Irregularities Charged Against Midland Packing Co
Auditors report on the eight million dollar Midland Packing Co lists irregularities in stock sales and plant funding. Financial director Tom G. Taylor is accused of cash commissions on stock promotions. Officers Burlingame and Sawyer were linked to stock issuances for plant sites. Receivers resignations follow dissent over the report.
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Sioux City
Midland Packing Company
Tom G. Taylor
Fred C. Sawyer
Ben I. Sallinger, Jr
C. H. Burlingame
G. H. Burlingame
Plant
Grigsby’s Church Reports Strong Growth at Conference
Central M. E. church in Oskaloosa reports 242 new members and 4-year total of 677 joining under Pastor Dr L M Grigsby. Sunday school enrollment 866 with 657 average attendance. Epworth League shows 112 members and 12 social events. Dr J M Brown presided with F A Bell as secretary.
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Oskaloosa Herald
Central
M. E. Church
J. M. Brown
F. A. Bell
L. M. Grigsby
Epworth League
Brown
Iowa
Volunteer Slum Army Here Report
A notice seeking clothing furniture and other aid for city needy programs. It lists jail hospital street and house to house work plus mission church visits and sick care. Major and Mrs Sneath lead at 101% N Marion Ave with phone 417 Green.
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Sneath
Marion Ave
Local notices and ads list services and visits in Ottumwa
Ottumwa notices list taxi services and shoe stores, routes and phone numbers. Local guests include Mrs. Clara Bubbg from Chicago visiting M. D. Scott and Mrs. W. B. Green with granddaughter Ona Forester of Milan, Mo. Miss Hazel Sutton arrives from Canada to teach near Washington.
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Clara Bubbg
Chicago
M. D. Scott
Ottumwa
W. B. Green
Ona Forester
Milan, Mo
D. N. Haney
Hazel Sutton
Irricana
Alberta
Canada
Washington
Major League Scores From National and American Leagues
National League results include Chicago 7 Philadelphia 2 and Brooklyn 6 1 over St Louis 6 7 with Pittsburgh 4 2 over New York 2 1. American League shows Boston 4 Chicago 96 and Cleveland 8 Washington 2 along with Detroit 9 Philadelphia 5. No further games scheduled.
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Washington
Philadelphia
Chicago
Cincinnati
Boston
St. Louis
Pittsburgh
New York
Cleveland
Detroit
Latvia Silent on Riga Peace Talks
Warsaw reports no word from the Letvian government regarding Poland and Russia seeking permission to hold peace negotiations in Riga. The Riga site had been agreed upon by the Polish and Russian Soviet governments, but Latvia’s position remains unconfirmed.
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Warsaw
Riga
Foreign Ministry
Road-building costs may total 250000 this year
Combined federal and state expenditures for road building may reach a total of $250,000 during the current fiscal year, according to Thomas H. MacDonald, chief of the bureau of public roads.
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Washington
Thomas H. MacDonald
Bureau of Public Roads
Department of Agriculture
Railway Telegraphers Seek Reopening of Pay Increases
Chicago Aug 81 1 Members of the Order of Railway Telegraphers petition the United States railway labor board to reopen the 5 and 10 cent an hour increases. They note other railway labor groups were raised 15 to 18 cents and claim 60 000 workers back this demand. The petition says union officials work to avoid interruptions in carrier operations and cites average wages after increases at about 5 20 per day.
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Chicago
Order of Railway Telegraphers
United States Railway Labor Board
Wounded Soldiers Enter Sewing Contest at Kentucky State Fair
Wounded soldiers in hospitals near Louisville will compete with women in a fancy sewing exhibition at the Kentucky state fair opening September 16. This marks the first time men enter this event in Kentucky and submissions include embroidered and knitted pieces woven towels rugs lamp shades and posters.
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Louisville
Kentucky
Local Notes Include Visits and Ads Across Town
Town notices record Mrs. Hill McGuire and daughter Madge visiting Linesville relatives Mrs. Ruebsam traveling to Crawfordsville and Mrs. Evang Edna Talbott heading to Des Moines for state fair and family visits A New York hair product Parisian Sage touted with Lemmon’s Pharmacy guarantee Ads urge tire savings and highlight local businesses Mrs. Wilde seriously ill at daughter’s home and relatives traveling to aid Mrs. Housewife promotes ad reading Ruth Irene Reese visit Mildred Hancher West Chester resident sighted in Washington D C Various local residents and clergy travel to Corydon Nevada Iowa and New York state with Chautauqua chairs shortage noted
Tight Squeeze for Gazette Paper Shipment Delayed
Cedar Rapids paper shortage ends as Davenport Times provides an auto truck load of newsprint after a week long delay. The Davenport supply arrives at 11:18 a.m. to enable the noon edition.
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Davenport
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Grand Rapids
Wis
Dear Rapids
Clinton
Gazette
Davenport Times
Noted Missionary Thomas Chambers Despaired School
The fragment describes Thomas Chambers a renowned missionary and preacher as the despair of his school teacher. It also mentions Isaac Barrow a famous preacher judged slow and quarrelsome and a disgrace to the school.
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Thomas Chambers
Isaac Barrow
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Viola Dana
St. John In
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Washington, Iowa
McHamara Undertaking Co
Midland Packing Co
England
John Shields & Sons
Grigsby’s
Crail’s
Fox & Dewey
Skipton
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Purina
Bruns Seed Store
North Side Square
Blue
O. F. Haight
Joseph Triska
Gus Leedom
C. J. Wilson
Helen
Richland
Milwaukee Freight House
Mres. R. M. Crane
Richard
Titus
E. P. Foss
Cora Teeter
Cora Porter
Sinclair
Marie Snyder
Byron Snyder
James Weigel Johnston
Laury Swinney
L. R. Conner
First U. P. Church
V. A. Neal
Sigourney
Earl Hout
J. F. Hemmings
Des Moines
Hankammer
Frank J. Shintz
Iowa City
Pauline R. Shebanek
Riverside
Bruns
Daisey Chumbley
Trenton
Ida Blumenshein
Rhodes
Jeanette Wooley
Crawfordsville
Wooley
D. F. Macon
F. Haight
Buck’s
First
U. S. Rail Labor Board
Hill McGuire
Madge
Linesville
Wm. Ruebsam
Harry Evang
Edna Talbott
George Talbott
B. S. Hill
Ames
Keota
C. E. Newman
Mannhard’ts
Daniel Wilde
J. A. Work
W. B. Wilde
Peoria
Ruth and
Irene Reese
Mildred Hancher
Clarence Johnson
West Chester
Lemmon's
Advt
A. W. Clow
Corydon
Ford
8. W. Huston
C. M. Keek
Anna Fisher Colver
Nevada
The
Adventist, Church
Mrs. E. R. Jenkins
New York State
F. G. Chesley
Hartman Lee Cream Co
Frank Stewart
Chautauqua Association
Stewart
J. H. McCall of
Allerton
David McLaughlin
Mills Taylor
John Taylor
Tarkio
United Presbyterian Denomination
Graham
Harry T. Morey
Styles
Rics
Chambers
Mee
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