Notable Iowa Figures in Air Flight and Public Life
Ellis Cutting of Iowa Falls at 82 rode in an airplane with Lieut. Grant Donaldson and is touted as the oldest U.S. flyer. The piece also recounts local tales from Cedar Falls and Osage, including a self-funded eight cylinder car home, a new state capitol extension, and prominent Iowa-born officials like Clyde B. Aitchison.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Ellis Cutting
Iowa Falls
Grant Donaldson
United States
Cutting
Spirit Lake
Middle West
America
Coal Deposits Found on Spitzbergen Surface
Geologists report vast coal seams in Spitzbergen with surface exposure common and few obstacles from cold boggy terrain. The find suggests significant commercial potential for energy production and industrial use in northern regions.
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Spitzbergen
Spitebergen
Matrimonial Fakirs Arrested In Illinois Scam
United States Marshals captured Mrs Mary Bernard alias Minnie Minnear Jessie Moody alias Jessie Colwell and Anna Hershaw in Davenport after a farm matrimonial fraud wave. They were taken to Molin for preliminary hearing. Victims in Rock Island county paid for brides and photos while authorities link the trio to an Oriental scheme and promises of a beautiful wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport
United States
Mary Bernard
Minnie Minnear
Jessie Moody
Jessie Colwell
Anna Hershaw
Galesburg
Ill
Sinnett
Rock Island County
Lelever
Rock Island
Sandlers
Local Social Notes From San Diego Visitors and Family
Mrs Viola Phelps of San Diego is a guest at her nephew M Keck home. Mrs Hubert Nicola and son Leigh visit her mother Mrs H L Kendall in North English. Alfred and Fu Beasty arrive from St Louis to visit their mother and sister Mrs Frank Bruty. Mrs Lola UWughes and Miss Gladys Wells travel to Detroit to see sister Mrs Ruth Welle Gibeon.
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Willis A Meyers
Grinnell
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Iowa
Old Mexico
Myers
Josefina Mortera
H. W. Williams
Polk County
Viola Phelps
San Diego
California
M. Keck
Hubert Nicola
Leigh
H. L. Kendall
Alfred and
Fu Beasty
Yeaterday
St. Louis
Missouri
Mrs
Frank Bruty
Lola Uwughes
Gladys Wells
Detroit
Michigan
Ruth Welle Gibeon
Society Hosts Dimmer Party for Miss Thompson
Mr and Mrs Maet Griffith entertained at six thirty for Miss Hertha Thompson of Chicago. A two course dinner was served. Out of town guests included Mrs Earl Ferguson of Crawfordsville and Esther Howell of Brighton.
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Maet Griffith
Hertha Thompson
Chicago
Who Claimed the Flowers
A minister altered by his own remarks warned of untoward results as he offered flowers to the sick at the close of the service. The Youth's Companion records the scene and reaction to the unusual gesture.
Riverside Forms Commercial Club for Riverside
Riverside forms a Commercial club at St Marys hall to aid the town. Prof O E B Klingaman of Iowa State University ext department spoke on benefits for small towns. Col Clarence Coe, formerly of Riverside, described railroad and warehousing work in France. Officers elected: President Robert H Heitzman, Vice President C J Kargl, Secretary J H Wilson, Treasurer Leo C Critz. A by laws committee was named to report Sept 4.
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Riverside
Business New of
St. Mary's Hall
O. E B. Klingaman
Extension Department
State University of Iowa
Col
Clarence 8. Coe
France
Robert H. Heitzman
C. J.kargl
J. H. Wilson
Leo C. Critz
Wm. Griffin
M. W. Truxan
Chiro trac tors in Great Davenport Parade
Four thousand chiropractors and guests joined a two mile parade through Davenport during the fifth annual lyceum and homecoming of the world chiropractors. Delegates formed at Palmer school at 11 and marched along Brady Third Perry Second Ripley Main Fourth Scott, then returned to Brady for review and disbanded.
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Davenport
Lyceum
Palmer School
Brady
Third Street
Third
Perry
Second
Ripley
Main
Fourth
Scott
Agitation on Cost of Living Gets Results
Chicago August 30 agitation over high living costs yields early signs of impact. Hogs fall to 16 dollars in bids as packers stay out and futures drop, while grain marks slip. Attorney General Palmer reports progress against inflation through price controls and warns against merchants’ price hype.
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Delaware County
Devils Backbone
Middle West
38Th General Assembly
Chicago
H.C
Pight
Expres
Palmeree
Department of Justice
Ing
Department
Palmer
Congress
Little Girl Fatally Injured In Apple Tree Accident
Six year old June Luntz of Olds Louisiana died after a tail from an apple tree fatally injured her at a hospital in Iowa City. She was found by her mother after an accident while playing alone. The father was away from home when the incident occurred.
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Olds
June Luntz
Iowa City
Pin Causes Death In Iowa Woman
Mrs. W H Jordan 50 wife of Rev W H Jordan pastor of the First Presbyterian church died at Hand hospital from blood poisoning caused by picking a pimple on her face with a pin. She was born in Vinton Iowa educated at Coe College Cedar Rapids the husband and four children survive. She was taken to the hospital Saturday in critical condition the day after opening the pimple.
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Shenandoah
W. H. Jordan
Family Pride and Lineage Through Generations
The piece argues that family pride in society is paradoxical as honor grows with more distant kinship. Immediate descendants are less connected to a great ancestor than distant posterity, which traces its origin back through many years to the progenitor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Matcotm
Ultimatum to Gary Over Steel Strike Interview
After talks with the AFL executive committee the Steel and Iron Workers union committee issued a letter to FE HL Gary of U S Steel demanding a meeting within a set time or the strike decree would be enforced.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor
Committee of
The
Steel and Iron Workers
HL Gary
United States ‘Steel ‘Corporation
Bolshevists Capture Kupiansk and Pavlovsk Towns
The Russian Soviet government states that Kupiansk, 61 miles east southeast of Kharkov, and Pavlovsk on the Don, 90 miles south southeast of Voronezh, have fallen to the Bolsheviks. The note notes further advances after Pskov.
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London
Kupiansk
Kharkov
Pavvlovsk
Don River
Voronezh
Pavlovsk
Pskov
Chicago Women Doctors Selected for International Conference
Six Chicago women physicians were chosen by the YWCA Social Morality Department to attend the International Conference of Women Physicians in New York from September 15 to October 31. Thirty-eight foreign physicians have accepted. Contessa Maria A Loschi of Rome will serve as chief interpreter though not a physician.
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Chicago
International Conference of Women Physicians
New York
Social Morality Department
Young Women's Christian Association
Contessa Maria A. Loschi
Rome
Italy
L’epoca
Ingush Clash in Caucasus Seizes Vladikavkaz
Soviet wireless dispatch reports Ingush troops captured Vladikavkaz after five days of fighting with General Denikine's forces in the central Caucasus, as Denikine's troops encounter resistance from the native population.
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London
Denikine
Caucasus
Bolsheviki
Vladikavkaz
Central Caucasus
Tifis
Longshoreman Charged in Brooklyn Watch Theft Ring
George Heather, a New York longshoreman, is arrested amid a ring that stole 2000 wrist watches from an army supply base in Brooklyn. The watches worth 40000 dollars were reportedly sold to an auctioneer.
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New York
Brooklyn
George Heather
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