Saskatchewan to harvest 20 900 harvest eas from Aug to Oct
Des Moines reports Saskatchewan province in Canada has 1 000 000 more acres of wheat than last year. Thomas H Molloy of Regina says the crop outlook is excellent and harvest labor will be needed from mid August to October. Kansas officials report ample help and merchants aiding the harvest as crews move across the region toward Nebraska Iowa and beyond.
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Des Moines
Saskatchewan
Canada
Thomas H. Molloy
Regina
Seery Molloy
Ilzborofis
United States
B. G. Baird
Topeka
Kansas
Nebraska
Iowa
Minnesota
Dakotas
Daniel J. Connell
Nebraska State Labor and Compensation Department
Officer Slain With Own Gun in Council Bluffs
Council Bluffs police officer Eleanor Townsend was shot and killed by burglars during a Woolworth 14 cent store robbery attempt. Townsend, 60, surprised two men in an alley. one seized his gun and fired. Three burglars inside fled in a touring car. store manager said nothing was taken. Townsend had been recently appointed.
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Council Bluffs
Eleanour Townsend
Townsend
James Bradley
Higher Freight Rates Hit Iowa With War Controls
Freight rates rise 25 percent across Iowa as national wartime controls take effect. Intra state rates climb from 4 to 15 percent, pushing truck freighting as an alternative to slower rail service. Transfer firms note trucks speed loading and unloading, boosting motor freight in short hauls while interurban transit faces cuts. Flour mill in Alta to reopen this fall after wheat planting in Buena Vista county prompts renewed milling capacity.
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Res Moines
Iowa
McAdoo
Iowa Rail
Washington
Des Moines
de Moines
Alta
Buena Vista
Lion Grove
Northwest Town
Warren Gleason
Auto theft gang members caught in Des Moines
Des Moines deputies capture Joe Kelly Otis Pottinger and B F Smith of Des Moines in a crackdown on a multistate auto theft ring said to operate a Kingman boulevard garage for repainting stolen cars. Five cars recovered with altered engines and new licenses. rest of gang detained in St Joseph Missouri.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
Joe Kelly
Otis Pottinger
B. F. Smith
Kingman Boulevard
Twenty-eighth Streets
Griffin
St. Joseph, Mo
McMillen, Hansen
Best
Outfit
A. Ford
Chamberlain Hotel
St. Joseph
Eighth Street
College Avenue
West Second
Walnut Streets
Boone
King'man Boulevard
Rate Case at Marshalltown Targets Insurance Increase
The first round in the case to block a rate rise for the Modern Brotherhood of America was heard before Judge Cummings in district court. An injunction bars the rate increase. the company seeks dissolution. Plaintiffs Heisinger Sweeney Sanding and Derrick say 10,900 policy holders are affected with 29 others named.
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Marshallttown Times-Republican
Legation
Brotherhood of America
Cummings
Cummin
Brotherhood
John Heisinger
Tama
Oelwein
Vinton, Waterloo
Cedar Rapids
Marengo
Attica school challenges others with war work record
The Attica consolidated school touts a war work record with $3,000 in war savings stamps sold by 130 pupils averaging $23 each. The program includes hogs, gardens, and chickens clubs and daily military instruction for boys.
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Attica, Tra., Consolidated
Rival circuses aid Hagenbeck-Wallace after disaster
In Beloit Wisconsin on June 2 a stricken Hagenbeck-Wallace circus performs with rival Barnum & Bailey and Ringling Brothers lending equipment and performers to continue the show. The Gary morgue holds several victims including a clown Joe Coyle and his family, with the final body recovered from the camel heap.
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Beloit
Wis
Hagenbeck-Wallace
Der
Dumble
Aurlek
Ringlings
Ringling Circus
Paul Harrell
Barnum & Bailey
Gary
Hagenbeck-Wallace Company
Joe
Coyle
Funny Man
Charles
Joe ‘Jr
Man Found Dead After Electrocution While Berry Picking
Stanton Iowa June 25 investigation into the death of Axel Flood 27 found along the Burlington railroad right of way four miles east of Stanton the only marks a head burn and a deep cut at the point local officials deem the death unusual while berry picking led to the incident
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Stanton, Ja
Axel Flood
Burlington Railroad
Stanton
Flood
Death by electric wire contact near rail line
Coroner's jury rules that 12 Flood died after his head touched a high tension line astride a ground strip beside a fence near the Red Oak electric company cut. Flood, unmarried and living with brothers Carl and John Flood, was reportedly gathering wild strawberries when the accident occurred.
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Red Oak Electric Company
Hoa
Carl
John Flood
Flood
Crops Look Fine Around Greene
Greene June 26 crops look promising with oats in good condition and ahead of last year. Corn is strong, knee high in many fields, and generally healthy. Hay yields are lighter due to a dry spring and increased grain planting. Wheat acreage is up, with fair to good yields expected. The piece ends with a baseball scene noting the band at the seventh inning.
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Avery
Cherry Sisters Stage Farewell Tour At Majestic Theatre
Cedar Rapids Iowa June 25 the Cherry Sisters compare themselves to Bernhardt in a farewell appearance at the Majestic theatre They have retired to a Cedar Rapids area farm since their notable debut and national tour their acting judged no worse than before
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Bernhardt
Cherry Sisters
Cedar Rapids
Hammerstein
New York
The
Cherry Girls
Majestic Theatre
Cedar, Rapids
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Schlueter
Jon Schmneter
Carl Schieuter
France
Federal Grand Jury
B. R. Moore
RED Cross
Red Cross Drug Ca
Eckman
Eckman Laboratory
Philadelphia
E. W. Bose Co
Cleveland
Theen
Marshalltown
Challenge OF
Big Tops
Fletcher
Chas.h. Fletcher
T Ae
Cortaga Company
Alge
Chalmers
Chaimers
F. O.B
Detroit
Mackie Motors CO
Waterloo
Davenport
W. W. Bair
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