Municipal Leaders Meet Over Utilities Bill Sours Endorsement
Mayor R C Thompson reports from Des Moines on a legislative committee debate about a public utilities bill. The measure would create a governor appointed commission to regulate utilities and could override local franchises advancing reconstruc tion period improvements. The league opposed chiefs of police civil service and vowed to defeat util ity provisions while exempting existing contracts.
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R. C. Thompson
Des Moines
League of Iowa Municipalities
League
Thompson
League of Municipalities
Waterloo
Railroad Commission
Silo Industry Boost Seen After Iowa Meeting
W B Trost of Waterloo Playford Silo reports on formation of Iowa Cement Silo Association in Des Moines. The group aims to publicize silos and promote farm use with H T Carson A C Newcomer E L Page and B L Carpenter on the advisory committee. Silo use rises as 2 500 cement silos were built in Iowa last year.
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A. C. Newcomer
Newbury
E. L. Page
Kingsley
B. L. Carpenter
Newton
H. Parkins
Des Moines
H. E. Kilmer
Oskaloosa
Mr. Perkins
Iowa
Waterloo Playford
Man Arrested After Husband Dispute and theft report
Police yesterday arrested a man on a complaint from a wife who said her intoxicated husband behaved indecently. A resident of 22 Fourth Street East reported a camera stolen worth 65 dollars. Officers seized sixty pints of liquor near Jefferson Street but no owner claimed the wet goods after 24 hours. The bottle labeled New Hope appeared to be a new brand to police, yet the owner still missed.
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Fourth Street East
Jefferson
Saloniki Papers Protest Nationalization Claim
Saloniki newspapers unite against the London Daily Mail cor respondent's report that Lord Robert Cecil hinted Saloniki port would be internationalized as they demand clarification.
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Associated Press
Saloniki
Robert Cecil
London Daily Mail
Robert
Theatrical Showings at Plaza Waterloo Majestic and Palace
The Plaza presents Under the Greenwood Tree starring Elsie Ferguson with Eugene O'Brien in a screen adaptation by Adrian Gil-Spear and directed by Mile Chautard. AL Gorrell's Company returns to Waterloo for a week with The Man That Looked Like Me and No Man's Land vaudeville at Majestic. The Girl of My Dreams screens at the Palace with Billie Rhodes and Charlie Chaplin’s A Dog's Life plus Pathe News.
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Elsie Ferguson
Plaza Theatre
Miss Ferguson
Eugene O'Brien
Adrian Gil-Spear
Mile Chautard
AL Gorrell
Waterloo
Gurreau
Noa Man’s Land
Plavner
The
Majestic
No Man‘s Land
Jack Cottrell
Royal Air Forces
James Kerrigan
the Majestic
Billie Rhodes
Palace
Charlie Chaplin
Pathet
Cotton consumption in January totals set by census bureau
The census bureau reports January cotton use at 656,721 running bales for lint and 7,139 bales of linters. The data were released from Washington D C with the Associated Press noting the figures.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Robert Feneley Dies Suddenly at Home Near Cedar Falls
Cedar Falls Feb 14 Special Robert Feneley age 64 was found dead this morning when family members went to call him The cause is believed to have been apoplexy He had been living with his nephew Vernon Albright three miles east of Cedar Falls
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Cedar Falls
Robert Feneley
British air ministry record flight Paris to London
The air ministry reports a British service plane flew from Paris to London yesterday in one hour and some minutes setting a new record. The report appears in the London bulletin with further details on the flight duration and route.
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London
Associated Press
British Air Ministry
Paris
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Kohl’s
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St. Joseph
Missouri
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