Smith 15 Eyes Midwest Farm Vote Strategy
New York Aug 4 INS Satisfied that he is making rapid strides in his bid to capture farm voters, Gov Al Smith will return to Albany to finalize his acceptance speech due August 22. He plans conferences with farm leaders and may tour the Midwest after, while Peek and Baruch are poised to chair a farm vote campaign committee with headquarters in Chicago.
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New York
INS
Middlewest
al Smith
Albany
Presidentis
Adirondacks
George N. Péck
Moline
Corm Belt
Emith
Peek
North Central States Agricultural Conference
Midwest
Middlewestern
Frank O. Lowden
Illinois
Peex
Lowden
Linois
Smith Standard
General’ Motors
John’ J. Raskob
cam‘Paige
Althe Bernard M. Baruch
Chicago
Raskob
Smith
Biltmore
Dibany
Budgen
Ations
Peekskill
Sixth Infantry
Hoover Campaign Keynote Promises Fitness for President
Amid a Pennsylvania to Wisconsin march of endorsements, Herbert Hoover is touted as fit to lead the nation. Speakers stress his ability, character, and experience, with McCormick and Dickinson backing Hoover while party tensions threaten seating disputes. Michigan leaders hail Hoover and reject campaigning on personalities, urging unity for his presidency.
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Herbert Hoover
McCormick
Vance McCormick
Hoover
Pennsylvania
Dr. Work
LaFou
Wisconsin
George Viis
Harry Thomas
Republican Committee
Herman Ekern
Elizabeth Thomes
LaFollevue
Michigan
Pred Green
Herbert Hoarts
Ing
Green
Fisher
Farm relief unity urged in Republican campaign plan
W Good, western Republican campaign manager, outlines a Dickinson statement urging farm policy as a central campaign issue. He argues farmers should not desert the Republican party and criticizes Democratic leadership for agricultural policy, noting potential leadership changes in the House agriculture committee and opposition to farm relief legislation.
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W. Good
Dickinson
National Republican Committee
Middlewest
Senate
House
Mississippi Valley
Democratic Party
Aswell
Louisiana
Gilbert Haugen
Iowa
House of Representatives
Hoover Choice of Majority at Picnic Undecided Elsewhere
Voters at a Cresco picnic in Indiana August 4 favored Hoover with 16 votes, 12 were noncommittal and none for Smith. An interview of nine people produced six Hoover votes, five for Smith, and one undecided. A Bohemian farmer backed Smith for change. A cabinet maker favored Hoover despite disliking him. Picnickers included a vest agent, an insurance agent, a deputy sheriff, a store clerk, a few others and 21 housewives.
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Courter Sprout Service
Cresco
Deenty-elgit
Hoover
Smith
Fhve Smith
Fire alarms report multiple residential blazes
Friday night alarms at 140% Commercial and 104 Fourth Ave. record fires in a closet due to a kerosene lamp explosion and a chimney burning out. The Anna Poleshman residence and the Poem Cafe area receive notices, with insurers urged in the ad.
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Anna Poleshman
Jass
C Cafe
Friedl
Temperatures Reported With Rainy Weekend Forecast
Weather data shows Friday high near 22 degrees with a low around .87 cold Friday night. Saturday is unsettled with expected rain overnight and possible light snow later, forecast totals around 3 inches in some areas.
Dismisses Writ to Force Vote Recount in Patterson Fight
Storm Lake Iowa August (INS) District Judge James Deland dismissed the petition for a writ of certiorari to compel the Kossuth county board to recount June primary votes for State Senator W. J. Breckenridge and Representative George W. Patterson. Breckenridge given 10 days to amend the petition. Kossuth board upheld in refusing recount. Recounts completed in three of five counties in the Forty-seventh district. Patterson leads Breckenridge by 32 votes with Breckenridge seeking renomination.
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Storm Lake
INS
Kossuth County Board of Supervisors
W. J. Breckenridge
George W. Patterson
James Deland
Breckentinge
Kossuth
River Wall Bids Rejected. New Proposals Soon
At a riverfront commission meeting held in the chairman’s office Hermann Miller 822 Commercial Street all bids for the river wall at the Syndicate building to the Fifth Street bridge were rejected. Architect J G Ralston was ordered to revise drawings and specifications and new bids will be invited within days. Plans include extending the wall below the bridge later to create a riverfront park replacing the old tailrace area tied to Schulte Realty on Bridge Street.
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Riverfront Commission
Hermann Miller
Syndicate
Fifth Street
J. G. Ralston
Schulte Realty Company
Bridge Street
Continue Case Man Charged with Sale Mortgaged Motor
Henry S. Jones, charged with embezzlement of mortgage property, sees case continued in municipal court to Aug 14 at 1:16 p m. He is released on his own recognizance for $1900. State information dated May 10 by Ralph W. Travis alleges Jones mortgaged his $350 automobile to Frederick Shanks Loan Co and, on May 1, sold and disposed of it, leaving the mortgage unpaid. Warrants served July 26 by Sheriff H J Wagner.
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Henry S. Jones
Jones
Fed
Ralph William Travis
Frederick Shanks Loan Company
H. J. Wagner
Cedar Falls Bible Conference Dates Set for 1929
Dates for Cedar Falls eighth annual Bible conference at Riverview Park were set as July 28 to August 4, 1929. Directors met at noon to approve the schedule. Dr Parley E Zartman was re elected executive secretary.
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Carrier Synncial
Cedar Falls
iRiverview Park
Parley E. Zartman
Seek Missing Man as Brother's Slayer
Sioux City police seek Peter Bocian in the death of his brother Stanley J. Bocian who was fatally wounded near his home. Detectives piece together a family quarrel as Stanley’s wife reportedly learned of a dive with Peter and his wife. A confrontation at the brothers’ home led to a shooting. Peter was arrested but later released, and he has since disappeared.
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Sioux City
ciNs
Peter Bocian
Stanley J. Stanley
Stanley
Wey
Peterr
Peter
Imne
Six Die In New York Heat Wave Reported
Six deaths occurred in New York amid an extreme heat wave with temperatures near 80 and forecasts predicting continued warmth. The newswire notes 20 heat precautions, potential showers, and no relief expected today.
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Aga
New York
Weather Bureau
Chicago
Torrie
Polish airmen plot eastward Atlantic flight to New York
Polish Majors Idzikowski and Kubala, flying a single motor aircraft from Marszalek Pilsudski, aim to reach New York by dusk. They expect fog over Grand Banks but would turn for land if needed, saying fuel lasts about 66 hours for 3,600 to 4,000 miles. No SOS radio. they carry a collapsible boat and plan to land without visas, appealing to immigration. A Denver quake report follows.
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Louis Tdzikowsii
Kasimir Kubala
Atlantic
New York
Fiers
Grand Banks
Newfoundland
Metropolis
Idzikowski
Gioré
Marszalek Pilsudski
Kubala
Brain Tests by Moy Association Quiz
A vintage teaser from the Evening Post presents an association test. Readers mark which instrument matches each item in a two-minute exercise, listing instruments like barometer ammeter chronometer thermometer and others against measures such as atmospheric pressure temperature velocity and body moits. Answers appear on the society page.
Third Generation Tunnel Guard Recalls Long Lineage
New York August 4 Del Leigh writes of a tunnel man in a London and North Eastern rail series. A gentle man has lived in the tunnel for 30 years with his father and grandfather before him, preferring underground life to above ground work. He guides the narrator through darkness, emphasizing listening over action as the world above fades away.
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New York
Leeds
Harrowgate
West Hartlepool
del Leigh
London & North Eastern Railway
England
Tunnnel
Armen
Pallman
Finlander wins decathlon at Olympics in Amsterdam
Pravo Yrjola of Finland set a world record with 8053.29 points to win the Olympic decathlon as Ken Doherty led U S entrants with strong javelin and a 4:04 1,500. Other results include Sweden and Denmark in team events and Americans faring poorly in horse riding and fencing.
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Amsterdam
Pravo Yrjola
Finland
Ken Doherty
Tom Churchill
Barney Beringer
Jim Stewart
Petttathion
Jarvinen
Doherty
Stewart
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Josephine McKim
Ray Ruddy
Austin Clapp
Clarence Crabbe
Miss Novelius
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al Tho Traiine Arne Borg
Roy Charlton
Australia
U. S
Amercans
Sprin
Portugal
Farm Association Renounces Hoover as Foe of Agriculture
The Honeygrove unit of Cedar County Farmers Association passed a resolution denouncing Herbert Hoover as an arch enemy of agriculture. It states gratitude for how the Democratic national nominating convention addressed farmers' problems and reflects support for Democratic platform principles.
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Town City
Herbert Hoover
Honeygrove
Cedar County Farmer's Association
Students in same class in 1879 marry in 1924 Des Moines
Luther B. Cassidy, 73, local insurance company treasurer, and his bride of the day formerly Mrs. Jessie Griffith of Sioux City, have established a home in Des Moines. Their marriage in Sioux City yesterday ended a friendship begun in 1879 when both were students in the Latin class at the University of Iowa. Mrs. E. W. Trego and daughter Ploring plan trips to Minneapolis and Milwaukee to visit relatives.
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Des Moines
Luther B. Cassidy
Jessie Griffith
Sioux City
University of Iowa
Mrs J W Fisher dies. Greene native at 64
Mrs J W Fisher about 64 formerly of Greene Iowa died at her daughter Mrs George Troestler 116 Irving Street at 10 10 am after six months illness from apoplexy and complications Funeral plans show she lived most of her life in Greene was a member of the Ladies Auxiliary April 12 she and her husband moved to her daughter's home for health reasons Surviving are her husband and daughter and three other children Bert Fisher Canada Mrs Clyde Lawn Clear Lake Ia and Ed Fisher Mason City Ia two grandchildren and burial is expected in Greene at O Keefe Towne Mortuary
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J. W. Fisher
Greene
George Troestler
Irving Street
Fisher
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Troustler
Bert Fisher
Canada
Clyde Lawn
Clear Lake
Ed Fisher
Mason City
O'Keefe & Towne Moritary
Buria
Towans Organize in D C to Back Hoover Campaign
In Washington Iowa Hoover for President club formed at Republican National Committee HQ with about 2 000 Iowa families in the capital invited to join. A meeting for officers will be held. a coordinating letter goes out to Towans with sponsors including Leslie Shaw Abram Myers Edward Cunningham Pressly Baldridge and others.
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Weahington
D. C
Iowa
Ca‘tives
Republican National Cummittee
Barr
Harry E. Mull
Leslie M. Shaw
the Treasury
Abram F. Myers
Federal Trade Commission
Edward H. Cunningham
Federal Reserve Board
Pressly R. Baldridge
Internal Revenue
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Harry EB. Sull
James J. Lenishen
Roy H. Rankin
W. G. Ladd
Willian Fitch Kelley
Flora Wilson
John A. Kennedy
William £. Hayes
A. T. Stewart
E. G. Bowman
Lily B. Lockwood
Frank W. Mahin
Karl Hoffman
Harvey Harris
Karl D. Loos
Lucius
Vare Improves After Stroke But Still In Danger
Atlantic City, Aug 4. Senator elect William S. Vare, 60, Philadelphia, shows some improvement but remains very sick after a paralytic stroke. A late relapse left him unconscious, though a midnight bulletin said he was testing comfortably and feeling better than since his illness began. His Chelsea home is crowded with visitors including Mayor Harry A. Mackay and other Philadelphia political figures.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Wac
Ant Wwadswan
William S. Vare
Philadelphia
Edwood Kirby
Vare
Earlir
Chelsea
Harry A. Mackay
Marathon Dancers Clash With Attendants Over Record
Des Moines August 4 10 2 First signs of dissension among the contestants in the dance marathon broke out when dancers told promoter William Scarpino that auxillary members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars post acting as attendants discouraged them from breaking the world marathon record. Scarpino replaced the women with two police matrons to oversee the girls and enforce rules as twenty five couples persisted in the grueling pace.
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Des Moines
William Scarpino
the Veterans of ‘Foreign Wars Post
Scarpino
Prof C O Ruggles Heads Harvard Post Visit Here
Prof C O Ruggles and Mrs Ruggles, of Columbus Ohio, visit Waterloo and vicinity relatives. After 14 years as dean of commerce and administration at Ohio State University, he will become professor of commerce and administration at Harvard University in Cambridge Massachusetts. Mrs Ruggles is sister to Richard Holmes and Mrs Arthur Gale of this city and Mrs Mark Humphrey of Hagle Center.
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C. O. Ruggles
Columbus
Waterloo
Ohio State University
Cambridge
Mass
Harvard University
Ruggles
Richard Holmes
Arthur Gale
This City
Mark Humphrey
Hagle Center
Rasmussen Marks 50th Year as Printer Today
Jd. P. Rasmussen celebrates fifty years in printing starting as a 13 year old apprentice in Denmark. He recalls inking a hand press for a daily paper with 700 circulation and expresses a hopeful outlook to continue setting type for another half century.
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Jd. P. Rasmussen
Denmark
J. B. Rasmussen
Courier
Death Toll Rises in Indiana Refinery Blast at Lawrenceville
Vincennes Ind Aug 4 With the deaths of Paul Bougham 25 James Graves 20 and George Bruce 34 the death toll in the Indiana refinery explosion at Lawrenceville had mounted to 23 today Of the 12 still being treated here little hope is held for seven Only two men have recovered sufficiently to be discharged from the hospital Plans are being made here for the union services of all churches Sunday as a memorial to the victims.
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Vincennes
Ind
Paul Bougham
James Graves
George Bruce
Indiana
Lawrenceville
All Churches
Walker Stricken by Pneumonia in Brainerd Hospital
A. L. Walker, 38, of Brainerd Minnesota, was hospitalized with pneumonia after a drive to Webodo. Relatives from Brainerd and nearby addresses rushed to Brainerd as his condition was listed as serious. Walker’s son and Rath family members accompanied others to Brainerd to be with him.
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Brainerd
Third Avenue West
Minn
Walker iI
Webodo
Walker
Kingbard Avenue
Reuben A. Rath
Alta Vista Ave
Mic
Raths
W. C. Walker
Maquoketa Man Killed by Pump Accident
Maquoketa Iowa August 4 Harlan Green a World War veteran was instantly killed yesterday when a pump he was raising for repairs fell on him. A jack failed causing the pump to crash down tearing away part of his jaw. He resided at Emeline near Maquoketa.
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Maquoketa
Harlan Green
Emeline
Here
Tragic end to Hollywood romance ends in murder
Philadelphia girl Barbara Mauger 19 is found murdered in Hollywood hills after elopement with Russell Beitzel 24. Beitzel, former Philadelphia credit manager, is charged. Body showed long exposure, gunshot wound possibly nonfatal with delay in medical aid. autopsy notes potential three day survival. Evidence includes stolen store funds and a baby clothes bundle stored with fictitious addresses.
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Cal
Pelive
Hey
Russell
Beltzer
Barbara Mauger
Philadelphia
Hollywood
Russell St. Clair Beitzel
Belize
Beitzel
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Bettzel
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Ariz
Seattle
Wash
Will Exemplify Mellers Degree Here in September
The Mellers degree, an honorary honor from the Supreme Tribe of Ben Hur, to be conferred on more than 100 candidates in September. I H McCarty, state manager, says the service required is adding a new member to the lodge. Crawfordsville leaders W W Goltra and W M Steele will attend, with delegations from other lodges statewide.
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Mellers
Supreme Tribe of
Ben- Hur
I. H. McCarty
W. W. Goltra
W. M. Steele
Crawfordsville
Ind
Levine negotiates for Junkers plane in Germany
Charles A. Levine, the first trans Atlantic air passenger, has reached Dessau to negotiate a Junkers monoplane for a likely Germany to United States flight. Sealed negotiations involve Miss Mabel Bell, who may accompany Levine. The aircraft mirrors the Junkers model flown by von Huenefeld, Koehn, and Fitzmaurice on the Ireland to Greenly Isle route.
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Berlin
Charles A.levine
Dessau
Germany
United States
Mabel Bell
Dessey
Levine
Junkers
Baron Gunther von Huenefeld
Hermann Koehn
James Fitzmaurice
Ireland
Greenly Isle
Hoover Parley Speakers Include Hammill Watson Sky Brookhart
Herbert Hoover will not give a public speech in Cedar Rapids during the Iowa Hoover parley set for August 22 and 23. Prominent Republicans are slated to speak with Gov. John Hammill Senator James Watson Senator Smith W. Brookhart and former Iowa Governor W. L. Harding among those listed as speakers.
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Cedar Rapids
Herbert Hoover
John Hammill
James Watson
Indiana
Smith W. Brookhart
W. L. Harding
Iowa
Des Moines Contempt Hearing Delayed Over Milk Inspector
Des Moines August 4 The contempt hearing for Mayor John MacVicar over discharging W H Bar ney Jr as a milk inspector and violating a restraining injunction is recessed until Monday with expected conclusions. Arguments over the injunctions validity have dominated three days of testimony. Political Zoology notes the elephant and donkey emblems of the two major parties with a contrast in behavior.
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Des Moines
John MacVicar
W._ HB
Barney, Jr
Aselly
Atchison Globe
Republican Party
Democratic Party
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