Political fights brew in sixth district nominations loom
Des Moines reports indicate a renewed contest in Iowa’s Sixth congressional district. Grimes of Montezuma announces Republican primary bid with an organized Poweshiek club backing him while incumbent Ramseyer pursues another term. Democrats consider McCash and Stellar with Ed Taylor also in the mix.
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Des Moines
Couress
Grimes
Tamseyer
Dm. Grimes
Montezuma Republican
Montezuma
Congress Club
Poweshiek County
Ramseyer
McCash
Tom Long
Sigourney
Ed Stellar
Ottumwa
Henry Taylor
Bloomfield
Bob” Henderson
Council Bluffs
Leon Ainsworth
M. I. Cox
Cedar Rapids
Slaughtering Rabbits by the Wholesale
J and Winters returned from Stockport with Doc Hyatt Court Wheatley and Doc Bunker after a fruitful rabbit hunt. They discarded the field to the roadside and had a driver haul the game in a bobsled. In one 20 acre corn field two miles from Stockport they killed around 60 rabbits in two hours.
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Fort Madison
J. &. Winters
Stockport
Doc Hyatt
Court Wheatley
Doc Bunker
Winters
Argonne veteran wounding drives Davenport to tragedy
Walter Jaap a 419 Sixteenth street Moline veteran of the Argonne wounded seven times and gassed twice killed himself with hydrogen cyanide inhalation in his Davenport room after threatening to kill himself or his wife. He had battled illness since returning from the army hospital four years earlier and had become despondent over inability to work. His wife fled to her mother then to her brother Roy Miller as neighbors described a pitiful case.
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Davenport
Walter Jaap
Sixteenth Street
Moline
Jaap
Roy Miller
Jnap
Strapping Young Man Finally Redeems War Wounds
A young veteran returned from service with severe wounds and gas exposure. He attempted work several times but each effort caused serious illness, leaving his outward appearance deceptively healthy.
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Abd Alin
Dubuque Faces a Sugarless Christmas
Dubuque stores report a sugar shortage with wholesalers confirming limited supplies. Retailers sell in small quantities, often half pound per customer, as housewives fear an empty Christmas table due to ongoing transportation and shipment delays.
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Pubuque
Dubuque
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J. M. Grimes
Bramseyer
Congress
Argonne
Bayer
Waterloo
Towa
Jace
Allover Street
Allover
F. B
Arant Shoe Shop
Marsh-Place
Franklin
Advantaers
Ager
Brougham
Mymace
Cramer Motor Car Co
R. H. Cramer
West Fifth Street
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