German Premiers Summoned Over Ruhr Crisis
Berlin dispatch reports Chancellor Screasemann summons premiers of the German states for a Ruhr conference ahead of an expected move to end passive resistance. Government later decides to halt resistance. cabinet to meet to announce terms to the allies amid rising social unrest and looming economic crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Berlin
Tresemund
Germany
Ruhr
United Press Berlin
Scresemann
Dairy Cattle Congress Livestock Judging Week
The Daily Show records 1923 entries detailing cattle judging at the Dairy Cattle Congress. Ayrshire, Brown Swiss, Holstein, Guernsey, Jersey heifers and Belgian horses will be judged across Tuesday to Friday with junior and collegiate dairy teams competing for trophies and medals. A circus and horse show follow daily judging in the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holstein
Guernsey
Jersey
Dairy Cattle Congress
Bull of Pampas to Leave New York for Argentina
New York Sept 22 The police report Luis Angel Firpo plans to sail for Argentina on Oct 7 The famed bull of the Pampas has become a traffic problem as his large automobile with a blazing portrait on the door draws crowds and causes traffic jams each time he appears on city streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Luis Angel Firpo
Argentina
Firpo
Pampas
Canadian Parks Hobg Business at Waterloo Show
The Dairy Cattle Congress and Waterloo exposition feature music by Strout's Military Band, Welch Aliners quintet, and the Waterloo Business and Professional Women's Orchestra. Exhibits cover dairy plants, motor cars, farm machinery, education, and health clinics, with regional women’s programs and new displays including dairy manufacturing. Foreign visitors and a large crowd are anticipated during the World Dairy Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Strout
Lst
Welch Aliners
Mabelle Wagner Shank
Waterloo Business and
Visiors
Itt
Waterloo Motor Carries
Black Hawk County Parm Bureau
Iowa Extension Service
Waterloo Physicians
Iowa University
Black Hawk
Benton, Bremer
Buchunan
Welon Beck
National Dairy Council
Dairy Manufacturing Poant
Town Extension Service
American Jersey Cattle Club
Holstein-Friesian Association of America
American, Guernsey Cattle Club
Ayrshire Breeders' Association
Iowa Department of Agriculture
National and
Iowa Dairy Councells
Black Hawk County Farm Bureau Men’s Division
Frisco Publisher Adds To Tale Of Purloined Letter
Frisco publisher Andrew M. Laurence of the San Francisco Journal publicly defended printing a private letter by U.S. Senator W. Johnson. Laurence said the letter, which was obtained after being allegedly stolen from Albert Boynton, was shown to him and deemed newsworthy. He denied promising payment and noted the letter’s wide republication and Johnson’s public reaction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frisco
Associated Press
San Francisco
Cai
Sept
Andrew M. Laurence
Ute
Sacramento
Cal
Més
Johnson
America
Goynton
State fair clashes with Klan fears and armed patrols
Governor Walton claims 61 percent of state senate belongs to the Ku Klux Klan and says hundreds of special patrols have been issued to allies. Military court prosecutions advance with Grand Dragon Jewett arrested amid a widening Klanslash investigation. Three Shawnee men arrested for flogging a rival, while Tulsa police official Kiskadden faces Supreme Court action over alleged third-degree prison mistreatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walton
Ku Klux Klan
Senate
Grand Dragon Jewoatt
Shawnee
B. R. Merriman
Tenet
Merriman
Oklahoma City
Jewait
Ernest Brundage
Lewis Shull
Lafayette Evans
Sthawnee
L. C. Sowers
Lee
Harry Kiskadden
Tulsa
State Supreme Court
C. W. King
Kiskadden
Section Man Found in Freight Car With Head Crushed
Cedar Rapids Iowa Sept 22 a man believed to be George Fifield of this city was found unconscious in a freight car at Bertram this morning and rushed to a hospital in serious perhaps dying condition. His head had been crushed by a blunt instrument and doctors were unsure of skull fracture. He was operated on immediately. Police think he is a section man for the Northwestern railroad and was struck while sleeping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
George Fifield
Bertram
Northwestern Railroad
Solon Man Shoots Self in Heart While Boy Sleeps
Cedar Rapids Sept 22 A 29 year old Solon man John Anderslick shot himself in the heart with a double barreled shotgun in a one room shack near Solon as a 17 year old boy slept. Despondency from injuries after a horse fell on him weeks earlier is believed the cause per Coroner J. S. Donohue Iowa City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapitsta
Solon
John Anderslck
Donohue
Iowa City
Pullers Threaten Strike in Ghetto
Chicago dispatch reports west side Maxwell Street pullers threaten to strike in response to a market master order backed by police and an alderman that would end pulling. The pullers and their employers say a mercantile association and readers union colleagues seek to end the practice, while they vow to defend the custom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
West Side
Maxwell Street
Re Ad Clerks’ Union
Premier of B C Asks Why Gas Remains High
Victoria Sept 22 Premier John Oliver of British Columbia questioned why Canadian gasoline prices lag behind the United States. He told Imperial Oil and Union Oil officials about Washington state prices at 16 14 cents and Seattle at 18 cents while Victoria 31 cents and Vancouver 39 cents. Oliver said gasoline was reportedly trucked across the border into New Westminster at 25 cents a gallon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
B. C
John Oliver
British Columbia
United States
Canada
Imperial Oil Company
Union Oil Company
Washington State
Seattle
Vancouver
Oliver
New Westminster
Spanish Directorate Cuts 12 000 Employes Off Government Rolls
Madrid reports twelve thousand civilian government workers were dismissed for national economy. King Alfonso signed a decree suspending trial by jury. The directory began prosecutions of provincial food profiteers with heavy fines. The new government vows stern punishment of lawbreakers amid banditry. Three robbers arrested at Tarrassa were court martialed and shot by a firing squad at dawn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madrid
Alfonso
Tarrassa
Sring
Wilson Letter Hits Tennessee Senator Seeking Reelection
Knoxville dispatch reports a public release of a Woodrow Wilson letter repudiating United States Senator J. K Shields's reelection bid. Dated Aug 29, 1923 from Washington, the missive to W. A. Furlow states Wilson cannot endorse Shields and calls him among his least trustworthy supporters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Tennessee
Knoxville
Tenn
Woodrow Wilson
United States
J. K Shields
LE. D. Tyson
Shields
S Street
Washington
W. A
Furlow
Bristol
Tann
Mason City Secures Route on Atlantic Yellowstone Pacific Highway
Mason City will be on the route of the Atlantic Yellowstone Pacific highway. A telegram to the chamber of commerce from Charles McCaffree accepted Mason City's proposition and Spirit Lake, Spencer, Charles City, and Waterloo were named along the route with $1,700 pledged annually for upkeep.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mason City
Chamber of Commerce
Charles McCaffree
Sioux Falls
S. D
Association
la Spirit Lake
Spencer
Charles City
Waterloo
Germans End Stamp Use Over Postage Shortfall
Washington Sept 22 German officials announce they will stop using stamps and letters from Germany will bear only a concellation indicating postage paid due to high printing costs. The lowest weight letter to the United States now costs 260.090 marks to deliver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Post Office Department
Germany
George D. Baker Relected Head of Farmers' Exchange
Des Moines Sept 22 George D Baker of Des Moines was reelected yesterday as president of the Farmers' Exchange the buying organization of the Iowa Farmers' Union. George De Bare Peoria was named vice president A Cotterill Leon was secretary treasurer. New directors include John A Tanson Holstein Tomunt Churdan Lonisteider Arcadia Clyde Unali Fairfield John Breyner Mapleton Theodore Blume Denison and V T Houphas Macedon ia
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moinés
George 1. Baker
Des Moines
Farmers’ Exchange
Iowa Farmers’ Union
George de Bare
Peoria
A. &, Cotterill
Leon
John A. Tanson
Tom Unt
Lonisteider
Arcadia
Clyde Unali
Fairfield
John Breyner
Mapleton
Theodore Blume
Denison
A. Houphas
Macedonia
Denver Judge's Wife Targeted by Bandit in Foothill Drive
International dispatch reports Sheriff Kery and a Jefferson County posse hunted all night in the Denver foothills for a young man who restrained Mrs J Master Symes wife of United States District Judge Symes and forced her to drive for over an hour. She escaped at Hayden ranch after injuring her back. Judge Symes unavailable for comment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International News
Denver
Conn
Kery
Jefferson County
Denver Nellce
J. Master Symes
United States District
Symes
Hayden Ranch
Judge Symes
Klan Leader Claims White House Initiation Scene
Charleston reports Rev Basil Newton of the Klan imperial council claimed an initiation was held in the White House dining room during a Hurricane gathering. Officials in Washington dismissed the assertion as ridiculous and not worthy of discussion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
Ku Klux Klan
Basil Newton
Oklahoma
Klan Imperial Council
House of Representatives
Senate
White House
Washington, D.J C
Basil B Newton
Papers and Union Sign Agreement Ending New York Strike
New York publishers and officers of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union sign an agreement ending the strike that began at midnight last Monday. Members of the local Web Pressmen’s Union No. 25, dissolved by charter revocation, deserting presses, may return to work with international cards and will meet tomorrow to decide their future action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
International Printing Pressmen
Sunion
International Union
Wgressmen’s Union No
Clothiers Plan Chicago Convention Trip Next Week
Waterloo business men led by W P Kerwin J E Rosenthal Samel Silvers depart tonight for Chicago to attend the tenth annual convention of the National Association of Retail Clothiers. More than a dozen others, including WC Dotson H G Frank and H D Simon, will leave Monday for the meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. P. Kerwin
J. E. Rosenthal
Samel Silvers
Waterloo
Chicago
National Association of Retail Clothiers
WC. Dotson
H. G. Frank
H.D. Simon
Puesfizyrom
Pursue Killer Who Prays for Victims in Mexico
Puebla reports a feared outlaw Feliciano Machorro, 19, known for kneeling to pray for the souls of 20 victims, is chased by a special police squad. In two days he is credited with four murders and eluded capture with thousands of pesos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Puebla
Mexico
Feliciano Machorro
Machorra
Baldwin Watching German Proposals
London reports Premier Baldwin to confer with Curzon on the perceived collapse of Germany. Secret German proposal to allow return of expelled and arrested Ruhr residents discussed. Britain follows Stresemann’s proposals submitted to Theunis and Paincare. No confirmation of a French basis for agreement. Britain expects action as Stresemann capitulates to France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
London
Bald Will
Sureten
Curzon
Germany
Great Klain
Berlin
Great Biitain
Stresemann
Theunis
Paincare
Haldwin
Poincare
Paris
Baldwin
Great Britain
Swift & Co Fire Destroys Birmingham Plant
A $250000 fire at the Swift & Co storage and packing plant in Birmingham Alabama gutted the third and fourth floors and damaged the refrigeration section. Immense quantities of lard and packing house goods burned while firefighters fought the blaze. Branch manager D W Peace estimated the loss at $200000 and Cant Brown of company No 1 suffered injuries and was hospitalized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Swift & Co
D. W. Peace
Cant. Brown
Ja Hospital
Jobless Girls Want to Tap Keys Not Dishes
Des Moines reports show seven unemployed girls refuse domestic work, preferring clerical roles. Nellie McClellan of the WL A employment department notes a surplus of stenographers and a 43 person waiting list, with scarce interest in factory or labor tasks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Nellie McClellan
McClean
Boy 8 Crushed by Fight Promoter's Car in Des Moines
Des Moines report says eight year old boy Constance Tames suffered a fractured skull and crushed chest after running into a car driven by promoter Tommy Ryan. He was unconscious and rushed to city hospital with slim chances of recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Tames Constance
Tommy Ryan
State briefs report rising university enrollments and local notices
State university expects 000 students to begin Monday with 1000 more than last week’s registrations. Osage obituary notes Cark H. Spaanum a northern Iowa lawyer died after gall bladder operation in Rochester. St Ansgar reports 60 carloads onions and 32 carloads cabbage shipped in August making it champion garden truck town. Dubuque man Arthur Powell fatally injured by freight train. Decorah infant dies after poisoning. Sheldon youth to face federal theft trial. Dubuque slander suit seeks 7500 dollars over calf sale rumors. Decorah Luther College enrollment up 20 percent with 350 students and five new faculty. Iowa City golf course to open next week with fees for students and faculty, Sunday play barred. Des Moines Mayor Garver improving in hospital. Orange City public school building costing 69000 to be ready in six months. Oskaloosa acting governor approves Baseline tax features. Rep Ramseyer praises national farm bureau work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jose
State University
Osage
Cark H. Spaanum
Iowa
Rochester
Minn
Galletonas
Spaanum
University of Lowe
St. Ansgar
United States
Dubuque
Arthur Powell
Lee Decorah
Carl Fitzsimmons
J. Fitzsimmons
J Bheldon
Edward Vincore
Chicago
Frank Thiesen
George
Sloppel
Seippel
Tilesen
Decorah
Luther College
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Naval Airship ZR-1 Sails Over Capital in Trial Cruise
In a rain enshrouded flight, the navy airship ZR-1 passed over Washington DC, saluted the White House and Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington, then proceeded to Mount Vernon. It planned an aerial exhibition at Bolling Field and a return via Annapolis with radio messages for amateurs to receive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
D. C
Navy
Capitol
White House
Artington
Sbe
Mount Vernon
Potomac River
George Washington
Bolling Field
Annapois
Federal Officer Takes Walls to Federal Prison
Roy Walls a colored peddler of bogus whisky and an escaped convict under a four year federal sentence will be taken to Fort Leavenworth tonight by J Dressendorfer chief deputy U S marshal of Springfield Illinois who arrived at noon today P E Walker chief of police will accompany the marshal and prisoner Mildred Bell Turkish woman arrested with Walls is out on 2000 bond and will be held here until bondsmen demand her return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Walls
Fort Leavenworth
J. Dressendaerfer
U. 5
Springfield
Ill
P. E. Walker
Poliee
Dressendorfer
Mildred Bell
Walls
Waterloo Girls Runaway From Des Moines Home
Waterloo girl Genevieve Glenn seventeen and Ann Sharman thirteen are missing from the Iowa Children's Home society. Police in several Iowa cities search for them after clothing believed to belong to the girls was found in a Union Park cabin. Detectives say the pair may have dressed in boys clothes to flee and that Waterloo may not be their home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Genevieve Glenn
Ann Sharman
Iowa Children’s Home Society
Iowa
Union Park
Waterloo
Cattle Congressmen on Rotarian Program
Officers of the Dairy Cattle Congress and International Belgian Horse show will be the spellbinders at the Monday noon meeting of the Rotary club. Rotarians will be asked to support and boost the show as in the past. Hugh McManus, who becomes Harold Plumb's associate, will join the club Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dairy Cattle Congress
International
Rotary Club
Hugh McManus
Harold Plumb
New Books Arrive at Local Libraries in September
Two public libraries add forty two new titles across fiction and non fiction. Notable inclusions include The Secret Adversary and The Mysterious Office. Some works are library only and duplicated in nine cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C Ashman
Chipperfield
Christie
Suzanna
Drago
Quest Hull
Jepson
Lee
East Library
van Boon
Swaithy
Dmnals
Chicago Commission On Mace
Chicago
Morejouse
Shireby
Rainbow Gold
Teasdale
Escott
Hall
Morris
Russia
Millukov
West Library
Byrne
Manson
Hergesheimer
Bingle
Kuhlmann
Gibbonaj
Flemer Schaoca
Births Reported In Local Notices Across Several Families
Birth announcements list multiple families across Maynard Black Hawk Township Dunkerton and surrounding areas. Daughters named Betty Louise Hersine Lucile Alta Agnes Dora and Leon Cire among others born between September 4 and September 15 at St Francis Hospital and local homes. Parents include Warnke Pearson Erpelding Tampleton Fenger Bailes Engen Clark Priebe Jeffers on Wiseman Jensen Hoerlbut and others living in Maynard Dunkerton Waterson and Western.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Warnke
St. Francis Hospital
Maynard
Thomas Pearson
Black Hatk Township
Nicholas Erpelding
Lincoln
Betty Louise
Henry F. Tampleton
Vicden
Paul Harold Fenger
Ankeny
Harold Bewing T My
Everett R. Bailes
Leo Engen
Air
Andrew Clark
Batayette
Hersnice Lucile
Floyd Kough
Waterston Township
James
Leonard A. Priebe
Eldan Clarence
William David Jefferson
Whitam Guy
Dunkerton
Solomon Wiseman
Leascaden
Leon Cire
Sam Jensen
Washington
Senk
Faughter
Alta Agnes
Archien Ray Hoerlbut
Ts Western
Dora
Dls
Jean
Fund for Japanese Aid Nears 3500 In Waterloo Drive
Donations to the Japanese relief fund through the Waterloo chapter of the American Red Cross pushed toward 3500 dollars today. H. B. Cropper, local chapter chairman, said Waterloo's contribution was generous and higher proportionately than quotas set for other Iowa cities. A Dunkerton branch and Illinois store department are among donors. current total trails state goals by about 1500 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunkerton
American Red Cross
Isabella
Waterloo
Amerian Red Cross
Altho
H. B. Cropper
Nota
Iowa
Playground at cattle show to showcase city's work
Workers at the Dairy Cade Congress prepared a public playground exhibit for next week. Teeters swings and rocking horses will entertain children while caregivers may leave them at the site. Mrs Ruby Henderson Dempster leads with a commission including Fudge G W Wood J C Hartman and several others as sponsors aim to demonstrate to Waterloo residents and visitors the value of playgrounds for children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dairy Cade Congress
Ruby Henderson Dempster
Fudge G. W. Wood
J. c. Hartman
W J. Keefe
Jackson McCoy
Permanent County Y Organization Plans Meeting At Y M C A
A county Y organization meeting for HI Y clubs in Black Hawk County excluding Waterloo is set for late afternoon at the Y M C A. Officers will be elected and a uniform program devised to boost HI Y activities. Principal speaker John H. Rudd will discuss HI Y progress in India. Lay of Waterloo Y M C A will be introduced and speak. Invited officers span Cedar Falls, Teachers Training, Hudson, Orange Township, LaPorte City, Jesup, Dunkerton, New Hartford and Finchford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black Hawk County
Waterloo
John H. Rudd
Dez Maines
India
Ewell T. “Lay
Lawson Automotive Firm Named New Proprietor On Fifth Street
C E Lawson becomes sole owner of Lawson Automotive company on Fifth street west after negotiations. The business, started in 1920 by Althea Lawson, will continue motor overhauling, cylinder regrinding, crankshaft truing, piston work, and flywheel gear bands. Ray Dixon leases the year old shop to run a separate auto repair operation alongside the Lawson shop. FP A Lawson takes over partnership of Elk Run hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C.E. Lawson
Lawson Automotive Company
Fifth Street West
Althe
FL A Lawson
Ray Dixon
Lawson
A. Lawson
Elk Ryn
Fourth Street Paved to City Limits in Both Directions
A new half mile of paving on Fourth Street west of Byrnes Park was completed today, creating asphalt from the city limits westward to the edge. The east section had been paved earlier, making Fourth Street a hard surface from the northern limit through the city to the southwest limit, about 4.8 miles long. The project rivals Rainbow Drive in length within the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fourth Street
Byrnes Park
Peter Klein Services to Be Held at St Marys Church
Peter Klein died Thursday night at 708 Mobile. Funeral was set for 9:30 A.M. Monday at St Marys Catholic Church with Rev N J Lentz and helpers Rev Theodore Worm and Rev Theodosius Plassmeyer officiating. Burial in Calgary, where he had served 25 years, in a perpetual care plot donated by the cemetery association. Klein, born January 22 1863 in Lautzarath Germany, immigrated to the United States at 25, first living with his uncle in Eagle Center Ta then moving to Waterloo. He married Marguerite Gindt in 1888. Survived by widow and five children Ann Guynn Josephine Anderson Evelyn Anderson Paul and William Klein plus thirteen grandchildren. Remains at family home until funeral. Our Lady of Victory court will meet Sunday at 4 PM for prayer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Klein
Mobile
St. Marys Catholic Church
N. J. Lentz
Theodore Worm
Theodosius Plassmeyer
Calgary
Cemetery Association
Lautzarath
Germany
United States
William Klein
Eagle Center
Waterloo
Marguerite Gindt
Ann Guynn
Josephine Anderson
Evelyn Anderson
Paul
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Upper Silesia
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United States Department of Agriculture
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Delaware
Clayton
Bremer
Fayette
Vairy Cattle Congress Office
Dairy Sie
Delogat
World Dairy Congress
World Congress
Waterve
Mid- West
Canadian Parks
Ottawa
Ont
Dominion
Dominion Parks Commissioner
Laurence
Clerk
Hiram
Resent
Maxwell St
B.C
A. Y.P
George D. Baker
Thug
N.Y
Clothiers
Traer
Traet
Tier Community Lab
Whic
Denby
Washington, D
Navy Department
Secretary of the Navy
Wendy
Swift
Boy
C. E. Lawson
Autgco
Martuarin
Catherine Scgarty
Catherine McCarty
Minneapolis
McCarty
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Charles
George Whiter Opal
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