Moro Tribes Protest Independence Grant for Philippines
A protest from Moro tribal headmen against Philippine independence is presented to Secretary Weeks. The document, likely thumbprint signed, warns civil war between Moros and Christian Filipinos if American guardianship ends, citing Mindanao control and bias among armed groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washingtn
D.C
Awitf Bn
Coolidge
Philippine
Mindanao
Luzon
United States
Constabulary
Philippine Scouts
Reguar
Scouts
Hamburg seized by Reds leaves 20 dead, 40 hurt
In Dresden federal troops entered without opposition as Saxony braces under General von Mueller. Reds attack Pirne. Berlin denounces socialist ministers. At Coblenz clashes kill 12, wound 10 as nationalists clash with secessionists. Wiesbaden reports 10 wounded as Dorten faction tightens grip.
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Hamburg
Dresden
Pirne
Saxony
von Mueller
Berlin
Bavar- Be
Leipzig
Ebert
Secialist Party
Coblenz
Paris
Soir
Murence
Rhine
Wiesbaden
Germany
Ujion
Rhineland
Hens Dorten
Three K s Warning Follows by Fire at Le Claire Home
Unidentified prowlers harassed Frank Miegel near Le Claire Iowa with intermittent annoyances and two threatening letters signed with three K s. A residence and garage fire followed, with burlap and kerosene traces found after extinguishing. A Ku Klux Klan letter to Wieze denied involvement. Marriage licenses listed for Charles Berend and Sotona Covington.
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le Claire
Get
Piye
Frank Miegel
Davenport
Scott County
Klan
Ku Klux Klan
Wieze
Stillmans Prosper on California Soil
Frank J. Stillman and his family, once editors in Waterloo, Iowa, moved to Glendale near Los Angeles last June. He reports buying land and building homes, while brother Paul runs a job printing plant with involvement from Raymond Stillman and Mrs. Eells’ sons-in-law. The Stillmans also control Jefferson Bee stock and grow income from real estate ventures.
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Waterloo
Paul Stillman
Jefferson
Glendale
Los Angeles
Frank
Paul
Jefferson Bee
Raymond Stillman
Scout Committees to Be Named Soon in Waterloo Council
Judge George W. Wood named chairman of the Waterloo Bor Scout council court of honor for 1923 34 by CG BD Cass president elect. Other members include Judge Juin W. Gwynne A OC Williard John Hanson O J R Thompson and Farry G Norther. A supper conference will set chairmen for committees on camp activities education civic service publicity finance and troop organization. The council comprises 35 business men plus troop committee chairmen. The Harding memorial service is planned for Friday evening Nov 3 at Grace M E Church with six scouts giving six minute talks. Regional conference for executives will be held at Des Moines Nov 6 7.
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George W. Wood
Court of Honor
Waterloo
Bor
CG. BD. Cass
Juin W. Gwynne
A. OC. Williard
John Hanson
O. J. R. Thompson
Farry G. Norther
Cass
R. J. Hoxie
Herman €. Miller
W. J. Reehttertig
Boy Scout Hand
Lo Sne
Eee
A. J. van Doren
Harding
Grace M. BE. Churen
Nse
Observanes Iy Pational
FL Jury
Des Moines
New First Presbyterian Church Opens for Inspection
Waterloo residents are invited to inspect the new First Presbyterian church tomorrow during open house hours from 7 to 10 p m. Pastor Dr Z Ro Micartner will attend to greet visitors and lead the event.
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First Presbyterian Church
Waterloo
Z. Ro Micartner
Services for Garlene G Converse Funeral at O'Keefe & Towne
Death of four month old Garlene G Converse reported from 442 Leland Avenue. Services set for tomorrow at 1 p.m. Rev B K Main to officiate at O Keefe and Towne Funeral Home with burial at Elmwood.
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Garlensn G. Converse
Garlene G_ Converse
Edwand Frye Jr. Service Held at O'Keefe & Towne
Brief services were held at the O'Keefe and Towne funeral home for Edwand Frye Jr. The burial followed at Fairview Cemetery. He died at 2 p.m. yesterday and is survived by his mother.
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Edwand Frye, Jr
O’keefe & Towne
Fairview
Des Moines Clubwomen Leader Dies After Stroke
Mrs J A Marsh a Des Moines clubwoman and Iowa State College graduate died after a stroke Saturday night. She is survived by her husband and three children.
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C.t. Campbell
Mason City
Standard Oil Company
Minnesota
Channel briefs asked to study Mississippi dredge plan
Keokuk representatives returned from St Louis where they met the river and harbors committee and urged investigation of dredging a channel from St Louis to St Paul to enable barge line operation on the upper river. Briefs will be filed later.
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Keokuk. Ta
Keokuk Chamber of Commerce
St. Louis
River and Harbors Committee
St. Paul
Lavish Escapades End in Poverty for Louise of Saxony
Montreux dispatch tells how Louise of Saxony now 52 lives in a Montreux cottage in poverty after years of royal escapades and a failed marriage to Enrico Toselli. Her funds diminished from $10,000 a year to a few cents daily, with her only child at stake and a life spent in prayer.
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Associated Press
Montreux
Switzerland
Europe
Anxioity
Louise
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Paris
Gesu Mattitich
Saxony
Beaury
Archduke Leopold
Austria
Leopold Woelfing
Regensburg
Hinter
Andre Givon
Geneva
Givon
Countess Montignoso
Princess Anna Pia Monica
England
Italy
Enrico Toselli
Toselli
Loudon
Mme. Toselli
Saxe-Coburg Gotha
London
Lowise
Foselli
Ford Clubs Plan National Party Conference
Detroit Mich Oct 23 formation of a new national political party with Henry Ford as standard bearer will be undertaken at a national organization conference of all Ford for president clubs here Dec 12 13 and 14. The conference likely will name a date and place for a nominating convention next spring.
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Detroit
Mich
Henry Ford
Michigan Ford
Teaders
Star Convention Opens Tonight at West Auditorium
The Star Convention opens this evening at West Auditorium with dignitaries and performers. Lorraine Rose, Mary Erie Wixon, Mrs Eva Miller and Mrs DeGon send wishes for happiness and prosperity. Marie was ceremonially furnished by Miss Mary Nancy, Graham the violinist, and Miss Eilda Christianson the pianist. During the ceremony Miss McFarlane presented Mrs Franz and Mrs Sprecher with large four lent slayers, a Waterloo product.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorraine Rose
Mary Erie Wixon
Eva Miller
DeGon
Marie
Mary Nancy
Graham
Eilda Christianson
Birmingham Ax Murder Record Reaches Twenty
In Birmingham Alabama a spate of axe murders ends with Mrs Frank Rameso dying from wounds inflicted by an intruder at the shop and home of Bernard Vigilante. The assailant used a meat cleaver and fled with sixty dollars from a cash register. Jim Taylor, a Black resident, was arrested and held for examination as the city endures two and a half years of violent assaults.
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Birmingham
Ala
Frank Rameso
Bernard
Vigilanta
Po- Nee
Jim Vayior
Negra
Parties Under Ban at State University Til Conduct Better
Iowa City Iowa October 23 there will be no parties sponsored by university organizations with the exception of fraternities unless sufficient assurance is given the committee on social organizations that affairs will be properly conducted. Dean of men Robert E Rienow announces the ban targeting freshmen parties sophomores cotillion junior prom and senior hop Pailleanic parties also fall under the ban.
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Iowa City
The
State University
Committee On Social Organizations
Robert E. Rienow
Stockholders sue Bankers Loan and Investment Co over stock sales
Ten Polk county residents sue the Bankers Loan and Investment Co Inc in Des Moines seeking to recover 14500 dollars they paid for stock. They allege officers paid dividends in 1913 and 1919 from money raised by stock sales.
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Des Moines
Polk County
Bankers Loan & Investment Co., Inc
Stork
Dry League Chief Is Admitted to Bar
Des Moines reports S P McNaught superintendent of the Towa Antisalasu League was admitted to practice law in Iowa today. He previously served as assistant attorney general of Indiana before coming to Towa, and says this will enable him to personally prosecute Tiquer law yiglature.
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Des Moines
S. P. McNaught
Towa
Iowa
Indiana
McNaught
Lown
Large Amounts Left Kin in Wills Here
Crystal entertainers give Moose concert at Crystal theatre this week. The will of M. Bell of Waterloo leaves large property to widow Mary Leaven and then to children. executor William T. Leaven. Jane M. Bell's will distributes several bequests to relatives. Wills dated 1823 and 1982 reference extended bequests and residuals among beneficiaries.
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Rob Cole
Witterloo Boy
Goeld
Crystal Theatre
Aloose Lodge
Moose Hall
Ate
Buchanan County
M. Bell
Waterloo
Mary Leaven
John L
Josephine
Knuckle
Mary F. Kueckle
Anna V. Furbush
William
H. Walser
William T. Leaven
Jehildren
Bfarrieti
Parist
Testairix
Frances
Ruth
Ada
Joseph JT
Harry N. Brammell
Testatrix
W.ff Drammell
Hattie Mac Orth
John Leayen
Berlin Butter Shortage Signals Rising Bread Costs
Berlin reports butter disposed at extremely high prices per pound and announces bread may rise to five billion marks per loaf. In Cleveland David L Tockwell takes national manager post for McAdoo 1924 campaign and Chicago will host convention HQ on Nov 1. New York pacifist groups intensify anti preparedness drive with possible foreign backing. Pershing issues a formal statement.
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Berlin
Cleveland
David L. Tockwell
William G. McAdoo
Secretary of the Treasury
Chicago
New York
John J. Pershing
Hammill Talks Business and Prosperity at Kiwanis Lunch
John Hammill acting governor of Iowa spoke to the Kiwanis club at State Wrussell-Lamson about Iowa’s economy. He urged cooperation between agriculture and industry and warned against reliance on Des Moines and Washington for aid. Bee expert William S Walker also spoke on bees, noting their limited range and the queen bee as central to the colony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Hammill
Iowa
Kiwanis Club
State
Wrussell-Lamson
Hamusil
Convention of Iowa
Order of Eastern Star
Des Moines
Washington
William 5
Walker
Iowa Falls
Wilker
Annual Meeting of G. W. A. Directors Is Advanced a Month
Directors of the Greater Waterloo association voted to move the annual meeting from January to December to align the fiscal year with the calendar year. The change aims to have the new board organized at the first regular meeting in January. The group endorsed the watering concert bank and referred several industrial location inquiries to the industrial committee.
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Greater Waterloo Association
Wwatering Concert Bank
Industrial Committee
Funeral Directors Have Dance Tonight
Seventy funeral directors from Town Winnesota South Dakora Wisconsin TWMnets and Nebraska gathered in Waterloo as guests of J. J. Means president of the Meany Casket company for a two day clinic. This morning organized the demonstration work under Prof. Albert H. Worsham of Chicago. A dance at K of C hall this evening honors the guests.
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Winnesota
South Dakora
Wisconsin
Twmnets
Nebraska
Waterloo
J. J. Means
Meany Casket Company
Albert H. Worsham
Chicago
Worsham Embalming and Training School
K. of C. Hall
Elsie M Strempke and Louis Wetzlich Wed at Jesup Church
Miss Elsie M Strempke daughter of Mrs Amelia Strempke and Louis Wetzlich eldest son of Mr and Mrs William Wetzlich Dunkerton were married Sunday at Forks church Rev Adix Jubsies performing the double ring ceremony. The bride wore white canton crepe and pearls while sunburst roses formed her bouquet. After the ceremony 100 guests dined at the bride's home with orange and white decor. The couple will reside on the groom's farm north of Dunkerton after November 1.
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Testio
Elsin’ M. Strempke
Amelia Strempke
Louis Wetzlich
William Wetzlich
Dunkerton
Forks Church
Adix
Jubsies
Frank Strempke
Cytill Blake
Strempke
Marie Orth
Viola Crowell
Blanche Strempke
Martha Wetzlich
Meyerhoff Zifred Strompke
Blt. Orth
Misa Marie Rein
Wedda Schroeter
Brakhart
Frank Lohner
Orth
Emma All
Waverly
Fred Duehri
Tva
Tagleton
Dinkerton
Spectre of Bleeding Suitor Trails Girl Who Spurned Love
Roy Philliger, a young farmhand from Mason City, shot himself over unrequited love after his affection for Sut Coila Phillis, who had jilting him, led to a fatal act. Doctors say he will recover while Phillis is in a nervous state, haunted by his pleas for a kiss as blood flowed. Neighbors note he had been a steady worker and had recently returned from the war.
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Mason City
Roy
Lms
W. G
Willette Farm
Dry Agents Draw Guns as Violent Pool Hall Clash Occurs
Prohibition agents raiding a Pierz Minnesota pool hall were forced to draw their guns when ten men threatened them with a shotgun and billiard cues. The arrest of owner Ney Gross at Pletzsy Bar faces charges of sale and possession of liquor. A previous clash near St Cloud left agent A Whitney seriously injured.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Prohibition
Pierz
St. Cloud
A. Whitney
New Munich
Pletzsy
Barney Gross
Heavy Seas Destroy a Seven-Ship Destroyer Fleet at Honda
Santa Barbara California October 23 heavy seas have battered seven destroyers wrecked at Honda. The Delphy flagship destroyed the Puller disappeared the Nicholas lies broken in two Woodbury and S P Lee badly wrecked Young nearly sunk Chaunce intact but doomed salvage work ongoing with some material recovered.
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Santa Barbara
Cal
Honda
Delphy
Puller
Nicholas
Woodbury
S. P. Lee
Chaunce
Expect Impeachment Vote in Oklahoma Legislature Today
In Oklahoma City on October 23 the house debated Gov. J. C. Waiton impeachment with the reading of committees testimony resuming at 9 am. A vote on the articles was anticipated later, with Watton's counsel preparing a senate defense once the indictment is filed.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
J. C. Waiton
Oklahoma House of Representatives
House
Watton
Senate
School Superintendent Confesses Selling Fake Diplomas
B H Jelley the school superintendent of St Charles county Missouri confessed selling high school credit certificates for five dollars to a nationwide fake diploma ring. He admitted supplying 57 fake diplomas last year and said Robert Adcox acted as the St Louis agent for the diploma mill.
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St. Louis
B. H
Telley
St. Charles County
Missouri
Jelley
Robert Adcox
Snow First Reported In Tennessee And North Carolina
Johnson City Tennessee reports the season’s first snow with intermittent flurries observed this morning. Asheville North Carolina also records the season’s first snow today with light snowfall noted in the city.
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Johnson City
Tenn
Carolina
Asheville
N. C
Buzzsaw and Auto Motor Prove Fatal
Estherville Iowa October 23 William Tuttle twelve died from injuries after a belt slipped on a buzzsaw linked to a Ford motor the boy was pulled into the jagged edge of the machine He survived four hours after the accident.
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Estherville
William Tuttle
Caward and Worster Attend Oilmen's Meet
Caward the Hawkeye Oil company president and H O Worster the secretary left for Milwaukee to join Dubuque oil men at the National Petroleum Marketers Association convention today and tomorrow. They will discuss current oil industry problems including the recent gasoline price cut.
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Caward
H. O. Worster
Hawkeye Oil Company
Milwaukee
National Petroleum Marketers Association
Dubuque
Northwestern Railway 75 Years Old Links Iowa Growth
Des Moines reports on the Chicago & Northwestern’s 75th anniversary and Iowa’s long historical tie to the line. The narrative covers early Iowa rail planning from 1854, land grants, bridge construction across the Mississippi, and key lines reaching Cedar Rapids, Council Bluffs, and Boone. Town names like Le Mars and Delmar Junction arose from railroad-sponsored naming events.
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Des Moines
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Chicago
Iowa
Wisconsin
Altho
Iuyons
Clinton
Iowa City
Iowa Land Company
Mississippi & Central Town Railroad
New England
Chicago, Iowa & Nebraska Rail”road Co
Cedar Rapids
Galena & Chicago Union Railroad Co
Chicago & Northwestern Road
Mississipppi
Galena & Chicago Union
Mississippi River
Little Rock Island
Illinois
Congress
Iowa General Assembly
Iowa Central Air Line Railroad Company
Anamosa
Cedar Rapids & Missouri River Railroad Co
John Weare
John F. Ely
G.M. Woodbury
Maershalltown
Arr
Cedar River
Otter Creek Station
Chelsea
Marshalltown
State Center
Nevada
Boone
Council Bluffs
Cadar Rapids & Missouri River Road
Chicago & Northwestern
le Mars
Delmar
Delmar Junction
Mrs Stokes Divorce Trial Involves Bunce ton Charge
New York reports Helen Elwood Stokes never visited Bunce ton Missouri, though W B D Stokes posed as a historian seeking town records. Depositions read in the divorce case show the plaintiff rested yesterday and Mrs Stokes’ lawyers began reading statements about a 1904 trip to the town to prove she was not there with Edgar P T Wallace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Helen Elwood Stokes
Bunceton
W. BE. D. Stokes
Edgar PT. Wallace
Six Year Old Struck by Gas Co Truck in Early Morning
A six year old boy, son of Mr and Mrs H Cord of 11 Harrison Street, was struck by a Citizens Gas and Electric Co truck while playing outside his home at 3 am today. He suffered bruises but injuries were not serious. Police reported eleven other collisions and minor auto accidents yesterday with no injuries.
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Des Moines
Harver Ingham
Alex Fitzhugh
Charter Oak
Town Light, Heat & Power Co
Shenandoah
W Northboro
Shenandoah Fire Department
Cedar Rapids
Frank Ford
Urbana
Alva Jared
Rock Island Railroad
Marshalltown
Mystic Shrine
Central Town
Webster City
Andrew Urban
Marth
Duncombe
H. &. Cord
Harrison Street
Citizens Gas & Electric Co
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Social Democrat
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Bavar
Charles
Berend
Sotona A
Covington
Cat
Texas
Mere
Carr
Mths
LNG
Fort Worth
Tex
Ed Carr
California
Martinsci
Barry Frye
Mississippi
Louise OF Saxony
Fages
Ford
Star Convention
West Auditorium
Crystal Entertainers
Kiwanis
Capitol Dome
G. W. A. Directors
Elsie M. Strempke
Jesup
St. Tohn‘s Catholic Church
Jnner East
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Caward, Worster
Oilmen's Meet
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