Warship Adds Marines to Guard Americans in Nicaragua
The U S S Rochester arrived at Bluefields Nicaragua to reinforce American interests as government troops and revolutionists clash for control. An additional 500 Marines and bluejackets will be held in readiness. Bluefields is neutral and protected by U S forces. Rebels reportedly control the northeast coast as fighting spreads toward El Bluff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
U. S. S. Rochester
Bluefields
Nicaragua
Biluefields
U. S. S. Galveston
United States
Rochester
Navy Department
EL Bluff
Brangmer's Bluff
Blucfelds
Miter
Cosequinea
Carr Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter and Is Paroled
In a Waterloo court the defendant pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was ordered paroled to B. F. Rath after an eight year commitment to the state reformatory at Anamosa Iowa. The county attorney said no conviction was possible and the parole aims to save county funds on a costly trial. Verna Carr expressed relief, while Garland's father protested the parole saying more law is needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mittimus
Lpig
Anamosa
B. F
Carr
Tayill
Cook
Cook Icday
Garland
Verna
Verna Carr
Waterloo
Des Moines
Iowa
Clarinda
Nodaway
Albdia
Burlington
Atlantic
Carroll
Fragmented Weather Forecast Readout
The readable parts describe temperatures for Thursday and Friday with maximum and minimum values and notes on rain. The text is garbled but indicates a weather forecast for the period including Thursday and Friday with rainfall chances up to a certain time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Easacu iMinca
Death of H E Weatherwax chief of Waterloo firm
H E Weatherwax age 70 longtime Waterloo resident and head of Weatherwax Insurance & Real Estate died at his desk from a heart attack at 10:55 AM in the 107 Black Hawk building. He led local business andTravelers Protective association activities and was a longtime Universalist and Canopus club member. He is survived by wife Jennie, two sons Robert and Edwin, two daughters Dorothy and Mrs Maurie Shane, a sister and three grandchildren. Funeral plans await distant relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. E. Weatherwax
Waterloo
Weatherwax Insurance & Real Estate Agency
Black Hawk Building
Dorothy Weatherwax
B. V. Hughes
Weatherway
Travelers' Protective Association
Universalist Church
Canopus Club
New York State
Olcott
A. T. Weatherwax
Iawa State College
Ames
Dubuque
Sioux City
Cedar Rapids
Smith, Lichty & Hillman Co
Weatherwax
Jennie Thompson
Cedar Falls
Robert
Lown Falls
Edwin Y
Los Angeles
Cal
Maurie W. Shane
Independence Avenue
Prospect Avenue
Herbert M. Reed
Third Street
East
Clarence
O'Keefe & Towne Mortuary
Wapello Woman Heads Auxiliary of State Legionnaires
Spirit Lake Iowa Sept 3 The newly elected officers of the Women’s auxiliary of the American Legion of Iowa announce President Mrs Margaret Jones Wapello Virginia Bedell Spirit Lake secretary Mrs Gwendolyn MacDowell Des Moines treasurer Mrs Clara Coonex Carroll historian Mrs Harry Utley Manchester chaplain Mrs J F Henson Davenport alternate national executive committeewoman Mrs Lela Herriot Stewart The convention closes this afternoon.
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Spirit Lake
Women's Auxilary
The
American Legion of
Imva
Margaret Jonesse Wapello
Wolea Press
Virginia Bedell
Merc
Gwendolyn MacDowell
Des Moines
Clara Coonexs
Carroll
Harry Utley
Manchester
J. F. Henson
Davenport
Lela Herriot
Stewart
Hotel Man Kills Girl and Himself in Lexington
A Fayette county resident and affluent restaurateur and hotel operator killed Miss sted McDanlet, 26, of Brooklyn, then shot himself in the adjoining hotel room. The incident occurred in Lexington during the early hours, with authorities noting a swift deadly sequence and room search underway.
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Lexington
Kirtly
Uved
Fayette County
Kentucky
Bath
Sted McDanlet
Brooklyn
Marriage Licenses Registered in Waterloo and Davenport
Joseph Angstmann of Waterloo ages 25 and Alice Tgannon of Waterloo appear as a married couple. Robert L. Smith of Davenport aged 23 wed Kathryn E. Mullen of Leeds aged 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph MM. Angstmann
Waterloo
Alice C. Tgannon
Robert L. Smith
Davenport
Kathryn E. Mullen
Leeds
Armor of 1560 Boy Displayed at Palace Exposition
A 1560 boy’s suit of armor, lavishly etched with fortunes and labors, is displayed at the Palace of the Fine Arts during the sesqui centennial. Made in Nuremberg or Dresden shops, it joins two other stellar suits loaned by Clarence W. Mackay of New York and must be returned by Sept. 15.
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Phiadelphia
Willie
Wille
Palace of the Fine Arts
Palace of the Fine Arta
Clarence W. Mackay
New York
Father
Little Willie
Phil
America
Abraham
Hercules
Nuremberg
Germany
Dresden
Wolf Bepnighern
Ringleader Named in Union Pacific Mail Car Robbery
Denver reports reveal a ring of six men and two women tied to the Union Pacific mail car theft near Wamsutter Wyoming on August 13. Confessions from John Madigan and other arrestees, plus a clue from a bandit’s sweetheart, helped inspectors recover most of the $280,000 loot and identify planner Jack Kearns and Edna Evans. The plot formed in Rock Springs Wyoming and involved Madigan and A. J. Miller as bound clerks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Colo
U. S
Wamguller
Wyo
R. B. Muridelle
John W. Madigan
Cheyenne
Frio
Phose
Jack Kearns
Salt Lake City
Madigan
Edna Evans
Rock Slings
Kearns
Mundelle
Rock Springs
A. J. Miller
Virginia Estates on the James River Inspire Historic Reverie
Richmond reporters describe Brandon, Sherwood Forest, Westover, and Berkeley along the James River as historic Virginia estates. The piece notes Brandon’s 200 years with the Harrison family and its influence on poet John R. Thompson. It recalls Sherwood Forest once owned by President John Tyler, Westover built by William Byrd II, and Berkeley as a birthplace of a US president and a signer of the Declaration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Brandon
James River
John R. Thompson
Harrisons
Virginia
Sherwood Forest
John Tyler
Tyler
James
Westover
Byrds
Harry F. Byrd
Richard Evelyn Byrd
North Pole Flier
William Byrd II
Berkeley
United States
Shirt cuff memos fade as cinema stories evolve
Hollywood reports that rough scribbles on menus or streetcar rides once produced full movie plots. Writers now steer a specialized, costly process and often command higher status than stars as months or years go into shaping films with top authors commissioned from abroad.
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Hollywood
Cal
Stenario
Aundries
Uellywoot
London shops lure Yankees with 1838 New York print
In Mayfair London shops vie for American attention. Rond Street displays a print of New York in 1838 with Broadway shown as a crowded street. Shoes, Spanish onions, and a four horse carriage appear in the window to attract Yankee visitors amid bustling trade displays. A separate item reports Mrs A T Wingfield of Sioux City killed when an auto struck her near Mitchell South Dakota while she assisted with a tire change.
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London
Mayfair
Rond Street
New York
Broadway
Mitchell
S. D
Mra
A. T. Wingfield
Main Street
Sioux City
Here
Willian Shaw
Parkatown
S. P
Harvard study of 1925 1926 fireballs tracks meteors
Harvard Observatory researchers led by Dr. Willard J. Fisher compiled reports from 140 plus replies and 269 further inputs after fireball sightings on November 15 1925 and December 29 1925. The findings describe daylight and twilight meteors visible across New England and the Mid-Atlantic, their speeds and atmospheric entry, and note no ground traces from the December fireball.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard Observatory
Willard J. Fisher
Observatory
National Academy of
Harlow Shaples
Fisher
Venus
Androscoggin River
Oxford County
Maine
New England
Dr. Fisher
Helen Pearson
Portsmouth
N. H
W. W. Hale
Vesper Country Club
Sidney Prichard
Boston
Cerceaus
Massachusetts
New Jersey
I 2
Medway
New Flaven
Pennsylvaania
New York
Hornell
Fisher Ood Hin Associates
Arta
Earth
Supreme Court Big Antitrust Case Feed
Washington experts note Clayton act and FTC orders now reshape major cases. Docket includes International Harvester, American Tobacco, and Pacific coast seamen, plus juries on potteries cartels and labor wage agreements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Supreme Court
Federal Trade Commission
International Harvestes Company
Clatre
Commission
Congress
Eastmian Kodak Company
Georgia
Pacific Paper Trade Association
Pacific Coast
Rocky Mountain States
Western Mert
Thatcher Manufacturing Company
Swift & Co
Eastman Kodak Company
Proctor & Gamble
Two Local Graduates Sail For Washington Post
Miss Vernita Bronson of 326 Second Street West leaves tonight for Washington D C to take a position in the internal revenue offices. Miss Marjorie Agnew of 34 Vermont Street travels to attend George Washington University after graduating from West High with the class of 1926.
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Washington
Vernita Bronson
Second Street West
Marjorie Agnew
Vermont
Washington, D. C
Trolley Crash Kills Eight and Injures Twenty-Nine
Two investigations planned into a head on crash on the Detroit United railway line between Interurbans near Monroe. Victims include Ben Fitch Detroit and A M Hefner Wishland Michigan among the dead, with many seriously injured in an Ontario and Indiana cross state collision involving crews and passengers from Detroit Toledo Monroe and Cedar Rapids areas.
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Monroe
Mid
Detroit
Toledo
Detroit United Railway
Ben Fitch
A. M. Hefner
Wishland Mirk
Mich
Mr. T
Bliss
Tela
J. Ferguson
W. R. Rooney
Sandwich
Charles Jr. Martell
New York
Hazel Nelson
William Westwood
Sadie Westwood
Edward Westwood
Chinatown Opium Den Decline Marks New York Notes
The Chinatown district in New York is described as shrunken and under tighter control with fewer illegal opium dens and gambling rooms. The piece details street life, markets, joss houses, guarded passageways, and a pervading sense of old relics, while noting the milkman’s steamer delivery scheme and public library steps as social hubs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jwow
Chinatown
Chuck Connors
Joss House
Costa
Blimp Lands at Belleville After Stormy Night Flight
Army blimp TC-5 landed at Scott field Belleville Indiana shortly after 6 this morning after circling storms overnight. Lieut Gray and crew called the night flight from Dayton uneventful aside from stormy conditions. The ship refitted in Dayton and carried about a half hour’s gas at takeoff, logged about 350 miles with 95 mph average speed.
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St. Louis
Scott Field
Belleville
W. A
Gray
Dayton
Altho
Terre Haute
Airship Cross Country Run Heads Back Toward Langley Field
The vessel planned to fly back to Langley Field, Va., the base, after departing yesterday on its cross country voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Langley Field, Va
Patrolman Beckwith Appeals Reinstatement to Waterloo Commission
O B Beckwith discharged Sept 1 1926 by Waterloo chief of police Charles Mohlis appeals to the city civil services commission. Attorneys Jeffery G Sullivan and H C Murtagh filed the notice Sept 2 1926 in Waterloo Iowa. City must file specifications within five days or dismissal may be reversed. hearing date to be set within five to twenty days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. B. Beckwith
Charles Mobbs
Civil Services Commission
Charles C. MacKay
Commission
O. B. Beckwith
Charles Mohlis
Waterloo
Towa
Waterlo
Civil Service Commission
City of
Jeffery G. Sullivan
JI. C. Murtagh
Civil Servics Commission
Glenn‘ A. ‘Tlobditts
Mohlis
Walter FP
Jensen
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E Bluff
Irving Berlin
Berlin
Ellin Mackay
Clarence Mackay
Clarinds
East Nodawsay
Wapello
Auxiliary of State Legionnaires
Girl
Bandit
Wyoming
Virginia Home
Henry Thornton
Canadian National Railways
Martha Seatuss
Harvard
Clayton Agt
Associated Press
Teavely
Hasta Bulletin
Gps
This
Forty-second Street
Fifth Avenue
Lieut
TCS
Scottee
Courier
the Courice
Tawa
Classified
Waterloo Evening Courier
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