Norsemen Reach Labrador Question Baffles MacMillan
Sydney Nova Scotia date from 1927 Bowdoin expedition reports Norse evidence remains inconclusive while Eskimo legends hint Norse contact. MacMillan notes Norse sites from Greenland and indigenous accounts point to possible Norse presence with ruins and narratives. The voyage highlights Arctic biology, Kodlunarn island, and natives clamoring for autos during travels.
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Sydney
N.S
Donald B. MacMian
Arctic
Subarctic
Ormot
Labrador
Bowdoin
Nan
Wiscasset
Altho
Eskinfo
Hudson Bay Company
Ray Rupert
Kodlunarn Island
Frobisher Bay
MacMillan
Eskimos
Greenland
Altna
Lieir
Waterloo man George Rollins dies at 75
George Otis Rollins aged 75 died at 1 35 p m yesterday at his home 314 Cortlandt street after a period of ill health He was a Waterloo resident 29 years and rose to superintendent at Waterloo Saddlery before retiring Born April 22 1853 in Boston he came to Iowa at age 10 He lived in Marion and Cedar Rapids until 1893 then moved to Waterloo He married Addie M Pretz on Jan 11 1899 at Rothwell Ia Surviving are his widow two daughters Mrs Ralph Alexander and Mrs H F Whitney Waterloo three sons Leon W Central City Ia Harry G Waterloo and Raymond C Alameda One sister Mrs Ida Bourne Lot Beach Cal and one grandson The body is at Kistner s Mortuary
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George Otis Rollins
Cortlandt Street
Waterloo
Waterloo Saddlery Company
Mr. Rollins
Boston
Mess
Iowa
Marion
Cedar Rapids
Addie M. “Pretz
Rothwell
Waterloo Lodge
A. P
Black Hawk Lodge
Ralph Alexander
H. F. Whitney
Leon W
Central City
Harry G
Raymond C
Fire Alarms Traced at Waterloo Factory and Laundry
A pair of fire alarms were reported Monday at a Waterloo factory on Park Avenue and Jefferson and at the Waterloo Laundry Company. Investigations cited causes as false alarms and smoke, with no damage. A local ad for Hermon Hiller lists contact at phone 2904.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Park Avenue
Jefferson
Craft Waives Examined by Psychiatry Move in Waterloo
Craft and Mrs. Craft and County Attorney Edwards met Judge Boies to seek a court order for Craft to be examined by psychiatrists at University Hospital Iowa City. Hospital crowding delays assessment, with superintendent saying room must be found, likely within days if ordered. Craft, shot wife twice in auto, appeared calmly in city hall with jailer, few recognizing him as Vera Craft recovers at home and supports medical care for her husband.
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Graft
F. W. Edwards
H. &. Boies
District Court
Craft
University Hospital
Iowa City
Edwards
Craft Cnly
Harry Allen
City
Vera Craft
Fir Spring Creek
Waterloo
Harry Graft
Blough
Leaky Pipe Halts Two Frenchmen's Flight to New York
The French pilots Lefevre and Assolant faced delays as a leak and hiding acts disrupted the takeoff from Le Bourget. Lefevre will navigate and Assolant pilots the journey toward New York, with refueling possibly needed at Dekar due to a late change of plans.
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New York
Shangar
Lotti
Lefevre
Lott
Assolant
le Bourget
Dekar
Burelars Enter Nine Homes Here in Night Prowl
A local report describes a series of break ins taking place at night with nine homes entered. The article lists suspects and notes police investigations involving residents including Earls, Canter, and a 1927 street address while noting small items stolen and windows left open. Additional entries reference marriage licenses and residents in Waterloo, Mihwaukee, and Ovden with dated details and names such as HaroId Rietz and Beth Crowell.
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Scostinuet
Page
P. Canter
Wios Street
Baseball results National League report
National League baseball results show New York and Brooklyn games with inning details and player mentions. Shown are box scores or line results, listing pitchers Hobber Evans Ferguson Davis and batters Vanes Deterry Greenfeld Cooney Tayior, among others, with scores indicated.
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National League
New York
Omi
Hobber
Evans Ting
Ferguson
Davis
Brooklyn
the Toston
Vanes
Deterry
Greenfeld
Cooney
Lana Tayior
Waterloo Schools See Fall Enrollment Rise Across District
Enrollment at Waterloo west public schools opens the fall term with 3898 pupils, up 111 from 1927. West High leads gains with 936 students. other increases appear at Central Sloane Wallace Junior High Waterloo Junior High and multiple elementary buildings. Parochial enrollment reaches 981 across four schools with Sacred Heart awaiting figures.
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Waterloo West
Charles A. Bittrell
West High
Central
Lowell
Sloane Wallace
Waterloo Junior High
Whittier
St. Mary’s
St. John's
Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran
Canopus District Convention Plans Circulated Here
Waterloo club in Black's tearoom discussed Canopus district joint meeting planned for October. Clubs in Minneapolis St. Paul Des Moines Cedar Rapids and Waterlog to participate. Autumn and winter bridge evenings proposed for members and wives twice weekly. Tuesday Sept 18 meeting to be a family party. Des Moines club invited to Greenwood park picnic next Saturday with CG. E. Butler international president among attendees. He Peek named to arrange details.
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Canopus
Waterloo
Black
Minneapolis
Des Moines Club
Greenwood Park
CG. E. Butler
Lee Hill
E. G. Carey
E. E. Peek
BR. W. Johnston
S. Rhinehart
H. A. Lawrence
Peek
Franchise Granted for Power Line to Finehford
The Black Hawk county Board of Supervisors granted Cedar Falls to Finehford a 6,200 volt electric line franchise. The proposed 24.5 mile route would pass Udar Falls Union and Washing wirie Des Moines al for Northwestern Bell. A company said it would not press objections tied to potential interference with phone lines.
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Black Hawk
Guthrie and
Clark Streeter
Cedar Falls
Bank Sues Hawkeye Fair Exposition Lender Over Mortgage
Fort Dodge Iowa September 4 as suit seeking receivership for the Hawkeye Fair and Exposition and foreclosure of the mortgage on the fair grounds bonds issued at 100000. The Fort Dodge National Bank files suit alleging the fair has lost money for years with this year’s deficit over seven thousand dollars.
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Fort Dadge
Hawkeye Fair
Fort Badge
Smith to reveal speaking dates in days ahead
Albany report says Governor Smith will announce his presidential campaign dates and venues within days. The Democratic nominee focuses on state business while national and local committees build a nationalized campaign structure with departments for farmers first voters women and naturalized citizens. Governor Smith urges haste to organize in New York to keep Democrats in control of the state government and avoid tying the state drive to a White House bid.
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Albany
N. Y
Smith
Govermnor
New York
Farm Department
First
M. William Bray
Allen
Upstate
Syraneuse
James 4. Farley
State Committee
Metropolis
Syracuse
Ths
White House
Thirty nine Planes Preps for Continental Derby Start
Roosevelt Field prepares for the National Air Derby with 39 Class A planes. Pilots and mechanics complete final adjustments as dawn launch from Minefield toward Los Angeles. Prizes total $5,000 to the winner and additional awards from $2,500 to $300.
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Roosevelt Field
INS
Los Angeles
Minesfield
Interurban line request denied by Iowa railroad commission
The Iowa railroad commission denied the Iowa Railway & Light Co. request to operate a through bus line from Cedar Rapids to Dubuque via Mount Vernon Anamosa Mont Beetle Cascade. Miles Landis of Anamosa operates a bus on the route. local notices list multiple building permits and a Chicago trip return for Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Fish and daughters.
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Wyoming
Iowa Railroad Commission
Iowa Railway & Light Co
Cedar, Rapids
Dubuque
Mount Vernon
Anamosa
Mon‘Beetle
Cascade
Miles Landis
Federal raid on Grant Williams restaurant in Waterloo
Federal agents and Tama County Sheriff conducted a raid on the Grant Williams restaurant in Waterloo’s North End after evidence linked Indian residents of the Tama reservation to liquor purchases. Officers seized moonshine and bottles, arrested Grant Williams the proprietor, and jailed him after a midnight arraignment. hearing set for Sept. 12.
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Grant Williams
Tama County
Tama Reservation
N. T. Wagner
North End
Waterloo
Linn Street
Thoroly
Grant
Hugh Crumrne
Ralph Davis
Charles Pickens
Toledo
W. C. Burgduff
Des Moines
Michigan Primary Not Very Exciting
Detroit September 4 with no outstanding issues or close contests Michigan voters faced a calm primary Gov. Fred W. Green sought renomination amid a fierce challenge from former Lieut. Gov. George W. Welsh but drew little opposition. No Democratic challenger appeared against William A. Comstock for governor and U S Senator Arthur H. Van denberg and John W Batley had Democratic senatorial bids with no rival contests.
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Detroit
Mich
U.A
Michigan
Fred W. Green
Tieut
George W. Welsh
Grand Rapids
William A. Comstock
Goveror
U.S
Arthur H. Vandenberg
John W. Batley
Texan in Mexico Jail to Be Tried for Pal's Crime
John Crosby Jr of Del Rio Texas is jailed in Villa Acuna Mexico on a charge tied to the death of San Antonio man Kastner. Crosby allegedly offered his liberty to his friend Tom Whitehead to stand trial, but Whitehead did not appear and Crosby faces trial in Piedras Negras across the Rio Grande. Efforts to return Kastner's body to the United States failed.
Youth Jailed for Shooting Despite Not Guilty Plea
In Winterset Lorenzo Hartman pleaded not guilty to assault with intent to commit murder after a Sunday morning shooting of his sweetheart Ivone Robinett. Bond set at 25000. Hartman, last seen by the wounded girl, is held in Madison county jail as a preliminary hearing is scheduled before Justice W. W. Cassady. Robinett remains in critical condition at Mercy hospital in Des Moines.
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Winterset
Lorenzo Hartman
Lwone Robinett
Hartman
Robinett
Barney
Justice of the Peace
W. W. Cassady
Madison County
Mercy Hospital
Des Moines
Hoover to Speak in Newark on Labor Topics
Washington dispatch reports Herbert Hoover will address a Newark New Jersey crowd Monday September 17 likely at the First Regiment Armory. The speech focusing on labor questions will air nationwide via radio hookup. Hoover pressed his campaign staff to clear his desk after Labor Day as he prepared for a series of party leader conferences.
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Washington
D. C
Herbert Hoover
Newark
N. J
Sloane
Hoover
New York
U.P
Alfred P. Sloane, Jr
General Motors
United States
John J. Raskob
Democratic National Committee
Pierre du Pont
Smith Sloane
Prohibition
Altho
du Pont
Democratic Party
Magnus Johnson backs Smith in Minnesota race endorsement
Magnus M. Johnson, former Farmer-Labor senator from Minnesota, endorsed Gov. Alfred E. Smith for president. He said Schall cannot offer practical government and criticized Democratic party infighting, pledging active campaigning for Smith. The Sept. 4 report notes Johnson defeated by Schall four years earlier and now shifts support to Smith.
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Brookhart
Hoover
Chicago
United States
Smith W. Brookhart
Iowa
Hebert Hoover
Reskob
Booze
Tammany
al Smith
Town
Bryan
Schall
Superior
Wis
Thomas Schall
Minnesota
Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Repubican
Gov. Smith
Magnus
Smith
Minneapolis
Minn
Magnus M. Johnson
Farmer- Labor Party
Thomas D. Schall
Alfred E. Smith
Newly Appointed Iowa State Secondary Road Commission Named
Oscar Feline Marcus was selected chairman and Louis H. Cook Des Moines named secretary to lead the Iowa state secondary road commission. Appointed weeks ago by Governor Hammill, the group will survey the secondary road situation and report findings to the legislature in January. Meetings will be held statewide with few further announcements until work begins in earnest.
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Des Moines
Oscar Feline
Marcus
State Secondary Road Commission
Hammill
Louis H. Cook
Iowa
Cook
Jowa Bishops Land in New South Wales
A party of 710 Catholic clergy from the United States arrived in Sydney New South Wales today to attend the eucharist congress. The group is headed by Bishop Dunn New York and includes Bishops Drumm Des Moines Heelan Sioux City and Schwertner Wichita.
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Sydney
New South Wales
United States
Lnner
Dunn
New York
Drumm
Des Moines
Heelan
Sioux City
Schwertnex
Wichita
Kan
Democrats Open State Headquarters in Des Moines
Democratic headquarters for the Iowa campaign opened on September 5th on the observatory building’s fifth floor. Publicity director Charles O'Donnell will run the office until state chairman Richard F. Mitchell of Fort Dodge arrives later in the week.
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Des Moines
Iowa
State Central Committee
Charles O'Donnell
Richard F. Mitchell
Fort Dodge
Coolidges to Start for East Next Week
President Coolidge will leave the summer White House for Washington early next week with plans to arrive by midweek. Officials in Superior Wis say the exact date was not released but the trip is confirmed and the president will be in Washington no later than the middle of the week.
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MacMillan
Superior
Wis
Coolidge
White House
Washington
Temperatures Given for Monday Tuesday Daily Readings
Readings list a Monday maximum and a Tuesday sequence including Monday night Tuesday morning 11 5 am Tuesday 3 pm temperatures. Exact values truncated in OCR.
Chamberlin Exits Race to Los Angeles in National Air Races
Clarence Chamberlin, famed trans Atlantic flyer and New York aeronautical engineer, is eliminated from the National Air Races class A entries from Roosevelt Field to Los Angeles. The Sperry Messenger plant is not a stock model, an official said.
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Roosevelt Field
Clarence Chamberlin
Fier
City of
New York
National Air Races
Los Angeles
Sperry Messenger
Stephen D. Day
National Air Rare Committee
Brain Tests in the Minnesota Evening Post
The page describes a brain test at leading universities using geometry definitions. Participants match figures to terms such as rectangle hexagon circle diameter parallelogram and equilateral triangle, with two minutes per entry and answers listed on a society page.
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F. Clrele
Sasacles Strangle
President Coolidge to be exhibited at Wisconsin fair
At Superior Wisconsin on September 4 the Tri State fair will showcase President Coolidge who said he consented to be exhibited but would not speak. He recalled boyhood fairs at Woodstock Illinois near his early home and noted he enjoys fairs when he does not have to address crowds.
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Superior
Wis
U,ri
Coolidge
Woodstock
Condition of Arthur Hentges Unchanged at Allen Memorial
The condition of Arthur Hentges, shot by the body while escaping Sheriff Harry Utley at Manchester last Thursday night, was reported as unchanged today at Allen Memorial hospital. Early reports indicated injuries to the body and leg, with medical staff awaiting further updates.
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Arthur Hentges
Harry Utley
Manchester
Allen Memorial Hospital
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Hoton
Emory Fotter
Martyn
Guy Boyce
Hammond Porter
Nashua
Are- Ciatick
Ter Waetor
Hermon
Hiller
Redveriwement
Bernice Parrish
Harold E. West
Chicago Coliseum
Ehner_ L. Garter
Watering
Hiene V. Reiley
Sorensen
Physter
Harold FB. Rietz
Mihwaukee
Beth K. Crowell
Waterino
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Ozden
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Ovden
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Alcott
John Fiske
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Waterloo Building 4 Loan Association
Waterloo Building& ‘Ton Association
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Waterloo Building & Loan Association
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W. E. Fish
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Marie
Gould
Glenn Gould Bishop
George Jay Gould
Reno
Nev
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Chamberlin
Evening Post, Inc
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