Swine Program Starts Wednesday Across Midwestern Markets
The Agriculture Adjustment Administration announces a hog price program with Chicago as basing point. Prices range from $9.50 per hundred pounds for 25 to 30 pound pigs down to $6.00 for 96 to 190 pounds, with regional discounts and a $4 premium on sows. Runts and range pigs to be purchased at lower rates. many markets will follow Chicago pricing.
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Chicago
Omaha
St. Paul
Sioux City
Kansas City
St. Joseph
Chicago A
G. B. Thorn
Thorn
Agricultural Administration
Miss Singleton and Milton Waters Reveal Marriage
Leta Singleton daughter of Mrs Edna Singleton 508 East Fifth street and Milton Waters son of Mr and Mrs Frank Waters 1216 Oak street announce their marriage which took place Sept 23 1929 in Newton Iowa They were unattended and kept secret until now Mrs Waters works at Roach and Musser company office Mr Waters is a baker at U S Bakery They will live with the bridegrooms parents
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Leta Singleton
Edna Singleton
East Fifth Street
Milton Waters
Frank Waters
Oak Street
Newton
Waters
Roach and Musser Company
U. S
Illinois Employment and Payrolls Rise in July
Illinois reports a 4.7 percent gain in employment and 5.2 percent in payrolls from June to July based on 1,672 firms. Manufacturing shows 6.5 percent employment growth and 7.2 percent payroll rise, while non manufacturing up 4.3 percent and 2.5 percent respectively. Weekly earnings across all industries average $20.76 in July vs $20.70 in June.
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Chicago
Illinois
State Department of Labor
City News Figures At Century Of Progress Events
Local residents and families from Muscatine and surrounding towns traveled to Chicago to attend the century of progress exposition. Numerous registrations, visits, and family gatherings are noted, with several spottings of residents and relatives visiting Chicago, Davenport, or Des Moines during the fair.
Four More Sign NRA Agreements in Muscatine
Four additional Muscatine employers signed NRA code provisions with Postmaster W. S. McKee, bringing local signatories to 390. A city NRA committee, listed members including O. A. Hammer Rev W. L. Hannon Harry Greer R. K. Barry Mayor Herman Lord and J. F. Devitt, was set to be formed at a mass meeting of community groups.
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Muscatine
W.S. McKee
O. A. Hammer
W. L. Hannon
Harry Greer
R. K. Barry
Herman Lord
J. F. Devitt
Local Exhibits Place at Fair
John Brockway, son of James Brockway of Davenport, entered eight pigs at the Mississippi Valley fair. He won grand champion sow, first in age sow class, and top honors in fall and spring boar categories among open exhibits. In pig club, his Duroc litter took first place. Brockway plans to attend West Liberty and the Iowa State fairs with his prize litters.
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Davenport
John Brockway
James Brockway
Maple Grove Road
Brockway
Muscatine
West Liberty
Des Moines
Hershey State Bank Affected by Central Bank Plan
Ryan alleges Hershey State Bank assets were used to capitalize Central State Bank and that Central State assumed half Hershey’s liability to depositors. He contends stockholders gain 50 percent stock return while depositors face limited recovery and indeterminate trust certificates. The suit also notes Hershey advertised deposits as secured by $200,000 in capital stock and surplus.
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Central State Bank
Hershey State Bank
Hershey Bank
Ryan
Reciprocal Kiss Triggers Court Case Involving Kings and Scudders
In Chicago a court heard that Eric Scudder and Emily King shared a reciprocal embrace near a country club pool. Albert King, Emily’s husband, was arraigned on assault with intent to kill after the shooting at home. Witnesses said Emily collapsed from nerves. Scudder and Mrs. Scudder were absent as the case continued.
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Chicago
Eric Scudder
Emily King
Albert Cleveland King
Sleeping Sickness Claims Thirteenth Victim in St Louis
Miss Vivian Freeman, 20, of Carroncille, died after contracting sleeping sickness, raising the epidemic toll to 13. Artificial respiration and an inhalator were used for over an hour at isolation hospital before she was pronounced dead. Dr. Charles Armstrong of the U.S. Public Health Service arrived to assist in tracing the disease’s cause.
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St. Louis
Vivian Freeman
Carroncille
Miss Freeman
Charles Armstrong
United States Public Health Service
Veteran Riverman Dies in House Boat on Mississippi
Alton Illinois reports Captain William D Fluent age 69 a veteran river man died Sunday night aboard his house boat on the Mississippi river He helped save many from drowning and recovered numerous bodies fluent dated his river career to the Twain era He preferred life on the water sleeping aboard and wintering in the south for fishing and hunting
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Alton
Ill
William D. Fluent
Mississippi River
Mark Twain
Fluent
Churches to Close Union Meetings at Service on Sept. 3
The article notes union services at local churches with speakers including The Rev. Tom Foglesong of First Christian church and guest speakers Ira Harden of Muscatine at Walnut Street Baptist, and Rev. Clifford Storms formerly of Muscatine now United Brethren minister in Michigan.
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Tom Foglesong
First Christian Church
First Methodist Church
Benjamin Schwartz
Muscatine
Ira Harden
Baptist Theological School
Chicago
Walnut Street Baptist Church
Pieter Smit
Elgin
Clifford Storms
United Brethren
Michigan
United Brethren Church
Business Rackets Oppress Cities
Chicago leaders and criminologists offered remedies to the nation’s crime problem. A survey found business rackets most baffling in thickly settled centers while theft dominates in other regions.
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Chicago
Albert B. Moore
New York
Henry Barret Chamberlain
Crime Commission
Iowa
Nebraska
Indiana
Oregon
Missouri
New Mexico
Church Merger Here Tonight
The Cedar Street Methodist Episcopal church and its counterpart plan a merger tonight with Dr. E A Bentzinger of Mt Pleasant as district superintendent present. If approved, members transfer on merger, with fully merged Sunday schools and Epworth Leagues by age, merged budgets, and a unified organist staff led by Emma Parkin.
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Cedar Street Methodist Episcopal Church
E. A. Bentzinger
Mt. Pleasant
Cedar Street Church
Northwest Conference
Cedar Street
Epworth
Stafford
Wesley League
F. D. Leete
Iowa-Des Moines
B. F. Schwartz
W. H. Schwiering
Emma Parkin
Marie Ruthenberg
Miriam Diercks
Dorothy Nyweide
Judge Letts Sued by Banking Chief
District Court suits filed by D W Bates state banking superintendent as receiver for American Savings Bank seek total judgments of 20689 36 against Judge Letts for promissory notes. Foreclosure of a mortgage on Letts residence and other property plus appointment of a receiver to manage the property pending action.
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District of Columbia
Scott County District Court
D. W. Bates
American Savings Bank and Trust Company
Campus Murder Trial Under Way
San Jose reporters describe the start of the Lamson murder trial as David A. Lamson 31 Stanford press representative faces a charge of killing his wife Allene Thorpe Lamson 28 with a blunt instrument. Criminologists will be key as no eyewitnesses exist and blood evidence from a bathroom at the Stanford campus home is reviewed.
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San Jose
Calif
David A. Lamson
Stanford University Press
Allene Thorpe Lamson
Lamson
Stanford
Frederick Proescher
E. O. Heinrich
Proescher
Visitor Stricken at West Liberty
Mrs. William Baldwin 59 of Pomona California died of a heart attack at 3 a m in West Liberty while visiting Bertha Mosier during a trip en route to the world’s fair in Chicago. Survived by her husband and two children. Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin and Donald Mosier of Ontario California were en route to Chicago and had stopped to visit Mrs. Mosier before continuing.
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Journal News Service
West Liberty
William Baldwin
Pomona
Cailif
Bertha Mosier
Chicago
Mrs. Baldwin
Donald Mosier
Ontario
Calif
Mr. Mosier
Baldwin
Meeting of V F W Post Is Scheduled Tonight
A meeting of the V F W post is scheduled at the city hall at 8 o clock tonight.
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V. F. W. Post
Motive in Lamson slaying remains unclear
Prosecutors offered few details on motive for the Lamson murder. Investigators noted Mrs. Lamson had rejected her husband’s advances through subterfuge, and friends doubted the home life was as idyllic as believed.
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Pythians
E. P.s
Rotary Hut
Wyoming Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Pythian Sisters Temple
Staley’s Lake
Vinson Lewis
Clifford Miller
Gene Humphreys
Louis Bohling
Charles Mason, Jr
John Miller
A. F. Grensing
C. M. Mason
Herman B. Lord
Mary McCormack
Flora Stevens
John McCormack
Lewis
Margaret Weber
Margaret Bohling
Christian Schenk
Pythian
Alfred
Ed Bohling
Clarence Huber
Bert Myers
C. H. Leu
Ray Young
T. N. Fultz
Fred Johnson
Miss Singleton
City News
Ed Hagermann
Dorothy
Bernice
East Sixth Street
Morganton
N. C
J. Henry Schaefer
Letts
Ted Sulzberger
Shirley
Louisa Schumacher
Tony Schumacher
Phyllis
Jean
Clifford Erickson
Fred Sling
Kenneth Schreurs
Dale
Charles Elder
DeWayne Rosenfield
Nichols
James Bloom
Harold
Montpelier
L. P. Gillette
Ruth
Wapello
Arnold Broder
Mrs
William Glatstein
Edith Skolnik
Albert S. Barry
Mulberry Avenue
Plymouth
Elmer McKillip
Chevrolet
August Hoffman
East Ninth Street
Mary Rumsey
Roy Glass
William J. Garfield
Abe Glass
Beverly
Sandra
Century of Progress
Sam Polsky
East Second Street
Muriel Singley
Tipton
Margaret Robinson
Stanwood
Ida Hess
Pearl Rakestrew
Junior
Irene Wheeler
Floyd Cross
Denver
Texas
Elizabeth Koetting
Kate and
Mayme Koetting
Bartlett Street
Kate Daum
State University Hospital
Iowa City
Wansbroth
St. James Hospital
London
Eng
James T. Sissel
G. Alfred Knoche
Elinor
White Plains
N. Y
F. B. Bamford
Harold E. Wilson
Robert
Mary Louise
Blake
Mediapolis
Effie Hopkinson Kirk
Piedmont
Ohio
Isaac Mathewson
Jennie S. Day
West Third Street
LeGrand Morehouse
Henry Kemper
Raymond Zeidler
Carl Hagemeister
John A. Herwig
Grandview Avenue
A. L. Minear
Roscoe Avenue
Dorothy Minear
Dancing Masters’ Association
Miss Minear
W. H. Klink
Kate Healey
Rosalie Healey
Century
Josephine Bloomer
East Seventh Street
Mary Jane Meerdink
Rose von Dresky
Grenyth Rosenmund
West Seventh Street
Columbus Junction
Ralph A. Bloom
Shirley Ann
Woodlawn Avenue
Edward
Fairbanks
Morticians
W. Fourth St
Han Oe
M. E. Board
Judge Letts
Banking
Stanford University
California
Mosier
Iowa Electric Co
Towa Ave
C. L. Hartman
Optometrist
East Second St
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