Nine Candidates Vying For Iowa House Speakership
State Representative J H Johnson of Knoxville leads a list of six Republicans Vols eyeing the speaker post as the legislature nears. Others include Francis Johnson Terril Lafe Hill Marion McCauley Forsling Matthews and L B Forsling. Prior terms and professions span lawyers farmers publishers and veterans with no clear front runner yet as party lines and committee influence loom.
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Dickinson
Lute Hill
McCauley
Forsling
Matthews
Johnson
Marion
Iowa City
Lake Hill
Nora Springs
Lake City
Forsing
Carter
L. V. Garter
Hardin County
Howard
Des Moines County
Storm Lake
Spéncer
Ed. H. Campbell
Congress
Eden
J. H. Anderson
Winnebago
Peevernor
Conlition
Hammill
Arch V. McFarlane
Waterloo
Black Hawk County
McFarlane
Miston Pitt
Pottawattamie
Charles E. Swanson
Council Bluffs
Colored Masons of Iowa Plan 1929 State Meet
The 1929 state convention of the Colored Masons of Iowa was held in Burlington. Officers named include H. E. Williams, Ottumwa grand master. H. Nelson, Burlington grand senior warden. Fl. C. Martin, Dubuque grand junior warden. J. D. Bieler, Jason City grand treasurer. F. S. Johnson Keokuk grand secretary. W. M. Oney, Des Moines grand lstodian. Jim Lacey of Waterman attended.
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Watterleg
MM. W. Lodge
Burlington
H. E
Willams
Ottumwa
H. Nelson
Buurlington
Fl. C. Martin
Dubuque Rand
J. D. Bieler
W. M. Oney
Des Moines
Jim Lacey
Menges Street
Waterom
Assassins Slay Union Man With Automatic Slugs
Chicago on July 14 gunfire from an automobile killed Joseph Faul, 33, a plumbers union business agent. He was four times struck in the head and five slugs entered his body. Frank Faul drove him to a hospital where he died. Police investigated whether a union election row sparked the slaying, noting the victim had just been elected a delegate to a national plumbers convention. The killers remained unseen. this marked Chicago’s first automobile shooting with automatic pistols in weeks.
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Chicago
Joseph Faul
Plumbers Union
Faul
Frank Faul
Paul
Big Tim" Murphy
Weilein to Leave Tuesday for Wales
George W. Weilein, secretary of Waterloo lodge No. 328, Loyal Order of Moose, will depart Tuesday morning for New York to sail aboard the S S Star on Saturday with Moose members from across the United States to visit Tredegar Wales, birthplace of James J. Davis. The order has bought a cottage and grounds there to memorialize Davis and his 21 years as secretary of labor and director-general. Over 2,000 Moose are planned to travel, with another sailing from Montreal next Saturday, in what may be the first American fraternal conference on foreign soil. Dates are Aug 5 inclusive.
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George W. Weilein
Waterloo
Loyal Order of Moose
New York
S&s
George Washington
Moose Order
United States
Wales
James J. Davis
Tredegar
Neat
Davis
Montreal
Play Space Need in New York City Prompted by Regional Plan
A Regional Plan Organization report on New York recreation calls for more playgrounds near homes, noting city parks cover less than 60 percent of children aged 5 to 15. It cites uneven distribution, street play, and high child accidents, urging shoreline and bay area parks, and noting long island eerie pest twi light eel spread.
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New York City
Regional Plan Organization
New York
Brooklyn
New Jersey
Tepart
Regional Plan
Connec
Bient
Poultry Industry in Iowa Tops 63 Million Dollars Last Year
Iowa's poultry and eggs topped 63.13 million dollars in 1927 with hens producing 70.9 million dozen eggs valued at 36.63 million and fowls sold for 27.5 million. More than 33 million chickens weighing about 155 million pounds were sold. State agricultural reports show Iowa leading in poultry and egg production. Losses from disease were noted.
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Iowa
Courier Speers
Des Moines
Towa
State Agricultural Department
Fovia
Souvenirs Stripped From Fayette Plane Crash
A Fayette plane crash left a large cockpit metal piece and wing linen recovered near Payette Idaho. Charles Ulrich, a Northwestern Bakers Supply representative, collected souvenirs as other scavengers stripped metal, cloth and leather from the wreckage.
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Fayette
Lirut
Keith Roccoe
Payette
Charles Ulrich
Florence Street
Northwestern
Bakers Supply Company
Wulvidi
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Willam Fox
Fox News
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Eit Nee
Yarre
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Jammy
Popal Glock Company
As of Water
Piusteat
Seaze
Shearer
Owen Moore
Ralph Forbes
The
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Wetts
Electric Park
Jack Teegan
Riviera
Charlie Murray
George Sidney
Thomas Meighan
Louis Wolheim
Marie Prevost
Caddo Company
Casey” Jones
Sunshine Boy
JU Fong
Coon
Joe Ross
Paramount News
ZERES
Ias I Home Institution
Scarlet Youth
Bebe
West
Daneels
James Hall
Vitaphone
Vaudeville
Lois Wilson
Evert Horton
Hugh Herbert
Three Brox Sisters
Lupino Lane
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