Iowa Corn Canning Prospects and Local News Digest
Iowa corn canning counts focus on crop prospects with 26 000 acres planted to sweet corn and a hoped for bumper pack double last year. Local items cover Grinnell College president rumors, long lived couples in Sioux City, floods and road work, postmaster changes, and community notices across the state.
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Iowa
Des Moines
G. W. Drake
J. H. Daley
Sanborn
John Quillish
Mr. Daley
Kentucky
Grinnell College
J. H. T. Main
Grinnell Friends of
Main
New York
John Tanken
Northwest
Sioux City
Tanken
Scott County
G. R. Bliss
State Laboratory
Ames
Talmage
Union County
Bert B. White
Frank B. Thompson
Wrightman
Calhoun County
Julia M. Gaffney
William C. Ferguson
William E. Elsner
Marshalltown
Milwaukee
Madrid
Muscatine
Mississippi
College Inspection Board
The
War Department At Washington
Thomas H. Macbride
Military Department
University of Iowa
Johnnie Long
Sidney Long
Mount Pleasant
George T. McFarland
Story County
Gilbert
State Center
San Francisco
Clarence Blackman
Coalport
Tama County
Rural Life Topics at Iowa State College Promotes Home Life
Iowa State College at Ames spends two weeks spreading rural life knowledge to summer school students farmers social workers ministers and teachers. Experts assess Iowa farm conditions and outline steps to strengthen rural social life aiming to curb population decline and keep families on the farm.
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Des Moines
Iowa State College
Ames
Iowa
Towa
Rural Life Conference
Ernest Thompson Seton
Boy Scouts of America
Luther Gulick
New York City
Henry Wallace
James Wilson
Wilson
Tama County
Emory H English Named Iowa Insurance Commissioner
Governor Clarke named Emory H English as Iowa insurance commissioner citing his competence integrity and loyalty. English previously chaired the house insurance committee in the Thirtieth and was reappointed in the Thirty-first general assemblies for significant insurance legislation. A federal court voided Iowa sterilization for prisoners twice convicted of felonies and enjoined enforcement by parole board and penitentiary officials. Seth Thomas’s bar admission record shows four years of practice before the recent primary.
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John L. Bleakly
Clarke
Effish
Insurance
Matlish
I Insurance
Department of Insurance
Bleakly
Auditor of State
English
General Assembly
Emory H. English
House
Polk County
Iowa
Smith McPherson
John C. Pollock
District of Kansas
United States
Walter I. Smith
State Board of Parole
Saunders
Fort Madison
Austin F. Philpott
Seth Thomas
the Supreme Court
The
Supreme Court
Thomas
Archduke Ferdinand and Duchess Die in Sarajevo Shootings
Archduke Francis Ferdinand and Duchess of Hohenberg were fatally shot in Sarajevo after a bomb attack earlier that day. Servian student Gavrilo Princip fired the fatal volley as the couple returned from the town hall, while witnesses aided bystanders and the governor escaped injury. Bodies lie in state pending imperial guidance on burial in Vienna vaults.
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Sarajevo
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Duchess of
Hohenberg
Francis Joseph
Archduke
Count von Boos Waldeck
Ferizzo
Gavrio Prinzip
Hapsburg
Vienna
Girl to marry Mexican prompts arrest in Mason City
A 15 year old girl who lived near Clear Lake eloped with Mexican Victor Lobec. The father, aided by an officer, recovered his daughter and Lobec was jailed pending further notice. Lobec had worked for the father for about three years and was described as treated like a son.
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St. Mary’s Catholic
Hamburg
Iowa
Fort Madison
Joseph Smith
Mississippi Valley
Roy McCurrn
Blue Lake
Onawa
Muscatine Island
Dubuque
M. G. Norton
Winona
Minn
A. M. Hummel
T. A. Black
Waterloo
Thomas 8. Black
Lewisburg
Ralph FE. Hellman
Home Economics
University of Iowa
School of Commerce
University of Haineis
Iowa League of Nursing Education
Boone
Luella Bristol
Martha Oakes
Davenport
Amy Beers
Fairfield
A. M. McLaughlin
Schaller
P. P. Crafts
Davenport and Muscatine
Iowa and Illinois
Mobile, Ala
Council Bluffs
Milwaukee
Missouri River Bridge
Sheriffs’ Association
Chariton District
Epworth League
Russell
Charles Witt
John Witt
Watkins
Bonaparte
Mason City
Victor Lobec
Clear Lake
Collins Hotel
Lobee
Business revival noted in Davenport area as plants restart
Davenport reports a rapid business revival with Bettendorf Axle, Davenport Locomotive, and French Hecht expanding output. Bettendorf Axle, employing 2,500 at full capacity, resumes with 500 workers on 200 New York Central underframes order. Locomotive works also to reopen with hundreds. French Hecht to run with new metal wheel orders.
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Davenport
Bettendorf Axle Company
New York Central
Davenport Locomotive Works
French & Hecht Company
Harvest In Decatur County
Harvesting early wheat is in full swing in Decatur county. Quality is extra fine and yields range from 15 to 30 bushels per acre. Only a few fields sown early were affected by Hessian fly, and no reports of fly injury on wheat sown in October.
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Decatur
Travel Over Lincoln Highway Through Loveland
A count of 150 cars passing Loveland between 7 and 8 a m gauges possible future traffic on the Lincoln highway when completed.
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Lincoln Highway
Loveland
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Hamilton
Story Counties
Scott Township
Hamilton County
Howard Township
J. A Dunkie
Webster City
Reed
Democratic State Central Committee
Maurice Connolly
Reading
John H. Gillespie
Creston
C. G. Gloeckler
Mt. Pleasant
John de Mar
J. H. Gribben
Newton
J. J
MAKIN
Iowa Farm Homes
State College
Commonwealth
Iowa General Assembly
Iowa Railroad Commission
State Railroad Commission
United States Supreme Court
Clifford Thorne
Senate
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Colorado Springs
J. C. Hawkins
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Ryan & Ryan
ROYAL
Decatur County
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