Dawes replies to Davis opens Maine campaign stop
Charles G. Dawes Republican vice presidential nominee spoke in Augusta addressing John W. Davis and tariff policy. He defended unions and labor benefits while attacking Davis' foreign policy stance and called for practical, nonpartisan handling of major issues. Dawes praised trade unionism but condemned harmful tactics and emphasized constitutional rights in open shop debates.
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Associated Press
Augusta
Maine
John W. Davis
Charles G. Dawes
Ile
Davis
America
Dawes
Germany
Obor
Chicago
Bind and gag village postmaster foiled in bank robbery
Three masked armed robbers bound and gagged Archer Iowa postmaster H A Lemkuil and took him to an abandoned shed after attempting to rob the Bank of Archer. He drove between the bank and nearby building to reach his garage, interrupting the thieves who fled after a brief effort. The only take was small change and about five dollars from the postmaster.
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Associated Press
Sioux City
Bank of Archer
Archer
Iowa
H. A. Lemkuil
Soviet Declares Tolstoi Bourgeois and Bars Works
A Soviet panel of proletarian judges found Leo Tolstoi guilty of bourgeois ideas. Tolstoi's works Anna Karenina and Resurrection are ordered removed from libraries and to be pulped. Pseudo trial cites Lenin’s era and aims to publish Lenin and other revolutionary texts using the pulp.
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Preas
Mosc
Leo Tolatoi
Bourgeoie
Tolstoi
Krupskaia
Lenin
Shes For Education
Snanspery Sky
Exsar
L. N. Toletoi
Hiviteh
Zinoviev
Bucharin
Warm Weather Forecast for Early Next Week
Weather conditions for next week begin Monday over the upper Mississippi and lower Mississippi valley. Partly cloudy with a chance of local showers, temperatures above normal through midweek then cooler.
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Associatedviresn
Washington
Upper
Mississippi
Lower
Missouris Valley
Iowa Primary Roads See Good Conditions This Weekend
Des Moines August 23 Good highway conditions prevail over most of Iowa this weekend unless weather turns unfavorable. The Des Moines Automobile Club reports primary roads are largely good or gravely and paved with some dirt segments in fair to good condition. Major routes include No 1 to Ames and Minneapolis, No 7 to Colfax and Davenport, and No 6 north to Madrid and Webster City.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Des Moines Automobile Club
Jefferson Highway
Ames
Iowa Falls
Mason City
Albert Lea
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Indianola
Osceola
Leon
Bethany
Kansas City
St. Joseph
Colfax
Newton
Grinnell
Iowa City
Davenport
Adel
Stuart
Atlantic
Council Bluffs
Omaha
Dirst
Madrid
Boone
Webster City
Lakes
Fort Dodge
Pomeroy
Spencer
Spirit Lake
Panora
Guthrie Center
Harlan
Prairie City
Pella
Oskaloosa
Sigourney
Washington
Monroe
Story City
Blairsburg
Garner
Winterset
Afton
Creston
Davis Believes He Has Disposed of the Ku Klux Klan Issue
In New York August 23 John W Davis says he has disposed of the Klan issue in his campaign condemning all forms of bigotry and urging President Coolidge to join him in removing the topic from political debate. Friends urged a firmer pledge while others pushed for a clear preference at Clarksbury.
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New York
John W. Davis
Ku Klux Klan
Seagirt
America
Coolidge
Clarksburg
LaFollette Campaign Pins Invasion Plans for South
Aug 28 members of the LaFollette Wheeler campaign committee met to discuss establishing a southern headquarters in Atlanta or Birmingham. John M. Nelson national campaign manager and committee chairman traveled from Chicago to confer with Senator LaFollette and Senator Wheeler on the political situation.
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Washington
Atlanta
Birmingham
Ala
LaFollette- Wheeler
John M. Nelson
Chicago
LaFollette
Wheeler
Montana
Road conditions update from Primary No. 17 to west and east
Primary No. 17 to Adel Perry and Grand Junction and points west on Lincoln highway is in good condition. Graveled and in good condition Primary road No. 17 southeast to Pleasantville Whiteville Albia and Centerville. Dirt road in good condition Tourists going east beyond Davenport must go north at Davenport and take Lincoln highway across Illinois No. 7 is in bad condition at present.
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Adel
Perry
Grand Junction
Lincoln Highway
Pleasantville
Wiiteville
Albia
Centerville
Davenport
Illinois
Italian flier missing as U S aviators reach Greenland
Washington reports Lt Locatelli, Italian flyer with the American flight squadron, is missing after departing from Iceland. He was last seen 275 miles northeast of Frederiksdal, Greenland, in the planned leg to Frederiksdal. The American fliers reached Greenland safely, 825 miles from Reykjavik, with Locatelli ahead of the group by about forty minutes.
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Greenland
Washington
Locatelli
American World Flight Squadron
Teceland
Frederiksdal
Reykjavik
Iceland
Washington, PD. C
Army Air Service
Milwaukee
Bissell
Louisburg
N. 5
Smith
Nelson
Frederikedahl
Naval Secretary Wilbur Visits Iowa Ahead of Boone Rally
Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur returns to his home state visiting Fort Des Moines the Iowa state fair and Boone with three boyhood friends. He is greeted by officers 19 gun salute and later speaks at Lincoln Hall after a dinner and rally.
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Des Moines
Curtis D. Wilbur
Secretary of the Navy
Natie
Citizens Military Training Camp
Fort Des Moines
Boone
Wilbur
Naval
Army
S. G. Golthwaite
G. H. Stanger
H. T. Cook
Relief Corps
Lincoln Hall
Judge K M Landis Visits Des Moines
Des Moines welcomed its second notable guest Judge Kenesaw M Landis, commissioner of baseball. He joined Governor Kendall and state officials for a luncheon and spent the morning on the golf course. He attended the Western league game between Des Moines and Denver this afternoon.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Kenesaw M. Landis
Wilbur
Kendall
Judge Landis
Denver
Zayas Withdraws From Cuban Presidential Race
President Zayas, in Havana, announces his withdrawal from the race for president of Cuba. This formal step ends his bid and reshapes the island's political contest as observers monitor implications for the election.
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Havana
Zayas
Cuba
Dale Shurtz Appointed New Graham Store Clerk
Dale Shurtz becomes the new clerk at the Graham store. The change positions Shurtz to handle customer service and cashier duties, with duties phased in starting this week.
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Dale Shurtz
Graham Store
Home Town Day at Plymouth Sees Coolidges Public
President and Mrs Coolidge greeted friends in Plymouth Vermont during a public appearance on home town day marking their 12 day vacation. Local villagers traveled miles to meet the couple as Mr Coolidge walked the hills for recreation. He reviewed a Democratic request to explicitly join in erasing the Ku Klux Klan as a political issue but offered no comment.
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Associated Press
Plymouth
John W. Davis
Iowa Guardsman Promoted to Major General
Brigadier General Mathew A. Tinley of Council Bluffs, commander of the Iowa National Guard, was promoted to major general by the war department in Washington. He now commands the 34th division, comprising Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota units, the highest peacetime honor for a national guard officer. Tinley became a brigadier general in 1920 after the 1917 1918 reorganization.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Mathew A. Tinley
Council Bluffs
Iowa National Guard
War Department
Washington
Iowa
North
South Dakota
Minnesota
Tinley
Police clash leaves three dead in Marquette raid
In Marquette Michigan on August 23 Chief Martin Ford and patrolman Thomas Thornton were killed along with an unidentified alleged parolee during a running gun battle after a store break in. The chief's son Lloyd Ford was seriously wounded in the fighting.
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Associated Press
Marquette
Mich
Martin Ford
Thomas Thornton
Lloyd
Red Oak Man Held for Canada Murder
Red Oak Iowa August 22 Robert Noble 49 born near Red Oak and former Nyman resident is jailed in Assiniboya Saskatchewan Canada charged with confessing to the strangling murder of his wife after an all night quarrel over financial matters.
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Red Oak
R Robert Noble
Assiniboya
Sask
Canada
Noble
Experiments Miss V Porter Tests Thin Celluloid
Professor V. P Porter of the Bureau of Standards conducts tests to determine how thin celluloid can be made. She works with 1.254 hundredths of an inch thickness and dissolves the material in amyl acetate before dropping it onto clear water.
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V. BP. Porter
Bureau of Standards
Darrow Pleads Mercy for Loeb and Leopold in Chicago Case
Clarence Darrow urged Judge John R. Caverly to spare Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr. from the death penalty, arguing the crime was senseless and that mercy tempers justice. He denounced state alienists and warned that execution would haunt the era and families involved.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Clarence
Darrow
John R. Caverly
Richard Loeb
Nathan Leopold, Jr
William O. Brohn
Joseph Savage
Savage
Prince of Wales Sails for America
The Berengaria with the Prince of Wales aboard called at Southampton for the United States at 2 30 this afternoon in holiday attire with flags flying and hunting waving as it departed for the voyage.
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Prince OF Wales
Sails For
America
Associated Press
Southampton
England
Berengaria
United States
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