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Waterloo Evening Courier

Location

Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Aug 22, 1928

Page

10

Hoover Audience Sings and Shouts for Native Son

Five thousand women sang for Senator Capper at the Hoover rally in West Branch Iowa after he praised Hoover and Curtis. Fifteen thousand people shook hands with Hoover in a staged gesture led by Sandy Sinclair, while L J Dickinson presided and Alice M Mendenhall spoke as a Quaker farmer’s wife supporter.

E. &. Corton West Branch Senator Capper Kansas Hoover Gurtis Sandy Sinclair Capper Herbert Hoover Sinclair L. J. Dickinson Alice. M. Mendenhall Dickinson A. Farmer London Hoovers Seex Ulnois Thomas 5. Williams Agricultural Committee National House Curtis Iowa Hoover Home

Hoover Enthroned in Iowa as crowds hail speech and concert

Radio in Palo Alto broadcast Hosea style address praising Herbert Hoover. Crowds in West Branch greet Hoover with long ovations as Mrs Hoover and sons appear on stage. Miss Niemack of Charles City performs and Iowa guards and scouts assist, while local praise notes prosperity in the town and state.

Palo Alto Hosea Herbert Hoover Cedar Rapids Sinclai Jack Cunningham Sinclair Jack Hoover Jie Fr. U. of Iowa Hulda B. Hoover Jesse C. Hoover Herbert Hulda Jesse Memack Missza Niemack Charles City Europe United States West Branch Towa National Guard

Crowd swells after noon despite small midday turnout

A local gathering began with a small noon crowd that grew rapidly in the afternoon, drawing a larger turnout than anticipated as the day progressed.

Unions Grow in Peking Under Nationalist Momentum

In Peking the wave of labor unionization accelerates as the Kuomintang committee oversees new unions daily following the Nationalist advance from Canton. This marks a shift from past suppression in a city where workers had little union presence and recalls a previous failed attempt by Peking Hankow Railway employees to form a union five years ago.

Peking Canton Kuomintang Peking-Hankow

Public service workers organize unions under Nationalist regime

Soldiers of General Wu Pel-iu’s army carried out executions. Public service employees lead the first unions under the Nationalist regime, including tramway crews post office staff and railroad workers. The printers have now organized too.

Ment Seneral Wu Pel-iu

Fragmentary 19th Century Trade Terms From a Local Page

The snippet lists various worker groups such as delivery crews, barbers, and blacksmiths alongside craft trades and laborers. It also mentions chewing tobacco manufacturers and licorice ports of the United States, indicating a fragmented note on trades and goods.

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