Marines land to protect foreign life in Bluefields Nicaragua
The cruiser Galveston lands 200 American sailors and marines at Bluefields to safeguard foreign life and property amid rising tensions in Nicaragua. Nicaragua accuses Mexico of backing an auxiliary ship, the Concon, on an August 17 filibuster expedition, while Mexico denies interference and deflects to Nicaragua’s sovereignty. The League of Nations faces its first Latin American dispute as Nicaragua appeals over alleged Mexican involvement, with the Monroe Doctrine cited as a constraint on League action.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Galveston
Bluefield
Nicaragua
Managua
Nicarguan
Mexico
Concon
Salina Cruz
Nicaregua
Navas
Mexico City
Mex
League of Nations
League’ of Nations
Saenz
League
Senor Saenz
Chamorero
Pleasant Pleasant Social Notes from Swedesburg Area
Pleasant Pleasant Aug 27 residents share visits and travels. Families such as Johnsons, Andersons, Carlsons, and Gunnar Johnson feature in weekend gatherings in Swedesburg and What Cheer. Students Mildred Davidson and Hazel Strohm attend summer school and family visits while chores like school prep and clover hulling continue.
Rodgers Funeral to Be Held Tuesday at Arlington
Commander John Rodgers will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery with naval honors after a Philadelphia to Havre de Grace funeral and services in Havre de Grace. The interment follows a crash at the Philadelphia navy yard in which Rodgers was killed. Samuel Schultz was critically injured in the same incident.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
John Rodgers
Arlington National Cemetery
Philadelphia
Havre de Grace
Maryland
Arlington
Army
Navy
Wilbur
Rodgers
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Samuel Schultz
Delaware River
Weekend Family Reunions in Crawfordsville Iowa
The Maxwell family held its fifty ninth annual reunion at the Robertson home near Crawfordsville with 70 to 80 relatives. Officers for next year include President Frank Maxwell and Secretary Marjorie Hanna. The Huston and Long reunions followed with dinners at local homes and officers elected for the year ahead.
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Crawfordsville
Iowa
Maxwell
Tom Robertson
Mary Maxwell
George Maxwell
John Lease
Robertson
Frank Maxwell
Marjorie Hanna
Lee Hanna
J. Y. Whiteman
Kingsville
John Wooley
Columbia
Eaton
Columbus City
W. H. McCall
Mary
Huston
J. C. Huston
Mary Jane Duncan
Marguerite Morgan
Hope Huston
John A. Huston
S. W. Huston
M. BE. Hayes
J. C. Hu
Long
Sunset Park
Washington
American woman swims English Channel second time
Mrs. Clemington Corson of New York, mother of two, completed the English Channel crossing from Cape Gris Nez to Dover in 15 hours and 28 minutes. She beat the previous male and female records, finishing amid cheers near Shakespeare Cliff after starting around midnight.
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Mrs. Carson
New York
Associated Press
Dover
England
Clemington Corson
English Channel
Gertrude Kederle
Miss Erderle
Carson
Sebastian Triaboschi
Crawfordsville social notes from Crawfordsville Indiana region
Mrs. Wilford Smith and Myral assisted in corn canning at the Frank Bailey home. East Chicago visitors Mr. and Mrs. Victor Neiswanger called on Mrs. Neiswanger and the Frank Taylor family. Harriette and Mildred Shebeck visited Imogene Lauderman. John Patterson and four children visited the John Shebeck home Friday. John Shebeck hauled corn from Fred Zieglowsky this week. Stockman, Finke, and Shebeck shipped hogs from Crawfordsville Tuesday. Mrs. Frank Bailey and boys visited her parents in Crawfordsville Friday. Chester and Allen Spangler visited the Griff Davis home Wednesday afternoon. Edna Witting and Orlin stayed with the Lafe Finke home Sunday to Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. John Hesseltine and Nellie met the new baby girl Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Loran Horton visited the parental Jake Shrader home Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Shannon and daughter Martha of Lees Summit Missouri are visiting at the Mrs. W. A. Shannon and Ralph Shannon homes.
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Victor Neiswanger
Chicago
Indiana
Crawfordsville
Chester
Allen Spangler
Griff Davis
Edna Witting
Orlin
Lafe Finke
John W. Hesseltine
Nellie
Frank Hesseltine
Loran Horton
Jake Shrader
Simmerman Family Reunion Promoted by Cairo Cablegram
Washington readers learned of a Simmerman family reunion planned in Washington with a cablegram from Cloyce Huston of Cairo Egypt greeting attendees. The event originally dated the 28th aimed to ensure arrivals on time.
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Simmerman
Washington
Huston
Cablegram
Cloyce Huston
Cairo
Egypt
Relief From Heat Wave Promised by Weather Bureau
Des Moines reports that relief from extreme Iowa heat was promised by the Weather Bureau. Temperatures rose above 100 in multiple areas including Sioux City and northwest Iowa. Several people were overcome by heat at the state fair and in Des Moines, including Claude Belcher who died at work.
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The
Weather Bureau
Des Moines
Iowa
Inwood
Sioux City
Claude Belcher
Helen McCuen Newton
Grace Jarvis
Adair
Colfax
PF. M. Harrison
Oskaloosa
Fair Grounds
Iowa Southern Utilities officers meet to discuss expansion
District Manager Frank B. Miller leads 49 employes at the Y M C A gathering with plant workers and company reps from Mt Pleasant Wrigh ton Keota Wellman and Ceolaum bus Junction. The meeting explains new lines to connect Washington with other communities in 25 Iowa counties serving about 200000 people. The company aims to provide adequate public utility service at fair rates to support regional progress.
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Frank B. Miller
Southern Utilities Company
John Deda
Mt. Pleasant
Wrighton
Keota
Wellman
Ceolaumbus Junction
H. F. Berry
Centerville
Iowa Southern
Iowa
Washington
Des Moines
Keokuk
Towa
Iowa Southern Utilities Company
Robert E. Davis of Crawfordsville Dies
The Crawfordsville community was shocked at about seven o clock when Robert E. Davis died suddenly after returning from the farm. He had brought in a load of corn, fed the stock, and was preparing a bucket of water when he collapsed and died.
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Crawfordsville
Iowa
Robert E. Davis
Gannon Couple Return From Two Thousand Mile Auto Trip
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Gannon toured Zanesville and Columbus Ohio visiting relatives. In Chicago they picked up a girl named Elsie Turecek and she joined the trip returning to Washington to live with the Gannons for the coming year.
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J. M. Gannon
Zanesville
Columbus
Ohio
Chicago
Elsie Turecek
Washington
Clarence Brock Killed by Train in Fairfield Tragedy
Clarence Brock 23 of Washington died after being dragged under a moving Rock Island stock train at Fairfield while attempting to board. Inquest returned accidental death. funeral set for Sunday at 2 pm in the Christian church. Brock leaves ten siblings and his parents. he recently joined Troop D and served at Camp Dodge.
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Clarence Brock
Washington
Rock Island
Parrfield
Fairfield
Otslock
Christian Church
F. W. Sutton
Elm Grove Cemetery
Pall ‘Earers
113Th Cavalry
Dale York
Washington Street
York
White Pigeon
Iowa
James W
Lillie (Burham) Brock
Richard
Harold W
Floy Bell
Harley W
Stanley O
Forest Glenn
Elsie L
George A
Lyle W
Helen L. Brock
Clarence
Camp Dodge
American Pearl Button Company
Young York
Washington high opens with 360 students enrolled
Three hundred sixty students have registered at Washington High School for the year beginning Monday September 7. Principal Miss Della Patton will be in the office afternoons next week to enroll students who could not arrange courses. Of the 360, 96 are freshmen, 118 sophomores, 79 juniors, 78 seniors, and four post graduates.ági
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Washington High School
Della Patton
St. James Parochial School
Prairie Flower Mission Circle Hosts Threshing Meals
The Prairie Flower Mission Circle served two threshing meals with Henry Berdo and Joseph Booth expressing satisfaction with the menu. Miss Veda Stryker, visiting from Asheville North Carolina, spoke to the adult class at Lexington about her work at Allen Home Mission School. Dwight and Wendell Booth earned multiple county farm club prizes, including a Duroc Jersey pig prize of $15 toward a trip to the Junior Short Course at Ames. Rev Gray of West Chester delivered a sermon at Lexington.
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Prairie Flower Mission Circle
Henry Berdo
Joseph Booth
Veda Stryker
Thrasher
Miss Stryker
Martha Thrasher
Lexington
Stryker
Allen Home Mission School
Asheville
N. C
Una Smith
John Rittenhouse
Averett Dennison
Dwight Booth
M. D. Booth
Wendell Booth
W. D. Booth
Dwight
Ames
Gray
West Chester
Bombing Suspect Identified in Pittsburgh Bank Attack
Three Elwood City police officers identified the bomber of the Farmers Deposit Savings Bank as Jim Robick alias Dame Arabic, a known local character. The decapitated body was found with a home made abdominal truss, and Robick had recently vanished after prior threats toward women.
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Associated Press
Pitteburgh
Farmer's Deposit Savings Bank
Elwood City
Jim Robick
Dame Arabic
J. M. Peter
Robick
Peter
Death of Diagonal Girl Still Unsolved
Creston Iowa August 28 officers from three counties worked through yesterday and last night to solve the mystery of Pansy Turnbull a 17 year old Diagonal resident. Definite progress has been made in determining how the girl came to her death. Several young men are being held for questioning with no charges yet filed. Names are being withheld.
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Creston
Pansy Turnbull
Ira Turnbull
Diagonal
Fairview Attendance and Local Threshing Notes
Harold Lowe and Earle Barnes attend the state fair while Clarence Lowe and family return from visits in Galesburg and Monmouth Illinois. Daniel Hookom and Lonnie Jennings visit Wilfred Smiths, former Colorado neighbors. Threshing ends Thursday as T H Barnes threshes 600 acres of timothy.
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Fairview
Harold Lowe
Earle Barnes
Clarence Lowe
Galesburg
Monmouth
Illinois
Daniel Hookom
Lonnie Jennings
Grover, Colo
Wilfred Smiths
Smiths
Hookoms
Colorado
T. H. Barnes
Timothy
Prairie Flower Baptist Seeks Pastor As Candidate List Grows
Sunday A. M. report notes the Prairie Flower Baptist church has not yet secured a pastor. Several candidates are under consideration as the search continues.
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The
Prairie Flower Baptist
Gridiron Work To Start Next Week At Local High
Coach Albert McKinstry arrives from Vin ton to invite as many candidates as possible to a 2 PM meeting next Monday at the high school. Practice begins after school opens, with roughly sixty players expected and about 300 dollars of new equipment ordered for a more developed squad. Harry Macon, captain elect of the Iowa State Teachers College team, will join at the local field next week.
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Albert McKinstry
Vinton
McKinstry
Harry Macon
Iowa State Teachers College
Princiball
Keota Junior Band to Perform at Dutch Creek Fair
The Dutch Creek fair program listing changed from the Keota band to the Keota junior band directed by Miss Marion Dunn. About twenty to thirty Keota youths will give daytime concerts and are described as proficient musicians.
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Keota
Dutch Creek
Milburn McKay
Marion Dunn
Clymer Mine Yields Last Victims After Blast
In Clymer Pennsylvania the mine recovered the final three of forty four victims from Thursday's explosion. The bodies were taken to a temporary morgue a mile from the mine and identified by relatives and coworkers.
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Associated Press
Clymer
Laughage and Day Acquire Local Marriage License
Robert S Laughage of Fairfield and Lillis H Day of Brighton secured a marriage license here. The couple plans to wed soon in a ceremony to be announced.
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Robert S. Laughage
Fairfield
Lillis H. Day
Brighton
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Lee Lease
Margaret Schmitt
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