Coal Mine Disasters Claim 225 Lives in Four Accidents
Associated Press tally shows 225 deaths from four mine accidents since Saturday, including 165 dead at Mather Pa Coa mine and 13 dead at Yukon West Virginia Coal mine. Kentucky’s Black Mountain No 30 mine reports seven dead with one missing. Kimberly Copper mine cavern in Nevada kills four.
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West Virginia
Kentucky
Uby
Associated Press
Mather, Pa
Coa
Yukon
W. Va
Harlan, Ky
Kimberly, Mey
Bluefield
Yukon-Pocahontas Coal Company
McDowell County
Butis
Yulee
Black Mountain Coal Corporation
Kenyir
Waterloo Lawyer Andrew Edwards Career Summary
A biographical sketch traces Andrew Edwards from Alpha honorary forensic fraternity at college through a law career in Kingsley and Waterloo. It notes his education at Michigan and Western influences, his 1912 Waterloo partnership with Judge Sager, and his election as assistant county attorney. It lists Masonic and civic memberships and leisure activities at Lake Okaboli and Ashine Minnesota.
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Page One Alpha
Genter Point
Collee
Law School of Michigan
Ann Arbor
Northwood
Barristers
Kingsley
Waterloo
George J. Sager
Edwards
Eights
Pyjas
Izaak Walton League
I Canopus Club
Eastern Star
Ashine
Minnesota Lakes
Ay Lake Okaboli
Bomb Wrecks Home Of Dry Prosecutor Feonisha Wis
The home of Lewis W. Powell, a Kenosha County attorney, was damaged by a powerful bomb explosion that shattered windows and blew in part of a wall. Powell and his four children were awakened. they escaped serious injury. Mrs. Powell was away at the time. The blast follows threats connected to Powell's legal actions.
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Feonisha
Wis
fIs
Lewis W. Powell
Altorn
Kenosha County
Ths
Sy Ater Aroher Powell
Complaints Spur Police to Curb Curb Lovers Noise
Des Moines residents from near Riverview park press public safety chief William Walker to curb the so called curb lovers. Police have been assigned to keep quiet in Tower's Lane after midnight as the superintendent announced.
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Des Moines
Riverview Park
Wiliam Walker
Public Safety
Tower’s
Iowa University to Graduate 1044 Students This Term
The University of Iowa will grant degrees to 1044 students at the sixty-eighth commencement on May 31. A week of plays banquets and reunions is planned with no commencement speaker this year. President Walter A des sup will deliver the degree-awarding address. Rev Joseph Fort Newton of Memorial Church St Paul Overbrook will give the baccalaureate sermon on June 3.
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Jows City
University of Iowa
S Well
Walter A. Dessup
Joseph Fort Newton
Memorial Church of St. Paul
Overbrook
Pra
Legion Post Contractor Employs Only Non-Union Men
The Towa City American Legion post is censured by the local carpenters union for hiring nonunion labor on the $105,000 Tezion home project. Tapager Construction of Albert Lea Minnesota is charged with employing nonunion men and importing most of its workers. The resolution will be sent to the State Federation of Labor Convention at Waterloo on June 12.
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Towa City
INL
American Legion
Carpenter’s
State Federation of Labor
Waterloo
Tapager Construction Company
Albert Lea, Minn
Legion
Henry Litchfield Funeral Services Tomorrow at Home
Funeral services for Henry J. Litchfield, president of Litchfield Manufacturing, who died at his home from a personal safety related pistol wound, will be held Friday at to a.m. at his residence 207 Logan Avenue. Rev. Thomas Fr. Niven and Rev. J. E. Moore will conduct with burial at Elmwood. The body remains at the home. Keokuk Bar association members and portage employees will attend the funeral of Postmaster William Cares Howell at First Presbyterian Church Thursday.
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Henry J. Lichfield
Litchfield Manufacturing Company
Logan Avenue
Thomas FR. Niven
First Presbyterian Church
J. E. Moore
Manchester
Elmwood
Keoruk
Keokuk
Death Notice for Fernando Bord Ford at Waterloo
The obituary lists Fernando Bord Ford as deceased at 6 a.m. today near La Road Mensaneiest Hawae. Survived by two sons Co Mooand and awnets af the Northy Waterlon Bleeting Company. Grandsons Mire Charles Mahe Mascaline Teo Ania and Plarence Ford. Granddaughter Gomeré da andk oh granddaughter. Waterloo, two grandsons, and a long list of relatives.
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Tersando Ford
Fernando Bord
Gow
Rae
Sin Tivins
Waterlon
Charles Mahe
Mascaline Teo Ania
Plarence Ford
Waterloo
Prandson
Rhymond Mabra
Asa Twa
Ford
Union Township
Am Ford
Gomeré
Mies
Khee Webster
Wairrloo
Oule Okesie
Pawng Ghorhyar
Waterloo Pet and Hobby Group Forms Annual Show Body
A meeting at Waterloo W. C. A. rooms led to forming the Waterloo Pet and Hobby association, an incorporated group to run the annual show. Elected officers include Harry Bahr president and Mrs. F. C. Liffring first vice president, with Beth Tracey secretary and L. G. Maring treasurer. directors Victor Zellhoefer G. R. Holton Mrs. L. D. Miller ALF Jury and Mrs. Fred Adams.
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Waterloo Pet and Hobby Association
Harry Bahr
F. C. Liffring
Iuiss Beth Tracey
L. G. Maring
Victor Zellhoefer
G. R. Holton
L. D. Miller
Alf
Jury
Fred Adams
Wealthy Dubuque Resident Dies at 87
Dubuque Iowa May 23 William E B Lawther sr 67 prominent Iowa figure dies at his home from age related ailments. An immigrant from Ireland he founded a candy factory in Dubuque then built a vast real estate fortune estimated at 10 million dollars. He is survived by son William B Lawther Jr president of the First National Bank and daughter Anna Lawther active in Democratic politics and education boards. Funeral arrangements have not been announced.
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Dubuque
William Eb, Lawther
Iowa
Lawther
Ireland
William B. Lawther, Jr
First, National Bank
Anna Lawther
State Democratic Central Committee
State Board of Education
Knapp Denounced as Thief in Albany Court Hearing
In Albany on May 23, former Secretary of State Florence E S Knapp faced denouncement by Prosecutor George Medalie as a thief liar schemer and fraud While on trial for stealing a 2875 census check issued in her stepdaughter Clara Knapps name The trial before Justice Stephen Callaghan followed a 24 hour delay due to nervous exhaustion Also in municipal court Felix Schuneker and Thomas McMillan pleaded guilty to illegal fishing with trot lines out of season Judge G J Sager fined 10 dollars and costs each with costs suspended pending further order.
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Felix Schuneker
Third Street
Thomas McMillan
Sherwood Park
John Jago
Game and Fish Warden
G. J. Sager
Robins Defeat Giants In Opening Doubleheader
Brooklyn, May 13 The Robins defeated the Giants 4 to 3 in the first game of a doubleheader scoring one run in each of the first four innings. Ott hit his homer with nobody on in the opening frame. Batteries Weare and McWeens. Henline. Building permits issued include M Pritz garage and porch at 609 Magnolia valued at 130 dollars and J M Gerda remodeling residence at 418 Argyle into a duplex valued at 250. Lewis Lines repairing residence at Webster 200. E Crie garage at Dunham. A L W Peverill 230 Moir dwelling on Norton 33,000.
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Robins
Giants
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Robins
Dutch Henry
Cth
Ott
Molo Lea
ViLlonox
Horan
Weare
F McWeens
Henilne
W M. Pritz
Magnolia
J. M. Gerda
Argyle
Lewis Lines
Webster
E. Crie
Dunham
Peverill
Moir
Norton
Charred Remains Identified After Northwestern Barbed Wire Plant Fire
A burned body found at the Northwestern Barbed Wire Company plant in Sterling was identified as 67 year old Ank Grate. The blaze swept the facility yesterday afternoon, prompting investigations and searches for further cause and details of the incident.
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Sterling
Northwestern
Barb Wire Company
Ank
Tre
Congressional Deliberations On Boulder Dam and Expenditures
Congress today considers the Boulder dam bill and campaign expenditure issues. The Senate and House debate lax Bulpert and related conference items amid ongoing committee meetings and public notices.
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Iry
Vipten Dressy Senate
Boulder Dam Hill
HOUSE
Gouttiyes
Italia Starts O Polar Flight To Land At Pole
Kings Bay Spitzbergen May 23 Italia began northward flight across polar ice cap aiming for the pole to conduct explorations and plant a cross blessed by Pope Pius. General Nobile leads scientists to study temperatures winds and magnetic variations during the 30 to 40 hour mission.
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Associated Press
Kings Bay
Spitzbergen
Italia
Polar
North Pole
Umberto Nobile
Pole
Pius
Safranochi
Nobdile
Nobile
Lenin Land
General Nobile
Norge
Llnevin Elsworth
Roald Amundsen
Coolidge Emphatic in Second Veto of Farm Relief Bill
President Coolidge reiterates opposition to the farm relief measure, urging private initiative and a tariff supported program to stabilize prices and reduce marketing waste under farmers' own management. He notes the bill contains objectionable features and could influence the upcoming election.
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Coolidge
Suu
Congress
Capitol
Lowden
Frank O. Lowden
Dawes
Curtis
Kansas
Watson
Indiana
Hoover
Senate
House
Frank
Clinois
Intelligence Test Questions Target Minute Detail Skills
Readers are presented with two columns of numbers and must decide if each pair is alike or different. The passage discusses a test used at leading universities and links performance to clerical work and political price discussions.
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Coluun
Blantegen
Lindbergh to chair Transcontinental Air Transport tech committee
Col Charles A Lindbergh has agreed to a full time post as chairman of the technical committee for Trans continental Air Transport Inc. He oversees equipment choice routes and safety as the rail and plane service linking New York to the Pacific unfolds. Four aviators will join the committee as experienced partners while plans finalize for planes routes and landing fields. A separate Robertson Aircraft Corp announces a 1 million dollar national airline project with Lindbergh as a potential member and aims for Chicago service by August 1 1928 with route expansions including Omaha and Mexico City.
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New York
Charles A. Lindbergh
Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc
Pacific Coast
Pennsylvania Railroad
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Wright Aeronautical Corporation
Corliss Airplane & Motor Corporation
National Air Transport, Inc
J. Cheever Cowdin
Col. Lindbergh
Mying
Lindbergh
Germany
Altho
St. Louis
U.R
Finance
National Airplane Passenger Service
Robertson Aircraft, Corporation
William B. Robertson
Chicago
Omaha
Mexico City
Flames on Walnut Court Injures Garage in Local Fire
Fire leaped near Walnut Court apartments drawing a large crowd of 100 spectators. Fire companies battled the blaze at 292 Walnut Street where a car in a garage burned and the structure was badly damaged. Loss estimated at 1200. W. Weathershaw owned the car and J. H. Fuess the garage. London, May 23. Lord Buckland, a multimillionaire and coal merger figure, was killed when his horse hit a telegraph pole. He directed over 40 companies.
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Walnut Court Apartments
Walnut Street
W. Weathershaw
J. H. Fuess
London
INS
Lord Buckland
Henry 5. Berry
Airman Dies in Sandusky Crash at Airport
Walter Anderson a 26 year old aviator from Richmond Indiana was burned to death in a Sandusky airport crash. Benjamin Buger a 17 year old student from Sandusky is listed in serious condition at Good Samaritan Hospital.
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Sandusky
Walter Anderson
Richmond
Ind
Benjamin Buger
Good Samaritan Hospital
Gorgas Institute Speaker Warns on Health Habits
Robert Jones, representing the Gorgas Memorial Institute, told 250 luncheon attendees that Americans are living too fast and neglect health. He urged annual medical checkups and better basics, citing preventable disease deaths and potential life-extension. He spoke to students and civic groups in Waterloo areas and planned further talks at several local venues.
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Robert ©. Jones
Chicago
Gorgas Memorial Institute
Rotary
Kiwanis, Lions
Canopus Clubs
Hotel Russell-Lamsop
Jones
Panama
United States
Southland
Gorgas
Waterloo Medical Society
Woman's Club
Cedar Falls High School
Teathers College High School
Oskaloosa Woman Elected P. E. D. Head
Mrs. Elien Sampson White of Oskaloosa was elected president of the Iowa chapter of the P E D sisterhood at the annual convention in Davenport and will be installed at the closing session.
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Davenport
Elien Sampson White
Oskaloosa
Iowa
The
P.* EB
Texas GOP splits as factions clash over Hoover delegates
In Dallas and Beaumont rival Republican groups dispute control of Texas delegations to the national conventions. The Creager-led faction instructs 22 district delegates and four at large for Hoover, while Littleton and Wurzbach demand an uninstructed slate. In the Democratic camp Gov. Moody’s harmony group gains control at Beaumont and aims to unite with a minority faction backing Gov. Smith, as hearings on contests and delegation selection proceed.
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Dallas
Tex
Fght
Texas
Kansas City
Beaumont
F.B. Creager
Herbert Hoover
Creager
Littleton
Fort Worth
Hany M. Wurzbach
Littleton-Wurzbach
Dan Moody
Smith
New York
Moody
Houston
Goternay Moody
Parachute Demonstration Safely Lands Plane in Tracy
A Jenny biplane flown by BE J. McKeon conducted a private test in Tracy California using a parachute designed by Charles Roderick of San Francisco. The craft dropped from 2000 feet with its motor idle and the parachute over 100 feet in diameter deployed to slow descent and land safely.
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Tracy
Cal
BE. J. McKeon
Charles Roderick
San Francisco
Father Charged After Son Dies From Razor Fight
Des Moines report says J R Saunders faces serious charges after his 19 year old son David died from razor cuts inflicted during a May 2 fight. Saunders was held in jail on assault with intent to commit murder as of last night.
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Des Moines
INS
J. R. Saunders
David
Assant
Money Lenders Meet in Des Moines
More than 400 members of the Iowa Industrial Lenders association will convene in Des Moines on Friday for the annual meeting. Delegates from across the state will discuss town business and related topics.
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Lynch
Peabody Interests
Mather
Pesce
Torms
Elko
Nev
Consolidated Copper Mines
Kimberly
John D. Hertz
Chicago Society
Iowa University
Claim Legion Post
Henry Litchfield
Pet and Hobby Group
Congress Today
Gen. Nobile
Arctic
Illinois
Washington, D. C
Frank Lowden
Plank
Lowden-Dawes-Watson
Power Combine
Estelle Kosloff
Earl Bath
Bath
Evening Post, Inc
Lindy
Flier
Frances Bailéy
Cit
Udle
Carrie Lou Bowers
Sixth Street
West
AL Bowers
C. Sreeman
Cologne
Tne
Worat
Farman
U.ri
Reed
Thomas BE Xpilly
A. Andrew
Ace
Wilco Bank & Trust Co
F. W. Gregory
Hammond & Hopkins
Beeen Dohn R. Voorhees
Falls Foughdey Co
Wangety CM
Young
Falls Foundry Co
Neta Te
Democrat
Harmony
Money
Ross R. Mowry
Newton
Southern District
Chris Glisch
Gilbertville
Genevieve Huberty
Home Consort
Forest Ave
Pelee
Kingbard Hill
Byrnes Park
Lester W. Miller
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