Iowa Farm News Highlights From Woodbury County Contest and More
Final results of Woodbury County pig feeding contest name Helen Ives of Danbury winner with 4 per cent score. Cole farm shows a practical tenant cottage built in 1917 for under $1000. Correctionville beekeepers Milo and Guy Keller report 6000 pounds honey from 24 colonies. Iowa State College reports 105 graduates placed in teaching positions from 988 requests. About 10,500 tractors operate in Iowa, with a northern concentration. Sac City to host January tractor show with Prof. John Class to attend. last year drew 15,000 attendees. Henry County purebred sales total $24,343 from 92 head. year’s purebred stock numbers rise in Humboldt County. Cedar County farmers form power spray circles. orchard owners project $2000 savings. Cooperative farm organizations face shippers’ car shortages. Mt. Pleasant complaints to National Board. Farm short course set for Feb 9-14, 1920 at Town State college with Iowa institutions guidance.
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Woodbury
Helen Ives
Danbury
Milton Rudholm
Bronson
T. C. Danskin
Cole
Milo
Guy Keller
Correctionville
Iowa State College
G. M. Wilson
Agricultural Education Department
Iowa
Department of Agriculture
Sac City
John Class
Henry County
Shorthorn Breeders Association
Humboldt County
Breeders’ Association
Cedar County
A. E. Church
Mt. Pleasant
National Board of Farm Organizations
Washington
Burlington Railroad
Co-Operative
Town State College
Allci Institutions Ag
Iowa State, College
Ro ‘Thyas
Devastating Vera Cruz Earthquake Wrecks Towns
A massive quake in Vera Cruz on January 2 devastates Couztlan and at least a dozen towns. Reports list 2000 deaths and 60 injured in surrounding districts. Rivers flood, roads vanish, and villages like Calcahualco are wiped out, with soldiers sent to bury victims.
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Mexico City
Mex
Couztlan
Port Barranca del Agua
San Francisco de la Pena
Vera Cruz
Baconda
Coscomatepec
Calcahualco
Gulf Region
Huatusco
San Juan Soscomnatepec
Orizaba
Hoover Sees Europe Needs Not So Great As Pictured
Hoover moving east for relief work in Europe telegraphs a statement refuting European propagandists on Europe’s US credit needs. He argues taxes are high and no further treasury loans are required, aside from secondary measures. He notes bread on credit for central and southern Europe and temporary interest relief for allies.
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Hoover
Europe
New York
Herbert Hoover
United States
United States Treasury
Grain Corporation
Help of Congress in Deportation Campaign Faces Long Fight
Washington officials say the drive to deport more than 8,000 aliens tied to communist and communist labor groups will be lengthy. They cite strong legal defense, a slush fund, and an inadequately staffed immigration service, urging congressional help.
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Congress
Washington, D. C
Department of Justice
Immigration Service
Vessels Built for Shipping Board in 1919 Rise to 1159
The Shipping Board announced that 1,159 vessels were constructed for the wartime program in 1919, totaling 6,229,828 dead weight tons. This marks substantial expansion of the nation's merchant fleet during the period.
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Washington
Shipping Board
Loop Record Set by French Ace in Paris
Paris Idmond Villon, a French aviator ace, established a new looping record by making twenty eight consecutive loops within five minutes. The sport airplane involved was built for sport flying.
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Paris
Idmond Villon
Ace
Uprising in Bulgaria at Sofia Leaves Many Dead or Wounded
Belgrade advices reported over a hundred people killed or wounded in anti-dynastic protests at Sofia, Bulgaria, as Geneva dispatches noted.
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Bulgaria
Geneva
Sofia
Belgrade
Third of Strikers Still Out in Pittsburgh Steel Strike
Reportes indicate about one third of the 860000 steel workers remained idle as the national strike continues. Details about dates and organizing committees are unclear in the fragment.
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Pittsburgh
National Steel
Supreme Court Upholds War Time Prohibition Beer Ban
The court ruled 5 to 4 that beverages with 1 percent or more alcohol are prohibited under wartime rules, upholding Congress's power to bar 2.75 percent beer and other near beers. Jacob Ruppert challenged the ruling. the decision curbs liquor industry hopes for a loophole in national prohibition.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Brandeis
Congress
New York
Jacob Ruppert
Met
Uquor
War on sugar trusts set for January convention
In Denver a nationwide gathering of beet farmers and allied groups plans a January 26 meeting to fight the sugar trust. The Intermountain Farmers association and more than twelve regional bodies say U S production is under a quarter of consumption and aim to expand the beet industry, cut shortages and restore fair prices. Only farmers may serve as delegates.
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Denver
Colorado
Sugar Trust
Intermountain“Farmers’ Association
Farmers’ Union of Nebraska
Ancient Order of Gleaners
Farmers’ Union of Colorado
Mountain States Beet Growers’ Association
State Granges
Washington
Call
Word of Caution from Legion on German Opera and Hungarian Music
Indianapolis report notes American Legion instructs members not to oppose German opera and Hungarian music unless it stokes pro German sentiment. State Legion bulletin via Franklin D Olier urges firm stand for Americanism against radicalism while maintaining law and order at all posts.
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Indianapolis
Ind
American Legion
State Department of the Legion
Franklin D'Olier
Two More Americans Slain Near Tampico Mexico
Advices from Washington report two American oil men, F. J. Roney and Earl Bowles, murdered in the Tampico district. The State Department urged Mexico to capture and punish the murderers as the toll of Americans killed in the area since April 1917 rises to nineteen.
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Oll
Tampico
Mexico
Washington, D. GC
State Department
F. J. Roney
Earl Bowles
Department
Mexico City
Washington
Census Enumerators Begin National Count in January
An army of 85 000 enumerators started the United States census on January 2 to count men, women and children and to gather data on the nation’s resources.
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United States
Washington, D. C
Colorado Supreme Court Upholds Home Liquor Rights
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that a citizen may keep liquor in his own home. The decision, coming from Rio Grande County, clarifies property rights under state law.
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Denver
Colo
Colorado
State Supreme Court
Rilo
Grande County
US claims against Germany exceed seized ships credit
America’s claims over Lusitania sinks and other wartime damages will surpass the credit from 100 German ships seized in American ports. Shipping board officials say the indemnities from the peace treaty will be offset by U S claims before the allied reparations commission, leaving little chance of any payment by the United States. Three war vessels interned in American ports will not be counted with the merchant ships.
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Ashington
America
Germany
United States
American
Shipping Board
Gridiron Club Dinner Skit Scrambles Railroads for Congress
Report of a Gridiron Club comedy sketch mocking railroad reform as McAdoo Hines and an investor stage a magic trick. The hat trick ends with the mock “government operation and control” failing, and the actors calling for Congress to “fix it.” The piece parodies 1920s politics and railroad policy.
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McAdoo
Hines
Mr. Morgan
United States
Investor
Mr. Hines
Mr. McAdoo
Congress
Congress Without the Congressional Record Satire
A satirical account imagines Congress halting the Congressional Record. Senators Thomas Jones Smoot and the vice president debate suspending publication, stop printing speeches, and curtail senatorial oratory amid paper shortages worldwide.
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Thomas
Colorado
Congressional Record
Jones
Smoot
Utah
Senate
Congress
Chicago waterway project faces broad protests
A protest filed with Secretary Baker by Howard T Cahill urges failure to issue a permit for Illinois to build the so called Trinois waterway linking the Great Lakes to the Mississippi. It claims Chicago drainage lowers Lakes Michigan Huron Erie and Ontario stressing need to consider international treaty issues with Great Britain and potential Joint Commission involvement.
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Chicago
Tllinois
Trinois
Great Lakes
Mississippi River
Baker
Army Engineers
Howard T. Cahill
Wisconsin
Michigan
Indiana
Minnesota
Ohio
Pennsylvania
New York
Micheigan
Huron
Erie
Ontario
Great Britain
International Joint Commission
United States
St. Lawrence River
Muskegon Woman Praises Pinkham's Remedy
Mrs. G Schoonfield of 240 Wood Ave Muskegon Michigan reports longback weakness eased by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says it restored her strength allowing daily work and urges others to try the medicine after her strong personal success.
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Muskegon
Mich
Lydia
Pinkham
Woman health advice and Pinkham remedy promotion
A period advertisement urges women to guard health before illness and promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy. Readers are invited to write to the company in Lynn Massachusetts for confidential, womanly guidance and advice.
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Lydia H.pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Led Pinkham
Freckles Sees a Sina Bietlastates Onet Enforced Idleness
Freckles observes a pattern of idle labor and notes a devil’s workshop running at full capacity. The report highlights a bleak routine of enforced idleness shaping local conditions and community impact.
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Strahl
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Cartich
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