In the Spotlight on Hoover Support and Celebrities
The column lists major authors and entertainers who support Herbert Hoover, including Edward Bok Will Irwin Bruce Barton Robert W Chambers Kathleen Norris Will Durant Booth Tarkington Harold Bell Wright and Zane Grey. Also notes Capone’s golf accident and Who's Who controversy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pugarca
Herbert “Hoover
Edward Bok
Will’ Irwin
Bruce Barton
Robert W. Chambers
Kathleen Norris
Will Durant
Booth Tarkington
Harold Bell Wright
Zane Grey
Death Ends Rowan's Long Crime Career
Smith finds rift in McNary ranks on western farm relief battle as Peek crosses party lines. Democratic push with Smith campaign trains and a $1,000,000 fund aims to mobilize farm bureaus and counties in the rural west amid bumper wheat crops and falling prices ahead of the November election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smith
McNary
Frederic William Wise
Washington
D. C
Gov
Brith
Coolidge
Oregon
Haugen
Iowa
Hoover
Senate
House
Gov, McMullen
Brookhart
Capper
Frader
Nye
McMaster
Norbeck and Howell
Dickinson
Norris Molding
Nevis
Nebraska
Senate Committee On Agriculture
la Follette
Blaine
Wisconsin
Schall
Shipstead
Minnesota
George N. Peek
Illinois
Peek Oh Smith
Peek
Chicago
Sam H. Thompson
American Farm Bureau Federation
William HL. Settle
Indiana
Hoosier Agricultural Organization
Hoover and
Curtis
Frank W. Murphy
McNary-Haugenites
Kansas City
Peck
Smith and Robinson
Smith Farm
Courier Delivery Window Clarified for Home Readers
The notice explains home delivery by 5 36 o clock. If the carrier makes an error and you do not receive the paper by then, call the office and a copy will be sent. Calls should reach the office before 39 p m.
Ten Years In Service Remembering Camp Dix Flu Outbreak
Homer Morris recalls the flu epidemic at Camp Dix during World War I. He served as an ambulance driver with the Thirty-Fourth Division, stationed in New Jersey. The outbreak delayed deployment by three weeks and claimed hundreds of lives, with a temporary morgue in the laundry building. Morris sailed for France October 12, arriving ten days before the armistice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Homer Morris
Rhey “Street
Camp Dix
Morris
France
Georgia Woman Escapes Gallows In Reprieve
Georgia woman Eula Mae Thompson, condemned to die in the electric chair for holdup and murder, received a one day respite from Governor Hardman as the state weighs commuting her sentence. The prison commission urged a prompt sentence summation. her husband Clifford Thompson and another man were executed at Milledgeville two months earlier.
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Atlanta
INS
Eula Mae Thompson
Chatworth
Hardman
State Prison Commission
Clifford Thompson
Milledgeville
Coigman Osborne
Eula
Salesman Leaps to Death in 11-Story Fall
Edgar Les Means Jr., a bond salesman for First Trust Co, jumped to his death from the 15th floor of the Medical Arts building in Omaha. His hat bore a note asking forgiveness from those close to him and naming his sister Mrs. Guy O. Martin, with whom he lived. No motive was found for the act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Edgar Les Means, Jr
First Trust Company
Medical Arts
Means
Martin
Guy 0. Martin
VA Girl Found Near Chicago After Disappearance
Juvenile authorities arranged transport for Leona Darth, a 15 year old from Rock Rapids Iowa, who was found wandering by tourists near Des Plaines. She reported staying with a man named Herren in Minnesota for several days before visiting her uncle Edward Jacobson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honolulu
Billy Raniers
Chicago
Leona Darth
Rock Rapids
Hemi
Mhear Tes Plaines
Herren
Dinon
Edward Jacobson
Fund for Relief Grows as Urgent Need Continues
The Red Cross fund in Waterloo and Black Hawk County nears 200 dollars with 199.25 collected. Officials urge rapid contributions for hurricane victims in Porto Rico and Florida as the national appeal grows. The Black Hawk quota is 1500 to 2000 dollars. donations go to Herman C. Miller, Waterloo Red Cross chair, at Hotel Russell Lamson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Black Hawk County
Porto Rico
Florida
West Indies
Red Cross
Herman C. Miller
American Red Cross
Russell- Lamson
John W. Martin
National Guard
Howard W. Selby
Palon Beach County Red Cross Committee
A. L. Shafer
Selby
Martin
G A R Encampment Elects New Officers at Closure
Veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic returned home after the second annual meeting in Denver. John Reese, Broken Bow, was elected commander and 82 year old retired attorney James E. Jewell became vice commander in series. Minnie T. Norseman of Portland was named president of the Women’s Relief Corps and Mrs. Lan Browning was chosen chaplain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Colo
Grand Army of the Republic
Portland
John Reese
Broken Bow
Reese
James E. Jewell
Minnie T. Norseman
Porteland
Ore
Women’s Relief Corps
Lan
I Browning
Margentine
Lay
Archie Morrison Dies After 24 Year Prison Stretch
Archie Morrison 24 year term convict dies in Fort Madison prison hospital two days after arrival for a string of holdups in Des Moines. His life, largely spent behind bars since age 13, began at Eldora reform school with later sentences in Stillwater Deer Lodge and Anamosa.
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Fort Madison
Archie Morrison
Des Moines
Fort Madison Penitentiary
Morrison
Eldora
Boys
Minnesota
Stillwater
Deer Lodge
Mont
Des
Maines
Anamosa Reformatory
Honor Farm
Supreme Court
Cedar Rapids
Short Interviews With Home Folks
The Waterloo Laundry Company president Ti O Bernbrook laments the loss of the traditional neighborly spirit. He cites faster news, radio, and cars as reasons people no longer visit locally, with less time for social calls and close neighborhood ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ti. O. Bernbrook
Waterloo Laundry Company
John Coolidge to Go Without U S Sleuth Bodyguard
John Coolidge says he will not have a substitute bodyguard after Russell Woods, his long time U S sleuth, was returned to Washington. He confirms Woods has gone back to Washington and that no Secret Service agent will be detailed to him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Coolidge
U.S. Sleuth
New York
Maybrook
Russell Woods
Washington
West Woods
Coolidge Reunites at Birth Home in Plymouth Vermont
President Coolidge visits his birthplace in the Green Mountains of Vermont. He renews youth friendships, attends a morning reunion, and lays flowers at Calvin Jr. buried hillside cemetery before continuing to Washington.
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Plymouth
Green Mountains
Vermont
Coolidge
National
Aurora Pierce
State budget requests total 38 million for next biennium
Requests for appropriations totaling 38,033,646 to finance the state of Iowa during the next biennium were made to Budget Director E. L. Hogue in hearings completed yesterday. Classifications include State departments 7,434,716 board of control 10,716,830 and board of education 19,907,100.
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Des Moines
Towa
E. L. Hogue
Hogue
State Departments
Board of Control
Board of Education
Hoover Ignores Smith Attacks on Campaign Tour
Hoover plans to stay on his quiet campaign path despite Gov. Alfred E. Smith attacks during his western tour. Republican spokesmen and party chairman Hubert Work will deliver responses as Smith cited Hoover in Omaha speech.
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Washington, D. C
U.P
Herbert Hoover
Alfred B. Smith
United Press
Smith
Hubert Work
National Committee
Hoover
Inner Council
Farm
Omaha
Light Frost Tonight May Do No Damage
Frost over northwest Iowa earlier in the week is expected to blanket the state lightly tonight with no damage anticipated to crops. In Ames the United Brethren church convention re-elected Rev W. L. Duncan of Des Moines as superintendent at its eighty fifth annual meeting.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Weather Bureau
Towa
Duncan
Ames
The
United Brethren Church
W. L. Duncan
Relief Efforts Mounted Against Influenza and Hurricanes
Washington reports Red Cross appeal for at least 5 million to aid hurricane victims in Porto Rico Florida and the Virgin Islands. Influenza feared in Puerto Rico as 33 450 homes destroyed and 2 261 injured. cremation urged to prevent plague as refugee camps face mass burial and disease risks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
Selby
Palm Beac County
Washington, D. C
Red Grass
Porto Rico
Virgin Islands
A. L. Schaefer
Red Cross
Lake Okee
Hugh A. Drum
Fort Ham
Ilton
Dew
Palm Beach
San Juan
Red’ Gress
Guayama
West Palm Beach
Fla
Everglades
Carcely
Pahokee
Belle Glade
Lake Okeechober
Asb
Upper Iowa Will Monitor Youths to Its Ministry
Six candidates for ordination will be received by Bishop E D Leete at Upper Iowa M E conference in Vinton Iowa on September 22. The class includes Ernest Allen Donald Artman Raymond Bachellor Reveley Hallett Glen McMichael Jose Vaisneia and all hold college degrees. The conference also voted to seek 1500 from the board of education for religious education and approved a 10 cent per member rally day offering. The resolution ends Upper Town university’s asset program with funds to the Upper Iowa annual conference if the institution ends services.
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Sta
Vinton
E. D. Leete
Upper Iowa
M. E
Ernest ©. Allen
Ohio Wesleyan University
Boston University School of Theology
Donald HA
Artman
Cornell College
H. W. Artman
Raymond G. Bachellor
Ohio
Glen McMichael
University of Town
Boston School of Theology
Jose Vaisneia
Board of Education
Clyde E. Baker
Teligigus Education
Upper Town University
Upper Towa University
Methodist Episcopal
Upper Iowa University
Upper Iowa Annual Conference of
The
Methodist Episcopal ¢Huren
Billy Coontz Reported Worse After Skull Injury
The three year old Billy Coontz remains unconscious at Presbyterian Hospital after a skull fracture from an automobile incident Wednesday noon. He is the son of Mr and Mrs M. FP Coontz of 704 Kimball Avenue.
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Presbyterian Hospital
Billy Coontz
Billy
Coonta
Kimball Avenue
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