Snowbound Colesburg Struggles With Isolation In Heavy January Snow
Inland Iowa village Colesburg in Delaware County endures severe January weather with drifting snow blocking roads and cutting communication. bobsleds remain the only transport and the town risks complete isolation if phone lines fail. The piece juxtaposes past contingency preparations with current unpreparedness and notes the wider context of isolated towns and Alaskan like conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Colesburg
Delaware County
Bobsteds
Colesbury
Alaskan
Siberia
Coolidge Blasts I C C as Sluggish on Job's Engines
Washington fueled tariff debate as the Hawley Smoot plan moves. Agriculture and industry press for protection, with sugar schedules and other schedules under review. Lawmakers anticipate rapid passage after Hoover opens congress, while farmers and manufacturers urge increased duties and new safeguards.
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Frederic Williams Wise
Washington, D. C
Congress
Committees
Hawley
Ways and Means
Republican Party
Herbert Hoover
Charles Curtis
Plaatform
Seventy-first Congress
House
Hoover
Representative Gardner
Senate
Agriculture
National
Can Ners Association
Wisl
Sana Key
Hawley-Smoot
Czecho-Slovakia
Austria
Texas
Oklahoma
Falatd
Wood and wife tied to Sturgis bank robbery alibi
Detroit reports tie Mrs Grace Wood and her husband to a $75,000 First National Bank robbery in Sturgis Michigan. Wood offers an alibi while Mrs Wood faces assault charges. Cecil Hall and others are jailed on robbery counts as investigators build a murder plot case tied to Wood.
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Detroit
Mich
Grace Wood
Wood
First National Bank
Sturgis
Leonard Schemanske
Cecil Hall
Centerville
Gaye
Holt
James Che
Here
Cadillac Motor Company
Thomas F. Chawke
Ambrose Haggerty
Taylor Pierce
William Thompson
High
Chawke
Reapportion Bill Prospects Fade On Senate Calendar
Washington January 26 The prospect of senate passage for the reapportionment bill grew less favorable as the Republican steering committee did not place it on the calendar. The committee laid out its order after the pending 15 cruiser bill, placing Caraway's anti sale of cotton and grain proposal, Jones' harsher prohibition penalties plan, and Edge's Nicaragua canal survey after that measure.
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Washington
D. C
Senate
House
Republican
Caraway
Arkansas
Jones
Edge
New Jersey
Nicaragua
Hoover returns after big fishing haul in Florida
President elect Hoover ends a Florida fishing trip at Miami Beach shortly after arriving from Key Largo with a notable catch including barracudas kingfish dolphin and other species no sailfish reported. Secret service confirms the return tonight and continues mail detail duties.
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Miami Beach
U.P
Hoover
Key Largo
W. H. McSwain
Secret Service
McSwain
Joseph Murphy
U. S
Pleads for Grain to Help Snowbound Quail in Iowa
Des Moines on January 26 Audubon Society representative addressed Towans seeking grain for snowbound quail and other birds. She noted statewide snow cover limits birds’ food, stressing farming regions rely on wildlife to reduce noxious weeds and insects harming crops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Nicholas
Audubon Society
Towans
Rail consolidation bill eyed as path to faster government rail decisions
President Coolidge condemns slow interstate commerce rulings and backs a railroad consolidation plan that would let the government authorize mergers while seeking a unified network. Senate panel prepares favorable report on the Fess bill despite some rail manager opposition. Meanwhile a fatal stairway fall in Seaton claims 73 year old Mia Lara Fray of Galesburg.
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Washington, D. C
Coolidge
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Court of Claims
Congress
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Fess
Ohio
Fees
Hoover
Washington
D. C
Senate Interstate Committee
Republican
Galesburg
Ildan
Mia
Lara Fray
Seaton
Weather for Week in Washington DC January Forecast
Weather for the week beginning January 28 covers the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys and the northern central plains. Expect mostly cold in the north with several periods of precipitation possible in the south and central areas, frequent temperature changes in the south, and generally near to below normal temperatures overall. Courier delivery guidance notes misdelivery remedies and contact details.
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Washington, D. C
Mississippii
Missouri
Great Plains
Hughes Speech Blocked By Severed Wire Inquiry
New York Jan 26 radio officials opened an inquiry after a severed telephone wire prevented broadcasting of Charles Evans Hughes remarks to the Bronx Bar Association. Hughes sharply condemned dishonorable elements of the New York bar and argued against commercialization and mass solicitation in legal practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles’ Evans
Hughes
Bronx Bar Association
New York
Charlies Evans Hughes
Ua Gitzen Held By Chinese Reds
Rey. Edward Young, an American Catholic mission assistant in China, was captured at Nananfu Kiangsi by two communists Chi Teh and Mao Chih Tung. They demanded 10,000 in gold as ransom within three days. The U S government and consular offices in Hankow Nanchang and Peking urged immediate action for his release.
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Washington, D. C
Rey
Edward Young
China
Nananfu
Kiangsi
Chi Teh
Mao Chih Tung
State Department
Hankow
O'Shea
Nanchang
Young
Peking
Mahlon F. Perkinson
Legation
Nanking
C. Z. Wang
Ex Police Judge Gets 99 Years in Statutory Charge
Chicago police magistrate Charles A. Krotz, formerly of Broadview, received a 99 year sentence after conviction on a statutory charge filed by the parents of a year old girl. In the same court, John H. Hamilton, ex mayor of Midlothian, was found guilty of a similar charge brought by Mrs. Johanna Ludwig, wife of a Chicago policeman.
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Chicago
Charles A. Krotz
Broadview
John H. Hamilton
Midelthian
Johanna Ludwig
Used Cars Moving At Havel's Auto Sale
Havel's Used Auto Sales Co sold six cars from an ad in the Courier's Sale Auto columns last Friday and Saturday. The Courier Classifieds promise many hangers and good bargains for buyers checking the page.
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Havel’s
Used Auto Sales Co
Courier “Sale
Short Interviews With Home Folks
In a winter travel tale James B. Innes recalls a freezing stopover in a small town hotel where only lobby and kitchen fires warmed guests. A cattle driver with a frozen beard prompts a puzzled hotelkeeper moment, illustrating harsh travel lore from old days. Also from London, Jan 25, a ministry order bans hay and straw imports under the diseases of animals acts, easing concerns over animal health.
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James B. Innes
Kingbard Avenue
Walts
Londer
United States
Ministry of Agriculture
Great Auto Expo Opens at Chicago Coliseum
The 29th annual Chicago automobile show opened at the Coliseum with over 300 car types from 46 American manufacturers, a $5,000,000 exhibition, and a crowd rushing the doors. Automo bile Trade association banquet drew more than 2,000 attendees with optimism voiced by leaders from Willys-Overland, DeSoto, and Auburn. The show continues until next Saturday night.
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iSo
New York
Chicago
U.P
Coliseum
Automobile Trade Association
George “Graham
Willys-Overland
J. E. Fields
DéSoto
A. F. Cord
Auburn
Halil
Miners Trapped After Fatal No 5 Mine Blast in West Virginia
In Kingston Fayette County Bluefield W V January 26 18 miners were trapped by an explosion at 2 am in No 5 mine of Kingston Pocahontas Coal Company. Frank Parker is dead and rescue crews under Robert M Lambie WV Mines directing search attempt to reach the imprisoned men. About 35 to 40 miners escaped through a side entry. Cause of blast unknown and surface damage includes a wrecked blacksmith shop.
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Iowa
Minnesota
Oelwein
Great Western
Osage
West High
Alfhe
State Highway Commission
Waverly
Cedar Falls
Waterloo
A. Northern Company
Janesville
Cedar
Rapids
Dubuque
Mason City
Des Moines
Fort Dodge
G. W
Tifteen
Oelwein & Meal
Rock Island
Gedar Rapids-Decorah
Altho
Iowa State Highway Commission
Pan
Jefferson Highway Transportation Company
Red Ball Transportation Company
Fort Dodge, Des Moines &Southern Railway
Deift
Flelsia
Minola Central
Bluefield
W. Va
U.P
Kingston Pocahontas ' Coal Company
Kingston
Fayette County
Prank Parker
Robert M. Lambie
West Virginia Department of Mines
Stresemann Plans Riviera Vacation Before Geneva
German foreign minister Gustav Stresemann told friends in Nice that he will take a short vacation on the Riviera in mid February before attending the League of Nations conference in Geneva. The trip aims to rest prior to critical talks.
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Biresemann
Nice
France
W.P
Gray Stresemann
Mirster
Riviera
Mme Serree to Speak on Charm in Waterloo Week
Mme Jeannette Serree, courier charm expert from Dallas, arrives Monday to lecture at the Plaza Theatre in Waterloo. She will present five daily talks from Tuesday to Saturday on beauty, psychology, and self development with free admission and a public question box in the lobby.
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Mme. Serree
Courier
Sunny South
Plaza Theatre
Mme
Janette Serree
Courier-Plaza
Waterloo
Dallas
Tex
Plates Theatre
Evening Courier
Nquirer
Mme. Serrec
Mme, Serrec
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Plland
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Lenglen
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Paris
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M_ Baldwin
Suzanne
Suvanne
Wile, Lenglen
Henry
Manhattan
Joe
Cerro Gordo
Mercury
Wisconsin
Walter J. Kohler
Kohler
Johnston
Ihe
Job
Uelwein
Curtis
Highsway Commission
Steyer Nzathiasen
Dannedaike
Virginian
Bahamas
Cecil Hirkt
Mrs
Ralph A. Wood
Washington,d. C
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Butch Master
Henry George
Harvester
Martin Cigars
Gov't
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Haqio
N. Y
Chinese Reds
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