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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1924
Page
6
War department in Washington announces 33 544 people enrolled this year in the government's 27 civilian military training camps. A fourth patent from 1791, signed by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, has been unearthed in the patent office.
Obituaries report deaths of Irvin H. Page at sixty five in Tolland Massachusetts, Joseph M. McCready near Philadelphia from pneumonia, Hamilton Busbey eighty five in Newport News, Joseph Conrad sixty seven in Bishopsbourne England, Charles F. Townsend sixty eight in Jackson Michigan, and George Shiras Sr a former Supreme Court justice who died in Pittsburgh after a fall.
Virginia Warren seeks divorce in Columbus after 54 years of marriage to Howard Warren amid charges of neglect. Cattle losses from lightning near Hancock Minnesota. hailstorms devastate crops from Fargo to North Carolina. Bootlegger gangs captured on Missouri river island near Elk Point. Soviet seizure of a California fur trader’s cargo on Siberian coast reported. Fire blights 600 acres of wheat near Kimball Nebraska. Wisconsin guardsdenied defense day duties. Nome ship cargo seized by Russian authorities. Norway loan flotation announced by National City. Forest fires burn near Boise. firefighters fight dense flames. Gov Blaine blocks Wisconsin Guard for defense day. Fatal auto crash at Dunkirk. New York Central’s Twentieth Century Limited collision. California education board may drop textbooks amid Darwin theory debate. St. Louis fund raises for college aid. Coal strike halts 900+ Greenwood miners near Scranton. Cedar Rapids records first snowfall of season. J R Emery rewards share of his $100,000 motor business to six employees. American Veteran and Allied Patriotic organization forms to unite veterans groups.
The Republican women’s division opens eastern headquarters in New York under Mrs. Sabin as 1,400 LaFollette Wheeler speakers target the nation. Kentucky GOP names Langley, a convicted man, and a Washington call for a women’s congress campaign conference follows.
Audubon county to spend about sixty thousand on a permanent bridge project. Nevada to pave twenty three blocks, bringing seventy six newly paved blocks this year. R E Moore, Iowa Masonic lodge grand master, laid the cornerstone of a sixty five thousand consolidated school in New Virginia. Grundy county farmer Pete Brower first to thresh oats in the county, averaging fifty bushels per acre. Winnebago county first in Iowa to achieve livestock tuberculosis freedom per state agriculture office. Budget director Ernest J Hogue notes cooperation and leak elimination will secure a successful budget. Ringling circus accountants report Des Moines records broken with receipts over thirty thousand. Des Moines dog show at the state fair to feature elite champions and top dog fanciers. Over four hundred ninety five responses from Des Moines businessmen on desired air mail stops. Chicago Journal says Iowa corn land valued higher than 1919 1920 boom. corn becoming cash crop with little land left. Iowa State College home management houses equip two crying babies as students perform six weeks of nursery work. Iowa corn into sugar touted as new market by farmers bankers. sugar grade corn process now perfected. Iowa farmers under Warehousing Act face sealing costs and fire windstorm damage insurance requirements. Nearly one thousand six hundred young men, ages seventeen to twenty four, train at Fort Des Moines with Seventh Infantry Third Infantry Battery B Ninth Field Artillery and Troop E Second Squadron Fourteenth Cavalry. Secretary Wallace, back from Iowa, assures market not manipulated by big interests before election. farm prospects better than in three or four years.
Slurry Fox, a dry cleaner and charter member of Harold Mason post in Sioux Falls, leads a vigorous American Legion membership drive. He reports 285 paid-up members in four months of 1924, after earlier years with growing totals and a steady push to convert veterans to join. He meets prospects, explains Legion service, and pursues strong personal engagement to seal each signup. Fox has long worked Sioux Falls, served in the Eighth Division Pathfinders at Camp Freeman, California.
William Mather Lewis, president of George Washington University, said the American Legion can recognize mutual understanding between nations. He spoke on education for international understanding before the National Educational Association in Washington. He cited soldiers’ European experiences improving American architecture and French rebuilt districts as proof, and urged defending one’s government in danger to enjoy its benefits in peace.
The national rehabilitation committee of the American Legion in Washington helped John Adams, a disabled World War I veteran, secure compensation after years of hospital care and paperwork failure. His case showed a hidden bayonet wound and service injury, finally supported by affidavits and medical reports leading to a Veterans Bureau payout.
A breezy quote from The American Legion Weekly notes King Midas bragging about his golden touch while Mrs. M. laments the burden of polishing all the gold items. The item reflects light entertainment from a periodical.
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