Hindenburg Arrives in Berlin Ahead of Inauguration
Field Marshal von Hindenburg reached the Heerstrasse station for his ceremonial journey to the chancellery as president elect of Germany. Dense security and massive police measures accompanied his arrival with officials awaiting him at the station and along the route to the palace.
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Berlin
Field Marshal von Hindenburg
Germany
Heerstrasse
General von Hindenburg
Hanover
Marshall von Hindenburg
Havel River North Bridge
von Hindenburg
Capitol
Schupps
Hindenburg
Luther
Geissler
Interior
Schiele
Meisner
Kempner
von Seekt
Kenker
Boess
Fredenburg
Restriction of Crime News Won’t Stop Crime Claim
Mrs. Charles M. Dickinson president of the New York State Federation of Women’s Clubs told an audience in Binghamton that moving crime stories from front pages to later pages or shrinking headlines does not eliminate crime. She blamed moral laziness in the home and urged conservative journalism to address underlying causes during Better Homes Week.
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Associated Pres
Binghampton
N. Y
Charles M. Dickinson
New York State Federation of Women's Clubs
Better Homes Week
Dickinson
Federation
Hoover Urges Admen to Uphold Ethics Worldwide
Secretary Hoover told the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World in Houston that advertising must embrace honesty and a professional ethics code. He warned of the power to shape minds and urged self policing to prevent government overreach in public life.
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Rio
Indictment of Dennis J. Murphy Held Pending
Allamakee county officials awaited word from Iowa City and Independence on committing Dennis J. Murphy to the state hospital for the insane after a verdict of insanity by the Iowa City commission. Murphy faces a forgery indictment set to go to Cresco for trial next Monday, with County Attorney E F Pieper pushing the case.
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Associated Press
Dubuque
Allamakee
Iowa City
Independence
Dennis J. Murphy
Waukon
State Hospital
District Court
Murphy
University Hospital
E. F. Pieper
Cresco
Eleven Die as Express Hits Car at Grade Crossing
Eleven persons are reported dead and several seriously injured when the Frankfurt Basel express train struck an automobile carrying 25 at a grade crossing. Dispatches do not locate the accident scene.
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Berlin
Frankfort-Basle
Chancellor Luther Plans Rally After President Elect Arrival
Luther vows to continue services as his ten year old daughter prepares a floral tribute for the president elect at the station. A four car motorcade will transport officials to the chancellor's palace with von Hindenburg and key aides in the lead car.
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Luther
von Hindenburg
Oscar
von Feldman
Meeting to unify farm groups for profit program
Des Moines May 11 A conference aimed at securing profit for farmers on their products will be held in Des Moines tomorrow. Over 150 representatives from farm organizations in ten Midwestern states will attend, seeking a unified program endorsed by diverse rural groups including farm bureaus unions and cooperatives. Milo Reno leads the planning to foster cross organization cooperation and legislative action.
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Des Moines
Middle Western States
Milo Reno
Iowa Farmers Union
Farmers Cooperative and Educational Union of America
Kansas City
Middle West
Ministers Vote to Abolish Religious Pageant at the Fair
Des Moines ministers voted to abolish the annual religious pageant at the Iowa State Fair as part of a broader push to curb Sunday desecration. The move followed city council name changes to a histories pageant and criticism over protests against the Legion show.
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Preeay
Des Moines
American Legion
Legion
Plane at Salt Lake Falls With Two Bay Passengers
May 11 Salt Lake City Utah A plane piloted by A Claren a former Western division air mail official crashed after takeoff from Woodward field in a 1000 foot fall in high west wind two fifteen year old passengers were badly burned witnesses saw the craft side slip tail spin and burst into flames identification delayed until clothing fragments were found
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Woodward Field
A. Claren
Western Division Air Mail Service
Regional Names Sparse in OCR List
A garbled OCR line lists several U S regional terms Nebraska Indiana Iinoi Missouri Oklahoma Kansas Minnesota and Ilowa without context or dates. No clear event or action is described.
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Nebraska
Indiana
Iinoi
Missouri
Oklahoma
Kansas
Minnesota
Ilowa
Smallpox Deaths Rise in Capital Warn Health Officer
Washington health officials report a higher smallpox death rate in the capital with more than a third of current cases resulting in fatalities. A streetcar conductor spread infection through contact tracing while anti vaccination sentiment grows in New York papers. Immigration and political refugees also feature in the discussion as authorities consider public health and policy.
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Washington Railway and Electric
New York
Ftealth
Fowler
Rum Runners Leave Coast Off New York
Rum row erodes under the dry navy blockade off New York as schooners and steamers vanish or shift to home ports or other marts. Coast Guard Captain Jacobs notes 38 craft on patrol while smugglers seek ashore or closer hiding. A patrolling boat ignored a rum ship’s request for whiskey in exchange for water as evidence of enforcement.
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New York
Atlantic Seaboard
Cape Ann
Maes
Cape May
N. J
W. W. E. Jacobs
Coast Guard
Dry Navy
Ecoast
Postal Supervisors Meet in Cedar Rapids
Postal supervisors from large state post offices gather in Cedar Rapids for the Town National Association annual meeting. Routine business is completed and officers are to be elected this afternoon as Jeffrey J. Keane from Jefferson City Missouri speaks on mail handling and tail service. Annual reports are read.
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Associated Press
Cedar Rapids
National Association of Postal Supervisors
Jeffrey J. Keane
Jefferson City
Lieutenant Governor Kimball III Guides State From Hospital
On May 11 Lieutenant Governor Kimball III Hammill guided the state from Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs area while Governor Hammill visited Omaha. He acted as chief executive for several hours with the second in command resting for an operation and not exercising state powers during the interval.
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Council Bluffs
Kimball
Ship of State
Jennie Edmundson
Hammill
Omaha
Oklahoma city suffers severe rain flood at Chickasaw
Rain swept across Oklahoma with a cloudburst in Chickasaw and Washita valley. Five inches fell at Chickasaw, flooding streets three feet deep and submerging thousands of acres of crops in the region.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Chickasaw
Washita River Valley
Gavin Sentenced to Six Months in Jail
Judge Charles A. Dewey sentenced Paul J. Gavin of Aurora to six months in the county jail for passing two bad checks nearly a year ago. Gavin admitted receiving ten dollar payments for checks cashed at the Casey and Our Fall restaurants on July 4, 1924. He was arrested a week ago at Aurora.
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Charles A. Dewey
Paul J. Gavin
Aurora
Mt. Pleasant
Gavin
Casey
Our Fall
Dee Attacks Child Costs Owner 20000 After Suit in Court
In White Plains New York May 11 a supreme court verdict awarded Max Weinburg and his son Jacques 20000 against actors Conway Tearle and Adele Rowland Tearle for injuries from a dog attack four years earlier on the Tearles Chappaqua estate. The award totaled 14000 for Jacques and 5000 for the father for expenses.
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Associated Press
White Plains
N. Y
Max Weinburg
Jacques
Supreme Court
Conway Tearle
Adele Rowland Tearle
Tearles
Chappaqua
Morschauser
Herbert Quick Remembered as Des Moines School Principal
Mason City notes the death of Herbert Quick, famed author and Garfield grade school principal in the 1880s. Charles Mullan recalls him as the best teacher he ever had. Mrs. Catherine McMillan and Mrs. Helen Dillon await funeral plans from Columbia, Missouri, with burial possibly in Mason City or Syracuse, New York. Quick later practiced law in Sioux City after leaving Mason City in 1890.
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Associated Press
Mason City
Herbert Quick
Garfield
Charles Mullan
Catherine McMillan
Helen Dillon
Columbia
Syracuse
N. Y
Visible grain supplies decline across multiple commodities
The Associated Press reports Chicago on May 11 that the visible supply of American grain fell in several categories. Wheat dropped 2,239,000 bushels, corn 2,212,000, oats 4,358,000, rye 626,000, and barley 549,000, signaling a broadocking reduction in available grain stocks.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Alleged Forger Returned To Iowa From Kansas City
W D Harrick under indictment for cashing a forged Anamosa check was brought back from Kansas City by Chief Wesley Benes. He confessed and planned to plead guilty in district court this afternoon. Harrick had recently been released from the state reformatory.
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Cedar Rapids
W. D. Harrick
Kansas City
Wesley Benes
State Reformatory
Trial of Former Gov Davis Starts in Topeka
In Topeka Kansas on May 11 the trial of Jonathan M Davis former Governor of Kansas began before Judge James A McClure on charges of conspiring with bank commissioner Carl J Peterson to obtain a bribe. Jury selection from 75 potential jurors began today.
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Associated Press
Topeka
Kas
Jonathan M. Davis
Kansas
Carl J. Peterson
James A. McClure
May Enlarge Iowa National Cemetery
Keokuk Iowa May 11 Keokuk s national cemetery one of the eighty three in the United States may be enlarged W W Phelps past state commander of the Disabled American War veterans intends to inquire into the possibility of increasing the burial plot s acreage There are places for seventy more graves The cemetery here was established during the civil war Eight soldiers of the confederacy union and Spanish American war veterans are buried there There are also a number of world war dead whose bodies were returned from France.
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Keokuk
Keokuk's National Cemetery
United States
W. W. Phelps
France
Bank Taken Over by State Bank Dept in Mason City
Mason City authorities report the City-Commercial Savings Bank was seized this morning as the state banking department assumed control after a notice was posted on the bank door announcing the action.
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Mason City
City-Commercial Savings Bank
State Banking Department
Conditions found in Wapello County treasurer office
State Auditor McClune reported cross irregularities in the Wapello County treasurer’s office Ottumwa after the death of C. E. Warren. Checks were found unissued, books not kept since January 1, and taxpayers’ signed checks lacking amounts or receipts. The office was nearly shut down and handled only routine business. Manning named temporary treasurer, while investigators probe possible negligence or criminal conduct.
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Des Moines. Ln
McClune
Wapello
C. E. Warren
Ottumwa
Manning
Board of Supervisors
Warren
McCline
Winter Wheat Harvest More in Iowa Than Last Year
Des Moines May 11 state statistician Leslie M. Carl reports about nine percent of last fall s winter wheat acreage in Iowa will not be harvested An estimated 1 000 more acres will be harvested this year than in 1924 The May 1 condition of winter wheat is 82 percent of normal with a forecast production of 7 942 000 bushels versus 8 078 000 last fall Hay stands at 86 percent of normal and likely larger by about 200 000. Livestock are disease free and young stock is thrifty hogs cattle sheep and lambs near normal conditions for May 1.
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Des Moines
Leslie M. Carl
Iowa
Carl
Derby ride ends with third as Donoghue misses train
London April 22. Steve Donoghue the noted jockey was late for the Derby first race after missing his train at St Pancras. He telephoned Croydon airdrome and flew to Derby but the horse he rode finished third.
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London
Steve Donoghue
St. Pancras
Croydon
Derby
Braid Quits Play to Plan Links
James Braid the renowned golfer will skip major tournaments this year to focus on course design. He remains passionate about golf and now serves as an authority and specialist in laying out courses with commitments booked well in advance.
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Braid
Play
Links
London
James Braid
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