Senate Defeats Iowa Countys Superintendent Election Bill
A measure aimed at changing how Iowa county superintendents of schools would be elected was defeated in the Senate. The bill had backing from contract claim builders named Bill Berry and others, but failed to advance.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Iowa
Criswell
Boone County
State Board of Education
Iowa House
Master Builders of
McClune
Mahaska
Bradley
Poweshiek
House
Iowa Master Builders Association
Rombey
Bergman
Jasper
Banta
Delaware
Senate
Co operation Between Labor and Church Advocated
Edmund B. Chaffee urged friendly church labor relations as harmony exists between labor aims and church aims. He noted 46 million Protestants and 27 million Catholics in the U S are workers and emphasized labor needs church idealism to win the American population. He called for cooperation to advance industrial democracy and mutual aims.
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Associated Press
Cleveland. O
Edmund B. Chaffee
New York
Council of Cities
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Mr. Chaffee
Federal Council
Church League For Industrial Democracy
Church
Labor Temple
Chaffee
Labor Movement
Government hospital for disabled veterans abandoned in Colfax
The government hospital for disabled war veterans in Colfax Louisiana has been abandoned. The few remaining patients were moved to other hospitals and the medical staff sent to St Louis for reassignment at the Dig government hospital there.
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Colfax
St. Louis
Four Die in Gas Explosion at Coal Tower Site
Pottsville Pennsylvania February 21 Four men were killed and three badly burned when gas exploded today at the Kaska William Tower operated by the Lehigh coal and navigation company near Pottsville.
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Associated Press
Pottsville
Penn
Kaska William Tower
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company
Here
Sir Robert Cecil Plans America Visit
London reports Sir Robert Cecil will sail on February 21 to visit New York and other American cities. He describes the trip as a social visit to be with old friends and not a formal mission.
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Associated Press
London
Sir Robert Cecil
New York
Des Moines Press Club Forms With Seventy Five Members
In Des Moines the newly formed Des Moines Press Club reports seventy five members and furnished rooms at the Hotel Wellington. W C Jarnagin of the Des Moines Capital serves as president. In Nora Springs civil war veterans form a twenty five piece bugle and drum corps led by a drum major after marching in drum and fife tunes.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Des Moines Press Club
Wellington
W. C. Jarnagin
The
Des Moines Capital
Nora Springs
H. D
Legion Post
Rainbow Bright book by Lawrence Stewart from Argonne Post fronts
Lawrence Stewart of Argonne Post publishes Rainbow Bright an illustrated account drawn in a gas mask case. Stewart formerly served with the Rainbow division and contributed pencil sketches of No Man's Land from frontline days.
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Des Moines
Ila
Rainbow Bright
Lawrence
Stewart
Argonne Post
Rainbow Division
No- Man's Land
Vinton Post Endorses Bill Targeting Ku Klux Klan
The George G. Luckley Post in Vinton Indiana votes unanimously to back the Venter White bill proposed in the fortieth general assembly aimed at the Ku Klux Klan.
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Vinton, In
George G. Luckley
Fortieth General Assembly
William L. Crane Post Grows to Forty-One Members
Montrose Iowa February 20 The William L Crane post in town now counts 41 members, an increase of 11 percent over last year’s total.
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Montrose
William L. Crane
Frontier celebration Caius Canyon nets over seven hundred
State Center Iowa February 20 more than $700 was netted by the Harrid G Pfantz post here from a three day frontier celebration titled Caius Canyon.
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State Center
G. Pfantz
Caius Canyon
Chamber executive resigns for Nebraska post
Webster City Iowa A Burger secretary of the local chamber of commerce resigns to accept a similar position in Palisade City Nebraska.
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Webster City
A. Burger
Attempts to identify handless body near Geneva
Chicago report details two identification efforts for a handless body found buried in a snow bank near Geneva NL. R D Hawkins of Kalamazoo Michigan claimed the victim could be his son Samuel F Hawkins while a Chicago police officer suspected Charles Lancaster a city garage employee. Friends of Hawkins offered a third identification that proved incorrect.
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Chicago
Geneva
R. D. Hawkins
Kalamaz00
Michigan
Samuel F. Hawkins
Charles Lancaster
Hawkins
Masson Confesses Murder for Money in Saskatchewan
Victor Masson admitted killing Mr. and Mrs. Jean Chauvelin and their eighteen year old stepdaughter to obtain money. The victims were found murdered in a partially emptied, ransacked farm house in Saskatchewan on February 21.
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Associated Press
Dumas
Saskatchewan
Victor Masson
Jean Chauvelin
House restricts enlistment under twenty-one in armed forces
Washington D C Feb 21 by a 177 to 134 vote the house retained a clause in the annual army appropriation bill barring enlistment of persons under 21 without written parental or guardian consent.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
House
Washington, D.D. C
Senate
Prince Miguel de Braganza Dies in New York
Prince Miguel de Braganza, 45, eldest son of Don Miguel de Bragana, heir to the Portuguese throne, died in New York of double pneumonia. He was married to Anita Stewart of New York in 1909 in Scotland and was the grandson of King Miguel of Portugal who ruled 1828 to 1834.
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Associated Cross
New York
Prince Miguel de Braganza
Don Miguel de Braganza
Portugal
Anita Stewart
Miss Stewart
Scotland
King Miguel of
Bond vote approves new community house in Audubon
In Audubon on February 20, voters approved bonds to fund a $50,000 community house project for the city. The action authorizes the erection of a new municipal facility to serve local residents and activities.
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Audubon
Premiers of Belgium and France Meet Over Ruhr Crisis
Paris February 21 Premier Theunis of Belgium arrived for talks with Premier Poincare on Ruhr developments. Berlin reportedly told Ruhr officials to show prudence and obey French authority, signaling cautious German stance amid pressure over occupation and separatist concerns.
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Associated Press
Paris
Theunis
Belgium
Poinicare
Ruhr
Berlin
Chinese boy emperor adopts Henry and Elizabeth names
London reports from Peking that the young Chinese emperor who married Princess Kuo Chia Si has issued an edict adopting the names Henry for himself and Elizabeth for the empress. The move reflects his admiration for Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth.
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Associated Press
London
Emperor
China
Kuo Chia Si
Henry
Elizabeth
Peking
Henry VIII
England
Iowa Woman Ends Life in Barn Near Walker
The Cedar Rapids area reports that Mrs. Frank J. F. Zimpfer, 45, wife of a Walker business leader, was found dead with a rope around her neck in a barn on her husband’s farm at Walker. She had been ill and despondent in recent days.
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Associated Press
Cedar Tapics
Frank J. F. Zimpfer
Walker
Iowa
Population of Continental United States Grows to 110 Million
The National Bureau of Economic Research reports January 1 1923 population at about 110 100 000 with a rise since 1921 and notes preliminary figures may shift as births deaths and immigration data are refined. Bureau chief Willford I King explains straight line extrapolation errors and half year estimates used to adjust interwar population counts.
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Associated Press
New York
United States
National Bureau of Economic Research
Bureau
Census Bureau
Willford I. King
University of Wisconsin
Train Strikes Oil Worker at West Branch Crossing
West Branch, Feb 21. Frank Burris fifty years old and an employee of Standard Oil was killed yesterday afternoon when a truck he was driving was struck by a Rock Island freight train at a crossing.
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Fyne
Cedr Rapids
Frank Burris
Standard Oil Company
West Branch
Rock Island
Negroes Hanged At Belleville Ill In Car Murder
Belleville Illinois February 21 Lucy L Hollins 28 and Ernest Williams 23 were executed today for the death of Alphonse De Hon 21 a salesman. De Hon was shot during a struggle after two men boarded the car while he rode with his fiancée.
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Belleville
Tih
Lucy L. Hollins
Ernest Williams
Alphonse de Hon
de Hon
Iowa Guardsmen Gather for Mid-Winter School
Several hundred Iowa National Guard officials converge in Des Moines for the annual mid-winter school. State commander R. Tinsley will direct the sessions with Adjutant General Lasher set to address the group today.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Iowa National Guard
R. Tinsley
Lasher
Coard
Federal agents raid Peoria on dry law violations
Eighteen federal agents from Chicago raided Peoria early this morning and by ten o'clock hit ten locations where alcohol laws were broken. The operation focused on enforcing the federal prohibition act with multiple simultaneous searches.
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Reese
Peoria
Chicago
June Teaches Song From French Professor verse
At the Afternoon Tea Mrs Newlygilt instructs her daughter June to sing a song the French professor charged nothing to teach. The moment blends domestic humor with a touch of linguistic flair.
Government Offices Raid in Dublin Ends with Irregular Killed
National guard troops repelled an organized raid on three government offices in Dublin. An attempt to burn the income tax office failed as one irregular was killed and three others, plus a hotel occupant, were wounded during about an hour of fighting. Local guards secured the government board amid the assault.
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Dublin
National Guard
Cheer Football Teams As French Enter Ruhr
Dusseldorf February 21 French troops occupy roads around Kesen with tanks and machine guns. Correspondents report no clashes or loss of life until near Ratinzen where a large crowd of German steel mill workers shouts and applauds a football game between mill teams during lunch hour.
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Associated Press
Dusseldorf
Kesen
Ruhr
Ratinzen
Opera Singers Locate Lost Son After Ten-Year Separation
Konstantin Karlash, fifteen, son of Nicolai Karlash and Mary Mashir of the Asian grand opera company, was found alive and brought to Chicago by the Hoover relief administration after ten years apart.
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Associatedress
Chicago
Konstantin Karlash
Nicolai Karlash
Mary Mashir
Asian Grand Opera Company
Hoover Relief Administration
Unemployed Men Seek Jury Roles in Herrin Mine Riots
In Marion Illinois on February 31 unemployed workers seek juror positions for the second Herrin mine riots trial. Bailiffs report many unemployed men are eager to serve as jurors and potential attorneys in the case, with jury selection continuing.
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Marion
T Herrin
Man Slashes Throat Taken To Iowa City Hospital
Cyril Kelley seventy five rushed from West Union to the University hospital at Iowa City after slashing his throat with a razor. He attempted suicide Friday night but the act was not discovered until Saturday night. He has been a resident of the county home for forty years.
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Preeg
Cedar Rapids
Cyril Kelley
Weat Union
Iowa
State University Hospsital
Iowa City
Nate
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