Inefficiency of Motive Power on Farms Explained
Wayne Dinsmore, secretary of the Horse Association of America, told the American Society of Agricultural Engineers that animal power remains over 95 percent of farm work. He cited 1921 figures of 17,090,000 horses and mules versus 1929 census showing 246,139 tractors and 134,169 trucks, urging better use and development of efficient horse power.
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Chicago
Wayne Dinsmore
Horse Association of America
American Society of Agricultural Engineers
Dinsmore
West
New England
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Canada
Iivo
Arms Conference Seeks Rules for Submarine Warships
Washington dispatch reports the arms conference naval committee prepared to resume talks on collateral limits after abandoning submarine tonnage caps. Proposals include 10 000 tons for auxiliary vessels and 27 990 tons for aircraft carriers, with France, Italy, and Japan awaiting instructions. Leaders discuss capital ship holidays and potential French early replacement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Naval Committee
Great Britain
Noyal
Tr Mort
France
Balfour
Arthur J. Balfour
Sarraut
I.ce
Mor
Why Italian Got Back Up During Arms Conference
Acolumn discusses linguistic tact in diplomacy and politics, noting how terms like bonus bill adjusted compensation bill renumeration and subsidies are used to frame policies. It contrasts American rhetoric with international diplomacy and includes an anecdote about a Chicago police report involving a dead horse and a Polish street name.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
League of Nations
Association of Nations
Ge Lent Administration
American Shipping
Chicago
Khosciusko Street
Clark Street
New York
Eivening Post, Inc
Small Must Face Trial on Charge of Embezzlement
Details allege an ingeniously devised scheme to embezzle about 700000 from the state treasurer's office. The indictment against three defendants included conspiracy counts and a reliability of the grand jury issue, with several counts quashed for technical deficiencies and missing overt acts. Judge Edwards ruled some counts void and dismissed a count for failure to meet legal wording requirements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Small
Circuit Court
Grand Jury
Thraa
Edwards
Omisra
Peru Proposes Harding as Final Arbitrator
In a December 29 note from Peru to Chile, Lima asks the United States president to serve as final arbitrator in all differences, allowing appeals from his decision. The reply follows Chile accepting arbitration and proposing each government name a delegate to meet in Washington to set the basis and purpose of arbitration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lina
Peru
Chile
United States
Washington
Cedar Heights to Get Fire Protection from Waterloo
Cedar Heights will receive fire protection from the Waterloo Fire Department after a conference among Mayor W. F. Parrott city clerk E R Shoemaker and Waterloo council members at Cedar Heights City Hall. If approved Cedar Heights will pay for runs from Falls Avenue or Leeman Avenue stations to Rainbow Drive and assume damage liability for equipment. Cedar Heights water system currently cannot supply adequate pressure for protection.
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Cedar Heights
Waterlon
W. F. Parrott
E.r.shoemaker
Waterloo
Parrott
Prosperous New Year Predicted For 1922
Prediction from W. G. Marding governor of the Federal Reserve Board foresees a business revival early in 1922 with a new era of prosperity. He cites easing financial conditions, improving credit, and stabilizing effects of the arms conference, though high fuel costs, rents, taxes, and agriculture remain barriers.
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Gopdright
G. 4
Washington
D. O. Dee
Lana Bella
G. Marding
Federal Reserve Board
Harding Tole
F “Pusiness
Hoe
Warding
Harding
Sterling Exchange
Parcel Post Mail for Christmas Ahead of Last Year
Parcel Post mail for Christmas is ahead of last year. First class mail for the week before Christmas shows a decrease of about 16,000 items from last year. Waterloo post office reports this today while Postmaster M. H. Kelly is surveyed about lamination of house numbers and night deliveries. Civil service exams in Waterloo set for January 18 1922 and notices for domestic science teachers and fisheries apprentices are announced.
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Parcel Post
Waterloo
M. H. Kelly
New York
Postolles
Lataki
Indian Service
Bureau of Fisheries and Telegraph
Mer
Clyda E. Brainard
Sj Elvil Service Board
Waterioa
Hostedice
Bob Martin Hurt in Auto Accident In Terra Alta
Bob Martin heavyweight champion of the A B E and challenger to Jack Dempsey was badly injured in an automobile wreck at Terra Alta West Virginia. Doctors said his chest and heart were injured by the steering post and his condition is serious.
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Terra Alta
W.a
Bob Martin
A. EB
Jack Dempsey
Martin
W. F. Dailey
Boy Dies After Christmas Day Shooting Accident
United Press report from Des Moines states Eli Bell, 11, son of J. Bell, died at a hospital after an accidental Christmas day self-inflicted pistol shooting during rabbit hunting with a revolver. Another 14 year old, Robert Davis, was said to be improving following a separate Christmas day accidental shooting.
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United Press
Des Moines
Eli Bell
J. Bell
Hia Her
Robert i Davis
Trotzky Says Red Army Not Large Enough
Soviet Minister of War Trotzky warned at the ninth all Russia congress that the Red Army and Navy of about 1 95 000 must be expanded and trained for possible war next summer to deter imperialist foes and protect Soviet Russia amid foreign pacts and threats.
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Trotzky
Associated Press
Moscow
Soviet Russia
Troiky
Congress
Kaurbarovsk
Sberia
Episcopalians Aim to Raise $75,000 for St Katherine’s Debt
A Davenport meeting of about 50 clergy and lay leaders in the Iowa Episcopal diocese launched a state campaign to raise 75,000 dollars to lift the debt of St Katherine’s school in Davenport. Bishop T. N. Morrison led the session at the Hotel Black Hawk with Joe R. Lane as chairman and a Davenport quota of 25,000 set.
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Havensierf
Episcopal Diocese of
Iowa
St.Matherine’s School
Davenport
Black Hawk
T. N. Morrison
Joe R. Lane
Gandhi Policy of Nonviolence Wins in Indian Congress
At the full session of the Indian National Congress in Ahmedabad the resolution by Mahatma Gandhi for continuing nonviolence in the push for independence was adopted with only a dozen dissenting votes. The resolution names Gandhi as the sole executive authority with full powers over the Congress organization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Ahmedabad
British India
Milan National Congress
Mahattan Gnandh
British Empire
Gandhi
Congress Organization
Des Moines Woman Is Wilson Chairman
New York, Dec. 29. Announcement was made today of the appointment of women chairmen for state committees of the Woodrow Wilson foundation to perpetuate Wilson ideals. Appointments include Mrs. Annette Adams of San Francisco and several others across the country, with Des Moines represented by Mrs. H.C. Evins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Dress
New York
Woodstow Wilson Foundation
Wilson
Annette Adams
San Francisco
Martha J. Granmer
Denver
Teresa Gralutnu
Coeur D'Alene
Ida
H.C. Evins
Des Moines
C. 2. Nolan
Helena
Mont
Alexander FP
Thompson
Portland, Ore
One Dollar Per Capita Needed for Library Revenue
The American Library Association committee on library revenues reported that a minimum of $1 per capita per year is needed for a good library and $2 per capita for the highest service. The current national average is 33 cents per capita.
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Associated
Pusa
Chicago
Committee On
The
American Library Association
Fire destroys Maquoketa high school in blaze
Maquoketa high school in Iowa suffered near total destruction in an early morning fire. Estimated loss about 100000 dollars with 36,000 dollars insured. Firefighters saved the adjacent manual training building.
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Maquoketa
United Press
Clinton
Viromen
Smiles and Kinks On Today's Wires
Police seek color blind men after yellow paint appears on town buildings in Springhieia Kentucky. A Polish consulate parcel did not explode as feared, containing 509000 Polish Marks. Chicago reports rising arrests for intoxication, eight times higher than 1920 rates.
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Bnitedress
Springhieia, Ky
New York
Cleveland
Bay Page
St Paul Detectives Capture Auto Thieves Two Arrested
St Paul detectives arrested two men for auto theft authorities say they found a stolen car in their possession and will extradite them to Alliance Nebraska for charges. The suspects listed their homes as James McFarland and ay v Burns. Both waived extradition. MOTORBOAT CLUB BANQUET Waterhouse Motorboat Club plans its annual banquet New Year’s Eve at the coathouse at the foot of Seriod’s treat at 9:80 p.m. Supper will be served and future events discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
St. Paul
Mion
Alliance
Neb
James McFarland Anid
Burns
Binquet
Waterhoo Metarboat Club
Independent oil groups push 31 cent tariff per barrel
The Mid-Continent Oil Gas Association and the National Association of Independent Oil Producers urged Congress to impose a 31 cent a barrel duty on crude oil to conserve domestic reserves, stabilize prices, and protect 1,000,000 workers amid rising Mexican imports and a large share of US wells operating at a loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Mashington
J. C
Wee
Senate France Committee
Harry H. Smith
Sulsa
Okla
Mid-Continent Oil Gas ”Association
National Association of Independent Oil Producers
Smith
House .of Representatives
Mexico
United States
South American
United
Marrell
Republican
Oklahoma
Curtis
Gray
Tulsa
National Association of Independent Oil Prodicers
Colombia
Venezuela
Senamy Smoot
Utah
Mid Continent
West
Alfred P. Thom
Washington
Florida
Stephen B. Fleming
New York City
Eighteen Families Trapped by Tenement Blaze
United Press reports a deadly New York city fire trapping eighteen families as two tenements on a busy avenue burned. Rescuers pulled occupants from beds and stairwells during the night as flames swept through the structures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
New York
Highthuvynue
Two men acquitted after Lisbon bombing charges
Lisbon reports two men charged with bombing the American coast were found not guilty and freed. Other items note a fatal airplane crash near San Francisco killing Lieuts Davis and Sinclair, four prohibition agents poisoned in the last weeks, and various international and domestic political notes with limited readable details.
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Associated Press
Lisbon
Ascadia
Fla
Samuel J. Davis
Augusta
Ark
Willian G. Sinclair
Atlante
San Francisco
Cal
Prohibition
Philadelphia
John Cowper Powys
Blue laws loom as 1922 drive targets liquor trade
Des Moines dispatch reports County Sheriff W E Roth intensifies a 1922 blue law enforcement campaign. The plan lists prohibitions on liquor sales, hotel and pool hall restrictions, and stamp tag rules, with grand jury indictments reserved for offenders.
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United Press Des Moines
W. E. Roth
Ufgurets
Iuniors
Eherii
Osceola Prison Escape Suspect Recaptured in Des Moines
Charles Logadin once known as Charles Birmingham, an Osceola county jail escapee from Sibley Iowa, was captured in Des Moines by Ivy detectives while en route to a 15 year penitentiary term for grand larceny. He blamed the escape on the sheriff forgetting the jail key.
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United Press
Jes Moines
Charles Logadin
Charles Birmingham
Osceolas County
Sibley
Logadin
No More Pardons for Political Prisoners
United Press reports from Washington indicate no further political prisoners will be freed in the near future. The Justice Department statement suggests President Harding’s Christmas release of 24 prisoners ends consideration of similar cases and those not released will serve their sentences.
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United Preess
Washington, D.C
Department of Justice
Harding
LNT
Urges Slackening Up of Farm Activities
Dr. J. J. Black of the University of Minnesota testified before a joint congressional commission on short time credits urging a slower expansion of farming. He warned that continued growth in farming would outpace demand, delaying recovery.
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Associated Press
St. Paul, Minn
J. J. Black
Farm Economics
University of Minnesota
Joint Congressional Commission
Debs Plans National Tour for Socialist Party
Eugene V. Debs will undertake a national tour under the Socialist Party banner, announced by G. Wilson state secretary for Illinois. Debs is expected to speak in Chicago within the next three to four weeks amid a surge of party activities.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Eugene V. Debs
Socialists Party
National Socialist
G. Wilson
Ilinois
Debs
City to Seek Harding Arbitration on Strike
Kansas City officials plan to join Owaha and Sioux City in asking President Harding to federally arbitrate the packers strike. The move follows a city council vote today. Names mentioned include Alma Buck and Gerald Pushee along with others from Waterloo and Clear Lake.
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United Press
Kansas_ City
Kan
Kansas City
City
Owaha
Sioux City
Harding
Fred A. Proaa
Ucee Wity
Alma L. Buck
la Porte Citr
Gerald Fay Pushee
Clear Lake
Gladys Clough
Waterloo
McCoy Residence Damaged by Fire at 706 Fourth Street East
Fire originated in wooden joists above an overheated unprotected furnace causing about 1500 in damage at Dr. T. R. McCoy residence. Flames spread to upper floors before firefighters stopped the blaze with water and chemicals, sparing furniture. Insurance covered loss. Other nearby homes reported recent fires, including F. E. KarteMeier at 317 Seventh Street West with 150 damage to doors. Two minor roof fires at 21 Fourth Street East and Moir and Summit avenues brought total incidents to four in four hours.
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T. R. McCoy
Fourth Street
McCoy
FE. J. Kartemeyer
Seventh Street
Moir and
Summit Avenues
Independent Screen Artists Guild Endorsed by 3500 Theaters
New York December 29 3500 motion picture theater owners have endorsed the Independent Screen Artists Guild headed by Charlie Chaplin and Norma Talmadge. The group aims to exclude kiddiemen costs and unite artists under a common banner as reported by United Press.
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iBy United Press
New York
Independent Screen Artists’ Guild
Charlie Chaplin
Norma Talmadge
Belfast Casualties in Year of War Rise to 110
Belfast reports 110 lives lost in a year of guerilla warfare, including 11 police. Five hundred and forty wounded amid ongoing violence.
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Belfast
United Press
Waterloo Technical Society to discuss city manager plan
Waterloo Technical society to study the city manager plan at its next regular meeting. Stanley D. Moore will speak on the topic. The meeting is at 8 30 p m Friday in the clubrooms of the Greater Waterloo Association. Open to interested citizens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo Technical Society
Greater Waterloo Association
Stan‘ley D. Moore
Girl Who Studied to Be Minister's Wife Sues for 5000
Agnes M Rosenkilde sues Thomas Hansen in district court for 5000 alleging breach of promise. She claims Hansen urged her to move from Council Bluffs to Des Moines to be near her intended husband and helped pay some expenses while she prepared to be a clergyman's wife. She says he later broke the engagement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Des Moines
Agnes M Rosenkilde
Thomas Hanson
Miss Rosenkilde
Hansen
Council
Minneapolis
Orange Oil Gusher Wrecks Choker at Humble Well
In Orange Texas on December 25 Humble Oil and Refining’s Cresson No 8 blasted a choker and head gear, releasing a massive oil jet. Reported flow reached at least 30 000 barrels daily, with oil flooding around the derricks and heard for miles. The well is 560 feet deeper than any in the coast region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Orange
Tex
Texas
Humble Company
Cresson No. 8
Allied Commission Hears German Plea on Financial Status
The Allied Reparations Commission in Paris, with Roland W. Boyden present as American representative, convened to hear Germanys explanations of its financial status. Rathenau and Dr Fischer, leaders of the German reconstruction and debt commissions, were to present the details.
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Allied Commission
Associated Press
Paris
Allied Reparations Commission
Roland W. Boyden
Germany
Rathenau
Fischer
German War Debt Commission
Siberian Delegation Seeks Capital for Development
A Siberian delegation from the maritime province chambers of commerce and industries, now in Washington, urges Secretary Hughes to aid the Washington conference in solving Siberia's problems. It recommends measures to encourage foreign capital use for regional development and resource exploitation.
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Washington, DL G
Washington
Siberia
Chambers of Commerce and Industries
Hughes
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Indian Congress
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Iowa State College
CTL
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Lithuania
Seas of Nations
Poland
Vila
London
Daily Mail
Cairo
Riga
Osceola
U.S
Socialist Party
Mgoy
Fourth‘ Street
U. K
Film Artists’ Guild
Llan
Siberian
Fletcher
Castorla
Jake
Bill
East Fifth Street
Sycamore Street
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