President Coolidge and son attend church as tours swarm Brule County
A weekly review notes President Coolidge and his son in church, while tourists flood Brule County Wisconsin. Danies urges southern Democrats to back Smith but oppose the wet movement in Congress. Hoover avoids campaign publicity. Work resigns in protest. Smith plans a twelve-city tour. Obregon elected Mexico president. US Marines clash with Nicaragua rebels. Treasury reports 389 million surplus. various federal actions and notable trips described.
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President Coolidge
John
Brule County
Wisconsin
Daniels
Smith
Congress
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come and other films
Weekly program offers The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come with Richard Barthelmess and Molly O Day, Doomsday with Gary Cooper and Florence Vidor, The Dragnet starring George Bancroft and Evelyn Brent, and The Thunder Riders featuring Ted Wells. Monday and Tuesday schedule lists The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, followed by Doomsday on Wednesday, The Dragnet on Thursday and Friday, and The Thunder Riders on Saturday.
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Washington
Little Shepherd
Kingdom Come
Richard Barthelmess
Molly O’day
John Fox, Jr
Chad Buford
Kentucky
Nathan Cherry
Chad
Jack
Melissa Turner
Shepherd
Gary Cooper
Florence Victor
Gary
Florence
Warwick Deeping
George Bancroft
William Powell
Evelyn Brent
Ted Wells
Ted
Buffalo Bill
Charlotte Stevens
Richard Barthlemess
Florence Vidor
Thunder Riders
Man Named Defendant In Alienation Suit In Des Moines
Mrs. Margaret Boyd sues William E Forest in municipal court for alienation of affections claiming Forest’s remarks harmed her marriage to William Boyd. She seeks $1,000 and notes a divorce petition was filed against her due to Forest's alleged talk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Margaret Boyd
William
William E. Forest
Forest
Tunney Heeney title fight set for July 26 at Yankee Stadium
Tex Rickard announces the Tunney Heeney heavyweight championship will be held July 26 at Yankee Stadium New York. Tunney trains at a New York mountain camp as the Fourth of July passes. Yankees lead the American League pennant race while the Cardinals, and rivals New York and Chicago, push the National League pack. Morgan Taylor sets a 400 meter hurdles world record in 62 seconds at Olympic trials with Babs Cuhel and Doherty earning Olympic spots. Martha Novelius breaks the 880 yard national swimming record. Bill Tilden loses to Lacoste in Wimbledon. English fans seek another Wills Lenglen match after Lenglen turns professional.
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Tex Rickard
Tunney-Heeney
Yankee Stadium
New York City
Tunney
New York Mountain
New York Yankees
St. Louis Cardinals
New York
Chicago
Morgan Taylor
Grinnell College
Babs Cuhel
Iowa
Funeral for Scott Rodgers Held at Methodist Church
Crawfordsville Iowa July 7 funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at 2 30 o clock for Scott Rodgers at the Methodist church conducted by Rev W G Barr The Methodist choir sang pallbearers were F F Young T E R Maxwell Harry White R S White Eli White and W H McCall Albert Rodgers of Kirksville Indiana attended the funeral Milton Davidson of Columbus Junction was a visitor yesterday.
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Crawfordsville
Scott Rodgers
Methodist Church
W. G. Barr
F. EF. Young
T. ER. Maxwell
Harry White
R. S. White
Eli White
W. H. McCall
Albert Rodgers
Kirksville
Milton Davidson
Columbus Junction
Des Moines Man Sets Potatoes Record With Two Pounder
Des Moines resident A. M. Ball claims a new potato growing record after displaying a garden potato weighing two and one-eighth pounds planted on April 28.
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A M. Ball
Des Moines
Washington 1918 threshing rates and local notices across county
In 1918 Washington county delegates set threshing rates for oats four cents, wheat eight, barley four, rye eight, timothy seed thirty for all operations. Other items note deaths, war savings progress, priest Rankin mission talks, and local civic acts including food administration leadership changes.
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Council of Defense
John Alexander Leeper
Will Leeper
Iowa
Orval Shryock
Brighton
Columbia
Illinois River
Peoria
First United Presbyterian Church
Henry Rankin
Egyt
Local WWI News Highlights From Ottumwa
Tuesday July 9 1918 reports Paul French enlisting in the US Army medical corps after tending Geneva College Beaver Falls Pa. A Red Cross fundraiser run by Bill Boice and Bob Thompson at Dr C A Boice barn raised 9. Louis Anderson arrives home from Washington DC on a seven day furlough from the engineering corps. The unit eyes France and West Side drug store management faces war impacts as T R Phillips plans to enter service soon and Lloyd Cope also enlists.
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Paul French
Ottumwa
Medical Corps
United States Army
Geneva College
Beaver Falls
Bill Boice
Bob Thompson
Red Cross
James Fulton dies after auto crash near Crawfords Ville
James Fulton son of Mr and Mrs W H Fulton died from lockjaw following an automobile accident near Crawfords Ville last week. An auto party returning from the Republican state convention last night included J L Brookhart Harry McCulley W G Robertson H H McCleery and Walter Boyer with John Brinton Humphrey Richards and W T Hamilton also in the group. Mrs R E Dougherty reports four more French War orphans funded by the booking klub. The return of Ovis Anderson from a training camp and Henry Steck’s operation recovery prompt a minstrel reunion appearance at the county hospital event.
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James Fulton
W. H. Fulton
Crawfords Ville
J. L. Brookhart
Harry McCulley
W. G. Robertson
H. H. McCleery
Walter Boyer
John Brinton
Clay
Humphrey Richards
W. T. Hamilton
Well
Farm labor crews mobilize around town and farms
Among the town men helping on the farm are Lemmon Chal Ford Rothschild Steve Stewart and Charles Thomas at the L. S. Shaw farm northeast of town J W Enslin went to the Jay Carris farm Count Agent Fedderson Rich ard McCleery and John Shires went to the Harry Bishop place The Richmond Red Cross auxiliary auction sale and social raised 810 and the Second Red Cross war fund in the county totaled 22429, over 5000 above the Washington county goal Marvin Williamson David Harvey Marjorie Cunningham and Isabelle Hiemmon returned from a Christian Endeavor conference in Storm Lake.
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CS. Lemmon
Chal Ford
I. Rothschild
Steve Stewart
Charles Thomas
L. S. Shaw
J. W. Enslin
Jay Carris
Agent Fedderson
Richard McCleery
John Shires
Harry Bishop Place
Richmond Red Cross Auxiliary
Richmond Park
Washington County
Marvin Williamson
David Harvey
Marjorie Cunningham
Brinton Unveils Picture Machine Invention Plans Patent Trip
Saturday July 13 1918 news notes Brinton introduces a new picture machine and plans a Washington D C patent filing trip. Red Cross workers take charge next week at the rooms led by Louise Cunningham Eva Livingston and others. Washington National Bank members joined a Box Springs picnic. Helen Bauer and William C Robertson wed at the Baptist parsonage with Rev. Regan officiating.
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W. F. Brinton
Washington, D. C
Red Cross
Louise Cunningham
Eva Livingston
Cuddy
A. B. Schmoeller
R. Dougherty
Lem Cherry
Lou Stewart
H. S. Young
Craig Dodds
Donald Bell
Louis Fifer
Fay Willem Mabel Morton
Cora Masson
Nellie Wolfe
Washington National Bank
Box Springs
Helen Bauer
William C. Robertson
Baptist
M. R. Regan
Noted Washington Man George Buckley
A Washington-born figure in banking and publishing, George Buckley rose from local schools and Bell Telephone work to hold top posts at Everybody’s Magazine Crowell Publishing and the Chicago Daily Herald. Now vice president at National City Bank of New York, he travels to South America on banking assignments and returns each Christmas to Washington with nine Buckley relatives.
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Washington County
Evening Journal
D. J. Palmer
Norman Hall
Charles E. Brown
Clifford Thorne
W. Brookhart
A. C. Shields
George Buckley
Rauid
National City Bank of New York
America
John Buckley
Samuel Wylie
Wylie
Washington
Morgan Park Academy
Morgan Park
Illinois
Chicago University
Schodl
Bell Telephone Company
Everybody's
Mr. Buckley
New York
Davenport
J. Walter Thompson
Chicago
Everybody’s
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Crowell Publishing Company
Women's Home Companion
American
William Randolph Hearst
Chicago Daily Herald & Examiner
Hearst
Charles E. Mitchell
Mitchell
Buckley
Wall Street
South America
Buckleys
First Air Salesman Opens Routes to Audubon and Towns
George Holland of Carroll, a salesman for the Haley Neeley Fruit company, becomes the first in the territory to reach Audubon and neighboring towns by airplane.
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Audubon
George Holland
Carroll
Haley- Neeley Fruit Company
Fireworks cost Fort Dodge over fifteen thousand dollars
Fort Dodge spent more than 15 000 on Fourth of July fireworks, a dealer canvass shows. While West Union residents watched at the fairgrounds five homes were burgled and loot exceeding 800 was taken, with Clyde Whitney, lumber company owner, named as the heaviest loser.
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Fort Dodge
Clyde Whitney
Local Fourth of July items and town notes
Columbus Junction lost to Washington Indies 8 to 3 at Libe's Park on the Fourth. August Zieglowsky won first in the horseshoe contest. Reverend D. N. Coon visited and attended the Lemley anniversary. Heavy rain hit the area with 3.40 inches. No major accidents reported at the Washington Fourth celebration. The mercury rose to summer highs, aiding the corn crop. Mrs. Neena Wilson Badenoch spoke to Rotary. W. B. Carter moves to start a southwest sewer extension with his excavating gear. Local residents took a swim in Fairfield. Matthew Y. Gillespie died. funeral at his West Washington home. A Kalona car overturned west of Washington. driver mishap near Crooked Creek. Vacation Bible School closed with speeches and songs. Ralph Pratt announced theater improvements and Isler Shows entertained by the American Legion. The Klein Clothing Kompany showed a Revolutionary War firearm owned by Charles Duel. Several local figures, including Senator Smith Brookhart and others, attended a judicial convention in Oskaloosa. William Caldwell dislocated an elbow after a fall. Julia Peicha returned with two foster children. Marilyn Ann Macon born July 3. Everett Griffith married Katherine Cain in Champaign, Illinois. Two Ford cars stolen on Washington streets. one found with tires and spare missing. District Judge Moffitt considers Os Car Fetters’ sanity plea. W. W. Wilson won a county coal contract at July board meeting.
Vast Iowa News Highlights From Worth to Clinton
Worth, Cerro Gordo and Hancock county farm women enjoyed a three day vacation at Clear Lake while Iowa corn prospects look strong and other crops show good outlooks. Waterloo area farms sold for 232 to 260 per acre. A Cedar Rapids motorcycle crash proved fatal to Roger Thatcher. Knights of Columbus district held a Fourth of July picnic at Iowa State College with participants from Ames, Boone, Fort Dodge, Eagle Grove and Perry. Iowa’s feeble minded and epileptic populations are rising per US Commerce data. A Des Moines tuberculosis hospital fundraiser bridge tournament used 109 tables to aid TB patients. fair proceeds aid sufferers. Fred Bays of Albia died from poison liquor. Dr. Thomas Maceo Bride’s forthcoming history volume will be published by the State Historical Society. Senator Brookhart accuses Lowden convention doublecross. Fairfield stores closed for Independence Day. residents fished and attended Washington celebration. Sixty Des Moines Socialist delegates met for state convention. Maj Thomas George Lamphier to visit Lohrville July 26. Cedar Rapids to add air express service by July 10. Keokuk’s St Joseph hospital expansion plans approved. Jefferson Highway Bridge at Iowa Falls to open, cost 55,000. Opal Fredrickson jailed on 5,000 bond after knife incident. Prohibition offices to shift to Des Moines under Gen. A Branson. A plane crash near Clinton killed a father, daughter, and niece at the golf course.
Fourth of July at Creston features husband calling contest
A Creston Fourth of July celebration included a husband calling contest with the prize awarded to the wife whose voice best attracted her mate. A brief opposing merger of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroads was filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington on July 2 by Attorney General John Fletcher and Assistant Attorney General Neill Garrett, outlining reasons against the deal.
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Creston
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
John Fletcher
Neill Garrett
Idaho Senator Borah Visits Boone Seeks Iowa Crops Opinion
Senator William Borah of Idaho spent a short visit in Boone on Tuesday. He asked numerous questions about Iowa crops and sought the views of Iowans on current political questions.
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William Borah
Idaho
Boone
Iowa
University dean links marriages to campus discipline and grades
Dean Robert B. Rienow of Iowa University argues that marriages on campus raise grade standards and aid financially while curbing campus wildness. A state check shows automobile accidents exceeded firecrackers in Fourth of July tolls.
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Robert BE. Rienow
Iowa University
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