Iowa banks win 75 percent reorganization bill passage
The 75 percent bank reorganization bill, backed by the state banking department, passed the senate and moves to the governor for final approval. It allows a plan for asset distribution when 75 percent of depositors agree, aiming to avoid receiverships and liquidations in stressed Iowa banks. Also Maine House debate stalls governor Hammill road program as Rep Blake notes resistance to a comprehensive plan.
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Associated Press
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Des Moines
State Banking Department
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House
Bank Department
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Favelie County
Hammill
Buckley to Speak on Salesmanship at Washington Club
Homer J Buckley president of Buckley Dement and Company will address a Washington Adver tising club audience Thursday evening February 26 He is a national figure in business and advertising and will speak on salesmanship using lifelong experience His Iowa itinerary includes Muscatine Cedar Rapids and Washington with large meetings planned in Muscatine and Cedar Rapids The Washington Club rooms will host the event.
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Ilamer J. Buckley
Buckley, Dement & Company
Chicago
Washington Adverising,lab
Buckley
Washington Club
Iowa
Muscatine
Washington
Cedar Rapids
Truckley
Gas tax talk and radio talk in West Chester column
West Chester notes push for a gasoline tax with improvements on by roads toward Dublin Lexington Wellman and Grace Hill Wellston. Dr Harry Emerson Fosdick spoke on WSUI Iowa City. Herman Luers hosted audience and discussed religious questions and hypocrisy. Ob Dayton family visited from Washington. Will Robinson of Muscatine visited on business.
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West Chester
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Lexington
Wellman
Grace Hill
Wellston
Harry Emerson Fosdick
New York
WSUI
Iowa City
Ob. W. Dayton
Margaret
Helen
Washington
Will Robinson
Muscatine
Hammill to Name 8 State Officials in Iowa
Des Moines reports indicate Governor Hammill will appoint eight officials before his term ends. He seeks conservatives’ acceptance after Senator Reed withdrew a bill to require senate confirmation by a simple majority. Nominees include highway commissioner and several board members.
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Des Moines
Senate
Wh Choow
Hatin Teer
Reed
Hammill
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Board of Parole
Board of Control
Het
Robert Lo Loweh
Rodney PP. Fagan
Sunday Morn Musings and Road Talk in Iowa
The fragment mentions a seven o clock Sunday morning note about a pee wee, a trip uptown with a crowd at a building, and a first ten round hour with two minutes to go. It cites C. C. Owens and wife visiting Mrs. Ross and L Hewitt and wife from Washington, plus road conditions in Iowa described like a freight train, suggesting travel hardships vs sunny days improving roads.
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Muscatine
Unanimous Senate Confirmation for Kellogg as Secretary of State
The Senate confirmed Frank B. Kellogg of Minnesota to succeed Charles B. Hughes as secretary of state for March 4 without a committee vote or opposition on the floor. No roll call was taken and no northern senators affiliated with labor interests voiced dissent.
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Washington
Senate
Frank B. Kelloge
Minnesota
Charles B. Hughes
Laboulette
Kelloge
Englan
High School Play Promises Local Entertainment
The high school presents a staged production directed by Helen Wilson. Cast includes Janet Raymond Frank Hoyroad and Dorothea Thompson with music by the school orchestra led by Milburn Medgay, promising an entertaining evening after weeks of rehearsal.
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Fotiny Vrenk Hoyroad
Suialey McCoannell
Janet Raymond
Frank
Rene DelLone
John Raymond
David Elder Stacy
Raymond
Nita Corbin
Frances Raymond
Dorothea Thompson Howard Andrews
Frances
Olav Brammer MichaelHidder
Dean Bevins
Mrs. Widdimors
F Edward
Sevilla Boice Ellen
Edward
Blair Law
Milburn Medgay
Classification of Cal Coolidge Confounds Historians
Washington February 17. Analysts note President Coolidge defies simple tags as a golf or theater lover. He prefers daily walks and rare theater outings, surprising critics who label him opera or horseback riding inclined. The piece also questions partisan bias in Supreme Court nominations and cites Taft’s cross party pick.
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Washington, D. C
Cal Coolidge
Coolidge
Harding
Wilson
Federal liquor raid near Clinton nets large seizure
Federal agents and Whiteside county officers seized about 11 000 gallons of alcohol and three stills at a farm near Pullman and Clinton. The operation, described as the largest illicit liquor seizure in the area, followed raids on a Voelpel warehouse and Bottling Co works, with arrests of Veepel and Lysian Voelpel and others connected to the operation.
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Clinton
Edward Worthel
Whiteside County
Heilema
Ule
Fon
Kotlay
Tampicn
Jamey Reilly
Pultom
Whiteside
Veet Pel
Reilly
Voelpel
Cyea Voelpel
Lawa Bottling Company
Eng
Lysian V Voelpel
Congress Speeds Legislation as March 4 Nears
Washington reports indicate the House and Senate push bills before adjournment on March 4. The House holds night sessions to clear consent items. the Senate ends a filibuster on several measures including an emergency officers retirement bill. Conference on the Underwood Muscle Shoals leasing bill is set for tomorrow with a vote expected by Thursday night. A pollution prevention bill and navy reserve reforms also advance.
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Senate
House
Underwood Muscle Shoals
Navy Wahoot
Hawaiii
Alaska
Orient
Land Reclamation Expands Chicago Lake District Vastly
The lake district of Chicago shows massive investment with land and improvements valued at 150 million dollars. A colossal office building sits nearly a half mile offshore where Lake Michigan once dominated. Hotels and apartment blocks replace historic fishing grounds and boat traffic.
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Lake District
Chicago
Lake Michigan
Body left in cave sealed as Floyd Collins burial set
In Cave City Kentucky on February 17 1925 Floyd Collins body remains in his natural tomb after officials including Dr William Hazlett and Magistrate Turner ordered sealing of the Sand Cave entrance. Funeral services planned at the mouth of the shaft with burial at the tomb.
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Pregs
Cave City
Sand Cave
Floyd Collina
C. K. Dickey
Floyd Collins
Lee Collins
William A. Hazlett
Chicago
Collins
Il.t. Carmichael
H. R. Turner
J. Lewis Williams
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Turner
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Hazlett
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Cave City High School
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