New Iowa University Gym to Start After Site Choice
Iowa City Jan 5 Definite plan for a new gymnasium at the university advances after a state board order to the finance committee to select a site and report at the next meeting. Location favored across Town avenue from the armory near the river, with a lagoon for outdoor swimming and a winter skating rink. Two building plans are under consideration with excavation to begin in spring and rapid completion anticipated to handle rising enrollment. A touring basketball squad is named with Wormhoudt Rodger Dowell Sweeney Holmes Hansell Harper and Kelley Porterfield as top candidates. Holmes may miss games due to a mashed hand.
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Iowa City
Iowa
State Board of Education
Hawkeyes
Town Avenue
Lowa
University
Wormhoudt
Rodger
Dowell
Sweeney
Holmes
Hansell
Harper
Kelley
Porterfield
Cedar Rapides High
Waterloo High
Drake-Aimes
Ames Team on Southern Trip
Ames Iowa January 5 Tuesday night Coach Hubbard will take eight men for a southern tour to Lawrence to face Kansas Jayhawkers in two games next week. The Cyclones then travel to Manhattan to play the Nan Las Aggies, followed by Missouri Tigers in Columbia with a long layoff planned afterward.
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Ames
Hubbard
Lawrence
Jayhawker
Cyclones
Kansas University
Nan- Las Aggies
Manhattan
Missouri Tigers
Columbia
I B A Tourney Prep Under Way In Minneapolis
St Paul Minn Jan 6 Secretary Theodore Gronewold of the International Bowling association has mailed 2000 heralds to inform bowlers about the tournament. The hall will have fourteen alleys and all will be in use. Dressing rooms showers and badges for admission and seating are arranged. A directors meeting will review badge and souvenir sales with a plan to produce record badges. A dummy schedule is set a month ahead and entries determine dates and hours. W A Ryberg treasurer handles funds. D J Sweeney of St Louis says a team with Wooster Lamberts will attend and Hyde Parke may join.
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St. Paul, Minn
Theodore Gronewold
International Bowling Association
Gronewold
W. A. Ryberg
D. J. Sweeney
St. Louis
Wooster Lamberts
Minneapolis
Hyde Parke
Jeague Meeting Postponed in Burlington Iowa
Central association announces postponement of the annual mid winter meeting from Monday to about two weeks later. President M E Justice will set a new date after returning from a National commission meeting in Cincinnati. Nayden likely to lead Burlington next season with George Manusuh as manager.
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Burlington
M. E. Justice
The
Central Association
Justice
National Commission
Cincinnati
Jeff Keokuk
Nay- den
George Manusuh
League meeting to decide Hayden salary dispute
The Burlington directors are expected to close the matter of salary and related terms with Hayden. Mr Kalletech will represent Hayden at the forthcoming league meeting here.
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Burlington
Kalletech
Hayden
Developments in Cr G Irgles Kewanee Affairs Unsettled
Keokuk has a new manager in Abbott and strong finances. Monmouth shows good conditions. Ottumwa extends its park lease and keeps Manager Egan. Kewanee remains debt free but uncertain about franchise support, with some fans urging withdrawal while others expect Kewanee to attend the midwinter league meeting and guarantee its finish in the Central association.
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Burlington
Central Association
Keokuk
Monmouth
Kewanee
Ottumwa
Egan
Justice
A. Abbott
San Diego
Abbott
Middle West
Peoria
Boiler City
Topsy the famed hound dies at seven in kennel
Topsy, valued bloodhound of Shores and Strumpfer kennels, was found dead yesterday morning at Sheriff Shores premises. Autopsy cited acute indigestion as the cause. Trained by H G Strumpfer at Springfield, she traced criminals and was praised for man trailing. Her loss saddens Sheriff Shores and fellow handlers.
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Topsy
Shores & Strumpfer
Sheriff Shores
H. G. Strumpfer
Springfield
Waterloo
Hudson Bank
Sherls
Des Moines Banker Seeks Regional Reserve Post
Des Moines Jan 6 Congressman Kirkpatrick seeks to place Lee Stevens, president of the Des Moines Chamber of Commerce and of Century Savings Bank, in a regional reserve bank office under the new currency law. The push targets a federal plum for the influential banker in Des Moines Ta.
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Des Moines, Ta
Kirkpatrick
Lee Stevens
Des Moines Chamber of Commerce
Century Savings Bank
Regional Reserve Bank
Congressmen Influence on Reserve Bank Appointment
The Ottumwa Gosher notes a congressman seeking a Des Moines banker to be named an officer in the reserve bank. It suggests Stevens lacks direct access to Kirkpatrick’s plans and relies on newspapers for details of Washington travel and discussions.
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Washington
Stevens
Maning
Kirkpatrick
Des Moines
Reserve Bank
Ohio Progressives Declare On Liquor
Columbus Ohio January 6 Progressives in Ohio adopt a moderate stance on prohibition opposing a nationwide constitutional amendment. They favor local option laws and propose submitting a federal amendment to give Congress power to address the liquor problem. The conference endorses women's suffrage and plans primaries to nominate full state and legislative tickets. Former Senator Albert J Beveridge of Indiana spoke urging unwavering Progressive principles and opposition to party fusion.
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Columbus
Anti-Saloon League
Progressive Party
Ohio
National Congress
United States
Albert J. Beveridge
Indiana
Iowa High School Students Not Frivolous About Dancing
An Iowa investigation by the University of Iowa college of education surveyed high schools in Dubuque Burlington Ottumwa and Iowa City. Results show about 48 percent attend one or two parties monthly while 26 percent attend none or less than one and 26 percent attend more than two. Students spending four to seven evenings at home weekly averaged 66 failures per hundred, while those at home one to three evenings averaged 136 failures per hundred.
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Towa City
Iowa
Dubuque
Burlington
Ottumwa
Iowa City
College of Education
University of Iowa
Irving King
Iowa High School
Moving Picture Theatre
Vinel tonic touted to revive appetite and health
Jacksonville elder praises Vinel as a remedy to restore hunger and digestion after prolonged loss of appetite. He recounts trying Vinel through three bottles, claiming renewed appetite and energy from a tonic with iron and cod liver oil, backed by Wangler Bros Co and Waterloo Iowa distributor G J Miller Druggist.
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Vinci
Wangler Bros. Co
G. J. Miller
Waterloo
Iowa
New Passenger Engines Purchased By Chicago Great Western
The Chicago Great Western railroad has bought twenty new passenger engines from American Locomotive Works Philadelphia after upgrading lines and installing telephone dispatch. Priced about 36000 dollars each, the engines are of the latest design to speed trains such as the Twentieth Century between Chicago and New York. Six of the engines will serve fast passenger trains in and out of the city.
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Chicago Great Western Railroad
American Locomotive Works
Philadelphia
Chicago
New York
117 Veterans Die In Year At Iowa Home
In Marshalltown Iowa on January 5 a report states that 117 members of the Iowa Soldiers home died during the year. The figures reflect a year of steady fatalities at the facility servicing veterans.
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Marshalltown
Iowa Soldiers' Home
German Specialist Dr Myers Builds Home The Waterloo Clinic
From Oriskany Falls New York to Waterloo Iowa Thomas Clair travels great distances seeking Dr Myers the German Specialist Health seekers travel long distances to consult him and receive personal attention His offices on Sycamore Street Waterloo advertise free advice and diagnosis and claim dramatic recoveries after short treatments Claimed cures are attributed to Myers extensive practice and dedicated care with hours listed for consultations.
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Thomas Clair
Dr. Myers
Sycamore Street
Waterloo
Town
Shallenberger
Shallenverger
Shallenberget
Ile
Rheumatism Powder Aids Wisconsin Patient
Madison resident M T Reynolds testifies in 1913 that after years of rheumatism and crutch use he improved with Meritor Rheumatism Powders. He contracted the disease while working on a railroad snow plow and now reports near full recovery, praising the remedy. Listed exclusive agents include Red Cross Drug Co and Henderson Drug Co.
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M. D. Reynolds
M. T. Reynolds
Ned Cross Drug Co
Henderson Drug Co
February Death Toll Tops Sixteen At New Haven Shops
A New Haven wage cut notice reduces wages by 10 percent for several hundred workers in the New York New Haven Hartford car shops. Machinists boilermakers and other workers are affected as the February death rate is noted to be the heaviest of the year with sixteen deaths.
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New Haven
Conn
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Olive Tablets Offer Pure Vegetable Bile Stimulant
Dr Edwards Olive Tablets promote clear skin and buoyant feeling without calomel after effects. A vegetable compound with olive oil, they start the bile and ease constipation. Sold by the Olive Tablet Company in Columbus and widely available at 10 and 25 cents per box.
Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy Promises Natural Darkening
An old time remedy for gray hair, Sage and Sulphur, is advertised as restoring natural color and controlling dandruff. The Wyeth product is sold at a downtown drugstore for 50 cents, with instructions to apply strand by strand and expect darker, glossy hair by morning.
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Wyeth
H. W. Taggart
Youth Buried by Gravel at Iowa Gravel Pit
Charlese Haberer, 22, fatally injured while digging gravel near Bouton Iowa with neighbors. The top frozen gravel bed caved in beneath him as men undermined several feet. He was buried by the slide and died from the accident.
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Perry
Jan
Charlese Haberer
Bouton
Habverer
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