CORPSE OF WOMAN FOUND IN FURNACE AT LEAD
Leads, M D January 28 Mrs George A Sears whose mother Mrs John Nemi an aged and wealthy resident of Lead was found dead in a furnace in her home has been arrested with her husband in connection with the death of her mother The partially burned body of Mrs Nemi was found in the furnace with the door closed Bloodstains were found in the furnace room It was first believed Mrs Nemi died by self destruction but an inquest showed the furnace door could not be closed from inside The Sears are to be removed from Lead jail because of alleged threats of violence Investigations disclosed Mrs Nemi drew 36000 from the bank the day of her death and more than 1600 was missing after the discovery of the body
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Leads
M. D
George A. Sears
John Nemi
Lead
Nem
Searl
Packing Bill Debate Lively at Livestock Association Meeting
At the American National Livestock association convention in Spokane Washington delegates discussed the market committee report backing the Kendrick Kenyon bill for federal regulation of packing. United States Senator Kendrick and Murdo Mackenzie of Chicago opposed, but chairmen limited discussion to preserve the program and postponed a vote until today.
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Associated Press
Spokane
Wash
American National Livestock Association
United States
Kendrick
Murdo Mackenzie
Chicago
Curb of Food Export to Cut HCL Help U S Children Urged
Chicago city officials told the Senate and House agriculture committees that curbing food exports would lower living costs and shield children from under nourishment. They urged placing export control in a Department of Agriculture bureau. Russell Foole of Chicago markets warned of a 360 million bushel wheat surplus and said prices need not stay high.
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U. S
Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Chicago
Senate
House Agriculture Committees
Department of Agriculture
Russel Foole
Chicago Bureau of Markets
Farmers Seek Collective Selling to Fight Middleman
Farmers and dairymen urge collective sales to shield against middlemen. J. D. Miller of New York testified before a senate sub-committee reviewing an antitrust bill. Miller, counsel for the national board of farm organizations, said major farm groups nationwide back the Capper collective selling proposal.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
J. D. Miller
New York
Senate
20 Actors in Club Sued by One Calling Him Spy
New York January 28 Robert B Kegetreia an actor sues 26 Players' club members including John Drew Francis Wilson and Otis Skinner for 100000 damages. He alleges they branded him a proerman friend of the Kaiser and a spy before and after America entered the war.
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Actors In Club
Associated Press
New York
Robert B. Kegetreia
Players’ Club
John Drew
Francis Wilson
Otis Skinner
Kaiser
Ameriea
Hawaiian Growers of Sugar Tell Japanese Their Pay's Too High
Honolulu January 28 Planters' association of Hawaiian sugar growers refused the Japanese Sugar Workers' federation appeal for higher wages. The planters said wages are absolutely too high now. Britain lends to Austria credit of one billion crowns for railway materials per official reports from Vienna.
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The
Planters’ Association
Hawaiian Sugar Growers
Japanese Sugar Workers’ Federation
Britain
Austria
Vienna
Austrian Republic
Picking of Newberry Jury On not Bared Politics of Talesmen
Grand Rapids Jan 28. Selection of a jury for the trial of Senator True man H Newberry and 123 Michigan political leaders began today. One juror tentatively accepted by both sides, one passed for cause, one excused, and questioning focused on newspaper readings familiarity with defendants and campaign law issues. Judge Sessions allowed limited inquiry into jurors political views.
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Mich
Trueman H. Newberry
Michigan Politioal
Frank Armstrong
L. A. McIntyre
Clarence W. Sessions
Irish Prelates See Danger in Education Bill
In Maynooth Ireland on January 2 church leaders led by cardinals archbishops and bishops condemned the proposed Irish education bill calling it the most demoralizing scheme for Ireland since the 1901 act.
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Associated Press
Maynooth
Ireland
City in Brief Buchanan for Glasses
Buchanan for Glasses advertisement lists Glenn A. Tibbitts as influenza victim. J C Hileman and M H Cook, of Hileman garage, traveled to Chicago auto show. Galloway Girls face Waverly alumnae Friday at Y gym. Woman's Athletic assoc meets Friday at Y rooms for supper and business. Rev E J Lockwood attended a Cedar Rapids funeral. Union station painting underway. F W Esker ill, Ivar Bartell to Omaha to live with relatives. Born to George E Williams and Florence Hollingsworth in Sidney, O. Busby Brothers plan trips to Marshalltown and Kaloosa to theatre sites. Cliff Jenkins improving from influenza. Seventeen workers ill. Waterloo contingent heads to Chicago auto show. Magees remain in Chicago. address 6320 Kenwood Ave. Bids for Grant highway work to be considered Feb 19. delays due to state/federal plan reviews. Dancing at Foe Yorum advertised this week.
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George E. Williams
Waterloo
Sidney, O
Williams
Florence Hollingsworth
A. J. Busby
Busby Brothers
Marshalltown
Skaloosa
Cliff Jenkins
Cutler Street
Matt Parrott & Sons Company
L. Alexander
Alexander Automobile Company
H. M. Gonrow
Peverill Motor Sales Company
Chicago
Black Hawk County
Board of Supervisors
State Highway Commission
Alate Commission
Federal Commission
Omaha
Foe
SLICKER AND AS POSTMISTRESS IN SLEUTH TALE ENDS
Chicago post office inspectors closed a winter romance caper with two arrests in Cleveland. Belle Elizabeth McAuliff, former Franklin Park postmistress, and Merrit Inks fled across states after a $13,000 deficit discovery. They used aliases and staged a high life getaway before hotel destinations and train lines led detectives to Cleveland.
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Chicago
Cleveland
Huclid
Elizabeth McAuliff
Franklin Park
Clarahan
Franklin Parke
Ats
Socialist Candidates Forced to Give Their Advance Resignations
Albany Jan 28 testimony at the assembly judiciary committee trial of five suspended Socialist assemblymen claimed the party required candidates to sign blank resignations before elections. Mayor George R Lunn of Schenectady testified as part of the defense denying pledges of support for Martens or endorsement of Soviet plans in America. Seymour Stedman of Chicago moved to strike a letter purporting Socialist sentiment in the Eighth district, signed Rebecca Dunny, but the committee rejected the bid.
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Associated Press
Albany
N. Y
Socialist Party
George R. Lunn
Schenectady
Assembly Judiciary Committee
A K. Martens
America
Seymour Stedmar
Chicago
Martens
Rebecca Dunny
Eighth Assembly District
New York
Louis Waldman
Stedman
Tin
Law resigns as president of Dairy Cattle Congress
At the Dairy Cattle Congress directors meeting in the Commercial club W R Law tendered his resignation as president citing business demands out of the city. He has served on the board since the group’s inception and helped drive its success. A successor will be elected at the next regular meeting when a quorum is present.
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W. R. Law
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Insulation Oven Explodes at Electric Motor Shop
An insulation oven exploded at 2 noon today in the Electric Motor shop at 612 Bluff Street. No injuries occurred though a plate glass window was blown out. Attendant Stanley Barka believes a gas leak from the heating jet caused the blast. Stanley escaped with singed hair while a large crowd gathered.
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Kendall's Condition Reported Satisfactory
Des Moines January 2 The condition of Nate Kendall candidate for the Republican nomination for governor, confined at Albia by a fractured leg, was reported satisfactory to friends. Kendall was said to be planning a resumption of his speaking tour in a few weeks.
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Chicago Proposals for Home Rule Presented to Convention
Illinois constitutional delegates hear Chicago plan for home rule from Alderman John Lyle and a Chicago delegation. Twenty six new proposals introduced as committees named to consider home rule measures, supreme court structure, voting rights for women, and taxation methods.
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London Exchange Demoralized As NY Slump
London and New York markets fell sharply with the pound trading around 3.53 dollars, down about 45 percent from normal. Paris and Belgian checks weakened, Italy seen unable to transact, and further declines pushed by heavy selling as sterling slid to 3.50 3 4 dollars and franc checks hit new lows.
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Farmers Oppose U S Retaining Railroads Control Says Farm Leader
Columbus Jan 28 Farmers nationwide support government hold on railroads declared O C Bradfute president of the Ohio Farm Bureau federation in an address at Ohio State University. Bradfute a member of President Wilsons first industrial conference. Terminal Head Sogumnt Ie William J McChesney Jr president of the Terminal Railroad association died at his home in St Louis at age 63 after an acute illness. Mayor Davis Runs for Governor Cleveland Jan 28 Mayor Harry L Davis said he would seek the Republican nomination for governor on a platform to eliminate radicals and punish profiteers. Texas Suffrage Act Upheld Jan 28 The Texas supreme court refused a writ of error upholding the states primary suffrage act as constitutional as declared by the third court of civil appeals in McLennan county.
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The
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Gleveland
Darry L. Davis
Austin
Tex
Supreme Court
McLempan County
Third Court of Civil Appeals
Men with snakes scarce in ebriate ward closure
In St. Louis on January 28 the inebriate ward at the city dispensary was closed because of prohibition. Only two men were received there in the last 12 days.
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Associated Press
St. Louis
Mortuary Notices for Baden and Seals in 1910s Iowa
Kathrine A Baden died at her home at 10 30 am after a three week illness. She was born in Waterloo December 15 1916 and survived by her parents and a sister Harriett. The body moved to Klister undertaking parlors for funeral arrangements. Sura Seals, former mathematics faculty at Iowa State Teachers College from 1898, died in Denver Colorado on December 31. She had previously taught in Cedar Falls and Port Rico.
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Katherine Annibal -Baden
Riehl Street
Klistner
Waterloo
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Croup
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Falls
Iowa State Teachers’ College
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Cedar
Protests Delay Sale of German Ships By Baker
Washington protest by Secretary Baker against selling the former German passenger liners delays final action by the Shipping Board. The board, reviewing about 30 ships bids, was told to await War Department guidance on an army transport reserve plan. Twelve bids were submitted, with one reportedly favored.
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Baku
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Paris Bread Increase Delayed Amid Cabinet Change
Paris bread price rise delayed after cabinet shift, with the increase initial to take effect February 1 uncertain for some time. Separate reports note Germany potash shipments reach Philadelphia aboard the Tungus, 4,000 tons from Hamburg. Mexican authorities detain fourteen U.S. fleeing radicals at Nogales as war department weighs disposition. Crosses awarded by France to Belgian cities Furnes Nieuport Dixmude Ypres, as Poincare and Premier Millarand visit. Indiana plans place Gen. Leonard Wood on presidential primary ballot for the Republican nomination. Temperature readings and local influenza outbreaks listed amid a busy, fluctuating news day.
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Belgium
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Ypres
Village reels as wine car cargo goes missing
In Elburn 40 miles west of Chicago a wine car near rail lines held 1500 gallons of California port wine. Locals rushed to claim free wine with pails and wash boilers, filling vessels near the car’s top access. Detectives later found 300 gallons returned. officials feared revenue seizure. The car, bound for Scranton, Pa., carried material use.
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Northwestern
California
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Twavana
Scranton
U Top Wake Six Years To Dry Warps Prohibition Tale
U S authorities forecast six years to clear moisture from the land to end the nation’s craving for alcohol. A conference at the anti-house university featured officials noting a camel squad tasked with drying the region, while internal revenue assistant commissioner M. Gaylord spoke to over 100 attendees about enforcement in western states.
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United States
Tps
Gaylord
Internal Revenue
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Chiss
Mintwest
Room apartments with hot water at $25 monthly
New York reports discovered fire room apartments offering hot and cold running water and electricity for $25 per month. The Finnish cooperative society solved the riddle by pooling $800 from sixteen families to buy an $40,000 house, renting it to tenants with mortgage costs covered by the rent, and promising lower future rents once the mortgage is paid. Licenses list Ralph Girsch and Jertrude Klein of Buckingham, James B. Harapwlomew and Esther Dedrickson of Waterloo.
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Famles
Street Cries of London In Music and Insect Control
A discussion of seventeenth century street cries set to music by Weelkes, Gibbons, and Deering, noted by Sir Frederick Bridge for their vivid street scenes and character. The piece includes a Bedlam beggar song and a watchman’s call, with comparisons to Shakespeare. Also: Electrocution of insects in cereals touted to cut waste. US Department of Agriculture reports on fumigation, cold storage, and practical results from stored goods protection research.
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Kave
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Diamond Dyes Promise Rich Fadeless Fabric Colors
Women learn to dye fabrics using Diamond Dyes with guaranteed rich fadeless colors on wool silk linen cotton and blends. The Direction Book explains diamond dyeing over any color and a pharmacist can show the Diamond Dye Color Card to match any material.
Use Cocoanut Oil For Washing Hair
An old advertisement extols cocoanut oil shampoo as pure grease free and safe for hair. It claims the shampoo cleanses scalp, rinses easily, leaves hair silky and manageable, and is available for 60 cents to $1.20 per bottle at drug stores.
Dr King's New Life Pills Promote Liver and Bowel Health
Advert reads that sluggish bowels and a tensed liver cause headaches and sluggishness. It promises renewed energy and a cleaner system, claiming the pills stimulate liver and bowel function for a healthier body. Price listed as 25 cents with quick trial urged at all druggists.
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Dr. King
No Fine In Drunkenness Case At Police Court
A drunkenness arrest led to no fine as the judge suspended the usual penalty. The defendant, a former soldier who served overseas and was badly wounded, told the court he faulted himself for the intoxication, and the judge accepted his explanation.
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Igaigal
Jane
OU. B. Courtright
Danderine Promises Hair Revival in Advertisement Style
A vintage advertisement vouches that Danderine will beautify hair doubling its length and strength. It claims to restore color vitality and scalp health, promising thick lustrous hair and relief from dandruff with a stimulating rinse.
Is This Your Case Hood's Sarsaparilla Ad
An old advertisement promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as a remedy for general weakness appetite loss and sleep problems. It claims the tonic revitalizes the blood awakens vigor and supports all organs and functions while suggesting Hood's Pills as a vegetable laxative to stimulate the bowels.
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