Jury weighs $18,190 nuptial gift in replevin case
Trial over nine men and three women jurors faced closing arguments in a writ of replevin dispute over notes and securities valued around $18,100 claimed by Mrs Blanche Miller as a gift from her husband C F Miller. Evidence showed alleged delivery and intent to gift with defense limited to ownership.
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BE. YW. Stiles
Bo. B. Ewisher
Blanche Miller
Mr. Swisher
Dra Rodamar
Mrs. Mitere
C. F. Miller
Miss Merna
Samuel Lumbus
Swisher
Hungarian Partridges Shipped to Montana
Fourteen thousand Hungarian partridges consigned to Idaho and Montana state game departments left New York today. The birds arrived from Czecho-Slovakia and were received by R. F. Holland of the American Game Protective association for the two western states.
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New York
Idaho
Montana
Czecho-Slovakia
R. F. Holland
American Game Protective Association
Waterloo Evening Courier Moves to New One Hundred Thousand Dollar Home
The Waterloo Evening Courier announces a new fireproof building at Park avenue and Commercial street. The 86 by 12 foot lot and 12 foot basement ceilings support future expansion, with a concrete brick and steel structure designed by J G Ralston and built by F W Chapman.
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Waterloo Evening Courier
Canctara
Courier
Bernwith
Park Avenue
Commercial Street
Huey
Hach
Commercial
J. G. Ralston
F. W. Chapman
Post Ofice
Mill Square
J. 1. Case Threshing Machine Company
Hackman Company
J. Marquis, Realtors of
Waterloo
Four Negroes Held in Drug Ring Case Across Midwest
Federal agents say a large international narcotics ring smuggling drugs from Mexico operated through Kansas City to distribution hubs in the Midwest. In Decorah Iowa authorities also report the murder case against Dr F P Kneeskern moving forward with state witnesses and defense plans as motive questions arise.
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Decorah
Sious City
International
T. A. Kenafick
L. I. Marks
Pickett and Big List of Candidates File Nomination Papers
Des Moines April 21 Charles Pickett of Waterloo filed completed nomination papers with Secretary Ramsay. Pickett among five Republicans seeking the US Senate nomination. John Slammill of Britt also filed his papers today seeking reelection as lieutenant governor.
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Pickett
Big
Des Moines
Charles Pickett
Waterloo
R. C. Ramsay
United States
John Slammill
Britt
Sioux City Carmens Threaten Strike Over Wage Cut
Sioux City Ta April 21 wage talks between the Sioux City Service Company and its employees on a proposed 1. per cent wage cut effective May 4 proceed with RJ Dunham in town to negotiate for the employers. Streetcar workers warn of a strike if no compromise is reached and the city council seeks fare reductions if wages are cut.
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Sioux City
Sioux City Service Company
RJ. Dunham
Thica
West Point Fire Destroys Grocery Pool Hall and Homes
A fire early today at West Point Iowa caused about 25000 dollars in damage. The blaze struck the south side, destroying the Farmers Union grocery pool hall and two residences. Local firefighters battled the flames as property losses mounted.
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Burlington. Ja
West Point
Farmers Union
Des Moines Police Declare War on Pool Rooms and Punchboards
Chief James Shanler announces a city wide crackdown on baseball pools punch boards and lotteries run in Des Moines pool halls and cigar stores with police action planned to curb illegal gambling activities.
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Tes Moines
James Shanler
Missing man leaving note to family hints at suicide
Council Bluffs man Purvis 36 disappeared from his home and left a note to his family saying he was not feeling well and might end it all in the river. Osage reports a mumps outbreak with nearly half the population absent from school. Decorah plans a 100th birthday celebration as Wilson Daubney turns 100 tomorrow.
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Council Bluffs
Purvis
Decorah
Wilson Daubney
John Daubney
Taylor’s Falls
Minn
Des Moines Teens Held After Car Theft in Kansas City
Two Des Moines youths say two girls in Kansas City lured them into stealing an expensive car. The group fled Des Moines Tuesday night with hopes to disappear, but were captured at police headquarters after the car went missing.
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Kansas Citys
James T. Sherman
Ralph Worhes
Des Moines
Keokuk Gate City Names New Ownership
An announcement from Keokuk Daily Gate City states that 8 B Carroll of Iowa City buys C B Warwick’s interest in the newspaper. B R Finlay remains president and general manager. Carroll becomes secretary and vice president with Dale and Clarence Carrell to assume key editorial and business roles.
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Town City
Keokwtk
Farm Loan Plans face Congress again in debate
The piece argues for continuing the War Finance Corporation with changes but notes the emergency justification for government loans to farm products has ended. It predicts congressional lines and a likely debate over large scale support, comparing farm loans to manufacturing loans and anticipating action in coming weeks.
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War Finance Corporation
Congress
Bea
New York Evening Post, Inc
Congress Hurries Money to Protect Lives from Flood
Floods push thousands from homes as Mississippi rises to record levels. Relocation efforts expand across Arkansas and Mississippi. levee weaknesses prompt urgent relief and tented shelter plans for refugees along the river.
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Congress
Recognition of Russia Nearer Than Ever Before
Washington April 21. U S officials say recognition of the Moscow Soviet by the United States is nearer than ever, spurred by Genoa conference prospects and Goodrich’s report to President Harding. The administration weighs de facto recognition while considering business implications and cabinet deliberations amid evolving Genoa outcomes.
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International
Washington
BD. C
Russia
United States
Genea
Hicip
Genoa
Harding
James P. Goodrich
Indiana
Moscow
Goodrich
Herbert Hoover
Lenine-Trotzky
State Department
White House
Workman Burned by Boiling Oil Accident in Des Moines
Vernon Vankeny suffered serious burns when boiling oil spilled over him near a boiling vat at a local Des Moines oil company facility this morning. He was employed by the company and his condition is listed as serious.
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Des Moines
Vernon Vankeny
Ankeny
Alocal Oil Company
Police seek man in promissory marriage ruse case
Des Moines police are seeking Ralph Scott of Moline Illinois who allegedly promised to marry Mary B. Clark, obtained $10 from her on the plan, and then vanished. The case centers on a fraudulent marriage proposal and a missing loan.
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Pes Moines
Ralnh Scott
Moline
Mary B. Clark
Dea Moines
Downey Gas Tank Explosion Kills Twelve in California Town
April 21 report shows twelve dead and over a hundred injured as tanks of gasoline and oil exploded at a Downey filling station in Downey California. Fire swept the business district as victims suffered burns and injuries from the blast.
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California
Los Angeles
Downey
Charter of Rights for Women At Conference Topic
A Chicago official delegate urged boosting women in public office at the conference. Attacks on the Washington women’s lobby drew fire, while Mary McDowell defended its humane work. Foreign delegates from Porto Rico and South America discussed women workers and labor supervision. Main topics covered four key aims for women in public agencies hours limits on female workers night work bans and childbirth protections.
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Ares
Wom
Joseph T. Bowen
Chicago
Congress
Alice
Alice Robertson
Oklahoma
Washington
Wagington
Mary McDowell
Tobbs
Miss McDowell
League of Women Voters
United Press
Baltimore
Mme
Milagros Bennett de Newton
Porto Rico
Maria L. Frias
Alsn
Senorita Frias
Bureau of Labor
Illinois Democrats Open Convention with Critique of Republicans
Springfield April 21 Democrats opened their state convention criticizing the national Harding administration and the Gev. Campbell as temporary chairman accused Republicans of empty slogans and praised Wilson era policies. They backed Great Lakes to Atlanta waterways via St Lawrence and the Gulf of Mexico canal plan and urged civil service enforcement while denouncing merit system attacks.
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Associated Prose
Springfield
Resolutions Committees
Harding
iGev
Small
Bruce A. Campbell
Wilson
Campbell
Woodrow Wilson
Newberry
Michigan
Great Lakes
Atlanta
St. Lawrence River
Gulf of Mexico
Explosion Leaves 30000 Homeless in Monastir Region
London dispatch reports a munitions train explosion near Monastir causing 30000 residents to become homeless. Hundreds of soldiers and many children are dead. initial reports placed the blast at Salonika, but Belgrade cables confirm the Monastir rail line as the site. Part of the city burned and thousands fled to woods for refuge.
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United Press
London
Monastir
Salonika
Belgrade
Conductor Confesses Murder of Woman in Vacant Lot
Chicago April 21 Thomas Roach a 27 year old street car conductor confessed to killing a woman whose identity was unknown. He said he struck her with a club in his room then with a man named Russell Mos dragged her body to a vacant south side lot and threw it into a dilapidated moving van. Roach said the woman he met on the street and quarrelled with was killed during the dispute. His wife is ill in a hospital.
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Chicago
Thomas Roach
South Side
Roach
Russell Mosby
Rcom
Mooney Says Only Hope Is Mercy From Governor
Thomas Mooney said his only hope for freedom lies in the mercy of Governor Stephens after the district attorney urged a pardon. He is serving a life term in San Quentin for alleged involvement in the 1916 San Francisco Preparedness Parade bombing case. His attorney Byron G Parker had previously said Mooney would not accept a pardon.
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United Press
San Quentin Prison
Cal
Stephens
Thomas Mooney
Brady
San Francisco
Mooney
Byron G. Parker
Episcopal bishops debate wording in wedding rite in Omaha
Bishop Herman Page of Spokane urged dropping the word other from the Episcopal wedding ritual and replacing it with follow during a Domestic Continental bishops conference. No definite action was taken at the meeting in Omaha Nebraska on April 21.
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Omaha
Neb
Herman Page
Spokane
Wesh
Episcopal Church
Wno
President Signs 17 Million Hospital Bill
President Harding signed the Langley bill authorizing an extra $17,000,000 for hospital facilities for disabled former service men. The action was announced today from the White House in Washington D C.
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Washington, D. C
Harding
Langley
White House
General Chang Tso Lin Seizes Peking And Tientsin
Gen. Chang Tso Lin, governor of Manchuria, led his troops into Peking and Tientsin today, replacing local police forces. Authorities denied any transfer of sovereignty or authority between parties.
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Chang Tso Lin
Peking
Ue Associated Press
Manchuria
Tien Sing
Heavy Snowstorm Smothers Western Pennsylvania
Western Pennsylvania streets were buried under heavy snow today as a storm that began after midnight persisted into the morning. Authorities report it as one of the year's worst snowfalls with plowing and travel disruption across Pittsburgh and surrounding areas.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Battle in Belfast and Dublin Keeps All Gunmen Busy
Dublin reports say Wellington barracks was stormed by rebel troops with casualties on both sides as machinegun fire and rifle fire from nearby houses targeted the encampment. In Belfast gunmen fought in streets with hundreds involved and seventeen wounded in the Ballymacarrett area during the night.
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Belfast
Doblin
Genagh i Macdonagh
United Press
Dublin
Wellington Barracks
Free State
Collings
de Valera
Associated Press
Mantha
Ballymacarrat
Sligo Press
Sligo
Ireland
Sligo Champion Today
Lady Astor Urges Home Religion for Civili zation
New York April 21 Lady Astor declares her political life made her more domestic and urges American women to first educate their children in religion and a proper understanding of God. She criticizes anti British sentiment while praising British fairness toward the United States.
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New York
Lady Astor
America
England
United States
Trolley Victim Stalls Bow In Interurban Crash
Guy M. Johnson was in critical condition at Presbyterian Hospital after being run over by an interurban train Monday night while helping with repairs. He was slightly improved but remained in critical condition today.
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Guy M. Johnson
Presbyterian Hospital
Iswiteh
Harmony Efforts in Minds G O P Fail
Springfield April 21 Republican harmony committee reaches agreement for a do nothing convention seating both Cook county delegations. Brundage faction claims leadership from 1918 election. Thompson group cites last spoken word of the people. Senator McKinley to offer a resolution urging talks with Canada on Great Lakes St Lawrence ship channel development.
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Springfield
Republican Harmony Committee
Cook County
Brundage
Thompson
United States
McKinley
Harding
Canada
Great Lakes-St. Lawrence
Professor Objects to Bryan Edison Ford Views
Silas Evans of Ripon College in Wisconsin challenged the educational views of Henry Ford Thomas Edison and William Jennings Bryan at a Presbyterian union gathering. He questioned Edison's immortality remarks and Bryan's influence on science and evolution, while conceding Ford knows cars well.
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Chicago
Silas Evans
Ripon College
Ripon
Wis
Hmke
Henry Ford
Thomas A. Edison
William Fennings Bryan
Presbyterian Union
Dr. Evans
United States
William Jennings Brien
French Army Plans to Occupy Ruhr Basin Reported
The article cites L'Oeuvre noting France plans to occupy the Ruhr Basin with plans of British non participation. Newspapers advance a warlike stance as coverage grows. The report suggests a Franco British guarantee to Poland amid the Russia German treaty fallout.
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Ruhr
L'Oeuvre
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