Endowment efforts fail as Amity college pact ends
A lengthy Iowa roundup reports Amity College ending its endowment push after securing pledges totaling 71000 toward 8100,000 with the time limit Sept 1. Fort Dodge settles a five year will contest over Morningside College gifts. Garmoe widow leaves 25000 to the college and 40000 to the Methodist church.
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Morningside College
Sioux City
Garmoe
Methodist Church
Alpine Building Company
Iowa Falls
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Keokuk
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McGregor
Jerry Sullivan
New York
McAdoo
Des Moines
Murphy
Master Builders of
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Greenfield
Knoxville
Edward Glaze
Harlan
John Lawrence
Glaze
Kirkman
Linwood
Davyenport
Charles Carson
Carson
Cerro Gordo County
Orient
Eouthern Iowa
Dale Howard
Grant
Crown Dairy Company
Patrick Kirk
Mason City
World events brief notes on politics and disasters
Washington reports on tariff progress and budget battles as congress advances the Underwood Simm ons tariff with few changes while a panic of resignations shakes committees. Postmaster Burleson weighs magazine mail methods and a tropical storm sinks a German naval airship. Mayor Gaynor dies aboard a liner triggering New York politics shifts.
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House
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Edison to be denied further vacations by physician
Personal health note reports Thomas A. Edison should not take another vacation after a two week rest. he returned Sunday to Lewellyn Park West Orange N J. The fragment also mentions a public funeral for Mayor Gaynor at Trinity Church Lower Broadway and other obituaries and legal notes, including a strikebreaker James Farley and an acquittal of Lucas in a murder case.
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William J. Gaynor
Gaynor
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Board of Aldermen
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Lewellyn Park
West Orange
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Greer
New York Giocese
Grenwood Cemetery
Brooklyn
Enrollment at State Agricultural College Tops 2200
Ames reports enrollment at Iowa State College surpassed 2200 with officials predicting total enrollment could reach 2400 or more. Former Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson will lecture on agricultural subjects this winter as part of his renewed ties with the college. Freshman enrollment stands at about 950 as registration continues.
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James Wilson
Ames College
Ames
Town State College
Wilson
Iowa State College
School Adopts the Folk Dance in Keokuk
Keokuk school board faced initial resistance to adding folk dancing to winter entertainments. After debate, President Dr. A. B. Hughes cited Buffalo pupils dancing as a hinge point, and the board unanimously approved Professor F. C. Hayden’s plan despite early taboos.
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Keokuk
F. ¢. Hayden
A. B. Hughes
Buffalo
Hayden
Small Boy and Horse Disappear Near Knoxville
Knoxville reports a 11 year old boy named Charles Henry, recently brought from the Crouch Orphans home in Chickasha Oklahoma, visiting J C McIntire, disappeared with four others. A horse belonging to Harry Crouch, the benefactor's nephew, also vanished. Authorities suspect the boy is riding the horse returning to Oklahoma.
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Knoxville
Charles Henry
Arthur
Crouch
Chickasha
Okla
J. C. McIntire
Harry Crouch
Oklahoma
Corn Pack in Very Small Waverly
The Kelley Canning company closed its factory for the year after packing 45,000 cases of corn in twenty four can sets, totaling 1,020,000 cans. Acreage this year was half of last year and dry weather reduced the crop.
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Waverly
Kelley Canning Company
Baptist Merger Proposal Discussed by Davenport Group
At the Davenport Baptist Association annual meeting a committee was appointed to visit the Washington association at Kaloya. The committee will propose that the two associations unite. Each association has eight churches.
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Downey
Davenport Baptist Association
Washington Association
Kaloya
Unite
Ach -Association
Waverly Editor Geta Plum Appointed Postmaster
Hoeger, editor of the Waverly Democrat, is appointed postmaster at Waverly. The appointment takes effect when the current incumbent, W. H. Tyrrel, ends his term next January after twenty years in the office.
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Waverly
Geta Plum
H. 3. Hoeger
The
Purity Oats Plant Blaze In Keokuk Fire
Officials estimate losses around 80000 dollars after an explosion in the Purity Oats plant at the Onta company site sparked a blaze in the grading room. Fire doors contained the flames and prevented greater damage.
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Keokuk Mire
Onta Company
Fragmented OCR leads to unclear 0 Age Davenne item
The readable text is garbled with misspellings and missing context making it impossible to determine date participants or location. No coherent event or outcome can be established from the fragment.
Peculiar Livestock Farm Promises Black Fox Stock
A Quebec correspondent reports Robert Rowley of Laurentids preserves at Lake Edward started a black fox farm at low cost. At Roberval a man had four young pups, red and black, asking about $10 each. Lieutenant Governor Wood’s fox ranch manager Pridman offered several thousand dollars and was refused. Townsfolk rushed to buy, prices soared. Rowley plans crossbreeding with a pure black fox dog to yield a litter of pure black foxes next spring. After shopping, the wife swaps.
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Lake Edward
Quebec
Montreal Gazette
Roberval
Rowley
Pridman
Wood
New Brunswick
Mr. Rowley
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