Butcher Confesses to Insurance Murder Plot Near Lodi
Alex A. Kels, a wealthy butcher, confessed to hiring a stranger, killing her, burning the body and staging the death as an insurance fraud near Lodi. He described dragging the victim in a car, shooting, bludgeoning with a bar, and burning the body at a remote site after fabricating a death to collect insurance for his business.
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Butcher
Bureke
Cal
Alex A. Kels
Lodi
Sherig Www. F
Kels
Riecks
Mexico
Lod
Kela
Bia
U S Export Body to Sell Surplus Wheat Is Urged
A discussion on federal action to sell U S surplus wheat faces opposing forces from farmers and railroad labor. Farmers seek lower freight rates while labor pushes for higher wages, risking a broader political clash in a tense economic period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Alboit
Brookhart
Magnus Johnson
Manly Will Retain Rock Island Shops
Rock Island shops in Manly Iowa will stay, employing 390 workers, local railroad officials said. Rumors of moving operations to Inver Grove Minnesota were denied. The potential transfer of a few train crews would affect about 24 to 30 men and their families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manly
Rock Island
Inver Grove
Minn
Minnesota
Finders Keepers Motto Ends When Postal Inspector Intervenes
A Cedar Rapids postal inspector uncovered a scheme by Riley who cashed $1,500 in liberty bonds after stealing them from a shipment en route to Rochelle and Chicago. He returned the car to a motor company and turned over bonds equivalent in value, facing months in jail as the inspector recovered the funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treas
Cedar Rapids
Riley
Motor Company
Rijiey
Railresa
Toca
Gomes Olson
Olson
Rockford
Frochelle
Rochelle
Chicago
Ods
Automobile Company
Qlson
Lapavert
Olson Spjent
Und Hiley
Titley
Berlin Ministers Fight Socialist Attack Across German Front
A chaotic dispatch reports the exile German crown prince moving between locations amid a nationalist surge. Courier links with Dr Hitler in Munich as six Ruhr-occupied cities recognize the Franco rule and pledge quotas, while others refuse due to alleged illegality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stralsund
Hitler
Mupick
Gore
Amsterdam
Wierengin
Croen
Eoucier
Wisten
Fi Mannich
Oklahoma court restrains vote certification in aftermath
Court halts certification after an Oklahoma election where more than 100000 votes were cast and the governor led by about 47400. About 150600 nonvoters favored the governor, while Ku Klux Klan influence appeared substantial in turnout patterns.
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Oklahoma
Johnson Talks Most in White House Talk on Coolidge
Senator Magnus Johnson of Minnesota led the farm policy discussion with President Coolidge at the White House. Johnson said he did most of the talking while the president listened and he depicted farmers as deserving aid. The exchange followed a meeting with Secretary Wallace, captured by cameras on the steps. In a separate note, Miss Alexia Avis of New York defeated Miss Meriam Burns of Kansas City 1 up to win the national poll championship.
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Washington
D. C
Magnus Johnson
Minnesota
Coolidge
Whites House
White House
Tepty
Stirting
Alexia Avis
New York
Meriam Burns
Kansas City
Dancing With Redhead Girl Sparks Attempted Escape
Chicago, Oct. 3. Philp Va Rose described a bank dance incident where he fled a dance hall after a pistol was waved at him by Mrs. Josie Caothrate. She ordered him to dance with a redhead. He jumped from a window. the woman was disarmed and charged with assault with a deadly weapon.
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Chicago
Philp Va Rose
Rose
Josie Caothrate
Non
Caoravale
Osteopathic protest and leadership changes at district convention
A protest against discrimination by St Luke's hospital voiced by osteopaths led to a district convention in which Dr. Moore and colleagues drew the resolution. Kk. Moore, Waterson and others were elected in the Northeastern Iowa Osteopathic Association closing session. Dr H R B Wintouw named secretary treasurer Cedar Rapids. Fort Worth Dean Walker spoke on public education of osteopathy. A D Becker also presented on osteopathy needs.
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Bra
Kk. Moore. Waterson
Iowa
American Osteopathic Association
H. RB. Wintouw
Cedar Rapids
Flesry
Bert M. Rite
St Luke's Hospital
Moore
William Gardiner
Ro Oy. Gitour
Hotel Russell-Lamson
Horton M. Gotshal
A. We. Jury
Aeattt
Auct
Pauline Garmon
John Paige Liffring
Floc. Liffring
M. Walker
Fort Worth
A. D. Becker
A. J. Stilt College of Osteopathy
Kirksville
Millionaire Campion Killed in Mountain Auto Crash
Denver, Oct 3. John F. Campion Jr., 28, son of Colorado mining magnate John F. Campion, was killed when his car left a mountain road near Leadville. He was returning from duck hunting and the vehicle missed a bridge, plunging down an embankment. The Campion family was prominent in Leadville social and business circles.
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Denver
Coro
John F. Campion, Jr
John F. Campion
Colorado
Leadville
Campion
Motorist Freed After Striking Intoxicated Trio
San Francisco Ga l Occ 4 Carl Doid. A motorist whose car struck and slightly injured three persons yesterday has been exon ersted and released while the direet pedestrians two men and a woman were booked at headquarters today on a charge of drunkenness. It was explained that two new polles of the police department would be to inquire into the sobriety of pedestrians as well as motorists on occasions of accident.
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San Francisco
Carl Doid
Marriage Lottery Scheme Is Probed
Des Moines, Oct. 3. Polk County grand jury probes a marriage lottery scheme. Letters to county officials discuss a concern selling marriage insurance with monthly premiums for a year to pay 214000 upon marriage. If no marriage occurs, premiums are not returned. The insured may face additional assessments to cover claims, raising questions of possible fraud.
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United Press
Des Moines
Polk County Grand Jury
Vernon Seeburgey
Seeburger
Walter A Bryant Dies. Waterloo Paving Leader 52
Walter A Bryant 52 longtime president of Bryant Paving Company died at his home 398 South Street Waterloo after a malignant throat disease. He organized Bryant Ford & McLaughlin Asphalt Co and led the firm to regional prominence. Surviving are his mother Mrs Cornelia Bryant of Los Angeles and four brothers L LeRoy P L W B. wife Nettie Jennings died in 1911.
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Walter A. Bryant
Uryant Paving Company
South Street
Mr. Bryant
Jack” Brysot
Central West
Greater Waterloo Association
Elks Lodge
Snonyside Country Club
Bushnell
W. A. Bryant
Cedar Falls
Rock Island
Cedar Parts
Minneapolis
Curtis & Yale
Waterloo
W. A. Bryant & Sons Lumber Co
I. EB. Friend
Bryant
Bryant, Ford & McLaughlin Asphal. Co
Ford
McLaughlin
Bryant Brothers
Paving
LeRoy W
P. L
Mr. Tryant
Cornelia L. Tryant
Los Angeles
Cal
FF. R
New Bone City
L. Wland
National Banks Prohibited Outside Branch in Ruling
Washington DC October 1. Attorney General Daugherty holds national banks may not engage in branch banking beyond their city limits. Comptroller Dawes announced the ruling, which will be settled by the U.S. Supreme Court. The First National Bank of St Louis has an appeal pending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Daugherty
Dawes
United States Supreme Court
TUHME
First National Bank of
Danish Aid Society Merges Into Lyren Cedar Falls
Cedar Falls Danish Aid Society, organized years ago, will merge with Lyren Cedar Falls Danish Aid Society. Twenty eight members will enroll in Lyren which will receive assets. The aid society provided weekly benefits and insurance, while Lyren offers insurance as well.
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Cedar Falls
Danish Aid Society
Lyren
Oct
Lyren Society
Marriage rate dips from 1916 levels in census data
Washington October 2 United Press reports census bureau findings show the marriage rate falling for the first time in U S history while the divorce rate continues to rise marriages last year totaled 1 126 418 up from 1 040 684 in 1910 yet the rise did not keep pace with population growth resulting in a net decline divorces reached 112 036 up from 112 036 in 1916.
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United Preas
Washington, D. C
United States
Census Bureau
Students' Fund to Be Created at Gates College
Gates Waterloo Business College alumni plan a loan fund in memory of the late Lemmon S. Gates. Funds will aid worthy students for business training with repayable loans after they secure remunerative positions. A committee led by Miss Ethel Chandler will launch subscriptions. 75 alumni attended the dinner and meeting and new officers were elected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gates Waterloo Business College
Remon S. Gates
Gates College Alumni Association
Bishop's East Cafeteria
Ethel Chandler
Walter Bellinger
Fred Northey
Russ Nellie Mosley
Glen Thompson
Anna Meader
Neva Shaffner
Arthur Lohner
Rodney Fee
Ruch Miller
Catherine Adrian
William Schmidt
Man Girl Tittering Trial Hints at Freddie Thompson Acquittal
Chicago court hears Freddie Thompson testify in a murder case involving Richard Tesmer. The defendant quips about gender and fate, claiming a royal flush omen. Judge rules Frank Carrick, called Thompson's husband, need not testify. Thompson previously wed Marie Clark.
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Chicago
Freddie Thompson
Richard C. Tesmer
Thompson
Frank Carrick
Freddie
Carrick
Marie Clark
WET FORCES GAIN STRENGTH SAYS W C T U HEAD
Shenandoah Iowa October 3 The Women’s Christian Temperance Union led by state president Ida B Wise Smith says anti liquor sentiment strengthens as enforcement calls grow The address praises prohibition while urging broader enforcement of the eighteenth amendment and Volstead act The talk also notes opposition to drug use and a push for international action through the League of Nations
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Associated Press
Shenandoah, Ja
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Ida B. Wise Smith
Association
Smith
Few Objections to Grant Highway Assessments in Black Hawk
Only seven or eight landowners filed objections to the special benefits assessment for the Grant highway pavements across Black Hawk county by noon. Hearing for objections was set by the county board of supervisors for 2 p.m. today, with auditors noting minor acreages errors in a few filings and praising the fairness of the appraisers. Names listed include KE Short, Shares, Gilbert Ailies, Philp from Lincoln township.
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Black Hawk County
County Board of Supervisors
W. Esher
Geveral Hundred
Messrs
Short
Cedar Falls
Gilbert Ailies
Philp
Lincoln Township
Jewels Worth 17000 Taken in Holdup at City Hotel
In Los Angeles on October 3 a bandit hold up disrupted the return of M. C. Levee president of United Film Studios and three guests after the Biltmore Hotel opening. Jewels valued at 317,000 were taken, with Mrs. B E Kutner of San Francisco the heaviest loss at 13150.
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Los Angeles
Cal
M. C. Levée
United Film Studios
Biltmore Hotel
BE. A. Kutner
San Francisco
Sixth Body Sighted in Wyoming Wreck
Casper Wyoming October 3 reports from Division Supt J Inger that another body was sighted at the Burlington wreck site from Cole Creek. This makes six bodies found so far: four recovered last week and one yesterday.
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Wyoming
Casper
Wyo
J. Inger
Cole Creek
Burlington
Morris Returns From Aerial Conference In St Louis
C A Morris returns from St Louis where he attended the third annual air congress of the American Aeronautical association as Iowa’s delegate. He saw the ZR-1 airship and watched 300 plus airplanes in action at the meet. Notable craft included the coast to coast nonstop monoplane and a speed record plane, plus a Martin bomber. Foreign air leaders attended the banquet.
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C. A Morris
St. Louis
Moi
American’ Aeronautic ‘Association
Iowa
Morris
Coolidge Signals Unity at Western Tariff Congress
President Calvin Coolidge sent a message at the Western tariff congress in Denver urging protection for American industry amid postwar chaos. The meeting aims to depoliticize tariff policy, form a permanent Western Tariff Association, and discuss reforms amid diverse speeches by Ammons Hagenbarth Parker Kirby and others.
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Denver
Colo
Calvin Coolidge
Western Tariff Congress
Western Tarf Association
E. M. Ammons
Colorado
Frank J. Hagenbarth
Salt Lake Oy
John M. Parker
Louisiana
John H. Kirby
Southern Tariff Association
Street Commissioner Dies After Sewer Gas Tragedy
Ta Killed by sewer gas in a manhole. City street commissioner John R. Smith died after being overcome while inspecting a manhole. Nat Finch and Pat Moyland, who tried to assist, were also overwhelmed and remained in serious condition for hours.
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Fipton
Tohn R. Smith
Ctty
Nat Finch
Pat Moyland
Smith
Felton Calls Freight Cuts Harmful to Roads
Des Moines reports President Samuel M. Felton of the Chicago Great Western railroad tells the Nation Grady Dealers association that freight rates should adjust under the transportation act rather than impose radical cuts. He criticizes self authorized farm leaders and notes Western railroads are crippled by current cuts while grain costs rise.
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United Press
Des Moines
Samuel M. Felton
Chicago Great Western Railroad
Grady Dealers’ Association
Felton
Dirigible ZR-1 Completes 2200 Mile Lakehurst Flight
The navy airship ZR-1 completed a record 2,200 mile round trip from Lakehurst to St Louis and back in 46 hours. Rear Admiral W A Moffett joined the flight at St Louis and was first to step ashore as the craft landed at 6 48 am. The ship’s maximum speed reached 78 miles per hour, a claimed world record for lighter than air craft.
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Lakehurst
N.J
St. Louis
Naval Aviation Field
W. A. Moffett
Bureau of Aeronautics
Moffett
Missionary and Wife Captured by Bandits in Chinese Provinces
A Shanghai dispatch reports missionary C. Howard Bird and his wife of Henan province were seized by the same bandits who abducted Misses Darroch and Sharp. Father Timothy McDermott, a veteran American priest, was captured at Tungwan in Henan on his boat, which was fired upon despite the American flag. The boat was ransacked and the priest released.
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Manila
Shanghai
C. Howard Bird
Henan Province
Darroch
Sharp
Timothy McDermott
Tungwan
Pontoon Bridge Goes Out with Ferryman
Yankton, Oct 3. Yankton’s pontoon bridge on the Missouri River, the last in use in the state, was swept out by high water at 4 40 this morning. Capt Joseph Giester, pioneer riverman who for 24 years operated the bridge and ferry, was marooned on a buoyant middle section.
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Yankton
S. D
Yankston
Missouri River
Joseph Giester
State Briefs from Des Moines and Surrounding Areas
Des Moines reports Mrs. Marie Richeson testifying in a divorce suit against George C Richeson with $30,000 alimony sought. Ogden hosts a large barbe cue with ex Senator Lafayette Young criticizing radicalism. A fatal automobile collision near Lovilit notes lockjaw injuries. Shenandoah grants a divorce to Bess Harrow. Acting Gov John Hammill cites press duties limiting W C T U convention speech. Mason City moves box and crate factory. Dubuque hosts a two day Iowa dentists meeting. Council Bluffs sees trial in Beardsley murder case reach direct testimony. Mason City notes Nick Grba returns to Fort Madison prison for life.
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Des Moines
Marie Richeson
George C Richeson
Ogden
Lafayette Young
Mike iKasper
Sydney
Osa Harrow
Bess Harrow
Shenandoah
Giles Club
John Hammill
Mason City
Waucoma
Webster Bros.’ Manufacturing Company
Dubuque
Iowa
Walter Beardsley
W. JE. Zimmerman
Nick Grba
Mike Ballizar
State Penitentiary
Fort Madison
Grba
Labor Faces Hard Battle as AFL Convention Debates Politics
The forty third annual AFL convention in Portland Oregon opens with calls to form a separate labor political party. Resolutions urge canvassing for veteran aid, disabled veterans training, and restoring canal zone living conditions while criticizing old party bankruptcies and urging immigration suspension for five years.
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International News Wirend
Ore
Russia
Congress
Organized Labor
Separte
Gov. Hewardson
California
Thomas J. Mooney
San Quentin
American Federation of Labor
Portland
American Federation of Laborr
Executive Council
Minnesota
G. H. Hall
Organized Labor Movement
Henrik Shipstead
Magnus Johnson
United States Senate
Northwest
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
Ernest Bohm
New York
South
Plasterers
Veterans’ Bureau
Panama Canal
Flat-Wheel Season Hits Des Moines Streetcars
Des Moines officials warn October brings flat wheels as leaves clog tracks on Iowa interurban and city trolley lines. Wheels are ground to restore symmetry after 300 to 400 flats each fall, while leaves resist sand and moisture, prompting calls for a track clearing device.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Funeral services for Paul H Jacobs held at Peterser chapel
Funeral services for Paul H Jacobs were held at Peterser chapel at 2 30 p m with Rev Sd Bawiigartnep pastor of Calvary Evangelion church officiating Burial was in Fairview Cemetery
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Paul H. Jacobs
Paul H Jacobs
Peterser Ros
Sd. Bawiigartnep
Calvary Evangelion Church
Fairview
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Paving Concern
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Business College
William Rimroft
Cora Werner
Garon Eddy
Miss Chandler
W.C.T.U
Grant Highway
C. A. Morris
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