Iowa State News Highlights 1925 Iowa Developments
Storm Lake completes six months with 176 980 in building permits. Iowa factory wages 1923 total 94 206 205, up over 9 million since 1919. Iowa leads oats and corn output with 248 282 000 and an estimated 196 072 000 bushels. Burke park memorial site chosen near Des Moines. A 225 000 church planned at Ames by Wesley Foundation.
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Storm Lake
Iowa
Scott County
Burke Park
University Avenue Bridge
Des Moines
Polk County
Iowa State College
Ames
Wesley Foundation of Iowa
Methodist Episcopal Church
Reinbeck Farmers Creamery
Bon
Council Bluffs
Keokuk
Indiana
Ilinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Rockford
Ramsay
First State Bank
Sioux City
Central High School
Tama County Farm Bureau
United States Department of Agriculture
Greene
Lowa
Fred Randall
Story County
Randall
Iowa National Guard
Iowa Packing Company
Burglar Sentenced to Sing Sing for Ninth Time
Charlie Hill, 74, was led from court to begin a seven year term at Sing Sing for possessing burglar tools. The case marks his ninth arrest and conviction, a career he began in 1874, with Hill admitting he has long been a “first class burglar” aside from these nine mistakes.
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New York
Charlie Hill
Sing Sing
Charlie
Ex-Bandit Cabin Becomes Radio Church in Nevada Hills
In Tonopah Nevada the old Outlaw's cabin near Gilbert mine, dating back 50 years, has been renamed Radio church. Bullet scars mark the walls while a new use as a radio sermon site draws prospectors and curious crowds on Sunday evenings as radios replace burros for travel and gatherings spread across distant towns.
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Tonopah
Nev
Gilbert
Radio Church
Indian Bride Paddles to U S to Find Mate
Vera Cassel, an eighteen year old Indian girl from Walpole Island, crossed the Canadian border to reach a Spanish lover in Detroit. Arrested after slipping past immigration controls, she faces deportation and trial for violating immigration laws. She sometimes uses the name Edna Isaacs.
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Detroit
Cupid
J. Stanley Hurd
Vera Cassel
Vera
Walpole Island
Algonac
Edna Isaacs
Brooklyn Trolleys Permit Smoking in Rear Cars
Transit Commissioner Le Roy T. Harkness announced that the Brooklyn City Railroad won approval to allow smoking in the rear portions of the new center exit trolleys during summer. He noted initial female objections have faded and suggested many women may welcome the change, while recalling earlier allowance on elevated trains.
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New York
Transit
LeRoy T. Harkness
Harkness
Transit Commission
Brooklyn City Railroad
Mr. Harkness
Puppies Chase Hen Mother From Barnyard
A Rhode Island Red hen that adopted beagle puppies on J. W. Cesan’s farm in Springfield Massachusetts has been driven from the barnyard by the pups. Deaf to her clucks the puppies chased her into the hen run. The hen’s fate shifts from potential slaughter to living out her life under the farmer’s mercy.
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Springfield
Mass
Rhode Island
J. W. Cesan
Proper Air Pressure and Tire Load Balance
Proper tire care centers on matching air pressure to load to extend tire life and prevent underinflation. Overloading causes tire troubles beyond construction flaws, while light loads reduce tire resiliency. balloon tires require careful pressure adjustments for optimal mileage and protection of the car’s mechanism.
Farm Efficiency Boosted by Motor Truck Use
The Michigan Farmer highlights how motor trucks increase farm efficiency by cutting transport costs and times, allowing farmers to exploit market demand, speed perishables to market, and deliver directly to receivers without transfers. The piece urges operatives to consider these opportunities in long term farming strategy.
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Michigan
Blocks for Automobile Jacks
A pair of blocks shown in the drawing provides a convenient base for a car jack on soft or uneven ground and can block wheels. They can be built from solid four inch timbers or from two inch planks as depicted, offering practical, low cost support.
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Birmingham
Mich
Popular Mechanica Magazine
Watch Your Water Pump to Prevent Motor Heat
An obscure cause of engine overheating is a worn or rusted small pin that secures the paddle wheel to the water pump shaft. When it shears, circulation stops, radiator water boils, and the heat indicator warns the motorist to inspect the cooling system to avoid costly repairs.
Things One Should Know About Replacing Tubes
Advice on careful tube replacement to avoid leaks and pinch flats. Slow technique matters. Proper positioning of the valve stem and gradual air to prevent buckling, folding, or uneven bead distribution. Ensure even spread inside the tire before final bead seating.
Constructive Path for Prevailing Parties Urges Broad Unity
A speech calls for parties to be constructive and not obstructive, warns against demagogy and parochial aims, and urges continental and global outlooks. It rails against extreme alliances and idle theoretical dogma, urging sturdy common sense and concrete, beneficial policies.
The Cultivation of Memory Is Not the Primary Function of Education
The piece argues memory is essential but not the main role of college education. It condemns excessive focus on memorization and urges colleges to prioritize stimulating reasoning, recognizing problems, and developing flexible thinking for solving challenges.
The First Law of American Public Schools Remember
An opinion piece argues the education system treats the mind as a storehouse. Teachers urging memorization store language, history, science, and philosophy in a cold warehouse for later recall. The essay laments the neglect of reasoning and critical thinking in daily instruction.
We Can Have Almost Any Kind of Race of Humans
A historical text argues that society could shape human races by selecting mates and breeding standards. It discusses racial beauty, intelligence, and morality as hereditary ideals passing to offspring, and notes outcomes depend on the standards chosen by marriages in past ages.
Appropriations Likely To Rise With Growth In Nation
The article argues that national population and interests are expanding and government expenditures will rise. It notes expected revenue growth after tax reductions to eliminate a presumed surplus and cites post war low water marks. It also mentions new laws enacted by the current Congress will require higher outlays to implement.
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Congress
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Scott Nearing
the Modern Quarterly
A. E. Wiggam
Martin B. Madden
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