Warden Fines for Banquet Duck Possession in Waterloo
George Writz faced a $100 fine plus costs in Judge Ben G. Howrey's Waterloo court for illegal possession of a wild duck used as a banquet decoy. Deputy game warden John C. Jago uncovered the scheme involving 98 ducks for the Elk lodge banquet. The case highlights concerns that such acts encourage shooting and undermine sportsmanship, with calls for Iowa organizations to discontinue serving wild game until populations recover.
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George Writz
Ben G. Howrey
Waterloo
George
Elk’s Lodge
John C. Jago
Elks
Fritz
Beardstown
Ill
America
Elks of
Iowa
Trapping in Iowa Faces Decline and Calls for Action
Iowa trappers numbered about 22 000 licensed with hundreds unlicensed on their own land and earning roughly one million dollars annually from the catch. The Biological Survey reports a steady decline in fur catches due to overtrapping, reduced breeding areas, floods in 1927, drought in 1980, and lower prices in 1929–31. Officials urge conservation legislation and a united front among trappers, fur traders, and farmers, noting out of season trapping harms the long term and commercial viability.
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Iowa
Washington
I. G. Ashbrook
Ducks Out of Season Cost River ton Men Fines
Douglas Taylor Cecil Grape and Mike Galligher of River ton paid fines after pleading guilty to hunting ducks after the season end. Game Warden Yeter arrested them on the river near Shenandoah and confiscated the ducks and their guns.
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Argus
Iowa
Douglas Taylor
Cecil Grape
Mike Galligher
Riverton
Yeter
Shenandoah
B. Hatton
Davenport Fishery Propriety Fined for Game Fish Sales
Harry Baker proprietor of the Blue Line fisheries in Davenport paid 25 dollars and costs in Justice McSwiggen's court for keeping and selling game fish. Deputies A. B. Miller and Otto Klinge, acting from Muscatine and Clinton, found 200 to 300 pounds of live game fish and about 40 pounds of dressed fish. The live stock was returned to the Mississippi.
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Davenport
Harry Baker
Blue Line Fisheries
Iowa Hatcheries Report Wide Fish Distribution
The report lists fish distributions from Sabula and other Iowa hatcheries across multiple watersheds and towns. Reads like a ledger of species counts including black bass, crappies, sunfish, catfish, bullheads, and fingerlings, with locations such as Wadena, LaPorte City, West Burlington, Martinsburg, Maynard, Cedar Falls, DeWitt, Burlington, Maquoketa, Lansing, Delhi, Thayer, Rockford, Council Bluffs, Humboldt, Ottumwa, and more. Also notes fish rescue totals on the Mississippi and a mention of an alligator sighting and pheasant conservation efforts in Iowa.
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Iowa
Sabula
Fansing
Wadena
Volga River
LaPorte City
Cedar River
West Burlington
Isaac Walton Lake
Martinsburg
Bass Lake
Maynard
Little Volga River
Cedar Falls
DeWitt
Springbrook Lake
Burlington
Private Lake
Delhi
Maquoketa
Thayer
Thayer Lake
Rockford
Council Bluffs
Lake Manawa
Humboldt
Des Moines
Muquoketa River
Ottumwa
Sand Pit
Warden recounts Pike river casters along river edge
Clinton County game warden Otto Klinge and DeWitt warden T J Crowley describe trips to Bettendorf in Scott County this fall. They note a long line of casters along white water edges over rock work, with about 125 casters counted in a quarter mile and most catching some.
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Otto Klinge
Clinton County
T. J. Crowley
DeWitt
Bettendorf
Scott County
Pike
Pelican Wounded by Hunters Sent for Care in Sioux City
A pelican injured by hunters near Cherokee during the late open duck season has been sent to Sioux City. The Humane Society shelter nursed it back to health until deputy game warden Bill Lehnen decides its disposition.
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Cherokee
Sioux City
Humane Society
Bill Lehnenke
Nevada Hunters Busy in November Predatory Catch
In November, two hunters logged 595 days in Nevada and killed 213 predatory animals. E R Sans, head of predatory animal control, reports 34 hob cats and 179 ecoyotes, plus five badgers killed.
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Nevada
E. R. Sans
Hoover Considers Senator Walsh for High Court Judge
President Hoover weighs Senator Thomas J. Walsh Montana as a potential successor to Oliver Wendell Holmes on the Supreme Court bench. Republican leaders in the Senate press for Walsh through calls and interviews, while Democratic senators abstain though not opposing his candidacy.
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Hoover
Senator Walsh
Washington
INS
Thomas J. Walsh
Montana
United States Supreme Court
Oliver Wendell Tofines
Walsh
Senate
Toover
Walter Brown
White House
Orr Buys Creston Imperial Cafe in Iowa
Lester Orr acquires the Imperial Cafe at Creston Iowa trading a 200 acre Lee County farm for the business Mrs Orr travels to Creston to manage the cafe, which seats 160 and is equipped with modern amenities including silver linen and an electric refrigerator.
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Washington
Lee County
Imperial Cafe
Creston
Iowa
Orr
U W
Lester Theiser Milks Four Times Daily From Prize Cow
Chadron Nevada farmer Lester Theiser milks his cow four times daily at 4 am 10 am 4 pm and 9 pm totaling 68 pounds of milk per day. Near Scottsbluff Nebraska sugar beet farmer H H Kano won the tithe champion yield per acre with an average of 23.4 tons per acre in the North Platte valley.
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Chadron
Nev
Lester Theiser
Kano
North Plate
Unclear fragment on Republican treverent context
Fragmentary text mentions Republicans and an action by someone on their behalf, but the meaning and specifics are not recoverable from the provided segment.
Magician Stapies Delights Washington School Crowd
A large turnout of about five hundred students and teachers from Washington high and surrounding schools watched Magician Stapies perform after school in the high school auditorium. The show featured magic, ventriloquism, chalk artistry and a talking doll helper. Jack Tlaven and Henriette Marble assisted on stage. Stapies tours came from Staple Novelty Co. via Hikey Lycerum bureau Lyndon Kansas.
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Washington High School
Stapies
Staples
Jack tTlaven
Henriette Marble
Mr. Staples
Staple Novelty Company
Hikey Lycerum Bureau
Lyndon, Kans
Prisoners Escape Centerville Jail Four Escapees At Large
Centerville Iowa witnesses four inmates break from the county jail by sawing bars in their cell windows. Sheriff Roscoe Wales and Deputy Ray Brunson discovered the delivery at morning meal time. Escaped are Jack Budesilich charged with breaking into the Ritz theater Ed Wright and Laverge Wessel charged with burglary of a wholesale grocery house and C A Davis charged with sorcery. Three other prisoners did not escape.
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Centerville
Iowa
Roscoe Wales
Ray Brunson
Jack Budesilich
Ed Wright
Laverge Wessel
C. A. Davis
Jall
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