Chicago Board of Trade Ready for Supervision Plan
Chicago December article notes the Chicago Board of Trade is set to complete its supervision reforms with a January start for a clearing house beginning with lesser commodities and expanding to wheat. Joseph Simons leads the clearing house, while a business conduct committee with broad powers will monitor member conduct and discipline. The plan includes emergency price-range rules and added voting rights for out of town members to broaden governance.
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Chicago
Chicgo Board of Trade
Paskage
Secretary of Agriculture
Joseph Simons
Board of Directors
Musil
Grains Futures Administration
Clearing House
Realty Men to Hear Six Addresses at Staite Convention
Sioux City Ia Dec 16 Six speakers address a three day state convention of the Iowa Association of Real Estate Boards opening yesterday Two hundred Iowa and adjacent state Realtors attend The program features The Forgotten Landman The Doom of the Selfmade Realtor Second Mortgages and Land Contracts The Importance of Agriculture Making a Flame Homey plus an address by Arthur Huntington Cedar Rapids who says Iowa agriculture and industry are unbalanced with overdeveloped agriculture and underdeveloped industry
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Sioux City
Iowa Association of Real Estate Boards
Iowa
Samuel R. Guart
Sears Rosbuck Terrealtrial Foundation
Chicago
William EB. Herren
National Association of Real Estate Boards
Prayer Meeting Goes On After Death of Westminster Pastor
Westminster Presbyterian church will hold evening prayer as usual despite the sudden death of Dr Darling, pastor, last night. The minister planned to lead this week’s mayor meeting and work to strengthen prayer power in the church. The church session is set to meet at 7 30 this evening in the study.
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Westminster Presbyterian Church
Darling
Owa Signs Carroll College To Complete 1926 Grid Schedule
Owa City reports University of Iowa completes 1926 night game schedule with Carroll College of Wisconsin set for October 30 on Iowa field. Other games include Colorado State Teachers, North Dakota, Illinois at Urbana, Ohio State, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Northwestern, and Minnesota opponents listed with locations.
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OWA
Carroll
Towa City
University of Towa Nday
Carroll College of Wisconsin
Lowa Field
Colorado State
University of North Dakota
W—Ilinois
Crhana
Ohio State
Columbus
Carroll College
Iowa City
Mannesota
Wisconsin
Madison
Northwestern
G—M
Shipping board chief defends private merchant fleet plan
Washington tries to reassure critics as T. W. O'Connor, head of the Shipping Board, argues the United States should shift to private operation of lines and dismisses calls to scrap or sell vessels. He notes the board has sold over 1,300 ships since 1921, with 808 sailing under the U S flag, and cites high federal costs while stressing private capital and overseas reading of the plan.
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Washington, D. C
INS
United States
T. W. O'Connor
Shipping Board
American Manufacturers’ Export Association
Staniship
O'Connor
Ship- Plug Board
Kiwanis Elects Roy F Short President For Year
Roy F Short was elected Kiwanis club president for the ensuing year at the yesterday business meeting succeeding Walter P Jensen. Other officers include Judge J E Dempster vice president Wil A Lane treasurer GC J Miller secretary. Directors are Roger Miller C D O Tiarrow Sloane M Wak lace A B Chambers Russell L DeGon Victor Zellehoefer and A A Sohner.
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Roy F. Short
Kiwanis Club
Walter P. Jensen
J. E. Dempster
Wil A. Lane
J. Miller
Roger Miller
C. D. O'Tiarrow
Sloane M. Wak
Lace
A. B. Chambers
Russell L. DeGon
Victor Zellehoefer
A. A. Sohner
Skating Thrives on Cedar River at Charles City
More than 200 skaters enjoyed Sunday sessions on the Cedar River from the dam to beyond the suspension bridge in Charles City. Ice runs 10 inches thick and accommodates sleds pulled by children. Residents propose a small shelter house for gear, night illumination, possible heat, and ice depth checks. flooding vacant lots in past years proved unsatisfactory.
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Charles Cuty
Cedar River
Riger
Andrews expeditions raise Central Asia as cradle of humanity
Chiedgo Dec 16 AP reports Roy Chapman Andrews and the American Museum of Natural History party confirm Central Asia as a cradle for human and mammal evolution. Finds in Mongolia and the Gobi include ancient stone age cultures, a giant baluchitherium fossil, and evidence of long desert drying with no ice invasion.
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Chiedgo
Central Asia
Roy Chapman Andrews
American Museum of Natural History
Europe
Gobi Desert
Andrews
Mongolia
Central Asian
Caspian Sea
Pacific Ocean
America
Dune Dwellers Inhabited Ancient Lake Dunes
The text notes that the Dune Dwellers inhabited the sand dunes on shores of ancient lakes about 20,000 years ago. It compares to a claim that a vast redwood forest once covered Manchuria around 3,000,000 years ago, akin to California giant redwoods.
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Manchuria
Cattfornia
Independence Scouts Plan Fund Drive For HQ in Independence Iowa
Independence December 14 The old Boy Scout headquarters has been secured for the reorganized group with support from the People's Hospital board owners of the former Y M C A building near the bridge. Three scout masters named and several professionals join troop committees. A fundraising campaign starts December 21 to outfit the building and cover running expenses. Also: death reported in Dubuque of John C. Althauser after an illness of three weeks. he married Edith Swener in Independence in 1852.
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Independence
Reorganized Scout Organization
People’s Hospital
Dubuque
John C. Althauser
Finley Hospitel
Edith (. Swener
Ars
Louis Sener
Late Allee McGowin laid to rest at First Baptist
The funeral service for Allee McGowin was held Wednesday at 2 PM at First Baptist Church with Rev. W H Hoge officiating. Interment followed at Oak Grove Cemetery. McGowin, born March 11, 1851, long resident of Fayette County, had lived in Beverly Hills with her daughter Mrs J G Littlejohn. She married Thomas McGowan in 1865 and had a son, Pred, in 1924. Surviving are George McGowan of Chicago and Mrs Littlejohn.
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Steauent
M Allee McGowin
First Baptist Church
W. H. Hoge
Burlat
Oak
Cirove
Fir
Big City
Beverly Hill
Los Angeles
J. GC. Littlejohn
Iaida
Fayette County
Thomas McGowan
Pred
Night Ride Poem Fragment by Robert Louis Stevenson
A short poem fragment titled Dy Nights describes Aman riding at night under a moonlit, windy scene. Refrains of galloping and returning home echo through dark trees and roaring ships, conveying a nocturnal voyage.
Skin Game Man Gets Seven Years in Reformatory
Everett Lemen, arrested last week in Winneshiek county for attempting a skin game using animal pelts, pleaded guilty to cheating by false pretenses and was sentenced to up to seven years in the state reformatory at Anamosa. While a jail trusty in Decorah last summer, he hid pelts and later sought payment from county officials, claiming $65.25 for gopher and groundhog pelts used for bounty. Lemen, 22, son of Rev. W M Lemen, had been married in October and resided at 77 Franklin Street, Waterloo.
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Everett Lemen
Ahamakee
HW. B. Taylor
Waukon
State Reformatory
Ananinsa
Emen
Decorah
Winneshiek County
Gresco
Lemen
W. MM
Cezar Walls
Franklin Street
Waterloo
Waterloo Cedar Falls and Northern Railway Timetable Update
Waterloo and Cedar Falls motor coaches run from 6:10 a.m. to 11:40 p.m. with direct Waterloo to Iowa State Teachers College trips on school days. Cedar Falls routes operate from 13th and Main and 2nd and Main with transfers to city cars for Cedar Falls to Waterloo travel. Through fares include 20 cents cash and 10 tickets for $1.50, with continued efforts to provide good service and rationalize routes for better efficiency.
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Metor
Waterloo
Iowa State Teachers College
Otter
Cedar Falls
Main Streets
Hes
Nm Motor Coaches
138Th
Cedar Halls
13Th
Watertoo
Cedar Fells
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