Marked Building Increase Noted In Iowa Cities
Iowa Bureau reports July building permits show gains in Des Moines and several large cities. Des Moines totals for January to July 1922 exceed 1921. other cities vary, with Davenport and Waterloo up, Dubuque and Sioux City mixed. Labor report notes employment steady with minor July rise, yet optimism declines while car and coal strikes slow business.
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Des Moines
Iowa Bureau of Labor Statistics
Cedar Rapids
Cornell Cluffe
Mason City
Ottumwa
Davennort
Dubuque
Waterloo
Sioux City
Marshalltown
Deserter mother sought in Webster county case
Sheriff and local officers search for Mrs. L. L Baker 29 mother of three who vanished from her Padger area farm four weeks ago after leaving a note to her husband. Also sought is Mike Anderson 35 formerly housed at the Baker home. Baker is 5 ft 6 in, 125 pounds with light hair and blue eyes. Anderson is 6 ft 3 in, slender and balded.
Farmer in Usual Health Plans His Funeral Then Dies
Boone Iowa report states James Martin died suddenly in Pilot Mound after arranging his funeral and paying expenses. Wealth centered in money and gilt edged securities. He left roughly 206000 to Mrs Carrie M Richardson with two sons cut off in the will. He was about seventy and had long resided in Pilot Mound.
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Farmer
Boone
Pilot Mound
James Martin
G. H. Carlson
Martin
Carrie M. Richardson
Mound
Moingona
Iowa Sheriff Shoots Girl After Stopping Car
Miss Beatrice Ford aged 20 of Sioux City is in critical condition after Sheriff Peter Duffy fired at a car near O Neill Nebraska. The vehicle failed to stop as commanded. the sheriff believed the car was stolen while the girl thought he was a highwayman.
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Sioux City
Beatrice Ford
Peter Duffy
O'Neill
Neb
Bumper Crops Highlight Iowa Horticultural Report
The Iowa State Horticultural Society reports sweet corn 95 percent, grapes 96 percent, and tomatoes 93 percent of normal for August 15 1922. It urges public entries for the Iowa state fair and notes Mammoth Cave land held in trust until heirs’ deaths, to be sold at public auction.
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Des Moines
Iowa State Horticultural Society
The
Horticultural Society
Lowa
Mammoth Cave
Kentucky
Argentina Railways to Install Oil Burners
Oil burners will be installed on locomotives of the state railways of Argentina. Petroleum will be sold to the railways at 27 pesos a ton delivered in Santa Fe. The present fuel, quebracho wood, costs 12 pesos a ton and it is estimated that a ton of petroleum will equal four tons of quebracho, making it possible to conserve this valuable lumber tree.
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Argentina
Santa Fe
Women Hear Iowa Politicians At State Fair Tent
The Iowa League of Women Voters will host open talks at the state fair in Des Moines with speakers including Col. Smith Brookhart and Clyde Herring. Democratic and Republican candidates for federal and state offices are invited to address voters, while women push for the Shepard-Towner bill and seating women in the legislature. The league also opposes repealing the state primary law, warning it could boost Democratic turnout among women voters.
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Des Moines
Iowa League of Women Voters
Col
Smith Brookhart
Clyde Herring
United States Senate
Congress
Wayne G. Cook
Davenport
Harry Fr. Hull
Williamsburg
J. D. Daughton
Grand River
Horace M. Towner
Jett Wickersham Douglas
Fort Dodge
Hammill
Hew Gibson
Glenn Haynes
Charles Webster
May E. Francis
Himena Hoffman
Marie Frederickson
Cedar Falls
Fair Board
Iowa League of Women
Shepard-Towner
Iowa
Immortal Lures And A House Fire In Blue Poppy Mine
Sheriff Fairchild and Deputies pursue Squint Rodaine after a whirlwind night of abductions and a deadly fall from a hotel window. Crazy Laura guards stolen ledgers amid a raging blaze as Anita and Bardwell uncover clues linking a May treasure plot and a June grave. The tale hints at a conspiracy around the Blue Poppy mine and a key to wealth.
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Anita
Fairchild
Mason
Maurice
Fatrehiid
Rodaine
Mr. Rodaine
Pol
Laura
Squint Rodanne
Fairechild
Sherr Mason
Harry
Bardwell
Leura
Nrme
Soper
Lewides
Mveself
Roady
Blue Poppy
Sissie Larsen
Sissie
Pola Negri Signed for Paramount Starring Comeback
Motion picture fans see Pola Negri in Paris gowns and exotic costumes as she rises to stardom after signing an agreement to come to America in September to appear as a Paramount star.
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Pola Negri
America
Paris
Paramount
Silent trio returns to sheriff with Anita and Marry
Three men move quietly down the stairs past the sleeping night clerk and back to the sheriff's office where Anita and Marry await, the tension lingering after the preceding events.
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Sheriff's Office
Anita
Marry
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Dodge
Wile
Towa
Iowa State
Che
Courtney Ryley
Cooper
Head
Maurice Radauine
Denver
Burnham
Chadi
Georgeville Road
Anita Richmond
Vatican
Pius XI
Chapter
Studebaker
W. B
H.P
H. P
Cord Tires
Studebaker Garage
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