Des Moines GOP Convention Centered on Governors Field
Des Moines hosts 1782 delegates as Republican leaders push Hammill Haynes and Anderson for governor roles. Campaign teams court delegates in hotel lobbies with banners and forecasts of second ballot victory amid talks of trades and strategy.
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Des Moines
Republican Party
Glenn C. Haynes
Cerro Gordo County
John Hammill
J. C. McClune
Mark G. Thornburg
Hammill
Haynes
J. H. and
Verson
Town House of Representatives
Anderson
Glenn Haynes
J. H. Anderson
Debs approves socialist backing for La Follette and Wheeler
Eugene V. Debs in a public letter from his sanitarium approves the Cleveland convention's nomination of La Follette and Wheeler as the socialist movement backs the progressive coalition. Debs cannot campaign due to illness but urges unity and readiness to support the effort.
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Debs
la Follette
Wheeler
Chicago
Eugene V. Debs
Socialist Party
Cleveland
Conference For Progressive
American Labor Party
Keokuk County Man Drowns in Skunk River
Richard Shirkey aged 21 of Richland Keokuk County drowned while bathing in the Skunk river He was unable to swim and stepped into a deep hole sinking before companions could reach him The incident occurred near Richland as a party of swimmers gathered on July 21 The report notes popular Austrian sports mountaineering and football in a separate line.
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Burlington
Richard Shirkey
Richland
Keokuk County
Skunk River
Shirkey
Rubber pavement on trial in Boston
The second block of rubber pavement is laid in Boston as officials test 6x12 inch blocks of V inch thickness. The main issue is blocks creeping, cementing to the foundation failing to stop it. The patented blocks are costlier than ordinary paving but are said to wear four times longer and absorb shocks well.
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Rye
Four Hundred-Word Vocabularies Favored by Business Leaders
A Baltimore convention debate centers on Dr John C French 400 word theory. R G Miller of Des Moines argues 400 words suffice for business talk while others propose larger vocabularies. The discussion includes J Martyn Turner and Richard W Gratton with Charles G Dawes noted.
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Associated Press
Baltimore
R. G. Miller
Des Moines
American Institute of Banking
Miller
John C. French
John Hopkins University
French
J. Martyn Turner
San Francisco
Golden Gate
Richard W. Gratton
Chicago
Central Trust Company of Illinois
Charles G. Dawes
Carmel Astronomer Builds Ultra Fast Starlight Camera
A Carmel California astronomer has devised a camera eight times faster than the best on the market and capable of taking pictures by starlight. In strong moonlight a one second exposure yields detail rivaling a thirty minute exposure with current cameras.
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Carmel
California
Jens
Germany Buys American Mules to Replace Oxen in Fields
German authorities announce purchase of American mules to work in agriculture as a replacement for oxen. Officials cite efficiency and modern farming methods while outlining expected deployment across farms and rural districts.
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Germany
Kovar sets fire to farm complex then dies
Philip Kovar a wealthy Blairstown farmer reportedly set fire to seven buildings on his farm and then killed himself after his wife filed for divorce and $19000 alimony. The Kovars had been married 18 years amid alleged assaults and family tensions surrounding the divorce case.
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Eaer Rapids
Philip Kovar
Blairstown
Kovars
Letts Resident Killed by Train Near Letts
Harry F. Lee aged 55 a longtime Letts resident and flagman died Saturday afternoon near Letts after reportedly attempting to board freight train No 8% The Firefly following the freight ran over the body His wife and three children survived two daughters teaching in Rome public schools.
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Associated Pres
Columbus Junction
Harry F. Lee
Letts
Lee
Lette
Tila
Rome
Oelwein Well Fails at 1310 Feet Deep
Oelwein July 21 The city’s new well failed after drilling 1310 feet with no water. Council ends work and plans a new well on South Frederick Street to meet demand of about 400 600 gallons daily.
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Oelwein
Frederick Street
Manila Marriage Safer Than Singleness Says Health Reports
The 1923 Philippine health service records show Manila had 5,159 unmarried deaths last year with 2,034 men and 2,125 women. Among the dead were 1,313 married men and 942 married women, while deaths of widows exceeded widowers by 241.
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Manila
Philipine Health Service
Japan to fund emigration expenses to Brazil
The government will cover all travel costs for Japanese natives who migrate to Brazil and provide a grant of two hundred yen or one hundred dollars to each emigrant.
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Brazil
Two Hundred Iowa Indians Eligible to Vote Under New Law
Toledo Ohio July 21 More than 200 Sac and Fox Indians on the reservation will gain voting rights in November after Congress defined non citizens born within U S territory as United States citizens The change does not alter wardship over property or rights of tribal lands Dr Jacob Streid says about 200 men on the reservation will be able to vote with 356 residents total and 100 under school age making roughly 200 eligible voters
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Toledo
Sac and Fox Reservation
Congress
United States
U States
United States Supreme Court
Jacob Streid
Breid
Sol Ws
Berlin Vampiric Murderer Faces Seventeen Counts and More
Berlin police filed an indictment charging Fritz Haarmann with seventeen murders. Authorities expect proof in at least eight additional cases. Disappearances across Germany are linked to the home where the crimes occurred.
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Associated Press
Hanover
Germany
Fritz Haarman
Chary
Three Die After Auto Struck by Switch Engine at Crossing
A trio of Thurston residents perished when their car collided with a switch engine near Emerson Nebraska last night. Missna Lewin Albert Rastede and Rudolph Johnson all died, while Mrs Sadie Payne escaped by leaping free.
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Associated Presad
Sioux City
Emerson
Neb
Missna Lewin
Albert Rastede
Rudolph Johnson
Thurston
Sadie Payne
Fijian Chiefs Selected to Visit England for Jubilee
Two high chiefs from Fiji are chosen by all Fijian leaders to travel to England and report to the King Emperor on the Redwarders humane rule under the British flag during the Jubilee year of the islands.
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London
England
Premier Kellogg to Meet Allies on Dawes Plan Talks
London reports Premier Mac Donald of England met with Premier Herriot of France Finance Minister da Stefani of Italy Premier Theunis of Belgium and Ambassador Kellogg of the United States to press for agreement among inter allied delegates on enforcing the Dawes plan.
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London
MacDonald
England
Herriot
France
da Stefani
Italy
Theunis
Belgium
Kellogg
United States
Germany
Ruhr
Frank B. Kellore
Downing Street
Foreign Office
Dawes
Young Americans Win Tennis Titles at Olympico
In Colombe France on July 21 Miss Helen Wills defeated Emilienne Viasto 6 2 6 2 to win the women's singles. Vincent Richards outlasted Henri Cochet 6 4 6 4 5 7 4 6 6 2 in a five set men’s final securing the United States an International team victory.
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Colombes
France
Helen Wills
Vincent Richards
United States
Wills
Mhe
Emilienne Viasto
Richards
Aun
Henri Cochet
Many Destitute in Ohio After Floods
Canton July 21 The flood situation remains serious with many displaced and destitute. Relief efforts are underway but hampered by river pirates seizing supplies and a shortage of funds to finance relief work.
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Ohio
Canton
Grain firms in Northwest offer to sell to Farm Bureau
Thirty six grain companies in the northwest propose to sell all holdings including 1062 country elevators across Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota and Montana to the American Farm Bureau Federation The bundle includes 22 terminal elevators in Minneapolis and 12 in Duluth with capacity totaling 65 million bushels The offer will be considered by the board of the grain sales corporation in Chicago tomorrow announced O B Bradfute president of the Farm Bureau Federation
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Associated Preas
Minneapolis
Minn
Northwest
Minnesota
North
South Dakota
Montana
American Farm Bureau Federation
Duluth
Chicago
Northwest Grain
Tly Organized Cran Sales Corporation
O. B. Bradfute
Farm, Bureau Federation
Persia Expresses Regret for Murder of American Consul
The Persian legation reports its government’s deep regret over the killing of Vice Consul Robert Imbrie in Teheran and pledges to pursue the guilty. It cites provocation by visitors taking pictures at a sacred site and notes attacks on police and soldiers.
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Washington
Robert Imbrie
Teheran
Legation
Imbrie
Melin Seymour
Joseph S. Kornfeldt
Legislature May Stay Two Weeks in Des Moines
July 21 The reconvened special session could run into mid next week or longer as members return to Des Moines and resume the Francis inquiry into State Superintendent May E K Francis. The session opens 11 am tomorrow but no business likely until Wednesday due to the Republican state convention.
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Des Moines
Devines
House Judiciary
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
May EK. Francis
Francis
House
Maytag
Code Revision Committee
House Judiciary Committee
C. L. Butler
Utler
Dragging Mississippi River for Unidentified Man's Body
In Dubuque Iowa on July 19 authorities dragged the Mississippi River for a man’s body recovered from Fisherman’s nets at East Dubuque. The body slipped back into the water before landing.
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Dubuque
Mississippi River
East Dubuque
Glacial Shaping of Rocky Mountain Peaks Highlighted
Remnants of the ice age reshaped the area of Rocky Mountain National Park carving vast valleys. Glaciers divided a single mountain mass into three peaks including Longs Peak Meeker and Lady Washington with Longs Peak reaching about 14 256 feet elevation.
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Rocky Mountain National Park
Long
Meekjer
Lady Washington
Leopold and Loeb plead guilty to Franks murder
In Chicago on July 21 the court accepted the guilty pleas of Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, defense counsel Darrow admitting facts as printed. The judge set a hearing starting Wednesday to decide punishment, which could range from indeterminate imprisonment to death.
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Chicago
Nathan Leopold, Jr
Richard Loeb
Robert Franks
Egilty
Clarence S.S. Darrow
Darrow
Robert Crowe
Emiles
Leopold
Loeb
Nathan Leopold
Franks
John R. Caverly
Freeman L. Tracy
Charles Raem
Clarence Darrow
Benjamin
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