Lake near Dubuque eyed for state park plan
Des Moines May 19 The Iowa board of conservation reviews buying Zollicoffer’s lake in Dubuque county to convert into a state park. The lake one and a half miles long lies six miles north of Dubuque amid wooded bluffs, with dredging proposed to restore water levels. Local outdoorsman Adolph Kockendorfer urges rapid action backed by the Izaak Walton League and Dubuque clubs to create a northeastern Iowa vacation site.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Iowa
State Board of Conservation
Dubuque County
Dubuque
Towa
Adolph Kockendorfer
Board of Conservation
Mississippi River
Kockendorfer
Izaak Walton
American grain market captured by Russians report
Berlin April 20. A Russian commerce report says American grain has been driven from Baltic states and Scandinavia by Russian competition and is vanishing from German and Dutch markets. It notes Russia exported 99,123,476 poods of grain in 1922 23, with rye as a leading product, and Germany and England consuming over half of Russia exports that year.
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Berlin
Baltic States
Fintana
Peter Petroff
Germany
Petroff
Petrograd
Bolshevist
England
Russia
Crawfordsville Weekend Socials and Local Sports Report
Crawfordsville notes include visits by Mr. and Mrs. Frank McCoy and family from Mr Pleasant and others in town. The high school boys baseball team beat Oakville 4 to 2 and then lost to Wapello 11 to 4 in rainy conditions. A large audience heard Rev Myron Hayes speak on Outrunning Simon Peter at the Methodist union service.
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Crawfordsville
Frank McCoy
Mr. Pleasant
McCoy
Moorhead
Marsh Sewell
Winfield
Miss Griner
Washington
Hazel Smith
McCleary
Ellis Kongable
Amy Welch
Doris Fletcher
Mary White
Methodist Church
Simon Peter
John
Jesus
Peter
High Court Decides Ten Criminal Cases
DPS MOVIES May 12 report lists ten criminal appeals decided by the Iowa Supreme Court. Rudolph Lucia v Utterback affirmed. writ discharged. Several other cases from Marion, Plymouth, Adair, Appanoose and Polk counties affirmed per curiam.
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DPS
A Su“Breme
Riadolph Lucia
Hubert Utterback
Polk County
Justice Vermillion
State of Iowa
R. G. McCoy
Marion County
Perenriam
P. F. Mackel
Plymouth County
M. V. Lalley
Adair County
Harry Lovell
George Jackson
Jack Johnson
Ed Winters
Appanoose County
Appellant from Wapello County in Per Curiam Iowa Case
State of lowa vs Henry Tower affirms appeal from Polk County in a per curiam ruling. Ordered actions summarize decision with concise legal outcome and county focus. The filing references Wapello and Polk counties and the appellate posture in a state matter.
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Wapello County
State of Lowa
Henry Tower
Polk County
Marriage and birth rate rise in the Free State
Dublin reports show three final months of last year with 14 716 births, an annual rate of 18.6 per thousand of a 3 165 000 population, births surpassing deaths by 4 493 and a death rate of 12.9 per thousand. There were 4 063 Free State marriages. Los Angeles plans a 1 000 000 war memorial building by county supervisors and the American Legion, funded after a raised appropriation.
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Dublin
London
France
Free State
Los Angeles
American Legion
Baron Fitts
The
Legion
Public Libraries Expand Adult Education For Foreigners
Carnegie grant funds study of library driven education aims to aid Americanization and self education. Seattle uses Immigrant Service detention quarters for outreach. Chicago runs a reader’s bureau guiding nonvocational study. Detroit Buffalo and Cleveland also expand similar services.
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Chicago
Carnegie Corporation
American Library Association
America
Chicago Public Library
Detroit
Buffalo
Cleveland
Reading courses to meet isolated students needs
The secretary describes using printed reading courses for isolated students in small towns and country districts, covering both vocational and cultural education, as the easiest method to reach those out of school.
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Tion
Adulta
Eris
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