Iowa Cities Elect Municipal Heads and Settle Issues
Des Moines and other Iowa towns vote on mayors and city councils amid strong female candidate presence and debates over taxes bonds and public services. Cedar Rapids Burlington Clinton Dubuque and Dubuque see major contests, with high expected turnouts and key issues like water plant upgrades and incinerator disposal.
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Morris
Cedar Rapids
Burlington
Associated Press
Thomas J. Smyth
James M. Bell
Jerry Despain
Public Safety Department
Smith
Trades and Labor Assembly
Auto accidents claim 18 lives over weekend nationwide
New York led weekend fatalities with five deaths while Marshall Michigan logged three. United Press figures from across the country show 18 dead and 68 injured in weekend auto accidents with reports from St Paul St Louis Philadelphia Cleveland Boston and Los Angeles.
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New York
United Press
New York City
Marshall, Mich
St. Paul
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Boston
Los Angeles
Denied pardon for Irish agitator Big Jim Larkin in New York
Gov Miller rejected the pardon application for Big Jim Larkin, the Irish agitator jailed for radical activities. The late news item covers separate probes and incidents across several locations including mine disasters and violent crime with multiple fatalities.
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N.Y
Albany
N. Y
Miller
Big Jim’ Larkin
Paper mill dam collapse kills two at Biron Wisconsin Rapids
Two men die and ten others flee as a cofferdam failure releases a sudden flood at a paper mill site near Biron. Workers below the dam were trapped by rising water after the breach. In Davenport, James O'Brien, 45, is shot during a daytime robbery attempt by five Chicago bandits.
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Wisconsin Rapids
Wis
Biron
Wisconsin
Davenport
Chicago
James O'Brien
Faullets
Rickard Takes Stand In Own Defense In Damning Trial
Rickard, a New York sports promoter, testified in his defense this afternoon amid multiple allegations of misconduct involving four school girls. The proceedings opened with flashpoint testimony as prosecutors pressed the case.
State Inspector of Boats Had Bad Year
Des Moines March 27 The Associated Press reports that Iowa State Passenger Boat Inspectors faced limited work in 1921 with no inspections of steamboats or river craft. Gov Kendall reappointed J B Thompson Spirit Lake and George B Freeman Mason City for two more years. both received formal certificates and ribbons.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
H. Q. Daley
Emmetsburg
N.B. Kendall
Daley
Wisconsin
Iowa
Mississippi
Missouri
J. B. Thompson
Spirit Laka
George B. Freeman
Mason City
Kendall
Thompson
Freeman
Burch Up For Second Trial In Kennedy Murder Case
In Los Angeles on March 2 the second trial of Arthur C. Burch for the August 5, 1921 murder of broker J. Belton Kennedy at Beverly Glen began before Superior Judge Sidney N. Reeve. Burch is charged with conspiring with Madalynne Obenchain. each has faced separate trials with hung juries.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Arthur C. Burch
J. Belton Kennedy
Beverly Glen
Sidney N. Reeve
Burch
Madalynne Obenchain
Kennedy
Looted Government Ships Targeted by Robber Band
Federal secret service men and police joined today in an effort to arrest an organized band of looters believed responsible for stripping furnishings from United States Shipping Board vessels anchored in the Hudson near Peekskill. The looting was found during inspection of 164 ships wintering in the river.
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New York
Federal Secret Service
United States Shipping Board
Hudson
Peekskill
Prisoner Charged with 400 Robberies
Victims from Hyde Park police station identified stolen property recovered after Edward Collins arrest. Police say Collins confessed and is believed responsible for robberies totaling several hundred thousand dollars over years.
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Chicago
Hyde Park
Edward Collins
Collings
Collins
Peace
Sioux City Flyers Congress to Urge Aerial Commerce
The Associated Press reports recommendations for the seventh aerial district conference in Sioux City Iowa outlining plans to boost commercial aviation across Missouri Minnesota Nebraska Iowa North and South Dakota and Arkansas. Proposals include creating aeronautical bureaus in city chambers, establishing landing fields, seeking uniform aviation laws, forming a commission for uniform transport rates, and aiding municipal state and national governments in implementing commercial aerial transport.
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Associated Press
Sioux City
Aerial District
E.R. Schultz
Missouri
Minnesota
Nebraska
Iowa
North
South Dakota
Arkansas
Chamber of Commerce
Naional
Mayor Hylan Blames Invisible Government For Republics Woes
Chicago dispatch reports Mayor John F. Hylan of New York branding “invisible government” led by Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a cabal of international bankers as a menace to the nation. He charged both parties are controlled, urged independent candidates, and linked this power to centralization and private influence ahead of the next presidential election.
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Associated Press
Chicago
John F. Hylan
New York
Rockefeller-Standard
Th Knights of Columbus
Senate
The
Land
Theodore Roosevalt
Hylan
Rockefeller-Standard Oil
International Bankers
Rockefeller
Standard Oil Company
Standard Oil
United States Navy
United States Dil
United States
Trayer
Thompson
Swift in Court on DUI Charge in Chicago
Louis F. Swift Jr., son of a wealthy Chicago packer, must appear in court Friday to answer charges of driving an automobile while intoxicated. He spent several hours in Evanston police custody before bail was set at 200 dollars after his car collided with another vehicle carrying four young men. Two were cut by flying glass. Swift admitted intoxication.
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Chicago
Louis F. Swift, Jr
Packer
Young Swift
Evanston
Swift
Schanzer and London to See Lloyd George
Italian foreign minister Signor Schanzer arrived from Paris to consult Premier Lloyd George on the Near East settlement and the League of Nations role in the international economic conference at Genoa. A late afternoon meeting with the premiers and Schanzer was expected.
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UN International
London
Signor
Schanzer
Paris
Lloyd George
League of Nations
Genoa
Eighth-Eighth Division to Hold Reunion in Minneapolis
Des Moines announces the eighty eighth division veterans will meet in Minneapolis on September 1 2 and 3 for their second annual reunion. Iowa representatives Russell Carlson and L B Fairall attended the executive committee meeting.
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Des Moines
Minneapolis
Russell Carlson
Fairall
Iowa
Courier Delivery Cutoff and Reprint Request Policy
The Courier should be delivered at your home before 5 30. If the carrier errors or other causes cause non receipt by that time, call 3330 and a copy will be sent. Calls must reach this office before 6 30 pm.
Prices Drop Toward Old Levels Across Key Cities
The Department of Labor reports a gradual fall in the retail cost of food from March 2 to March 15, 1922, across 10 major cities. Declines ranged from 1 to 4 percent, with bridgesport, Richmond, and Washington showing notable decreases. For the year ending March 16, 1922, price drops were recorded in several cities, while comparisons to 1913 show higher costs in most areas.
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News Wire
Washington, D. C
United States
Department of Labor
Mingest
Manchester
N. It
Aulthmore
Bridgeport
Newark
New Hagen
New York
Richmond
Washington
Milwaukee
Denver
New Haven
Baltimore
Five Killed in Radical Fight in Jalisco
Mexico City reports five killed and 11 seriously wounded in clashes at Guadalajara, Jalisco, as radicals attacked pedestrians and motorists. Catholic workers who fled to a nearby church were fired upon, with a victim found inside the church after the assault.
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Associated Press
Mexico City
Mex
Guadalajara
Jalisco
Jury Awards Damages Over Lack of Heat in Brooklyn
New York March 22. For the first time in American history a verdict for damages based on a landlord failing to supply heat was rendered. F. D. Cochenour was awarded 32,500 for the death of his four month old son William in a Brooklyn apartment owned by George H. Jackson. The jury found the absence of heat last January caused the infant’s death after Cochenour testified he found coal scarce and the janitor said the furnace could not be lit.
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New York
F. D. Cochenour
William
Justice Cropsey
Supreme Court
Brooklyn
George H. Jackson
Cochenour
Textile Workers Strike Across New England Over Wage Cut
Lawrence Massachusetts and nearby mills join a broad walkout as about 10,000 textile workers refuse a 20 percent wage slash. Strikes also spread to Lowell Fitchburg and several New England cities in what is described as a historic wave.
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New England
Lawrences
Mass
Lawrence
Lowell
Fitchburg
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Unknown Man Drops Dead in Ottumwa
An unknown man about 25 collapsed and died in a Ottumwa restaurant. Attempts to identify him have failed. An empty envelope bearing the name W. A. Ford was found in his hip coat pocket. The body remains at a local undertaking establishment awaiting identification and claim.
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Ottumwa
W. A. Ford
Smiles And Kinks From Today’s Wires
United Press reports quirky city notes from New York Chicago and Unionsville. Mary Louise Spence and her father Joseph Spence needed an interpreter at the dock as she speaks no English and he no French. John Faulkner tells a patrolman I’m poisoned after drinking hooch. A man named Harry Girl crashes into a window at a lady barber shop and is arrested for intoxication.
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United Press
New York
Mary Louise Spence
Joseph Spence
Unionsville
John Faulkner
Johnson
Deen
Deadly Sunday Fights Roil Ulster Border Areas
Ulster and Free State leaders plan peace talks in London as weekend violence leaves seven dead or dying from wounds. Sinn Fein and Orangemen clashed in Belfast and Derry with raids on border towns, attacks on police barracks, and houses burned. Despite calls for calm, arms searches continue and a Belfast telegraph office is ordered closed. Unionists ordered to leave the border while Collins threatens a London conference collapse.
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Belfast
Ulster
Sinn Peinora
Orangeman
Frontier
Valadas
County Tyrone
East End
Border
Irish Republican Army
Clones
Sinn Fein
Dublin
Sinn
James Craig
Illinois Central shop shutdown for engine repairs
Public notice announces the Illinois Central mechanical departments at the shops will close April 1 for an indefinite period to undertake heavy engine and machinery repairs. About 1,000 workers across all departments are affected, with officials unavailable for comment as they are out of the city.
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Illinois Central
W. 8. Williams
Western Lines
Norman Bell
Tinley Declines Run for Governor in Democratic Field
Des Moines March 27 Associated Press Gen Mathew A Tinley Council Bluffs says he will not seek the Democratic nomination for governor. He cites medical practice, service in Mexico in 1916 1918 and World War I as reasons and notes absence from medicine for over half of the last decade. State central committee to meet Friday to consider other candidates and name a successor to Dr Reynolds Creston as state chairman.
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Associated Pres
Des Moines
Mathew A. Tinley
Council Bluffs
Bovernor
Slude Ll. Herring
Tinley
Herring
State Central Committee
Steck
American Legion
Reynolds
Creston
Harding to Speak at Grant Day Exercises
President Harding will travel to Point Pleasant on April 27 to deliver a speech in connection with the Grant memorial exercises. The trip was announced at the White House after a conference with Representative Ireland of Illinois urged the visit.
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Washington
D. C
Harding
Point Pleasant
Grant
White House
Ireland
Illinois
Ways to Save Four-Power Pact Urged for Senate
Republican leaders debated two routes to resolve the four power Pacific treaty tangle. One plan would ratify the supplementary declaration including islands and domestic questions. the other would fold reservations into the main Japanese mainland ratification. Both aim to satisfy Democratic objections that a separate ratification would lack action by other signatories.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Willie
Heavy turnout forecast as city election nears
In a quiet city election day, precincts report mixed early voting with heavy activity in wards one and two while others show lighter figures. Campaigners circulate handbills and banners near polling places despite a cold day, and officials note general adherence to election laws.
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Collain
Normal
la Anil
Gas Company
Demented Woman Slays Children Then Kills Self
Greenwich Connecticut March 27 Mrs Henry Barker wife of a carpenter killed her three children Margaret Johanna and Henry ages 6 and 18 months in their home before slashing her own throat and dying. Authorities say the mother appeared demented.
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Greenwich
Comm
Henry Barker
Margaret
Johanna
Henry
Weather bureau report for Iowa and nearby cities
Weather bureau notes a March 27 1932 update covering Charles City and other towns in Iowa Minnesota Wisconsin and adjacent areas. The readable fragment lists Albert Lea Mason City New Hampton and Faribault among locations.
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U. & Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau
Charies City
Albert Lea
Minn
Algona
Charles City
Cedar Rapids
Davenport
One Moines
Dubuque
Faribault
la Crease
Wis
Mason_ City
New Hampton
Postville
Waters Joo
Waverty
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OWA
Burtington
Air
H. H. Barton
Carlton M. Garver
Charles Morris
Alton
Adair
Ames
Council
Bluffs
Corning
Clinton
Columbus Junction
Charlotte
Calamus
Camanche
Cambridge
DeWitt
Dubugus
Denison
Glenwood
Hawarder
Humboldt
Ids Grove
Iowa_ Falls
Keokuk
Lenox
Marango
Muscatine
New Market
Oskaloosa
Orange City
Rock Valley
Sabula
Sheldon
Sidney
Spencer
St. Charles
Storm Lake
Traer
Waterloo
Williamsburg
C. H. Morris
Labor Party
H. W. Cowles
RK. N. Jones, Jr
Farmer- Labor Party
Duburne
Dubuque Valera
Tha
Dubuque Electric Company
Dubuque Gas Company
Trinidad
Colu
Sopris
Common Pleas
Lin Hough
Pueblo
Cole
Texas
Rouse City
Tex
Elvin & Hill
Dennison
Roy Collett
Bruce
Frazier
Peoria
Engineer
Columbus
Lamannel Bare
Mary Bare
Murray
Trenton
George Weisgerber
Eddie Adams
Weisgerber
Pitman
N. J
Phillips
Secretary OF State
William Phillips
Massachusetts
Holland
Henry P. Fletcher
Belgium
Leland Harrison
Armour
Kansas City
J. Ogden
Department of Agriculture
Armour & Co
Alle
Viclaion
FOWA
Washington, D. C-5
War Finance Corporation
Ioana
Mitnois
Congress
Mayor Hylan
National
Gov't
Louis Swift
Reunion
Harry Girl
RVG
Free State
Partey
Clal Eireann
Londonderry
Newtown Cunningham
Oriel House
Omeath
County Louth
Armagh
J. c. Bently
Ulster Police
Cohops
Glogi Oatardy
Mick
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