Farmland Holds Vast 1925 Corn Crop Across Midwest
The 1925 corn crop remains largely on farms in seven midwestern states with Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska reporting most is unsold or fed. Iowa notes each cent rise in corn adds about 5 million dollars to farmers' value while Kansas and Wisconsin emphasize feeding to livestock. Oats and wheat storage also show large on farm stocks with limited sales due to low prices.
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Chicago
Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Kansas
Nebraska Agricultural Department
Whisky Plant Armed With Large Supply of Dynamite
Federal prohibition officers in Thurston County Tacoma Washington raised an illicit whiskey plant in the Bald Hills district using 200 pounds of dynamite. They severed buried detonation wires, believed this prevented plant destruction. The site had three buildings with a 400 gallon still and 3 000 gallons of mash plus bottled product.
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Associated Press
Tacoma
Wash
Bald Hills
Thurston County
Keokuk Lock Closed For Winter Navigation
The Keokuk lock in Keokuk Iowa will stay closed for winter and not reopen until spring Major M Meigs announced in Newton Iowa grange membership rose by more than 1000 during the past year
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Keokuk
M. Meigs
Newton
Iowa Grange
Banks' Saving Clubs Boost Christmas Funds in Iowa
Des Moines reports show Iowa bank Christmas savings clubs add at least 2.5 million dollars for holiday shopping. Totals vary by city with Sioux City up 123 percent. Muscatine five banks distribute 150 thousand dollars, Fort Dodge banks payout about 77 thousand, Waterloo 72 thousand, Webster City 30 thousand.
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Preac
Des Moines
Associated Press
Iowa
Sioux City
Fort Dodgee
Muscatine
Wag
Watenloo
Webster City
Iowa murders rise in first ten months of 1925
Forty nine people were murdered and 11 killed themselves in Iowa during January–October 1925, per state health statistics. Total violent deaths exceeded 1924 by 122. infanticide occurred once. auto fatalities averaged about 21 per month, climbing 50 from 1924.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Don M. Griswold
Joseph Lear Dies on Riverside Farm
Joseph Lear a farmer five miles southeast of Riverside died at his home Wednesday night at 7 o clock from a gun wound believed to be from an accidental discharge while cleaning the weapon. He was 60 and married to Anna Hoshek about thirty years ago. Nine children survive: William, Frank, Edward, Joseph, Fred, Mary Kron, Ann, Theresa Lear, and Rose Quinlan. the widow and relatives mourn.
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Joseph Lear
Riverside
Lear
Anna Hoshek
William
Frank
Edward
Joseph
Fred
Mary Kron
Ann
Theresa Lear
Rose Quinlan
Orford
Senate bill seeks 82 million for inland waterway projects
Washington December 11 Senator Brookhart of Iowa introduced a bill proposing an appropriation of 82 million dollars to complete within five years six inland waterway projects on the Ohio Illinois Missouri and Mississippi rivers.
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Washington
Ohio
Iliois
Missouri
Mississippi
Senate
Brookhart
Iowa
Child dies after swallowed button lodges in lung
Ruth Main daughter of Mr and Mrs Otha Main died less than a day after hospital X rays found a button swallowed Sunday had lodged in her lung causing pneumonia.
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Cedar Rapids
Ruth
Otha Main
Special Train Guards for Yankees in Chinese Advance
Eighteen American passengers ride an international train toward Tien Tsin with a detachment of American infantry as guards. The train reaches Vanetsan before Li Ching-Lune’s troops fire on it four miles south, while the Kuominchun army under Feng Yu Hsiang loses an advance column near Machang in an all day battle as rail lines are disrupted.
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Peking
Tien Tsin
Calhoun
Tiffany Blake
Blake
Chicago
Vanetsan
Li Ching-Lune
Feng Yu-Hsiang
Yang Stan
Tspn TS
China
Li Ching-Line
Chihli
Feng Yu Hsiang
Machang
Mellie Dunham to Play for Ford Old Time Dance Class
Mellie Dunham of Norway Maine, a fiddler hired by Henry Ford, will perform for a Ford organized old time dancing class in Detroit tonight. He and his wife arrived recently and are assisting Ford’s effort to revive traditional dances. The musician records tunes for later comparison with other old fiddlers. He will return home once his repertoire is completed.
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Shsow
Associated
Presay
Detroit
Mich
Mellie
Dunham
Norway
Maine
Fiddler
Henry Ford
Japan avoids war with America but pursues disarmament talks
Tokyo reports Premier Kato telling The Associated Press that Japan would join a legitimate disarmament conference but says timing is not ripe. He doubts Russia would join, fears some European powers are not ready, and calls a future U S Japan clash absurd yet hopes immigration laws toward Japanese would be amended.
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Associated Press
Tokyo
Kato
America
China
Japan
Russia
United States
Simpson College students back world court entry
Indianola reports 564 of 769 Simpson College students favor U S entry into the world court. The campus vote reflects strong student support for joining the international tribunal.
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United States
Simpson College
Fliers Have Parachutes, Mackie Says in Court Testimony
Major Strone reports foreign concessions for air operation in South America. Captain Mackie testifies the National Guard air squadron had parachutes for all pilots and planes. Lt Col Bach cites German war records stating 6 025 Allied aircraft and balloons downed 15 percent by anti air fire and other methods.
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Washington, D.C
South America
Mitchell
George W. Strone
Army General Staff
National Guard
R. W. Mackie
Houston
Texas
Berlin
Co! Bach
Public hangings urged as crime deterrent by Iowa official
James E. Risden, chief of Iowa's State Bureau of Investigation, argues for public executions to deter crime. He notes the Fort Madison crowd would be deterred and blaming crime on movies and books, detailing changes in the profile and methods of modern criminals.
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Associated
Preasgs
Des Moines
James E. Risden
State Bureau of Investigation
Risden
Fort Madison
State Reformatory
Thompson Election Victory for Farmers of the Middle West
Des Moines reports a victory for middle western farmers as Sam A. Thompson is elected president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. H A Wallace cites President Coolidge's speech as clarifying the issue and notes southern states joining with the middle west in backing Thompson, the Illinois president.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
H. A. Wallace
Wallace
Ecompany
Sam A. Thompson
American Farm Bureau Federation
Coolidge
Sam Thompson
Illinois
Mr. Wallace
Iowa to Meet North Dakota in 1926 Football Clash
Iowa announced a contract for a game on October 9, 1926, with the University of North Dakota football eleven. This will be the second game on Iowa’s 1926 schedule.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
University of North Dakota
Iowa
Convict Admits Stolleistering Mail Pouches
Vernon Lowry Rinker now jailed for highway robbery confesses to stealing two registered mail pouches. One near Council Bluffs Iowa in 1919 and another in Charlotte North Carolina on November 1 1925. Police quote him saying he rode baggage cars between Council Bluffs and Boone Town in August 1919 and seized 6200 dollars in cash.
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Associated Presa
Parkersburg
W. Va
Dee
R. J. Rinker
Vernon Lowry
Council Bluffs
Charlotte
N. C
Rinker
Boone Town
Boone
Bruey Denied Bond in Murder Charge at Fairfield
Jefferson county farmer Louis Bruey is held without bond on a first degree murder charge after a preliminary hearing in Fairfield. He shot 18 year old Samuel McNeese over the teen’s relationship with 14 year old Edna Bruey. Sheriff Butcher, Coroner Webb, and Ralph Miller testified.
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Te. Pin Aomnoittes
Prees Fairfield
Louis Bruey
Jefferson County
Simuel McNeese
Edna Bruey
Charles C. Butcher
W. T. Webb
Ralph Miller
Young McNeese
Bis
Bruey
Sam McNeese
Four Navy personnel charged with operating a still on battleship Texas
Three non commissioned officers and a mess attendant aboard the battleship Texas at Norfolk navy yard have been arrested and recommended for general court martial on charges of running a still. The men named are W A Barnes and H M Wilkinson both electrican's mates first class R A Cutthp machinist's mate second class and Venerable the mess attendant.
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Associated Press
Norfolk
Texas
Norfolk Navy Yard
W. A. Barnes
H. M. Wilkinson
R. A. Cutthp
Machist
Venerable
May Close Noted Nebraska College May Close
The fate of Bellevue college now Christian Workers college may hinge on a court ruling. Trustees seek quieting of title as heirs claim the donors’ condition that the property revert if not maintained holds. Bellevue sits on a bluff above the Missouri River with twelve faculty and two resident students.
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Omaha
Bellevue College
Bellevue
Nebraska
Christian Workers College
Missouri River
St. Louis
Presbyterian Theological
Belevue
University of Omaha
Dr James Priestly Dies in Des Moines After Short Illness
Dr James T. Priestly dean of Iowa physicians died at his Des Moines home after a brief heart illness. He had served as dean and was a prominent figure in state medical circles.
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Des Moines
James T. Priestly
Iowa Physicians
Woman Suggested as Presidential Candidate in Wyoming
Bishop N S Thomas urged Nellie Taylor Robinson, governor of Wyoming, as the likely next U S president at a KFBU inaugural program in Laramie. He said no woman is better known and she could settle the question of a woman’s election to the highest office.
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Laramie
Dee
Nellie Taylor Robinson
N. S. Thomas
Protestant Episcopal Church
KFBU
Episcopal Cathedral
Thomas
United States
Four Masted Boats Start From Aberdeen to Florida Race
The four masted schooner Alvena sails from Aberdeen with a lumber cargo bound for Miami. Her sister Irene soon follows from Gray's Harbor as they resume a historic race once dubbed the twin pearls of the Pacific. Captain Wilvers steers Alvena and Captain Rosenthall commands Trene.
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Aberdeen
Dee
Alvena
Miami
Florida
Gray’s Harbor
Irene
Pacific
Northwest
Wm J. Bryan
Atlantic
A. C. Wilvers
A. Rosenthall
Ume
Trene
Tin and wire used to repair fracture in farm accident
A carpenter on Samuel Burkey's farm in Vinton Iowa repaired a broken wooden leg with tin from a bucket and baling wire after Burkey's horse slipped and fell while he rode through a field. The incident occurred amid the farm work and horse mishap.
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Vinton
Samuel Burkey
Burkey
Bank at Newhall S Closed by State Examiners
Newhall Iowa December 11 report that state examiners closed the Newhall Savings Bank after its capitalization of 50 000. Local residents plan to reorganize or form a new bank to continue local banking services.
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Newhalls
Reese
Newhall
tYlowa
Newhall Savings Bank
Congress Extends Postage Rates Until Next Session
Washington December 11 Congress acts to continue existing postage rates through the next session to allow further study of their impact on postal revenue as the house adopts a senate resolution.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Twenty six Bodies Recovered From Alabama Mine Disaster
Birmingham reports 26 more bodies pulled from Overton mine No 2 bringing total recovered to 48 with five still trapped. death toll expected under 53 as rescuers press on through night. officials note the mine’s good equipment and cautious cause theories include a match or wind shot.
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Awapaiated
Birmingham
Ala
Overton
Virginia
Woman Suffrage Leader Draper Smith Dies at 71
Mrs. Draper Smith, 71, a Nebraska suffrage advocate and longtime leader in Republican circles, died today in a city hospital after fourteen months of illness from pernicious anemia. She served as vice chair of Nebraska's GOP state committee and supported prohibition. she flew to Washington with Nebraska's electoral votes when Harding won in 1920.
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Associated Press
Omaha
Neb
Draper Smith
Nebraska
Mah Jongg Beef Champion Sold For Bowman-Biltmore Hotels
Mah Jongg berdeen Angus steer named grand champion at the International Livestock Show in Chicago weighed 1560 pounds live and yielded a 1050 pound carcass after slaughter by Armour and Company for Bowman-Biltmore hotels in New York.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Berdeen
Angus
Iowa State Colleg
Armour and Company
Bowman-Biltmore
New York
Republicans deny insurgents chairmanships in House
Washington dispatch reports that on December 11 Republicans in the House rejected two members of the insurgent Republican group from key committee chairmanships marking a setback for reformers within the party.
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Washington
House
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