Raiding squads raid Waterloo bootleggers and gambling
State agents and local officers conducted morning raids across Waterloo seeking liquor and gambling evidence. Five people faced liquor charges while several venues including a cafe and pool hall were held on nuisance or slot machine charges. Punch boards and cards were seized from four downtown cigar stores. Additional evidence on punch boards was reported by County Attorney F. W. Edwards.
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Waterloo
Attie
Wren
Tom Wren
Third Street
Reiding Wren
Charles Mohlis
Hugh Crumrine
Ralph Davis
William Wilson
Warren Buckley
Oscar Hauserman
W. F. Dilworth
Harry P. Mason
Arthur R. Kentzelman
Lindale Avenue
Mary. Sulentic
Barclay
A. R. Kentzelman
Forum Cafe
Sycamore Street
Waterloo Pool Hall
Edwards
Wren, Sackett
Salentio
Cigar
James Day
Police Department
Alds ‘Hemingway
Wright County
A. Stitz Cigar Company
Fourth ‘Street East
G O P Drys Press Coolidge for Law Observance
Republican drys urge President Coolidge to back strict law observance and national party principles. While most remain loyal to Coolidge for renomination, a faction grows impatient, splitting between quiet disappointment and demanding he act or face pressure to step aside.
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G. O. P. Drys
Coolidge
Mr. Coolidge
Chamberlain undermines will to concede on cruisers
Washington officials report Sir Austen Chamberlain challenged the Geneva talks by rejecting the Washington formula for small cruisers. He urged parity be based on total tonnage per ship class, risking a breakdown of discussions on naval limitations and signaling continued deadlock.
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Washington
D. C
Austen Chamberlain
House of Commons
Chamberlain
Geneva
United States
Great Britain
Coolidge
Chicago student wins high scholastic honors
Donald Bickley a graduate of Weat High was among 79 University of Chicago students awarded scholastic honors today. Bickley is a student in the College of Medicine at the university.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald Bickley
Weat High
University of Chicago
Bickley
College of Medicine
Queen of Riders Demonstrates Riding Arts in Waterloo
Miss Lulu Davenport, a leading American equestrienne, will showcase latest feminine riding methods with Hagenbeck-Wallace circus in Waterloo on Saturday July 30. She comes from a famed riding family. Orrin Davenport, the riding clown, is among its prominent members. Davenport began young and long has been hailed as the idol of the ring for her somersaults and graceful flips. The 1927 show features The Geisna, an oriental musical spectacle with a cast of several hundred.
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America
Lulu Davenport
Hagenbeck-Wallace
Waterloo
Miss Davenport
Orrin Davenport
Cedar Falls Youth Unconscious After Crash at Mercy Hospital
Cedar Falls youth How ard Leonard remains unconscious at Mercy Hospital after an automobile accident Sunday night near Sheil Rack that fractured his RH arm. Leonard, 72 netics, underwent treatment at Cedar Fell. No change reported in condition. Henry Lerhart of Clarksville involved.
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Poourtey
Waverly
Howard Leonard
Cedar Fell
Mercy Hospital
Sheil
Henry Lerhart
Clarksville
Lennard
Mel
Boysen Funeral Thursday at Dike
Funeral services for George P. Boysen a 47 year old cashier at Dike Savings Bank who was killed yesterday while attempting to stop a runaway team at the Earl Dietrich farm near here will be held at 2 p m tomorrow at the family home and at 2 20 p m at the Danish Lutheran church Fredsville Rev A B Chamberlain will officiate at the home service and Rev Stockholm at the church service Interment will be in the cemetery adjoining the church
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dike
George P. Boysen
Dike Savings Bank
Earl Dietrich
Danish Lutheran Church
Fredsville
A. B. Chamberlain
Rev. &. Stockholm
Wedding chaos as photographer shot by shattered plates
Grand Anse Quebec July 27 For James Bud Stillman and Lena Wison the ceremony ended with chaos when Mrs Stillman hurled glass plates at photographers crowding the lodge after the cake cutting. The first plate broke a living room window. a second shattered a camera and tripod. a third struck photographer Bert Mason. McCormick was best man. Lena's brother John assisted as groom and bride left for Grande Mere en route to New York and Europe plans.
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Grand Anse
Que
James
Bud”) Stillman
New York
Lena Wison
North Country
Princeton
Bud
Mathewson
Walter Johnson
Bert Mason
Grande Mere
Montreal
Europe
Radio Critic of Chicago Paper Dies by Own Hand
Chris D. Hagerty, former president of the Press club of Chicago and radio critic for the Chicago Herald Examiner, was found dead in a hotel room at the Commonwealth. A bloodstained knife and a revolver lay near his chair. police and detectives indicated it appeared to be self-inflicted, with a coroner’s physician still investigating.
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Chicago
Chveaga
INSI
Chris D. Hagerty
The
Press Club of Chicago
Radio Crite
Chicago Herald-Examiner
I Toom
Commonwealth Hotel
Hagerty
Investi- Baling
Famous scenario writer dead in theatre in New York
New York July 27 Miss June Mathis noted scenario writer and top paid woman in motion pictures died of a heart attack during a Broadway theatre performance. She collapsed beside her mother Mrs Emily Hawks after loudly crying I am dying witnesses rushed to the alley and doctors pronounced her dead. Mathis helped discover Rudolph Valentino and shaped productions including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse The Ten Commandments Blood and Sand and The Rajah. She married Italian director Silvanie Balboni in 1934. he later returned to California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
June Mathis
Emily Hawks
Forty-eighth Street Theatre
Miss Mathis
Valentino
Rudolph Valentino
Ibanez
Italy
Goldwyn
Silvanie Balboni
California
Trainor and Steeman Buy Kramer’s Tinshop
A. J. Steeman and Charles Trainor today purchased the A. G. Kramer tinshop at 607 Jefferson Street and will continue the business as Kramer. Trainor has spent 20 years in Waterloo’s hardware and tin trade, while Steeman has been involved with several Waterloo hardware companies. The firm took possession today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. Steeman
Charles Trainor
A. G. Kramer
Jefferson Street
Kramer
Trainor
Waterloo
Stegman
Building Permits Report With Several Residential Additions
Harry Caseberr at 98 Commercial adds to a restaurant for 200 dollars. D. H. Freeland at 1028 Beach engages gar age for 100 dollars. H. N. McMaster at 327 Washington remodels a residence for 450 dollars. Gilbert Gilmore at 800 Hawthorne builds a poultry house for 350 dollars. Jens Olesen at 1665 Sycamore engages gar age for 100 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Caseberr
D. H. Freeland
Beach
H. N. McMaster
Washington
Gilbert. Gilmore
Hawthorne
Jens Olesen
Sycamore
26 Counties Get $1,006,482 Total Road Contracts
Ames Iowa July 27 (INS) Contracts totaling 1,986,482.28 for paving, grading, graveling, and drainage on highways in 26 Iowa counties were awarded after the nation’s largest letting at the state highway commission. Bids from nearly 150 firms and 500 contractors were active. Major awards include 22.29 miles of paving on U S Highway 20 in Dubuque County to American Paving of Omaha for 671,652.21, with other large paving, grading, and bridge contracts across multiple counties.
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Ames
INS
Iowa
State Highway Commission
American Paving Company
Omaha
Dubuque
Dubuque County
Butler County
Franklin County
Jasper County
Newton
Barnes & Son
Des Moines
Ringgold County
Benton County
George Condon
Pottawattamie
Underwood
Neola
U. S. No. 61
Port Madison
Wiliam Cummings
Ottumwa
Towa
Benton
Emmet
Jefferson
Keokuk
Polk
Union
Boeing Leases Des Moines Airport For Freight And Passenger Use
Des Moines city council approved leasing the municipal airport to Boeing Air Transport. The company will pay $600 annually to operate the field as a terminal for freight and passenger service. Previously air mail used the field only in emergencies, with no regular stops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Boeing Air Transport Company
Boeing Company
Youth Saves Lad from Drowning in Cedar Rapids
In Cedar Rapids on July 26 17 year old Wendl Warner leaped into the Cedar River and rescued 12 year old Sylvester Kubec from drowning after Kubec wandered into a deep water hole. Warner carried Kubec to safety despite the rough current.
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Cedar Rapids
INS
Sylvester Kubec
Wendl Warner
Warner
Gideons report Iowa crops praised after Indianapolis trip
F Willis Jenks, Dick Crowther and Ed Margadant of Waterloo and C M Arnold of Bristow with D S Umbenhauer of Grinnell returned from the Gideons annual convention in Indianapolis. They say Michigan peach crops will be low while Iowa corn looks superior across tour states. The next Gideons convention will be held in San Francisco in July.
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F. Willis Jenks
Dick Crowther
Ed. Margadant
Waterloo
C. M. Arnold
Bristow
D. S. Umbenhauer
Grinnell
Indianapolis
Gideons
Michigan
Towa
Gidecon Organization
San Francisco
Jenks
Fire incidents and minor damages reported in city
Fire alarms on Tuesday note several slight damages: at 1002 Riehl Garage internals. 2 35 p m Bath Packing coal yard coal pile spontaneous combustion. 3 39 p m 1361 Sycamore Mrs E Meffert children playing with matches start fire to curtains. 5 52 p m 426 Saxon residence L L Ackerson gasoline explosion. Advertisement offers insurance from Herman C Miller phone 2404.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riehl
R. F. Winterbottom
Bath Packing Company
Sycamore
E. Meffert
L. L. Ackerson
Runaway Horses Delight President Coolidge at Black Hills Pageant
A runaway horse team in the Gold Discovery Days pageant near Custer, South Dakota, narrowly avoided injuring President Coolidge and his wife as spectators scattered. The event marked 79 years since Horatio Ross first found gold in the Black Hills, with a two hour pageant recounting frontier life and the 1874 mining rush.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Custer
Coolidge
INS
Black Hills
Horatio N. Ross
Ross
Far East
Horatio Ross
French Creek
Washington
Keep Up Says Man from 40 Hospitals
John M Cameron of Los Angeles endured 61 years of pain and stayed in 40 hospitals across the United States and Canada seeking relief. After numerous surgeries and near-suicides he claims to be cured and urges others to endure a bit longer for relief and peace to come.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Cameron
Los Angeles
United States
Canada
Cameron
Dry chief killed by moonshiners in Maryland ambush
R Stotters aged 52 from Keyser West Virginia, head of the dry agents for Washington Allegany and Garrett counties, was ambushed and shot to death near Boonsboro while with R E Walters of Hagerstown. Walters escaped and notified authorities as a posse hunts the murderers who fired from a wooded area during a still search.
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Hagerstown
R. Stotters
Keyser
W. Va
Washington
Allegany
Garrett Counties
Maryland
R. E. Walters
Boonsboro
Maytag and Bartlett Lead Iowa Open Golf Field
Bud Maytag of Newton and Art Bartlett of Ottumwa led the Iowa state open at noon after 45 holes with 164. Maytag was two under par on the front nine as Bartlett closed the back. Art Andrews of Davenport finished 18 holes today with 66 and added to a 216 total for 54 holes. Ralph Rider of Des Moines sat second at 176, with Allen Des Moines 179 and several others in the 181–184 range.
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Maytag
Art Andrews
Davenport
Ralph Rider
Des Moines
Tia Allen
Bob McKee
Bud Clarke
Sioux City
John Va
Waterloo Boat Club hosts Friday housewarming event
The Waterloo Boat club and River Improvement association invite members and their ladies to its new club house at the foot of Second street west for an informal housewarming Friday at 7 p m. Boatrides on Cedar river, music, dancing and cards will follow preparations for a formal inspection.
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Waterloo Boat Club and
River Improvement Association
Second Street West
Cedar River
Eastern professor named head of Iowa biochemistry dept
Iowa City July 27. H. A. Mattill professor at the University of Rochester has been appointed head of the departments of biochemistry and pathological chemistry at the University of Iowa. He succeeds Victor C. Myers who has resigned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
H. A. Mattill
University of Rochester
Rochester
N. Y
University of Iowa
Victor C. Myers
Lindbergh Reaches Albany After Turbulent Flight
Gol. Charles A. Lindbergh arrived at the Albany airport this afternoon following a violent thunderstorm on the seventh leg of his cross country flight.
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Lindy
Albany
N. Y
Charles A. Lindbergh
Marriage Licenses Issued for Walter Krampe and Ruth York
Walter Krampe and Ruth York, both of Marshalltown, obtained marriage licenses as recorded.
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Walter Krampe
Marshalltown
Ruth York
Temperatures Brief Weather Page Note
Maximum Tuesday figures and minimums for Tuesday night through Wednesday are shown. Forecast includes times for Wednesday readings at 11 am and 3 pm with expected temperatures and conditions.
Bank Receiver Near Death After Crystal Lake Accident
George Newcomb Iowa City, receiver of a closed bank at Grand Mound, is near death in a Clinton hospital with a broken neck. He was injured while diving from a high platform at Crystal Lake near Dewitt where he had been camping and was rescued by fellow camper George Howes.
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Clinton
George Newcomb
Iowa City
Grand Mound
Newcomb
Crystal Lake
Dewitt
George Howes
Phone Companies in Consolidation Centerville
Centerville July 27 Pur chase and consolidation of the Appanoose County Mutual Telephone company by the Appanoose County Telephone company is announced by C A Farrington of the purchasing company. A saving of more than 2000 a year in tolls will be effected by business houses in Centerville alone. Rates will remain practically the same.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Centerville
Appanoose County Mutual Telephone Company
Appanoose County Telephone Company
C. A. Farrington
Bandits Release Johnson In Mexican Kidnapping Case
Russell Johnson, superintendent at Parra plant of American Smelting & Refining Co., kidnapped July 19 by bandits in Mexico, has been released. State Department advised today from Washington.
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Johnson
Washington, D. C
INS
Russell Johnson
Parra
American Smelting & Refining Co
State Department
Mortuary Obituary for Ruby Torpley Hickey in Buxton Birth to 1906
Mrs. Ruby Torpley Hickey aged 21 died at 2 a.m. at 414 Newell Street from complications. Born in Buxton Ia on December 22 1906 she moved to town at age nine and lived here since. Wife of Naaman Hickey married April 21 1924 she leaves two children Roy Junior and Annie May at home and her pas que Rev Allen L Torpey and Rev J W Reynolds presiding at Antioch Church Friday 2 p.m. burial Elmwood. Body at Pete Bros mortuary until funeral.
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Ruby Torpley Hickey
Newell Street
Naaman Hickey
Buxton
Roy Junior
Annie May
Pasque
Allen L. Torpey
Antioch Baptist Church
Antioch Church
J. WH. Reynolds
Elmwood
Pesee Bros
Mrs Chamberlain to Direct 30 Iowa Counties for DAR
Mrs F L Chamberlain of Mary Melrose chapter receives appointment as director of the northeast district of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Iowa. She will oversee 30 counties including Winnebago Worth Mitchell Howard Winneshiek Allamakee Hancock Cerro Gordo Floyd Chickasaw Wright Franklin Butler Bremer Fayette Clayton Dubuque Buchanan Black Hawk Grundy Hardin Boone Story Marshall Tama Benton Linn Jones and Jackson.
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F. L. Chamberlain
Mary Melrose
Iowa
Charles G. Saunders
Council Bluffs
Champberlain
Winnebago
Worth
Mitchell
Howard
Winneshiek
Farmer Attacked by Unknown Men Reported Weaker
Cedar Rapids Iowa July 27 Wilkes Williams a prominent Clayton county farmer was attacked and beaten about the head by unidentified assailants Saturday night He remains unconscious and weaker today State Agent Stoner is pursuing several theories but no arrests have been made
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Wilkes Williams
Clayton County
Stoner
Bad Weather Still Delaying Courtney Flight
Bad weather off the Irish coast delays Capt. Frank T. Courtney’s trans Atlantic flight from Calshot air depot. He remains ready to depart to Valentia, Ireland, but meteorological reports forecast at least 24 more hours of adverse conditions.
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Southampton
Eng
INS
Frank T. Courtney
Courtney
Calshot
Valentia
Ireland
Illinois Woman Dies at 101 in Thomson Illinois
Mrs Nancy Whitney French aged 101 years nine months and 22 days died at her Thomson home late this morning. She was regarded as one of Illinois oldest residents and retained her faculties and interest in current events until shortly before her death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomson
Nancy Whitney French
Illinois
John N Sweitzer Under Nurse's Care
John N. Sweitzer, who on Monday wired Mayor Glenn A. Tibbitts his resignation as municipal court bailiff, is under a nurse's care at his daughter Mrs Guy Perkins home in Minneapolis. His son-in-law was in Waterloo yesterday attending to his affairs. Sweitzer has been in failing health for a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John N. Sweitzer
Glenn A
Herrick Better After Second Major Operation
Ambassador Myron T. Herrick of Cleveland Ohio was reported resting easily today after his second major operation yesterday. Medical officials said he showed steady improvement and was in stable condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland, O
Guy
Myron T. Herrick
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