Wagner Files for Renomination as Sheriff
Alerman T. Wagner, seeking renomination on the Republican ticket, filed his petition with the county auditor. The document lists 389 Republican voters. Wagner touts an efficient sheriff’s office and a businesslike approach, noting his role in forming the Black Hawk County Council of Social Agencies. Filing closes Saturday at 5 p.m. Also listed are W. H. Bickel for justice of the peace and several Republican filings in Mt. Vernon and Bennington townships.
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Alerman T. Wagner
Wagner
Black Hawk County
H. Bickel
Fig Creek
John F. Schmidt
Bennington Township
BH. Wasserfort
Mt. Vernal
H. J. Doepke
Mt. Vernon
F. J. Paul
L. F. Heldemann
W. J. Heidemann
Baseball Nabber Saves Boys On Streets
Indianapolis pupils devise a long wooden nabber with a ring and hole to snatch balls rolling into the street avoiding traffic. The stick, often an old fishing pole, lets a child pull the ball back from the curb. Every pupil at the public school helps make or uses one.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Achool
Thursday Programs Mix In Davenport Broadcasts And Concerts
A jumble of afternoon and evening listings outlines Thursday events in Davenport including orchestra performances, a medical talk, weather updates, baseball reports, a Maxwell hour, and a variety of stage acts such as a chimes concert, a Dodge Brothers presentation, a school program, and a woodwind concert.
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Davenport. In
Dodge Brothers
Hoover Sentinels
Maxwell Hour
Halsey Stund
Dunior
Friday Rhythms and Markets On Davenport Station
The listing appears as a dense schedule of radio programs and market reports across Davenport channels. It includes phonograph records, weather, livestock receipts, music orchestras, concerts, and news summaries with numerous time stamps and station references. The fragmentary OCR shows many program titles and performer names, indicating a busy day of music, markets, and talks. The exact items and times are irregular but reflect a midmorning to evening broadcast lineup.
Palace and Rialto Offer Mix of Serials and Features Tonight
The Palace presents The Boss of Runstler's Rocat with Don Coleman plus Ringside Romeo and The Masked Menace serials. The Plaza features Finders Keepers with Laura La Plante, Our Lady of Victories, and a Rhinehart comedy. Maxine Milo revue and Hines Smith pop songs. Rialto screens Under the Black Eagle with Flash and wartime romance 40 000 Miles with Lindbergh, plus a Paris goodwill feature. Riviera offers Ladies Might in a Turkish Bath with Mulhall and Mackaill, Teddy Dixon on stage, and nine Maddigan dancers. Trand shows The Woman on Trial with Negri and Hanson, plus Vitaphone acts and Dream Cafe. Also note: Mushrooms cultivated in ancient Greece and Egypt.
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Palace
Runstler
Don Coleman
Plaza
Laura la Plante
Mary Roberts Rhinehart
Maxine Milo
Hines & Smith
Rialto
Black Eagle
Flash
Ralph Forbes
Marceline Day
Lindbergh
Paris
Riviera
Jack Mulhall
Dorothy Mackaill
Teddy Dixon
Fauntleroy
van Rube
Arthur Turelly
Cruse Brothers
Missouri Shieks
Jimmie Clemons
Chinese Desire Literature Up to Minute in Tientsin
Tientsin reports T. B. Wei, a pioneer in translating Western classics, sketched for an international audience. He recalls 25 years ago he led in learning but now feels sidelined by China’s shift to a newer popular style while clinging to ancient classical forms.
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Tientsin
T. B. Wei
Wei
Chinese youth romance critic sparked Western love debate
Wei promoted Western romance themes condemned as free love by orthodox critics. He expanded from translating Camille to Chinese then rendered Uncle Tom's Cabin and works of Scott Dickens Irving. He later supplied Haggard and Doyle novels and wrote biographies histories and Britannica summaries.
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China
Walter Scott
Wei
Dupmas
Camille
Scott
Dickens
Washington Irving
Pelican Learns How to Commit Death by Own Action
Port Aransas Texas May 2 A local fisherman devised a stunt to force a pelican into self harm. A mullet tied to a board drifted as the bird watched from above and then dived, breaking its neck.
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Pelican
Port Aransas
Tex
INS
Museums sought to keep New England relics of ingenuity
Boston May 3. Museums and organizations outside New England have acquired early examples of New England industrial ingenuity. The Massachusetts Bay Mercenary committee suggests preserving original manufacturing devices and priceless relics of New England's pioneering inventiveness within New England.
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Boston
Mass
INS
Lof
New England
Massachusetts Bay
British Peerages Face Extinction Soon
London May 3. One hundred British peerages are in danger of extinction because current holders have no heirs. In total about 250 peers lack heirs or have only heir presumptives, with the trend blamed on the world and many heirs being first holders of their titles. nearly half the baronetage shares the same plight.
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London
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Schoolboy
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P. M
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Orchestra
Medicrude Afiatrela
BP. M
Amen Ham P
TAS PT
WGN
WLIB
Chicago
Paul Ash
Acad
Louie
den Moines
Thanograph Records
Phonograph
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U. G. Marine Band
Jolly Bua
Town Federation Women's
Asda P
Walt Wood
la France Mig
Fc PF
Dave Bernie
Mnchestra
Wwoc
Davenport
A. M
T. M
Bernie Sehults
Berniie Schulte
aAnglo Pistan
M.—Orchestra
P. M.—Palmolive Hour
Amch Ain
Lnee
Happy Hank
Kan
The
Saleman
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Tunch
Judy
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Flatz
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Congress
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T&m Bootery
Oxford
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Greece
Egypt
Edmund
Rausch
First Streets
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California
Edmund Rausch
Wm. Holland
Pialto
Germa “Flash
Actor
Zoe Dyac the Amazing
Mind Reader
Casey’? Jones
Marco Polo
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Pola Negri
Econ
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Victor
Cause Brothers
Missouri Sheiks
Dream Cafe
Electric Park
Armory Dancing
Licoyd Wells and His
Bartheloness
Snowmace
OFC
Waterloof Plaza
Mary Roberts Rinehart
John Harron
Edmund Breese
Arthur Rankin
William Gorman
Eddie Phillins
Joe Mack
Agnes Ayres
Otto Mattiesen
Maxine
America
Tremler
Artions, Sons
Hines
Fantasie Orientale
Ona Crawford
Constance Kerper
Broadway
Dorothy Mackail
Saxophone
Eleven Master Musiciass
Fauntleroy and van Rube
Arthur Turrell, Harmonica Wizard
Wisner
Waterloo
Bonnie Miller
Geo. Goslin
Amtard
Welco
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