Iowa Opens Schools As Rural Districts Grow
Des Moines reports Iowa schools start this week with about 525000 pupils and 26000 teachers. Rural districts total 201, up from 140 a year ago, reflecting major investment in modern schools, trained teachers, and increased funding across the state. President Seerley notes the rural education era is beginning, with better houses, equipment, and curricula expanding opportunities for country children.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Flor
Tows
H. H. Seerley
Iowa State Teachers’ College
Towa Ive
Charges Prince Slew Belgian Nobleman
The Westminster Gazette reports a Belgian murder case with Baron Duteghm Dacor killed by a revolver shot to the back. German officers were implicated. Prince Stolberg and Count Gogern faced trials with Stolberg sentenced to penal servitude and Gogern to ten years hard labor.
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London
Westminster Gazette
Baron Duteghm Dacor
Ghent
Prince Stolberg
Count Gogern
Mte
Gogern
Mystery Veils Lawyer Death and Feud Rumor
Police probe the murder of Dwight Dilworth on a remote road near here as a Kansas City connection emerges with six relatives dying violently in recent years. Mary McNiff, with Dilworth, describes two masked attackers who ordered him to surrender before he was shot.
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New York
Dwight Dilworth
Here
Kansas City
Dilworth
Mary McNiff
Slander suit seeks 65000 in damages amid farm remarks
Fred C. Gutknecht is sued for slander after remarks at a Rasmussen farm near Hudson on July 23. Rasmussen claims damage to reputation worth 5000 dollars in the presence of several witnesses. The complaint lists A H Brandhorst Edward Seufferlein Henry LaFranz John Benjaman Dewey Garter Dan Gutknecht Glenn Joder and others. Divorce suits also noted with Mabel Kraushaar vs Henry Kraushaar and Edna McGee versus Earl McGee seeking alimony and separation terms.
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Fred C. Gutknecht
Jens P. Rasmussen
Hudson
Rasmussen
Gutknecht
A. H. Brandhorst
Edward Seufferlein
Henry LaFranz
John Benjaman
Dewey Garter
Dan Gutknecht
Glenn Joder
Dan Cup
Arez
Mabel Kraushaar
Henry Kraushaar
Edna McGee
Earl McGee
German Spy Felice Plaat Executed in Marseilles
Paris reports German denial of Felice Plaat being German and details of her spying case. The Frenchwoman born in Nancy, who went from Metz to Belgium, received 5000 francs for another mission, was caught in Marseilles and condemned by a court martial on July 10.
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Paris
Marseilles
Felice Plaat
Edith Cavell
Brussels
Fer Nee Pfaat
Belgium
Queer foods sold as oil substitutes in Belgium frauds exposed
Amsterdam reports Belgian food surrogates reveal extensive frauds as oil becomes scarce. Substitutes include an oil sauce 99.25 percent water, a mayonnaise with 86 percent water and others like meat extract 64 percent water, burned sugar and salt. Butter sold at 31.20 a kilo is actually tallow and borax. Jal jam from seaweed and coffee from senna seeds noted.
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Amsterdam
Belgium
Stewart Resigns as Assistant Cashier for New Bank Post
R. W. Stewart, after six years as assistant cashier at Security Savings Bank, resigns to become cashier of Farmers State Bank at Rudd. Formerly with Citizens Savings, he has been active in YMCA work here and is highly recommended by officers of his current bank.
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R. W. Stewart
Security Savings Bank
Farmers State Bank
Rudd
Stewart
Citizens Savings Bank
Paper Crisis Prompts Government Price Plan and Trade Action
Washington Sept 6. A Tavenner bill proposes 1 million dollars to build or buy a 50 ton daily wood pulp mill and directs land releases to aid pulp production. It aims to standardize paper costs via annual manufacturing cost statistics for publishers and allows surplus sale at cost. The federal trade commission urges News Print Manufacturers to aid small papers with fair rates and consider Sunday work and curtailment to boost output.
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Washington
Waterloo
Secretary of the Interior
Congress
Tavenner
Commission
Federal Trade Commission
News Print Manufacturers’ Association
Holden to Manage New Charles City Hotel
C. L. Holden, linked with Horton-Holden Hotel Co, will be general manager of a Charles City hotel under construction by Hart-Parr Mfg Co. The 64 room property will feature a dining room for 160 and a cafe. Holden, in Waterloo en route to Chicago, awarded the ice box contract and will equip the hotel.
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C. L. Holden
Horton-Holden Hotel Company
Waterloo
Charles City
Hart-Parr Manufacturing Company
Holden
Chicago
Early Settlers Annual Phonic Program Details
Program for the Early Settlers’ annual includes a noon picnic with coffee and cream, bring cups. At 7 p.m. in the coliseum there will be invocation, minutes read, male quartet, Elise Blough reading, Judge C W Mullan paper on an Early Educational Institution in Waterloo, short talks by settlers, and officer elections. Members must have resided in the county 23 years or longer.
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Elise Blough
C. W. Mullan
Watterloo
Pettit Ready to Die For His Crime Says He Will Die
In Chivago John Maurlen Pettit proclaims he is ready to die for the murder of his airl bride Kathryn Keiser Pettit. Authorities weigh his sanity as pivotal to guilt or innocence while Pettit recovers from injuries and awaits court action. Detective notes dispute of a gunshot wound and possible re-enactment of the crime upon recovery.
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Pettit
Chivago
John Maurlen Pealt
Kathryn Keiser Pettit
George Keiser
Larkin
Pertiv
Dridwall
Shanahan
Pattit
Detactive Beeternitz
Chicago
Detactive
Petsh Tik
Despair Ends in Suicide of Disabled Milwaukee Woman
Minnie Steinberg, 20, missing two artificial legs after a past railroad injury, hanged herself last night in her sister Anna Kanitz’s home. Once awarded damages against the railroad, overturned on appeal, she had returned to work in a stocking factory but faced renewed hardship and disappointment from her sweetheart’s broken promise.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Minnie Steinberg
Anna Kanitz
Minnie
Insane Hospital Care Costs Rise in 1910s
The Independence hospital reports per capita care and maintenance will rise to 115 dollars monthly after September 1, up from 14 dollars previously. The county hospital for incurable insane costs just under 10 dollars monthly, with state rates having fluctuated from 112 to 15 dollars over recent years.
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J. J. Rainbow
Row- Ty
W. P. Crumhacker
Independence
New County Hospital
Singing Evangelist Held For Korbeily
Sioux City police court heard T. J. Lee a former Chinese diplomatic corps member and graduate of the University of Tawa testify against Rev. W. M. Wall singing evangelist minister and robber in a bathhouse. The Chinese student had Rev. Hull arrested on a charge of stealing 720 from his purse while bathing.
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Sioux City
T. J. Lee
University of Tawa
WW. M. Wall
Mr. Hull
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