Iowa News Roundup Touches Crime Death and Deals
A wide spread Iowa news digest reports blood poisoning from a rusty nail near Gust Holm of Esser, farm purchase by Charles Beeman at 8297 per acre, armed vigilance committees for bank protection in Tama county, and a Davenport station robbery of 450 dollars. Other items cover a rape charge against Henry Wilson of Ocioiea, a Cedar Rapids tax dispute over insurance levy, a Seymour murder acquittal of Frank Valkovich, and a giant watermelon claim by Harry Yerk.
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Neil
Fatsi
Gust Holm
Esser
Charles Beeman
Sam Zenter
Corwith
Luverme
Tama County
Andrew Paulses
C. Mf
St. Paul
Davenport
Henry Wilson
O¢iweia
Maynard Nutt
Muscating
Ida Hinde
Epworth
War
Towy
Harry Yerk&s
Centerville
State Highway Commission
Mount Pleasant
Keokuk
Rockdele Creek
Military Road
Dubuque
California
C. W. Reed
Reed and Pergler
Shenandoah
Elks Club
G. B. Warner
Gibson
Hell Mot
Sam Brubaker
Dinsdale
Waterloo
Brubaker
Ngk
Siate
Hampton-Kelley Canning Company
Tme
Iowa
Lyman Whittier
Whiting
Robert Howard
Lincoln
Ned
Whittier
Robert
Kerry
Moscow
Ida
Charles Lussler
Lincoln, Neb
H. L. Pike
Wohling
John Hepperly
Clearfeld
L. Harshaw
Tax moves mix with grafts as Bergdoll raid looms
Washington reports $12,000,000 in delinquent luxury taxes and efforts to seize $105,000 tied to Grover Cleveland Bergdoll escape. Senate Finance balks at Mellon plan while excess profits tax and income tax debates loom. Also news of a flying boat record, Arbuckle murder case, flood losses, and other national items.
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Internal Revenue Bureau
Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon
Grover Cleveland
Senate
Republicab
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Editor Neubert's Unique War Record Stirs Legion Echoes
A. W. C. I. sergeant and front line aspirant, A. Neubert, editor of the Service Star, marched to the front through St. Mihiel and Argonne, was arrested by court martial, reduced to private, and later served in Coblenz as a broadcaster. He leads the Great Falls Typographical Union and the local American Legion post.
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T.” Neubert
Service Star
American Legion of Bmontana
ABP
France
Font A
Font A. W.C. I. He Went Through the St. Arthier Drive
Argonne
Neubert
Coblenz
Natotrpe
Legion Hero With One Leg Saves Stranger From Fire
Detroit hails Leo Fuhrman World War II veteran missing a leg who awoke to a house fire. He kicked in a window and dragged a man named Aaron Pruitt to safety, earning praise from the American Legion’s Charles 4 Learned post.
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Detroit
Leo Fuhrman
France
Fohrman
Charles 4
American Legion
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Aaron Pruitt
Walter Camp All American tackle wounded in Argonne shell blast
Walter Camp All American tackle from Yale, Paul Hened Charles HL of Seattle Washington, a First Lieutenant in the 364th Infantry, Ninety First Division, was wounded in twelve spots in half a minute during the Argonne offensive. He later recovered in army hospitals and became a Harvard Law School graduate and junior partner at a Seattle law firm. He also serves as commander of Rainier Noble American Legion post.
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Walter Camp
Yale
Charles HL Paul
Seattle
Wash
Pawi
Weutenant
Harvard Law School
Rainier-Noble Post
American Legion
Legion Man Sets the Pace
Michael Nolan a 43 year old mental wizard and Batler- Noble post Legion member in Seattle is hailed for a record alpha test score. Nolan studied engineering at the University of Washington and previously worked as a lumberjack and sailor. He achieved a perfect 212 in thirteen minutes, beating the prior 207 in seventeen minutes set by a Yale professor.
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Legion
Michael Nolan
Nolan
Batler- Noble ‘Post
American Legion
Seattle
Federal Board of Vocational Training
University of Washington
Yale
Veteran Leader George Berry Guides Legion Activities
George L. Berry, president since 1997, serves as national vice commander of the American Legion and travels as a speaker for the service organization. A Spanish-American War veteran, he saw World War I service, represented labor at foreign conferences, and later advised government on industrial coordination with allied nations.
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George. L. Berry
Ince
International Printing
Paris
France
American Légion
American Federation of Labor
United States
Legion
Legion Man Saves Town By Stopping Gas Leak
Michael Pascal former yeoman of American torpedo boat destroyer and local American Legion member and a companion halted a 1600 pound phosgene leak at a Bound Brook New Jersey plant after a workman was killed and scores overcome. They detected the odor from a distance and entered the gas filled area to stop the leak. The town council honored both men and recommended Carnegie medals.
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Bound Brook
N. J
Eadh
Michael Pascal
En American Torpedo Boat
American Legion
Pastal
Chemical Warfare Service
Pascal
Carnegie Meilala
French Medals For Yanks To Be Awarded By France
American veterans who served with the French command in World War I will receive the French commemorative medal from the French military attache in Washington. An estimated ten to fifteen thousand Americans are likely eligible, with notices distributed through over eleven thousand American Legion posts to reach scattered recipients.
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Washington
Poste
American Legion
Nayx
Legion offers free weddings for members at national convention
Rev John Winter Nashville Tennessee national chaplain of the American Legion will marry Legionnaires without charge at the third annual convention in Kansas City this fall. Marriage licenses will be paid from the convention fund as officials arrange to place brides and grooms in homes of prominent citizens and hotels or residences.
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American Legion
John Winter
Nashville
Tenn
Legion
The
Service Organization
Kansas City
Legion Officinale
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Peter Mores
Seymour
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Mores
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Burton E. Sweet
Waverly
United State Veterans Bureau
Sweet
Edward Buttrick
Charter Oak
Buttrick
Tina Wright
J. M. Wright
Menlo
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Page County
Arthur
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Atlantic
Bert Patton
Jake J. Hees
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Earl Ferguson
George Tucker
Tucker
Leon A. Link
United States District Court
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Lewis A Crull
Muscatine
Earl W. Vincet
Guthrie Cemter
W. Irving Sam
Carroll
Roy L. Pell
Marshalltown
F. M. Linnell
Charles City
Leonard H. Rache
Cauleton
Jones-Willia Aircraft Co
Colfax
Lorimer
Waring
Victoria Hospital
WW. B. Barney
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Towa
Des Moines
Hub
Albert W. Larson
Wade
Federal District Court
Bacharach Company
Philadelphia
Ruth Bates
Simpson College
Nalni Tal
India
Miss Bates
Initia
Moradabad
Paur
Bitnor
Joe Menster
Cascade
L. M. Walker
Afton
John J. Pershing
Eleanor Wheeler
Chicago
New York
Daniel O'Brien
San Francisco
Roscoe C
Fatty) Arbuckle
Virginia Rappe
San Antonio
O. B. Black
Herbert A. Atherton
Newark
Harry L. Davis
Columbus
Newark Law and Order League
Chester River
Chester
Sylvester Brown
Ohio Penitentiary
Alexander R. War
Youngstown
Samuel M. Teylor
Arkansas
Lewis H. Carris
Newark, N. J
Federal Board For Vocational Education
Stephen White
Greenville
St. Louis
White
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Yiclnity
Gilbert E. Hyatt
Minneapolis
National Federation of Post Office Clerks
Minneapolis, Minn
Terre ‘Haute
Louise Willoughby
Roy Parse
Howard Spencer Beker
Sioux City
D. van Dorn
Mr. van Dam
Debugque
Babe Ruth
New York Americans
Philadelphia Athletics
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Andrew Poulon
Lille
Roubaix
Turcoing
Thomas V W. Murphy
Peter Manning
Trotter
Syracuse
N.Y
Stngie G
Ed Allen
Berlin
Grand Army of the Republic
Indianapolis
Russia
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T. J. Anders
Bam Cote
Hot Springs
Alaska
Cote
Felix Diaz
Mexico
War Department of Mexico
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Mersey
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Prince Hirohito
Tokyo
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Ala
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Thor
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Humboldt
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Ruhr
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