Jury sends boy’s slner to prs ow life sentence
Chicago March 17 The remaining years of Harold Croarkin 26 son of a prominent family must be spent in prison for killing 6 year old Waller Schmith Jr The jury verdict was a compromise favored by defense lawyers who argued Croarkin has been insane since childhood and should be committed to an insane asylum rather than executed The jurors announced the verdict shortly after 5 pm He did not testify and his attorney Crowe asked the court for mercy.
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Chicago
Harold I ‘Croarkin
Croarkin
Waller Schmith, Jr
Ballows
Croorkin
Croc
Eottorney
Crowe
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Woman Named to National Congress Board of Parents Teachers
A woman has been appointed as an executive member of the National Congress of Parents Teachers. The appointment strengthens ties with local chapters and promotes family and education initiatives within the organization.
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Stagecoach Honeymoon Couple Begins 56th Year in Waterloo
Longtime Waterloo residents Mr. and Mrs. Powers, married March 7, 1871 in Rome Pennsylvania, began a cross country honeymoon by stage and rail to Iowa. They settled near Plainfield, farmed in Lafayette township, later ran a grain business in Minnesota and a silo operation in Waterloo before returning to the city. They have five children: Louie, Lizzie, Gertrude, May, and Joseph.
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Waterloo
Jr. Powers
Plainfield
Mr. Powers
Altho
Lafayette Township
Bremer County
Powers
Lake Geneva
Wis
Louie Powers
Minneapolis
Lizzie Marsh
St. Pauli
Minn
Gertrude Lowe
Wellington Street
May Eby
Chicago
Joseph Powers
Cedar Heights and Castle Hill Elect New Board Members
Members of the Cedar Heights board of education will meet Monday to confirm newly elected trustees from Cedar Heights and Castle Hill. The meeting agenda includes swearing in and committee assignments for the two new members.
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Cedar Heights
Castle Hill
Cedar, Heights
School trustees election at Castle Hill selects Getchell and Lobdell
Prof Getchell heads the Lews State Teacher's College service department and will lead as a regular school board member after a recent election. R K Shoemaker retires with Lobdell installed to fill a vacancy. Free textbooks proposal passes by strong majority. Also notes roses yielding Bulgarian rose oil.
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Schoo Board
Lobdell. Waa
Frank A. Haffa
Castle’ Huil
Castle Hill
Legion entertainers provide concert for patients at hospital
Thirty service men from Independence state hospital attend a musical program this afternoon under Becker-Chapman post American Legion auspices. West High boys supply the music while magazines are given to patients. The post plans a Memorial Hall meeting tonight to hear dairy cattle congress reports. Mrs Beulah Graham of Oakland, a grandmother at age ten, is noted in the article.
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Independence
Becker-Chapman
Post
American Legion
West
Alwa
MeMorial Hall
Beulah’ Graham
Oakland
Wah
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