Young Women of Britain to Cast Votes Tomorrow
London May 29 UP Great Britain readies for a pivotal election with 615 parliamentary seats at stake and more than 27 million eligible voters including over 5 million newly enfranchised women. Conservatives Labor and Lloyd George led Liberals vie for a majority, with outcomes possible coalitions or a fresh general election.
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Divorce actions in district court reveal multiple petitions
In divorce cases Judge George W. Wood granted Mary Sheeley a default divorce from Harvey Shealey with the household furniture and 250 dollars alimony awarded. The couple must share a jointly owned car. Wilma L Richardson filed for divorce from Brock A Richardson alleging extreme cruelty including a broken nose and verbal abuse. A temporary injunction restraining Brock from molesting Wilma at 303 Ricker Street was granted.
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Harvey Shealey
George W. Wood
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Brock A. Richardson
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Inland Cities Hope to Become Seaports
St Louis May 29. Trans Atlantic air lines are expected to reshape the economic map by making inland cities possible ocean ports. Plans to build a chain of large airports in ten centers plus a trans oceanic air service tie into a broader air network with 1 000 cities planning or building airports. Cities named include New York Chicago Philadelphia Baltimore Louisville Pittsburgh Cleveland San Francisco St Louis Los Angeles and many smaller communities across the nation.
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Mississippi Valley
Wheat Belt
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San Francisco
Paris
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Duluth
Mandell Kaplan Bout Canceled as Taxes Halted
Federal agents moved on promoter Jim Mullen’s box office in Chicago to seize funds over $44,000 in unpaid taxes from prior fights. The Mandell and Kaplan lightweight title bout, slated as a 10 rounder with Sammy Mandel and Louis Kaplan, was declared off as authorities executed warrants to collect money at the venue.
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Sid") Kaplan
Wartburg Grants Diplomas to 48 in Fiftieth Year
Wartburg normal college in Waverly Indiana awarded diplomas to 48 graduates from five departments including junior college academy pro-seminary business and secretarial. Rev G A Fandry of Chicago and Rev C G Prottengeler delivered addresses as the week celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the college in ceremonies ending this afternoon. The class breakdown included 18 from the junior college 6 academy 6 pro-seminary 9 business and 9 secretarial.
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Courter
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Wartburg Normal College
Islanders Eat Shoes Story From Tahiti Folklore
Tahiti May 29. After more than 40 years, white residents explain how the title shoe eaters was earned by natives of the Feno islands. A shipwreck left rubber overshoes among flotsam, resembing pauha shellfish liked by locals, sparking tourist questions.
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Feno Islands
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Polynesian Feast Tale Circulates After Ship Arrival
In Reno a strange tale describes natives boiling a white man and a sea food joke. Fires and cauldrons heated with seawater, ribber shoes thrown in, boiled for three days, and set on a coral beach to test sun readiness. A schooner from Papeete then arrived as the joke spread across Polynesia.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars group forms in Havana
Havana on May 23 reports steps underway to organize a post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, an American veterans organization, reflecting local civic efforts.
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Here
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Kuhns Freed From Pen For Killing Son-in-Law Primmer
George P. Kuhns, who shot his son-in-law Cecil B. Primmer in front of Primmer’s home at 1621 Black Hawk Street during a family feud on February 3, 1928, was released from Fort Madison state penitentiary yesterday. Primmer died six days after the shooting. Kuhns received a reduced sentence on a plea of guilty to assault with intent to commit manslaughter.
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Willam A. Cook
James Murtagh
New High Speed Otis Elevator To Enter Service Friday
A pair of new fast Otis gearless passenger elevators, near completion in the Black's building annex, were commissioned this morning for a Friday public service start. The lobby shaft on Byc amore Street houses the automatic 2 500 pound car with 600 feet per minute speed, level floor stop, auto door gates, Wagner air door signals and flashlight cues from Cedar Falls. Installations led by F H Thompson, local Otis agent.
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Wagner
Cedar Falls
F. H. Thompson
Ots Hievator Company
Three Artillery Officers Ordered to Camp McCoy
Maj. E. E. McGinley and Lieut. J. F. Anderson plus Lieut. J. A. Whitman are ordered to Camp McCoy Sparta Wis for training July 7 to 20. Training covers pistol firing equitation and harness map making command post communication and battery administration.
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Riehl Street
J. F. Anderson
Fremont Street
J. A. Whitman
Waterloo Reserve Artillery
Camp McCoy
Sparta
Wis
Mob Hangs Alleged Attacker Near Alamo Tenn
A mob of about 100 entered Alamo county and hanged Joe Boxley, 19, who was accused of attacking a wife. The lynching occurred four miles from town after taking the suspect from a county jail.
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Tenn
Joe Boxley
Tromanhauser Leases Former Hinson Building
Harry Tromanhauser, proprietor of the Tromanhauser Auction Market, has leased the 922 Sycamore Street building from Marsh-Place Building Company, enlarging his auction and used furniture business. The brick structure was previously Hinson Manufacturing.
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Hinson Company Holds Lease Through 1935 With Extensions
A fragmented notice indicates a lease arrangement by Wayne & Raymond trustees, totaling through February 1, 1930 with a five year extension, on property of 100 feet frontage and 110 feet depth. The Hinson Company remains the lessee.
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Raymond
Treludees
Hinson Company
Moroccan-Tiwef Gets Swift French Justice
Rabat Morocco May French justice swift in protectorate of Mane arrest in Morocco City led to a district magistrate hearing and six months imprisonment within 25 minutes of the misdemeanor.
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Morocco
Mane Caight
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