Tornadoes Kill and Injure Across Southwest Iowa and Nebraska
A deadly tornado swept Mills and Montgomery counties in Iowa and parts of Cass and Pottawattamie counties causing three known deaths, multiple injuries, and extensive damage to Oakland and surrounding farms. Across Nebraska near Omaha, several injuries and property losses were reported as storms moved east with heavy rain and rising rivers.
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T. Jervis
Elliott
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Jervis
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Ellott
J. T. Jervis
William Bressir
Oakland
Pete Jensen
Frank Clayton
Jess Harris
Chaurtarque Park
Des Moines
Mills
Pottawattamie
Cass
Montgomery
Iowa
Hillsdale
Glenwood
Malvern
Nebraska-Iowa Light & Power Co
Hur Hed
Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
Omaha
Port Crook
Nell
Missouri River
St. Catherine's Hospital
Joseph Pfeiffer
Clara
Joseph
Ben
Pfeiffer
Gilmore
Wisconsin
Dakotas
Weather Bureau
Marriage Licenses Listed in Waterloo and Cedar Falls
Glen Miller of Waterloo appears with Effie Beales as spouse. Waltino notes Ira Chumley of Waterina and Wynonn Clansine of Cedar Falls. No further details provided on dates or official sources.
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Legenses
Glen Miller
Waterloo
Effie Beales
Waltino
Ira Chumley
Waterina
Wynonn Clansine
Cedar Falie
Smith Plays to Bast in Effort to Corral Votes
Smith presses immigration restriction stance across the Dakotas Wisconsin Missouri and Nebraska citing a 38 to 72 roll call in congress. He argues sentiment shifts even among newer immigrants and labor unions. The piece notes eastern cities remain pivotal and suggests political maneuvering for upcoming votes.
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Dakotas
Wisconsin
Missouri
Nebraska
Johnson
Congress
New York
Flood Flood Backs Y W C A Pool Water Reaches Facility
Flood water has backed into the Y W C A pool making it unfit for swimming this week. The facility will be closed with no classes or plunge periods and no schedule yet announced. Mrs. Herbert Reed issued the notice today.
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Herbert Reed
Air travel praised by Livingston at Rotary luncheon
John Livingston of Mid-West Airways told the Rotary Club at Hotel Russell-Lamson that cross country flying is as safe as driving on a paved road. He said the air is clean and smooth, citing his four round trips to San Diego this year. Don Graham, son of James M. Graham, gave his first solo flight the day before.
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John Livingston
Mid-West Airways, Inc
Waterloo
Rotary Club
Russell-Lamson
Livingston
San Diego
Cal
Thas
Rotary
C. A. Morris
Don Graham
James M. Graham
Traffic signals fail as Waterloo police accidents occur
Uncontrolled traffic marks Waterloo center after the Fourth Street crosswalk devices known as Little Bobbies were knocked out. At Lafayette Street a traffic pole was struck by Roger Lovelette and he was fined $100 for driving while intoxicated. A second crosswalk device at Sycamore Street was hit a day later by J. Meximon who reported the incident to police.
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Little Bobby
Fourth
Sycamore
Lafeyette
Waterloo
Lafeyette Street
Roger Lovelette
Beech Street
Bobby
Sycamore Street
J. ©. Meximon
Brockwell Arms Apartments
Injured Teen Taken To University Hospital
Marcus Snider, 16, son of Mr and Mrs Andrew Snider of 409 Ankeny Street, was severely injured Monday August 20 after falling from a moving W. CP and N. freight train. He sustained a pelvic fracture in three places and a dislocated left hip and was moved from Alley Memorial Hospital to University Hospital in Iowa City for examination.
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Marcus Snider
Andrew Snider
Ankeny Street
University Hospital
Towa City
Marcus
Alley Memorial Hospital
City council weighs paving program and petitions
City council tonight will consider a sidewalk program to meet the coming seat requirements. Minor petitions from Barton avenue and Conger street residents oppose a billboard at Burton and Conger intersection, to be read at the meeting. Former diplomats include William J. O'Toole, the late American minister to Paraguay, who died in a fall at Gilliam near Bluefield.
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Barton Avenue
Conger Street
Uut
Burton
Conger
Bluefield
W. Va
William J. O'Toole
Paraguay
Harding
American Con Cleansing Company
Gilliam
Here
Durant offers 25060 prize for best plan to enforce Prohibition
New York Aug 27 Durant Motors Inc president W C Durant offered 25060 for the best plan to enforce the eighteenth amendment. Durant, writing from Paris, said a committee of prominent men and women would judge the proposals, which must be typewritten and under 2000 words and submitted by December 1 to the Prize Committee on Eighteenth Amendment Fisk Building New York.
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New York
INSI
W. C. Durant
Durant Motors, Inc
Durant
Paris
Hoover
Lincoln
United States
Fisk Building
Kellogg Briand Pact Signings Draw Paris Applause
A crowded ceremony in Paris featured Kellogg and Briand signing the pact with German and French officials receiving warm applause. Delegates used a Havre pen to seal the 15 signatories, while photographers crowded the room and a public sense of historic peace grew amid notes on the event.
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Kellogg
Havre
Foreign Office
M. Briand
France
Auto Stolen From Residence Garage Sunday Evening
J A Bown of 825 Third Street West reported to police that a seven passenger touring car was stolen from the garage in the rear of his home sometime Sunday evening. Gordon Alexander of Chicago arrived yesterday to visit his grandparents, Mr and Mrs Frank J Eighmey, 218 Walnut Court apartments.
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Omaha
Christ Peterson
Henry Helwig
Malvern
W. W. Wheeluer
John Noah
A. S. Sawyer Farm
Herschel Sawyer
J. A. Bown
Third Street West
Chicago
Gordon Alexander
Frank J. Eighmey
Walnut Court Apartments
Earhart appointed associate editor at Cosmopolitan
Amelia Earhart named associate editor at Cosmopolitan Magazine. She will handle two monthly departments focusing on current aviation developments, signaling a notable expansion of her public roles in the field.
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New York
Amelia Earhart
Atlantic
Cosmopolitan Magazine
London
Westminster Cathedral
Canada
Irish Free State
India
Union of South Africa
Los Angeles
Moon
Pat" Kelley
Mskile L. Mellus
Chicago
Woodworth
Walter W. Ahlschlager
Louisvile
Mary Ann Jamison
New Albany
Ind
Ohio
Indiana City
Levine and Mabel Fly to Brussels
Charles A. Levine and passenger Mabel Bell boarded the Junkers Queen of the Air for a non stop flight from Croydon to Brussels the 2 30 pm departure. Bert Acosta piloted the plane and the flight’s purpose was not disclosed.
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Charles A. Levine
Croydon
New York
Brussels
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Junkers
Bert Acosta
Mabel Bell
Baseball Results Chronicle Despite Fragmentary Text
Baseball results fragment lists teams and players with unclear marks. Names like Whitehith Hargrave Crowder and Mortis appear among damaged lines. It notes a St Louis game and multiple pitchers or batters, but many items unreadable.
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Hargrave
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Louis Vise
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Btewarte
Mott
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Oriitin
Settlemore
Mortis Vandstormann
Reving
Basements Flood as Cedar River Floods Waterloo Area
Flooding from the Cedar River leaves basements under water in the 600 block of Fifth Street and surrounding negocios. Firefighters prepare for high water, rescue a marooned couple, and tow a launch to aid flood victims as residents brace for rising levels and ongoing rainfall measurements.
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Mid-West Printing Company
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Sisters’ House
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No. 1
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George C. Welker
Sherwood Park
Reed Street
Iowa Public Service Company
United States
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R. C. Bowell
Kingbard Hill
Cedar Falls
Waterloo
Rath Packing Company
Cortlandt Park
Elk Run
Casebeer Heights
Riverview
Riverview Addition
Commercial Street
Fred Wilson
Lafayette
Seventh Streets
A.gc. Willford Fred
C. L. Sundermeier
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Elsc
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Quincy Street
Quincy 73
Aguas
Morris Plan Bank
Fourth Street
Aerial Wedding Over Chicago for Stoddard and Saber
Carl Stoddard and Geneva Saber wed in a plane above Chicago. The couple, Cedar Rapids residents, chartered a 10 passenger trimolered aircraft for the ceremony at more than 5,000 feet. Stoddard, cafeteria executive, paid 175 dollars for the hour long flight chapel.
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Carl Stoddard
Geneva Saber
Cedar Rapids
Towa
Rey
Hans P
Susan
Loop District
Stoddard
N. BP. Anson
L. C. Saber
Cyril Krgler
Hanel Christen
Fred Schmidt
Mother-In-Law of Mayor Walker Dies in Clinton Hospital
Ella Trayer Allen mother in law of Mayor James J. Walker died in Jane Lamb Memorial Hospital Clinton at age 69 from anemia. She came west for health and was visiting her sister Mrs Hill Low Moor when stricken three weeks ago and had two blood transfusions.
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Ella Trayer Allen
James J. Walker
New York
Jane Lamb
Allen
Will Hill
Low Moor
King’s Suicide Buried in Michigan With Chicago Doctor
Willis King 28 died by inhaling gas amid stock losses. Dr Trene Behnke of Chicago and Alvin E. King of Waterloo Iowa claimed the body in Morl, Michigan. King had planned to marry Alma Ethridge 25, an actress who collapsed upon learning of the death.
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INS
Willis King
King
Guardsmen Return from Camp Dodge
One hundred fifty Iowa guardsmen from Companies B and D in Waterloo returned yesterday afternoon by special train from their annual training encampment at Camp Dodge Des Moines. After depositing gear they were dismissed to resume ordinary occupations. The encampment was praised as the best since the war by Sat. P. J. Hoffey, a regular army officer and U S national guard instructor based in Waterloo.
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Iowa National ¢Guard
Camp Dodge
Des Moines
Sat. P. J. Hoffey
U S National Guard
Brokerage Crash Involves 1.5 Million Dollars
Detroit Aug 27. The failure of Benjamin Dansard & Co brokers was announced after creditors met. The collapse involves about 1.5 million dollars. Benjamin Dansard, head of the firm, recently died by his own hand at his home in Belle, Michigan.
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Detroit
Benjamin Dansard
Belles, Mich
Smith Appeal To Iowa Women By Reynolds
In Cresion Ja Aug 27 U P Dr J W Reynolds a Democratic national committeeman urged Iowa women to back Gov Alfred E Smith Reynolds said Smith supported measures aiding women and children Edward Madigan county treasurer will speak to the Lions at Thursday luncheon in Black's tearoom
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U.P
Iowa
Alfred BE. Smith
J. W. Reynolds
Smith
Reynolds
New York Assembly
Madigan
LIONS
Edward Madigan
Lions Club
Black's Tearoom
Brain Tests and Theee Intelligence Puzzles
The page advertises brain tests at major universities, urging readers to try them and reference a correction gate. It describes a five minute exercise to select the most frequent word and rank the top three, listing many common wh- words as examples. The note ends with a prompt for answers on the society page.
Four Blow Safe and Get $20,000 Four Blow Safe and Get $20,000
Four men blew open a safe in a Sears Row bark company retail store in Chicago and escaped with between $206. H0 and $25,000 after holding two watchmen captive. The loot amount was not known until later. The culprits used a ladder to reach the basement via a coal chute and employed misroglycerin charges to blow the safe.
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Chicago
Epmfour
Sears Rowbark Company
Temperatures and Rainfall Reported in Weekend Forecast
Weather notes show a low of 78 below zero and Sunday temperatures near 45 below zero. Monday's readings indicate cold with forecasts of around 37 degrees and light rainfall totaling 3.6 inches.
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Obituary notices from Waterloo deaths across several families
Several Waterloo area obituaries note the passings of John H. Glaza at 200 Witty Street after illness, Edith Winn McCartney at St. Francis hospital, Mrs. Robert E. Williams of Rainbow Drive, David E. Bisbee of 549 Bratnaber Street, and Jeanette Bickley Uninb Lamb in Waterloo with funeral rites set across Sacred Heart church First Congregational Church Christadelphian hall and Elmwood Cemetery. Brevity limits, but details include birthplaces, marriage histories, and surviving relatives.
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John H. Glaza
Witty Street
Satuday
Sacred Heart Church
J. M. Molloy
Calvary Cemetery
Rosary Society of Sacred Heart Church
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Mr. Glaza
Bec
Germany
America
Milwaukee
Wis
Iowa State College
Ames
Carrol
Minnie Fasbender
Cottonwood
Ida
Carroll
J. 5. Twomly & Sons
Readlyn
Waterloo
Associated Manufacturers Company
L. E. Glaza ‘Company
A. Sempf
Hart
Mici
Kather
Joe Wahl
Mary Mathew
Bancroft
Mary Frieda
Dubuque
Hugh McCartney
Edith Winn McCartney
Third Avenue West
St. Francis Hospital
First Congregational Church
J. Richmond Morgan
Sumner
Erwin Heyer
Wilson Grove
Petersen Bros
McCartney
Mary Melrose
D. A
Order of Eastern Star
Waterloo Women's Club
Edith Orvis
Michael Edwin Winn
Chicago Great Western Railroad
Winn
Leo Porhan
W. G. Blackley
Chicago
Surmer
Andrew Maitland
J. H.arvis
Estherville
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Alma Pease
Psrand
Jchildren
Robert &. Williams
Robert E. Williams
Rainbow Drive
Nettle May Mears
Mareh
Rose Creek
Minn
John Mears
Austin
Robert EB. Williams
Cedar Falls
Williams
O'lie Davis
Duluth
R. A. Woodard
Arthur Mears
Hellena
Mont
Methodist Episcopal Church
Cedar Palls
W. G. Rowley Sill
Greenwood Cemetery
Dahl Marnery
War Marshal Fayalle Dies in Paris
Paris reports the death of Marie Emile Fayalle a renowned French marshal and one of the world’s greatest soldiers. The influential military figure died this morning and his passing marks a major event in French military history.
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Paris
Marie Emile Fayalle
France
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