Government to Develop Nationwide Radio Telephony System
Postmaster General Hays outlined a government led plan to broadcast weather and market reports and other official information via radio telephony. The scheme includes about 150 wavelengths, potential government control of ether, and transmitting stations with 200 mile ranges to deliver data to farmers, businesses, and homes.
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W. A. Wheeler
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R. B. Howell
Omaha
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Europe
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Senate
Hitchcock
Washington
Train Robbery Near Ogden Stuns Union Pacific Passengers
Two masked gunmen halted the Los Angeles Limited No. 7 near Clearfield Utah nine miles south of Ogden. They robbed all male passengers in the observation car while one thief gathered loot and the other searched the cars. The total haul was not disclosed.
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Los Angeles Limited
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Pole Lithuanian dispute settled over Vilna administration
Geneva reports a settlement between Poland and Lithuania on Vilna. A split arrangement creates two Lithuanias: an independent Kovno district and Vilna under Polish supervised administration.
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Poland
Lithuania
Vilna
Kovno
Forest Fires Toll Grows in Missoula District
Continued heat and high winds fuel the Montana district No. 1 forest fires. The menace remains high as numerous fires are reported beyond control in the Missoula area.
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Montana
Missoula
Mont
Forest Service
Blast Kills Eleven Miners in Illinois Shaft
A dynamite blast opened an old mine shaft in Harrisburg Illinois releasing black damp a deadly gas. Eleven miners were killed and six others were overcome by gas in the incident.
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Harrisburg
Ill
Washington Amusement Spending Tops One Billion
Amusement taxation and entertainment figures dominate reports from Washington. Internal Revenue Commissioner Blair notes nearly 1 billion dollars spent on theatrical entertainment in the past year, with a 1 percent tax yielding about 89.7 million. The piece also covers unemployment talks, disarmament costs, and political moves shaping labor and industry policy.
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Internal Revenue
Blair
Washington
Peter Cooper Hewitt Dies in Paris Hospital
American scientist and electrical inventor Peter Cooper Hewitt died at an American hospital in Paris France. Mrs Hewitt and his two sisters were at his bedside.
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Peter Cooper Hewitt
Paris
France
Hewitt
Grand American handicap trap champion crowned at Chicago
Sporting Elias Frank of Canton Ohio won the twenty second annual Grand American handicap at South Shore Country Club Chicago breaking 97 of 100 targets. Nearly 700 insurgents killed in India clashes as British forces quell unrest. Hungary U S peace treaty signed at Budapest. Berlin bans meetings and publications to curb sedition. Lloyd George warns Irish question could trigger civil war. Yellow River flood devastates Shantung province leaving thousands homeless. Soviet officials ready to receive American relief workers. Mathias Iizberger, ex German finance minister, assassinated near Offenburg.
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Elias Frank
Canton
Seouth Shore Country Club
Chicago
Hawkeye State News Highlights Local Deals and Tragedies
Henry Kallenbach sells a 120 acre Clinton county farm to John L Meyer of Walcott for 36000 dollars. Reports detail deaths in Iowa Falls and Jesup, a drowning soldier's burial in Coin, a Dubuque woman killed in a car crash, and tuition increases for Burlington high school students. Other items note an Iowa Tuberculosis association reorganization, Oakdale hospital bid, a carbolic acid incident near Hawleyville, a Lisbon resident’s sudden death at a fish hatchery, and Tama accident injuries plus a Reinbeck farming dispute finalized with damages paid.
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John L Meyer
Walcott
Clinton County
Grand Mound
Robert Boddy
Iowa Falls
Charles Harris
France
Coin
Leroy Hansen
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Waterloo
Jesup
Charles Borden
Burlington
Iowa. Tuberculosis Association
State Board of Control
Oakdale
W. J Zitterell
Webster City
Pam McQueen
Hawleyville
Ivan Eastman
Clarinda
Kennelworth Hospital
McQueen
Dunn
New Market
J. Mohn
Lisbon
Government Fish Hatchery
Southnast
Manchester
Guy Beale
Tama
Dorothy
Beale
Reinbeck
Cessford
Clausman
Paul in Athens Sermon Exposes Unknown God
Lesson text discusses Paul in Athens addressing idolatry in the marketplace and at Mars Hill. He connects the Unknown God altar to the living God, proclaims creation, providence, and universal origin, urges repentance, and notes varied reactions from mockery to belief.
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God
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Berea
Areopagus
Mars’ Hill
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Am. A. V
Tim
Tin
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