Oil burners to supplement coal supply at Citizens Gas electric plant
Citizens Gas and Electric Co plans oil burning equipment to power boilers at the Lafayette and Utlea streets plant. Two large fuel tanks will be built and oil burners installed within days to run part of the boilers through a coal shortage, safeguarding continuous electric service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Citizens Gal & Electric Co
Lafayette
Utlea
Uudners
Coil
Austin Burt
Philadelphia
Wrauierlog
Chicago
Afr. Lrt
Hawkeye OF
Ciass
Burt
Waterloo
Phints
Pinan
My Burt
Sawyer blamed for care of World War I veterans in Midwest districts
A July report by the American Legion rehabilitation committee accuses Brig. Gen. Charles E. Sawyer, Harding's personal physician and hospital coordination head, of failing to provide adequate care to veterans in Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas. The document, released in St Louis, disputes official figures on veterans’ burden and hospital facilities, noting gaps in medical and surgical care and equipment for crippled and ill veterans in the district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Sawyer
Associated Press
St Louis
Charles E. Sawyer
Harding
Federal Board of Hospitalization
American Legion
Lowa
Missouri
Nebraska
Kansas
del H. D. Mebride
American Legion Committee
Fou
Yae
Price Decline Slows Across Major Goods Sectors
The report notes a gradual easing in the price decline this year with overall levels still above prewar figures. Furniture remains high at about 102.9 percent above normal, housing 60.3 percent above 1949 levels, clothing 1.2 percent, and fuel and light 74.4 percent, while general price levels hover around 116.5 percent above prewar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senatorial Candidate Accused in Fraud Conspiracy
Sherman L. Whipple, a Massachusetts senatorial candidate, is named in a suit brought by Investors in the Jf. V. Greene company and First People's Trust and related groups. The complaint alleges conspiracy to defraud involving more than 15 million dollars and lists Whipple among about 20 prominent financial men in the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman L. Whipple
Massachusetts
Pri
Iemry Cabot Lodge
Jf. V. Greene Company
First People's Trust Company
Whipple
Golfers May Craft Own Putters Amid Novel Design
Chicago report notes a new putter crafted from gas pipe by a local pro, inspired by James Barnes. The design lets a golfer stand erect while striking the ball, differing from Barnes’s traditional forward-leaning stroke. If approved by authorities, players could legally make their own clubs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associaeed
Chicago
Barnes
St. Andrews
Roosevelt Gained Labor Seat In Arbitration Clash
Historically tense dispute over appointing a labor representative to an arbitration commission during Roosevelt’s era. Operators resisted labor inclusion. after long debate, a sociologist-led official was appointed, easing the crisis and avoiding civil strife. The piece notes broader shifts in dress and social themes of the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Commission of Arbitration
Inuar
Pal
Strikes Hit Railways as Government Steps In
As government takes control of freight traffic at midnight and unions push new shopmen drives, violence and martial law spread across states. Meetings in Baltimore show cautious goodwill, while guards patrol in Shawnee and Moberly. Clerks threaten economic action if grievances persist. Mail delivery to upper Midwest districts shifts to daily motor trucks. Normal service resumes on some lines, oil may replace coal if shortages bite. Martial law imposed in Denison, troops mobilized in Alabama and Kentucky, with scattered clashes and injunctions restraining picketing.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Contrett
Baltimore
Baltimore & Ohio Tailroad
Shawnee
Okla
Gumber
Moberly
Upper Michigan
North
South Dakota
Minnesota
Leith Railway
Wisconsin
North Dakota
Pennsylvania Railroad
Montana
Great Northern Railway
Havre
Denison
Tex
Nef
Texas National Guard
Alabama
Birmingham
Albany
Ala
Kentucky
Fonda
Jellico
Pennsylvania
Kingsville
St. Louis
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railway
Pearson,Fox
One Hundred Forty-second Infantry
Texas Na“Onal Guard
Hare
Neff
Troona
Gav. Nat
J. C
Burnside
Paul Misko
Illinois Central
Misko
Clinton
Cliniton
N.E. Kendall
H. W. Cowles
CG. L. Ramsay
United States
Guy Brewer
Pes Moines
F. H. Hammill
Northwestern Railway
Railway Company
Northwestern Railway Company
John J. Brennan
Federated Shop Crafts
Shop Pickets Shot By Railroad Guard
Cedar Rapids and Des Moines dispatches describe a tense strike scene with 475 Burlington shopmen walking out. A striker, Duncan Low, was arrested for violating an injunction after an aviator dropped inflammatory literature, while Gov Kendall refused to deploy troops to Cedar Rapids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blodgett
Burlington
Associated Press
Cedar Rapids
Duncan Low
Rock Island
Low
Dave Hunter
Thass
United Press
Des Moines
Kendall
Ginn County
Toledo
New York Central Railroad
Marked Shoes Use to Track Wife Movements Sparks Case
Chicago reports reveal a wife tracking scheme using marked shoe soles to verify movements. Mrs. Rice petitions for police reserves as three patrol wagons swarm the area seeking any woman present near the scene.
Wolves in Dubuque County Killed in Record Bounty
Dubuque Iowa July 26 Joe Bell of Jefferson township bagged seven wolf cubs in under two hours and killed the female to set a state record. He filed a $28 bounty claim with the county auditor, presenting the seven hides. the female Wolf fell into a mining hole and could not be recovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dubuque
Joe Bell
Jefferson Township
Peace talks and coal strike moves across states
Reports from St Louis Cleveland and Washington describe leaders pushing for new conferences to end the coal strike. John L Lewis faces criticism while governors discuss a central conference to reopen idle mines in Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana and Illinois within a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Ohio
Illnois i
McCray
Miners in Iowa Reject Bid for Wage Negotiations
President Joe Morris of the Iowa district UMWA rejects the Iowa Operators association invitation to confer on a separate wage scale. Morris, arriving from Des Moines, says there is no chance of meeting and will send a formal reply. He notes no deviation from national policy and stresses miners will not assist Farmers Bureau in fuel requests for threshing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Des Moines
Joe Morris
Iowa
United Mine Workers of America
State Operators’ Association
Morris
Iowa Coal Operators Association
E. C.’Smith
Iowa Operators’ Association
John L. Lewis
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Hunt
Farm Bureau Federation
Woman kills head of Bluffs ice company
In Council Bluffs Iowa on July 26 S C Freden president of Citizens Ice Coal Co was shot and killed by Mrs Linda Taylor wife of William Taylor She says Freden assaulted her a week earlier over a bill and today returned to her home prompting the shooting Police report a dispute over a bill as the motive
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Rice
Council Bluffs
Pennsylvania Railroad Lets Workers Decide Seniority Question
Washington July 26 The Pennsylvania Railroad will let its employees decide the seniority question. After a two hour conference W W Atterbury told President Harding the road would be guided by the employees determination deemed wise fair and equitable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D.C
W. W. Atterbury
Pennsylvania Railroad
Harding
Atterbury
Pennsylvania Road
Waterloo Pioneer H B Allen Dies in California at 89
H B Allen a Waterloo pioneer and noted lawyer banker horse breeder and financier died in California at age 89 after moving there twenty years ago. He built land profits and became a multimillionaire and was remembered for striking courtroom oratory and entertaining juries with humorous and biblical anecdotes. He maintained ties to Waterloo, sharing memories of pioneer days and welcoming friends from Black Hawk county.
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California
Allen
Horace Boies
E& Jury
A. J. Edwards
Edwards, Longley, Ransier & Harris
Lving
Allent
Fack Horner
Dan
Mr. Allen
Black Hawk County
Waterloo
Bhose
French Girl Sues Rothschild Over Failure toWed
Marie Porquet, a French girl, sues James Henri De Rothschild in New York state supreme court for 500000 dollars alleging he promised to marry her after she came to the United States last spring and has since refused to set a marriage date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
James Henri de Rothschild
Baron Henri de Rothschild
Rothschild
France
State Supreme Court
Marie Porquet
Thomas Stage Czar to Trim Actors Salaries This Fall
New York July 26 Augustus Thomas dean of American playwrights becomes czar of the legitimate theatre as executive chairman of the Managers' Association. He will oversee salary cuts up to 30 percent hitting many stage workers this fall.
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Thomas
New York
Augustus Thomas
Legitimate Theatre
Judge Landis
Wil Hays
Managers’ Association
Eal
Robbers Steal $40,000 Gold Hoard From Home
In Crawford county near Gays Mills Wisconsin two robbers assaulted Miss Ellen Worrigan aged four and fled with between $40,000 and $50,000 in gold saved by the family. The child suffered a broken shoulder as her brothers worked in a field nearby.
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Prairié'gu Chien
Wis
Ellen Worrigan
Crawford County
Gays Mills
Commission bans imports of wines and liquors
Washington reports Commission er Blair bans imports of wines and spirits until current supplies run short. Chicago notes a plan to pay movie writers royalties after a movie writing school report. Cleveland hails Mike Slone as first aerial stowaway found in the mail compartment of a Detroit Cleveland flight. Peoria begins liquidation sale and reorganizing subsidiaries of United States Food Products Corp of New Jersey.
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Washington, D. C
Blair
Chicago
Ansounead
Cleveland
Mike Slone
Detroit
Peoria
United States Food Products Corporation of New Jersey
Maintenance of Way Men Threaten Strike Across Nation
Detroit July 26 The International Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes and Railway Shop Laborers says 400000 railroad workers threaten a nationwide strike over roads attempting to form rival organizations and guards actions. S Grable denies the threat and says negotiations were proceeding satisfactorily before the U.S. railroad labor board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Detroit
Mich
International Railroad Brotherhoods
International Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
S Grable
Chicago
H. F. Grabie
Grable
U. S. Railroad‘ Labor Board
Sanitary Camps For Tourists Urged By State Board
Mayor A E Gnagy received a state board of health letter urging enforcement of regulations for tourist camps. The essentials include cooking facilities, reliable water, storm shelter, garbage disposal, and toilets. Iowa ranks second in the nation for tourist camps and traffic on highways grows daily even as electrification expands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rodney P. Fagen
State ‘Board of Health
State Board
Boards of Health
Iowa
United
Health Secretary Calls for Sanitary Camp Standards
The health secretary emphasizes sanitation in camps as essential and urges city camps to avoid outside criticism. The state health board requires a competent caretaker in charge to keep grounds sanitary and free of rubbish and protect vaults and garbage from exposure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mate
State Board of Health
Distillers Defy Rulings in War on Dry Commissioner
In Louisville on July 26 representatives of the nation’s largest distilleries with 35,000,000 gallons in bonded whisky meet and vow to force compliance with laws in their favor. They appoint a seven member committee to press Treasury officials on centralizing bonded storage, signaling possible nationwide litigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
United States
Treasury Department
Mathilde McCormick Heads to New York and Beyond
Chicago dispatch reports Miss Mathilde McCormick leaving Chicago on the Broadway Limited for New York. Press inquiries were rebuffed as she declined to discuss questions, saying she could not discuss them. Her father, Flaroła F. McCormick, is in Paris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Mathilde McCormick
New York
Charges Publishers Protest Free Print Tariff Tactics
In Washington on July 24 Chairman McCumber said a committee of newspaper publishers pressed to have newsprint on the free list during Payne Aldrich tariff framing and warned against the Taft administration. Senator Robinson demanded ID of the publishers' committee and whether the remarks were made openly or in secret and why information had been kept for years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Robinson
Arkansas
McCumber
Senate
Publishers’ Committee
Disabled veterans visit Bellevue training school in Nebraska
C W Hellen, vocational director for the U S war veterans bureau subdistrict, returned from Bellevue Nebraska where 240 disabled soldiers at the government hospital and training school focus on nervous or mental troubles and vocational placement. The visit aims to assess training prospects and suitable vocations while four men from the local subdistrict previously served there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. War Veterans Bureau
Bellevue
Neb
Government Hospital
Bellevua School
Helien
Weather observations across Iowa and Wisconsin towns in 1922 report
Weather Bureau reports describe conditions in Algona Charles City Cedar Rapids Davenport Des Moines Dubuque Mason City Wa verly Cheney and surrounding areas. Observations note partly cloudy skies with some towns experiencing mud and later drying conditions. temperatures and precipitation patterns vary by location with general indicators of improving weather expected within hours.
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U. S. Department_of Agricultura Weather Bureau
Charles City
Algona
Cedar Rapids
Davenport
Des Moines
Dubuque
la Crosse
Wis
Mason City
Waverly
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John Wilkinson
District 21
Ehey
Oerch
Lewis
John L
Stars and Stripes
W. K. Kavanaugh
Illinois
Goal Operators’ Association
Lee Hall
Ohio Miners
Martin
Ofowa
Bluffs Ice Company
P.R. R
H. B. Allen
Waterloo Pioneer
Mathilde
Lincoln
Repass Automobile CO
West Park Ave
Cedar St
APA Cl
Tewels
Dlaappar
Mr. Wellitling
Elimib Disco
Licese Untii
Baine
Wray
Nothina
Corel
Timond
Russ Spari
Cour Hom
Bing and Lambert
Independent Fruit Co
Lafayette St
Bellevue Hospital
Cheney
Axrice
I Das Moines
Cedar Raylds
Clonday
Mnaaw
Marehalltown
National Fruit Co
Independent Meat and Grocery Co
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