Iowa News Roundup Highlights Corn Prospects and Civic Plans
Iowa receives 6 177 855 in the last biennial period with 317 000 in secretary of state fees. Des Moines declines to gift the cruiser Des Moines despite a bid for a present. Crop observers report improving corn outlook with rain risk noted. Compulsory schooling for the deaf urged. Socialist tent tours the state. Turners confluence in Des Moines features Schleuder ball. Waterloo plans a special fair day excursion. Paper from corn stalks eyed for Des Moines plant. Good roads movement advances with Ways and Means magazine. Rifle teams from Iowa to compete for the Washburn trophy and national guard arms shipment noted.
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Des Moines
Secretary of the Treasury
Iowa
Burlington
Clinton
Communia
Davenport
Holstein
Garnaville
Keystone
Moline
Ottumwa
Waterloo
D. B. Lyons
Ways and Means
Roosevelt
Lyons
Iowa prepares first atlas since 28 years ago
The Iowa State Atlas Publishing company of Davenport is preparing the first atlas of Iowa since the Andrea’s atlas of 28 years ago. The project aims to deliver detailed accurate information with extensive work and time. They have been at it over a year and expect completion for the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair.
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W. M. Beardshear
State Agricultural College
A. B. Storms
Charles Heath
Fort Dodge Cereal Mills
Great Western Cereal Company
Fort Dodge
Des Moines
State of
Iowa
Andrea
Iowa State Atlas Publishing Company
Davenport
St. Louis
Iowa Day Selection Delayed Over Railroad Rate At Exposition
At the Iowa commission's executive committee meeting on June 17 1904 the Iowa Day selection was reported favorably but final action was deferred until railway rate prospects for drawing Iowa residents to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition could be clarified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Commission
Iowa
Marquette
Joliet
Red Tape in War Records Reveals Posthumous Reclassification
A British regiment faced confusion after a soldier listed as killed in battle South Africa reappeared. A chain of notes amended the record from died to died by mistake, then redied by order of the colonel as the man later died from earlier injuries.
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South Africa
London
V. C
Racing Auto Sparks Public Admiration
A humorous exchange depicts Harry Blueface-Ah praising his new racing auto while a woman misreads the horn sound as a fish peddler, highlighting a playful street scene in Philadelphia.
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Harry Blueface
Philadelphia
Dodd’s Kidney Pills Cures Ill Child a Town News Tale
In Frairpoint Mississippi on August 3 an unusual report tells how a boy suffering spinal disease worsened for two months until his father tried Dodd’s Kidney Pills. After using two months worth the child recovered and has not been troubled since. The father urges others to give the remedy a fair chance.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
May Hayne
Ederton
Wis
Household Economics Club
Iowa Farms $4 Per Acre Cash, Bal. 4 Crop Till Paid
An advertisement from Mulhall Sioux City Iowa states payment terms of four dollars per acre cash with balance on four crops until paid. The note appears alongside a Philadelphia Press quote about marriage for fun and a testimonial about Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with a Mayo claim of health improvement and urging use of the product.
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Iowa
Mulhall
Sioux City
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Mass
Washington
E. R B. Boyd
Rock Island
H. W. Robert
Council Bluffs
Socialists of
John A. Page
Chicago
Commercial Exchange
Washburn
Cedar Rapids
Lake Park
Minn
Minnesota
Illinois
Muscatine
Avon
Iown
David B. Henderson
Richard P. Clarkson
New York
Clarkson
Rock Branch
National Guard
Department of the Chief of Ordnance
Iowa National Guard
Adjutant General
Fort Riley
Leon Brown
State Atlas
Agnes
Allen
Olmsted
le Roy, N. Y
Philadelphia Press
Mrs. Haule
Edgerton, Wis
Joo
Fac Simile Signature of
Castoria
Franklin CO
Missouri
Yuis County
Franklin
St. Lacett
Mos
Joseph H. Bennett
Sullivans, Mo
Gentaur
Bears
Ozomulsion Food CO
Pine Street
A.n.kellogg Newspaper CO
W. Adams Street
Dr. Caldwell
Pepsin Syrup Company, Mionticelio, HL
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