Mrs Hoover to Speak at Waterloo Club Receptions
Waterloo welcomes Mrs Herbert Hoover wife of the Republican nominee with two public receptions at the Waterloo Woman's Club next Wednesday afternoon and evening. A civic motor cavalcade will tour the city before a 4 45 p m porch address and a 6 p m dinner at Hotel Russell Lamson followed by another public lawn reception. Delegations from surrounding counties will attend. the events are open to the public with only the hotel dinner private.
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Waterloo
Herbert Clark Hoover
United States
Cedar’ Rapids
Hoovers
Hoover Arty
E. L. Johnson
Woman's Club Committee
Hoover
Los Angel
Fourth Street
Joey" Logan
Fourth
Washington Streets
Woman's Club
Mrs. Hoover
Mrs Hoover to Visit Waterloo Site of Childhood Home
Mrs. Herbert Hoover will visit Waterloo next Wednesday to view the site of the house where she was born. The historic residence, built in 1672 and later expanded, no longer stands, having been replaced by a business block as the city grew from a village to a city.
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Herbert Hoover
United States
Waterloo
White House
Thomas Hood
Lou Henry Hoover
Fourth
Washington Streets
Uews
James W. Logan
Logan
William ¢. Logan
la Leland Avenue
William Logan
Hoover
Henry
Sixth
Commercial Streets
Sixth Street
Franklin
First National Bank
Japan Plans for Guests Pleasure During Coronation
Japan outlines a special committee to entertain foreign statesmen attending the imperial coronation in November. Three days of amusement follow official proceedings, including tours of temples and beauty spots, then return for the thanksgiving festival. Divorce suit filed by Spyll May Lockhart against Ray Lockhart cites cruelty. married 1925, separated 1925, petition filed in County Court. Chicago visitors Mr and Mrs George Rinehart are staying with Mr and Mrs Charles Rinehart at 733 Franklin Street for the weekend.
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Tokio
Japan
Clerk of Court
J. W. Thompson
Spyll May Lockhart
Ray Lockhart
Chicago
George Rinehart Tee
Ghicazo
Charles Rinehart
Franklin Street
Waterloo to aid Hoover homecoming in West Branch event
Waterloo Concern plans to support Hoover homecoming by supplying ice for the Hoover special train. The Young Coal company at 412 Third Street West received a Chicago order to ship a 20 ton car of ice to West Branch to cool the train while sidetracked. Shipments slated for Monday with August corn weather cited.
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Waterloo
Lic Hoover
West Branch
Young Coal Company
Third Street West
Whay
Western Republican
Chicago
West Branen
Hoover
Waterson
Afghan Women Spark Fury Over Public Face Exposure
Minich reports from Afghanistan and Germany describe how the wife, sister, and sister in law of King Amanullah defied the veil ban by showing faces in public. A palace delegation pressed the issue. the king said field workers do not wear veils and his women will not be forced to veils. Peasant and royal women alike continue in public with veils.
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Minich
Afghanistan
Germany
Amanalieh
Islan
Amanulah
Mrs Herbert Hoover Welcomes World Wide Respect
Biographical tribute highlights Mrs. Herbert Hoover as a pioneering partner to her husband Hoover. From Waterloo birthplace to California education, Africa, Asia, Europe, and war London. Organizing Woman's Relief, Food Administration, and Girl Scouts, she embodies resilience and service.
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Tex” Guinan
Broadway
Herbert Hoover
Waterloo
California
Leland Stanford, Jr. University
Herbert
Hoover
Australia
China
India
Europe
Hoovers
London
Mrs. Hoover
Washington
America
Food Administration
Brandegee
Learcom
Proposed Law Would Martyr Convicts for Science in Cuba
Havana Aug 18. Chilean convicts sentenced to death would choose strangulation or inoculation with a deadly cancer virus under a bill by Dr Matias Dugue. The measure, now before final decision, argues convicts could become benefactors of humanity if they survive the inoculation, with names commemorated among those who sacrificed for mankind.
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Havana
Matias Dugte
Ile
Buchan Named General Chairman for Traveling Men's Picnic
George Buchan was named general chairman for the Waterloo Traveling and Business Men's association annual picnic at Electric Park on Saturday September 1. Dinner is at 12 30 followed by a program of games and sports with prizes offered.
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George Buchan
Waterloo Traveling and Business Men's Association
Electric Park
Bulgarian leaders clash as Comitadji struggle for control
Sofia reports two powerful figures, Ivan Michanoff and Gueorgui PopehristalTy, vie for dominance of the Macedonian Comitadist organization. A deadly rift widens as Michanoff orders General Alexandr e Protogueroff killed, triggering questions over adherence to revolutionary statutes and looming congress actions.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Comitadst
Comitadji
Ivan Michanoff
Committee of Three
Alexandre Protogueroff
Michailof
Protogueroi
I Michailos
Chemical Warfare Demonstrated to Fight Insects in Peace Time
Evanston August 14 four leading agencies of war joined the American Chemical Society institute closing sessions to discuss peace era uses of chemical methods. A smoke screen is shown as a weapon against insects and for industrial peacetime projects as a fast army plane trails a widening plume along the lake front. Col H L Gilchrist describes experiments to drop gas over mosquito swamps from planes.
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Evanston
United States Army
Amriccan Chemical Society Institute
H. L. Gilchrist
Mosquito
Childhood Pals Welcome World-Famed Lou Henry Hoover in Waterloo
Mrs Herbert Hoover will visit Waterloo on a Wednesday afternoon and evening, meeting five former schoolmates from Holland school. The gathering celebrates Lou Henry Hoover's rise from a Waterloo birth to worldwide fame with travels through China, Australasia, Europe, and war-torn camps.
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Waterloo
Lou Henry
Old Holland School
China
Australasia
Eho
Magnus Johnson to Address Farmers at Huxley Picnic
Former Minnesota farmer labor senator Magnus Johnson will address southwest Story county farmers at the annual Huxley creamery picnic on August 24. The meeting, held in Chelsig Park near Huxley along the Jefferson Highway, is a representative regional gathering.
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Nevada
Magjnus Johnson
Farmer-Labor
Minnesota
Story County
Huxley Creamery
Chelsiig Park
Huxley Mnd
Jefferson Highway
Finns uneasy over Russian military moves near frontier
In Helsingi Aug 18 the Finnish cabinet notes suspicious warlike actions by the Soviet near the border but says they do not justify Finland's anxiety. Reporters say troops concentrate near the frontier and a village has been evacuated for a border garrison. Passport checks and goods inspections have tightened. New railway lines are under construction behind the frontier. Leningrad garrison reportedly strengthened.
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Helingfors
Finland
Russia
Fin ‘Land
Leningrad
Turk 154 Years Old Divorcing Eleventh Wife to Woo Again
Constantinople Aug 15 Zara Aghr aged 154, the oldest man, received a $100 gift from the Emir of Afghanistan as part of a $15,000 charity for Constantinople poor, dynamite factory workers in Angora, and a new hospital. He plans to divorce his eleventh wife, now 90, and court a twelfth, saying he is easily bored.
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Constantinople
Zara Aghr
Afghanistan
Angora
Zaro
Value of the franc falls since Charlemagne era
Paris reports official records show the franc has steadily weakened since Charlemagne around 800 A D. While living costs rise, stabilizing the franc did little to slow the trend. A fortune of a million francs in Charlemagne's time would be worth just over a dollar today.
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Paris
Charlemagne
Remembers Lou Henry Hoover From Waterloo Pupil to First Lady
Mary Edgerton, longtime Waterloo teacher, recalls Lou Henry Hoover as a bright pupil at Helland and later as Mrs. Hoover. She remembers Lou Henry sitting on the steps of a bank building with a horned toad toy and notes the family’s respected status in the neighborhood. Edgerton, now living at 1202 Lafayette Street, taught in the east district schools starting about 1460.
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Lou Henry
Herbert, Hoover
Lou
Stove
Lefe
James R. Vaughan
Berta Edwards
Park Avenue West
William
Scholilan
Clara Jackson
Franklin Street
Edward L. Qorton
Margaret van Metre
Third Street
Joseph W. Rickert
Walnut Street
Joseph A. Gary
Hattie Munger
Low
Henry
Sixth Street
Franklin
Mrs. Hoover
Waterloo
Mary P. Edgerton
Lafayette Street
Hoover
Miss Edgerton
Helland School
Old Holland School
Hawthorne
Nob
White House
First National Bank
Doy
Hittie Beastie
Chinese Ask New Wives When They Become Christians Canton
Chinese converts to Christianity push the claim that church admission allows divorce from non Christian wives and a new marriage based on love. The piece notes a hybrid Cantonese wedding culture with firecrackers rice throwing and mixed attire, preserving ancestral rites at times and reading Sun Yat Sen’s portrait in nationalist circles.
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Canton
Chine
China
America
Sun Yat-sen
Ancient Hungarian guard election revived in Budapest
In Budapest on August 13, Hungary elected the Second Guard to the Holy Crown of St. Stephen. The parliament gathered in historic uniforms as Admiral Herthy entered amid royal salutes. The assembly acclaimed Count Julius Karolyi as custodian of the crown. Gretchen Lou Brown, daughter of Mr and Mrs J M Brown, improving after a week in hospital.
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Budapest
Europe
Hungary
Bela Sozecheny
Ig Rool
Herthy
Notiia
Clighbie
Julus Karolyi
Count Karolys
Gretchen Lou Brown
MM. J. Brown
Oaklawn Avenue
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William G. Logan
Leland Avenue
Berbert Beover Sheh
Waslington
A. S. Weishaar
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Waterloo Concern
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Hill Wife
Boxer
Rainbow
Girl Scouts
Cuba
Buchan
Traveling Men's Picnic
Coolidges
Aerbert Hoover
Jolly Girl
Courier
Leaderoni
Macedonian Committee
Magnus Johnson
Huxley
Turk
Alta
Mary Edgerton
Toad
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