Upper Iowa U Opens Campaign for Funds in Northeast Iowa
Professor J W Dickman announces Upper Iowa University moves to broaden support for its 70 year service region. He cites 13 000 educated in halls and 1049 bachelor degrees with alumni in 41 states and six countries. The school now operates undenominationally to expand educational opportunities.
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Upper Tows University
Fayette, In
Northeastern Iowa
J. W. Dickman
Dickman
Upper Town University
Methodist Church
Upper Iowa University
Cornell College
Mt. Vernon
Fayette
St. Vinton
Upper Town
Iowa
French Smugglers Take to Planes to Outsmart Police
Le Bourget reports smugglers use airplanes to elude customs as authorities consider air pursuit. Cocaine drugs and tobacco enter France by air while smugglers abandon mountains for forests to evade inspections and skirt duties.
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le Bourget
France
Pyrenees
Alps
Hungary Creates Prizes for Largest Hungarian Families
Budapest reports a new department for large families to boost population. Gold medals, certificates, and cash gifts will honor mothers of the biggest Hungarian families. Admiral Horthy chairs the effort. A peasant mother of 27 children received a prize. birth control lectures are banned and emissaries will tour rural areas.
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Budapest
Admiral Horthy
Hungary
Trianon
Frost damage reports show corn largely safe in Iowa
Des Moines reports 81 percent of the state's corn crop escaped frost damage for the week ending yesterday. Maturity quickened, some fields on high ground may still escape, while five year and ten year averages show higher frost loss. Silo work progressed, winter wheat seeding and oats thrashing noted, beets sugar quality rising with frosty nights, potato digging active with strong yields and fair prices.
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Des Moines
Iowa Weather and Crop Bureau
Charles D. Reed
Mitchell
Harrison
Kansas Sheriff Heads Here to Return Hentges on Custody
Stock ton Kansas Sheriff A. G. Gillian travels to retrieve Arthur Hentges 22 son of Harry Hentges Manchester. Hentges wounded in back by Delaware county Sheriff Barry Utley while resisting capture after breaking out of jail five weeks ago. He is in Allen Memorial hospital awaiting transfer to county jail and faces wife desertion charges in Stockton.
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A. GC
Gillian
Stockton
Kan
Arthur Hentges
Harry Hentges
Manchester
FH. T. Wagner
Allen Memorial Hospital
County
Hentges
Barry Utley
Delaware County
Utley
Birds With Giant Wings and the Albatross Mystery
UNCLE RAY'S CORNER explains that the albatross has the largest wingspan among living birds, with wings from tip to tip measuring about 17 feet. The bird weighs 15 to 25 pounds, often follows ships, and can glide for days without resting. Its diet is mainly small fish, and its long wing-bones are used for pipe stems. Tomorrow its topic is Tittle Birds Which Hawks Fear.
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Ray
Actors to Act as Rally Speakers on Radio Tonight
Tonight radio carries a Rally of actors authors and artists league for Smith on the red network from WEAF at 8 30 p m central time. Irving Berlin will sing with Willie Collier master of ceremonies aided by George M Cowan Eddie Dowling and Gene Buck. Republican talks follow with Senator Frederick H Gillett at 7 30 p m from WOR and network and Judge John B McClure at 8 p m from WOR.
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New York
Actors, Authors and Artists League
Smith
National Broadcasting Company
Red
WHO
Des Moines
Pacific Coast
WEAF
Irving Berlin
Willie Collier
George M. Cowan
Eddie Dowling
Gene Buck
Frederick H. Gillett
Antioch Baptist Church 15th Anniversary Observed
Antioch Baptist Church at 600 Douglas Street marks its fifteenth anniversary with nightly sermons. Dr Warren L Steeves pastor of Walnut Street Baptist Church will preach on Should We Teach Fanda mentalism Tonight as part of the celebration. Reverend L Kenagy and Reverend G W Day delivered recent sermons.
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Warren L. Steeves
Walnut Street Baptist Church
Antioch Baptist Church
Antioch Church
L. Kenagy
First Baptist Church
G. W. Day
Douglas Street
2000 Houses Burned at Hankow in Great Fire
Hankow China September 26 frightened residents as fire from a gambling den swept through native city burning 2000 houses and shops. Seven bodies were recovered and many more feared drowned while about 7000 were left homeless. In Des Moines on September 26 a wage dispute talks subcommittee reported an impasse after six members failed to settle the wage controversy between town negotiators and the state union.
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Hankow
China
Des Moines
Mike George to Remodel Building into Six Apartments
Mike George, proprietor of the Allas grocery, 1301 Jefferson Street, will let a contract soon for remodeling the unoccupied half of a double business building into six living apartments. Three units on each floor will be created. Plans were prepared by architect M. B. Cleveland and bids have been called for. The apartments will be small and modernly equipped.
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Mike George
Allas Procery
Jefferson Street
M. B. Cleveland
Grocers and Meat Dealers to Convene in Des Moines
The 1928 Iowa Grocers' and Meat Dealers' Association annual convention will be held in Des Moines. M. J. Kerley, president of the Sioux City Retail Grocers' and Meat Dealers' association, was elected president of the state organization.
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Sioux City
Iowa Grocers’ and Meat Dealers’ Association
Des Moines
M. J. Kerley
Abe Martin Quips on Ice Riddled Aviator and Grocer Deficits
The column mocks an airman who, after crashing on ice, would rather return to writing than fix his engine. It notes how chain groceries cushion robberies by spreading the loss across rivals.
Monmouth Fetes Waterloos Ace John Livingston
Thousands greet Waterloo ace John H Livingston at Monmouth Iowa after his class B air derby victory He flies in from Waterloo and receives a 400 guest banquet and a 300 gift Livingston president of Mid West Airways had already won 12900 in cash prizes for fastest New York to Los Angeles leg Also noted Norway opens its first rayon mill at Rygge with 270000 pound plant and 150 tons annual output
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John H. Livingston
Waterloo
Monmouth
Livingston
Cedar Falls
Mid-West
Watterloo
W. W. Livingston
A. Morris
A. B. Chambers
Oren
Harwood
Gus Lambert
Edgar Seville
Paul Grassfield
Clifford Ryan
Norway
Rygge
Cortland Folk Point to Early Home of Al's Wife
Waterlooans take pride in Lou Henry Hoover birthplace while Cortland residents recall Mrs Al Smith's girlhood home during a three week east coast auto tour. Mrs H L Tucker Mrs Ella Schenk and Mrs M Gordon joined a route through Illinois Indiana Ohio Pennsylvania Michigan New York finishing with 2500 miles without a single puncture.
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Cortland
Nue
Ella Schenk
Mie
Thorne Avenue
Gordon
Waterloo
Niagara Falls
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Abe Martin
Hort
Anna
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14Th
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