Minnesota voters decide successor to Knute Nelson
Minnesota voters labor to choose the successor to late Senator Knute Nelson amid a three man race. Governor J A O Preus and Magnus Johnson lead the contest with Democrats James A Carey a distant third. Voter turnout is expected to exceed the June primary.
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Associated Press
ST. Paul
Minn
Minnesota
United States
Knute Nelson
Harding
Senate
J. A. O. Preus
Magnus Johnson
Robert M. la Follette
Jas. A. Carey
la Follette
Britain and France Debate Reparations Note Response
British Prime Minister Baldwin says he will send a note to the United States outlining Britain’s reparations draft. French officials deny a reply to Britain’s outline and stress policy consistency while Paris notes the situation remains unchanged since January.
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Paris
France
P. Voineare
Seulis Yuay
Prime
Great Britain
Ames Civil Engineering Students End Six Week Summer Camp
About 70 Iowa State College civil engineers mostly sophomores finish a six week summer camp at Rainy Lake Minnesota. They trained in railroad planning hydraulic surveys bridges drainage and highway construction while also fishing. They tour Duluth and Duluth Chamber of Commerce hosts and plan visits to paper mills at International Falls and other Minnesota stops.
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Ames
Iowa State College Civil Engineers
Rainy Lake
Minn
Ames Chamber of Commerce
Duluth Chamber of Commerce
Ranier Chamber of Commerce
International Falls
Virginia
Twin City
St. Paul Napolis
Elevated Train Collision in Bronx Injures Seven
An elevated train of seven wooden cars crashed into the rear of a steel subway train in the Bronx. Seven people were injured. The subway carried no passengers while the elevated train carried Bronx residents. Officials blame switch men for not moving the subway train and rain causing brake slip during grooming for the first morning run.
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Associated Press
New York
Bronx
Funeral service for Miss Agnes Swift draws large crowd
Hundreds attend the funeral at St James Catholic church for Agnes Swift army nurse of World War I. Rev M J Cone presided with a full Davenport clergy lineup. Wartime colleagues and 16 doctors and nurses from Hospital Unit A joined the service. Washington band led the cortege and Troop D provided escort.
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Agnes Swift
St. James Catholic
M. J. Cone
Davenport
W. E. Kinler
J. M. Walsh
J. H. Courtney
Fast Pleasant Plain
Robert Noonan
James FE. Edgington
Martin Whittaker
Frank Wheelan
Frank Casey
Harry Swift
Miss Swift
France
Washington
Fairfield
Burlington
Cedar Rapids
Washington Band
113Th Cavalry
Leon Beatty Post
Everette Griffith
Child Dies After Poison Pills In Mother's Bureau
Betty Fritz twenty one months old daughter of Mr and Mrs D C Fritz died yesterday after eating pills containing poison. The pills were taken from a bottle in the mother’s bureau in Mason City Iowa.
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Associated Press
Mason City
Betty Ter
Mr. and Mra
D. C
Fritz
Daugh
Mother’s Bureau
Youth To Jail on Speeding Charge Second Offense
DES MOINES IA Karl Regner 17 received the first jail sentence for speeding without option of a fine in municipal court Judge Herman Zeuch presiding. The youth pleaded guilty to driving thirty miles per hour after recent fine for thirty five mph. The judge stated a fine doesn't seem to help and ordered jail.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Karl Regner
Herman Zeueh
Zeuch
Turks Agree To Allies Terms At Lausanne Conference
The Turkish delegation at the Near East peace talks announced acceptance of allies terms to reopen expert meetings. They seek a satisfactory formula on outstanding issues including concessions in Turkey. Swiss papers note oil-field rivalry surfacing in past Lausanne and Hague conferences.
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Associated Press
Lausanne
Switzerland
Near Hoot
Turkey
Hague
Journal de Genre
Chester
Wheat prices on balance with farmers wage claims
Governor J M Davis of Kansas in Chicago to sign a $25 million soldier state bonus bond issue says the current wheat price per bushel is out of proportion to wages paid to wheat field laborers. He notes Kansas labor conditions are fair and rejects $3 to $4 a day as excessive.
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Associated Press
Chicago
J. M. Davis
Kansas
Davis
Brookhart Returns from Europe and Russia Watch
United States Senator Strookhart of Iowa returned from a Russia study trip and arrived on the steamship President Polk. He declined to comment on his Soviet impressions. Meanwhile Senator Brookhart is expected in Washington D C Wednesday after a European tour studying cooperative marketing, with Iowa speeches planned before fall.
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Associatedress
Boston
United States
Strookhart
Iowa
Russia
President Polk
Des Moines
Smith W. Brookhart
Washington, D. C
Washington
Brookhart
Europe
Leviathan Sailors Summoned Over Desertion Charges in London
In Mpton England fifty five crew members of the American steamship Leviathan were summoned to the police court on desertion charges. In London July 16 Reynald McNeill said in the House of Commons he had no information confirming a report the Leviathan had contracted in Great Britain to take on liquor for its return voyage to the United States and would inquire. He noted it would not breach U.S. law for Americans to carry liquor on the high seas.
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Associated Press
Mpton
England
Ity
Leviathan
Ndon
Reynald McNeill
Parliament
House of Commons
Great Britain
Nquor
United States
Pershing to Inspect Iowa Citizen Army Camp at Des Moines
General John J. Pershing will visit Fort Des Moines on August 20 to tour the Iowa citizen soldiers training camp. The stop is part of a nationwide tour to learn about the citizen army nucleus created by the 1920 national defense act.
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Des Moines
John J. Pershing
Iowa Citizens
Fort Des Moines
Harding heads inland on Alaska auto tour
President Harding and Mrs. Harding plan a ninety mile automobile trip from Frankfort to McCarthy on the Tenana river, then by steamer to Tenana and train back to Seward, completing a government railroad milestone. Secretary Wallace and Chief Greely will continue the full trail journey.
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Associated Press
Frankfort
Alaska
Harding
New York
Washington
Middle West
McCarthy
Tenana River
Tenana
Government
Seward
Chitate
Copper River North Western
Port Cordova
Policeman Wounds Two After Motorcycle Shot Near Anken
Des Moines Iowa July 16 Police officer George Dickey gave chase to two youths on a motorcycle who had fired at him near Anken. Dickey wounded both suspects Harry Kouri and George Johnson both eighteen. At hospital the youths denied the shooting and said they did not know they were being followed.
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Des Moinfs
George Dickey
Anken
Harry Kouri
George Johnson
Dickey
Automobile Plunge Kills Three-Year-Old Daughter
The three year old daughter of John Roach was killed when her father's automobile ran off the road into a ditch in Manchester Indiana. Other family members escaped unharmed.
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Associated Press
Manchester
John Roach
Compel I W W to Buy Railroad Tickets
Lincoln Nebr July 16 Twenty men including several Independent Workers of the World members seized a Burlington route freight train. Railroad detectives recovered about forty, with twenty arrested after forcing a brakeman off the train. The group walked to Lincoln and paid for tickets to Omaha or faced jail, then pooled funds for travel.
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Associated Press
Lincoln
Nebr
Independent Workers of the World
Burlington Route
Omaha
Lincoin
Twenty-Two Indicted in Whisky Conspiracy Case in Chicago
Twenty-two men were indicted by the federal grand jury in Chicago charged with conspiracy to transport a thousand gallons of whiskey from the Grandad distillery in Louisville to various points in September 1920.
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Chicago
Ill
Grandad
Louisville
Des Moines Considers Joint Contagious Disease Hospital
City council and Polk county supervisors shelved a plan for a joint contagious disease hospital. A special legislative session this winter may be asked to pass a law enabling the joint city county hospital. The Polk County Medical Society proposed the project.
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Des Moines
Polk County
Polk County Medical Society
Audubon sportsman linked to surgery by old duck shot
Des Moines report says James Lloyd, Audubon businessman and sportsman, had an appendectomy after four No 13 duck shots were found. He believes he ingested the shells with wild fowl killed and eaten on a hunting trip four years prior.
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Des Moines
James Lloyd
Audubon
Iowa
Lloyd
Youth Recovered After Drowning At Eagle Point
The body of Reginald Dorrington was found late afternoon near Eagle Point after cramps struck during a swimming outing with several youths. Rescue efforts and assistance from companions followed as the tragedy unfolded in Dubuque.
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Associated Press
Dubuque, Jr
Reginald Dorrington
Que
Eagle Point
Dorrington
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