Mexico Reacts to Obregon Assassination Signals Turmoil
Washington July 18 Reports from private Mexican circles warn of a political plot behind President-elect Obregon's assassination. Observers say removal of Obregon's control over the army could turn military garrisons into prizes for rival factions opposing the Calles regime. Mexican censorship tightened as diplomats receive private briefings. Kellogg refuses to disclose details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
INS
Obregon
Obregon-Calles
Obre- Ron
Calles
State Department
Obregan
Mexico City
Morrow
Kellogg
Hoover to Poll More Than Cal by Straw Index
A fragmented OCR list shows multiple job titles tied to Hoover and Smith with numbers, suggesting a voter or employment index. Names Hoover Smith appear across occupations like attorney, banker, laborer, salesman, and trades, with scattered references to credits and public roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoover
Cal
Aly Thess
Smith
Barber
Porter
Political Chiefs Favor Hoover to Win Over Smith
The piece analyzes Democratic gains and money in campaigns, noting precinct executives’ role in delivering votes. It cites Raskob and party money dynamics across past campaigns, suggesting a shift to stronger monetary influence on election day.
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Hoover
Smith
Wilson
Bryan
Parker
Cox
Davis
Raskob
Harding
Coolidge
Union League Club
New York Herald-Tribune
Soldiers Patrolling Mexico City After Obregon Shot Down
Soldiers patrolling Mexico City after the assassination of Obregon spurred rumors naming a suspect as Juan Escapulario. Police traced a shirt insignia reading G. and investigated whether Juan Jose Gonzales was the alleged driver of the automobile involved.
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Mexico City
Obregon
Christ the King
Juan
Juan Escapulario
Escapielero
Mexico
Obregon plot and Mexican police shakeup amid assassination
Detective Alvaro Basail linked a previous plotter to the Obregon assassination attempt and witnessed the slayer led into jail. President Calles issued emergency orders removing Mexico City police heads and installing Obregon allies Antonio Rios Zertuche and Arturo R. Orel in key posts to ensure loyal leadership. Investigators probe possible deep political plotting while names like Romero and Topete surface among Obregon ranks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Obregon
Deteretive
Alvaro Basail
Basail
Galles
Mexico City
Roberto Cruz
Antonio Rios
Zertuche
Arturo R. Orel
Calles
Army
Juan
Callies
Romero
Topete
Robinson
Thomas Robinson
Ernestina Calles
Collord Maintains Active Leadership After Charles City Purchase
Collord & McRoberts Inc purchases the Charles City Motor Sales garage and business from W L Olmquist. The Charles City firm becomes a separate corporation under W I McRoberts with Frank M Collord Jr, president and active manager of the Waterloo Dodge car and Graham truck distributorship. Charles City Motor Sales serves Floyd, Chickasaw, and Mitchell counties.
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Charles City Maetor Sales Company
Charles City
W. L. Olmquist
Collord & McRoberts Inc
Waterloo
Frank M. Collord
Siaime
Charles City Motor Sales Company
Dodge Cars
Graham Trucks
Floyd
Chickasa
Mitchell Counties
Lynn Wilson Wins Motorcycle Race at Pat's Pond
Lynn Wilson aboard an Indian Chief won first place in a motorcycle race around Pat's Pond with a 1 57 time earning 3 dollars. Elmer Turner finished second in 2 02 and Paul Brokaw third in 2 04. More than 1 000 spectators watched. Wilson also won the preliminary trials. Other qualifiers were Elmer Turner and Art Lect. Distance was two laps around the pond. Belanger mentioned, a Long Beach resident, was visiting Waterloo.
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Lynn Wilson
Pat's Pond Playground
Elmer Turner
Paul Brokaw
Wilson
Art Lect
Pond
Temperatures and rainfall report fragment
Interior weather notes list Tuesday temperatures and a forecast. It mentions Tuesday night and Wednesday temperatures, late night times, and rainfall details including a partial measurement of rainfall. The readable text preserves temperature and rainfall figures in a brief fragment.
Des Moines Weather Bureau Iowa Corn and Crop Reports
Des Moines July 18 reports show Iowa corn making progress with stalks six to eight feet tall and tassels appearing across the state. Small grains ripening, winter wheat and rye mostly cut, barley harvest advancing in the south, haying pushed with light yields but fair quality, pastures in good condition, and commercial potatoes and sweet corn progressing well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Corm
United States Weather Bureau
Tony
Gravel Work Halts on Grundy Road Site
Work on the gravel road from Waterloo toward Marshalltown halted after 20 more gravel was found in a pit on the Herman Obr farm. The gravel lies shallow and stripping it is deemed too costly, leaving the Gr undy road project stalled amid rising excavation costs.
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Grundy Road
Reinbeck
Lincoln
Watterloo
Marshalltowns
Herman Obr
Lions Club Golf Tournament Next Tuesday at Sunnyside
Lions club members from LaPorte City Cedar Falls and Waterloo will participate in the annual golf tournament at Sunnyside Country Club next Tuesday July 24. Suncheon will be served as Ute Country chairs.
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Lions Club
LaPorte City
Cedar Falls
Waterloo
Sunnyside Country Club
Suncheon
Mrs Molly Terry Dies at La Porte Hotel
Mrs. Molly Terry, 74, died this morning at Hotel Terry in La Porte where she had lived for years. Ill since March from influenza and pneumonia, she was widow of John R. Terry a longtime auctioneer and hotel proprietor. Surviving are daughter Mrs Flay Thomas and two grandchildren Mrs Wallace Stawman and Kent Goble.
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Ihuriie Spreal Ser
la Porte City
Molly Terry
Terry
Bern
John R. Terry
George
Flay Thomas
Wallace Stawman
Brainerd
Minn
Kent Goble
Peoria
Girl Still Missing Clara Monaghan Last Seen In Charles City
Dorothy Monaghan 18, daughter of Mrs Anna Monaghan of 618 Second Street West, vanished June 14 after leaving Lowry. A blonde five foot eight, 125 pounds, last seen wearing a green dress, dun coat or hat. Friends spotted her in Charles City, Iowa at a dance.
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Clara
Dorothy Monaghan
Anna Monaghan
West
Lowy
Slie
Charles City
Hoover Death Dash Delays Welcome Home for Hoover
On the Hoover special, Mrs. Hoover learned of her father Charles D. Henry's death in Placerville California after a heart attack. The funeral was planned for Palo Alto with a San Francisco welcome rescheduled and train routes adjusted to hasten Mrs. Hoover’s return.
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Fremont
Neb
Omaha
Oakland
Palo Alto
Leland Stanford University
Hoover
Women’s Republican Committee
Girl Scouts
Henry
Placerville
Cal
Charles D. Henry
Herbert Hoover
Begrer
California
Iowa
West Coast
Jay
Pacific Coast
Republican Nomince
Crack Overland Limited
Union Pacific Ines
Henrys
Waterloo
Lou Henry
W. G. Logan
Pioneer Building
Mr. Henry
J. W.J. Logan
Fourth and
Washington Streets
Plaza Theatre
Hoover Sends Word to Iowa Republicans of Farm Aid Plans
Iowa Republicans at the state convention consider a platform linking farm aid to national relief efforts. District delegates and resolutions committee members are named, with Hunt as temporary chair delivering the keynote. Reports mention election of presidential electors and updates on a hospitalized girl and a chickenpox quarantine.
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Hoover
Iowa
Des Moines
Resolutions
Whden
Anita Goldsherry
Ihalmman
Harold Jer
A. Goldsherry
Longfellow Ave
Willis Stern
Nue
Allen I
Memorial Hospital
Iowa City Invites Al for an Address
Gov Alfred E Smith on speaking tour this summer receives invitation to stop in Iowa City for an address. The invitation was sent to the Democratic nominee by the Retail Merchants Association.
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Towa Cilg
Tidy
Alfred EB. Smith
Jawa
Towa City
Associaton
Obituary notices from Waterloo area deaths and services
Obituaries note services for William Swanay 76 who died at a local hospital. Funeral rites at Peter sen Bros chapel then Iowa Falls services and family plot burial at Alden Iowa. Surviving kin include wife two sons three daughters sisters and grandchildren. Also reported are death notices for Mrs Earl Butts former Waterloo resident Mrs Floyd A Houghton and Garrett Davis with funeral plans and burial details.
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William
Swanay
Petersen Bros
Iowa Falls
Alden
Galena
Wilhelmina Rouse
Weveland
Ind
Floyd A. Houghton
Waterloo
Chicago
O'Keefe & Towne
BE. W. Main
Graves Memorial United Brethren Church
Elmwood
Houghton
AH. A. Grimm
Grimm
Benton Harbor
Mich
Clara Bucholtz
Iowa Pioneer Dies Former Clerk George E Allen
Mount Ayr resident George E Allen 41 a former clerk of the district court died yesterday He had served as state representative and senator and chaired the Mount Ayr school board for over 50 years Also listed are marriage licenses for Arthur De Greif and Vernice Peek both of Winthrop and M E Waters and Gertrude J Lenz of Waterloo with dates.
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Mount Ayr
Daly
George E. Allen
District Court
Arthur de Greif
Winthrop
Vernice Peek
M. E. Waters
Waterloo
Gertrude J. Lenz
East District School Census Shows Increase
A slight rise in district school age counts from 1927 to 1928 is reported. The East District census, taken by F J Miller with W H Brunn, lists 6,490 children aged 5 to 20, including 3,620 aged 7 to 15, with 399 colored and 179 of compulsory age. The increases and declines are noted for specific age groups.
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East District
F. J. Miller
W. H. Brunn
Board of Education
Conviction Record Largest Declared by County Attorney
County Attorney Frank W. Edwards cites the annual clerk of court report showing 126 convictions in district court, the largest fiscal year total he recalls. He notes fines costs and forfeitures funded a self sustaining office, with over $20,000 collected and civil trial costs trimmed reducing county expenses per conviction to about $179.
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J. W. Thompson
State Board of Paroles
Frank W. Edwards
Edwards
Seven Out-of-Town Boys in New Group at Camp Ingawanis
Seven of the 406 scouts at Camp Ingawanis near Janesville and Waverly came from out of town visiting cousins. The group includes Brute Wallace of Chicago Bruce and Robert Boyd Lowell Bellis Clarksville James Robertson Litchfield Minn Carl Coontz Milton Schoof Denver Ta and many others. A two weeks period begins Monday with new features and campfire surprises planned by scout executive A F Jury.
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Camp
Ingawanis
Janesville
Waverly
Brute Wallace
Chicago
Bruce
Robert Boyd
Lowell Bellis
Clarksville
James Robertson
Litchfield
Minn
Carl Coontz
Milton Schoof
Denver
Carol Colby
Loren
Nus
Alan
Wallace
Franklin Law
Dick Ghoulson
Max Cherney
Perry Knowlton
Lawrence Bunt
Robert Howe
Wirt Hoxie
Howard Barnes
Merland Apfel
Robert Dunkelberg
Charles Gindt
Donald Gindt
Kenneth McAndrew
Leo Lewis
Charles Clark
Donald Penley
Albert Henson
Henry Woore
Jask Nelson
Robert Fie
Arthur Waterbury
Gerald Glass
Adrian Allison
Ayers Russell
Robert Koch
Milford Cherney
Nathan Barber
Bruce Robertson
Arthur Bennett
Harold Larrabee
A. F. Jury
Ervin Sternberg
Dubuque
Edward Manion
Des Moines Meeting Proposes Noninterest Government Notes
Howard Rose, a Socialist candidate for governor, proposed issuing noninterest notes by the state and county to fund public improvements, to be used as legal tender and retired by taxation. Also notes on building permits and a Waterloo credit men luncheon discussing a recent business failure.
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Des Moines
Howard Rose
Waterloo Association of Credit Men
Black's
G. J. Bondurant
Brain Tests From the Leading Universities Offer Word Spelling Drill
A published English spelling test from the Columbia Research Bureau appears in the society page. It asks students to pick the correct spelling among groups of words such as derision versus derision, explaind versus explained, ukulele versus ukulele, and camouflage versus cummaflague. Answers are requested on the Society Page.
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Columbia Research Bureau
Willford Returns From Talk With Cal
Willford, president of the Town division, Izaak Walton league, returned from Brule Wisconsin after a conference with President Coolidge about the dedication of the Upper Mississippi Wildlife Refuge. Coolidge will set the date. ceremonies will be in Winona Minnesota and La Crosse Wisconsin with the official party sailing downriver on the Mayo Bros yacht. Hoover may attend as honorary national president of the Walton league.
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A. CG. Willford
Izaak Walton League
Brule
Wis
Coolidge
Cool
Idge
Wilford
Winona
Minn
la Grosse
Mayo “Bros
Herbert “Hoover
Walton League
Willford
Workman's Compensation Increase for Railroad Employee
John Farr receives increased workman's compensation from the W. C. P. L and WN railroad for disability from an on the job accident. Deputy state industrial commissioner Ralph Young announced the rise after a four hour hearing at the courthouse. The total payment, including the increase, reaches 3,000 dollars plus hospital and medical bills.
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John Farr
W., C.pl& WN
Ralph Young
Parris
Box Car Burgeon Lykes Rubber Theft On IC Siding
An unidentified thief broke into a box car on an Illinois Central siding near Elev enth street. Six rubber coats four pairs of rober boots one pair of rubbers and three rubber hats were stolen. Nelson King railroad special agent reported to police today.
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Illinois Central
Eleventh Street
Nelson King
Railroad
Condition of Rev J Arthur Young for First Methodist pastor
The condition of Rev J Arthur Young of the First Methodist Episcopal church, who underwent an operation yesterday at Presbyterian hospital, was reported today as very encouraging. Visitors include Mrs G B Roe and sons Harold and Robert Affon Ta and Myrs Fred Kaiser and niece Miss Jane Gadbois from St Paul, visiting Harold Gadbois. Mrs Roe and Mrs Kaiser are former Waterloo residents.
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J. Arthur Young
Randolph Street
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Presbyterian Hospital
G. B. Roe
Harold and
Robert
Affon
Myrs
Fred Kaiser
Jane Gadbois
St. Paul
Minn
Visi
Harold Gadbois
Seventh ‘Street West
George “J. Sager
Logan Avenue
Roe
Kaiser
Waterloo
Views of the People Wrong End of Hot Poker
Letter to the editor from Waterloo July 18 criticizes the Carn Belts committee for backing the Democratic platform while condemning the Republican stance. The writer argues McNary-Haugen bill flaws, cites price and loan concerns, and urges a balanced approach addressing both crop and price factors without endorsing a single party’s faulty promises. L EBICKELBERG.
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Waterloo
Town
Carn | Belts Committee
L. Ebickelberg
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Glenwood
Fred C. Levien
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Webster City
HA. Pierce
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Orange City
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Burlington
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G. ©. Vandeveer
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James A. Devitt
Oskaloosa
W. S. Cooper
Winterset
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Atlantic
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Sioux City
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Newton
C. A. Willett
Norwalk
F. E. Crowder
Riverton
J. M. Langitt
Greenfield
Mrs. FE
Johnston
G. L. Vandersteeg
Leon Ewaldt
Riehl
Iowa City
William H. Swanay
Earl Butts
Sar! Butts
Victorville
Cora Preks
Waterlond
Mr. Butts
Ida Trask
Sixth Street
Dan Fripsinger
Garrett Davis
Calgary
Alberta
Rock Island Railroad
Cedar Rapids Tomorow
Knule M. Knudson, Beet
Funes
Knute M. Knudson
Pine Street
O'Neefe & Towne Chanel
Diwial
DTES
Camp Ingawanis
Improvement Fund
L. E. Gallup
Fifth West
S. M. Behm
Madison
G. A. Lininger
la Porte ‘Road
B. ©. Burkitt
Commercial
Waterloo Building & Loan Association
Venieg Poet, Inc
K. Gynasion
Gymnasium
Gimnasium
Low
Burgear
West 4Th
Lester W. Miller
Entz Cafe
First National Bank Bldg
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