Journal's Weekly News Review highlights Iowa events
Col R H Spencer 89 Civil War veteran dies in Algona. Mrs Helen Cutlip 79 Des Moines found unconscious. a $1000 skirt mystery. Dodgevile fire destroys St Marys church. Edward Jones missing since Feb 10. Seth Sweet 94 dies Webster. About $5000 past due taxes to be paid in 1930. Cedar Rapids to get $1.4 million telephone upgrade. Gayle Kurtz 40 Ames dies after illness. Thomas and Marshall fined for illegal liquor transport. Des Moines temp records set. 68 at noon. Iowa banks hold $544.99 million deposits. Paterson files bankruptcy. Decorah floods. Mississippi Warrior service schedules released. National arts conference in Iowa City. Y M C A at Council Bluffs opens. Two men found dead in Davenport. Grundy Center grain elevator fire. $30,000 loss. Opera fare cut from Des Moines to Chicago. Mrs. Hugh Geno named Wash postmistress. Police search for Iowa City youths.
Washington Ten Years Ago 1920 Local News Briefs
A series of short notices from February 17 to February 22 1920 cover local events in Washington including business openings Cedar Rapids service station ownership. deaths of Mrs Lee Hough Mrs Anna Anderson Miss Hazel Snider and Bertha Hoyle and John Beasty. public notices on election results and county party activities.
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H. M. Davis
Cedar Rapids
Washington Battery and Electric Company
Lee Hough
West Chester
McLaughlin
McCleery
Hamilton Panfilies
Monmouth
Donald McLaughlin
Zelpha Brook
Alice Rouua
Alice
Washington Poultry Houses
Anna Anderson
Sylvia ‘Warren
Brooklyn
N. Y
Ella Warren
Washington
J. D. Glasgow
County Red Cross
Lawrence Taylor Crayton
Hayes Crayton
Community events fill Sunday with church, club, and sport notes
A vesper service at the Methodist church featured the Lov erigns Iowa City quartet. A Hi V club youth meeting followed with Q and A led by Pastors Klein Henke Eastwood Vinz and Fulton. Washington high basketball beat Wellman in the county tournament. Fortnightly club staged an old time song program at the Methodist church. Funeral notices include Mrs N L Babcosk and Mrs S A Dickerson. A baby girl was born to Mr and Mrs Merle R Greene. The Washington junior college notes include credit acceptances and a plea for county office candidates.
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Leigh Soule
Klein
Henke
Eastwood
Vinz
Fulton
Methodist Church
Max Marble
Honey
Carolyn Hamilton
Bernice Warren
Bertha Miller
Minnie Neiawanger
Amy Christian
Mesdames Hedges
Livingston
Ream
McCleary Anderson
Helen Harvey
George Stewart
Kieth Vine
J. C. Boice
Mary Louise Harwood
Columbia
Charles Long
Sam
A. Dickerson
A. W. Henke
Jones Funeral Home
Dickerson
Lyceum
Chautauqua
B. F. Ross
Rifle
Colo
Roberta Ross
Multiple 1929 events across the world reported in brief
Ten people were injured when the Florence theatre lobby collapsed in Elk Point South Dakota Sunday night. Fifteen miners trapped in a French coal mine at Saint Etienne were rescued. Senator Reed said the five power naval conference could save hundreds of millions for U. S. taxpayers. The home of Marion Manufacturing Co. president R. W. Baldwin in Marion North Carolina was bombed. A world wheat price break was predicted by British experts due to oversupply. Senate Democrats and Republican independents advanced amendments to Hawley Smoot, slashing aluminum import levies to Underwood 1913 levels. Wheat prices fell to the lowest since early summer, per George Melvor of Winnipeg. The five power conference faced a tense moment as Japan and France demanded fleets that could block reductions. A. P. Moore, 63, former ambassador to Poland and husband of actress Lilyan Russell, died in Los Angeles. The First National Bank of Tallassee Alabama failed to open amid withdrawals. Moscow ordered nine meatless days per month for restaurants to conserve meat and fuel. More servants are needed at the White House for Hoover hospitality. A $4.25 million doctors hospital opened in New York funded by millionaires. Admiral Byrd’s Antarctic expedition reportedly broke camp and sailed home. The body of aviator Carl Ren Filson was found near the Hilson crash site 90 miles southeast of North Cape, Liberia. Senate Democrats halted farm tariff rate increases. Mrs. Emile Todd Heam, Lincoln kin, died near Lexington Kentucky. Sheriff James Nelson of Sidney Nebraska was wounded, likely fatally, after escaping a mental asylum.
MGM Chasing Rainbows and The Bishop Murder Case At The Movies
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents an all talking Technicolor showcase featuring Chasing Rainbows with Bessie Love and Charles King including Loose Ankles with Loretta Young and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. The Bishop Murder Case stars Roland Young Alec Francis and Basil Rathbone as Philo Vance investigates a murder amid multiple suspects. All talking performances headline Monday through Saturday.
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Charles King
Bessie Love
Miss Love
King
Philo Vance
van Dine
Roland Young
Alec Francis
George Marion
Sylia Hyams
Loretta Young
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
Miss Young
Fairbanks
Louise Fazenda
Bessie Ive
Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer
Thurday
Bishon
Lelia Hyams
Basil Rathbone
Indian Boy Discovers Maple Sap at Lake Winnepesaukee
A young Native American boy Blue Heron in New Hampshire treks to a maple tree by a lake and discovers sweet maple sap. He carves a birch bark basket to collect sap and share it with his father, delighting in the new taste. The tale mixes tribal terms with early forest life along the shore of a quiet lake.
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Blue Heron
Winnepesaukee
Warrior
New Hampshire
Maple Sap Tale Among Indians and Blue Heron
A Native American tale recalls Blue Heron sharing maple sap, the tribe tasting the sweet water and praising him with gifts. The story notes how the people tapped maple trees and drank the sap, explaining the meaning of wek onny nip in a cultural frame.
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Blue Heron
Cornstalk Timbers and Farm Figures Described by Thompson
R. B. Thompson explains how cornstalks cut into even lengths can serve as durable legs for buildings and notched at ends to stack securely. Stalks halved provide flat timber for roofs and fences, while irregular pieces yield well shaped farm animals as illustrated.
Senate Tariff Bill Revision Will Carry Historic Agriculture Schedule
The senate completed revision of the tariff bill on Thursday and ensured the measure sent to the White House will bear the highest agriculture schedule in history.
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Senate
White House
Duke of Westminster’s wedding to Miss Ponsonby in London
The Duke of Westminster married Miss Loella Ponsonby daughter of Sir Frederick Ponsonby treasurer to the king in a London ceremony held Thursday.
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Duke of Westminster
Loella Ponsonby
Sir Frederick Ponsonby
London
Gangsters Defend Filippina Cigarettes in Manila Boycott
In Manila’s Tondo San Nicholas and San Lazaro districts gangsters enforce a boycott against American tobacco brands and pledge to protect Filippina cigarette trade, amid local resistance to foreign products.
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Tondo
San Nicholas
San Lazare Eatinets
Manila
Filippina
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KE. A. Wright
Iona Cry
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G. W. Hey
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J. A. Dodds
W. F. Bweet
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P. J. Wallace
W. B. Ewards
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John Jeffrey
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Nettie Faderson
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113Th Cavalry
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G. W. Shaffer
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Helen Bent
Didwerson
Ed Cobnett
Glenn McFarlane
Trecy Philli Milan Shields
Robert Griméds
Lewis Warren
Penney
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Paul Dickerson
Ogden
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Law Dickerson
Elko
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M. J. Dicken
T. W. Harwood
George Morrison
Florence Theatree
Elk Point
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David Reed
Naval Conference
R. W. Baldwin
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