Dozen Women Riot At Ward Republican Club Meeting
Chicago report describes a violent melee at the Fiftieth ward Republican meeting as police arrest a dozen people after fights with chairs and a pistol. Meehan, the ward president, was struck and hospitalized with a scalp wound, while editor Shanley faced questions amid blame for the disruption.
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Chicago
Filtisth Ward
George Aicchan
Fiftieth Ward
Ure
Mrehan
B. J. Shanley
Wie
Gaui
Shanley
Meehan
Thompson Republic
Gshanley
Kelly
Patrick Kelly
Meehan O
Martin McCormick
Roy Steffen
Richard Prendergast
Mrs A G Beatty Dies in Independence
Mrs A G Beatty wife of a past department commander died at 7 p m yesterday at her Independence home after a period of illness Her husband survives and local G A R comrades were asked to attend the funeral set for 2 p m tomorrow at Independence with G W Bothwell of Randolph Street to represent the department commander.
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G. W. Bothwell
Randolph Street
Robert Anderson Post
Tomorow
Independence
A. G. Beatty
Beatty
G. A. HL
Obituary notices for Metcalf Hocken Dixon Schmidt
Mortuary notices for Daniel E Metcalf 72 of Chicago announced funeral at O Keeffe Towne chapel with burial at Fairview. Robert Hocken 4 died after pneumonia at Presbyterian hospital with service at Barns Chapel Linden Methodist Episcopal church. Malinda Dixon 90 died in Los Angeles with family ties in Watering, Owensmouth. Elizabeth Schmidt funeral at First Evangelical church and burial at Pakewl.
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Daniel E. Metcalf
Daniel
Barclay Township
E. A. Baville
Los Angeles
Robert Tocken
Robert Hocken
Roy W. Hocken
Mulberry Street
Bilty
Teath
Shirley
Barnschapel
Kev
Joseph Yates
Dretor
Linden Methodist Episcopal Church
al Winthrop
The
Sanity the Chill
WinterIna
Malinda Dixon
Matlada Dixon
Watering
Owenamouth
Cal
Cougtter
Mre
Dixon
Cottage Grove Avenue
Nevada Street
Burgess
Owensmouth
Auive
George L. Dixon
Alhambra
Allice Harrod
Hollywood
Gale
God
Henry Poyner
Poyner Township
Elizabetic
Mis
Elizabeth Schmidt
Inependence Avenue
First Evangelical Church
M. Yaggy
Pakelew
Petersen Bros
Tomorow
Femoyet
Des Moines Girl 18 Years Old Takes First Train Ride
Evelyn Cooper, age 18, described as a Des Moines high school student, rode a railroad train for the first time with friend Marjorie Miller. The trip went from Des Moines to Valley Junction on the Rock Island line, about 19 minutes away, after they exchanged graduation gifts.
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Des Moines
Evelyn Cooper
Marjorie Miller
Evelyn
Valley Junction
Des Migs
Rock Island
Lone Eagle Lindbergh honored in Bogota homecoming
Colombian crowds showered Lindbergh with flowers as the Spirit of St. Louis landed after a six hour journey from Cartagena. Generals and officials welcomed the aviator at the American legation amid searchlights and a national anthem, with plans for the Boyaca cross and a bullfight in his honor.
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Bogota
Colombia
Charles A. Lindbergh
Cartagena
Lindabergh
Lindbergh
St. Louis
Aviation School
Columbia
Reyes Luna
Jim
American Legation
Met
Mendez Wil
Caracas
Venezuela
Officials in Texas Face Jail Time for Contempt
M Luis executive vice president of the Southern Partie lines and three other officials were adjudged in contempt of federal court in Houston on January 28. They were ordered to appear next Friday to receive judgment and sentence from U S District Judge Hutcheson. The case arose from a Brotherhood of Sleeping Clerks filing alleging the Texas New Orleans railway engaged in coercive actions to unionize workers.
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Houston
Tex
M. Luis
Southern Partie Lines
U.S
Hutcheson
Brotherhood of Snning Clerks
Texas ’, New Orleans
Southern Pacific
Chamberlin and Williams Fail Fourth Time at Record Bid
New York January 28, report says Cay ence Chamberlin and Roger Williams failed in their fourth attempt to break a world duration record at Richmond Virginia. Officials said they would try again next week, marking the ongoing effort and anticipated continuation into the following period.
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Chamberlin
Williams
Yok
Cayence Chambirin
Roger Q. Wiliamsei
Richmond
Var
Anfouriee Toe
Congress Today CBy Gutted Pre and HOUSE Hearings
In session the net in session flext control committee concludes hearings. Naval affairs committee continues its naval program hearing. Senate in session. Commerce committee continues hearings on Muad control. Agriculture committee continues hearings on Muscle Shoals.
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HOUSE
Naval Affairs
Senate
Commerce
Agriculture
Walnut Street Baptist Choir Aids Church Work Regularly
The Walnut Street Baptist church choir numbers over 40 with Mrs. N G Altland as organist and GC A Altland directing two church orchestras. Under Mrs H Wilbur, choir work has grown and new accommodations added. Members include La Verne Wilcox Alice Rogers and many others, reflecting a spiritual, dedicated musical program led by Mrs Wilbur and aided by the music committee.
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Walnut Street Baptist Choir
Walnut Street Baptist Church
EB. E. Holmes
Josephine Margandt
GC. M. Sherrill
N. G. Altland
Westminster Presbyterian Church
First Baptist Church
GC. A. Alttand
H. ©. Wilbur
Tfe
East High School
Grace Methodist Episcopal Church
First Presbyterian Church
Walnut Street
Alice Rogers
Ruth Roedel
Edna Mae Rittenhouse
Thelma Daley
D. Ellowene Jensen
Mas Howell
Marie Walker
Joseph Margadant
Ruth
Pretty Girl Refuses Vice Presidency Of Big Concern
Louise Luckenbill, a 27 year old advertising secretary, declined the vice presidency of a large advertising agency saying prejudice from mossbacked executives would hurt business. She noted many business men resist a woman as top officer and cited limited roles for women in advertising.
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Pretty Girl
Big Concern
New York
IUPI
Moss
Louise Luckenbill
Schultz-McGregor ‘E Corporation
United Press
Miss Luckenbill
Stirring Scenes at Camp McKinley Mobilization 1898 Iowa Guards
The Iowa National Guard mobilized at Camp McKinley Des Moines in April 1898 amid excitement after the Maine sinking. Regiments prepared, trained, and boarded trains to front camps as crowds cheered, flags waved, and towns bid farewell. Four regiments formed and were assigned to quarters at the fairgrounds under General Rush Lincoln.
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Camp McKinley
Iowa
Cuba
Associated Press
State Historical Society of
Iowa City
Des Moines
Des Maines
Maine
Havanas Harbor
Melvin H. Byers
Hathelvillans
Muardemirn
Town
Suu
Ch AL BR
Ant Tae Wo
Acres
Moines
Ely
Glenwood
Villisca Red Oak
Shenandoah
Cormunkig
Bedford
State Fair Grounds
Iowa National Buard
James Rush Lincoln
MecKinley
Revellin
Buard Mount
Asipn
Ute
Washington
Campa
Oubs
Libra
Public May Listen to Discussion of Important Money
Washington officials announce that President Coolidge and Budget Director Lord will discuss the nation's finances Monday night. The address at Continental Memorial Hall will be carried by 34 radio stations of NBC red and blue networks starting at 6 45 p m Eastern.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Coolidge
Lord
Continental Memorial Hall
National Broadcasting Company
Military unit movements from Iowa in 1917
The Fifty-second left Des Moines May 28 for Chickamauga Park Tennessee. The Fifty-first Iowa regiment departed for San Francisco on June 5 and the Forty-ninth left for Jacksonville on June 12 as part of early deployment orders.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Des Moines
Chickamaugs Park
Tenn
Camp McKinley
San Francisco
Forty
American hostess disrupts royal dinner at London party
A banquet at Mrs Marshall’s London dinner amid high society ends with Princess Mary kept waiting for dinner while Lord Castlerosse arrives late. The event, tied to a famed flashlight party, triggers widespread talk of future sequels as prestige and scandal mingle.
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London
Charles Marshall
England
Atlantic
Marshall
Mary
Wiscowni Castlerosse
Tardy
Castlerosse
Berlin Announces Emergency Motor Repair Stations
Berlin reports the founding of Automo bilists Ald Company Ltd a joint effort by the Central European Automobile association the German Industrial Automobile league and the German Automobile Dealers league. The plan sets up emergency stations nationwide to aid motorists in accidents by providing accessible telephone contact. Prussian Interior Ministry orders police to assist and place service telephones in rural areas lacking post offices for quick outreach.
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Berlin
Automobilists
Ald Company, Ltd
Central European Automobile Association
Industrial Automobiile League
Automoblile Dealers’ League
Automphilisia
Prussia
Minister of Interior
Ible
Twenty Die and 29 Hurt in Railroad Wreck
Twenty passengers killed and 29 injured in a Rangoon to Mandalay rail wreck after the engine left the rails and plunged into a creek bed. Investigators report tampering with the rails as a possible cause.
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London
INL
Rangoon
Mandalay
Shake-Up in Hickmans Case Draws Police Criticism
In Los Angeles the police commission criticized the shake-up after Edward Hickman escaped. Seven senior officers were demoted, and the loyalty and confidence of the force was said to be eroded by the incident.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Iowa Public Service Buys Sioux City Gas and Electric
Announcement today that the Iowa Public Service company has purchased the Sioux City Gas and Electric Co from the United Gas Improvement company of Philadelphia. The deal includes extensive holdings of United Gas Improvement in town. A separate Baltimore report notes an unidentified man about 30 was killed after jumping from the top of the 180 foot Washington monument.
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S. C. Coo
Sioux City
Iowa Public Service Company
Sioux City Gas & Electric Co
United Gas Improvement Company
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Sinsi
Washington Monument
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Dies in Exile at Fontana Rosa
Vicente Blasco Ibanez, famed Spanish exile and author of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, died at his Fontana Rosa villa in Mentiens France at 3:30 a.m. He had lived in exile for opposing King Alfonso and Primo de Rivera. He was 61 and his son Iguido arrived from Valencia. Ibanez planned a writers’ retreat on the villa grounds and had written on crusades and inquisitions.
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Gold
Meniions
France
Vicente Blasco Ibsnez
Iguido
Valencia
Spain
Thanes Familly
Thanez
Thane
Thanet
Fontana Rosa
Paris
Attie
Toanez
Arperica
Vicente Blasco Ibanez
Alfonso
Primo de Rivera
Sprain
Morocco
Ibanez
Tiang
Benigno Varella
Ibanex
Altho
Mentone
Dona Elena Ortagar Baines
Rudy
Thanew
Valencis
Four Horsemen
Rudolph Valentino
United States
Dysart Banks Merge Forming Dysart National Bank
Dysart Iowa stockholders approve the consolidation of Dysart Savings Bank and First National Bank in a 463 to 3 vote. The merged bank will operate as Dysart National Bank with directors named and officers to be chosen. Receipts for the 100 percent assessment on Dysart Savings stock will be collected within 30 days.
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Courter Sprectal Serpion
Dysart
Tiysart Savings Bank
First National Bank
National Bank
Savings Bank
Dysart Savings Bank
United States
Dysart Savings
Dysart National Bank
HH. P. Jensen
W. D. Brandt
Seebach
A. R. McElhinney
John Drews
F. H. Schmidt
Henry Schroeder
Dan Lally
Fréd Lee
Dysark Savings Bank
R. W. Walte
Waterloo Savings Bank
Waterloo
Ed Farrow
Merchants National Bank
Cedar Rapids
Alburnett Robber Sentenced to 10 Years to Life
Cedar Rapids judge overruled a new trial motion and sentenced Roscoe Shomier of Cedar Rapids to a 10 years to life term for complicity in the Alburnett bank robbery. An additional indeterminate sentence up to 10 years for alleged auto theft runs consecutively, with parole eligibility after 10 years on the bank robbery count.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
F. J. Anderson
Roscoe Shomier
Alburnett
State Bank
Shamirer
Augustana College Campaign Reaches $41,650 Pledge Total
Students and faculty at Augustana College and Theological Seminary pledge 41,650 to a 1,500,000 endowment and expansion fund for Rock Tolland educational Institution. Campaign manager Dr. C. H. Pankoke announced gifts to the fund now total 126,859.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Ttand
Augustana College and Theological Seminary
Rock Tolland Educational Institution
C. H. Pannkoke
Children Hurt in Street Car Crash in Des Moines
Des Moines Jan 28 Several persons were injured when two street cars side swiped on a passing turn yesterday causing one car to slip into a ditch. J A Sixbury driver sustained injuries from shattered glass. Ten high school students rode as passengers but escaped serious harm. The charge was against the car protruding a few inches from the end of the pole.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
J. A. Sixbury
Two Watermelon Vendors Solve a Clever Puzzle
Two men sold melons daily, one small at three for 1 dollar, the other large at two for 1 dollar. They split sixty melons, then mixed sales at five for 2 dollars and ended with 24 dollars. The other man asked where the missing dollar came from.
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Republican Club
Lone Eagle
S.p
Texas
Road
Congress Today
Richard Crane
Warren Crane
Claude Grane
Herman Meser
Leonard Howell
W. 8. Howell
Wright P. Breeves
William King
F. L. Croteot
Carl H. Wagner
Richard Wager
Gordon Altiand
Heiko Meyer
Warren L. 8
Teeves
Mack
Creston
Co. G
Hickman
Vicenth Blasco Ibanez
Dyoart
Construction Machinery Company
Reed
J. G. Miller Construction Company
Park West
Unique Cleaners
Dusiness
Fourth West
James W. Lacy
Viola Harris
Mt. Pleasant
Evening Post
Teading
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