Christmas Accidents Highlight Seasonal Tragedies In Era
In a year marked by holiday dangers a wave of fatal incidents channels sorrow through homes. Reports note a country schoolhouse fire in Oklahoma and a Carolina tragedy, plus a Erie Pennsylvania tree observance death as crowds rush for exits. Authorities urge heightened safety and prudent celebration planning. The piece also covers a murder verdict against John Looney, amnesia cases, Confederate chain relic discovery, Des Moines court changes, and Chicago Christmas spending estimates.
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Erie
Vares Wet Bill Sets Up Mark For Wet Strength
The article outlines Congressman William S Ware's proposal to amend the Volstead act to define alcohol by weight as more than 2.75 percent. It frames Vare as a Philadelphia Republican boss shifting Pennsylvania toward a milder wet standard, influencing elections and Senate prospects including Pinchot and Pepper.
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Mark Sullivan
Washington, D. C
Gallivan
Boston
Senator Bruce
Maryland
William S. Ware
Philadelphia
Vare
Pennsylvania
Soo
Ware
Vance
Jast
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Woalstead
New Jersey
New York City
Congress
Congressman Vare
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Pinchot
Senate
Annd
Pepper
Kren
Bind
Massachusetts
Coolidge
Senator Butter
Good Fellows Club appeals for funds and clothing aid
Waterloo residents face severe cold with hundreds lacking adequate garments. Miss Mayme Egan says funds must rise today to prevent charities missing Christmas aid. Business and Professional Women volunteers visit homes, gatekeeping requests from fraud, while urged to donate clothing and money at 210% Fourth Street West.
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Holmes
Mayme Egan
Good Fellows Fund
Waterloo
Business & Professional Women’s Club
Margadant
Fourth Street West
The
Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co
J J. Fleming
Chicago
J. C. Lamkin
Locust
A. H. Carter
Fifth Street West
D. Gileson
Fourth East
F. M. Irwin
Til Logan
G. L. Peet
Pranklin
Zay Murray
Fourth West
B. Farker
Fifth
Allen
Cart’ Pervis
V. A. Hall
Slide Bares Giant Chain That Locked Mississippi River
A Kentucky river bluff slide near Hickman exposed a 60 foot air gap and revealed a long Confederate chain used to block Union gunboats on the Mississippi. The inland end anchor at Columbus, Ky, has been dug out and the mile long 18 pound chain was buried beneath debris after the site surrendered during the war.
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Columbus
Hickman
Mississ
Contests Narrowed to Two in Senate Race
The Herald-Tribune notes that two of the twenty two senatorial contests are drawing the most interest as the election nears.
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Y. Herald-Tribune
Rabbit Hunter Dies by Accidental Gunfire Near Jowa Falls
In Jowa Falls, Dec. 23 UP report says Pearl Hendrys, son of D E Hendrix, was killed by an accidental shotgun discharge while hunting rabbits southeast of town yesterday. He apparently tripped, causing the gun to fire into his neck.
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Jowa Falls
Pearl Hendrys
D. EB. Hendrix
Baltimore
INS
Harry Jones
E. Steen & Brand
32 Lives Lost in 25 Prohibition War
Washington officials released figures showing 32 lives lost in the fiscal year ending June 30, with 25 bootlegger deaths at the hands of agents and seven agents slain by bootleggers.
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Washington, D. C
Huntsman’s Gun Explodes Wounding Man in Charles City
Charles City Iowa man Ja Hee Beetz, 32, suffered a broken left arm in two places when a hunting rifle exploded Sunday after the barrel clogged. He was taken to the royal hospital with initial fears of a chest wound.
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Charles City
le Beetz
the Royal Hospital
Feng Yul Liang Forces Enter Tientsin After Rail Cut
London dispatch says Christian General Feng Yul Liang’s troops pushed south into Tientsin after severing rail links to Nanking and Peking. He drove Li Ching Ling forces back to the main defense line, with heavy casualties reported on both sides as Li Ching Ling retreated toward Tientsin.
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London
Peking
Daily Express
Feng Yul Liang
Tientsin
Nanking
Feng
Tien Tsin
East district students start 10 day yuletide holiday
Students at 12 public East district schools began a 10 day Christmas vacation ending Monday January 4. Special programs closed the term with carols, pieces, and a violin recital by James Vandersall 15 of La Porte City. East High joined in singing under Grace Udemerer. Bass High band performed. parochial schools also started vacations.
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East District
William
Elizabeth
East High
Grace Udemerer
Bass High
G. T. Bennett
Boy Whigs
James Vandersall
la Porte City
Chicago
West District
Massachusetts Man Will Be Pastor of Church at Nashua
Rev A Raimon Grant resigns from Faulkner Methodist Episcopal Church Malden to accept pastorate of First M E Church in Nashua Iowa native moved to Boston for studies at Boston University. Demolay Anniversary note: fourth anniversary of Charles City DeMolay chapter marked by a Guildhall dance with Masons and DeMolays from Rockford Greene Mason City Osage Nashua New Hampton expected.
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Nashua
Malden
Mass
Raimon Grant
Faulkner Methodist Episcopal Church
Faulkner
Boston
First
M. E. Churek
Rv. Grant
Iowa
Boston Univversity
Charles C Ia
Charles City
Mongar
Guildhall
Rockford
Greene
Mason City
Osage
New Hampton
Courier Delivers Before 5 30 O'Clock Weunden
The Courier should be delivered at your home before 5:30 o clock. If the paper is not received by that time due to carrier error or other cause, please phone 3100 and a copy will be sent. Phone calls should reach the office before 6:30 p m.
Firemen die as wall collapses on Pennsylvania blaze
Inesburg P A five firemen were killed and one critically injured when a wall fell during a 700000 blaze that swept the business district. The dead are William Finch Herman Lang Joe Risenberg William Hanks Harvey Call Victor Silgios seriously injured. The fire began at the Hotel Dawning and spread toward the Greene County courthouse as firefighters from surrounding towns fought to control the blaze.
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Inesburg
William Finch
Herman Lang
Joe Risenberg
William Hanks
Harvey Call
Victor Silgiores
Greene County
Erie. Pa
Dee
Erie
William Wagner
Hileen Rickrode
Raymond Kupotinski
Sionsand
Brierena
Oka-Bhénch
Total
Ning
Bellaire
Webb
Shady Side
Here
Family Troubles Court Opens Jan 1 in Des Moines
Des Moines will host a new domestic relations court opening January 1 with District Judge John Fletcher, ex assistant attorney general, presiding. The unit will handle all family and child welfare cases.
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Des Moines
Polk County
John Vletcher
John Fletcher
Inquiry Sought Over Mexican Auto Crash Death
Rome reports friends of Prince and Princess Pignatelli seek Italian government help to press Mexico for an inquiry into the automobile accident that killed the princess and seriously injured the prince. The couple, tied to the Cortez properties claim, face suspicions of a plot. The princess was formerly Tuth M. Waters of Little Silver, New Jersey.
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Rome
INS
Prince
Pignatelli
Itatian
Mexico
Cortez
Tuth M. Waters
Little Silver
N. J
Sues Railroad Over Snake Bite in Roundhouse in Nebraska
Herbert Brannon, former Northwestern railway employee, sues the railroad in Lincoln district court for 55,000 damages claiming a snake bite in the Chiaddron roundhouse engine pit in 1924 ruined his health. The suit was filed yesterday and names the Northwestern railway as defendant.
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Lincoln
Neb
Herbert Brannon
Northwestern Railway
Brannon
Ior
Chiaddron
Short Interviews With Home Folks
The article notes cafe patrons adjust meals and drinks with sudden cold snaps. Kezar, owner of Kezar’s Cafe at 1596 Bridge, says patrons buy extra soup or warm dishes and drink more coffee as temperatures drop. He cites increased checks on cold days and higher coffee consumption when a cold wind arrives.
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Berson
PT. H. Kezar
Kezaa
Kezar
Planes to Fly to Route in Florida
A fleet of five airplanes piloted by army air service and forest air patrol aviators will depart Dearborn tomorrow to establish an air transport service between Tampa and Miami via Fort Myers. Major W. A. Robertson, vice president of the Florida airway corporation, will lead in a Curtiss Lark, with four Ford manoplane ships following.
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Detroit
INS
Army Air Service
United States Forest Air Patrol
Dearborn
Florida
Tampa
Miami
Fort Meyers
W. A. Robertson
Florida Air-Way Corporation
Ford
Wheat prices rise on export reports
Wheat prices jumped after government crop reports suggested U S exports have already shipped wheat needed domestically. Opening quotes rose by about two to three cents, with December deliveries near 1.76 1 2 dollars per bushel.
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Chicago
United States
Christmas mail delays as funds distributed in Philadelphia
Packages to be delivered in the Christmas rush were laid aside to give priority to letters containing checks. About 134,000 dollars was distributed to depositors of the defunct Farmers & Merchants Savings Bank. Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler was dismissed as director of public safety in Philadelphia by Mayor W. Freeland Bevanick shortly before noon today.
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Mount Pleasant
Farmers & Merchants Savings Bank
Philuaicipmia
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Smedhey D. Hutler
Director of Public Safety of
Philadelphia
W. Freeland Bevcick
Gov Small petitions rehearing in supreme court case
Springfield Ill Dec AP Gov Len Small and co defendants announce a petition for rehearing in the matrcian dolar civil suit was filed. New York City population is 5 872 356 up 252 308 in five years per census figures.
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GOV. Small Appeals
Springfield
Supreme Court
Len Small
N.Y
Albany
S. V
New York City
Fiennes
UOLDUP GETS 25 YEARS
Des Moines reports Jack LaBarre convicted on holdup charges is sentenced to 25 years in the state penitentiary by Justice Franklin today.
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Uoldup
Nes Moines
Jack LaBarre
State Penitentiary
Pistrice Jwlee
Franklin Doday
Bobbed girl blamed for bartender murder in Brooklyn
New York reports a bobbed haired blonde and a youth were questioned as police connect a December murder to a “speakeasy” in Columbia Heights Brooklyn where bartender Harry Hynes was killed after a remark about the bobbed girl. Neighbors say cars lined the street at night at the venue used by high school and college youths.
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New York
Harry Iynes
Columbia . Heights
Brooklyn
Hynes
Bolice
Sunk Message From Italian Ship Marina Catches Radio
Radio operators report a terse message saying Sunk all hands after the Italian freight steamship Marina apparently went down off Newfoundland. Early word says 34 aboard, 13 in a lifeboat missing, with uncertainty over which vessel the phrase refers to amid northern Atlantic conditions.
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Baslou
Marina
Newfoundland
North Atlantic
Pay for Families of Japs Killed in Riot
Shanghai dispatch reports a judicial inquiry into the May 30 anti-Japanese riots that killed 12 Chinese students and wounded 17. The council announced $75,000 would be paid to the families of those killed while most judges exonerated police. resignations of Commissioner K. J Ocean and Inspector EB. WY. Evson were accepted, with compliments paid to both officers for meritorious service.
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Shanghai
INSJ
Council
Altha
K. J Ocean
EB. WY. Evson
Prohibition Agents Warned on Thrift in Duties
Washington December 23 Prohibition agents were warned that reckless unapproved expenditures during work could lead to dismissal from the enforcement service. Assistant Secretary Andrews said funds for tracing bootleggers must be used economically and never with complete qualification, citing the Mayflower hotel case where two agents spent nearly $1000 on evidence.
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Prohibition Ggents
Warner Today
Enforcement
Prohibition
Mayflower
Andrews
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Treasury
Kellogg Borak Weigh Seal of League Dialogs With Coolidge
Washington December 23 news wires report President Coolidge advancing toward accepting the League of Nations invitation for a preliminary disarmament discussion. Kellogg and Borah conferred with Coolidge as senators Leanroot and Hughes potential delegates are discussed.
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