Three World War Heroes Address Legionnaires in Paris
From the same platform three great World War figures Gen John J Pershing Marshal Foch and Gen Gouraud spoke at the American Legion convention in Paris pledging everlasting friendship and world peace. The audience of about 20000 cheered wildly as Foch emphasized understanding and cooperation among allied leaders toward humanity's peace and progress. Meanwhile a tragedy struck the convention in Daris as Wayne B Schwenneker of Adam Ja fa member of Desabies fell ill aboard a Cherbourg train.
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Paris
John J. Pershing
Foch
Gouraud
American Legion
Legionnaires
Pershing
All
Nova
Daris
INS
Legion
Wayne
Schwenneker
Adam
Desabies i
Cherbourg
Flight Victims and Pilots Listed in Monoplane Incident
A page continues listing pilots and passengers connected to a monoplane crash or mishap, including EB Hamilton Kago and Emil Burgin among others, with origins in Chicago Philadelphia Spokane and Portland. Names linked to airlines Waco and Travelair appear, detailing crews and passengers.
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Laird Whirlwind
EB. EL. Ballougt
Chicago
G. I. Fick
Coral
Chicagoan
Pds
BuClai Michi
Se Aeke
Campbell
Tony Mankiewitz
Hempae
Jack ‘Worthingto
York
Namfr
Rane
Spokane
Iso sPitcairn
Iowan Showing Way in Race of Class B Ships
The New York to Spokane air derby sees Class B ships depart from Bryan Ohio and proceed toward Chicago. Pilots Dake Roberts Dake and McMehon with others report cold conditions and gear shortages as four planes reach Chicago with one withdrawing. A missing pilot Tex Legrone reports landing Ashland Pennsylvania, noting a broken propeller but safe return for both crew.
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Bryan
Chicago
R. E. Dake
Pittsburgh
Verne Roberts
Fargo
N. D
Gerald R. Smith
Tacoma
Wash
Eaglerock
Lps
St. Paul
C. B. McMehon
Miles City
Mont
Hess Bluebird
Fileet
Hartford
Genn
Waco
Dillon
Moline
Kansas City
Tex Legrone
Ashland
Lagrone
J. D. Brock
Burht
Confession puts father cleared in Messner case
Cedar Rapids Sept 20 Lyle Messner 14 confessed he killed 6 year old Kathleen Forrest and hid the body in a basement hole. County Attorney Barngrover said indictment for first degree murder expected before adjournment. Parents released after confession.
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Cedar, Rapids
Lyle. Messner
Kathleen Forrest
Barngrover
Cedar Rapids
Kathleen. Forrest
Lyle Messner
Messner
Searchers Discover Chicago Girl's Brutal Slaying
Chicago reporters recount the discovery of Edna Miller a 14 year old Hillside Illinois girl found slain in a vacant lot on the western edge of Chicago after her first day as a housemaid. She vanished after leaving work last night. A fatal blow to the head and signs of strangulation were noted. Dr Joseph Springer the coroner's physician said death was almost instantaneous from a blunt instrument.
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Chicago
Edna Miller
John’ Miller
Hillside
Joseph Springer
Helped Two Women Start Stalled Car on Jackson Street
At 11 30 a m today two women needed assistance starting a stalled coupe on Jackson Street. William G Rohle of 325 Halsted Street reported to police that 65 in cash and a 10 check payable to his wife vanished from his hip pocket after the incident.
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Jackson Street
Wilam G. Rohle
Halsted Street
Rohle
Death notice for Frederick N. Rogers 70
Mortuary notice from Waterloo reports the death of Frederick N. Rogers aged 70 at his home in Los Angeles after heart trouble. Formerate Waterloo employee of Citizens Gas & Electric, now Iowa Public Service. Survived by widow Edith J. Rogers two sons George and Robert and two daughters Gertrude A. Jenkins and Myrtle Rogers, all of Los Angeles. Funeral services conducted by Rev J R Macartney, former pastor at First Presbyterian Church.
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Frederick N. Rogers
Waterloo
Arlington Avenue
Los Angeles
Cal
Rogers
Citizens Gas & Electric Co
Iowa Public Service Company
Edith J. Rogers
George
Robert Rogers
Gertrude A. Jenkins
Myrtle Rogers
Los Angees
J. R. Macartney
Mr. Rogers
First Presbyterian Church
Funeral services for James Joyce at Antioch Baptist Church
Funeral services for James Joyce aged 27 who died at Oakdale state sanitarium will be held at 2 p m Thursday at Antioch Baptist Church with Rev G W Day officiating. Burial will follow in Elmwood Cemetery.
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James Joyce
State Sanitarium
Oakdale
Antioch Baptist Church
G. W. Day
Elmwood
Funeral Services for Mrs Jennie Avery
Funeral services for Mrs Jennie Alseda Avery who died at her home on 408 Glenwood Street will be held at 8 a.m. Thursday in the Kistler chapel. The body will be sent to Mt. Auburn Iowa for burial.
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Jennie Alseda Avery
Glenwood Street
Kistner
Mt. Auburn
City Faces Suit Over Overdue Fire Warrants
First National Bank, Arbuckle, holds about 700 warrants issued since Jan 16, 1925 for fire department operations including salaries. City unpaid due to fund shortages. auditor says expenditures since 1924-1926 matched appropriations but tax revenue lagged. If bank wins, judgment bonds may be issued to cut interest from 6% to about 4.25%.
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National Bank
Arbuckle
Charles C. MacKay
MacKay
Wartime Animosities Revived in Lawsuit Over Yellow Paint
Bloomfield Sept 20. Jury selection in E G Dickson's $100000 damages suit over yellow paint smeared on his house during World War I proceeds as a special panel of 86 veniremen is called. Dickson sues 10 citizens for $10000 each, marking the third suit linked to the episode in Davis County courts. Previous actions included an assault and battery claim over Red Cross solicitations and a federal case accusing him of disloyal conduct, with mixed outcomes.
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Bloomfield
Dickson
Davis
Red Cross
Magnus Johnson to Address Des Moines Farmers Union Meet
Des Moines expects ten thousand farmers for the annual Farmer Labor picnic and convention opening at Garrick theatre tomorrow. Speakers include Magnus Johnson farmer Labor senator from Minnesota Van A Bittner West Virginia coal mining official and other farm labor leaders on the program.
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Des. Moines
Des Moines
Farmer-Labor
Iowa Farmers Union
Garrick
Magnus Johnson
Farmer- Laborite
Minnesota
van A. Bittner
Virginia Coal, Mining
Farm‘labor
Two Killed in Polls Riots in Pittsburgh
In Pittsburgh during the contested primary campaigns in Allegheny County two men died from gangland gunfire as polls opened. George Faber, 24, an bystander, was shot outside a store in the strip district and died. John Rohan, 19, was killed by spray from gunfire while in a parked automobile.
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Pittsburgh
INS
Alegheny
George Faber
John Rohan
Faber
Rohan
U. S. Ready to Raise French Goods Duties
Washington notes inform Paris the United States is prepared to lift import duties on French goods if discrimination against American products ends under France’s new tariff. The note replies to Paris’s rejection of a most favored nation treaty proposal.
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Washington, D. C
France
United States
Paris
Three Thousand Chinese in Battle at Lunghwa near Shanghai
Three thousand Chinese soldiers clashed at Lunghwa near Shanghai. There were 89 casualties as a regiment under Gen Ho Ying-ching tried to disarm 1,500 troops loyal to Gen Chen Chio-chien, who ultimately were disarmed.
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Shanghai
Lunghwa
Ho Ying- Ching
Chen Chio-Chien
Waterloo firemen fail to save $5,000 farm home
Fire Chief Ray Tiller and three Waterloo firemen rushed in a car with David Seigel to Janesville yesterday afternoon as his father’s large farm home burned. They arrived after the blaze had destroyed the structure, with damage estimated at $5,000.
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David Seigel
South Street
Ray Tiller
Ray Garrabrant
Clinton Lindsey
A. G. Holden
Seigel
Janesville
Gates to Address West High Students
Bruce Gates president of Gates college will address West High students at an assembly tomorrow afternoon. He will tell of his recent trip to Ostend Belgium and his experiences at the international Rotary convention.
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Bruce Gates
Gates College
West High School
Ostend
Belgium
Scout Executive Leads Eleventh Beaver Patrol
Arthur F. Jury, local Boy Scout executive, named patrol leader of the Eleventh Beaver Patrol among executives at Briarcliff Manor training, expected home late this week. James B. West, national scout executive, gave diplomas to the graduating class Sunday. After July, preparations begin for the Boy Scout booth at the Dairy Cattle Congress showcasing scout work.
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Arthur F. ‘Jury
Briarcliff Manor
Beaver
James
EB. West
National Scout Executive
Dairy Cattle Congress
Kline Announces Iowa Teachers Assn Program
Charles W. Kline announces the seventy third annual Iowa State Teachers Association meeting in Des Moines from November 3 to 5. The three day program features 70 plus meetings and talks by Ruth Bryan Owen B A Lindley and others. A joint concert by Sophie Breslau and Joseph Szigeti is planned. Schools will be dismissed during the conference period.
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Charles’ W. Kline
East’ Public Schools
Iowa State Teachers Association
Chicago University
William McAndrew
Chicago
Edwin. A. Lee
American Vocation Association
Miss .Agnes
Samuelson
Sophie Breslau
Joseph Szigeti
Go Getting. Laundry Owner Injured Over Family Bundle
Cedar Rapids Iowa Sept 20 F A Burchard proprietor of a local laundry is hospitalized after a rival claimed a family bundle it belonged to Mrs Bert Lothian. In a dispute with Grant Brownell over the washing Burchard leaped on a moving car to seize the bundle and was thrown when a brace rod broke.
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Cedar Rapids
F. A. Burchard
Bert Lothian
Grant
Brownell
Burchard
Blood Tests Prove Little Experts Say in Smith Case
Five medical experts refuted the value of blood tests to determine parentage in the Smith baby dispute. They said tests would not provide conclusive evidence. Judge Weygandt noted a speculative test might be possible if a rare blood peculiarity appeared in both parents and child.
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Cleveland
Smith
Sam Smith
Common Pleas
Carl V. Weygandt
Lived Happily Till Married, He Claims
Timatio Medina, a Mexican, testified in Des Moines court that 10 years of common law marriage brought peace until a 1922 ceremony, after which his wife left him five times in five years, fought him and wrecked his health, and he seeks a decree of divorce.
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Des Moines
Timatio Medina
Medina
Hunt Young Bandit With Wobbly Hand
Des Moines police investigated a robbery at R. F. Payton filling station where an apparent novice, about 20 years old, held up the attendant and stole $25. Payton said the revolver hand shook visibly as the suspect operated.
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Des Moines
INS
R. F. Payton
Payton
Temperature Report For Monday And Tuesday
Readable weather data shows a Monday maximum near 62 and a Monday night minimum around 36. Tuesday temperatures ranged from 41 at 7 AM to about 50 by 3 PM with partial readings missing or garbled.
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Ceseenees
Sewweeewesene
Sacescevessaae Sl
Return of Fred Scheufele From State Hospital
Fred Scheufele, who shot Deputy Sheriff W. Dilworth and City Detective Drumline, has recovered enough to be returned to the state hospital at Independence from Allen Memorial hospital. He was shot three times but bullets missed vital organs. Sheriff Wagner said he expects criminal charges to be filed within days.
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Fred Scheufele
Dilworth
Sigh ‘Crumline
Wagner
Mts Vernon’ Township
State Hospital
Independence
Scheufeles
Allen Memorial Hospital
Earl Wray
Scheufele
Pointblank
Drumline
F.w.edwards
John Casey 80 Dies. Waterloo Resident Since 1856
John Casey aged 80 a Waterloo Iowa resident for 21 years died at 430 pm yesterday at his home 310 Oak avenue of heart disease after illness He was born in Cambridge Massachusetts Aug 15 1947 and moved to Iowa in 1856 at age nine He married Anne Moore July 1 1873 in Kewanee Illinois They lived on a Lawler farm until 1906 then moved to Waterloo Surviving are his widow children including Mrs W J Dooley W J Casey L A Casey Los Angeles and many others sisters grandchildren and a great grandchild Also surviving are two siblings and several Baptist Casey relatives One daughter Sister Mary Anthony and a son Leo preceded him Funeral 9 am Thursday at St Josephs Catholic Church Rev Fr Edward Slattery officiating Body to Lawler for burial in family plot.
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John Casey
Waterloo
Oak, Avenue
Cambridge
Mass
Iowa
Lawler
Anne Moore
Kewanee
Ill
Waterlolo
W. J. Dooley
L. A
Mary Anthony
Leo
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
Edward Slattery
Abandons His Lion Passenger in Desert Crash
Phoenix, Sept. 20. Martin Jensen, ocean flyer, is safe at Apache Lodge after a forced landing on a Arizona mountainside. He had been missing since Friday and hiked three days to reach aid. The lion passenger, unharmed but thirsty, remained in the wrecked plane as extraction plans proceed.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Martin Jensen
Ocean Flier
San Diego
New York
Arizona
Apache Lodge
Here
He Jensen
Piet Jensen
Six Bandits Loot Cicero Bank Messenger Hold Up
Six masked bandits armed with shotguns robed four messengers from First National Bank of Cicero as they transferred funds to Kaspar American State Bank in Chicago. They fled in an automobile driven by Charles Krupka, Cicero bank president, taking $95,000 in cash checks and powder.
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Chicago
INS
First National” Bank
Cicero
Kaspar American State Bank
Charles Krupka
Cicero Bank
Burglar Pleads Guilty in Sept Office Break In
Webster C. Moss pleaded guilty before Judge G W Wood to breaking and entering the Electrical Research & Manufacturing Co office on September 9 and taking personal property. Moss was sentenced to 60 days in county jail and fined $50.
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Webster C. Moss
G. W. Wood
The
Electrical Research &Manufacturing Co
Auto Deaths Boost Life Insurance Rates
Fred Repass told Canopus club members at Black's tearoom that automobile accidents causing about 2000 deaths monthly affect mortality tables and insurance rates. He noted shifts in death ratios, the cost to insure aviators, and that life insurance remains a major global business with 3 percent of American income going to it and 85 percent of wealth left to dependents coming from life insurance.
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Fred Repass
Canopus Club
Open season on pheasants approved near Grundy Center
The state game warden's office has allowed an open season on pheasants after petitions from landowners were found sufficient. Details on timing are not yet learned.
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Grundy Center
Formal acceptance of Hawthorne school to be made
The East District School Board will accept Hawthorne school at tonight's September meeting in Charles W. Kline's offices after completing an inspection to verify contract terms and materials used. The building will be dedicated in early October with an all day program for district parents teachers and students. The board will decide at the meeting whether a night school will be conducted this year.
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Hawthorne
Charles
W. Kline
Miller tells Kiwanis how Germany changed since 1888
John G. Miller, building contractor and Waterloo Rotary delegate, spoke at Hotel Russell-Lamson lunch on Germany today. He recalled his 1888 apprenticeship earning 12 1-2 cents a day, noting rapid postwar industry and commerce, evolving religiosity, atheism, and contentment among young workers. He said Germans show no hostility to America or England.
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Germany
United States
John G. Miller
Kiwanis
Russell-Lamson
Land
Waterloo
Ostend
Belgium
Miller
America
England
Intelligence Tests in East Schools
Dr E L Ritter of Iowa State Teachers college Cedar Falls conducts general intelligence tests in seventh eighth and ninth grades of East district public schools this week. Tests will cover reading language and arithmetic in fourth through seventh grades soon. Principals will supervise and results go to Ritter for tabulation and grading. Charles W Kline superintendent says tests aid in determining individual and general aptitude of public school pupils.
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E. L. Ritter
Extension ‘Department
Iowa State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
East
Ritter
Charles W. Kline
Father John's Medicine Ad for Child Health in School Time
A vintage advertisement urges parents to use Father John's Medicine to keep children healthy as fall and winter approach. It touts seventy years of trust, emphasizes no alcohol or harmful drugs, and promotes restoring health after vacation. It frames the product as safeguarding children's fighting strength against sleet, snow, coughs, and colds.
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Tyrrare
Father John
John
Waterloo Youth Electrocuted by Holt Current
The Waterloo tragedy reports Ralph Frazier, 20, of Des Moines born 1907, died instantly while reworking a four floor damp area at John Deere Tractor Company in Waterloo. He stood on wet ground and touched a damp soil pipe near a live socket, ground conduction likely fatal. Firemen and coroners attended. Frazier recently joined Corn Belt Business College and worked as a plumber helper at the plant. Survived by mother Mrs Herman Osterman Greene brother Hugh Frazier Greene two half brothers Richard Osterman Greene and Charles Osterman Greene uncle Fred E May 319 Glendale street Waterloo.
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Ralph
Wraxier
Glendale Street
John
Deere Tractor. Company
Homer
Greene
Frazier
Business College
Waterloo
Corn Belt Business College
Tractor Company
Ralph Frazer
Des Moines
Herman Osterman
Hugh Frazier
Richard
Charles Osterman
Amy
Fred E. May
Best O Joy Corn Wafer Ad Promises Quick Pain Relief
An old advertisement touts O Joy Corn Wafers as a painless remedy for corns. It claims no acids or doughnut pads are needed, simply press a wafer on the corn and wear shoes. The ad promises immediate pain relief and eventual removal of corn roots, with six wafers selling for 10 cents.
Y e Men Founder to visit Waterloo club October 17
Waterloo affairs announce Paul W Alexander Toledo founder of Y e Men International will guest at the club meeting Monday night October 17. Homer Allbright secretary disclosed the report following the weekly meeting in the xy dining room. Allbright reported Edgar J McCoy Canton was elected international president succeeding Dr O O Schneider Milwaukee.
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Paul
Alexander
Toledo
Newcomer and Residents Listed in Waterloo Directory
A Waterloo directory snippet lists Mr and Mrs Newcomer Benjamin EB Ryan at 142 Grant Carmel Thaunock 1914 Randolph H J Saylor 421 Sixth West and others including Mrs T B King 914 Baltimore E L Huddleston 4181-2 Fourth East Jack Retlow 632 Second West Sr Anderson Elvan R Hatsen 505 Washington Roy Jones 212 Seventh East B O Geiger 605 Wyoming G B Graves 629 Mullan West Mrs MES Glasco 319 Brockwell Arms apartments Nine households were reported moving from the city.
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Benjamin EB. Ryan
Grant
Carmel
Thaunock
Randolph
Baltimore
Roy. Jones
B.'O.' Geiger
Wyoming
Bo Graves
Mullan
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Iowan
Louis Ratelguee
R. H. Jackson
United States Battle Fleet
I. T N
Messner Cage
Jennie Avery
CITY
Des Moines Farmers Union
U. S
Gates
West High
Scout
Beaver Patrol
Arthur F. Jury
Kline
Ruth Bryan Owen
Hunt
Bandit
Avigena
Chicago Bandits
Repass
Conopus
Hovolt
Ralph’ Frazier
Herbert Gilley
Erville Andrews
Archie’McBinney
Fire Department
Palmotor
Ees
Ralph Frazier
Howard
Robert Drug Co
J. Miller
Y’e'Men
MR. and
Mrs. Newcomer
Alsa
Independent Meat and Grocery
Campbell’s Pork and Beans
Cem
van Camp
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