Resignation of Midland Packing Receiver Reveals Stock Schemes
Sioux City observed C H Burlingame resign as a Midland Packing receiver amid audit findings showing a large resale of stock generating hundreds of thousands in profits for Fred C Sawyer and others. The Guthrie Co audit details suspicious stock transactions, salaries paid, and a complex web of insiders, subsidiaries, and cancelled subscriptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
C. H Burlingame
Midland Packing Company
Federal Court
Town Falls
Fred C. Sawyer
H. E. Martin
Iona Falls
WF. Sawyer
Guthrie & Co
Althe
Sawyers
Tom +G
R.H. Bales
Executive Council of
Iowa
Statter & Co
Statter
B. I. Salinger, Jr
W. HH. Krebs
H. S. Martin
L. H. Salinger
B. TI. Salinger
Tom G. Taylor
Mesquakie Indians begin new day school on Tama reservation
Construction has begun on a new Mesquakie day school plant near Tama to replace the burned old building. The project on the reservation site includes a school building, teachers cottage, farmers cottage, and a barn with an estimated cost of 25,506 dollars.
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School
Tracr
Aus
Tama
Fira
Farmer Far Greene Injured In Farm Accident
Norbert Hildebrand, Greene, Ta wagon brought to Waterloo after a farm accident knocked him unconscious when the handle of a scrap er he operated unlocked and struck his face. An X ray was taken of the injury. His wife and father are with him.
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Norbert Hildebrand
Greene
Tawag
Waterloo
Davenport Officer Suspended Over Moonshine Alibi
Walter Wiese, a Davenport police officer, testified to the Davenport police and fire commission that four drinks of his father's moonshine made him sick rather than drunk. Chief Boettcher had suspended him for drunkenness after failing to report for duty on Aug 8 and being ill on a Third street car. The commission indefinitely suspended Wiese after testimony from car crew and his brother in law, who said the moonshine caused illness rather than intoxication.
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Davenport
Walter Wiese
Davenport Police and Fire Commission
Wiese
Boettcher
Uanable
Jreply
Screech Beld
Wiesa
John Buegge
Republicans Plan Nomination For Iowa High Court Vacancy
Charles A. Rawson calls a Des Moines meeting of the Republican state central committee to pick a candidate for the vacancy caused by Judge Frank R. Gaynor’s death. Gov Hard ing is expected to name the interim appointee, with several convention candidates and other possible choices under review.
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Des Moines
Charles A. Rawson
Republican State Central Committee
Frank R. Gaynor
Gov
Harding
Vna
Arthur
Logan
Albert
Jefferson
Withrow
Mt. Pleasant
Applegate
Guthrie Center
Vermillion
Centerville
F. Dawley
Cedar Rapids
H. K. Evans
Corydon
John Gusher
Winterset
Harner
Democratic Judicial Convention
Hunt for Lost Boy Ends in a Movie
J D Perry of eight miles east of Waterloo reported his one year old son missing after sundown as he prepared to return home. A police search located the boy inside a city theatre, having wandered into an alley behind the cinema minutes after he vanished.
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J. D. Perry
Waterloo
Waiter Shot During Des Moines Restaurant Hold Up
Fred St. Clair a waiter at the Railroad cafe in Des Moines is in critical condition at Samaritan hospital with a bullet wound through the head after two bandits held up the restaurant about 2:30 am. Police describe the attackers as two young men in dark clothes wearing caps. The robbers fired after St. Clair ducked under the counter and thought they had left. The robbers escaped with the cash register earnings.
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Des Moines
Fred St. Clair
Railroad Cafe
Fifth Street
Samaritan Hospital
St. Clair
Tama Co farmer wanders in field and is found safe
Tama County Iowa Aug 30 a Crystal township farmer George Berry suffered a mental lapse and wandered away from home. Neighbors searched all night with bloodhounds from Waterloo before Berry was found walking in a field. He later fell ill with appendicitis and was moved to Marshalltown for surgery.
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Waterloo
Mr. Berry
Berry
Marshalltown
Melon Grower Establishes Record at Muscatine Iowa
Ellsworth Frye set a high melon production record on a 10 acre sand mound tract on the James Q. Beatty farm in Muscatine. No irrigation used. One carload sold for 425 dollars with two more ready to ship. Melons averaged about 130 pounds. Muscatine Island land near the sand mound proves well suited for melon culture despite a thin top crop and favorable rains improving quality over last year.
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Muscatine
Ellsworth Frye
James Q. Beatty
Muscatine Island
Tama County Land Sales Reported
Two Tama county farms changed hands. The Dan Fuoss homestead of 160 acres southwest of Dysart sold to Joseph Churdek Etberon for 430 dollars per acre. The F M Elliot farm of 117 eight miles north of Dysart sold to John Joens Elberon for 350 dollars per acre.
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Tama County
Traer
Dan Fuoss
Mes
Dysart
Joseph Churdek
Etberon
F. M. Elliot
John Joens
Elberon
Inliders
Saturday Evening Courier Reaches Large Local Audience
The paper serves about 15 000 city readers and 15 000 in surrounding areas, with two readers per subscriber. It targets enfranchised Waterloo voters and home buyers, offering many advertiser bargains through extensive columns and local features.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Ne Jattar
Davenport Grandma 94 Says She’ll Vote Now
Davenport Illinois August 30 Mrs Mary Pierce 90 Sylvan avenue declares she will vote in the fall election though aged 94 her voice shakes yet she says she has always been a Republican and will vote for Wilson her family jokes about suffrage but officials will help her to the polling place in a car and she hopes to cast her first and possibly last presidential vote
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Davenport
Ill
Mary Pierce
Sylvan Avenue
Wilson
Grandma
United States
Grandma Pierce
Dubuque County Builds Notable Tuberculosis Hospital
Dubuque County expects completion of its tuberculosis hospital by October 18. A. E. Kepford and Louis Metz of the state board inspected the facility last week and praised its location and design calling it one of the best in the Mississippi Valley.
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Dubuqua
Dubuque County
State Board of Control
A. E. Kepford
Des Moines
Louis Metz
Board of Trustees
Iowa
Mr. Kepford
Mississippi Valley
Chicago
Middle West
P Arty
Funeral Services for Tama Jim Wilson Attended Wide
Funeral services for James Wilson known as Tama Jim, former secretary of agriculture, filled the United Presbyterian church in Traer Iowa with friends from Tama county and beyond. Rev. James Wray led the rites with Rev. C Haupt and Rev. H W Johnston assisting. The service stressed Wilsons Christian character and church membership while a male quartet sang his favorite hymns. The body was buried in Buckingham cemetery amid telegrams of sympathy from prominent officials including E T Meredith Joseph G Cannon W S Kennon Frank Hitchcock Joseph McKenna and Perry Heath.
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Traer
Tama Jim”Wilson
United Presbyterian Church
Wilson
Tama County
James Wray
Tranquillity Presbyterian Church
McKinley
Perry Heath
Louisville
McKinler
Babe Abandoned at Guthouse Finds Shelter in Waterloo
A baby girl abandoned shortly after birth was taken to a Waterloo home by Mrs. Myrtle Barr, police matron. After a probation period, if no mother claims the child it may be adopted. Police seek evidence about the parents, with a waiting list for healthy, well cared for babies to prevent further abandonments.
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Waterloo
Myrtle Barr
France's rapid recovery in war wrecked regions noted
New York reported Herbert S. Houston credits France's postwar revival to government loans of 9.6 billion francs and American aid. He cites reopening of 5,345 schools, 28,200 temporary and 16,800 permanent dwellings, 28,500 barracks, canal repairs, rail and river infrastructure, and population growth from 2 million to over 4 million in invaded areas.
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New York
France
Herbert S. Houston
Paris
Houston
Marne
Mr. Houston
Tin Cans Turned Into Toys by Japs
San Francisco reports Christmas toys from Japan include novelties made from tin cans that crossed the Pacific four times. Cans used in shipping to China were refilled with soy bean oil and reshipped to the United States, then purchased by Japanese and sent back to Japan to be made into toys for American children.
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San Francisco
Japan
Pacific Ocean
China
United States
Pacific
France’s North Industrial Regions Rebuilt After War
Mr. Houston notes massive destruction in Lille and Armentieres with all mills erased in some towns. Fourmies homes and Roubaix Turcoing suffer severe losses. By 1922 France aims to restart coal mining, while rapid rebuilding of fields roads and towns continues ahead of indemnity pledges.
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Lille
Armentieres
Fourmies
Roubaix
Turcoing
France
Houston
Robbers Loot Black Hawk Firm for Cigars Fruit and Tires
Robbers broke in through a rear window at the Black Hawk Fruit and Commission house on Water street near Fifth Saturday night and stole cigars fruit and two auto tires. The loss is described as not extensive but not fully valued. Bloodhounds trailed the thiefs to the rendering works before losing the scent. This marks the second fruit theft from the company in a month following a prior raid on muskmelons and a truckload of fruit.
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Black Hawk Fruit & Commission House
Water Street
Fifth
Black Hawk Company
Farm Lands Bring High Prices in Black Hawk County
The 140 acre Cloverdale Farm in Orange township sold for 450 per acre to Peter son of Waterloo, total 63 thousand dollars. The sale notes new buildings and prime condition with possession to change March 1. Also Gibbons estate Barclay township sold for 260 an acre to John Hogan bringing 41,600 cash for estate heirs. Frost farm south of Jesup brought 140 per acre at auction.
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Smucker
Orange Township
Black Hawk County
Harry G. Smucker
Mr. Peterson
Waterloo
Wesley S. Stokes
Cloverdale Farm
Eagle Center Road
Brethren Church
O. CG. Guagy
Auctin
Barclay Township
Gibbons
John Hogan
Frost
Jesup
American Legion Reunion At State Fair Grounds
Des Moines August 20 A reunion of American Legion members and former soldiers drew many attendees at the state fair. Col Mat Tinley of Council Bluffs urged avoiding petty local politics and warned posts to uphold the legion’s high standards during the upcoming state convention campaign.
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Des Moines
American Legion
Mat Tinley
Council Bluffs
Cedar Rapids
Col
Tinley
Legion
Iowa
Veterans recall patriotic work in community service
Captain Dan Newaulist urged former service members to carry forward the war’s principles through community aid and safety. He spoke on insurance and compensation matters to veterans, emphasizing continued support for those who did not fight.
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Dan Newaulist
Last Night's News in Brief World Roundup from Multiple Cities
Belfast reports eight young men killed and forty wounded in the worst street fighting since a prior battle. Warsaw notes the Russo Polish peace talks moving from Minsk to Riga Letnia. Paris reports the death in Paris of Cardinal Leon Adolphe Rette. New York cites a Brooklyn subway and elevated line strike by a transit employee. Malta experiences an earthquake causing property damage. Denver reports forty injured when a baseball park grandstand collapsed. Williamson WV notes 453 troops arriving from Camp Sherman to quell miner disturbances. Santa Rosa tallies three deaths in a car race. Athens GA reports police chief F Jenkins shot dead by a deputy during moonshine hunting. Washington DC announces planned fall rollout of airship mail service to Cuba. London says actress Sarah Bernhardt is ill and unable to perform. Kansas City reports severe wind damage to crops in Bates County.
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Warsaw
Minsk
Riga
Letnia
Paris
Leon Adolphe Rette
New York
Brooklyn
Malta
Denver
Colo
Williamson
W. Va
Camp Sherman
Chillicothe
Santa Rosa
Cal
Athens
Jenkins
William A. Reynolds
Sherif
Washington, D. C
United States
Cuba
London
Sarah Bernhart
Kansas City
Bates County
Fort Dodge Fair Nets Over Ten Thousand Treasury Balance
Fort Dodge submits a triumphant close to the Hawk eye fair and exposition with receipts of 40 160 and attendance of 64 646. The treasury shows more than 10 000 while expenses total 30 000. The event promotes livestock and agriculture and pays subscribers a reasonable interest on invested funds.
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Fort Dodge
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Iowa Falls
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Duckett
Counter
Tama Co
San Neisco
Alaska
Saturday Evening Courier
James Wilson
Babe
American Legioners
Belfast
Peas Road
Fort Dodge Fair
Adin the Courier
Independent Meat & Grocery Co
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