Thanksgiving reflections and local notes cross the pages
In Today’s Spotlight the world’s relief at patching up conflicts contrasts with local chatter about Waterloo’s church and filling stations. Communities praise crops, roads, football seasons, and a county home’s 14 chickens, while civic pride sparks intra city rivalries and a mock betting tone for the sunset grid. An Iowa Missouri school trip to Lincoln’s tomb inspires civic memory as grade crossing safety lament persists and Allen Memorial Hospital nears opening. Egypt’s interior minister is arrested amid nationalist tensions, with British views framing the event as liberation versus rebellion.
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Iowa
Missouri
Lincoln
Springfield
Capitol
Consulate in Riga Robbed Again This Year
A Riga dispatch reports the American consulate in Riga has been robbed for the second time this year. The thieves carried off the diplomatic cipher code and a large amount of correspondence. Russian Soviet agents are suspected in the break‑in.
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London
Riga
Esthenia
Daily Mall
Congress Action in Muscle Shoals Expected Soon
Washington Nov 20 7 One of the first Senate topics next week will be Muscle Shoals and its disposition. The House passed a Ford offer by about 2 to 1 and rejected amendments. Senate action may instead adopt Norris’s government operation amendment, though many oppose it. Three private bids and a new Underwood proposal await review, likely delaying final decision beyond the coming session.
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Mark Sullivan
Washington, D. C
Senate
Muscle Shoals
House
Henry Ford
Ford
Congress
Washington
Kard
Farm Bureau
American Farm Bureau Federation
jFora
Norris
Nebraska
Senator Ladd
North Dakota
Ee Norris
Underwood
Alabama
Fore
Tome
Alabama Power
Chaplin and Bride Headed for Home
Los Angeles reports that Charles Chaplin and his bride Miss Lita Grey were due to arrive in Beverly Hills for Thanksgiving after marrying in Emprime, Mexico. Students of his traveling routine predict he may avoid crowds at the station and travel privately to celebrate with plans for elaborate housewarming while Hollywood considers multiple receptions.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Cal
Charles Chaplin
Lita Grey
Beverly Hills
Emprime
Mexico
Chaplin
Hollywood
Charlie
Bath Proprietor Dies in Heat at Tacoma Bath House
Andrew Soloes, proprietor of a Tacoma bath house, was found dead in the hot room after becoming unconscious and collapsing onto the cement floor. A local physician reported he was overcome by the extreme heat, with the body remaining in the hot room for several hours before discovery. The incident is treated as a fatal consequence of exposure to the intense heat.
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Tacoma
Wash
Andrew Soloes
Gov Kendalls Quiet Thanksgiving at Home
Gov and Mrs Kendall kept a restrained Thanksgiving at their Des Moines residence. The governor outlined plans with Mrs Kendall recently returning from the hospital after tonsil removal, a condition doctors deem satisfactory.
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Gov. and Mrs. Kendall
Des Moines
Mrs. Kendall
Three Die in Auto Accident Near Newark
Three persons were killed and one seriously injured in an automobile crash three miles south of Newark Ohio. The deceased are Sidney Jones 31 J Spergie 45 Mrs Harvey Phammer 27 all from Newark Mrs Catherine Davis 28 Dasion is in city hospital in critical condition.
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Newark
Here
Sidney Jones
J. Spergie
Harvey Phammer
Catherine Davis
Dasion
City Hospital
Department Store Manager Becomes Santa for Thanksgiving Eve
In Columbus on Thanksgiving Eve 1930, department store manager Carl Ludwig donned Santa Claus after Mrs. Heslin, in a failed attempt to steal a doll for her daughter Eleanor, leaped from a second story window and broke her leg. Ludwig then delivered the gift to Eleanor and assured her, Yes I am Santa, starting out early this year.
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Santa Claus
Br United Press
Columbus
Eleanor Heslin
Eleanor
Heslins
Wamel
Santy
Loedwig
Ludwig
Allen Memorial Hospital to Open About Feb 1 1924
The Evangelical Church led project Allen Memorial Hospital expects to open for patients in late January or early February 1924. Rev. 4 Bauernfeind chairs the hospital work and furnishings committee, which plans a Tuesday meeting to finalize furnishing details and likely a two day session to settle hospital needs before opening.
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Allen Memorial Hospital
Bauernfeind
Evangelical Church
Casis
al Dion
Ana
Thanksgiving services mark holiday at state institutions
Des Moines November 27 wards at all state institutions under the board of control joined in a Thanksgiving service and enjoyed a big dinner. The board aims to honor national holidays with morning music and a sermon followed by noon dinner and evening dancing at most institutions.
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Des Moines
Board of Control
Delivery deadline for Courier stated in old notice
The notice warns the Courier should be delivered before 5 20 and urges readers to call 51nd before 5 30 PM if the paper is not received. It promises a copy will be sent upon reporting delivery errors or carrier issues.
Thanksgiving Observed Across Nation in Golden Prosperity Tone
Washington observes Thanksgiving with church services and closed offices. President Coolidge praises peace and prosperity, urges humility and service to God. White House hosts abundant food from friends and gifts. national observance includes Pan-American mass and hospital welfare notes.
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America
White House
Ity
Associated Prix
Washington
D. C
National
St. Patrick's Church
State Department
Archbishon Curley
Haltimore
Fpumasonil Riondi
Withev Pr Greeroe Wy Tomson
Catholic University
Stone
Peter Acim al
Nagging Defense Sparks Unprecedented Death Penalty Change
In Columbus on November 27 Gov Vic Donuley ordered the death penalty for James Brady of Sandusky in a first degree murder case over his wife’s killing. The defense claimed provocation by nagging. the jury rejected it but a governor’s clemency action reduced the sentence to life imprisonment, a historic reversal in such cases.
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Unitempers
Columbus
Vic Donuley
James Brady
Sandusky
Hilady
Gamsel
Mars
Brady
Donaheg Hte
Agadelkis
Ladurs
Car wrecked by train at Mulberry crossing in Mulberry
A light touring car driven by A. I. Woodruff was struck by a C. G. W. passenger train at the Mulberry crossing at 7:00 a m. The car was badly wrecked but the occupants escaped serious injury. Mrs. Condos suffered minor arm and shoulder bruises and continued to work. Woodruff claimed no warning gates were lowered. the towerman said gates were down and warnings sounded.
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Mulberry Street
Great Western
Woorruff
Ninth Street
Mulberry Crossing
Woodruff
Rath
Mrs. Condos
Seventh Street
Ahilberry
Jie
Towerman
London Rain Fails to Deter Blackmail Trial Crowd
In London on November 27 a gale and heavy rain kept queues thin outside Justice Darling’s courtroom as spectators await more sensational testimony in the trial of “Mr. A.” the dusky Indian potentate who was blackmailed after a compromising encounter with Mrs. Maude Robinson, wife of a bookmaker.
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London
Blame Bad Wiring for $59,000 Blaze
Fire at O. B. West company commission house in Des Moines caused an estimated $50,000 in stock and building damage. Fireman Glenn Thorton was overcome by smoke and gas. The blaze was blamed on faulty wiring and insured, according to the company president.
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Des Moines
O. B. West Company
Commission House
Glenn Thorton
Ofbl West
Egypt Unrest Deepens As British Arrest Officials
London dispatch reports Barakat Pasha and other Egyptian leaders arrested by British authorities amid rising anger over Sir Lee Stack's death. Troops patrol streets while natives voice fury. protests spread, with arrests of prominent Egyptians causing a news furore in Cairo and Geneva protests over parliamentary censorship.
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Egypt
Alexandria
Associated Press
London
Barakat Pasha
Zaghloul Pasha
Cairo
United Press
Lee Stack
Daye
Cuba
William Makrim Obied
Nakrashiey
Abdel Rahman Fahmy Ari
Obied
Zaghioul Naukras
Allenby
Sual
Buard
Ymar Pasha
Sirdar
Foreign Office
Hizti
Hief
Jaghloul
Sudan
Sir Lee
Aymans
Geneva
Paul Hymans
League of Nations Council
League
Great Britain
Brussels
Faris
Barlament
Britain
Suftan
Altho
Steck's Attorney Heads to Washington to Contest Election
Des Moines reports James M. Parsons attorney for Danial Steck has left for Washington to confer with Senators Robinson and Ernst over contesting the election of Smith W Brookhart. Plans for filing protests are uncertain with Congress's opening and possible timing of steps unclear.
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Steck
Washington
Des Moines
James M. Parsons
Danial Steck
Smith W. Brookhart
Coolidges to Attend Army Navy Game in Baltimore
President and Mrs. Coolidge will drive to Baltimore on Saturday to attend the annual Army Navy football game. They will luncheon with city representatives and sit on the Navy side in the first half before switching to the Army side at halftime, then return to Washington by car after the game.
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Coolidges
Army
Washington
D. C
Parole Denied for Des Moines Payroll Padder
Des Moines reports the Swat Hoard of Control denied the request of Mary Frase, a city payroll padder, for parole from Rockwell City Reformatory. The board adjourned the matter to the next regular parole visit on the first Tuesday in February.
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Des Moines
Mary Frase
Des Moines City
Women's Reformatory
Rockwell City
Fenial
Parol
Réformatory
Potato Bugs Consume $80,000 and Two Diamond Rings of New Orleans Woman
Chicago report details a grand jury filing against Clark G. Kaney a Wisconsin farmer and banker in Three Lakes alleging fraud from a New Orleans businesswoman Mrs Cecil Ware who loaned 80000 and mortgaged her home to Kaney to finance a potato crop claiming potato bugs ruined the project and that rings were borrowed for safekeeping and never returned the case follows her trip to New Orleans and subsequent complaint to a Chicago judge.
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New Orleans
United Press
Chicago
Clark G. Kaney
Rentleman
Wig
Praid Smreeny
Cecil Ware
Kuney
Wisconsin
Ware
Three Lakes
Myre
Kaney
Mrs. Ware
Rhinelander Seeks Annulment Over Mixed Marriage
White Plains N Y Nov 27 Alice B Jones Rhinelander is defendant in a suit brought by her husband Leonard Kip Rhinelander a member of New York s oldest wealthiest families for the annulment of their marriage. The action claims the wife fraudulently claimed white status and denied a black bid. After service in New Rochelle the Rhinelander counsel said she would fight to remain Rolew lander s wife.
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White Plains
N. Y
Alice B. Jones Rhinelander
Leonard Kip Rhinelander
New York
New Rochelle
Rhinelander
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