Waterloo Street Car Fares Increased With Promises of Improvements
Waterloo raises street car fares effective September 16 under arbitration terms. Cedar Falls keeps five cent fares under its straight contract. Waterloo officials expect rapid system improvements, including 20 new cars and line extensions, while transfers between interurban lines remain to be resolved.
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Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern Railway Company
Waterloo
Cedar Walls
Lawn City
Cedar Falls
Q. D. Cass
City Hall
Cass
Arbitration Board
Jefferson Street
Cedar Falls City
Accidental Shot Kills Tama County Deputy
Gilman Iowa August 3 Nat Maltin deputy sheriff of Tama county was instantly killed when his revolver discharged as he stepped from a car during a search for two men who had stolen a taxi. The car’s occupants fled after tying the driver and the deputy and two suspects were later held in Toledo for identification.
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Gilman
Nat Maltin
Tama County
Toledo
Marshalltown
Pickering
Wheat advances on heavy buying by speculators
Chicago market shows a steep price rise as European war talk spurs speculative purchases. March delivery climbs to 2.32 4 per bushel, up from 2.15, with December at 2.30 and a broad daily gain. Canadian crops reported in excellent condition as danger period passes.
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Chicago
Ottawa
Canada
J. B. Drisgall
Agriculure
Inter State Commerce Commission Advances Rates
The text notes a 20 percent advance authorized by the Inter State Commerce Commission under its regulations. It is probable a 5 cent charge will be applied for transferring to receive parity from interstate routes.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Hieterarhan Hues
Suffrage Effort Presses Tennessee Ratification Bid
Gov. Cox appeals for aid to secure ratification of the woman suffrage amendment in Tennessee as Governor plans to visit Senator Harding. Abbie S. Baker reports Tennessee’s legislature rejection appears reversed, while Cox accepts a Chicago Chamber invitation and Roosevelt prepares a northern speaking tour. Harding works at the press in Marion as motion pictures film his effort.
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Associated Press
Dayton
Cox
Abbie Scott Baker
Tennessee
Harding
Lou Dillon
Texas
Gox
C. R. Latham
Chicago Chamber of Commerce
Frank PD. Roosevelt
New York
New England
Marion
Harry 8
New
Indiana
Wayne County
Ohio
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Chicago
Indianapolis
Roosevelt
Worman
West
Rate Experts Prepare Aug 20 Rail Fare Changes
Railroads move to implement higher passenger rates on August 20 and freight rates on August 25. Experts in Washington work on blanket rate schedules using existing gates and territorial percentages, with local road reps drafting the new charges.
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Washington, D. C
Yata
Arrest Swindler of Lost Baby's Parents
Federal authorities say a man arrested at Egg Harbor late yesterday is the kidnapper’s suspect who wrote letters signed The Crank and used the phone to swindle the distraught Coughlin family out of 12000 dollars. The case involves the infant son of George H. Coughlin. Missouri voters also choose candidates with prohibition as a top issue and the regional controversy over the League of Nations features in the Democratic U S Senate race.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Egg Harbor
Yesterdas
George H. Coughlin
Coughlins
Missouri
Jefferson City
Prohibition
League of Nations
Larger Iowa Mines Resume Work Amid Closure
Des Moines reports show five coal mines in the Des Moines district idled, while larger Albia district mines were restarting. Iowa Coal Operators secretary George Peaps Jr says noon reports point to a gradual return to work as statewide idle mines hover near sixteen. J G C Lewis of the Town district United Mine Workers calls a base meeting to urge miners back to work in Des Moines district.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Albia
George Peaps, Jr
Iowa Coal Operators’ Association
J. GC
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Baby survives wild ride with go cart hooked to street car
In Racine on August 3 a two year old child riding in a go cart was pulled along Seventeenth street for three blocks beside a moving interurban car. The cart’s handle wedged under the car floor but the baby escaped injury while the cart suffered minor damage as bystanders signaled the car to stop.
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Baby
Associated Press
Racine
Wis
John Nelson
Mead Street
Seventeenth Street
Air Mail Monoplane Crashes at Omaha. Passengers Uninjured
An all metal air mail monoplane from New York to San Francisco crashed into a house at Ak-Sar-Ben field in Omaha at 10 10 this morning. Pilot Capt N M Jartney and passengers Eadie Rick enbacker Lieut Charles R Colt and T J O'Brien escaped with only severe shaking. The plane was completely wrecked.
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Associated Press
Omaha
Neb
New York
San Francisco
NM. Jartney
Eadie Rickenbacker
Charles R. Colt
T. J. O’brien
Ak-sar-Ben Field
Greund
Kansas Picks Her Candidates Today
Kansas nominates candidates for state offices the U S Senate and Congress and district county and township posts. Ten presidential electors are chosen for each party. Gov Henry J Allen faces opposition from George Snow who cites farm labor roots.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
Kan
Kansas Today
United States Senate
Congress
Henry J. Allen
George Snow
Oakland
Grand Jury Takes Up Probe of Coal Profiteers Plot
Chicago grand jury considered plans for a wide probe into coal profiteering. Indictments possible against individuals firms or corporations suspected of criminal conspiracy in coal prices. 3,000 workers idle in South Chicago due to coal shortages. Bellaville Illinois reports miners returning to work with several resuming by tomorrow. Farmer Jozwiak, 65, of Sigel Wisconsin, died after being gored by a bull.
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Associated Presa
Chicago
Bellaville
Witnois
Grand Rapids
Wis
Jozwiak
Sigel
Canary’s death inspires New Jersey funeral raise
In Newark on August 3 a pet canary named Jim mie died after choking on a watermelon seed. Emidio Rose Bonanno, a Gl-yerrald cobbler, saw friends contribute $200 for a funeral with hearse mourners’ coaches and a band for the 6 by 1 inch casket as he plans to erect a monument.
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Newark
N. 7
Jimmie
Emidio Rose Bonanno
Caruso
Supreme Court Justice Gaynor Dies at 48
Des Moines Aug 3 Justice Frank R Gaynor of the Town Supreme Court was found dead this morning from heart failure. He seemed in good health when he retired last night. He was born in Hamilton Canada and moved to Clermont Iowa at age four. He studied law at Iowa City and served on the Supreme Court since 1913 after 14 years as a district judge. Survived by his widow and one daughter Mrs V HR Evans of Cedar Rapids.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Frank R. Gaynor
Supreme Court
Tme
Justice Gaynor
Hamilton
Can
Clermont
Fayette County
Iowa
Iowa City
Herd
V. HR. Dvans
Cedar Rapids
Independence Man Arrested in Big Jewel Theft Case
Independence reports the arrest of P. J. Golden in Chicago for the theft of $16,000 in jewels from Miss Helen Crone at the Auditorium hotel. Golden, who worked in the linen room there, had $11,000 worth of gems and fled July 3. Police traced him via a state hospital where he had been employed and found letters from 40 Independence women in his room.
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Independence
Helen Crone
Auditorium Hotel
Chicago
P. J. Golden
Golden
Etate Hospital For
Canada Plans Europe Visit to Reorganize Immigration
Ottawa announces that A. Calder minister of immigration will travel to Europe to overhaul Canadian immigration agencies. The aim is to boost new settlers, focusing on farm and domestic help, with admitted immigrants required to have $260 or prove intent to work.
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Ottawa
Ont
A. Calder
Immigration and Colonization
Europe
Plap
Line Up to Get Cash Returned by Ponzi
Boston investors press for repayment as Charles Ponzi, famed for foreign exchange schemes, declares readiness to satisfy all claims. He asserts about 2.5 million dollars paid since the scheme began while crowds gather outside his securities exchange offices before daylight.
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Beto Associated Press
Boston
Mass
Charles Ponzi
Ge ‘Nurities Exchange
Tong
Ponzi
Onti
Beigan
Delivery notice for Courier service before 6 30
The Courier should be delivered at your home before 6 30 o clock. If you fail to receive your paper by that time due to an error of the carrier or other cause, please phone 3380 and a copy will be sent. Phone calls must reach this office before 6 30 a m.
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Max Ceach
Bank Raid in Moline Ends with Barber and Customer Shot
Bandits storm a Moline bank and steal 820000. A rain of police bullets fails to Hart raiders. A barber and a bank customer are shot during the hold up.
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Moline Bank
Hart Raiders
Barber
Bank Robberies Rock Moline and Granger Savings Banks
In Davenport Iowa area news the Moline Commercial Savings Bank was robbed of about 20000 dollars by seven men who fled in a high powered car as police fired on them. A bank employee Charles Miller was shot but expected to recover. Nearby Granger Savings Bank also lost about five thousand dollars in bonds and savings stamps when thieves blew open a safe door though the main vault remained untouched.
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Anna Lilliard
Bergen County
N. J
Erie
Passaic Junction
Associated Presa
Davenport
Moline
Nathan L. Miller
Pang
Syracuse
New York State
Saratoga
N. Y
Mlinois
Charles Miller
Rau
Ito
Emil Kieve
Granger
Granger Savings
Start Investigation of Locklear Death in Falling Airplane
The coroner's office opened an inquiry into the deaths of Lieut. Omer Locklear and Lieut. Milton Elliott after a plane crash in Tollywood. Locklear, a stunt aviator from Texas who died in Los Angeles, had made his first flight on a Texas high school campus four years earlier and worked as an automobile mechanic before the war.
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Locklear
Associated Press
Los Angeles
Cal
Omer Locklear
Milton Elliott
Syiators
Fiew
Texas
Port Worth
Tex
Omer Lacklear
Iator
Nolan Believed to Be Moran Revealed in Audit
Chicago August 4 Lieut James Donald Nolan of the central department army headquarters is identified as Joseph F Moran by his brother. Moran reportedly disappeared after financial irregularities showed a 4000 discrepancy and his wife says he was despondent after failing a lieutenant exam.
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Associated Press
Chicago
James Donald Nolan
Central Department
Joseph F. Moran
Merger of Steel Pints of SIP Being Considered
Tokyo reports a possible nationwide merger of all Japanese steel works to cope with weak iron demand. Iron imports from the United States total about 2,000 tons monthly under last year’s contracts. Dealers foresee a sharp output drop of nearly 30 percent in the first half and worse prospects for the second half.
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Tokio
Japan
United States
Cleanup of Radical Trials Is Promised in Chicago
Chicago reports 20 Committador party members sentenced for conspiracy to advocate removing government by force. State readies fall term docket to clear radical cases as 86 communists 37 J W W s and three women communist laborites remain to be tried. Prosecutors say evidence is similar and yesterday's victory strengthens the case.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Committador Party
William Bross Lioyd
Woman Campaigner on Job for G. O. P. in 1912
Miss Adah Elizabeth Bush of Indianapolis arrived to lead the Republican nationwide campaign on women’s activities. Mrs Hanley L. Fossen of Areaa japalis Minnesota, an executive committee member, is named joint chairman of the speakers bureau with Senator Harry New of Indiana.
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Chicago
Adah
Elizabeth Bush
Indianapolis
Ind
Hanley L. Fossen
Areaa
Japalis
Minn
Harry 9. New
Indiana
Highways Weather Bulletin Forecast for North Central Iowa
Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau reports scattered showers forecast this afternoon or tonight in north central counties. Towns listed include Albert Lea Algona Charles City Cedar Rapids Davenport Des Moines Dubuque Faribault La Crosse Mason City Postville Waterloo and Waverly.
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Department of Agriculture
Weather Bureau
Charles City
Albert Tea
Minn
Algona
Cedar Rapids
Davenport
Des Moines
Dubuque
Faribault
la Sroas
Wis
Mason City
Postystie
Waterloo
Waverly
Cenural
Crisis in Poland as Bolsheviks drive toward Warsaw
The Polish forces crumble under a major Soviet offensive. Warsaw faces imminent capture as Brest-Kovsk falls and Russian troops push westward toward the capital. Americans in Warsaw warned to leave if the city falls. Moscow proclaims a provisional Polish Soviet government seeking labor support.
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Associated Press
Poland
Buranovschi
Warsi
Warsaw
Moscow
London
Julian Mankievsky
Hody
Addy
Pilsudsky
Russia
Washington
Yeuiain
Aisha
Brest-Kovsk
Kobryn
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