Mollison Starts Solo Hop From Dublin For America In Puss Moth
Captain James Mollison, famed Scottish flyer, took off from Martrnnoch Airdrome near Dublin in a small Puss Moth named Heats Content. He aims a three day double Atlantic crossing to New York and back to Croydon with 155 gallons of fuel and minimal provisions aboard.
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New York
Portmarnoch
Dublin
James A. Moliisor
Newfoundland
United States
Mollison
Harbor Grace
Croydon
London
Cape
Molison
Bngland
Capetown
South Africa
Keota Notes Deaths and Visitations Highlight August
Keota reporting death notices for Mrs. Ella Wilson Pringle at 67 in Whittier California after heart trouble. Also notes death of Samper Gano from ladder accident and family visits from Cincinnati. Labor Day picnic planned by O O F and Rebekah lodges, Methodist Ladies Aid hosting ten cent lunches and an ice cream social.
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Keota
George H. Holmes
Ella Wilson Pringle
Frank Henness
Whittier
California
Jennie Holmes
Maude Lyle
la Porte City
Arthur Pringle
Long Beach
Frank Pringle
Washington
Dwight Mound
Diane
Cincinnati
Ohio
J. W. Mound
Ella Conklin
Samper Gano
George
W. L Conklin
Belle Gano
Rebekah
Keota Park
Ladies Aid
Methodist Church
Washington Junior College Adds Organic Chemistry Course
Washington Junior College will offer a four semester hour organic chemistry course next year under Miss Lucy Stahl. The plan includes two lectures and two lab periods weekly. First year options depend on prior chemistry, with inorganic general chemistry or qualitative analysis paired with organic chemistry in later years.
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Washington Junior College
Stahl
Lucy Stahl
Cornell College
State University of Iowa
Keota Lumber Yard in Veiled Incident Report
A fragment from Keota lumber company yard notes a Saturday night event on August 20 involving Vibr vulnerability issues. The brief text provides no clear injuries or outcomes.
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Keota Lumber Company
Vibr
HASKINS Mrs John M Godlovse Corresponds at HASKINS
Mrs John M Godlovse hosts visitors from Muscatine and Iowa City over a weekend. Elizabeth Wallace hosts her daughter and great grandson for an extended stay. The McCreedys and Booths host relatives from Davenport and Davenport guests visit through Sunday.
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Haskins
John M. Godlovwse
Benefit Tilt This Evening At Junkin Field South Fourth
Readiness for a charity tilt at Junkin Field on South Fourth Avenue is set for this evening. The program begins at 5 15 with a preliminary girls game and the main event at 6 15 featuring American Pearl versus the All Stars. admission is free but a collection will be taken.
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Junkin Field
South Fourth Avenue
All Stars
Better Washington club to meet Friday night
Tickets are on sale for the August meeting of the Better Washington club to be held in the dining room of the rebuilt Congress home Friday evening. A large attendance is expected as Elsie Glassburner Myrtle Macon and Mildra Brown plan talks about their recent travels.
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Better Washington Club
Congress
Elsie Glassburner
Myrtle Macon
Mildra
Brown
Golf Matches Deferred Again as Rains Halt Play
The annual city golf tournament has seen little progress over the past week due to steady rains and muddy roads. A couple of fair days allowed groundskeeping to improve the course, and eager players are returning despite the lingering poor road conditions.
Local Family Visits and Travels Across Towns
In Iowa City Mr and Mrs Floyd Butt and Jimmy of near Columbus Junction spent Sunday with relatives. JL Boughton returned Friday from a two weeks vacation and visited his sister in Ottumwa and parents in Hampton. Ed Murphy family left for Bath Illinois to visit relatives. Mrs Roy Steele returned from a Detroit trip with Henry Harrison and family. Harry Miller and wife from Washington went to Detroit to drive a car back. W A McGinnis shipped hogs to Chicago.
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Iowa City
Floyd Butt
Jimmy
Columbus Junction
James Cherwinker
JL. H. Boughton
Otttumwa
Hampton
Ed Murphy
Irene
Mary
Bath
Ill
Roy Steele
Detroit
Canada
Henry Harrison
Harry Miller
Washington
W. A. McGinnis
Chicago
Rathmel family hosts visitors from Enid for two weeks
Mrs. H H Rathmel and family of Kremlin Oklahoma and Mary Joe Brown of Enid Oklahoma left this morning after a two week visit with relatives. Helen Caldwell accompanied them and will visit indefinitely at the Rathmel home. She is Mrs Rathmel's niece.
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H H. Rathmel
Kremlin
Okla
Mary Joe Brown
Enid
Helen Caldwell
Rathmel
City Hall Street Commissioner G W Wallace Dies Sudden
Street commissioner G W Wallace died suddenly at 9 10 this morning at city hall from angina pectoris. He was 66 and had served about five years in office after being appointed by Mayor John W Applegate. He leaves his wife Mrs Margaret Baker and served as deputy sheriff and in the grocery business. His funeral is planned for Saturday.
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G. W. Wallace
City Hall
Pollock Wallace
Ode Ferguson
L A. Jones
Wallace
Marguerite Baker
Havana
City
John W Applegate
Prof Piccard Returns From Stratosphere Flight
Prof Auguste Piccard, Swiss scientist, lands his balloon near Edolo Italy after an 11 hour 9 minute ascent from Dubendorf Zurich. He sets a new altitude record for himself and humans, floating the laboratory balloon ten miles above sea level.
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Brescia
Italy
Earth
Auguste Piccard
Edolo
Piccard
Dubendorf
Zurich
Switzerland
Studden
Municipalities of Iowa name officers at annual meeting
H A Willowby of Grundy Center is elected president of the Iowa League of Municipalities with L H Childe of Fort Madison named vice president and Frank G Pierce of Marshalltown re elected secretary treasurer. Trustees named include James Lockyer Cherokee Fred Trainer Ackley and W F Metzgar Grand Junction. Leigh Soule and spouse visited Cedar Rapids this afternoon.
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Decorah
Iowa City
Waterloo
Sioux City
James Lockyer
Fred Trainer Ackley
W. F. Metzgar
Grand Junction
Dakota farmers join in blockade near Sioux City
Farmers from Dakota Nebraska Iowa and South Dakota join a blockade preventing agricultural shipments to Sioux City markets. A clash with Sheriff G N Slocum and deputies leads to shots fired and forced truck passages as Milo Reno arrives to assess progress of the farm holiday movement.
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Sioux City
Iowa
J. F. Kriege
Dakota City
Neb
Nebraska
South Dakota
Slocum
Kim Point
John A. Davenport
Woodbury County
Correctionville
Milo Reno
Farm Holiday Association
Contro
Beverly Hilt.S. Cal. Mayor Walk Touring Olympics
A satirical comment mocks a mayoral investigation, proposing a one day stand in towns as a touring Olympics with the mayor as Habe Didrikson. The writer jokes about farmers striking and eating their own produce to avoid hauling costs, claiming it could fatten individuals and crop sales humorously.
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Beverly Hilt
S. Cal
Bandits Rob Beloit Bank for Over 45000 Then Flee
Seven bandits held up the Second National Bank in Beloit Wisconsin and escaped with more than 45000. They forced the president KH P Eldred and cashier Russell Moran to open the vault and harmed none. Four female employees and seven customers were forced to the floor and later freed. A bank employee William Cox was slugged as the robbers fled in a Wisconsin plated car toward Rockford. One bandit carried a machine gun and others revolvers.
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Beloit
Wis
Second National Bank
KH. P. Eldred
Russell Moran
Wisconsin
Rockford
William Cox
Rodeo Attended by 16,000 at Sidney Event
Art Pratt Art Swift and Francis Haney attended the rodeo in Sidney yesterday with an estimated crowd of 16 000.
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Art Pratt
Art Swift
Francis Haney
Sidney
Farmers Picket Roads to Blockade Hoone Market
At Hoone Iowa on August 18 members of the farm holiday association picketed roads into Boone to halt farm inflow. A cream truck and a hog truck were persuaded to turn back their loads with no violence. The strikers said the action would be peaceful.
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Hoone
Iowa
Farm Holiday Association
Boone
Curtis Notified as Republican Nominee for Vice Presidency
In Topeka Kansas Charles Curtis native of Kansas was notified in a simple ceremony that he had been nominated for vice president by the Republican Party at its national convention in Chicago last June. Senator L J Dickinson of Iowa delivered the official notification address from a small platform on the statehouse north steps. Curtis replied with a brief address as the nationwide radio hookup carried the event.
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Topeka
Kan
INS
Charles Curtis
Republican Party
Chicago
L. J. Dickinson
Iowa
Curtis
Night Session Planned in Walker Ouster Hearing
Albany August 18 Governor Roosevelt ordered a night session to finish the Seabury ouster hearing against Mayor James J. Walker. Curtin the mayor’s attorney pressed to dismiss all fifteen charges while challenging the legality of Seabury evidence.
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Executive Chamber
Albany
N. Y
James J. Walker
Samuel Seabury
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Gov. Roosevelt
John J. Curtin
Walker
Roosevelt
Curtin
Seabury
Sidney rodeo draws record crowds in annual event
In Sidney Iowa the annual rodeo continued before record crowds with 16 000 attending the afternoon show and 8 500 at the evening performance. Most injuries were minor though Smokey Roberts broke a leg after a fall. Yesterday’s event leaders included Eddy Woods in bronco busting Tony Schwartz in bulldogging Dick Griffith in steer riding Allen Hodder in roping.
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Sidney
Iowa
Emery McCrorey
Tom Perkins
Smokey Roberts
Eddy Woods
Tony Schwartz
Dick Griffith
Allen Hotder
Taylorville unrest draws 75 highway police and mine clash
In Taylorville Illinois and surrounding areas a crowd of 1600 miners opposed to a five dollar wage march toward Taylorville began their drive as authorities planned no armed opposition. Sixty four highway police guarded the area while officials withdrew troops and prepared for peaceful entry. In Lenton Illinois Constable James Sutton was held on ten thousand dollar bond for the killing of mine official Joe Colbert near Orient.
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Springfield
Taylorville
Christian County
Bond Lenton
Dil
INS
James Sutton
Frankfort Township
Joe Colbert
Mine Union
Orient
Ilinois
Sutton
Colbert
Statter
Senator Davis Indicted in Nationwide Lottery Plot
Senator James J. Davis of Pennsylvania was indicted by a federal grand jury as part of a conspiracy involving three fraternal orders, including the Eagles Shriners and the Mouse. The scheme centered on selling lottery tickets tied to lucky numbers with about $500,000 in prizes.
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New York
INS
James J. Davis
Pennsylvania
Keystone State
Labor
United States
Medalis
Eagles
Mystic Shriners
Mouse
Davis
Xenia Social News Highlights From Local Visitors
Mrs R L Stephens reports on Sunday visits by Mr and Mrs Willard Triechman of Wellman to Robert Stephens home. Arthur Charlton of near Iowa City visited Viola Herr and Ella Thompson's household. Jesse Pearson bought cattle in Kansas City. Eugene Stephens recovers on crutches after a foot injury with a cast to be removed in two weeks. John Gammon family and Clarence Booth visited Frank Kenderson's home.
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Xenia
Willard Triechman
Wellman
Robert Stephens
Jesse Pearson
Kansas City
Arthur Charlton
Iowa City
Viola Herr
John McFarland
Ella Thompson
Eugene Stephens
John Gammon
Clarence Booth
Frank Kenderson
Freyenberger Family From Wayland Shopping Today
Chris Freyenberger and his family from Wayland were in town this morning for a shopping outing.
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Chris Freyenberger
Wayland
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