Brookhart presses farm loan bill and rail loan figures
Senator Brookhart of Iowa asks Congress to loan farmers 15 million to market surplus crops while citing 536 million paid to railroads and 307 million in wartime rail loans. Des Moines conference farm legislation details unfold before the House Agricultural Committee chaired by Wm. Hirth.
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Washington, D. C
Senate Committee
Brookhart
Iowa
Des Moines Agricultural Conference
House Agricultural Committee
Wm. Hirth
Corn Belt Committee
Hirth
Federal Farm ‘Board
Ketcham
Bichend
AP News Gathers Newsroom Work to Radi broadcast
The Associated Press explains its news gathering process to radio listeners tonight. Executives and editors discuss how six thousand employees collect and distribute world news, with broadcasts planned from WJZ New York WMAQ Chicago WSK Atlanta and KPO San Francisco.
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New York
Associated Press
World Wide Organization
WJZ
WMAQ
Chicago
WSK
Atlanta
KPO
San Francisco
Pur Market in St Louis Still Leads Global Fur Trade
Pur Market in St Louis has stood 161 years as the world’s leading raw fur market despite changing fashions and the retreat of the wilderness frontier.
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St. Louis
Milady
Ontario Editor Retires After Forty Years
Ottawa dispatch reports Robert S. White editor of the Montreal Gazette will retire from active journalism as he nears his seventieth birthday.
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Ottawa
Ont
Robert S. White
Montreal Gazette
London Air Music Broadcasts From Planes
London artists broadcast from airplanes as part of a music feature. A new thermometer measures temperature inside and outside the room side by side, using both ordinary and dial readings. The piece notes praise effects vary with the mind, making a wise man modest but a fool more arrogant.
American Dairy and Egg Exports Rise in 1924
U S exports of dairy products last year valued at 12 476 895 dollars, up 956 010 from 1923, while imports edged to 37 878 588 from 37 102 445. Butter exports fell sharply though cheese shipments more than doubled, and milk products were mixed in 1924.
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Associated Uresey
Washington, PD. C
Mar
Commerce Department
Muscatine Votes On School Bond Issue
Muscatine voters head to the polls on March 8 to decide a 275000 bond issue for a new school and two additions amid site disputes. Two directors seek re election. turnout expected to be heavy alongside other school district races in Clinton and Sioux City reports.
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Seoerated Presse
Muscatine
Clinton
Clinton Independent School District
Winter Storm Buries Upper Michigan In Deep Drifts
Rail and road traffic stalled as a brutal winter storm dropped two to three feet of snow on the Upper Peninsula. High winds created deep drifts hindering rail line clearance and long delays began since Saturday night.
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Cor
Associated Press
Marquette, Mich
Upper Michigan Peninsula
Fifty Brides Aboard Cameronia for New York
One hundred fifty brides voyage aboard the Archer liner Cameronia from Glasgow to Halifax bound for New York. Aboard the ship the brides faced a rough crossing with extreme weather reported by the captain as they sailed toward their future marriages to American suitors.
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Associated Press
Halifax
Archer
Cameronia
New York
Glasgow
Capain
Radio License Boom Among Swedish Fans
More than 12 000 radio fans in Sweden have received receivers licenses from the Department of Commerce. A large share reportedly use American made equipment.
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Washington
Sweden
Department of Commerce
Wal tie Smith to retire after 50 years with Rock Island
Audubon reports station agent Wal tie Smith will retire on a pension after half a century of service with the Rock Island railroad at the local station.
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Audubon, March
Rock Island ‘Railroad
Rat Frightens Woman in Polk County Court House
A woman's shrieks at the Polk county court house drew court officials and officers in a panic, as reports described a perceived murder scene. Mrs. F. E. Lyman, a clerk, found a full grown rodent on her desk triggering the alarm.
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Des Moines
Mar
Polk County Court House
F. E. Lyman
River Transformed by Concrete Levee System at Pueblo
The Arkansas river once swollen in June 1921 and causing about 30 million dollars in damage and over a hundred deaths has been diverted from its natural channel into a man made passage lined with concrete levees.
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Pueblo
Colo
Arkansas River
Divorces Granted in the United States in 1923 8
The year 1923 saw more than 165000 divorces granted across the United States. Officials reported rising divorce rates amid social changes and shifting marriage norms nationwide.
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United States
Mrs M Burich Appointed Clerk at Rothschild Store
Mrs M Burich of Iowa City becomes the new clerk at the Rothschild store, marking a personnel change announced to customers and staff.
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Mrs. M. Burich
Iowa City
Rothschild Store
Supreme Court declines World Court challenge
The Supreme Court refused to hear an attempted legal challenge to American participation in the World Court. An injunction brought by Benjamin Catchings of New York and Washington was dismissed as unconstitutional.
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Supreme Court
U. S
the Associated Pree
Washington, D. C
The
Supreme Court Today
World Court
Benjamin Catchings
New York
Washington
Catchings
World Tribunal
Brookhart Possible Run if Subcommittee Favorable
Friends of Senator Smith W Brookhart plan to file nomination papers to run against Senator A B Cummins if the congressional election sub committee report on Brookhart Steck is unfavorable. Washington dispatch notes the senate may back the sub committee suggesting Steck be seated.
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Des Moines
Smith W. Brookhart
A. B. Cummins
Congressional Election
Brookhart
Robbers Raid Williams Home in Washington D C
Five or six men posing as revenue agents robbed Mrs. Caroline Williams on fashionable 16th street seizing a $2 500 ring and pearls plus other gems. They tied seven servants in the dining room and escaped after Mrs Williams was robbed and a guard left over the captives. Police later cornered a suspect after a hotel based chase. About $100 000 in jewels were said to be stored in a vault prior to the raid.
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Washington, D. C
Caroline Williams
16Th Street
Revenue Service
Two ex convicts arrested for multiple blue grass garage and bank robberies
Orville Boetteger and Oren Fye confessed to robbing the Pleasant Prairie Savings Bank in Muscatine county and a garage in Blue Grass, Iowa. They were captured after a lengthy manhunt, with ties to other burglaries including a Peckwood bank and a Sigourney arrest in the winter.
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Asemrnterd Presse
Davenport
Orville Boetteger
Oren Pye
Olie
Iowa
Pics Sat Prairie Saving Bank
Packwood
Fairfield
Agency
State
Muscatine County
Kewanee
Ill
Oren Fye
Chester ‘Smith
Pleasant Prairie
Fye
Boetteger
White Way
Sigourney
Unknown Element Found At Illinois University
The University of Illinois announces the discovery of element number 61 by Dr. B. Hopkins with L. F. Ventema and J. A. Harris. Over five years of Rare Earth Laboratory work used on campus X Ray equipment led to the identification of the new metal.
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Illinois University
Urbana
University of
Rare Earth
Hopkins
Jement
Copenhagen
Dautrich Couple Found Dead After Prolonged Absence
March 8 reports say Mr and Mrs James Dautrich were found dead in bed after friends visited their room due to their extended morning absence. Also noted is Elsie Hayes of Winnipeg who was taught to hear again by radio after twenty two years deaf and dumb. A rubber composition shoestring invention from England claims ultra stretch allowing easy on and off without unlacing.
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Reading
James Dautrich
Elsie Hayes
Winnipeg
England
Special League Session Opens Amid Crowd at Geneva
Geneva March 8 The special session of the League of Nations assembly opened at 3 10 pm with Viscount Ishii presiding. Delegates fought crowds in the palace lobbies as they prepared for the preliminary agenda. Turkey informs the league it will study its invitation to Geneva and discuss the Mosul issue before the council which delayed ruling for two or three days. Paris March The rumor grows that M Briand will try to form a cabinet with Caillaux or Peret as finance minister after the cabinet defeat over a proposed sales tax. Briand’s foreign policy role is seen as pivotal to France’s influence at the league council.
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Associated Press
Geneva
League of Nations Assembly
Viscount Ishiijin
League Council
League
Turkey
League of Nations
Mosul
Wiste Council
Paris
M. Briand
Joseph Caillaux
Raoul Peret
Aristide Briand
Chamber of Deputies
M. Herriot
Carpel
Chamber
Deamergrove
Briand
France
Gereva
Penney Store at Fort Madison gutted by fire
Damage to 75,000 in Fort Madison as a basement blaze at the J C Penney Company store destroyed stock and jeopardized the business college upstairs. Keokuk and Fort Madison fire crews battled flames, with three firefighters overcome by smoke but later reported recovering.
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Keokuk Ina
Fort Madison
J C. Penney , Company
Business College
Keokuk
Circular capes of quilted petticoats gain resort fashion
Circular capes fashioned from quilted petticoats are worn by stylish women at the southern resorts. Observers expect the look to spread to summer venues later in the year as novelty attire and regional craft influence grows.
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Brittany
Dwellers Found in Old Caves Near Mt Valgdeon
Workmen uncover interior cave dwellings under Mt Valgdeon where American soldiers are buried. They discover inscriptions including The year 1087 and reference an abbey once a Henry I refuge. Family Night March 9 at 1:60 O F hall supper 6:30 stunt committee 19t7.
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Paris
Mt. Valgdeon
Influenza Epidemic Expands in New York State
The Associated Press reports two deaths and the disease spreading to four more centers in New York. Nearly 2,000 cases have been reported with Binghamton hardest hit. Gloversville reports five hundred mill form cases.
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New York
iBy
Associated Press
Albany
N. Y
New York State
Bingham
Gloversville
Two Rock Island Residents Die in Weekend Auto Crash
Clarence R. Ingold 20 and Ruth Wilson 18, both Rock Island residents, are reported dead or near death after an early morning crash. Leo Galvin 23 of Denver and Potter, with potter's wife aboard, were occupants. Galvin seriously hurt, Wilson fractured skull, both women slightly injured. The group had driven in a cab at high speed after drinking at a camp on Rock River.
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Rock Island
Mareh
Clarence R. Ingold
Ruth Wilson
Coal Valley
Inceld
Boulevard Street
Miss Wilson
Leo Galvin
Denver
Colo
Potter
Galvin
Peoria
Miss Lott, Carr
Moline
Rock River
District Basketball Tourneys Set To Begin This Week
Des Moines reports four class A district boys tournaments and girls sectional showdowns start Thursday. Class A finals reach Ottumwa to decide entrants for the National Tournament at the University of Chicago. Class B district events include many sites such as Mallard and New Hall with 150 schools represented.
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Mress
Des Moines
Ottumwa
Iown
University of Chicago
Anes
Mallard
Harris
Ida Grove
Jewell
Perry
Andubon
Stanton
Sidney
Allerton
Crawfordsville
Murseatine
New Hall
Grundy Center
Hampton
Independence
U S Treasury Offers Bonds to the Public
The treasury announces $56,000,000 in 0 year bonds at 3 percent, issued to fund March obligations and retire outstanding bonds. They mature in 1956, redeemable after 1946, offered at 100, with notes series A 1926 totaling $615,000,000 eligible as partial payment. Federal reserve banks will receive applications. The treasury also plans to buy $100,000,000 in third liberty loan bonds from holders.
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Washington, D. C
Treasury
Federal Reserve Banks
Third Liberty
Hamill Expects Victory By Steck In Senate Seating
Des Moines dispatch reports Governor Hamill returning from Washington says Daniel F Steck is likely to be recommended for the Senate seat of Smith W Brookhart by the investigation sub committee. He notes the senate's action after the report is uncertain and a meeting is planned for 2 30 this afternoon with possible delays.
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Des Moines
Washington
Corn Belt Agriculture Committee
Hammill
National Capital
Daniel F. Steeke
Senate
Smith W. Brookhart
Tribune News
Ernst
Ottumwa Wins Tourney In Fairfield Narrow Win
Ottumwa High School captured the sectional basketball title at Fairfield on Saturday by defeating Mt. Pleasant 12 to 5. Also notes trivia on beaver hats in England, potato tops dye, and Welsh teaching mandates for 1927. Listings of districts and towns appear throughout.
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Ottumwa
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Frank Martin
State Bureau of Investigation
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Penney
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Washington High
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Glamorevan County Council
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Ellsworth
Gowrie
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