Iowa News Bits Highlight Widespread Crimes and Accidents
Readable items report on bank robbery attempts at Page Center and Cedar Rapids department store thefts, a series of fatal and nonfatal accidents across Iowa, including train crashes near Lineville and Hull, farm fires in Lucas and Dubuque counties, a fatal self harm case near Boone, counterfeit money prosecutions, dairy and creamery developments, and public park curfew enforcement in Keokuk.
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Cascade Travelers
Page Center
Mes
Fred Chandler
Lucas County
Chandler Brothers
Hull
Elmer ©. Johnston
Iowa City
Jobuste
New
Doshua M. Lewis
Sioux City
Mr. Lewis
Leon Renauld
Ernest
Keokuk
Arizona
Jay 8
Gehan
John
Dubuque County
Cedar Lawn
Dubuque
Carl Kepford
France
Arion
American Legion
Down
Henry Herman
First National Bank
Schultz ‘Department
Cedar Rapids
Henry Longhenry
Boone
Himeelf
Walter
Arthur
Longhenry
State Highway Commission
W. B. Barney
Hawkeye Fair
Ft Dodge
Ed Thompson
Thompson
Barney Company
Fir
Nealy Nelson
Rudd
World Happenings Terse From Global Dispatches
Census figures put Britain's population at 42.8 million with a 4.7 percent rise since 1911. Reports from Smyrna say Greeks advance toward Angora as Turkish nationalist forces retreat. Other items note ship sinking near Siam, rioting in Belfast, and various political and crime incidents worldwide.
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Great Britain
London
Smyrna
Sakada
Mustapha Kemal Pasha
Angora
Notable Deaths and a Sudden Collapse Reported
Personal Dr Samuel Balt Pintner, Latin professor at Western Reserve University Cleveland since 1892, died aboard the Nieuw Amsterdam. A radiogram says Mrs Charles Geary mother of Mrs Herbert Hoover died at the Hoover home Stanford Cal. Maj Henry A Greene retired dropped dead in the Alameda county courthouse Oakland Ohio where he served on special jury duty.
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Samuel Balt Pintner
Western Reserve University
Cleveland
Nieuw Amsterdam
Charles Geary
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Stanford University
Cal
Maj. Gee. Henry A. Greene
Alsmede County
Oakland
Ohi
Washington House OKs Wills Campbell anti beer pill and more
The Washington House and Senate approved the conference report on the Wills Campbell anti beer bill with the Stanley search and seizure amendment limiting warrants to dwellings. They also backed the Capper Tinder futures regulation in grain exchanges, sending the measure to the President. The Senate passed a $48.5 million shipping board deficiency appropriation and a $200,000 disarmament conference provision, both to go to conference. Charles Cote nominated as U S attorney for the eastern district of Arkansas. The Fordney tax bill moves to the Senate with plans to consider before tariffs, raising the marriage tax exemption to 2800 and dependents to 400. The United States warns Costa Rica over Panama dispute and orders a marine battalion in Panama, while labor seeks representation at the disarmament conference. President Harding favors labor representation. Secretary Hughes receives news from the Washington conference on limited armaments and Far Eastern questions.
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Hawarden
Tady
Sioux City
Walter A
Lapham
Wilson
Anakin Lock Works
Dillon Lock Works
Fort Dodge
Dillon Works
Wellsburg
Iowa
United States
Council Bluffs
George Washington
Grover Cleveland
H. L. Triplett
Grinnell
P. W. Grinstead
Lyman
Atlantic
Grinstead
Keokuk
Spooners
Homer Petty
Lineville
Rock Island
Petty
Benjamin
Arthur Hickman
Henry P. Deater
Albert Patton
Page County
Bingham
Patton
Ralph Griffiths
Red Oak
Carl Coombe
Coombe
Griffith
Russell Patterson
Coombecer
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Senate
Shiping Board
Charles ¥. Cote
Harding
Eastern District of
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Phen L
Humber
Bateman
Tleuts
Hy Wann
Esterly
Wann
Els
Putham
Lakehurst
N. Ty
England
Jaid ‘Mp
Slnes
Airship ZR-2 Explodes Over Hull Killing Many
The American airship ZR-2, linked with the Titanic era, explodes over Hull near the Humber estuary during a trial flight. Eighteen of twenty-one American crew pilots are believed dead, with twenty-eight of the crew of fifty including six officers lost. Commander Louis H. Maxfield of Washington is among the dead. Eyewitness accounts describe the ship breaking in two and plunging into the river amid fires and parachute drops.
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America
Humber
Hull
Atlantic
United. States
Dirigibla
Louis H. Maxfield
Washington,d. C
Martland
Britain
Howden
Pulham
Norfolk
Hell
Grant
James Phipson
Birmingham
Victoria
Phipson
Fire Chaos In Petunia Tavern Town After Major Conflagration
An arriving guest recalls a near disaster at the Petunia tavern when a blaze raged through town. The mayor assumed command, misfired orders caused delays, and residents feared wider ruin unless authorities acted. The piece muses that a governor or congressman might have worsened or altered the response.
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Petunia
Kansas City Star
Cuticura Advertises Baby Skin Care Lines
An广告 style drawing promotes Cuticura products for soothing infant rashes itch and burn with Cuticura Soap baths followed by Cuticura Ointment. A touch of Cuticura Talcum powder is suggested to finish. Price listed as 26c each.
New Cause for Lightning in a Southern Rural District
A fragmentary society anecdote depicts a rural southern preacher's claim that Satan sees the Lawa's work and fire flashes in his eyes during lightning. An elder doubts lightning exists in winter questioningly. The parson hints at frozen bells and colder seasons as explanations.
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Lawa
Satan
Surprise the Weapon I Surely Got Brow War Story
A fragment notes a confrontation where a character claims to have won with Brow after paying back a debt. The dialogue hints at a tense exchange and a small monetary matter in a conflict context.
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