High School Attendance Surges Across Central States
The study from ten central states shows a decade long rise in high school enrollment driven by compulsory schooling and rural school consolidation. Oklahoma reports a 1000 percent increase, Kentucky 203 percent, South Dakota 162 percent, Ohio 120 percent, Michigan 115 percent, Kansas 100 percent, Indiana 100 percent, Iowa highlights growth, with Texas and other states reflecting substantial gains as well. Local officials credit expanded programs and access for the shift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Assoc
Chicago
Offices of Public Instruction
Central States
Oklahoma
Iowa
Luther Stussell
Department of Education
Kentucky
South Dakota
Ohio
Vernon M. Reigel
Educasion
Thomas B. Johnson
Public Instruction
Michigan
Kansas
J. W. Miley
Leonard J. Job
Francis G. Blair
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Miss May
Francis
Texas
M.N. Marrs
State Department of Education of
Sin
Madison
Des Moines Man in Phoenix Regains Memory Theory
Des Moines man Charles A Rockwood, a dealer believed drowned at Mason Lake three weeks earlier, may have regained partial memory after arriving in Phoenix. Authorities piece together timelines as the memory loss, injury in Mason Lake, and a second injury in Phoenix are examined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Maron Lake
Phoenix
Sitiz
Charles A. Rockwood
Desi Moines
Mason Lak
Thoent
Berkwood
Mason Lake
Paintings by Iowa Artists Exhibited at Teachers Meet
Iowa artist Charles Ather ton Cummings head of Iowa Art School and his students from the Owen art collection Waterloo display works this week in West Union. The exhibit tours statewide to bring Iowa art to citizens, with West Union as the first community accommodated after a prior reception at the night school opening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Charles Atherton Cummings
Veralty of
Iowa Art School
Dez Moines
Owen Art Collection
Waterloo
West Union
Indian Maud Files Ault for Fortune of White Father
News brief on Mrs. Sy. Pora Snyder claiming heiress rights to Daniel Simpson estate valued near half a million. Story recounts Nathaniel P. Simpson’s search for a daughter with an Indian princess lineage, with court suits in Kansas and Missouri and a battle over inheritance. Citations include Henry Clay Simpson and various Colorado settlements as sources, with scattered notes on prior guardianship and estate probate.
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Venger
Colo
Oec
Daniel V. Simpson
Chicago
Sy.pora Snyder
Hamlet
Mike
Simpson
West
Snyder
Kansas
Missouri
Ilenry Clay Simpson
Salina
Kan
Nathaniel P. Simpson
Tle Jatster
Charlies Hh.sant
Denver
Josh Richardson
Suporn
Alrs
Richardson
Tal
John Hagquist
Colorade
Supera Simpson
Hoquist
Colorata
City
Son
Henry Clay Simpson
Son County
Sypora Simpson
W. Larder
Evereen
Small
Jefferson County
Cole
Smal
Sipora Snyder
Cedar Rapids Bride Dies by Suicide in Car
Mrs. Julia Kriz Clark, 29, wife of P O Clark, a former local real estate man, killed herself in a car outside a Cedar Rapids restaurant while her husband telephoned his children. He returned to find her unresponsive. she died minutes later. An autopsy will determine the poisoning. Married two months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cook County
Chicago
Emily Strutynsky
Nicholas Strudynsky
Rumey
Father Basil Stetsuk
St. Nicholas’ Okranian Catholic Church
Father Stratynsky
Cedar Rapids
Julia Kriz Clark
P.O. Clark
Clark
R.A. Voronici
Vorpahl
Actress Finds Husband On Hire To Rejoin Show
In a dramatic Stone Opera House scene at Binghamton a 19 year old actress Matilda Hayes returns with a newlywed husband Ray Mathews 18 after walking from New York to join the company. She had been missing since August in Tottenville Staten Island and had traveled via farms trucks and cars, sleeping in barns and farmhouses. The couple says he will seek work in Binghamton while she resumes with the troupe and the manager suggests sending him back to factoryville if he cannot contribute. The elder Mathews searches for the missing son as the romance airs on stage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International News Wire
Binghamton
Stone Opera House
Matilda Hayes
New York
Ray Mathews
Hughie Bernard
Matilda
Jgschromate
Bronx
Bernard
Tottenville
Staten Island
Factory Nine
Roy Mathews
Bingshamton
Bachtown
Bert Ucn
Faeloryville
Mathews
Ghost town Cooke Montana Prospectors Hold Fast
Gardiner Montana October 12 Joining the west’s ghost towns Cooke Mont has dwindled to a handful of tenacious prospectors who still dream of vast mineral wealth in the Absaraka range near Yellow stone. Once bustling in the 1880s the town now harbors aging prospectors, decaying log buildings, and ore specimens on every doorstep as they cling to hope and bacon while awaiting capital and work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gardiner
Mont
Cooke, Mont
Absaraka Range
Yellowstong National Park
Cooke
Holt
Caroline Lockhart
Cody
James
Montana
Crow Indian Reservation
Jack Allen
Bozeman
Scotland
Annie Laurie
Train Trainmen Slain In Oregon California Robbery
Posses from two states hunt a group believed to be former railroad workers who stopped Southern Pacific No. 13 in the Siskiyou tunnels. Four killed, mail car burned, explosions and panicked passengers, with two suspects seen fleeing north near Ashland. Names of the dead include engineer Bates and mail clerk Dougherty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Redding
Cal
Siskiyous
Oregon
California
Southern Pacific
Oregon National Guardsmen
Tunnel 13
Ashland
Ore
Guss
S.ir Bates
Dunsmuir
Marvin Leng
Occupants Unhurt In Collision Of Autos In City
Two friends from Fay ette collided at Mighth and Washington streets early today. Henry Ihlings and Miss Ilings pursued by accident. The Thlings car overturned and was badly damaged. Miss Ilings was slightly injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Ihlings
Hideling
Fayette
Mighth
Washington Streets
Miss Ilings
City in Brief Glimpses of daily town life and events
Buchanan T R McElhinney tours Traer on business. Mrs Merrill O Wilbur returns from Minneapolis. Building permits issued: Joe Stiff adding to residence 700 dollars and L B Marek remodeling 350 dollars. Lon Wellman to Iowa City for University hospital operation. Mrs Maude Werner recovering after operation at Presbyterian hospital. Leo Herring, Charles Brady and Gene Sullivan visit Leo Webber in Ames. John Floberg a guest of daughter Mrs Robert Bickenbach in Rockford Miss. Mrs Joe Metley travels to Concord Nebraska for sister-in-law illness for two weeks. Waterloo public library board meets. City checkers auditing two-year accounts. Municipal court records checked. Gas franchise renewal discussed at council. Used clothes sale Saturday Oct 13. Tales of Christ Episcopal rummage sale Friday and Saturday. Church ladies seek winter models and dresses at 5143 M or Fletcher Ave. Indians plague germs cause deaths in India.
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T. R. McElhinney
Traer
Merrill O. Wilbur
Logan
Minneapolis
Joe Stiff
L. B. Marek
Oak Avenue
Lon Wellman
Iawa City
University Hospital
Sirs
Maude Werner
Vinestreet
Presbyterian Hospital
Leo Herring
Charles Brady
Gene Sullivan
Ames
Leo Webber
John &. Floberg
Rockford
Mis
Robert. Bickenbach
Fraoklin Street
Joe Metley
Concord
Neb
John Metley
Waterloo Public Library Board
East Library
Citizens Gas & Electric Cap
Missing Williams farmer Cecil Philo sought in Waterloo case
An Iowa missing person notice seeks help locating Cecil Philo 20 of Williams Illinois missing two weeks after traveling from Mather Wisconsin to Waterloo. A reward of 640 is offered for information leading to his safe return dead or alive. Police and officials pursue leads, including a dubious clairvoyant tip about an old clubhouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil ‘Dick
Philo
Farmer
Williams
Waterloo
Des Moines
John Hammill
Walp
Cecil Philo
Mather
Wis
William Phile
Gov. Hammill
Policemen in Movies Deserve Respect Says Los Angeles Chief
Los Angeles October 13 Chief August Vollmer condemns motion picture comedies that mock police and incite crime. He argues such depictions erode public trust and urges reform so officers appear as protectors, not targets, in films and on screen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Cal
August Vollmer
Vollmer
Berkeley
Friel
Cigwits
Sunshine cloud centers drive dollars in weather study
Washington bulletin from the National Geographic Society links sunshine and cloudiness to economic value across the United States. It identifies a sun shine center in Yuma Arizona and a cloud center near Puget Sound Washington, noting climate affects tourism and water power, with secondary cloud centers in Lake Ontario and Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D.C
United States
Washington, D. C
National Geographic Society
Bulletin
U.S
California
Arizona
New Mexico
Texas
el Paso
Mississippi
Florida
Miami
Palm Beach
Washington
Puget Sound
Lake Ontario
Upper Peninsula
Michigan
Lakes Superior
Addition to Local Postoffice Will Be Ready by March 16
Work on the Waterloo postoffice addition will be completed on or about March 10, 1924. Lauritzen Construction Co. of Waterloo won the contract for 13386 dollars, the lowest of 10 bids. Mauser & Yoll bid 16498. The 40 by 53 foot brick single story addition will adjoin the rear, doubling workshop space, with a new mast ing platform and a widened drive for mail trucks. A rear drive will be removed. Sunflowers one foot high go poultry may eat them in the field, a naturalists’ note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo Postoffice
Courier
Washington
Lauritzen Construction Company
Waterloo
Mauser & Yoll
Park Avenue
Worlkroom
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Basil Stetsuk
William Sands
Janesville
Ira Whitney
Hathryn Meek
Farmer Boy
Geer Mem
Buchanan
ASL Bridge St. B. & Blow. ci
Tales of Christ Mpiscopal Church
ITV
Walnut Street
Baptist Church
Vana Woeus
Tidia Tay
Cecil
Philg
Gopper
Skys L.A. Police
Law—Vollmer
Ming
U. S
Taleo
Orten
Bababahacon
Maidan
W. B. Ross
Carl C. Bickley
M. D
Leavitt and Johnson
J. H. Dillon
E. H. Knittle
First National Bank
Burton M. Gotshall
Osteopathic
West Side
I. and J. Bank
Res
L. A
Lafayette St
Victor Records
Stroebel’s
S. C. Keller
G. Smith
Gospel Hall
W. H. Athletic Field
van Gamps
Sinnard
East Side
East Fourth St
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