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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1912
Page
13
Waverly report says sugar beet crop in Iowa will exceed last year’s by 15 to 20 percent, boosting state yields. Factory managers note potential for 16 000 acres of beets with two more plants of equal size needed to handle local production. Officials claim Iowa could produce all its sugar, keeping about 8 million dollars current in-state.
Farmers would gain from wage payments to laborers and other items, adding several million dollars. Manufacturing enough sugar would need about sixteen new factories, costing about 10,000,000 dollars. With no steady support, capital for more factories may become available. Local yields average twelve tons per acre, with a record yield of just over 100 tons from five acres.
William E. McCombs, head of the Democratic National Committee, told the Clapp committee that $208000 was raised for Governor Wilson’s nomination in 1911. He described self financing at first and listed major pre nomination contributors including Penfield, Morgenthau, Dodge, and Schiff, with Dodge and friends contributing $85300. He said total expenses reached $208193 and denied any improper promises or inducements to donors.
In Fort Madison Iowa Ort 15 a prison official summoned Kid Noble a convict recently and took him to the gate side office where TD E Wallace of Hagenbeck Wallace show owners and Noble’s former employer visited Noble the old performer during a Hagenbeck Wallace circus stop at the penitentiary.
The article recalls a pugilistic figure once linked to Kid Noble and a boxing act tied to Wallace. Noble, later jailed for life, is described as a changed man, with visitors noting his improved prison conduct and a desire to ease his confinement within legal limits.
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