Beilharz Entertains as Local News Highlights Social Scene
The community buzzes with events and notices from Denison and nearby towns. Mrs. John Clegg visits shopping, Mrs. Marie Wells and Miss Helen Albaugh spend weekends in town, and a slate of lectures and entertainments including Noah Beilharz’s show at the high school loom next week. A marriage license for Milo Steele and Donis Wilcox is issued, while church programs promise illustrated sermons and no admission required.
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Milo William Steele
Donis Tone Wilcox
Dream vision of oats hints at weddings and luck
A dream about oats is said to foretell a wedding or journey for a girl with oats as a sign of good fortune. A field of oats is a strong omen while chipped oats are a lesser omen. Storing oats suggests prosperity and happiness when seen in dreams.
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Washington County
Washington
Chicago Judge Rules 2 Dollar Limit Poker Was Professional
Judge Landis of Chicago heard testimony in a federal case from Le Crosse Wisconsin involving moonshine and a soft drink parlor poker game. Carl Strickler of Edgerton testified that the establishment allowed bets up to two dollars, a setup Judge Landis described as a professional game and reserved ruling on quashing the indictment pending further law defects review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judie Landis
Faw
Esse
Travels of the Potato Across Early World Routes
The article traces potato origins in South America and notes how Spaniards carried them to Europe during the Peru campaigns. It says potatoes spread to Italy, France, England, Ireland, and finally to North America in that sequence.
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South Amernea
Peru
Traly
France
England
Ireland
North America
Merely a Memory and the amateur social scientists
A fragmentary note from the Indianapolis News recalls a bygone era of amateur social scientists who argued that tifleves stem from an obscure speculative fever. The piece reflects on lost methods and the fate of those researchers.
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Indianapolig News
Hawaiian Japanese Population Grows 23 Percent in 1920 Census
Census data shows Hawaii's Japanese residents reached 100 274 of 255 012 total, the largest rise among races since 1910. Filipino numbers also jumped from 2 561 to 21 081, while native Hawaiians declined from 26 041 to 24 723.
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Washington
Hawaii
MMO
Toto
St. Louis
Topeka
Ken
Unclaimed Navy Retainer Pay Checks Reach 60 000
Washington January 20 more than 60 000 checks for retainer pay of naval reserve personnel are unclaimed at the Navy department due to failure to keep the department informed of correct addresses. Almost all were mailed to the last address on file and returned by post authorities.
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Washington
Jan
Treasury
Naval
Navy Department
Department
Ren
Indictment of Ten Officers of Black Diamond Oil Firm
Ten officers and trustees including six Chicago men of the Black Diamond Oil Company face federal charges in Judge George A. Carpenter's court. The blanket indictment accuses them of conspiracy to use the mails to defraud over alleged multi million land and oil operations. Each of the six counts carries up to five years per count.
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Chicago
Diamwond OF Company
Off and Land Corporation
New York
George A. Carpenter
Coolidge Family to Occupy Marshall Suite at New Willard
Former Governor Coolidge of Massachusetts and Mrs Coolidge will take the Marshall Suite in the New Willard, the Vice President’s home for six years. Arrangements to move in shortly after March 4 settled rumors of occupying the Harding residence and of a congressional appropriation to build a banne r for the Vice President. A mixed jury acquitted Mrs Martha Oxberger of murdering Mrs Elia Nichols after a quarrel on November 21.
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Washington, Jan. Oy
Coolidce
Massachusetts
Cooliiice
Sre
New Willard Hotel
Marshall
Coolidges
Harding
Wyoming Avenue
Sioux City
Martha Oxberger
Elia Nichols
Oxberger
Negro Hanged for Assault in Baltimore Jail
George H. Terry, a Black man, was hanged at Baltimore city jail for the assault on Mrs. Sadie Sibley of Mount Winans. On the scaffold he proclaimed his innocence and said his father knew the man who committed the crime.
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Arcuses
Baltimore
George H. Terry
Sadie Sibley
Mount Winans
Pleasure in Studying Bird Life and Human Cooperation
The article notes historic study of birds from Vergil’s era and cites Viscount Grey of Falloden, claiming bird appreciation yields a purer, lasting pleasure than base delights or personal success.
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Vergil
Viscount Grey of
Falloden
Texas senate hears alien landholder ban measure
A bill to bar aliens from owning land in Texas was introduced in the state senate and sent to the state affairs committee. The proposal, backed by Senator M. Dudley of Life, mirrors California policy and was drafted by the American Legion post at Vase.
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Texas Senate
Austin
Tex
Texas
State Senate
Committee On State Affairs
BR. M. Dudley
California
BY Vase
Ancient surgery shown by prehistoric splints on skeleton
Examination of a young woman's skeleton exhumed from Pueblo ruins at Aztec New Mexico reveals the use of six wooden splints to brace a badly broken left forearm with evidence of eight or nine splints overall, indicating advanced fracture treatment by rude practitioners.
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Pueblo
Aztec
N. M
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Man and Opportunity in Biceps Display
The St Louis Globe Democrat notes that men create chances for themselves by demonstrating strength and confidence showcasing their biceps to seize opportunities.
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St Bouls Globe Democrat
Teachers gather for Brighton meeting with Grace Hill guest
Miss Bessie Smith of Grace Hill traveled to Bloomfield for the weekend. A large group of teachers attended the morning meeting in Brighton including Misses Carrie Davis Bell Davis June Conger Elnora Wagner Ruby Skipton Dorothy Bruty Ruth Foster Gladys Crone Blanche Woodburn Marie Perry Elizabeth Clark Ruth Lehrer Gladys Lehrer Eva Godwin Kathleen Bruty Ada Spangler and Marguerite Bruty.
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Brighton
Carrie and
Bell Davis
June Conger
Elnora Wagner
Ruby Skipton
Dorothy Bruty
Ruth Foster
Gladys Crone
Blanche Woodburn
Marie Perry
Elizabeth Clark
Ruth
Gladys Lehrer
Eva Godwin
Kathleen Bruty
Ada Spangiler
Marguerite Bruty
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Skipton Taxi
John Clegg
Ainsworth
Beilharz
Mildred Ebner
Haskins
Presbyterian Church
Clara Huber
N. J. Berglund
Davenport
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Noah Beilharz
Hoosier
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Sigourney
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Wellston
Marie Butterfield
Tipton
Mrs . H. Butterfield
George Brinton
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Iowa
Arthur Rankin
Brinton
Mr. Brinton
Kansas
Mary Melinskie
Pleasant Plain
Bert Williams
Centerville
Vera Streepy
Arthur R. Oates
Bert Crone
Francis
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Harry Cropp
Sam Doran
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J. O. Beatty
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J. T. Cutter
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J. W. Calvert
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Stuart Hotel
Sarah Crawford
Mary
Keota
Wm. Stevenson
W. C. Starr
Mildred
Verdi
Elizabeth Stockfield of
Muscatine
Decela Wheelan
Theodore
Henry Bailey
John Lemmon
Bruns Seed Store
Henry Diers
Fairfield
Fred Werner
W. A. Gibson
Louila
Frank Barden
Qothers
S. G. Elton
Richland
W.S. Elton
Motel Stuart
Warren Glascock
Mary Katherine
Myrtle and
Bernice Shields
Stephen
Frank Crawford
Ray Martin
W. H. Butterfield
McWhamara Undertaking Co
Suneral Directors
Pennsylvania Nut
John Shields & Sons
Marinello
Beauty Shop
Charles Denison
Victor
Victor Company
Tess
McNamaras
Wilson
Washington, Iowa
Judge Land's of
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United States Treasury
Marshall Suite
New Yeshire Hotel
Chingin
Man and
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Wall Street
Jack Dempsey
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