Holiday sports lineup dominates Labor Day weekend
Labor Day plans include a Waterloo double header with Marshalltown, a Gun Club shoot at Byrnes park, and Joe Kirkwood performing trick shots at Byrnes park links. Sunnyside and Byrnes park clubs schedule events, Waterloo club directors host a 6:30 p m banquet at Hotel Russell Lamson, and Electric Park lists boxing bouts for the evening.
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Chicago
Milwaukee
Waterloo
Marshalltown
Waterloo Gun Alub
Byrnes Park
Joe Kirkwood
Byrnes Park Links
Sunnyside
Byrnes Ypark
Waterloo Baseball Club
Russell-Lamson
Direct primaries evolve under Hoover Dawes era
The article traces 1912 to 1920 primary use, noting 1916 Republican nominating ease under Roosevelt split and 1920 Wood and Lowden campaigns with lavish headquarters. It argues future campaigns will localize organizing and funding, reducing outside headquarters influence as state leaders favor Dawes while Hoover leads a changed, dispersed process.
Hoover’s Broad Backing Faces Political Test
A look at Hoover’s wide personal following across business circles and charitable groups, and how local leaders may use favorite son tactics to influence the Republican nomination, with Dawes as a contrast in national organization.
Marathon boy Lapole sets 34 hour bicycle record
Frank Lapole a 15 year old Waterloo newsboy completed a nonstop endurance ride at 9 35 this morning to set a new world mark of 34 hours 25 minutes He beat Robert Moore of Waterloo who had held the previous record Lapole began Thursday 11 10 pm with trips to Independence Jesup and Cedar Falls and rode through a rain storm before finishing at the Waterloo Evening Courier building He was taken to his mother’s home to rest after the feat.
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Frank Lapole
Robert Moore
Waterloo
Lapole
Jesup
Cedar Falls
Bridge Street
G. W. Rusie
French Street
European Starling Interviews a Naturalist in a Courtroom Skit
A Hornaday tale from 1927 imagines a plump starling appearing in a lawn setting to ask for a character witness. The bird defends its behavior, praising nuisance-eating insects and winter presence while highlighting conflicts with robins and fruit. The interviewer offers testimony and mutual regard ends the scene.
Naval Recruiter Here on Tuesday in Cedar Rapids
Naval recruiter T. B. Burns will not be at Waterloo desk Monday as Labor Day shifts him to Tuesday in Cedar Rapids. He will be at the post office lobby from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. George A. Soul, 708 Jefferson, enlisted last March and serves aboard the U S S Maryland with the fleet in San Francisco. Herbert C. Trapp, 18, son of Mrs. Bessie Trapp, passed Des Moines exam and was transferred to Great Lakes naval training station. Virgil C. Little, formerly of the Hummel hotel, enlisted Thursday in Cedar Rapids. his parents live in Perry.
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T. B. Burns
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Radio Programs Tonight Sunday and Monday
Central Time radio offerings list evening programs across multiple stations Iowa and out of state. Readers learn about pianist, organ recital, orchestral, studio, and chamber acts with schedules and taglines for WLS WMAQ WHO WSUI WEAF WJZ WBBM WHT WLIB WGN and others.
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Associated Press
Iowa
Gayle Wood
WSUI
Preston Coast
WEAF
WJZ
WBBM
WHT
WLIB
WGY
Woo
KMA
Ruby Trio
WDAF
Melody Way Club
WSAIL
WMAQ
WJID
WWJ
WOC
WGN
Ensemble
WSM
WCFL
WLW
WORD
WRC
WSAI
WIZ
WBZ
WSB
Red Head Club
Sporta
WCAU
South Sea Serenaders
RTHS
WFAA
Hosner Conservatory
WQJ
KTHS
WEBH
Edgewater Beach Orchestra
Davis
WIBO
Sam ’N Henry
Music Box
Ghez Pierre
Mim- Wdaf
Chess
Wiid
WIPM
Chicago Theatre
Pied Piper
Gibson Trio
Koil
WHO
South Sea Islanders
WLIV
PF Mwhas
Wsz
KDEA
Wrzweaf
WRG
WSAT
Weber
U.S. Navy
Weco
Victorious
WGR
F. M
Wwszz
EDEA
WCAE
Radio Seven
KOI
KFAB
ETHS
WCCO
Farmer Lloya Kracaw Drowns Swimming in Szunk River
Burlington Sept 3. Lloya Kracaw a 45 year old farmer from Richland community drowned yesterday while swimming in the Szunk river.
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Burlington
Lloya Kracaw
Richland
Szunk River
Expert Fight On Plan To Care For Retired Pastors
Burlington Iowa September 3 09 A proposed plan to lessen the churchs ability to care for retired ministers by assessing each pastor two and one half per cent of his salary promised today to cause heated discussion at the annual conference of Iowa Methodist pastors and lay men in session here. Sponsors of the plan declare it has long been needed in the conference while opponents say they are satisfied with the present plan of caring for retired ministers. As todays session opened it appeared likely that Oskaloosa would entertain the conference next year. George B. Lagg Grinnell W R Keesey Ottumwa and W H Spence pastor of the First Methodist church here were elected delegates to the general conference in Kansas City next May. Laymen holding a separate conference elected T H Maytag Newton A J Wood Muscatine and Dean Taylor Fairfield delegates to the general conference Reserve lay delegates chosen were George Wall Burlington and E E Phelps Mount Pleasant. Laymen voted to ask admission to the annual ministerial conference. They also voted endorsements of Iowa Wesleyan college and assessed each member 1 a year toward its support So Mrs. Alice MacBain Wilton Junction was made deaconess in recognition of her study and preaching at Moscow. Retirement was granted W H Purdue Albia Dr C L Tennant Pomona Cal and C R Zimmerman North Liberty Chinese farmers sometimes push their peanut crops to market on wheelbarrows as far as 30 miles.
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Saucebox
Starling
Europe
Australia
Bavaria
Federal
New England
United States
William T. Hornaday
Burlington
Iowa
George B. Lagg
Grinnell
Ottumwa
W. H. Spence
First Methodist Church
Kansas City
T. H. Maytag
Newton
A. J. Wood
Muscatine
Dean Taylor
Fairfield
George Wall
E. E. Phelps
Mount. Pleasant
Iowa Wesleyan College
Alice, MacBain
Wilton
Junction
Moscow
W. H. Purdue
Albia
C. L. Tennant
Pomona
Cal
C. R Zimmerman
North Liberty
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R. J. Carroll
Pioneer Natl Bank
G. C. Kennedy
RCA
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Raymond’ Hall
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Electric Park
Labor Day
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Lou Rollinger
Fort Dodge
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Ernie ‘North
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Guy Parson
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