Cotton Blossom Singers to Perform at Baptist Church
Local Mississippi group the Cotton Blossom Singers will give a Thursday evening concert at the Baptist church with no admission charged. The report also notes community visits and a memorial reference to Maj. T. P. Spilman of Ottumwa, a Civil War veteran and former Wapello County sheriff.
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Cotton Blossom Singers
Mississippi
The
Baptist Church
Thomas
T. P. Spilman
Ottumwa
Major Spilman
Morrell Packing Company
Iowa
J. B. Crooks
Indiana
Wapello County
Piney Woods School
Laurence C. Jones
Local Notes of Visits and Health in Keota Area
Local residents report visits across Iowa towns including Brighton Muscatine Keota and Cedar Falls. Notables include Miss Bertha Rich visiting Brighton and Charlie Thompson hospitalized for appendicitis. Prof Doagherty returns to Cedar Falls with Mrs Hay and Miss Jean Hay finishing summer studies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. D. Doagherty
State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
G. W. Hay
Mrs. Hay
Jean Hay
Teachers College
Jean
Local Notes and Short Items From Washington
Washington area social and business briefs list marriages licenses shop notices and visits. James Gardner of Wellman attends to business in Washington while D F Macon of Washington IA advertises auctioneering services. Ella Marr of Keota and Ina Jeffrey of Cedar Rapids visit. L M McFarland returns from funeral in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Gardner
Wellman
Washington
Ella Marr
Keota
Ina Jeffrey
Cedar Rapids
Mrs
Earl Corbin
Local residents travel and events noted in Washington visit list
Keota and Wayland residents spend the day in Washington for shopping and visiting relatives. Miss Dougherty returns from Chicago to teach in Cleveland next year. Southern Plantation Melodies performed at the Baptist church with Piney Woods School singers from Braxton Mississippi. Admission free, silver offering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harriet Dougherty
Chicago
Miss Dougherty
Cleveland
Ohio
Piney Woods
Britain to Pay U S Debt Confirmed by George
In London Premier Lloyd George affirms to the House of Commons that Britain will repay its debt to the United States. He says Britain cannot accept a plan that ignores its allies' debts and urges allies to settle what they owe to Britain.
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Lloyd George
England
London
Robert Morne
Great Britain
United States
House of Conemons
Britain
Form New Labor Party in New York Convention
July 18 in New York the American Labor party was organized with 236 delegates. The party unites socialists farm labor and city labor unions and claims to be the first to bring labor unions into partisan politics, nominating a full slate of congressional assembly state senate judicial and city candidates for the fall elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
American Labor Party
Assembly
US farm population on Jan 1 2020
The farm population of the United States on January 1, 2020, was 31,614,209 or 29.9 percent of the total population per Census Bureau returns. Of this total, 31,570,640 lived in rural areas and 25,620 on farms inside cities and incorporated communities with 200 or more inhabitants.
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Washington
United States
Census Bureau
Income tax receipts show wartime fiscal surge in 1920
The Internal Revenue Service released 1920 income tax totals totaling 1 075 058 686 with 7 259 944 earners above 1 000 annually. Taxpayers with incomes over five hundred thousand to a million numbered 123 and 33 exceeded one million. New York led with 286 607 280 in taxes followed by Pennsylvania Illinois Massachusetts and Ohio. The data reflect a sharp wartime tax burden rise.
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Commissioner of Internal Revenue
United States
New York
Pennsylvania
Ilinois
Massachusetts
Ohio
Fairfield Powers City Through Barbed Wire Fence
Fairfield Iowa received its electricity for four hours when a cracked insulator on a feeder line caused a short. The current jumped to a nearby barbed wire fence and then re entered the line, feeding the town until a shower forced crews to cut power and begin quick repairs.
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Fairfield
Iowa Electric Company
Here
Ottumwa
Oakland Mills
Benhart
E. N. Gentry
Reach Perfect Agreement on Mesopotamian Oil Concessions
London reports a perfect agreement after talks with Lord Baulfour on all mandates. The United States will have safeguarded interests and equal concessions with League nations members. An American official says this resolves the long dispute over Mesopotamian oil concessions since England took the mandate.
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London
Lord Baulfour
Lord Curzon
Harvey
United States
League of Nations
Washington
Downing Street
England
League
U S Girl Weds British Lord at St Margaret's Westminster
Catherine Wendell wed Lord Porchester at St Margaret's chapel Westminster with royal guests Lord Louis Mountbatten and Prince George in attendance. The ceremony drew great crowds and attracted American and London society teachers and debutantes, as the bride gained popularity since arriving in London.
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London
Louis Mountbatten
King George
Prince of Wales
Prince George
Catherine Wendell
Lord Porchester
St. Margaret's Chapel
Westminster
Westminster Abbey
Government moves toward owning post office buildings
Postmaster General Werk launches plan to train inspectors as real estate experts to study and purchase sites for new post offices. The government now pays about $10,000,000 yearly under the leasing system, which officials say is the worst bargain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Werk
Bank officials aid detained immigrant girl at Ellis Island
Cedar Rapids officials of the Security Savings Bank steamship department take an interest in 16 year old Emma Zalenka from Czechoslovakia detained at Ellis Island for papers and eye trouble from the voyage. They plan to obtain affidavits from relatives to show she is coming directly to them and expect her release by immigration authorities.
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Cedar Rapids
Steamship Department
The
Security Savings Bank
Emma Zalenka
Czechoslovakia
Ellis Island
Davenport
Immigration Department
Gasoline Stocks Begin Seasonal Decline In May Production Rise
Washington July 18 The Bureau of Mines reports U S gasoline stocks on June 1 at refineries 856 607 102 gallons down from the May 1 record as domestic consumption surged May figures show a May gasoline production rise of 513 668 966 gallons while consumption hit a May record near August 1921 levels Exports May 566 823 859 gallons imports 7 104 879 and insular shipments 1 458 327 gallons New fuel oil record May production 936 742 331 gallons Stocks of gas and fuel oil on hand June 1 1 321 437 972 gallons Lubricating oil stocks declined 10 837 000 gallons with May production 79 848 272 gallons Kerosene on hand June 1 318 890 131 gallons with May export 63 000 000 gallons down 17 000 000 from April.
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Washington
BD. C
Bureau of Mines
Rathbun Denied Parole in Des Moines Case
Ernest Rathbun of Ida Grove petitioned the board of parole but was refused. He is serving a long Fort Madison sentence after a pardon by Governor Harding was revoked as illegal amid a legislative inquiry into impeachment efforts.
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Des Moines
Ernest Rathbun
Ida Grove
W. L. Harding
Board of Parole
Rathbun
Fort Madison
Harding
Spelling Bee to Crown Iowa Champion at State Fair
Des Moines reports an old fashioned spelling bee will determine Iowa's champion at the state fair this year under the educational department. Each county sends a champion, chosen by contest or appointment, with contestants from public schools or the general public. Prizes totaling 160 dollars await the winners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Educational Department
A. R. Corey
Fair Board
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Lee Pattison
L. C. Hyatt
Flindts Orchestra
Clinton
Jesse Sage
Frank Sage
Walter Graves
Charlies Schmoeller
Kansas City
Lee Summitt
Mr. Schmoeller
Alton
E. C. Haxton
Mr. Haxton
Wilson Truck Co
Harry Evans
France
Army
FOX Theatre
Anita Stewart
Ruth Cross
People’s Home Journal
Wall Street
West
International News
Arch
Oxfords
Wilson's
Accle Clapper
Keota Leet
Lyon's
Bertha Rich
Brighton
Charlie Thompson
Katheryn Keister
Waterloo
al Kelater
Will Holmes
Milwaukee
Blaine Holmes
Edna Goodwin
Bethany, Mo
Lloyd Goodwin
Veda Stryker
Muscatine
H. M. Sweet
Baxter Ingham
Kenneth Dayton
Edgar Fletcher
Francis
Bob Herd
Ruth Maltby
Decorsh
Hazel Porter
Gary Lease
Adria
Crawfordsville
Annette Brindley
South Dakota
John Squires
Madelene Dowla
Tom Nyeum
Dorothy Allen
Pharson
Kowa
Tom Dowls
Lenora and
Keith Crawford
Pharfon
Clyde Bickford
Eleanor
Robert
Charles Glick
Cotter
Anna Segill
Harper
Stephen's, the Jeweler
D. F. Macon
Hubert L. Wilson
Minunette Tracy
Washington Steam Laundry
Erd Hartman
Clifford W. Freel
Lela Marie Hagist
Rosa Brewer
Esther Rittenhouse
Bloomfield
Downing, Mo
Don Hampsher
Oskaloosa
Remps Hampsher
L Lemmon's
Ethel
Mae Lowry
Lake Okoboji
George Wynne Talbott
J. A. Mooney
Mra
Mercer
Mra. J. PP. Nunan
Franklin
J. T. Rainous
Wasington
Barbara Conrad
Wayland
Henry Wittrie
Crawfordaville
Carl Hedges
A. 8S. Allen
Wilma Miller
Ainsworth
Mrs. Miller
Frank Snider
Iowa City
Beranek
Dodge Brothers
Jones Auto Co
Edith Stewart
Moline
A. L. Hall
Braxton
Miss
Tuskeegee Institute
W. R. Cambridge
Minneapolis
Colfax
Journal
Plumly
Piano House
Howard Ross
Margaret
New Orleans
Grinnell
Guy Mintle
Duluth
Colorado
Long Beach
Calif
Ross
Bertha Oliver
Ross & Ritchy, Contractors
Hugh Hall
W. H. Hunt
Sands Bros
R. K K. West
McElhinney Drug Co
U. S
NEW Labor Party
Socialists
Farmers
Unions
Iowa Fair
Dailey’s Taxi
Local and Country Service
B. Lupton
Russell Conner
Bert Olson
A. D. Sanders
Washington, Iowa
John Shields & Sons
Wallace Studio
Graham Theater
the Wallace Studio
Dodge Brothers Business
St. Marion Ave
H. E. Littrel
Dorotha
Glora
Ernest
Burlington
Roy Littrel
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