on travel and vacation choices as a local amusement.
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Ames Tribume
Alfonso
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Rockwell Granite
Holbert Horse Company
Greeley
Delaware County
Horse Association
Montreal
Mississippi
Venice
Arkansas
Base
Dyersville
Cascade
Monticello
Main Street
Fleetric Refrigeration
Starr
Radio Shop
Cazette
Eugene O'Neill
Ford
Madsen Motor Co
Candy
Carly
Monarch
Eaco
I Am
L. F. Balster
Variety Store
Anamosa, Iowa
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