Iowa Pastor May Follow Aimee E Angelus Temple
Aimee Semple McPherson announced she would resign leadership of Angelus Temple then retracted it, later statements saying she would leave only after the church’s internal issues are settled. Possible successors include Rev Marshall Craig of Des Moines and plans for temples in Denver Chicago New York.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Aimee Semple McPherson
Angelus Temple
the Times
Minnie Kennedy
Chicago
New York
United States
Mexico
Raided Wednesday Arrested Thursday Indicted Friday
A partial report before Jude G. W. Wood at 9 30 p m today notes grand jurors convened yesterday on order of County Attorney F W Edwards returned indictments Carl Gustafson illegal transportation bootlegging Orville Bill Bailey same offenses Judge Wood fixed bonds at 300 each Several other cases will be heard by the grand jurors as results of raids by state agents deputies and police officers.
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Jude G. W. Wood
F. W. Edwards
Carl Gustafson
Orville Bill Bailey
Wood
Fire at Hampton Gas Plant Causes $20,000 Loss
The Hampton gas plant owned by Iowa Public Service suffered partial destruction from a roof spark fire this morning. No gas exploded. Estimated damage about $20,000. Location Wempton, July 24.
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Hampton Gas
Wempton. Ja
Hampton Ces
Iowa Public Service Company
Longtime Whiting Pastor Dies at 85
Reverend D B D A Carter, pastor of the Whiting Christian Church for 89 years, died suddenly from heart trouble this morning at age 85. He attended church services last night and appeared in good health.
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Whiting
A Carter
Whiting Christan Church
Heflin Addresses Local Audience at Electric Park Tonight
Senator Thomas James Heflin of Alabama arrived at 2 p m from Spencer Iowa and went to his hotel before speaking tonight at Electric Park on U S relations with China Mexico and New Zealand. The visit precedes his planned address outlining policy issues.
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Thomas James Heflin
Alabana
Minois Central
Vampane Eest
Electric Park
United States
China
Mexico
Niewreem Ye
Spenerr
Senet evening tour clouds Nugk Grave Hefan visit
A fragmented report notes a touring schedule with mentions of Bang visiting Li states, while a management decision regarding Nugk Grave Hefan remains unclear. The garbled text suggests an ongoing national tour with planned stops and administrative actions pending.
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Senet
Tomgnt
Nugk
Hefan
Bang
Li States
Mes Mida Chicago Wins Swvest Golf Title
South Pend Ind July 29. Mrs Lee Mida Butterfield Country Club Chicago won the championship match at the Western Golf association tournament today. She finished her 18 holes with a 83 and her opponent Miss Josephine Marse Chicago had 92.
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South Pend
Ind
Lee Mida
Butterfield Country Club
Chicago
Western Golf Association
Josephine Marse
Mids
Morse
Prison Doors Open for Man Who Took Victory Loan Cash
Horatio Bottomley, famed wartime figure and former MP, was released from Maidstone prison after serving seven years for converting 5000 pounds from a victory loan bond club to his own use. Good behavior reduced the sentence by two years.
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London
Horatio Bottomley
Great Britain
Maidstone
House of Commons
Victims in Lake Disaster Totals May Reach 38
The Chicago Lake Michigan excursion boat Favorite tragedy prompt investigation. Passengers recall heroics as the vessel sank off Lincoln Park. Government inspectors to lead the inquiry. 28 victims confirmed, 17 children among the dead, many life belts failed.
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Chicago
INS
Lincoln Park
Lake Michigan
Oscar Wolff
Vigilantes Enter in Fifth Iowa State Shoot
Des Moines July 29. Twenty six counties entered teams in the fifth annual state shoot of Iowa vigilance committees and other law enforcing officers opening today at Fort Des Moines. Tonight the contestants are dinner guests of the Iowa Bankers association at the Des Moines club followed by a theatre party. Speeches planned by George J. Schaller Storm Lake Ben J Gibson and J R Quinlan. Counties represented include Appanoose Black Hawk Boone Clinton Payette and Linn. Winners announced tomorrow night.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Fort Des Moines
Towa Bankers’ Association
Des Moines Club
George J. Schaller
Iowa Bankers’ Association
Storm Lake
Ben J. Gibson
J. R. Quinlan
Rival War Lords Foreshadow Chinese Confederal Step
In Williamstown Massachusetts July 29 INS reports Prof Howard Quigley of Minnesota says breaking rival Chinese war lords will be hard. A possible outcome is a confederation allowing foreign powers to negotiate treaty revisions. Sforza predicts a fifteenth century style evolution with growing central powers as needed. Other round tables discuss Philippines resource use and international debts.
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Williamstown
Mass
INS
China
Howard
Quigley
University of Minnesota
Institute of Politics
Carlo Sforza
Italy
Sforza
Ralston Hayden
University of Michigan
Philippines
Joseph
S. Davis
Stanford University
Rain Breaks Drouth in Northern Iowa
Rain covered all but the extreme north yesterday, bringing relief to Fort Dodge in the driest region with .50 inch. Guthrie Center received 1.08 inches, the day's heaviest. Iowa City and Carroll logged about a half inch, Sioux City .32, others under a quarter. Temperatures hovered around 90 degrees, failing to beat Wednesday’s peak. No hail reports.
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Des Moines
Fort Dodge
Weather Bureau
Guthrie Center
Iowa City
Carroll
Sioux City
Judge Discharges Juror in LeBoeuf Dreher Case
In Franklin Louisiana July 29 the trial of Ada Le boeuf and two others for the murder of her husband was delayed as Judge Simon discharged another duly qualified juror. A motion by defense and state claimed A J Bourdreaux said he would like to see Dr Thomas Dreher hang. The juror was the second dismissed prompting the sheriff to pick a new twelfth juror.
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Franklin
INS
Ada Leboeuf
Simon
A. J. Bourdreaux
Thomas Dreher
Bourdreaux
Farm Helps to Pay Off Church Debts
In Otego Kansas church debt relief came through church members farming a rented 100 acre corn field. Pastor Floyd Hearne led repairs plans after the bank failures and money shortage hurt the community. Members worked 18 sisters joining at dawn to plant and tend the crop, costing the church two and a half days of labor.
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Otego
Kan
Floyd R. Hearne
Methodist Episcopal Church
Mr. Hearne
Physician Shoots Thieves to Death in Chicago Robbery
In Chicago on July 29 two alleged bandits died after attempting to rob Dr Frank L Nathanson's office. He fired in view of three women patients, killing one man instantly and the other later at a hospital. Both suspects remain unidentified.
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Chicago
INS
Frank L. Nathanson
Savas
Engine hits girl in Toledo on railroad track
Blanche Kvidera of Toledo was seriously injured when a locomotive cylinder struck her hip as she walked along a freight train track yesterday. She was taken to Tama hospital for treatment.
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Toledo
Blanche Kvidera
Tama Hospital
Doctor Disappears in Harvey Prompting Town Probe
Dr. Mowbrey, address unknown, has vanished about a month after arriving in Harvey to serve a town then lacking a physician. Citizens heard appeals on KFNF Shenandoah and built a large practice before the sudden departure. County officials warned of an investigation if he does not reappear.
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Harvey
Mowbrey
KFNF
Shenandoah
Grain Exports Reach 404 Million in Fiscal Year
The United States shipped grain and grain products abroad in the last fiscal year valued at 404,166,000 dollars, up 141,270,000 or 34.9 percent from the prior year. Wheat and wheat flour accounted for 217,967,000 dollars, or 72 percent of the total, with rice showing the largest rise, exports nearly tenfold versus 1926.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Commerce Department
Abolishes Alcohol and Wine Squads in Prohibition Bureau
Washington July 29. Discarding policy of General L C Andrews, Seymour Lowman issued an order abolishing the alcohol brewery and wine squads of the prohibition bureau. A dry secret service under W B Robinson is created to conduct investigations for the service in major prohibition cases nationwide.
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Washington, D. C
INS
L. C. Andrews
Treasury
Seymour Lowman
Prohibition Bureau
W. B. Robinson
Slayer of Five Doomed to Chair in Florida
Benjamin Franklin Levins was found guilty in Tampa circuit court of slaying five Merrell family members last May. The jury imposed death by electrocution as punishment.
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Tampa
Fla
Benjamin Franklin Levins
Merrell
Mussolini Celebrates 44th Birthday at Home
In Forli Italy on July 29 Premier Mussolini marked his forty fourth birthday with family presence and isolation from official duties.
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Forli
Italy
Mussolini
Death notice for Mrs Adam Veith in Hungary
Mrs Katie Nauman of 440 Allen street reports the death of her stepmother Mrs Adam Veith in Magyarorszay Hungary on June 28 after illness of drop sy and diabetes. Surviving relatives include stepson John Veith Reinbeck and a Chicago niece and nephew. Mrs Veith, born Barbara Bottla in St Louis in 1907, had husband Adam Veith who died July 16 1919. She lived at 1326 Fourth street east until March 1923 then went to Hungary to live with sister Anna Bottla. she was a member of St Marys church here.
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Katie Nauman
Allen Street
Adam Veith
Magyarorszay
Hungary
John Veith
Reinbeck
Chicago
Veith
Barbara Bottla
St. Louis
Questions on early Iowa figures and history
Five prompts ask who became Iowa’s 1854 governor, which Massachusetts educator aided Iowa's school system, Peter A. Sarpy’s identity, who carried Spirit Lake massacre news outward, and Iowa’s first Republican governor. Answers appear on another page.
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Massachusetts
Iowa
Peter A. Sarpy
Spirit Lake
Temperatures Forecast For Friday And Thursday Night
The report lists Thursday maximum around .593 and Thursday night minimum near .6 with Friday values showing various readings such as 5B and 7 ac with unclear and garbled data. Strong entities are not present due to corrupted text.
Film shows minute bacteria on camera and scope
Rochester scientists unveil a combined motion picture camera and microscope to show rapid growth of germs and other micro organisms. The system by Dr Stanhope Bayne Jones and Clifton M. Tuttle enables viewing germs 1-25,000 inch wide enlarged 2000 times and rotifers magnified 500 times. It promises cheaper teaching and research methods after three years of work.
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Rochester
N. Y
Stanhope Bayne-Jones
Department of Bacteriology
University of Rochester
School of Medicine
Clifton M. Tuttle
Eastman Kodak Company
Bayhe-Jones
Spirit Lake Woman Elected President Legion Auxiliary
Fort Madison Iowa July 28 delegates of the Iowa department of the American Legion auxiliary closed their 1938 convention with officers elected including president Mrs Virginia Bedell Spirit Lake vice president Mrs Miriam Stewart Hollowell secretary Mrs Gwendolyn Higgin MacDowell Story City treasurer Mrs Clara Cooney Carroll historian Mrs Harry Utley Manchester and chaplain Mrs F H Webster Aigona Delegates also drove to Keokuk to view the Mississippi river dam.
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Fort Madison
Council Bluffs
Iowa Department of the American Legion Auxiliary
Virginia Bedell
Spirit Lake
Miriam Stewart Hollowell
Gwendolyn Higgin MacDowell
Story City
Clara Cooney
Carroll
Harry Utley
Manchester
F. H. Webster
Christian Krider Fractures in Stairway Plunge
Christian D Krider 68 a flagman at Rock Island and Great Western crossings at Fourth Street West fell down stairs at his home 217 Allen Street while seeking a cool spot to sleep at 2 am. He fractured his right shoulder and suffered a dislocation. He was taken to Allen Memorial hospital.
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Christian D. Krider
Rock Island
Great Western
Fourth Street
Allen Street
Allen Memorial Hospital
Rameses II Great Advertiser of Ancient Egypt
Indianapolis readers learn how Rameses II, ruler of the twelfth dynasty, earned the title greatest advertiser of the ancient world. He built and rebuilt temples, chiseled his deeds deeper, and used existing records to glorify himself. A colossal 57 foot statue in the Ramesseum at Thebes weighed about 1,000 tons and was transported from Assuan.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Rameses II
Egypt
Rameses IV
Ramesseum
Thebes
Assuan
Clothing Store Has First Blaze in 70 Years in Freeport
The William Walton Nephews dry goods and clothing store in Freeport endured its first fire in seven decades. The blaze started in a third floor storage room, causing damages estimated from 15,000 to 320,000 dollars. Insurance covered the loss.
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Freeport
William Walton Nephews
Buchanan’s Alaska Trip For Detroit Boys Returns
Detroit coal dealer George E. Buchanan continues his annual philanthropy article by taking 40 boys from multiple states on a coal fund funded adventure to Alaska. The $375 trip cost is shared by Buchanan one third, parents another third, and the boys themselves. The journey travels via Chicago and St Paul to Banff and Lake Louise, then Vancouver and Skagway to Alaska.
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Detroit
George E. Buchanan
Buchanan
Alaska
Chicago
St. Paul
Banff
Lake Louise
Vancouver
Skagway
Skull operation ends alleged criminal impulse for William Sherrill
Hollywood Calif July 29 An operation on William Sherrill to remove alleged criminal tendencies was declared successful by physicians He had a long Western states record and must appear in court August 5 to prove the impulse is gone after brain pressure adjustment and removal of excess fluid
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Hollywood
Cal
William Sherrill
Sherrill
Denver
Flannel Remnants and Hoarded Goods From A Hoarding Household
Indianapolis July 29. A reflective essay on clutter and waste, noting how families amass trunks and closets full of seemingly useful items. The piece questions wastefulness and contemplates future archaeologists uncovering a typical American home and the fate of cherished but unused possessions.
Marriage Licenses Recorded in Waterloo and Surrounding Areas
Lloyd Young and Helen Anderson of Manchester to wed. 18 Ferdinand Wenthe of Waterloo and Emma Manchans of Waterloo ages 24 and 22. William Cronin of Waterloo and Agnes Weekley of Waterloo. Joseph Cyril Hutchinson of Chi CARD and Marjorie Bernatz Marsh of Decorah. Earl D. Starboard and Dorothy A. Kern of Waterloo ages 32 and 22.
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Lloyd Young
Waterloo
Helen Anderson
Manchester
Ferdinand Wenthe
Emma Manchans
William Cronin
Agnes Weekley
Joseph Cyril Hutchinson
Marjorie Bernatz Marsh
Decorah
Earl D. Starboard
Dorothy A. Kern
County Receives 50 000 Under Brookhart Lovrien Law
Sigourney Iowa July 29 John B Slate Keokuk county treasurer reports that the county benefited to the extent of 50000 through provisions of the Brookhart Lovrien law Losses to this amount were sustained by the closing of four banks in the county
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Sigourney
John B. Slate
Keokuk County
Visit SICK Daughter in Red Top Home
Mrs Charles Kammerdiner and children from Red Top Minnesota are guests of Mrs L C Weidman at 718 Webster Street. Miss Eleanor Kammerdiner is patient at Presbyterian hospital recovering from mastoid operation performed Thursday.
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Charles Kammerdiner
Red Top
Minn
L. C. Weidman
Webster Street
Eleanor Kammerdiner
Presbyterian Hospital
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McPherson
Alton
Minnie. Kennedy
Kennedy
Marshall B. Crass
Aimee McPherson
Chicago Great Western Railway
Mrs. McPherson
Craig
Midwest
John Goben
Goben
Corry B. Craig
California
Vienna
Palace of Justice
Dempsey
Jack Dempsey
Cecilia Dempsey
Salt Lake City
Utah
Jack
Bride
James A. Stillman
Little Wolson
Rook
Heflin
LES Mida
Svvest
Katherine 9
Leo Sobata
Sobata
Opal Helton
Hugo
Okla
Olson
Frederick J. Meno
Dickerson N. Hoover
Steamboat Inspection Service
John S. Hanson
William S. Nichols
America
Europe
Gates
Associated Press
State Historical Society of Iowa
Legion Auxiliary
Christian Krider
George, EF. Buchanan
Tap Skull
Johnny
Nellie
John
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