Senators Clash Over Final Week as Congress Prepares Adjournment
Washington D C Feb 28 Senators clamor in last clinches while House rests. The 69th Congress nears nine months of adjournment with a record speed of passings. Debates on Boulder Canyon dam and emergency retirement bills loom as cloture aims falter. Walsh to push 15-member inquiry on national economy. Borah seeks summer session powers.
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Washington, D. C
Sixty
Congress
House
Senate
Boulder Canyon
Reed
Missouri
Borah
Foreign Relations ‘Committee
Walsh
Massachusetts
Farm Issue Good for 5 to 7 States for Gov Lowden
Farmers and business leaders in the west support Gov. Lowden opposing eastern manufacturers and seaboard protection. The piece notes a split among regions over tariff protection and railroad policy, with critics urging the Republican party to back a west-aligned candidate like Lowden or Dawes against Coolidge.
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West
Middlewest
Seaboard
Coolidge
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Dawes
Noy
Herald-Tribune
Borah Reveals Oil Law Rejections by 22 Firms
Washington February 28. Senator Borah, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released correspondence with President Calles of Mexico showing that only 22 of 402 oil companies refused Mexico’s new oil law. Notable refusers included Edward L. Doheny, Harry F. Sinclair, and the Standard Oil Company of Indiana.
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Washington, D.C
INS
William E. Borah
Senate, Foreign Relations Committee
President Calles
Mexico
Carload of Clover Seed Arrives in Waterloo
A 20 ton shipment of clover seed worth $9,000 arrived for J. H. Luttan at Water Street, Waterloo. It is the largest single clover seed lot seen in the city. Luttan notes domestic seed prices rose due to a new staining law, requiring imported seed to be color coded by country of origin.
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Luttan
J. H. Luttan
Water Street
Waterloo
Congress
M C A Observes Visitation Week For Mothers And Dads
The Y bids mothers and fathers visit during Visitation Week with boys enrolled in gym classes. Earl Record outlines a schedule including junior class at 4 15 p m Tuesday and 7 15 p m junior employed boys Tuesday, cubs and cadets Wednesday 4 15 p m intermediate stunt night Thursday 7 35 p m juniors Friday 4 15 p m and Saturday 9 30 a m cubs and cadets.
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America
Earl Record
Eggert to Washington on federal business
Postmaster Bax C. Exsert departed last night for Washington D. C. to handle federal duties and represent local postal interests.
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Eggert
Washington
Bax_C
Exsert
Washington, D. C
Fragmented Weather Notes Chronicle Unclear Readings
Weather fragments show temperatures for Saturday and Sunday with missing values and garbled text. The readable items mention Saturday maximum and minimum, Sunday conditions, and Monday figures, but crucial data is unreadable.
Dinosaur tracks found by Yale professors in North Branford
North Branford finds six inch dinosaur tracks preserved in sandstone and shale during dam construction at Woonbasey. The discovery highlights paleontological value in a New England site and underscores ongoing fossil research by Yale scientists.
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Associated Press
North
Branford
Conn
Yale
Woonbasey
N. Y
Walt Whitman
Deems Taylor
Edna
New York
United States
Mark O. Prentiss
Chicago
America
United States of America
Prince
William
Sweden
Africa
Slayer Goes Quer Wall at Ft Madison
Fort Madison Iowa February 28 A search is under way for John Burris a life prisoner convicted of murder near Boone who escaped last night by climbing the wall He is believed to have used a quarter inch rope to descend from the roof and may have boarded a Santa Fe train Warden T P Hollowell and bloodhounds are tracking his trail.
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Fort Madison
INS
John Burris
Rose
Boone
State Penitentiary
Santa’Fe
Burris
Burlington Votes on Dock Commission Plan
Burlington today votes in a special election on creating a dock commission as the first step toward building docks and a river terminal to enable waterway transport and barge line operation on the upper Mississippi. An average turnout is forecast.
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Burlington
Tra
Mississippi River
Italian Ace Flies From Rio Janeiro To Santos
Commander Francesco de Pineda continued his long flight over four continents, flying from Rio Janeiro to Santos, Brazil. He arrived in Santos at 10:35 this morning after covering about 400 miles and may push further south later today.
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Rio Janeiro
INS
Francesco de Pineda
Santos
Brazil
Wagner to Attend County Sheriffs Meeting in Des Moines
Sheriff WH Wagner plans to attend the Iowa State Sheriffs association two day meeting at Hotel Savery Des Moines next Sunday and Saturday Governor Hamman will call the conference with an address. The program includes round table discussions on unserved crime and features speakers Attorney General Sohn Fletcher Judge O. S. Meek Sheriff Wo Do Tillewortt Council Bluffs Frank Warner and inspector Psacnowski of the Omaha police department.
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WH. T. Wagner
Iuowa State Sheriffs Association
Hotel Savery
Des Moines
Hammanl
Sohn Fletcher
Meek
City issues permit violation notice for unpermitted installation
Information charging Glana of 333 Home Park Boulevard with starting installation of a furmer in a house without a city permit was filed in municipal court by TD BR, building commissioner Toenjes, today.
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HK. Glana
Home Park Boulevard
Munieivel Esurvt
TD. BR
Toenjes
Inheritance Taxes Collected in February Decline
State Treasurer Ray HL Johnson reported collateral inheritance taxes collected in February totaled 32720. A year ago February figures were 19893.04 lower, and January receipts fell by 23077.28.
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Des Moines
Ray HL Johnson
Yusur
St Paul to host Waterloo hockeyists Friday
St Paul Minnesota will meet Waterloo hockeyists Friday evening in place of the Chicago A A outfit. The St Paul sextet is described as equal to top United States and Canada teams with three Iowa players joining from other positions including a goalkeeper a wing and a defenseman. If weather forces postponement the game will move to Saturday.
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St. Paul
Minn
United States
Canada
Waterloo
Chicago
A. A
Malcom
Wagner
Hunter
Iowa
Standard Oil Lets $6,000 Contract on Local Improvements
A $6,000 contract for improvements on Standard Oil property at Logan avenue and Center street was let Saturday to Jens Olesen & Sons Construction Co. The project includes a one story concrete barrel filling platform 20 by 40 feet a concrete truck loading platform 10 by 20 feet and a five foot earth concrete wall around 10 large oil tanks. Work to start about March 15 and finish by June 1.
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Jens Olesen & Sons Construction Co
Standard Oil Company
Logan Avenue
Center Street
Trinity Church contracts awarded for pews at Dubuque church
The Dubuque Altar company won the pew contract for Trinity Lutheran church at Fourth and South, bids $3,300 for 750 capacity seating. Architect S. Bartley announced all church contracts, except interior decorations, are let. Construction progresses rapidly after a $15,000 grant from the United Lutheran Church of America mission board, aiming for early summer completion.
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Dubuque
Fourth
Mission Board of
United Lutheran Church of America
Kazlas Pleads Guilty in Liquor Nuisance Case
District court jurors were excused to await tomorrow when Mike Kazlas admitted guilt in a liquor nuisance case. Judge J. B. Roies imposed a $200 fine plus costs. Earlier motions and defense claims of juror harassment were not pressed. The State also has Harold S. Steenson's larceny by embezzlement case set for tomorrow morning.
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Mike Kazlas
Milton F. Fields
Tern
Vf Wy
Edwards
State
John Robinson
Iields
Waterloo pool hall remodel under city permit
A Waterloo pool hall at the corner of Front Street and Fourth Street West will be remodeled under a building permit issued today by the city building commission. The project costs about $440. An additional permit covers alterations to buildings of Waterton Concrete Corporation at Concrete Avenue and Water Street, with a planned cost of about $4,000.
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Waterloo Pool Hall
Fourth Street
Toenies
Rickles Realty Company
Waterton Concrete Corporation
Concrete Avenue
Water Street
Local names and ages listed in scattered OCR text
Fragments show names such as William Jr. Pape Velma TL McNaughton Cedar and others with ages 14 18 22. Several places appear like Cedar and La Porte City. No coherent events or actions are present in readable form.
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William Jr. Pape
Waverly
Velma
McNaughton
Cedar
Alfred HB. Vredericksen
Cedar Pals
Alta Olson
Codar Falls
John MM. Kerr
la Porte Cite
Julia M. Bedard
la. Porte City
Cummins Praised by 6 Speakers at Senate Services
Washington, D. C., Feb 28. Six U S senators spoke in memorial tribute to the late Iowa statesman Albert Baird Cummins at senate services. Described as a broad minded, brilliant, and devoted public servant, Cummins was lauded for his integrity and influence on railroad legislation of 1920. Other speakers included Senators Stewart Overman Robison Moses and Shortridge.
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Washington, D. C
Albert Baird Cummins
Iowa
Senate
William B. McKinley
Janois
Cummins
United States
Stewart
David W. Stewart
Overman
North Carolina
Robinson
Arkansas
Moses
New Hampshire
Shortridge
California
Seed Loan Offices to Be Established in Dakota Kansas
Agriculture department to set up field offices at Aberdeen South Dakota and Manhattan Kansas to receive farmer loan applications under seed loan program. Offices will serve multiple states, with Dr C E Leighty at Aberdeen and T Weed Harvey at Manhattan directing operations. Loans target seed wheat oats barley corn flax alfalfa sweet clover and livestock feed purchases.
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Washington, D. C
Department of Agriculture
Aberdeen
S. C
Manhattan
Kan
Congress
South Dakota
North Dakota
Montana
C. E. Leighty
Nebraska
Kansas
T. Weed Harvey
Barn Fire Causes $25,000 Loss at Iowa Orphans Home
Davenport Iowa February 28 The loss to three large cattle barns at the Iowa soldiers orphans home destroyed by fire Saturday night was set at 25000 dollars. Nine head of prize cattle and 50 tons of hay were burned.
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Davenport
Iowa Soldiers’ Orphans
Marcus McDermott, 81, Waterloo farmer, dies at home
Marcus McDermott, 81, retired farmer, died at 7:35 p m Sunday at 1014 Commercial street after a long illness. Born in New York in 1845, he spent most of his life near Cascade, Iowa, then moved to Waterloo ten years ago. He leaves eight sons and two daughters, with funeral set for Tuesday at St. Martin's Church in Cascade.
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Marcus “McDermott
Marcus McDermott
Commercial Street
New York State
Iowa
Cascade
Waterloo
Sacred Heart Catholic Parish
Henry Seery
Wellington Street
Leo Seery
Jefferson Street
Mathew
Gilbert
Edward
John
Timothy
Leo
Minneapolis
Marcus
Dubuque
Jodey
Montana
St. Martin's Catholic Church
Gosselin Lucius W longtime teacher and attorney dies
Lucius W Gosselin 63 former school teacher and attorney of 505 Cottage street died at 12 07 am Sunday at a local hospital of rheumatic complications He was born June 18 1861 in Clayton county And moved to Blairstown in Benton county at age six He never married He came to Waterlon December 16 to live with his niece Mrs Glen Counsell Surviving brothers Neh ry Gosselin Riceville Indiana and Benj Gosselin 503 Cottage street The body is at Petersen Bros mortuary His funeral will be Tuesday in Blairstown
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Lucius W. Gosselin
Cottage Street
Clayton County
Blairstown
Benton County
Gosselin
Waterlon
Glen Counsell
Nehry Gosselin
Riceville
Benj, Gosselin
Petersen Bros. Mortuary
Franklin Infant Dies at Birth in Franklin Family Home
Funeral services for the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Franklin of 2212 Third Avenue West were held at 2:30 p.m. today at O'Keefe & Town chapel by Rev. Henry W. Mueller pastor of First Lutheran Church. Burial followed at Elmwood Cemetery.
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Franklin
Edward C. Franklin
Third Avenue Weat
O'Keefe & Town Chapel
Henry W. Mueller
First Lutheran Church
Elmwood
Man in Drink-Fueled Attack Kills Self After Shootout
In Rock Island Illinois a hooch-crazed roomer William R Taylor wounded two officers, Policeman William J McCarthy badly and Policeman Tom Raisbeck slightly, before dying by shooting himself. McCarthy likely to be blind. Taylor had lived there 20 years, born in Sheffield Indiana.
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Rock Island
William J.mccarthy
Tom Raisbeck
McCarthy
William R
Taylor
Raisbeck
Raisheck
Sheffield
Twins Marry Twins Honeymoon in Double Ceremony
In Tonia Michigan on February 28 twins Myron and Martin Schaefer were wed to fellow twins Justelle and Esther respectively in a double ceremony yesterday. The entire village of Penamy turned out for the event as the couples plan a honeymoon in New York.
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Tonia
Mich
Myron
Martin Schaefer
New York
Jdstelle
Esther
Penamy
Rotary Club Noonday Program Shows Mixed College Chorus
A Rotary Club luncheon program at Hotel Russell featured Gates College orchestra under AL J. Van Doren, soloist Martha McCormick with Tarold Smith on piano, Gates College mixed chorus of 44 performing The Pilgrims Chorus Deep River and Come to the Fair, plus seven girls singing To a Wild Rose. Violinist Burnie Connor from Cedar Falls and banjoist Don Battenfield of Waterloo closed the program with several numbers.
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Rotary Club
Russell Lamson
Gates College
AL J. van Doren
Martha McCormick
Tarold Smith
Pilgrims
Burnie Connor
Cedar Falls
Don Battenfield
Waterloo
Boy Hooking Ride Severely Bruised In Coal Truck Incident
Thomas Holdiman fourteen of 639 Riehl Street son of Mr and Mrs R A Holdiman suffered severe bruises and a knee injury this morning when attempting to hook on to a Kurtz Reinhart coal truck. He slipped as he mounted the truck side his clothing was caught and he was dragged about a block before the driver halted the vehicle. Jadigot student of Junior High.
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Thomas Holdiman
Riehlstreet
R. A. Holdiman
Kurtz- Reinhart Company
Jadigot
Governor Signs Bonus Surplus Bill
Governor Joan Hammill signs a bill authorizing the state treasurer to invest about 1.8 million dollars of the soldiers bonus fund. The income will aid veterans who later become incapacitated from their war service. The measure passed both houses and now becomes law.
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Des Moines
Joan Hammill
General Assembly
Boy Dies After Accidental Rabbit Hunting Shot
Christian Nelson, 16, son of Henry C. Nelson of near Sexton, Iowa, died in an Algona hospital Sunday noon after being accidentally shot through the abdomen while rabbit hunting near his home. He struck the gun against the ground to scare a rabbit, discharging one barrel.
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Mason City
Christian Nelson
Henry C. Nelson
Sexton
Algona Hospital
Chicago Lecturer Cancels Address At Simpson College
Lew Saret, Chicago poet and lecturer, faced canceling his engagements at Simpson College Indianola tomorrow night and Des Moines Wednesday night due to a severe laryngitis attack. His Des Moines speech was cancelled this morning on medical advice.
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Cedar Rapids
Lew Saret
Chicago
Simpson College
Indianola
Des Moines
Waterloo to vote on two year dump contract
The Waterloo city council will consider final approval of a two year dump contract with Floyd E. Cole at its regular semimonthly meeting in City Hall. The $150 per year deal faces opposition from residents urging denial of a gasoline station petition near Fourth street and Campbell avenue. Also on the agenda are damage claims by W. J. Richerson for sidewalk injuries and a $5,000 claim by Mrs. Fred Wittstock, plus temporary appointments of Ma bel Archer and G. H. Smelser and a permit regranting for a Parker street filling station.
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City of
Waterloo
Floyd E. Cole
Fourth Street
Campbell Avenue
W. J. Richerson
Wellington Street
Randolph
Third Streets
Fred Wittstock
High Street
Mabel Archer
G. H. Smelser
Otis FP. Higdon
Parker Street
Burton Avarnue
Leonard Street
Gideons Address Four Congregations in Iowa
Waterloo Gideons yesterday morning addressed congregations at First Methodist Episcopal Second Methodist Episcopal and United Presbyterian churches at Reinbeck Ja and to the United Presbyterian church at Amity Ia six miles south of Reinbeck. Congregations of these churches gave enough money to provide 60 hotel bibles.
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Waterloo Gideons
First ‘Methodist
Second Methodist Episcopal
United Presbyterian
Reinbeck
United Presbyterian Church
Amity
Rainbow Division Vets to Des Moines Convention
Veterans of the Rainbow division will meet for the tenth annual convention in Des Moines March 7. National president Thomas Howard G. Smith will attend with many prominent officers of the unit.
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Des Moines
Rainbow Division
Howard G. Smith
Noted playwright Roy Megrue dies at 44
New York Feb 28 notes say funeral this afternoon for Roy Megrue playwright who died Sunday He wrote It Pays To Advertise Potash and Perlmutter in Society White Magic and other Broadway productions over 18 years Notables of the stage and screen will attend the service
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New York
Roy Cooper Megrue
Marriage in View for Young Teuton Prince Rich
Berlin reports that Prince Louis Ferdinand, 19, second son of the former German crown prince, is said to marry Ursula von Pannwitz, 16, heiress to a vast Brazilian- and German-held fortune. The match would unite high-born lines and enormous wealth, with Ursula set to inherit after her mother’s death.
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Berlin
Louis
Ferdinand
Uravla von Pannwitz
Catarina von Pannwitz
South America
von Pannwitz
Brazil
Ursula
House of Hohenzollern
Slayer of Two Is Sent to Asylum
John Marsh, a 34 year old Douglas county farmer, killed two people and wounded three on the Ola Anderson farm last Tuesday. He is declared incurably insane by Dr. G Alexander Young and will be admitted to an asylum at once. Fred and Adolph Marsh and Vernon Johnson were injured but out of danger.
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Omaha
Neb
John Marsh
Douglas County
Ola Anderson
G. Alexander Young
Fred
Adolph Marsh
Vernon Johnson
Marsh
Waterloo youth named editor of Iowa Engineer
Allan Loomis, son of Mr and Mrs N H Loomis of 220 Sheridan road, Ames, a junior in ISU’s civil engineering department, was chosen editor of the Iowa Engineer student publication for the year 1937-28. C A Hill of Council Bluffs was named business manager for the same period.
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Allan Loomis
N. H. Loomis
Sheridan Road
Iowa State College
Ames
Iowa
West Tligsh
C. A. Hill
Council Bluffs
Mrs G G Bickley Breaks Ankle From Ice Slip
Mrs G G Bickley of 211 South Street fractured her left ankle after slipping on ice on the sidewalk in the 400 block of Fourth Streetwest Saturday afternoon. She was reported today to be getting along nicely.
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G. G. Bickley
South Street
Fourth Stree West
Playgrounds to Be Donated at $2000 Each by Foundation
The Durman Foundation in New York will award 23 communities with $2000 each for permanent playgrounds. Eligibility requires growth of 30 percent since 1900 and current permanent population of 2500 or more, with a minimum two acres of land. Applications available from the Playground and Recreation Association of America.
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Ddurman Foundation
New York
Playground and’ Recreation Association of America
Go Chambers of Commerce
American Legion Posts
Association of America
Fourth Avenue
Banana Crate Burglars Eat But Go to Jail
Henry Nichola and Ed Huddleston rooming at 127 Eighth street west broke into Alex Likoll room last evening and stole meat and groceries Likoll had stocked. Detectives nabbed them in their rooms. Nichols admits climbing Likoll window using a banana crate as a ladder and faces breaking and entering charges. Huddleston also charged with carrying concealed weapons after officers found a large long bladed knife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Nichola
Ed Huddleston
Eighth Street West
Alex Likoll
T Likoll
Ralph Davis
Warren Buckley
Lloyd Cox
Nichols
Huddleston
Likell
Hidden restaurant case at 105 Linn street
Police visited a covered window restaurant run by C. C. Cook, a named negro, at 105 Linn street. At 2:40 am officers heard bone crunching sounds behind locked doors, entered, found several patrons, and arrested Cook on a charge of operating a restaurant with obscured windows. he posted a $100 bond.
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C. C. Cook Negro
Linn Street
William Urie
Ralph Davis
Warren Buckley
Cook
Davis
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