Iowa Corn Growers announce cup and prizes at Des Moines fair
Des Moines reports the Iowa Corn Growers Association has divided the state into districts for a November Des Moines show with a silver cup valued at 200 dollars for the best bushel of eighty ears. A 100 dollar driving wagon goes to the best five yellow ears. Dr Knowles will later list all premiums.
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Des Moines
Iowa Corn Grow Association
Tawa
Lil Knowles
Sovrenry
Asan
Kessith
Mithell
Bloayd
Knowles
New Fort Madison cell house aims for top U S status
Fort Madison Iowa progresses on a modern prison cell house with 480 laminated steel cells arranged four tiers high along the building. The long north south structure measures 33434 by 5114 feet with extensive sunlight ventilation and reinforced grated windows for security.
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Port Madison
Iowa
United States
Fort Madison
Would Turn Clocks Back May Open Rich Territory
East Des Moines businessmen propose turning clocks back to start work earlier in summer. Cincinnati already passed an ordinance to begin one hour earlier May through October, claiming improved worker productivity and daylight. A proposed interurban rail line from Des Moines to Nebraska City faces funding and right of way hurdles as banners of regional growth unfold.
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East Des Moines
City Council
Common Council of
Cincinnati
New York
Cincinnati Council
A. B. Elliott
Hast
Des Moines Commercial League
Des Moines
Nebraska City
Neb
Winterset
Shenandoah
Iowa
A. M. Dodge
St. Paul & Des Moines
Fred McMillan
Boistard
Des Moines Commercial Club
Harl Ferguson
Adams County
Villisca
Missouri
Sidney
Greenfield
Burlington
Oak
Horsford
Ile Hore
Sunday School Census Planned Nationwide Survey
The International Sunday School union will conduct the national quadrennial census next year. Iowa Sunday school scholars must be tagged and classified in the records maintained by the department of commerce and labor in Washington. The census work begins early next year and will be completed before Tall.
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Iowa
Department of Ecommerce and Labor
Washington
International Sunday School Union
Labor and Commerce Department
Fire Insurance Growth and Flag Factory Output
The Town Mutual Dwelling House Insurance Association of Dea Moines becomes the largest mutual fire insurer in the United States with 38 million dollars in force in Iowa. E. Harsh has run the secretary role for about seventeen years with annual management costs around fifteen cents per thousand and member costs about sixty five cents per hundred for five years. The Brooklyn Flag Factory at the naval yard employs eighty to one hundred women year round, producing flags for Uncle Sam and about 120000 yards of fabric annually across 418 official flag types, costing 90000 dollars yearly.
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Town Mutual Dwelling House Insurance Association
Dea Moines
United States
Towa
E. Harsh
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Navy Yard
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Iowa Corn Growers Association
Bond Company
Fidelity & Deposit Company of Maryland
Carl M. Spencer
Des Moines National Bank
Spencer
City Club
Good Government Club
Rot
Edwin Hull
J.tone
Gerard Nolten
W. A. Brown
the Economy Coal Company
W. E. Brown
Gar
East Thirteenth Street
Grand Avenue
Ambrose Jeffrey
Cedar Rapida
Mercy Hospital
Locust Street
Ingercoll Park
J. Wilcox Ad Alini
Brees
Zell Roe
Louie Dominick
Louie
Henry H. Depew
Hdim
Orry Clapper
Grants
Des Motes
Frederick Dent Grant
Department of the Lakes
US S. A
Rock Island
Chicago
Chamberlain Hotel
General Grant
Uke
Grand Army Veterans of
Grant
Leutenant
Grand Army of the Republic
Michael McDonald
Charles W. Fenton
Second Cavalry
Ft. Des Moines
State Fair Grounds
Crabtree
Clara Byer
Tyrone
Lisle Crabtree
John C. Raymond
Taft
Pennsylvania
F. G. Lenacher
Dexter
Henry Wallace
Air
Lenocher
Ohio
Gideons
Burlington Railway
A. J. Youngerman
Edith Hall
Dobson
Youngerman
Miss Hall
Twenty-seventh Street
City
Mildred Conklin
Wornley Ditch
Wollen Mills
Marshalltown
Hannibal
Jiannibal, Mo
James Cort
Cort
Vera
Maisie Cort
Cell House Walle
Earl Ferguson
Carters Tittle
Carters
Anerlean'Iron Works
Love
Defiance Starch
Ww. N. U
de. Pierce
Southwest
St. Louis
Kansas City
Des Maines
Commie
wMnene
Smithwest
W.S. ST. George
Ooo
Wainwright St. Louis
Atlantic City
N. J
Boston
Mass
Montreal
N. Y
Portland
Quebec
Toronto
Niagara Fally
Canada
New England
New Jersey
Cookson
Adams Street
Ilinois
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