Preachers Call for Public Mind Focus at Upper Iowa Meeting
At the seventy second annual Upper Iowa conference in Cedar Falls Rev. J Arthur Young urged ministers to shape the public mind with singleness of purpose and simple effort. The session covered delegations, funding plans for Cornell College and Upper Iowa University, rural church solutions, lay participation, and honors for long serving ministers.
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fCourier
Cedar Falls
Moe
Waterloo
Upper Iowa
Methodist Episcopal Church
Hie
DY. Young
F. T. Keeney
Omaha
O. Culver
Witsigman
Frank Cole
L. ©. Lemen
Will Kerwin
Yourng
Rell Call
Earl Baker
Upper Tows
Corneil’ College
Mt. Vernon
William Kerwin
Fayebte
Dubuque
William McAndrew to Speak at Rotary Meeting October 3
Dr. William McAndrew former Chicago public schools head and noted educator will address Rotary Club members at a special session on Monday October 3 in the Hotel Fussell Lamson Chicago man made a favorable impression last month when he delivered the commencement address for the Weat High School class of AL.
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William McAndrew
Public School System of
Chicago
America
Rotary Club
Hotel Fussell-Lamson
McAndrew
Willam Hale Thompson
AL Weat. High School
Aviation derby leaders clash in last lap flight chase
New York to Spokane air derby sightings show E E Ballough leading at West with time 33 30 am followed by Holman Mamer Rankin and Wood as others land at St Paul Fargo and Chicago. Class B flights depart Fargo with early times and Ballough tops class A as six planes begin coastal westward leg toward Aberdeen and Spokane.
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Spokane
E. E. Ballough
Chicago
Ballough
C. W. Holman
St. Paul
N. B. Mamer
Tex Rankin
Portland
Ore
J. P. Wood
Wausau
Wis
Alter
E. H. Lee
James
Minnesota
Fargo Field
R. E. Duke
Pittsburgh
M. H. McMecham
Yakima
Wash
C. B. McMahan
Miles City
Mont
A. Stephenson
Dilton
J. B. Sidowski
Coffeyville
Kan
Gerald Smith
Tacoma
Pargo
Jeff
Here
Oldtimer
Minn
Aberdeen
D. A. Dickinson
C. Ww
Harman
Nicholas B. Mamier
Boo
Kane
Fox Rankin
Waco
Tex
John P. Wood
K. Campbell
Moline
I U
Cleveland
James & Ras
Philadelphia
S. D
Butte
Mills Field
San Francisco
Roosevelt Field
Eddie Stmnson
Detroit
GC. S
Duke
Legionnaires Demand Unit Control of Defense Forces
American Legionnaires at Verdun walk out of an official luncheon with Premier Poincare after protests over lengthy speeches. Generals Pershing Petain and Gouraud attended, with the scene described as hundreds leaving the hall to visit battlefields.
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Kansas
Poincare
Verdun
France
Battlefelds
Hfarthwrth
Pershing
Petain
Mrs Fraser Wins In Women’s Golf Tourney
Alexa Stirling Fraser of Royal Ottawa Golf Club defeats Glenna Collett of Greenwich Country Club two and one at Cherry Valley Club Garden City N Y in a semifinal step toward a possible fourth U S title. Farrell Case Dismissed Judge orders dismissal of manslaughter attempt charge against Kenneth Farrell Tilinots Central watchman in shooting of Tom Bennett.
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Mrs. Fraser
Cherry Valley Club
Garden City
N. Y
TNS
Alexa Stirling Fraser
Royal Ottawa Golf Club
Glenna Collett
Greenwich
Weather snippet with scattered temperatures and times
Readable fragment shows temperatures and daily notes. Mentions Tuesday and Wednesday with a 3 pm reference. Unclear locations or sources.
Urge Hanging for Messner Boy Faces Grand Jury Report
Cedar Rapids Iowa September report of the county grand jury into the slaying of Kathleen Porreat six year old. Fourteen year old Lyle Messner confessed to the crime and defense plans focus on indictment for first degree murder. Father retained a lawyer to defend and insanity plea considered. Arraignment expected late in the week. The girl’s body was found in a vacant house basement near the Messner home. Messner was arrested in Rock Island Illinois and returned to Iowa. He confessed to attacking and suffocating the child.
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Cedar Rapids
Kathleen Porreat
Lyle Messner
W. J. Barn- Stover
Messner
Barngrover
Rock Island
Confessions Given Under Fear of Mob Claimed
Mrs. Elsie Sweetin testified she confessed under fear of mob violence while prosecutors seek to use two confessions to convict her of murdering her husband to marry her pastor Lawrence M. Hight in Mount Vernon. Sonia Lee and Uncle Sum Sweetin testified previously in a hearing with the jury excluded. Mrs Sweetin sobbed and wept in court before Judge Pearce who will decide admissibility.
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Mount Vernon, I
Elsie Sweetin
Lawrence M. Hight
Sonia Lee
Sum" Sweetin
Elsie
Pearce
Sweetin
Rochester Doctor to Direct Clinic at Dairy Cattle Congress
Dr. V. V. Dowley of Mayo Brothers Hospital Rochester Minnesota will direct the children clinic at the Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo under the Waterloo Medical society. He will visit Tuesday to Friday and the clinic will operate in the women's and children's building with the medical society and Social Welfare league assisting.
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V. V. Dowley
Rochester
Dowley
Waterloo
New Yorkers Join Cook Tour to Dempsey Tunney Fight
A Thomas Cook & Sons flight package offered aerial transport from Roosevelt Field New York to Chicago for 375 dollars. Four ring fans joined wealthy financier William B. Leeds and six guests in a three motor Fokker, with lunch and hotel stays included for the Dempsey Tunney bout.
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Roosevelt Field
N. Y
LPX
Thomas Cook & Sons
Chicago
William
Leeds
Arthur Gaverton
Mortuary Memorial for Fredericka Sternat In Waterloo
Mrs Fredericka Sternat 73 died 7 50 p m Tuesday at her daughter Mrs Kopplin 328 Ricker Street after weeks paralysis. Born August 14 1854 in Germany she came to the United States in 1898 lived near Waverly farm then Denver. Surviving children Mrs Henry Rueger Mrs John Block Alex Sterket Fred Sternat and Mrs August Kempin. Body at Petersen Bros mortuary awaiting funeral plans.
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Fredericka Stearnat
Paul
Kop Plin
Ricker Street
Germany
United States
Waverly
Denver
Sternat
Waterloo
Lutheran Church
Kopplin
Henry <Rueger
Newell Street
John Block
Sumner Street
Alex Sterket
Glenwood Avenue
Fred Bternat
August Kempin
Frederickaburg
Petersen Bros’ Mortuary
Funeral for Ralph Frazier Ended at Greens Home
Funeral services for Ralph Frazier, electrocuted in an accident at the John Deere factory, will be held at his mother Mrs. Herman Osterman’s residence in Greens at 2 30 p m Thursday.
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Ralph Frazier
John Deere
Herman Osterman
Greens
Courtroom whispers on judge shooting misfires target
In the court, paid guardians and officers discuss the Patton murder scene. They believe the gunfire aimed at Tickner instead hit Judge Patton, with notes that a guardian named L. B. ner was present.
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Peer
Xass
Johnson
L. B
Duvall Trial Promises Heated Debate On Klan Deals
Indianapolis defense rests as state calls Lew Shank to rebut allegations that Mayor John L Duvall of Indianapolis promised Klansmen control of 85 percent of city jobs. Defense witnesses sought to discredit deals with the Ku Klux Klan amid claims of street paving allocations and promotions across city positions.
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Indianapolis
John. &. Duvall
Lew Shank
Shank
Doval
Ind
INS
John L. Duvall
Alege
Williat H. Armitage
Duvall
Detroit and Cleveland Vie for 1928 Republican Nominating Convention
Republicans weigh Detroit and Cleveland as potential sites for the 1928 national convention. Senate leaders Simeon D. Feas and George W. Moses push for Cleveland and Detroit respectively, arguing a midwest setting suits the party with Hoover’s candidacy uncertain and Coolidge retired. Chicago and Kansas City discussed as later possibilities.
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Kansas City
Detroit
Clevel
Simeon D. Feas
Ohio
George W. ‘Moses
New Hampshire
Herbert Hoover
Coolidge
San Francisco
Moses
Frisco
Michigan
St John’s Church Opens New Building With Open House
St John’s Catholic church opens its new building next Sunday with four school rooms a larger auditorium and a hall for Sisters and parish activities. A dinner served by St John’s ladies runs 11 30 to 1 30 then open house and social gathering for parish members and friends all afternoon.
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St. John’s Catholic Ichurch
St. John’s
St. John's
Three Boone Mines to reopen under Jacksonville wage scale
Three Boone Mines in Boone Ta will reopen under the Jacksonville wage scale by week end. The Boone Coal company signed for 7 50 a day with 200 miners expected to work about 600 tons daily. Other mines in Iowa and Illinois face wage talks as operators study a possible fifth member arbitration.
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Jacksonville
Boone Coal Company
Johnson Coal Company
Benson Coal ‘Company
Altho
Johnson and Boone
Iowa Coal Operators Association
George Heaps, Jr
Des Moines
Benson Coal Company
Hope
Ilinois
Chicago
Rice Miller
Imols
Taft
Dollar's Worth of 1913 Now Costs $1.52 for U S Food Buyers
Washington report shows the average American pays $1.52 for groceries bought in 1918, up 14 percent on fresh eggs, pork chops, oranges and other staples from mid July to mid August. cabbage and potatoes drop sharply while several items edge lower.
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U.S
Washington
D. C
Labor Department
Mason City Man Identified After Death Near Emporia
The body of a Mason City man, B. M. Rowley, identified near Emporia, Kansas, is confirmed. He left Mason City over two weeks ago on a VA vacation and appears to have been shot and robbed.
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Mason City
Emporia
Ian
B. M. Rowley
Rowley
Three Arrests Made on Liquor Indictments
Arrests on bench warrants tied to grand jury indictments include Fred Turner charged with bootlegging with $1,000 bond, B J Duffy for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated with $1,000 bond, and Jerry Frahm for DWI with $1,000 bond. Francis Gaffney remains wanted on a false check charge, sought at West Union and Charles City.
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Grand
Fred Turner
B. J. Duffy
Jerry Frahm
Francis Gaffney
West Union
Charles City
Wagner
Robbery at Fourth Street Home Endangers Mrs Collins
Mrs. Clara Collins reports two masked men forced entry to her home at noon on Fourth Street East, ransacked drawers and seized $80 cash and a watch from her uncle William Travis. She described one man as short in a light suit and the other larger with a mustache. both fled. Police under Officer Harry Johnson investigated.
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Clara Collins
Fourth Street
Abner
William Travis
Hog Load Delivers Record Weight to Rath Packing
J R Albright of Grundy Center delivered 32 hogs weighing 11 800 pounds to Rath Packing by motor truck, earning 1 126 dollars. A second load of 33 hogs the next day was smaller in total weight. The two ton G M C Buick double deck truck carried the hogs in high gear.
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J. R. Albright
Grundy Center
Rath Packing Company
Albright
Buick
Roads Commission Lets Contracts for Two Million Dollars in Work
The Iowa State Highway Commission approved contracts totaling 2,099,374.52 for paving 70,046 miles of highways across nine counties Benton Keokuk Monroe O'Brien Woodbury Washington Cedar Scott and Muscatine. The largest contract 17.94 miles of primary highways 21 and 10 in O'Brien County went to O F Grid Construction Sioux City for 418,263.75.
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Iown
Benton
Keokuk
Monroe
O’brien
Woodbury
Washington
Ceder, Scott
Muscatine
O'Brien County
0. F. Cyte Construction Company
Sioux
Riots in Hankow Target Japanese and British
Reports from Washington state that Hankow China suffers serious rioting against Japanese and British with machinegun fire in clashes killed several and casualties as Chinese soldiers move to arrest sabor leaders in the former British concession. Barricades rise around the French concession as the situation eases slightly by morning.
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Washington
D. C
Hankow
China
Sabor
Poisoning blamed for box lunch illnesses in Los Angeles
Violent illness struck a score of men women and children many from a motion picture company attributed to adulterated food sold in box lunches. M B Siegel chief food inspector announced traces of adulteration in 2 500 Dex lunches and ordered the arrest of C H Francis Box Lunch company proprietor.
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Los Angeles
M. 8
Siegel
City Health Department
C. H. Francis
House of David files denial in Michigan dissolution suit
The House of David in Michigan fires a 156 page brief denying immorality and fraud in the state’s bid to dissolve the religious colony. The filing accuses the state’s witnesses of perjury and character assassination, claiming the suit targets 15 former girl members and attacks Benjamin Purnell.
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St." Joseph, Mich
Balichigan
House of ‘David
Lrig
Benjamin Purnell
House of David
Canton Police Chief Killed Going to Fight
Sept 22 Beaverdam Ohio reports John Wise new Canton police chief and John Reiter Canton business man killed when their car overturned en route to Chicago to attend the Dempsey Tunney bout. Two other Canton businessmen injured in eight mile east accident.
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Beaverdam
John Wise
Canton
Don R. Mellett
Compardon
John Reiter
Chicago
Here
United Brethren in Muscatine Meet Opens Conference
The annual state conference of the United Brethren church opened in Muscatine Iowa with about 200 ministers and laymen. Bishop A B Stratton of Kansas City presided and delegates from the national headquarters at Dayton Ohio attended. The sessions will last three days.
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Kansas City
Muscatine
United Brethren Church
A. B. Stratton
Dayton O
Twenty Die in Mission Fire Near Lac La Plonge
A fire destroyed the Central Roman Catholic mission at Lac La Plonge near Prince Albert Saskatchewan killing one nun and nineteen children. Word from Big River Sask reports the isolated mission was consumed Monday with only scant details available.
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Prince Albert
Sask
Lac la Plonge
Big River
Saskatchewan
Paul Meyer Elected President of Corn Belt Business Students
Paul Meyer was elected president of the student body at Corn Belt Business College at a meeting yesterday afternoon. Margaret Quinlan was chosen as vice president and Florence Procter as secretary. The group plans a year of social events.
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Paul Meyer
Corn Belt Business College
Margaret Quinlan
Florence Procter
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