Muscatine to Open New Weed Park Pool August 17
Muscatine prepares to open its new Weed Park swimming pool on August 17 at 2 PM with a band concert at 7:30 PM. Park officials emphasize safety rules, free admission, and modern facilities including showers, towels, lockers, and lifeguards.
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Muscatine
Weed Park
J. J. Barry
Park Commission
Barry
Kapeee
Businens Girige
Barty
Warnare
Missie Hagermann
Norman Butler
Harold Schomberg
Arthur Hoefflin
Middle West
Hunger of the Blood Brings Frank Farnum to Fox Theater
Film notes describe Frank Farnum in The Hunger of the Blood at the Fox Theater as Maslum a tribal leader in a dramatic tale of war and peace against white settlers. The photoplays goal is to portray the American Indian as a romantic figure on screen.
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Farnum
Chief Maslin
Fox Theater
Pee Sgtomar
Franklyn’ Fathom
Maslum
Des Moines Man Named Wilson Foundation State Chairman
Edwin T. Meredith of Des Moines, former secretary of agriculture, was named by Franklin D. Roosevelt to chair the Woodrow Wilson foundation in Iowa. The foundation funds an annual award honoring Wilsons national and international services to democracy and liberal causes.
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Des Moines
New York
Edwin T. Meredith
Iowa
Woodrow Wilson Foundation
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wilson
Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
United States
Mexican Duel Ends in Triple Gunshot Near Mason City
Paul Silba, 20, a Mexican resident, was shot three times in a street duel-like attack outside Mason City. Guadalupe Baltir, another Mexican man, fled the scene after the shooting, leaving a revolver and knife nearby. Silba survived, and Baltir is sought by investigators as the primary suspect.
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Mason City
Aus
Paul Siva
Fles Inva City
Tofay
Guadalupe B. Baltir
Also
Meghan
Silba
O'Cloe
Wilba
MLF Cine
Ballin
American Farmers Donate Corn To Austrian Children
American Relief Administration reports 196000 bushels of corn and milled products sent to Vienna to aid Austrian hungry children worth 120000 dollars. Railroads and unions provided free transport and crews, with Chicago Board of Trade and grain elevators waiving or reducing charges. Polish relief also receives 195000 bushels valued at 124000 dollars.
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New York
American Relief Administration
Vienna
Seaboard
4 Brotherhoods of Railroad
Brotherhoods
Hebert Hoover
Chicago Board of Trade
Poland
Warsaw
Clemens Pirquet
Aho
Austria
Hoover
Central
Europe
J. R. Howard
American Farm Bureau Federation
European Relief Council
Asher Miner
Wilkesbarra
T M. Chivington
American Corn Millers’ Federation
Railroad’ Brotherhoods
Warren S. Stone
Emgineers
L. B. Shepperd
Ube Dorductors
W. 8. Carter
W. A Lee
Mr. Hoover
Daniel B. Willard
BP. & O. Railroad
Conrad FE. Spens
Howard Bb. Jackson
Jackson Brothers
Chicago
Board of Trade and Grain Elevators
Prisoner Flees Des Moines Police Station
Floyd Foreman accused of larceny from a plate glass firm escaped from the Des Moines police station after arraignment. Bond set at $1,000, officers awaiting bonds for a friend when Foreman slipped away.
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Des Moines
Citly
Floyd Foreman
Foreman
Washington County Evening Journal Headlines
Washington County’s Only Daily recaps local news, events, and notices from the Evening Journal. Readers receive concise items on people, places, and happenings in the county daily.
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Evening Journal
Washington County
Three Des Moines Men Arrested After Fast-Chase in Albion
Sheriff J R Meekins stops a booze run as three Des Moines men Frank Payne F L McIntyre and C Gordon are arrested in Albion. They face transporting intoxicating liquor charges with McIntyre also charged with operating an automobile without transfer of ownership and Payne possibly for resisting an officer after trying to crash the sheriff's car.
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Des Moines
Marshalltown
Albion
J. R. Meekins
Frank Payne
F. L. McIntyre
C. Gordon
McIntyre
Payne
Coal Prices Cut as Iowa Coal Bins Run Slim
Des Moines reports coal operators trim retail price from 8.25 to 8 dollars per ton with a possible further cut planned for Sept 1. Factories shut and mining activity down leave workers idle as unions reject wage-scale reductions amid cash payments demanded by dealers.
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Des Moines
D. F Cushing
Iowa Coal Operatore Association
J. C. Lewis
District 13
United Mine Workers
Confiscation Raids Seize Liquor and Gambling Devices
Sheriff Walter Harris with State Agent H. W. Terrell and a party of officers raided Fairfield. Four young men Tom Freshwater Cy Van Larachoot Victor Weber and Charles Bowermaster were jailed. Twelve gallons of hootch found. liquor in most suspects homes. Eagles hall clubrooms raided. injunction against Bowermastre dated November 24 1917 referenced.
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Fairfield
Walter Harris
H. W. Terrell
Mt. Ayr
Tom Freshwater
Cy van Larachoot
Victor Weber
Charles Bowermaster
Eagies
Sheriff's Office
Bowermastre
Francie M. Hunter
Death-defying fall of Brooklyn girl from platform edge
A nine-year-old girl fell from a station platform in Brooklyn in front of an elevated train. She dropped between the platform and track, touched an electric feed wire, and landed about forty five feet down. She faced death three times but escaped with scratches.
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Brooklyn
Yeggs Rob Wooden Safe In Cedar Rapids Shoe Store Heist
Cedar Rapids police report an inside job as burglars stole a $400 safe from a Cedar Rapids shoe store on Monday. Checks and scattered cash lay near the open safe door, with investigators noting no forced entry and suggesting expert lock picking. A separate dispatch mentions a sick soldier moved by air to Camp Lewis and unrelated notes on a North Dakota smoking law and a locksmith case.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar ‘Rapids
Yeggsmen
Newark
Ubent
Forks
Olympic Peninsula
Washington
Camp Lewis
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Carlord
Bunker Hill
London
Boehing Journal
North Dakota
Lee
Aml
E. Main ST
J.dankwardt
White Way
White Bay
Firestone
White Way Garage
Busby Bros
Miller & Firestone Tires
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