Light Plant Board Approves Pre-heater Install
At Tuesday night’s meeting of the municipal light and water board, Stanley explained a rearrangement and the savings from installing a pre-heater. The plan would cost about $600 now, with future larger savings as plant load grows, and first concrete was poured for a new boiler with erection to start next week.
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Municipal Light and Water Board
Stanley Peared
Ena
Board of Savings
Stanley
Dodge and Carpenter Named Delegates to V F W Convo
Warren Dodge and Clarence Carpenter were chosen as delegates from the Muscatine V F W post to the 34th annual encampment in Milwaukee later this month. E W Rowland and Joe Biles named as alternates. Three new post members were obligated at the meeting. A V F W picnic date was to be set later.
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Warren Dodge
Clarence Carpenter
Muscatine
V. F. W. Post
Milwaukee
City Hall
E. W. Rowland
Joe Biles
Post
Cuban Ambassador Visit Tensions Rise in Havana
Cuban Ambassador to visit Roosevelt amid calls to end Cuba's turmoil as U S mediation faces rejection. President Machado rejects peace plan while strikes, food shortages, and protests intensify. deaths mount and labor demands are granted but freedom guarantees keep conflict unresolved.
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Cuba
Orestes Ferrara
Havana
United States
Welles
Machado
Sumner Welles
Congress
House of Representatives
Salvador Garcia Ramos
U. S
Gun
Manzanillo
Sveral
Mario Garcia Kohly
Kohly Years of Reform Efforts Highlighted
In a recent interview a son spoke for his father noting that the elder Kohly has for years pushed for Cuban constitutional reform and has been offered leadership of opposition groups multiple times.
Swope Ends Coal Mine Strife With Deputies At Union Work Standoff
Miners at multiple Pittsburgh area mines faced orders to work or leave company property after protracted protests. Special deputies urged compliance as national guardsmen patrolled Colonial No 4. Negotiations continue as 27 codes of fair competition are reviewed under the Recovery Act.
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McGrady
Duncan McCallum
Pinchot
Joseph Washington
Filbert
Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Allegheny
Washington Counties
Pittsburgh Terminal
Pittsburgh Coal Properties
Frick Company
Fayette County
Colonial No. 4
Washington
Recovery Administration
NRA
Pittsburgh
Alabama
Iowa
Illinois
West Kentucky
East Kentucky
Winchell Sues Jolson Over Film Claim for Half a Million
Walter Winchell announces a lawsuit against Al Jolson for half a million claiming a film titled Broadway Through a Keyhole misrepresents Jolson and his wife. Winchell asserts the picture is not about the Jolsons and vows to prove the point in court. He notes Russ Columbo stars as an orchestra leader in production by Century United Artiste.
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Jolson
Winchell
Hollywood
New York
Tax Revision Hearings Begin in State Legislature
The interim committee on governmental reorganization and the senate tax revision committee open hearings this week. Speakers and advocates for various tax forms will attend as the sessions run Wednesday and Thursday. Members named include W F Riley Des Moines chair and five lawmakers from Davenport Centerville Mason City Washington and Ottumwa.
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Senate
Polices Tivens Miller
Brookings Institution
W. F. Riley
Des Moines
D. W. Kimberly
Paul Cunningham
O. J. Gray
Newell
C. L. Rice
Delta
Leroy S. Mercer
Iowa City
E. H. Fabritz
Ottumwa
Retailers Warned Not to Cut Hours in NRA Drive
The article outlines government plans to enforce fair competition codes through public accountability and boycotts. It details jection tools such as public shaming, withholding government purchases, and publishing violator names via the AFL and Consumers' Protective Bureau. Mrs. Hugh S. Johnson heads NRA links, with Mary Hughes directing the housewives education effort across 48 states to boost Blue Eagle compliance.
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Johnson
Roosevelt
NRA
Blue Eagle
American Federation of Labor
Consumers’ Protective Bureau
Hugh S. Johnson
NRA Advisory Board
Consumers’ Bureau
Housewives’ Organization
Mary Hughes
Farm Bureau Women Set Goals for 1934 Training Schools and Activities
Farm Bureau Women outline 1934 aims including five townships mapped, county Achievement Day, music appreciation, township maps, a county women’s camp in June, poster contest and demonstrations, more Four H leaders, exhibits at the state fair, and full participation in meetings. Purposes include strengthening the Bureau through home projects, leadership, service, community spirit, health, and citizen development. A river course shift puts Carter Lake on the Nebraska side requiring passage through Omaha to enter by land.
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State Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau
Soft coal camps set to press codes at hearings
The industry with 27 separate codes prepares for hearings today to push adoption of its proposed code. Each of the 27 camps within the soft coal sector aims to secure approval of its plan as hearings commence.
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Dustry
Temporary Oil Trade Code Sets Minimum Wages by Region
The code fixes minimum hourly wages from 40 to 47 cents across regions including the Middle Atlantic New England East North Central and Pacific coast at 47 cents while the South Atlantic East South Central and West South Central are 40 cents West North Central 42 cents and Mountain states 45 cents. It also establishes a 40 hour week for retail gasoline outlets with weekly wages for service station workers from 12 to 15 dollars depending on city size and a 20 percent increase for towns under 2 500, not to exceed 12 dollars weekly.
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Middle Atlantic
New England
East North Central
Pacific Coast
South Atlantic
East South Central
West South Central
West North Central
Mountain States
Milk Strike Riots Prompt New York State Edicts
Gov. Lehman orders special grand juries and unlimited deputy sheriffs to quell milk strike violence in New York state. Aware of threats, Schenectady sees 400 cans of Wisconsin milk arrive under heavy police guard as dealers resume house to house deliveries amid a looming famine.
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Syracuse
Wisconsin
Schenectady
Albany
N. Y
Herbert H. Lehman
New York State
New York
Ohio
William H. Funston
Radio Nets Expand Police Communication Across Iowa
Police in 71 of 99 counties have receiving sets linking with the state Bureau of Investigation. About 130 sets are in use statewide, including 41 car sets and 90 barrack sets. KGHO began broadcasting May 15 with equipment from the Iowa Bankers Association on 1,534 kilocycles. Reports from the statehouse crime desk include stolen cars and major crimes, with the Barrow gang pursuit noted as a strenuous test.
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Deg
Iowa Bankers’ Association
Statehouse
Iowa
J. F. Quigley
Five Arraigned After Raid on Illinois Still
Five government prisoners arrested when prohibition agents seized a big still on a farm near Savanna were held to the grand jury by U S Commissioner Thomas White of Ottawa. Marion Locke, 22, Savanna, held on $1,000 bond. Clifford R. Dennison, Benny Cannatario, 49, of Rockford, and Carlo Bianci, 51, Franco Caruso, of Chicago, bonds $2,000 each. Dennison said he was approached by a man named Frank Gilmore who leased the farm for storage to sell coal and warned him to stay silent.
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Dixon
Ill
Savanna
U.S
Thomas White
Ottawa
Marion Locke
Savanna Farmer
Clifford R. Dennison
Benny Cannatario
Rockford
Carlo Bianci
Franco Caruso
Chicago
Dennison
Frank Gilmore
Clintor
Gobble Divorce Granted by District Court Judge
Anna Gobble was awarded a divorce from Emmett Gobble in a decree signed Tuesday afternoon by Judge D. W. Jackson in district court. Cruel and inhuman treatment was cited in her petition filed July 26. The decree bars either party from remarrying within one year.
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Anna Gobble
Emmett Gobble
D. W. Jackson
Six Orphans Lost in Ocean Wave at Edgemere Beach
Lifeguards and police searched Edgemere shore for six missing children from the Pride of Judea home after a high wave struck a 100 yard sandbar at the New York sea side. One child drowned, nine were revived, and six bodies remained missing through the night.
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New York
Rocka‘way
Edgemere
Pride
Harry Epstein
Michael Davis
Epstein
Raymond
Flashes of Life and Big City Tragedy in Boston and Chicago
A Boston Common meeting aims to limit visiting journeymen to a week though enforcement is unclear. In Chicago two infant daughters are abandoned by a jobless father, placed in an orphanage, while dentists debate patient reactions to women in the field.
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Associated Press
Boston
Panhandlers
National Recovery Administration
Boston Common
Big City
Chicago
Audits of State Institutions Begin Across Iowa
The Iowa state auditor's office has started audits of state institutions under the last general assembly act. G. S. Worden leads a 12 member team at Anamosa reformatory, Vinton school for the blind, and soon at the university, Iowa state college, and Independence state hospital.
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Des Moines
State Auditor
General Assembly
G. S. Worden
Anamosa Reformatory
School For the Blind
Vinton
State University
Iowa State College
State Hospital
Independence
Board of Control
Board of Education
Worden
C. W. Storms
State College
Son of Former Local Dentist Saves Swimmer
Walter G. Hine, 16 year old son of Dr. W. G. Hine a former Muscatine dentist now in Santa Monica California is credited with saving a 200 pound swimmer at Santa Monica Beach on Tuesday. The swimmer was caught in a rip tide near Crystal Pier. Hine answered the call and brought the man to the beach but the man slipped away in the confusion before guards could identify him.
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Walter G. Hine
W. G. Hine
Muscatine
Santa Monica
Calif
Santa Monica Beach
C. L. Girls
Hine
Crystal Pier
July 1939 County Treasurer reports jury collections
July collections at the office of County Treasurer Arthur Nicholson totaled 25 364 67 dollars. The funds were distributed among District schools 6 071 82 dollars corporations except Muscatine 258 44, township cemetery funds 27 81, auto license fees 2 818 50, Muscatine paving and sewer 533 87, Muscatine corporation 1 279 44, West Liberty special collections 68 90, drainage bonds 1 079 56, drainage district maintenance 494 65, county polls 32 50, domestic animal claims 4, delinquent road polls 44, and miscellaneous 4 955.
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Arthur Nicholson
Muscatine
Muscatine Corporation
West Liberty
Coxey Loses Massillon Mayoral Nomination
Massillon Ohio Tuesday Republican primary defeat for veteran reformer General Jacob S. Coxey. He finished a distant third after years of record majorities and earlier campaigns for mayor.
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Massillon
Jacob S. Coxey
Imayor
Massilon
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M—_ FES
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Paramount Pictorial
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Art Tracy
Song Carteen
Australia
England
Marion Davies
Robert Montgomery
Blondie
Wallace Beery
Lewis Stone
Lees
Association of Women Dentists
Willa Veretsky
Grand Rapids
Josephine Wolff
Coxey
Wituness
Mississippi Valley Fair and Exposition
Davenport, In
Big Circus
Actes
Gertrude Avery
Illinois Farmer Boys
Iowa Farmer Boys
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