Night attack victim hospitalized in Fort Dodge
Earl E. Brown a 42 year old insurance agent from Manson Iowa was found injured near his car after a night confrontation. He suffered a deep scalp gash and facial injuries with teeth marks on his hands. No robbery motive found though $25 was in his pocket. He was taken to Mercy hospital Fort Dodge in semi conscious condition.
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Manson
Earl E. Brown
Hillcrest Apartments
Mercy Hospital
Fort Dodge
Brown
John van Wyngarden
van Wryngarden
George
T. M. Bradley
van Wryngardens
Lee Humphrey
van Wyngarden
Fort’ ‘Dodge Hospital
Married 35 Years Wife Seeks Divorce and Maintenance
Mrs Anna Kelley, 57, frail health, files for separate maintenance from John Kelley after 35 years of marriage, alleging cruel treatment endangering her health. She cites a 210 acre Waterloo area farm valued at 35000 with yearly rent 8 dollars per acre and asks 100 monthly maintenance. judge grants temporary injunction restraining husband from molesting her.
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Anna Kelley
John Kelley
Kelley
Fife
Niles
East
Waterloo
G.W. Wood
Booze Case Mine Interventions In Des Moines Orchestrated
O'Dea Motor Co Des Moines petitions for priority to recover 48780 on a conditional sales contract for a Star roadster seized by state agents in a liquor transport case. John Rand of Des Moines claims 216 for the same car bought August 30 1927 and asserts the defendants had access to it.
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J. E. Sitianni
Velma Cook
O'Dea Motor ‘Company
Des
Moines
John Rand
Kiwanis and Rotary Speakers Featured at Russell-Lamson
Frank M. Collord Jr a former American Legion delegate will address the Kiwanis club on the second A E F in France and Clinton F Smith will sing with Albert tiv ahd and the West High ladies string quartet. George W. Miller will speak for Rotary with the topic Rotary's Opportunity for Men of Tomorrow at Hotel Russell Lamson.
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Frank M. Collord, Jr
American Legion
Paris
A. E.F
France
Kiwanis Club
Joncheon
Hotel
Russell-Lamson
Clinton F. Smith
Sovge
Albert Tiv Ahd
West High Ladies
Rotary
Rotary Club
Russell- Lamson
George W. Miller
Iowa Minnesota game draws Waterloo fans to Minneapolis
Waterloo football fans boarded the Chicago Great Western to Minneapolis for the Iowa versus Minnesota clash. A sleeper train left full except for one berth, with about 40 Iowa City supporters transferring from the interurban to join the trip.
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IOWA
Waterloo
Minneapolis
Chicago Great Western
Iowa City
Great Western
Obituary of Mrs Hilda Voelker of Waterloo
Mrs Hilda Voelker 51 a Waterloo resident for 31 years died at 430 p m yesterday at her home 219 Clay Street following a paralytic stroke She was born in Posen Germany in 1877 and came to the United States at age four She arrived in Waterloo 31 years ago married W J Voelker Surviving are two daughters Mrs H Christen sen Waterloo and Mrs A W Thoron Aurora Ill and four sisters Mrs Ed Free Jesup Ia Mrs Q O Meyer Des Moines Mrs Hi G Giffrow Clinton Ia and Mrs EX Brockman Marion Ia Funeral at 2 p m Monday at the home and 230 p m at Immanuel Lutheran Church Burial in Fairview.
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Hilda Voelker
Waterloo
Clay Street
Posen
Germany
United States
W. J. Voelker
H. Christensen
A. W.thoron
Aurora
Ill
Ed Free
Jesup
QO. G. Meyer
Des Moines
Hi. G. Giffrow
Clinton
EX. T. Brockman
Marion
Immanuel Lutheran Church
A. H. Semmann
Fairview
Prince Carol Stays Near Paris Amid Desertion Rumors
Paris reports wild rumors from Berlin Vienna and Bucharest claiming Crown Prince Carol of Romania deserted Magda Lupescu his redhaired companion. The pair spent two quiet days at the former prince’s newly bought chateau about 100 miles from Paris as rumors circulated.
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I. N.S
Paris
Berlin
Vienna
Bucharest
Carol
Roumania
Magda Helene
F Lupescu
Magda
Prince Carol
Mme
Magda Lupescu
Drake Grinnell cross country derby fuels mechanical mayhem
An ancient flivver won the Drake University Grinnell cross country derby covering 56 miles in 52 minutes as twenty five racers in decrepit cars echoed a race through Des Moines Colfax Newton to Grinnell. Mayor Hunter started the field and Ford sought the winning machine for his museum.
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Grinnell,Ja
Drake University
Des
Moines
Knights of the
Rattling Road
Drake Stadium
Grinnell College Stadium
Des ‘Moines
Grinnell
Hunter
Colfax
Newton
Des Moines
Ford
Drake-Grinnell
Iowa
Henry Ford
Aiiver
Museum of
Not Guilty Ruling In Stove Theft Case
Sam Smith, a house guest in Mrs Eloise Pugh's home at 1113 Fourth Street, was acquitted in municipal court of larceny after prosecutors alleged he took $20 from a gas range cash cache during dinner. Smith testified he did not know of any money in the stove and denied the charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eloise Pugh
Fourth Street
Sam Smith
Sam
Marriage Licenses Reported in Waterloo Area
McKinley Webber of Waterloo and Loretta Potter of LaPlata Missouri listed as married license holders. LeRoy Martin of Waterloo with Evelyn Everest of Waterloo also cited. Charles Robert Scoles of Nashua and Ceatrice E Linow of Waverly reported for marriage licensing.
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McKinley Webber
Waterloo
Loretta Potter
LaPlata
LeRoy Martin
Evelyn Everest
Charles Robert Scoles
Nashua
Ceatrice E. Linow
Waverly
Pheasant Hunters Relate Slim Open Day In Waterloo
Waterloo hunters linger over memories of a light opening day with many misses and few birds brought home. Most reports say three birds were common but several groups returned with four or five. Despite the light bag, the day was described as a great, weary adventure with hunting rivals trading shots and stories.
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Waterloo
Grundy County
Mediums Needed In Spiritualism Lodge Contends
London reports Sir Oliver Lodge denied calling for abolishing mediums and warned research would suffer if tools were scrapped. Other items note Covent Garden market modernization plans, English witch balls, Anne Boleyn clock cleaning, Shakespeare popularity in east London, and Sir Ernest Benn on communism in newspapers.
John Kruse Dies at Grundy Center
John Kruse, a 50 year resident of Grundy Center, dies at his home at 11:30. Funeral plans await relatives. burial follows Drake Presbyterian services in Colfax township. Surviving children include Ike and Harm near Wellsburg, John near town, and daughters Mrs. J Abels, Mrs. Dick Herberts, and Jenny in Grundy Center. An unrelated note mentions automobile farming in 77 cities up to July with about a seven percent rise.
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Courier
Grundy Center
John Kruse
Colfax Township
Drake Presbyterian Church
Kruse
Ike
Wellsburg
Harm
John
J. ©. Abels
Holland
Dick Herberts
Here
Jenny
Col Joe Miller of 101 Ranch Wild West Show Dead
Col Joe Miller founder of the 101 Ranch Wild West Show and head of the Miller Brothers died at 58 from suspected car exhaust fumes in the ranch garage at Ponca City Oklahoma He led his troupe in the arena and directed 350 varieties of fruit at the ranch His death ends a famed era in the Wild West entertainment circuit.
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Col
Joe Miller
101 Ranch
Ponca City
Okla
Colonel
Irom
Grand Rapids
Mich
Luther Burbank
Miller
Kentucky
Cay
Ambassador Herrick Plans Paris Exit When Successor Chosen
Washington reports Ambassador Myron T. Herrick may leave his Paris post once a successor is selected. Age and ill health cited. Herrick recently turned 73 and underwent two operations. No official announcement yet. possible candidate Dwight W. Davis, secretary of war, has been urged. Paris posting viewed as highly challenging amid French debt talks and tariffs disputes.
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Copsright
Washington, D. C
Myron T. Herrick
France
Paris
Washington
Herrick
London
Coolidge
Dwight W. Davis
Davis
White House
Althe
Paris Post
Waterloo dance hall outlaw corralled in Waverly jail
J Bird sought here after a Bremer county dance floor incident was jailed in Waverly. Officers found him with a revolver and liquor remnants after a disturbance that cleared the floor. Information charged maintaining a liquor nuisance and bootlegging. Sheriff Hallowell to notify local authorities when through.
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Waterloo
J. Bird
Bremer
Bremer County
John Hallowell
Law
Waverly
Bird
Ralph W. Travis
George Essex
George Kréesman
Hallowell
Pals Premonition Fatal Train Tragedy Near Davenport
Davenport Iowa Oct 22 Clif ford Clemens 18 Centerville was instantly killed last night when he fell under a Chicago and Rock Island freight train as he tried to alight at the city limits Willie Miller 20 also of Centerville Clemens companion swung off first and saw his friend killed They boarded the train at West Liberty Miller said he had a premonition that something would happen and urged buying tickets home at West Liberty
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Davenport
Clifford Clemens
Centerville
Rock Island
Willie Miller
Clemens
West Liberty
Miller
Dempsey Romanian Claim Sparks Ro Romania Link
New York October twenty two report claims a Bucharest paper asserts heavyweight Jack Dempsey is Romanian with the birth name Tudor Domsa. The Poles and Romanians are cited in conflicting nationality notes arising from a Polish paper alleging Ford is Polish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dempsey Roumanian
New York
Henry Ford
Bucharest
Jack Dempsey
Roumanian
Tudor Domsa
Bankruptcy of the Chillag sisters linked to bobbed hair
Vienna as a European parallel to Americas Seven Sutherland Sisters, the Chillag sisters face bankruptcy after their hair tonic venture suffers from bobbed hair trends. The trio, noted for styling, tapped haircare products as their business focus.
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Bobs
Vienna
Chillag
America
Sutherland Sisters
Essay winners named in west district contest
James Kenyon Jr of Kingsley school and Verna Baker of Sloane Wallace school won first prizes in their divisions for best fire prevention essay during Fire Prevention Week. East district winners yet to be announced. Nine out of ninety-one essays entered were selected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Kenyon,Jr
Kingsley
Verna Baker
Sloane Wallace
James Kenyon
Kathryn Warsaw
Emerson ‘School
Lois Gnagy
Whittier
Sloane Wallace School
Fred Wimber
Helene Jensen
Carroll Weeps as He Gets Off Train
New York October 22. Harl Car Toul theatrical producer arrives at Pennsylvania station from Atlanta and breaks into tears as he steps off the train to find a large crowd of friends waiting to welcome him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll
New York
Harl Car- Toul
Pennsylvania Station
Atlanta
Courier advertising boosts S S class attendance
U S Wilson, teacher of the men s Bible class at First Methodist Episcopal Sunday school, said today that attendance has risen 25 percent due to Courier newspaper advertising. He noted the ad targeted men to join Sunday school and argued modern methods of publicizing offerings work in civic and commercial realms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Wilson
First Methodist Episcopal Sunday School
Courier
Wilson
Car Found Here Tied to Rockford Man Edward Johnson
A Chevrolet coupe abandoned here Wednesday night by Edward Johnson and Henry Bohn, suspected auto thieves, was identified as owned by E. L. Harris of Rockford. Police say Johnson and Bohn told Freeport authorities the car belonged to a friend, William Knight of St. Louis, and that they had stolen a Chevrolet touring car from E. L. Morgan of 604 Randall Street.
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Edward Johnson
Henry Bohn
E. L. Morgan
Randall Street
Freeport
E. L. Harris
Rockford
Johnson
Bohn
William Knight
St. Louis
Bowman denounces $10 million farm real estate firm in Iowa
Germantown Iowa Oct 22 former State Senator M L Bowman addressing Town Farmers union meeting condemns a proposed $10,000,000 corporation to buy and sell farm land. He calls it a gigantic effort to steal Iowa farmers homes and rejects claims it would stabilize land prices as absolute nonsense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germantown
Police seek escaped jail inmate Byron Ersin
Police search for Byron E. Ersin of Cedar Rapids Iowa a former tobacco salesman who escaped Linn County jail on October 17 at the request of Sheriff Harry Manchester. Ersin faces auto mobile fraud charges and is well known locally.
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Byron ‘E. Ersin
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Harry Manchester
Ersin
Building Permits Reported for Several Addresses
W. P. Jameson seeks a heating plant at 539 Wellington West. J. H. Dumbold adds a porch at 1312 Bluff for 200 dollars. C. S. Insko plans a garage at 1112 Columbia for 150 dollars. Waterloo Building & Loan files a heating plant project at 2126 Third West.
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W. BR. Jameson
Wellington West
J. H. Dumbold
Bluff
Insko
Columbia
Waterloo Building & Loan
Third West
Bell From Old Central School To Ring Again At Sloane Wallace
West Waterloo history notes the 1872 Meneely bell weighing 470 pounds will be installed in the Sloane Wallace belfry likely during Christmas break. Frank Siberling, once the bell’s grease man in the 1870s, recalled climbing the ladder and feeding pigeons. The bell later linked to Cedar Falls Teachers College, with Frank later known as a noted runner who once beat Billy Sunday in a Muscatine race.
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Frank Siberling
West Waterloo
Sloane Wallace School
Will Ogle
Baltimore Street
Old Central School
Pr. J
Frank
P. J. Siberling
P. J
Teachers College
Cedar Falls
Meneely Bell Foundry
West Troy
N. Y
Waterloo
Billy Sunday
Muscatine
Liberiling
Marshalltown
Sunday
Primate O'Donnell Dies in Ireland After Illness
Dublin Oct 22 Cardinal Patrick O'Donnell primate of Ireland died shortly before noon at Carlingford after several weeks of double pneumonia illness. The church leader had been ill and in care near the coast town. His death marks a significant loss for Irish Catholic hierarchy and the nation.
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Dublin
Ireland
Patrick
O'Donnell
Carlingford
Baby shark encounter in Chesapeake Bay near Cape Charles
Wilmington Delaware October 22 A patrolman Raymond Whittington and friends in a small boat in the Chesapeake Bay near Cape Charles grappled with a 3 1/2 foot baby shark amid a school of young sharks. The big shark surfaced then swam away while the baby bit the line causing havoc before Whittington killed it with a wrench and planned to skin it for a garage match scratcher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
Del
Raymond Whittington
Chesapeake Bay
Cape Charles
Whittington
Red Cross Membership Drive Leaders Named in Iowa
Dr H H Seerley president of Iowa State Teachers College is named chairman of the Iowa rollcall or membership drive. Judge Utterback of Des Moines is named chairman of the council by telegram from St Louis headquarters. The announcement comes as Cedar Falls hosts the drive on October 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Courier Special Service
Cedar Falls
H H. Seerley
Iowa State Teachers College
Iowa
St. Louis
Judge Utterback
Des ‘Moines
Accidental Shot Kills Chapin Man on Pheasant Hunt
Hampton Iowa reports Lee Esslinger twenty seven Chapin died in hospital after an accidental gunshot during a pheasant hunt near Sheffield. The weapon was carried by C Demos Sheffield who discharged the gun. The incident occurred yesterday with Esslinger wounded and later dying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chapin
Hampton
Lee Esslinger
Sheffield
Cli DeMos
Rogers Flies Back to Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills resident Will Rogers returns home after a coast to coast and back air trip on a roundtrip ticket. He completed the journey in 81 hours including transfers and an 18 hour stopover in New York City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beverly Hills
Cal
Will Rogers
New York City
Dies in Church Seat After Debate in Avoca
A. C. Meitzen, president of Citizens' Savings Bank of Avoca, died suddenly at the First Congregational church after returning to his seat following a debate. Heart disease is listed as the cause. Meitzen, born in Germany, came to Avoca 35 years ago as a bank bookkeeper and later became president.
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Anne Boleyn
Henry VIII
Buckingham Palace
Horace Walpole
Victoria
Pitt
Avoca
First Congregational Church
A. C. Meitzen
Citizens’ Savings Bank of Avoca
Meitzen
Germany
Ex Kaiser Donates Park for Public Use
Doom Holland Oct 22 Former Kaiser Wilhelm has indicated a gesture toward reconciliation by establishing Rosary Park for public use. This marks his first step toward ending seclusion by allowing access to parts of his grounds.
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Doom
Holland
Kaiser Wilhelm
Rosary Park
Kaiser
Willneness
Twenty Hurt In Subway Wreck On West Side Express
In New York on October 22 twenty persons were injured when a west side subway express crashed into the rear of another train. Two are listed as seriously hurt as police reserves were called to manage crowds at the subway entrance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Trucker crushes man in Pella accident
Will Palster of Pella was killed yesterday after slipping while boarding a gravel truck and being run over. He died almost instantly at the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pella
Will Palster
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