Firemen Battle Two Blazes Near West Branch Farmyard
West Branch firemen fought two fires on consecutive days threatening barns and water tanks. A high wind fanned flames at the Rollo Crew farm near seven miles from town, with unknown origin and manure and wood involved. The D r Barnhart farm, four miles northeast, saw fires around a water tank bank and spreading toward a large barn.
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West Branch
Rollo Crew Farm
Dr. Barnhart
Nicholas Larson
Israel
Larson
Linden Larson
Saraetta Mitchell
LeRoy, Minn
Marion
Iowa City
Tipton
Springdale
Psychiatrist Testimony in Tallent Insanity Defense
Judge Smyth barred the doctor from basing his sanity opinion on affidavits and secondary evidence. The defense pressed for the expert to consider all facts, but the court allowed only examination findings. A hypothetical question later surfaced the salient details of the insanity defense.
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Magnon
Tallent
Martin Wolz
Cornell College
Universities of Iowa
Chicago
University of Iowa
State Hospital
Mt. Pleasant
American Medical Association
American Psychiatrist Society
Ft. Madison
James Smyth
William Weaver
E. R. Hicklin
Havana May Day Riot Claims One Life
In Havana a May Day riot results in a fatality with police preparations under way. Reports note a blast in Toronto damaging a vacant house, and a Ukrainian Catholic priest nearby suspects a communist plot. Berlin coverage follows with Germany’s second item.
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Havana
Toronto
Michael Gregory
St. Joseph’s Church
Ridenour Funeral Services Observed
Cedar county businessman C. A. Ridenour, lifelong resident born March 21 1858, died Saturday night of cerebral apoplexy. Services were at the Reformed church Monday at 2:30 officiated by Rev H N Poston. Interment in Masonic cemetery. Survived by son Peter and daughters Mrs Guy Wright Ida Ridenour and Mrs Helen Winslow Waterloo. One son Alvin preceded him in death.
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Tipton
C. A. Ridenour
Cedar County
Reformed Church
H. N. Poston
Masonic Cemetery
Mr. Ridenour
Sarah Anne Barclay Ridenour
Peter
Guy Wright
Ida Ridenour
Helen Winslow
Waterloo
Alvin
Police Seek Gunman in Gang Hideaways
Federal agents stopped a Dillinger gang gun source in Santonio Texas and H S Lehman confessed he supplied the mob. A bullet marked car was found near Chillicothe Illinois and tips claimed sightings. An informant reported chasing Dillinger toward Chicago from Woodstock Illinois. Belle Isle near Detroit was bought by treaties involving rum tobacco and gun powder.
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Dillinger
H. S. Lehman
Santonio
Tex
Chiilicothe
Ill
Woodstock
Chicago
Socialists Renew Activities and Economic Critique
A political gathering by socialists criticizes increased production costs and living costs while blaming the Roosevelt administration for the downturn in buying power. The speaker, a minister and university graduate, denounces the government as preserving the old system and contends prosperity is not near. A temporary party organization forms with plans for permanent officers.
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Hoover
Roosevelt
M. S. Adams
Muscatine
Pecora Reveals Broker Profits in New York Firms
Data shows member firms profits fell from 349 million in 1928 to a 6 million loss in 1932 and then rose to 96 million in the first eight months of last year. Total net profits for the period reached 833,167,686 with 631 reporting firms serving 1,371,920 customers in 1929, 811,986 of whom were 59 percent.
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Pecora
New York
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Austria
Dollfuss
Berlin
Germany
Ridenour
Belle Isle
Detroit
Enterprise Aluminum Company
Massillon
Fisher Body Corporation
Leo Wolman
Automobile Labor Board
Peabody
Salem
Datvers
Mass
Missouri
N. Y
Orright
The
American Tobacco Company
Coats
McColm
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