More Nations Want to Sign Kellogg Pact Today
News from Paris reports many countries eager to adhere to the Kellogg peace treaty. France and the United States sponsors note that formal adherence suffices with parliamentary ratification where needed. Russia accepts invitation through France to join under the same terms as original signatories.
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Paris
Aristide Briand
France
Frank B. Kellogg
United States
Kellogg
Russia
Afghanistan
England
Gustav Stresemann
Germany
Doumergue
Summer Palace
Rambouillet
Dublin
Detroit
Wiliam T. Cosgrave
Irish Free State
Cosgrave
Cherbourg
New York
Moscow
Herbette
M. M. Litvinoff
People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs
Soviet Union
Union
League of Nations
League
Rotary Conference Planned in Washington Iowa
President J H Peet of the Washington Rotary Club announces a district Rotary conference in Washington on Monday September 16. Thirteen southeastern Iowa clubs will send presidents and vocational committee chairs to confer with Clyde Hulsizer Des Moines Iowa district governor. Mt Pleasant Keokuk Burlington Ft Madison Fairfield Ottumwa Oskaloosa Clinton Davenport Muscatine Iowa City West Liberty and Marengo will send officers. The governor attends each of four fall conferences and will address the Washington club at noon. He then meets the club officers and council and later delegates from fourteen clubs. A dinner for visitors is scheduled in the evening.
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J. H. Peet
Washington
Mt. Pleasant
Keokuk
Burlington
Ft. Madison
Fairkik
Ottumwa
Oskaloosa
Clinton
Davenport
Muscatine
Iowa City
West Liberty
Marengo
Hulsizer
Washington Club
Curtis Defends Republican Record on Farm Legislation
Syracuse August 28 Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas Republican vice presidential nominee spoke at the New York state fair defending the party’s farm policy record. He cited the Emergency Tariff Act, the Intermediate Farm Credit Act, cooperative organization measures and warehouse act amendments as acts for farmers, noting wartime price adjustments and postwar relief. He contrasted Republican action with Wilson vetoes and highlighted War Finance Corporation credits and livestock regulation as proved policy.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Charles Curtis
Kansas
Smith Territory
New York State Fair
American Farm Bureau
Curtis
House
Senate
Wilson
Congress
Harding
Cabinet
War Finance Corporation
Organization of Cooperative Associations of Producers
Farm Loan Board
Federal Reserve
United States
Secretary of Agriculture
Raskob Claims Election Victory For Smith In Conference
John J. Raskob, Democratic National Committee chairman, asserted Smith would win a record popular vote and claimed 346 electoral votes, with plans to add 100 more from the remaining 185 electoral votes. He spoke with leaders from eight Mississippi Valley states and outlined potential state support.
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ST. Louis
Alfred E. Smith
John J. Raskob
Democratic National Committee
Mississippi Valley
Smith
Robinson
Democratic Party
Raskob
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
Nevada
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Texas
Virginia
Wisconsin
Tennessee
Smith and Robinson
Connecticut
Delaware
Indiana
North Dakota
South Dakota
Wyoming
Illinois
Kansas
Iowa
Towa
Road to the police court mused by a motorist
A Boston Transcript quip notes a driver reflecting that the path to legal trouble follows careful pedestrians. The remark frames urban caution and crosswalk etiquette as a public morality mood.
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Boston Transcript
Dutch Creek Fair Set for Thursday at Rubio-Richland Grounds
Readied for the fifth annual Dutch Creek fair on Thursday, August 30, at the Rubio-Richland road grounds between Dublin and Valley. Livestock entries expected to exceed prior fairs aided by larger premiums. Morning events include horseshoe pitching, a band concert, and youth races. Senator Smith W Brookhart of Washington will speak at 1:30 after an opening by the Kerrigan family.
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Dutch Creek
Rubio-Richland Road
Dublin
Valley
Smith W. Brookhart
Washington
Washington Band
Kerrigan
Davenport
American Legion
Dickinson Attacks Smith Farm Relief Talk In Iowa
A. J. Dickinson of Algona charged Governor Alfred E. Smith offered vague farm support while Herbert Hoover outlined a concrete plan. Dickinson said the Democratic stance lacks a constructive program and promotes cost handling within the product unit, contrasting Hoover’s Farm Board and stabilization approach. He argued tariff protection underpins farm equality and criticized Smith’s opposition to the equalization fee.
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Springville
Iowa
Herbert Hoover
Alfred B. Smith
A. J. Dickinson
Algona
Democratic Party
Dickinson
Smith saVys
Rovernor Smith
TE Challen
Hoover
Iowa Chickens Take Rest in Hot Weather
Figures from Iowa State College poultry extension show July output dipped as hens slowed in heat. 25 329 laying hens produced 355 104 eggs at 14 eggs per hen with feed costs 6 871 59 and receipts 14 310 92. Top flocks were Mrs Charles Hanysh Daw son 7 317 eggs at 74 4 percent and B E Craven Kellogg 513 hens 10 861 eggs at 68 28 percent.
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Ames
Poultry Extension Department
Iowa State College
Charles Hanysh
Dawson
B. BE. Craven
Kellogg
Three Rescued After Drift on Lake Michigan
In Evanston Illinois on August 28 after drifting 14 hours two girls and a man were rescued from Lake Michigan clinging to an overturned gas boat. Fred Rummler 20 of Winnetka, the fourth member, drowned when his grip failed.
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Evanston
Ill
Lake Michigan
Fred Rummler
Winnetka
Renewed Civil War Reported in China
Reports from Peking say renewed fighting has broken out near the capital as remnants of the northern army, defeated months ago, engage in renewed warfare with intensified clashes and casualties reported by the Daily Mail.
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China
London
Peking
Daily Mail
Chicken supper and concert program announced
The serving of the chicken supper is to start at 5 20 pm. The evening program begins at 7 30 with an acband concert followed by the Carolina Minstrels, a company of more than thirty from Ft Madison.
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Carolina Minstrels
Ft. Madison
Columbus Schools Under Robertson Will Open Monday
Columbus Junction and Columbus City schools prepared to start the term Monday under W. Robertson as superintendent. The Columbus Junction staff includes W. Robertson, W. J. Rice, William Conner, Millard Chambers, Miss Helen Orr, Miss Marie Overholt, Miss Minerva Alsip, Mrs. Geneva Fedderson, Miss Grace Nichols, Miss Mildred Anwyl, Miss Mildred Thompson, Miss Martha Smylie, and Miss Mary Moore among others. Columbus City teachers include Miss Edith Blanchard and Miss Dorothy Schock handling grades one through five.
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Columbus
W.q. Robertson
W. J. Rice
Wiliam Conner
Millard Chambers
Helen Orr
Marie Overholt
Minerva Alsip
Geneva Fedderson
Grace Nichols
Mildred Anwyl
Mildred Thompson
Martha Smylie
Columbus Junction
Mary Moore
Helen Crosby
Nellie Moore
Adian Lowe
Delia Norberg
Columbus City
Edith Blanchard
Dorothy Schock
County Animals Place at the Fair
Washington county pig club boys excel at the state fair with thirty swine entries winning multiple classes. Placings include Ronald Rinner 7th and John Young 12th in Duroc Jersey boars, Donald Rinner 8th gilt, Donald Kerr 12th, and others in litters and fat hogs. Calf entries also earn prizes among 650 head shown, with five calves in the money. Livestock and grain judging teams place respectably, and Brookhart Apples win a district display.
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Washington County Pig Club
Washington
Duroe
Ronald Rinner
John Young
Donald Rinner
Donald Kerr
Dwight Booth
Stephen Wolfer
Poland
China
Washington County
Pig Club
Washington Boys
Joseph H. Jones
Ainsworth
William Keith Wells
Donald Penningroth
Wellman
Wellman County
Wilbur Eyestone
Nationalist Strife in Northern District Amid Heavy Casualties
Reports from the region describe severe fighting between rival forces as hundreds of wounded stream into Peking and Tientsin. The clashes indicate intensified conflict affecting the district and drawing in major cities.
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Peking
Tientsin
North Carolina business collapse claims seven dead
Riverside report notes a deadly business building collapse in a North Carolina town with seven confirmed fatalities. Funeral services were held for Charles Wood and his wife Margaret Woods, victims of a separate Iowa accident, with detailed local obituaries detailing surviving relatives.
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North Carolina
Riverside
Methodist
Charles Wood
Margaret Woods
Iowa City
Apfel
Masonic Lodge
Eastern Stars
Riverside Cemetery
Charles Woods
Kansas
Dodder
Washington
Nebraska
Gala Woods
Oskaloosa
Woods
Margaret Tener
John Tener
Jennie Kaye
Boulder
Colo
Lib Sims
Dengue Epidemic Halts Athens and Piraeus Life
Athens and Piraeus suffer widespread dengue impact with eighty percent of residents affected. Reports describe a vast city hospital scene with thousands ill, social life halted, telephone service disrupted, and public services ceased as provincial fever spreads.
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Athens
Piraeus
London
Daily Express
Dengue Precautions Tighten on Greek Turkish Frontier
Authorities along the Greek Turkish frontier took precautionary measures to prevent dengue from spreading into Turkey. The move follows dengue concerns and aims to halt cross border transmission.
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Constantinople
Turkey
Entire Eldon Family Killed in Fort Madison Crash
Fort Madison Iowa August 28 The Eldon family George G Edlen his wife and six year old daughter S Zola Mae were buried after services at the First Christian Church The family was wiped out in a car motor coach collision on a Burlington line marking Fort Madison's first such tragedy in history
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Fort Madison
Eldon
First Christian Church
George G. Edlen
S. Zola Mae
Burlington
Governor Sorlie of North Dakota Dies at 64
Governor Arthur G. Sorlie of North Dakota died in Bismarck at 3 45 a m today of heart disease. He was 64 and had been elected governor twice on the Republican ticket. Mrs Sorlie and other family members were at his bedside.
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Bismark
N. D
Arthur G. Sorlie
North Dakota
Ottumwa Woman Dies in Bridge Accident
Mrs. Lillie Tharp fifty of Ottumwa Iowa was killed late yesterday on the Auxvasse bridge near Fulton Missouri when her stalled car caused her to leap into the path of a car driven by Mrs. L W Ernst of Green Kansas. Four children and her husband survive.
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Fulton, Mo
Lillie Tharp
Ottumwa
Auxvasse
Here
Tharp
L. W Ernst
Green
Kan
Federal mediation ends Western rail strike threat
Chairman Winslow of the federal board of mediation announced a pay and working rules agreement among conductors trainmen and western railroads. The accord, if ratified by the general committees, likely ends the threatened strike and, if not, the dispute will be handled under the law.
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Washington
Winslow
Federal Board of Mediation
Western Territory
Association of General Committees
Shelby collapse kills seven. wall fails in business district
In Shelby Ohio, a temporary wall in the McKnight building collapsed causing three structures to fall. Seven bodies were recovered with eight more in serious condition at the hospital and many others treated for injuries as police and volunteers cleared debris.
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Shelby
Shelby Hospital
Ora Ethridge
First National Bank
Zeb Blanton
Carl Blanton
Hig Son
Jay Green
Alex Boyle
Clyde D. Carpenter
McKnight
Gardner
IL Aibaj
I Ofson
Cedar River Rises Four Feet, Flood Hits Tan Manhatt an Beach
Cedar Rapids measures the Cedar River four feet above normal after days of heavy rain. Water covers the dancing pavilion at Manhattan Beach as the river continues to rise at a rapid rate, signaling ongoing flood activity.
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Cedar River
Cedar Rapids
Manhattan Beach
Enrollment Nears 400 at Washington High School
Washington high school enrollment nears 400 with 375 pupils registered by noon. Seniors 98 juniors 80 sophomores 94 freshmen 103. Principal Miss Della Patton invites late registrants this week before Monday opening. no school Tuesday or Wednesday due to county teachers institute.
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Washington High School
Della Patton
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Brookhart
Robertson
Jane Rothlisburger
Lth
Carl Rothlisburger
Brown & Young
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H. S
Ethel McCreedy
Junor High School
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