Portrait of the average American man in Fort Madison
A fragmented feature profiles a "one-man" local consumer and community figure in Fort Madison, describing his routine life and tastes, plus a critique of American leisure, politics, and media culture. It references his Elks Rotary Odd Fellows membership, reading habits, music tastes, and views on news and public affairs.
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Fort Madison
Fort “Madison
Elks
Rotary
Odd
Iowa
San Felice Idolite Wayana Ribbon advertisement
San Felice Henry George Idolite and Martin present a Wayana Ribbon advertisement listing 5eeiyyars and other items. The readable fragment hints at a promotional notice or trade listing. Entities include San Felice Henry George Idolite Martin and Wayana Ribbon.
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San Felice
Henry George
Idolite
Martin
Congress to Inspect Barge Lines for Mississippi Trial
War Secretary Davis plans a two day water journey from St Louis to Dubuque to inspect the government barge line in the Mississippi valley. Midwest chambers urge expansion while White House keeps the system as an experimental project. Davis notes losses in the first year and continues the tour ending in Stuttgart, Ark.
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Chillicothe,. C
War’ ‘Department
Congress
Middlewest
War Davis
Mississippi Valley
Davis
Minneapolis
Mississippi
Dubuque
Midwest
Commerce
Mississippi and
Warrior Tigers
Coolidge
White ‘House
United Press
Oka
Louis Ab
P.m
Wis
Hou
Stuttgart
Giles Hopes to Hop es in Two Weeks
Australia pilot Giles, injured in a crash, plans to reassemble his plane and depart for San Francisco within fourteen days. He has ordered a new wing and intends to fly as a passenger on an air mail flight to Honolulu on the return trip.
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Elko
Ocbi
A. Giles
San Francisco
Golden
Gate
Australia
Honolulu
Giles
San
Francisco
King Michaels at Carpathian resort to escape infantile paralysis
Berlin dispatch reports Princess Helena, mother of five year old King Michael, sent him to a Carpathian resort fearing exposure to infantile paralysis spreading in Roumania. The Telegraph Union Bucharest correspondent notes a case of the disease found in the royal palace.
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Berlin
Michael
Roumania
Helena
Carpathian Mountains
Telegraph ‘Union
Bucharest
Suit Nears Close In Alienation Case In Knoxville
Closing arguments were to be made in district court in Knoxville Tennessee in the suit of Tom Forst a farmer against B B Long a stock trader seeking 15000 dollars for alleged alienation of his wife s affections The Knoxville session opened October 19 with INS reporting the proceedings are nearing conclusion
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Knoxville
Tom ‘Forst
B. B. Long
Ruth Elder Tastes San Jorg Cheese On San Jorge Visit
Aboard the Lima off San Jorge Island Oct 18 Ruth Elder and Capt George Haldeman disembarked at Horta after a long voyage. They attended a reception hosted by Antonio Borda and were guests of honor as Elder savored San Jorge cheese and pastries. Elder sent thanks to Lisbon about Portuguese hospitality.
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S. S. Lima
Ruth Elder
Horta
Lima
Pinto
Miss Elder
George Haldeman
San Jorg
Antonio Borda
San Jordian
Lisbon
Haldeman
Lisbe
United Press
Earl Carroll Paroled After Perjury Sentence
Earl Carroll, the New York theatrical producer, is released on parole from the Atlanta federal penitentiary after serving a year and a day for perjury. He paid a $2,000 fine in advance. parole papers were approved in Washington and mailed to Atlanta. Carroll must lead an exemplary Broadway life, avoid alcohol venues, and not associate with disreputable persons.
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Broadway
Fifth’ Avenue
Earl Carroll
O. O. McIntyre
Earl
Via Illuminata
Atlanta
Washington
Federal
Carroll
New
York
John’ W.” Shook
Sargent
D.C
INS
Carroll, New
Department of Justice
Parole Board
Editors Out Would Downgrade Sports News for Church Focus
Chicago Ost October meeting of Inland Daily Press association discussed carrying large sport news. Editors noted public demand keeps sports coverage, though some suggested devoting more columns to church happenings and reducing sports emphasis.
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Daily “Press
Association
Chicago
Inland Daily Press
United States
Delays Announcing Radio Test Winners in Iowa
Des Moines reports the Atwater Kent foundation Iowa audition winners are delayed as votes received by station WHO remain to be counted. About 4,060 votes letters and telegrams arrived and have not yet been tabulated.
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Des Moines
Atwater Kent Foundation
Iowa
Sues Sheriff for Selling Automobile in Polk County
John C. Hol sues Sheriff Park Findley and Dr. S. L. Taylor for $600 claiming Findley sold Hols automobile to satisfy a March 1927 judgment in Taylor s favor. Hol asserts the car was exempt from attachment as it was needed for his business in Des Moines.
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Des Moines
Sheriff Park Findley
Polk County
S. L. Taylor
John C. Hol
Findley
Hol
Bomb damages St. John's Catholic Church at Pittston
An explosion heard for miles damaged St. John's Catholic Church in Pittston Pennsylvania. State police said a time bomb was planted in the entrance and investigators rushed to the scene.
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Pittston
St. John’s Catholic
Aviation 28 program advances with new factories
New York reports the 1928 aviation program with Clarence D. Chamberlin's trans Atlantic flight in a Bellanca capable of 20 passengers. Levine and Fokker plan new factories, 45 horsepower planes, and seven motor designs. Nobile’s Arctic expedition and Guggenheim funds to boost aeronautical research are announced as records fall.
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New York
HP Aviation Today
Clarence D. Chamberlin
Charles A. Levine
Anthony H. G. Fokker
Levine
Arctic
Nobile
Norge
Harry G. Guggenheim
Richmond
Columbia
Europe
Sala Se
Wink le Amberlin
Teterboro
N J
Fokker
Clarence ‘de Chamberlin
Philadelphia
Bellanca
Newfoundland
Azores
Milan
Italy
Guggenheim
Chamberlin
Maine Voters Endorse Direct Primary Law
In Maine a direct primary law was approved by about two to one. Returns from 584 of 633 precincts reported 29,194 votes against repeal and 19,360 for repeal across 460 of 519 towns and cities. The measure’s acceptance reflects the state’s political reform stance.
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Portland
Maine
Glider Record Set by Schulz in Germany
German glider expert Ferdinand Schulz reportedly set a new altitude record by remaining aloft for four hours and 1.12 minutes, reaching about 752 meters or 2,500 feet in his gliding plane near Massenburg Germany on October 19.
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Massenburg
Germany
Ferdinand Schulz
Iowa Crop Saved From Frost After Slow Start
The Iowa Weather and Crop Bureau reports that killing frosts arrived later than usual, saving about 40 percent of the corn in Iowa and Poweshiek counties. Moisture is high, cribbing is unsafe, and hogging acreage is rising. Pastures are good with Indian summer expected to dry corn. winter wheat seeding and fall plowing continue as hog cholera losses mount.
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Charles
Iowa
Poweshiek
Fall From Roof Fatal In Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids man 78 Wendl Pfeifer died from a fractured skull after falling twenty feet from a roof he was shingling. Braces attached to the roof failed and caused the fall yesterday, the accident occurred on Oct 19.
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Cedar Rapids
Wendl ‘Pfeifer
Indiana Farm Gifted to Coolidge for Unrendered Services
Indiana State Senator Luke W. Duffy donates a 176 acre Indiana farm to President Coolidge and national leaders as a public notice. The deed lists Coolidge as trustee owner with a $3500 mortgage, to be held until farm tariff reform and farm parity goals are met. The farm may become a public park named Coolidge Industrial park, highlighting farm problems and Indiana farmers.
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Indiana
Coolidge
Congress
Indianapolis
Ind
Calvin Coolidge
Secretary of the Treasury
Andrew Mellon
Coolinge
América
Grover Cleveland
Duffy
Dawn Plane May Postpone Flight to Copenhagen
Mrs Frances Grayson and her two man crew aboard the plane Dawn may delay their proposed Copenhagen flight. She hinted that a postponement is possible if favorable weather does not improve within a week. Maine coast residents warn takeoff could soon be impossible due to worsening conditions as an Atlantic disturbance nears Long Island.
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Old. Orchard
Frances, Grayson
Copenhagen
Grayson
Maine
Stinson Flight Forced Down In Storm Lands At Farm
Eddie Stinson and five passengers survived a forced landing of a Stinson aircraft during a Hartford to Boston flight. After an overnight storm, the monoplane rested in a field on John Mann’s farm in Sherborn Massachusetts. They traveled by automobile to Farmington then took a train to Boston amid searches by state troopers fearing disaster.
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Sherborn
Mass
Eddie Stinson
Hartford
Conn
Boston
John Mann
Stinson
Read case opens potential testimony in Shenandoah bank fraud trial
Creston Iowa October 19 Federal court faces opening arguments and possible testimony in the trial of Shenandoah banker Thomas H Read and his two sons Elbert A Read and Henry Read charged with fraudulent banking. Nineteen veniremen were examined on day one and forty more were summoned as the jury box remained unfilled, with the proceedings drawing wide attention in the region. The Read brothers held top posts at the First National Bank of Shenandoah when it closed its doors on May 13 1926.
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Creston
Thomas H. Read
Shenandoah
Elbert’ A
Henry Read
Southwestern
Tate
Elbert
Henry
First National Bank of Shenandoah
Holdup Men Take $20 in Two Tries
highwaymen slugged, took watches in two attempts near a parked three-wheeled car. Donald fled the scene, the victim escaped onto the pavement during the incident.
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Mian
Family of Six Perishes in Cleveland Apartment Fire
A devastating blaze swept through a garage building in Cleveland trapping a family of six on the second floor. Fire officials say the only stairway to the Williams apartment burned away early, leaving Rufus Williams Beatrice Williams Bessie Williams Andrew Williams Anna May Williams and Retha May Williams dead.
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Cleveland
Lou
Rufus Williams
Beatrice
Bessie Williams
Andrew. Williams
Anna May
Williams
Retha
French Aviators Costes and Le Brix Start Paris to Buenos Aires Flight
Dieudonne Costes and Lieut. Joseph Le Brix of France took off from Rio de Janeiro at 3 35 a m in the heavily loaded Nungesser Coli plane heading for Buenos Aires. The launch follows several failed attempts and completes the final stage of their journey from Paris to Argentina.
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Rio de, Janeiro
INS
Dieudonne Costes
Joseph le Brix
Nungesser-Coli
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Paris
Davenport Hospital Gets Nurses' Home
Col and Mrs George W French of Davenport have donated a new nurses home to St Luke s hospital. Contracts for the $125000 building have been awarded and construction will begin immediately. The facility is scheduled for occupancy next May.
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Davenport
George W. French
St. Luke’s Hospital
Paper Delivery Deadline and Help Lines
The courier should deliver the paper at your home before 5 30. If you do not receive it by then due to carrier error or other cause, call 5100 and a copy will be sent. Phone calls must reach this office before 6 30 p.m.
Government aims at proving fraud in Fall-Sinclair case
Witnesses including George C. Smith and George W. Holland of the Geological Survey were among the first to be called to testify on Teapot Dome. They would discuss geological features and present a map showing the territory set aside as a naval fuel storage site. The plan includes detailing the executive order transferring the area to the interior department and identifying related correspondence. The government seeks to prove fraud and conspiracy in the Fall Sinclair transaction, arguing losses to the United States, the public officer’s conduct, and the push for open bidding and underground storage for navy needs.
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Sinclair
Senate
Geological Survey
Smith
Navy
Interior Department
Stephen H. Quigley
State Department
H. A. Stuart
United States
Fall
Tess
Yeaterday
Owen J. Roberts
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W. K
War Department
Elees
Dixie Flier
Ays
Earl’ Carroll
Levine and
Earl A. Thomas
Frank Downell
U- 5
Nicaragua
George J. O'Shea
Managua
Nueva’ Sergovia
Oremiat
Eensa
Marine ‘Corps
Ia. Thomas
Frank
B. Dowdell
Qilal
George 'J.'S. O'Shea
Ijicaro
A ‘B.o'néil
Guardia
O'Shea
Kenneth Struck
O’shiea
Quilali
Fiers
Surotilla
Augusto Sandino
New Mexico
Railroad
Haned
Donald
Costes and
le Briix of
Davenport Hospital
Gov't
Littleton
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