Wind and Rain Do Damage to Crops in Iowa
A severe storm across eastern Iowa caused two drownings near Bertram and widespread flood damage. Rivers rose four feet, fields of oats swept away, and corn damaged as farms and homes flooded from Tipton to Dubuque.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Cedar
Big Creek
J. M. Schley
Decland Barrett
Bertram
Sugar Creek
Tipton
Shellsburg
Waterloo
Warren Hall
EB. A. Hall
Reinbeck
Mosquito Creek
Warren
Dubuque Dubuque
Mississippi
Watson Claims Dawes Plan Aids World Peace
Senator Watson of Indiana told the Hamilton Club in Chicago that Allied acceptance of the Dawes plan and the arms conference mark the two longest steps toward world pacification by a Republican administration without League of Nations entanglements. He praised Charles G. Dawes as fit for vice president and criticized Democratic views on the League as opportunistic and inconsistent.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Watson
Indiana
Hamilton Club
John W. Davis
United States
League of Nations
Republican Party
Charles G. Dawes
Mr. Dawes
Europe
Woodrow Wilson
New York
William Jennings Bryan
Charles
Vinton Struck by Three Wind and Rain Storms
Three distinct wind and rain storms hit Vinton Iowa yesterday afternoon leaving uprooted trees and floods. Two hundred trees down, Mud Creek breached banks forming a river about a half mile wide. Livestock losses include fifty hogs on Carlan Doms farm and thirty drowned on the Corbett farm with cattle drowning on Stickney farm. Rain continues as Cedar River rises.
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The
Associated Press
Vinton
Mud Creek
Carlan Doms
Corbett
Stickney
Cedar River
Small grain damaged by Muscatine storm
In Muscatine a heavy rain last night caused shock damage to small grain after days of unseasonable weather. Nearly an inch and a half of rain fell, with many shocks starting to sprout as the crop suffers.
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Muscatine
Whites Subjugated by Blacks in Kalahari Report
A dispatch from Capetown describes a group of about fifty white men and women living near Molopolole under the control of educated native chief Sebele. The Locust expedition reports the interior of the Kalahari desert reveals these whites in a state of subjection to Black authority.
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Associated Press
London
Capetown
Great
Kalahari Desert
Molopolole
Sebele
Hold Rates On Coal Declared Unreasonable by Examiner
Examiner Koebel finds coal rates from Colorado and northern New Mexico districts to western South Dakota Nebraska Kansas and Missouri River points unjust and prejudicial. A tentative schedule of reasonable rates is prescribed, with ICC yet to rule.
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Associated Press
Washington
Colorado
New Mexico
Missouri River
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Interstate Commerce Commission
Wm. J. Koebel
Commission
Descent of Servile Class Near Kraal Described
The passage describes a group called the chief's kraal as servile descendants of Dutch pioneers who wandered into the interior and lost themselves among natives. They lack land ownership and privileges, functioning as serfs to black masters who provide small grain wages.
Bryan Accepts Democratic Nomination in Lincoln
Governor candidate Guy Charles W. Bryan accepts the Democratic vice presidential nomination in Lincoln Nebraska praising the platform as broad and progressive. He argues the party stands united without faction and supports agriculture as a basic industry while urging action against anti competitive practices. He warns that failure to enforce laws could raise living costs and invite extremism.
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Lincoln
Neb
Guy Charles W. Bryan
Nebraska
John W. Davis
Democratic Party
Middle West
Guv
Bryan
Ladd Advocates Rail Tax Cut in Iowa Rulings
Des Moines Iowa August 19 A state valuation reduction for the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific and Chicago and Great Western railroads totaling over eight million dollars was urged by Special Master Scott M Ladd in a report to Federal Judge Martin J Wade The recommendations claim the executive council taxed railroad property higher than farm lands and violate state assessment statutes The report suggests sharing litigation costs with two fifths to the state two fifths to Rock Island and one fifth to Great Western If upheld the ruling could prompt further appeals and possible U S Supreme Court action.
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Des Moines
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Chicago and
Great Western
Scott M. Ladd
Martin J. Wade
Executive Council
Ladd
C . Executive Council
Rock Island
Ben J. Gibson
Gibson
Wade
Supreme Court of the United States
Kid McCoy Declared Mentally Unsound by Police
Los Angeles police report Kid McCoy, held on suspicion of murdering Theresa Mars, has become mentally unbalanced in his cell. Captain Cline says he is truly off his head and cracking under strain as guards monitor him and he tapes cardboard to walls while muttering about traps for rattors. District Attorney Keyes plans further observation by metal experts and proceeds with county case preparations.
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Los Angeles
Kid McCoy
Theresa Mars
Cline
McCoy
Alan Keyes
Itinerary for Kendall World Tour Revealed
The governor and Mrs. Kendall announce a world tour after January 1. The voyage begins January 20 on the California to Bermuda and visits Bermuda Havana Isle of Pines Puerto Rico Panama Colon Los Angeles Honolulu Philippines Japan Java Sumatra China Egypt Holy Lands Turkey Greece Italy France England ending in the British Isles with a lengthy stay before returning to Iowa around July or August 1925.
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Associaed Press
Des Moines
Kendall
California
Bermuda
Insular
South Seas
Orient
Europe
British Isles
Kendalls
Havana
Isle and Pines
Porto Rico
Panama
Colon
Los Angeles
Honolulu
Philippines
Japan
Java
Sumatra
China
Egypt
Holy Lands
Turkey
Greece
Italy
France
England
Iowa
Rock Island Buys Keokuk and Des Moines Railway
The Chicago Rock Island and Pacific railroad buys the Keokuk and Des Moines line for 1.25 million dollars, above the minimum price, with transfer to Mansfield Ferry for bondholders. The road, Iowa’s oldest system, has long been leased to Rock Island and will join its system after payment.
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Des Moines
Keokuk
Iowa
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company
E. J. Kelly
Martin J. Wade
Wade
New York
Mansfield Ferry
Rock Island
General Rock Island
Brookhart calls for extra Congress session for farmers
Eldon Iowa August 19 Senator Smith W Brookhart urged President Coolidge to convene a special session to restore the farmer's postwar purchasing power. At a Farmers Union picnic he criticized the current farm price rise as insufficient and attacked the Esch Cummins railroad bill for hiking freight costs on farmers.
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Eldon
Coolidge
Congress
Smith W. Brookhart
Farmers’ Union
Ford Edison and Firestone Visit Coolidge Homestead
President Coolidge hosts Henry Ford Thomas Edison and Harvey Firestone at his father's Plymouth Vermont home during a summer vacation trip. The trio travel with families and make Wayside Inn Sudbury Massachusetts their vacation base this year. Coolidge presents Ford with a sap bucket used to collect maple sap.
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Plymouth
Coolidge
Henry Ford
Thomas Edison
Harvey Firestone
Pary
Wayside Inn
Sudbury
Mass
Grand jury expected to indict McCoy in Mors murder
The grand jury was in session today as the prosecutor reiterated his belief that McCoy would be indicted for the murder of Mrs. Mors. He also declared his conviction that McCoy was not insane the night of the shooting but merely drunk.
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McCoy
Air cruisers delayed by repairs in Iceland
In Reykjavik on August 19, American world fliers cannot depart Iceland for Greenland for at least three days due to damage from an overfilled start. Repairs await spare parts from the cruiser Richmond, which is due tomorrow. Italian flyer Locatelli may join the Americans or proceed independently to Greenland, hiring a trawler if necessary.
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Reykjavik
Iceland
Greenland
Fredericksdal
Richmond
Locatelli
Pisa
Atlantic
Lowell H. Smith
Smith
Eric H. Nelson
Finish Testimony In Franks Hearing In Chicago
Testimony closed today in the Leopold Loeb case for the murder of Robert Franks. State alienist Dr. Krohn and defense attorneys concluded the phase as attorneys conferred on next steps. Marshall opened the prosecution argument urging the death penalty as the only appropriate punishment.
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Chicago
Nathan Leopold, Jr
Richard Loeb
Robert Franks
Wm. O. Krohn
Ba Marshall
Mr. Marshall
Albia Man Killed in Automobile Wreck
Aug 19. Wm. Ir. Michigan an Albia barber was instantly killed at 8 o clock last evening when the automobile in which he rode with J A Brenner of Fairfield turned over a few miles west of Albia. Brenner the driver was taken into custody by Sheriff Richards and held as a material witness.
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Ottumwa
Ir. Micligan
J. A. Brenner
Fairfield
Brenner
Richards
President Ford Receives Gift From Plymouth Settler Family
The president accepts a bucket from John Coolidge, grandfather of the president's grandfather and an original Plymouth settler. Ford thanks Edison beside him in the swing and asks for the president's signature on the bottom of the pall bearing J. Coolidge, Plymouth. After all signed, the president writes with a pen.
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Piace
John Coolidge
Mr. Ford
Thomas A. Edison
Mra. Ford
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John J. Pershing
National Republican
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Rock Island Road
D. M. Railway
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Brookhart
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Firestone
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