Baltimore brothers recount pygmy elephant hunt in Africa
J W S Foster and brother Arthur D return from an 11 month expedition in the Belgian Congo where they described pygmies’ method of wounding elephants by hamstringing hind legs and the use of a French cavalry rifle. They traveled from Paris to Port Said Khartoum and up the White Nile before reaching Faradje and the Iburi forest.
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Aviator Lat Porte Third of Wadena Crash Quartet
Bernard Lat Porte of Newburg North Dakota died with two passengers when their plane crashed near Wadena on Saturday night. He was the third member of a four man army trained group destined to die in fall accidents. The fourth, Mr Hansen, has reportedly left Wadena. Funeral services were held for Otto Wirth and Meris Walters at the Presbyterian Church. Golf club events and Legion meeting notes follow.
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Newburg
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Waterloo
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Dr. T. A. King
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Kingsley Palmer
Three Waterlooans Hurt Near LeMars As Auto Overturns
Waterloo residents William Walsh and his wife with her niece Margaret Sullivan were injured when their car overturned on a gravel stretch while driving to visit relatives near LeMars. Walsh, sales manager at Armstrong Manufacturing, and his family live at 420 Oak Lawn Avenue.
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Waterloo
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Republican caucus meetings listed for 10 am
Des Moines announces caucus venues for district meetings of the Republican state convention set for 10 a m Wednesday Shrine temple for First Third Fifth Sixth Eighth Eleventh districts Hotel Fort Des Moines for Second and Fourth Savery hotel ballroom for Seventh Cham berlain hotel for Ninth and Tenth APPEALS TITLE SUIT Town City Iowa July 17 Appeal to the state supreme court filed by the local board of education over the Chautauqua Heights addition disputed with Town City.
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Great Dane Helps Helen Keller In New York
Helen Keller, blind and deaf, receives a Great Dane from Robert Lutz of Stuttgart as a mobility aid. She explains lifelong fascination with animals and plans to train the dog as her eyes to observe and describe the world around her.
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Indian Villages Give Way To White Plow Along Columbia
Smithsonian expert Dr. Herbert W. Krieger notes that Indian village sites in the Columbia river valley are being obliterated by agricultural plowing. He describes ancient locations, cemetery findings at Wahluke Washington, and artifacts showing stone, bone, shell use shaped by a semi arid environment.
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Daughter pays debts in settlement offer
Council Bluff July 17. Miss Anne Dodge daughter of the late Grenville M Dodge has paid judgments totaling about 13000 dollars. She also offered to settle with 13 other creditors at seventy cents on the dollar.
American dishes vanishing from New York dining scenes
A New York Times piece quotes Patrick Henry on American virtue and cuisine, lamenting the loss of native American dishes. It notes urban menus imitate foreign fare, while genuine American cooking fades to rural pockets, with diverse ethnic spots proliferating yet native fare scarce. Italy’s growth in aerial traffic is also noted.
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Visitors depart after week with Seydels of New York
Mr and Mrs Frank Seydel of New York returned home today after visiting relatives for a week. Mr Seydel is assistant general counsel for the National Board of Fire Underwriters.
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New York
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Seydel
Natonal Board of Fire Underwriters
Plumb Improves Steadily After Illness at Allen Memorial
Harold B. Plumb of 601 Broadway has shown steady improvement after surgery two weeks ago at Allen Memorial Hospital. He had been seriously ill but is now recovering, with daily signs of progress noted by doctors and family.
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