South Dakota Loses Role in National Politics
Washington dispatch notes Coolidge vacation choice shifts from South Dakota after a state law change ends its traditional early primary role. Observers say motives now align with Corn Belt farm concerns as New Hampshire and other states set the presidential primary calendar. Farmers grow more sophisticated, influencing policy focus and candidate selection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Sullivan
Washington, D. C
Coolidge
South Dakota
New Hampshire
George Moses
New York Herald-Tribune
League of Nations Steps to Halt Russian War Move
A 19 year old slayer Kowceda told the Warsaw special court he killed Soviet envoy Minister Volkoff at the Warsaw railroad station to protest Bolshevik actions in Russia and declared he was not guilty of murder. Soviet circles dismissed foreign dispatches as sensationalism and rot amid war talk but normal local conditions reportedly persisted.
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League of Nations
Ceda
Peter Volkoff
Warsaw
Russia
Kowceda
Volkoff
Moscow
Lindbergh Honors Aviation With St. Louis Stop
The famed aviator received long ovations as he urged airport development to enable passenger air service. Lindbergh and speakers sat in a cockpitlike dais, a tiny Spirit of St. Louis model flying near Liberty Statue and Eiffel Tower replicas. Col. Lindbergh’s representative announced he would stick to the St. Louis schedule, with a hop-off possible from New York or Washington depending on his plans.
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Lindbergh
Lewis Re-Elected President Of Iowa Labor Federation
J C G Lewis was re-elected president of the Iowa Federation of Labor for two more years at Cedar Rapids session. George W. Dunlap of Davenport named vice president, with secretary-treasurer and executive board to be announced later. Senator Smith W Brookhart attacked the federal reserve system as harmful to labor and farmers during the meeting. Waterloo and Cedar Rapids vie for next year’s convention, with Waterloo favored.
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Cedar Rapids
INS
J. CG. Lewis
Iowa Federation of Labor
Lewis
Joe Morris
Miners’ Union
George W. Dunlap
Davenport
Smith W. Brookhart
United States
Reserve System
Federal Reserve Banking System
New York
Reserve Fund
Federal Reserve Banks
Waterloo
Iowa
RIMES TIES TOWN MARSHAL TO TREE IN OKLAHOMA
Tulsa dispatch reports Matthew Rimes bound Jennings marshal George McAninch to a tree and stole a car with a two year old child asleep inside. Rimes fled toward Osage hills after crimes at Drumright and Hominy as a nation wide manhunt ensued.
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Tulsa
Okla
Jennings
Matthew Rimes
Oklahoma
Kimes
Hominy
Osage County
Pawnee
Osage Hills
Drumright
Creek County
George McAninch
Lumes
Augustana Synod at Omaha Meet Plans More Work
Omaha Neb June 15 The Lutheran Augustana synod convened for its sixty eighth annual convention and will devote much of its time to charitable problems. The Immanuel Deaconess Institute center of mercy shelters hundreds of homeless children and invalids with a hospital, home for the aged, invalid home, and an orphanage. The deaconess church was recently built by the Woman's Missionary society. The synod runs 40 charities and 13 conferences.
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Omaha
Neb
Lutheran Augustana Synod
Immanuel Deaconess Institute
Synod
Mercy
Deaconess
Woman's Missionary Society of the
E. A. Fogelstrom
Augustana
Augustana Synod
Nebraska
Axtel
Bethphage
K. William Dahl
Augustana College and Theological Seminary
Rock Island, Ill
College and Theological Seminary
Women's Missionary Society
Gustavus Adolphus College
St. Peter, Minn
Rockefeller Foundation
Bethany College
Lindsborg
Kan
Oberammergau
Kansas
Driver Discharged After Witness Lacked Drunk Testimony
Des Moines reports in municipal court the case against H. M. Jackson for hitting Mrs. S. D. Mitchell was dismissed after the witness could not state whether Jackson was intoxicated. Mitchell had never seen a drunken man and had no standard of comparison.
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Des Moines
INS
S. D. Mitchell
Jin Municipal Court
H. M. Jackson
Jackson
Chamberlin and Levine to tour Friedrichshafen Zeppelin works
Clarence D. Chamberlin and Charles A. Levine, the American airmen famed for their record flight, will tour the Friedrichshafen Zeppelin factory after motoring to Karlsruhe. They will be guests of Zeppelin officials and attend a banquet in Frankfurt. They plan to fly to Vienna Sunday after meeting their wives in Bremen aboard the Berlin.
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Baden Baden
Germany
INS
Clarence D. Chamberlin
Charles A. Levine
Berlin
Friedrichshafen
Chaimnberlin
Levine
Karlsruhe
Frankfort
Chamberlin
Vienna
Bremen
Marriage Licenses Issued in Waterloo and Cedar Rapids
Harry Howard and Mary Donley of Waterloo receive a marriage license. Joseph Paula and Mary Slechta of Cedar Rapids also obtain licenses.
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Harry Howard
Waterloo
Mary Donley
Joseph Paula
Cedar Rapids
Mary Slechta
Building Permits Reported For Two Local Structures
E L Osgood records a garage permit at 1710 Bluff valued at 100 dollars. I L Dow applies to move a garage from Campbell and Marsh to 1019 Con ger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. L. Osgood
1710 Bluff
I. L. Dow
Campbell and Marsh
Conger
Brown Zena funeral held for Wa terton native
Funeral services for Miss Zena Brown 38 a former Water ton resident who died in an Iowa City hospital after surgery were held at 2 p.m. today at the Kistner chapel with Rev. G W Day of Antioch Baptist Church officiating. Burial followed in Elmwood. She was born in 1889 in Gainesville Alabama and is survived by a brother William Guy Brown of Waverloo.
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Zena Brown
Waterton
Iowa City
G. W. Day
Antioch Baptist Church
Elmwood
Miss Brown
Gainesville
Ala
William Guy Brown
Waverloo
Rector Startleg Church Meet By Pleas For Youth
San Francisco June 15 delegates at the National Congress of the Protestant Episcopal Church reviewed Rev. Henry Lewis of St Andrews Ann Arbor defending youth sex experiments. He urged recognizing unmarried unions and said science created a new moral situation and called for intelligent birth control in poor families.
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San Francisco
National Congress of the
Protestant Episcopal Church
Henry Lewis
St. Andrews
Ann Arbor
Mich
Lewis
John G. Murray
Maryland
Episcopal Church
Edward L. Parsons
California
Air Yacht Starts 10000 Mile Trip From Amsterdam
Van Lear Black publisher of the Baltimore Sun leaves Amsterdam in a Fokker air yacht on a 10000 mile journey to Batavia. He travels via Budapest and Constantinople with a crew of two pilots a valet and a mechanic. He aims to visit 15 countries and hopes to reach Australia soon, stressing practical aims over a stunt.
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Amsterdam
van Lear Black
Baltimore Sun
Batavia
Dutch East Indies
Budapest
Constantinople
Aleppo
Baghdad
Bandarabbas
Karachi
Delhi
Ambala
Allahabad
Calcutta
Rangoon
Bangkok
Sengora
Medan
Singapore
London
Black
United Press
Australia
Ankle Break Injury At Home Shingling On Roof
Arthur Lippert of 319 Clay Street, a railroad employee with Illinois Central, fractured his left ankle yesterday afternoon after falling from the roof while shingling. He was taken to St Francis Hospital.
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Arthur Lippert
Clay Street
Illinois Central Railroad
St. Francis Hospital
Opera stars and composers in brief music quiz
A set of music quiz questions asking which opera star with a sister performed vaudeville, common links of Elly Ney and Olga Samaroff, duplications in Beethoven symphonies, composers of Rigoletto Der Freischuetz La Tosca and The Merry Wives of Windsor, shared traits of Coates Hertz Gonsens Furtwaengler, the father of church music, a pianist who wrote a charm detour for melody, Chopin influence pen name, the symphony ending with Adagio Lamentoso, and Ginko Gothia Casnagy. note says new items appear on another page.
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Elly Ney
Olga Samaroff
Coates, Hertz
Gonssens
Furtwaengler
Chopin
Ginko Gothia Casnagy
St Louis prepares three day welcome for Lindbergh
St Louis officials plan a three day homecoming for Col Charles A Lindbergh with a Friday 4 pm arrival at Lambert field. A large parade on Saturday will be followed by auto banquets and a public reception at Forest Park. The event includes a municipal opera finale and excludes other groups from the parade.
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St. Louis
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
Washington
New York
Victor Miller
St. Louisan
Lambert-St. Louis Field
Thirty-fifth Division Air Unit
National Guard
Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh
Forest Park
Food From Forests Could Feed World in 2127 Says Scientist
Washington June 15. Professor Albrecht Penck of Berlin predicts the world population may reach eight billion in 200 years and scientists could turn forest matter into edible food. He suggests converting cellulose to starch to allow forests to feed humanity.
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Washington, D. C
Albrecht Penck
Berlin University
Penck
United Press
National Open Scoring List At Oakmont Pa
The final 36 hole results at Oakmont show Harrison Johnston 73 74 147 Gene Sarazen 74 74 148 Walter Hagen 77 73 150 Harry Hampton 73 78 151 Bill Mehlhorn 75 77 153 Fred Baroni 70 72 152 Bobby Jones 75 77 153 Archie Compston 99 74 153 MacDonald Smith 78 76 154 P Hart 77 77 154 Bobby Cruickshank 77 78 155 Al Watrous 82 74 156 Wille Klein 79 78 157 Perry Del Vecchio 79 79 158 Ernest Penhold 79 80 159 Wilfrid Reid 80 79 159.
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Oakmont
Harrison R. Johnston
Minneapolis
Minn
Gene Sarazen
Flushing
N. C
Walter Hagen
Pasadena
Fla
Harry Hampton
Memphis
Tenn
Bill Mehlhorn
New York
Fred Baroni
Crafton
Bobby Jones
Atlanta
Archie Compston
Great Britain
MacDonald Smith
Great Neck
P. ©. Hart
Marietta
Bobby Cruickshank
Purchase
N. Y
al Watrous
Grand Rapids
Mich
Wille Klein
East Williston
Perry del Vecchio
Greensburg
Ernest Penhold
Wilfrid Reid
Grosse-Peinte Farms
Bargain Sentence Given to Bigamist in District Court
Louis Haubach, 49, received a 30 day jail term under a plea of guilty for bigamy in Grundy County court. Judge G W Wood cited extenuating facts from Haubach’s second marriage to Ellen Kerne in Fort Dodge on Oct 6 and the prior divorce story. Haubach claimed he paid $10 to an attorney to obtain a divorce from his first wife.
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Louis Haubach
Grundy County
G. W. Wood
Haubach
Ellen Kerne
Fort Dodge
Cora Potter
Waterloo
J. C
Wildmans Defy Law in Dells Disturbances
William Wildman and his wife, living up to their name, caused disturbances in Dells Town. Wildman, released on good behavior, drank, returned to jail for most of a 30 day sentence, while his wife attacked probation officer Mabel Evans with a stove poker and a fist. Mrs Wildman later joined her husband in custody.
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Town City
INS
William Wildman
Wildman
Mabel Evans
Traer Star Clipper Best Weekly Newspaper in U.S.
The Star Clipper of Traer Iowa with 3476 subscribers was voted best weekly newspaper in the United States by the National Editorial association. Editor E. E. Taylor noted the whole family helps in producing the paper. Jacob H. Strong of the Gazette Rhinebeck New York won honors for best weekly editorial page.
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Omaha
Neb
Star-Clipper
Traer
United States
National Editorial Association
E. E. Taylor
Jacob H. Strong
Gazette
Rhinebeck
N. Y
Farmer predicts 3 to 1 margin for good roads bond
J Leroy Farmer campaign chairman announced in Monticello this morning that he expects Jones county to pass the good roads bond issue tomorrow by a three to one margin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
J. Leroy Farmer
Monticello
Jones County
Woman Declares Masked Klan Beat Her in Georgia
In Toccoa, Georgia, Mrs. Ansley Bowers says 12 men in three cars beat her and her 15-year-old son Floyd to silence rumors of a Ku Klux Klan attack. She alleges the assailants wore Klan uniforms and threatened to brand a letter on her back. Nathan Bedford Forrest, grand dragon, denies official Klan involvement and urges punishment for any member found guilty. Local police investigate amid rumors of an in-town Ku Klux presence.
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Taccoa
Ansley Bowers
Gainesville
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Ku Klux Klan
Georgia
Bowers
Toccoa
Klan
State Penitentiary
Forrest
Chicago man kills woman then shoots self
Oscar E Bett es 35 shot and killed Evelyn Reilly 21 then wounded himself critically in Chicago on June 15. Police report the double shooting occurred as the pair likely argued, with Bett es dying later from self inflicted wounds.
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Girl
Self
Chicago
INS
Oscar Ebettes
Toeday
Evelyn Reilly
Patient End Life in Sanitarium Stabbing Incident
Chicago authorities report 22 year old Alice Cerny, a sanitarium patient, stabbed herself to death with scissors today. Hospital officials confirmed the fatal self harm occurred this afternoon in the facility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Alice Cerny
Death Report for Miss Florence Gury at Franklin Street
Miss Florence Gury daughter of Mr and Mrs J A Gury of 45 Franklin Street died today after illness at a local avenue hospital. Authorities reported the condition improved earlier but she passed away this afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence Gury
J. A. Gury
Frankin Street
Iit
Dollar Day Crowds Crush Waterloo Stores at Dawn
Waterloo hosts its semi annual Dollar Day as shoppers from distant counties and local areas flood the streets. Merchants report record early crowds with extra clerks aiding lines at department stores. A dramatic pocketbook pass from husband to wife highlights the bustling scene while most shoppers remain orderly and focused on bargains.
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Waterloo
Minnesota
Byrd Plans Paris Flight in Fuelled America Monoplane
Commander Richard E. Byrd prepared the tri motor America for a nonstop crossing to Paris from Roosevelt Field. Tests are complete, supplies loaded, and fueling to determine departure timing after Lindbergh’s reception, with return flight undecided.
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Roosevelt Field
Richard E. Byrd
America
Paris
Byrd
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Europe
United States
Rogers Hornsby to Manage Giants in 1928
John J. McGraw announced that Rogers Hornsby, former St. Louis Cardinals manager and current Giants captain, would become active manager of the New York Giants in 1928 as McGraw retires from travel. He said Hornsby would take over duties next season.
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Rogers Hornsby
Giants
St. Louis
John J. McGraw
New York Giants
St. Louis Cardinals
McGraw
Hornsby
Alma Donahoo Sues for Divorce in Denver Iowa
Mrs Alma Donahoo filed suit for divorce from James Donahoo alleging cruel treatment. They wed in Denver Iowa on November 18 1926. She seeks alimony of 50 dollars monthly and states she has no property and must work to support herself.
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Alma Donahoo
James Donahoo
Denver
Painter Is Swift Signs Chancellor Cigars in Window Displays
A Dollar day crowd gathered before several stores as H. H. Parr, a factory representative of the American Cigar company, painted swift water color signs advertising Chancellor cigars. The process took about ten minutes per window.
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Swift
H. H. Parr
American Cigar Company
Chancellor Cigars
Miss Laura Elliott Plans Two Week Midwest Visit
Miss Laura Elliott of 215 Lafayette street left Monday evening for a two week trip to Chicago and Detroit Michigan. In Detroit she will visit her brother in law and sister Mr and Mrs Harry J Smith.
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Laura Elliott
Lafayette Street
Chicago
Detroit
Mich
Harry J. Smith
Lindbergh Signs Contract for Book on Flying Career
Col. Lindbergh signs the first of two million dollars in contracts for a 50,000 word book about his life and flight to Paris. The work covers receptions in Paris England and Belgium and his views on aviation's future. Most manuscript is ready and payment is on royalty basis.
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New York
Col. Lindbergh
Paris
England
Belgium
Counterfeit $20 Bill Plant Found in Missouri Prison
A hidden counterfeit operation producing spurious $20 bills was unearthed inside Missouri state penitentiary. Engraving plates inks and chemicals were seized from the Bertillon department. Three Kansas City inmates William McCoy Mack Callam and Melvin Levy are in solitary awaiting federal grand jury action after a bill exchange failed.
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Jefferson City
INS
Missouri State Penitentiary
Bertillon
Kansas City
William McCoy
Mack Callam
Melvin Levy
New York Central Boosts Annual Dividend to 8 Percent
New York Central stock rises to an 8 percent annual dividend with a 2 percent quarterly payout, up from 7 percent. Michigan Central declares a 20 percent semi annual dividend, up from 17.5 percent, payable July 29 to holders on July 1. Big Four also boosts with 2 percent common and 1.25 percent preferred quarterly, payable July 20 to July 1 records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New York Central Railroad
Michigan Central
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis
Big Four
Short Girl Tries to Kiss Lindbergh in Times Square
New York June 15 Charles Lindbergh was hugged by a young woman outside the New York Times building in Times Square but she failed to kiss him as she was too short. Lindbergh blushed and pushed her away retreating to the doorway while police kept the crowd at a distance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Charles Lindbergh
Times Square
Lindbergh
New York Times
Lindy
Times
Maj Dargue Lands in Lake During Great Lakes Flight
Maj H A Dargue, leader of the Good Will flight around South America, made a rough Lake Michigan landing after flying from Grand Rapids. He was to depart for Milwaukee later this afternoon to continue the journey.
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Chicago
INS
H. A. Dargue
South America
Screen Actor Visits Iowa Farms and Flowers
Screen actor Mr. E G Miller and Mrs Miller of Holly wood California with Mr. and Mrs. L C Barbey of Decatur Illinois stay with E L Van Ausdel at 1315 Third Avenue West. Miller, with Famous Players, is impressed by Iowa farms and flowers during his visit.
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E. G. Miller
Hollywood
Cal
L. C. Barbey
Decatur
Ill
E. L. van Ausdel
Third Avenue West
Mr. Miller
Famous Players Company
Towa
Iowa Farms
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