Teaching and Politics in Iowa College Suit Test
A lawsuit in Iowa Tall s fe is planned by Mrs Aldena Carlson head of English at Emsworth College to claim breach of contract after she says she was fired for campaigning for La Follette for president and Brookhart for senator and advocating war measures. Trustees say activities harmed the college and deterred parents.
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Aldena Carlson
Emsworth College
Iowa Talls
la Follette
Brookhart
Wisconsin conservatives rally to back Roy Wilcox for Senate
Oshkosh Wisconsin August 14 Conservatives unite behind Eau Claire attorney Roy Wilcox in a bid to defeat Robert M La Follette Jr in the Wisconsin Republican primary for the senate seat. Wilcox backs U S entry into the world court favors the St Lawrence waterway and calls for debt refunds and tax cuts. He vows to uphold the Supreme Court, promote government economy and address agricultural and resource concerns.
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United Press
Oshkosh
Wis
Wisconsin
la Follette
Coolidge
Naonal
Roy
Wilcox
Eau Claire
Robert M. la. Follette, Jr
Yace
Bob
Blaine
Senator la Follette
Robert la Follette, Jr
Congress
Gtl
Wollette
Pavers World Court
United States
World Court
League of Nations
St. Lawrence Waterway
Supreme Court
Japan Demands China End Strikes and Loans
Tokyo reports Japan has sent a note to China demanding a speedy settlement of the Shanghai strike situation and a second note seeking repayment of the Nishihara loans. Earlier advices claimed the Shanghai strike was settled with workers returning to work after union recognition.
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London
tThe Central News
Tokio
Today
Japan
China
Shanghai
Kendall Urges World Court Lower Tariffs for Allies
Former Governor X. FE. Kendall urged United States membership in the world court in a Rotary club address. He also favored lowering tariff duties to aid European debtor countries in liquidating obligations to the United States. GETS JAWBONE Mastodon jawbone found by Charles Locke on Des Moines River presented to Town University museum.
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United States
X. FE. Kendall
Rotary Club
Kendall
Charles Locke
Des Moines
University At Town
Des Moines Woman Hints Exposed Body May Be Sister
Mrs. H. I. Chubb of Des Moines believes the exacred body found in a burned straw stack near Carlisle is her sister Peggy Smith, 24. She notes the missing teeth match, and Peggy disappeared July 24 the straw stack was bound. A woman named Mrs Ivan Smith was later arrested on a larceny charge and questioned by police.
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Grace Wolf
Des Moines
Aryan
stumWa
Grace
Grace Long
Carlisle
Peggy Smith
H. &. Chubb
Abs
Chubb
DeFord
Yarnale
Ivan Smith
Scott Divorce Case Now Up to Judge
Alpena Mich Aug 14 Circuit Judge Frank Emerick began sifting a mass of charges and counter charges in the Scott divorce duel. The decision will determine whether Congressman Frank D Scott or wife Edna James Scott is entitled to the decree amid charges of cruelty and counter accusations of capital junkets and character attacks in a Washington scandals context.
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Alpena
Mich
UPJ
Frank Emerick
Scott
Frank D. Scott
Edna James Scott
Senate
Washington
Girl Heroine of Fire Not Expected to Live
Alameda Calif Aug 14 Leona Southard 10 was fatally burned saving her infant brother from a home fire caused by an oil stove explosion. She first escaped then returned to rescue the baby. her clothing caught fire and she extinguished the flames before turning the hose on the house. Little hope is held for her recovery.
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Alameda
Cal
Leona Southard
Leona
Coolidges Visit Son at Military Training Camp En Route
President Coolidge and Mrs Coolidge stopped at Ayer Massachusetts to greet their son Corporal Joan Coolidge at a nearby military training camp. A rainstorm slowed travel on the Mohawk trail as the presidential caravan pressed toward Plymouth Vermont.
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Plymouth
Son
Plymouth Vt
President Coolidge
Fitchburg
Mass
Coolidge
Swanipecott
Ayer
Joan Coolidge
White Court
Keewanee Mail Truck Robbery Confession Frames Up
Joe Jackson, 30, mail truck driver, confessed the Keewanee Boiler Works payroll pouch theft as a frame up. He named Phil Robinson of Casper Wyoming as his confederate and said Robinson urged a train hold up. A witness detailed the getaway on tracks and the car waiting to receive the pouch.
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International News Wire
Kewanee
Joe Jackson
Phil Robinson
Casper
Wyo
Jackson
Wey C. Baumgardner
Chicago
Robinson
Aspen
Uarry
Goldsberg
Baumgardner
Rum Blockade Triggers Deluge From Defunct Breweries
New York dispatch reports defunct breweries in New Jersey Pennsylvania Massachusetts and the Midwest flooding the East with thousands of barrels of beer to supply markets cut off by a government rum blockade. In 36 days more illegal beer has been seized than in the prior six months. Three carloads from Pennsylvania were seized adding to a total of about 6 000 barrels valued near 190 000 at the source with higher bootleg market value. Investigators are assigned to mop up the districts.
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New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Middlewest
R. Q. Merrick
Pennsylania
Heretic Bishop Seeks Court of Appeals in Church Case
Bishop William Montgomery Brown of Galion appeared before the general convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church to seek an appeal court to review a trial court verdict finding him guilty of heresy. He said he is not worried about his own fate but concerned for the church.
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John J. Hammond
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Social Purity League of America
Hammond
C Crusade
East
Galion
William Montgomery Brown
General Convention
Protestant Episcopal Church
Grecturel of
Fipiscopal Trial Court
Brown
Old Bluffs Resident Succumbs to Burns
Henry B R Arnold, 60, of Council Bluffs Iowa, died in a local hospital after sustaining burns two weeks earlier while preparing wax on a kitchen range. He lived alone near several acquired homes and was unmarried.
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Council Bluffs, Ia
Henry BR. Arnold
Council Bluffs
Probe into Alleged Doctor Neglect in Chariton
Coroner's inquest opens as investigators probe alleged fatal neglect by doctors of 19 year old George Cofell of Mince for Central Iava Facts company. Autopsy and medical records are reviewed amid unclear cause of death.
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Chariton
George Cofell
Iava Facts Company
Cire Rtnst Acs
Weinenlay
Seeks Pardon for Indiana Governor Forgery Convict George Ade
George Ade noted writer and lecturer joined others seeking a pardon for former Indiana Governor McCray who is serving a 10 year sentence for forgery and mail frauds.
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George Ade
McCray
Indiana
Waterloo chosen 1926 convention city for county officials
Cedar Rapids August 14 AP Waterloo won the 1926 county officials convention city after a heated contest with Des Moines Nes Moines faded. State officers elected Ed Madigan Cedar Falls president Howard R Church Cedar Rapids vice president and F L Bordner Independence secretary treasurer. County sheriffs and clerks elected new presidents with Beardsley Woodbury county Henderson Sioux City Miller Boone Saunders Montezuma.
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Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Black Hawk
Nes Moines
W.D. Baldwin
Des Moines
Ed Madigan
Cedar Falls
Howard R. Church
Ft. L. Bordner
Independence
County Officers’ Association
Iowa
Paul Beardsley
Woodbury
W. Henderson
Sioux City
R.A. Miller
Boone
E. F. Saunders
Montezuma
Chicago Announces Acropolis Skyscraper Plan
Chicago plans a unique 29 story Acropolis skyscraper on Michigan Avenue opposite the Illinois Central depot. Construction starts in spring with a 4000 room hotel on the top 22 floors, surrounding suites and shops. A central auditorium will seat 1000 and accommodate 35,000 when needed.
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Chicago
Anther
Michigan Boulevard
Illinois
Rouughly
Ask Death Penalty for Hiking Slayer
Sedalia Missouri August 14 UP the death penalty is asked for Everett Adams 17 of Wilmington Quebec by Prosecutor Roy Rucker for the slaying of Aden Clawson a New York school teacher after Adams gave him a ride in the car Adams was brought here yesterday and will be arraigned this afternoon His mother is en route from Wilmington and Henry Adams father of the slayer confirms the family plans.
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Sedalia
Roy Rucker
Everett Adams
Wihnington
Aden Rt. Clawson
New York
Adams
Wilmington
Henry Adams
Two Men Captured in Omaha Murder Case
Richard W. Olson and Sturdivant were accused of killing Charles Fuller in Omaha, Nebraska. Sioux City police captured them early today at a rooming house and took them to Omaha in an auto. Olson reportedly boasted he would not be taken alive, but made no move.
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Sious Civ
Richard W. Olson
Amt Lineals
Charles Fuller
Omaha
Neb
Sioux City
Olson
Courier Delivery Note Cautions Readers
The Courier should be delivered at your home before 3 30 o clock. If you fail to receive your paper by that time due to carrier error or other issue, please call 5100 and a replacement will be sent. Phone calls must reach this service before the noted time.
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Thor
Funeral for Traer night marshal set for Sunday
Prank Mommer Traer night marshal who died from wounds after an attempted shooting is to be buried Sunday at 2 p.m. in Traer with Methodist Episcopal services and Masonic rites at Buckingham cemetery. A $500 reward is offered for information leading to the killer’s conviction.
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Prank Mommer
Traer
St. Francis Hospital
Methodist Episcopal Church
A. M. Bilingsly
Buckingham Cemetery
Sraer
Wraer
Prank Mammer
Fred Douglas
Rocksland Railway
Tracr
Mommer
Douglas
Tama
MacMillan Arctic Expedition Advances With Two Planes
A storm damaged one MacMillan plane at Etah while NAS and NAS survived. The team proceeds to establish an intermediate base at Flasterfjord on Milesmoore Island about 100 miles from Etah Greenland with a reconnaissance flight planned to locate a sub-base at Flagler Fjord between Etah and Cape Thomas Hubbay.
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Washington, D.C
Ag. 13
MacMillan Arctic
Flasterfjord
Milesmoore Island
Etah
Greenland
Pal
NAS
Flagler Fjord
Cape Thomas Hubbay
Axel Teilburg Island
Mrs J P Morgan Called by Death in New York
Mrs J P Morgan wife of financier J Pierpont Morgan died at her Long Island home after a two month illness from sleeping sickness and a recent cardiac collapse. Morgan was at her wife’s bedside when she died.
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New York
Jobs Pierpont Morgan
Wendon Eaduy
Olencove, Bf
Ispiel
Morgan & Or
Lofay
Henry
Long Island
Morgan
New Island Rising in Cretan Eruption
Athens report to the Daily Express describes a new island forming north of Crete near Santorin after volcanic activity began months ago on Thira. The rising landmass is up to five hundred feet high and is surrounded by strong submarine shocks between Kainieni and Thira. Santorin, with about 35 900 square miles and a population near 20 000, has not erupted since 1866.
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London
Aus
API
Athens
Daily Express
Thira
Crete
Kainieni
Cthira Island
Santorin
Short Interviews On Telephone Penetration In Waterloo
A. J. Weigel of the Northwestern Bell exchange reports Waterloo shows 25 telephones per 100 inhabitants, ranking among world cities. He cites San Francisco 8.8 per 100, Omaha 28.3, Stockholm 24.6, and notes one US phone per seven people while other nations average one per 180. He adds US wire spans reach 79,000 communities and 66 percent of Iowa farms have telephones.
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Waterloo
A. J. Weigel
Nori Western Bell Telephone Exchange
Zoro
San Francisco
Weigel
Onaha
Minneapolis
Omaha
Stockholm
Sweden
U.S
United States
Iowa
Florida Island Split Into Armed Camps in Land Fight
Florida island is divided into two armed camps over a 3000 acre tract. One side backs the Collier interests with Sheriff Maynard supporting, the other backs the Williams syndicate that bought Marco town site. The dispute, set for court, reveals land errors from the original survey as tensions rise with potential clashes.
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Florida Island
Fort Myers
Wla
Marea Island
Arrow G. Collier
W. W. Maynard
Belgium Debt Talks Suspend As Washington Seeks Pact
American debt funding officials plan to brief President Coolidge and Secretary Mellon on Belgian negotiations. Brussels cables indicate a two class debt plan separating pre and post armistice amounts with funding under Dawes plan terms. Talks aim for a funding agreement soon after further consultations.
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Washington, D. C
API
United States
Belgium
Coolidge
Mellon
Sinvot
American Debt Commission
United Press
American Debt Funding Commission
New England
Treasury
Melsen
Brussels
Moonshine for teething leads to injunction in city court
Leon and Virginia Senezy of Pana said they needed moonshine to rub the baby's gums during teething when cited with three pints of white mule, quantity of wine and 12 gallons of beer. The court issued an injunction restraining them from operating a soft drink parlor.
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Taylorville
Leon
Virginia Senezy
Pana
Bandits Brought Down in Florist Shop Holdup
In Chicago on August 14 a florist shop hold up ended with one bandit killed and another captured after police surprised three highwaymen. A volley of bullets erupted as the men fled, with one dead and one surrendering. The surrendered man claimed the other was identified as a child robber.
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Chicago
Rowber
Two-Gun Bandit Escapes With $20,000 in Dayton
A masked bandit armed with revolvers robbed the North Dayton branch of the Dayton Savings and Trust Company soon after opening. He tied up six employees, escaped with 320,000, and fled. Police search ongoing in Dayton, Ohio.
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Dayton, O
Dayton
Dayton Sa ¥ i and Trust Company
Bar
Hogue Hears Contest Over Paving Project
Manuoketa Louisiana August 14 IUP EL Hogue state budget director and Henry N. Dean engineer will listen to objections to a proposed paving project A EF Minetor Des Moines attorney will appear for objectors to the proposal improvement
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Manuoketa
IUPEL
Hogue
Henry N. Dean
A. EF
Des Moines
Anna Q Nilsson Hurt in Foot Injury Report
Actress Anna Q. Nilsson was reported badly hurt on her foot in Los Angeles. The brief note suggests a severe injury with uncertain prognosis and mentions the incident occurred today.
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Anna Q. Nilsson
Los Angeres
Insnna Q. Nilsson
Tadiy
Wien
Miss Nison
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