Iowa State News Highlights Growth Across Farms and Cities
Iowa reports 200,785 motor cars owned by farmers and rapid construction in Indianola Mitchellville Guthrie county. Des Moines payrolls rise with a $500,000 July gasoline tax outlook, and oats production tops corn. Warren county forms White Oak Protection association while Muscatine jail prisoners face road work. A Des Moines pool project, dog show, streetcar wage settlement, and expanded vocational training at Eldora are announced.
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Iowa
Indianola
Newton Y. M. C. A
LeGrande
Carroll
Mitchellville
Guthrie County
Des Moines
Iowa Packing Company
Reinbeck Farmers Creamery
State Department of Agriculture
Warren County
White Oak Protection Association
Muscatine County
Board of Supervisors
Fort Madison
American Kennel Club
Cedar Rapids
Iown
Ashworth Park
Charles H. Ashworth
Timothy
Woodward
Eldora
State Board of Control
Gypsy Boy Buried With Three Shirts in Collinsville
The twelve year old son of gypsy John Yonko was buried in Collinsville Illinois with three shirts and three pairs of trousers placed on his body and three silver dollars in the coffin to supply him for the journey beyond. The gypsy troupe was traveling by automobile and the child Stephen Yonko died en route in Indianapolis and was pronounced dead at Collinsville hospital.
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St. Louis
Collinsville
Ill
John Yonko
Yanko
Indianapolis
Stephen
Collinsville Hospital
Spurned Suitor Hits Girl in Roadside Collision
Raymond Howard of Mineola an aviator was jailed on a second degree assault charge after police say he rammed the car carrying his former sweetheart Irene Truesdale and her husband Perry Gordon on Hempstead Turnpike. The incident followed Truesdale’s marriage to Gordon and a reunion ride with Joseph Susskind and his wife at a Lakeview roadhouse.
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New York
Raymond Howard
Mineola
Justice of the Peace
Walter R. Jones
Hempstead
Irene Truesdale
Munson
L. L
Miss Truesdale
Perry Gordon
Howard
Greenwich
Susskind
Good Manners In Motoring
Commissioner Robbins B. Stoeckel of Connecticut urges a national code of driving courtesy to prevent accidents and trouble. He defines good driving as altruistic patience and consideration, citing actions such as avoiding splashing pedestrians, giving warning to others, obeying officers, and not weaving through traffic. He warns temper and selfish conduct lead to danger and legal trouble.
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Robbins B. Stoeckel
Connecticut State Department of Motor Vehicles
National Safety Council
Stoeckel
Mr. Stoeckel
Trafic
Aid to Crippled Bird Sends Kind Man to Cell
In Columbus, W H Tompkins faced a city jail charge for keeping an untamed red bird with a broken wing and leg found near his home at 1123 Hunter Street. His wife Mrs Tompkins, now ill and bedfast, had nursed the bird, which had become her sole diversion. Tompkins surrendered his position to care for her while an affidavit was filed under state bird laws. He said the bird loved them and doubted release would help his wife’s condition.
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Columbus
Ohico
W. H. Tompkins
Hunter Street
Tompkins
Daring Girl Drives Wild Race With Death
Molly Saas of Westmont New Jersey drove a racing car bearing an injured man from Egg Harbor to Camden to reach hospital. With a state troop on a motorcycle clearing the way, the nineteen year old travelled forty five miles in 384 minutes. Edward Marshall of Gibbsboro rode the car and was held by state police. Sergeant Thompson led the advance.
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Philadelphia
Egg Harbor
Camden
Molly Saas
Westmont
N. J
Edward Marshall
Gibbsboro
John Johnson
Marshall
Dog with fleas refuses to stay on one pup
Department of Agriculture scientists report discovering a bull pup on which fleas will not live. The dog readily repels all fleas tested, prompting researchers to investigate the secret of this resistance.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Department
Removing Carbon From Gas Engine Cylinders
Owners may remove carbon with an oxygen flame without harming the engine if precautions are followed. Fill the radiator with water to shield cylinder walls and valves. Close both valves and set the piston to top dead center to trap oxygen. After burning, spin the engine to open the exhaust valve and blow air into the cylinder to clear carbon particles and protect proper seating.
Motometer Reading After Water Fill For Cooling System
Do not be alarmed if the motometer shows higher radiator temperature after filling with water. Contact of water or water vapor with the thermometer stem affects readings. drain off some water if readings remain abnormally high.
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Motometer
Patent award for balloon tire idea by Alden L Putnam
Alden L Putnam of Lansing Michigan received a patent from the United States patent office for the balloon tire idea. He filed the application in August 1920 after wartime work on tires to ease riding as a member of the motor transport board.
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U. S
Alden L. Putnam
Lansing, Mich
United States Patent Office
Putnam
Motor Transport Board
Economy on the Part of the Car Owner Is Urged
Automobile owners must practice gasoline economy says Thomas P. Henry president of the American Automobile association. He argues fuel conservation is the nation’s answer to rising prices and possible oil shortages. If supplies diminish or if scarcity is a trade tactic conservation will keep prices down for consumers.
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Thomas P. Henry
American Automobile Association
Mr. Henry
Balloon tires cause excessive bobbing on cars
Balloon tires on cars create too much bobbing movement. Spring control devices fall short on many models, even newer cars not built for balloons. Reducing spring leaves can curb the bobbing, as balloons often accompany designs with fewer leaves.
Swinging booms boost service car utility in Alabama
An Alabama dealer attached two swinging booms to a light car to recover a one ton lumber truck that had rolled into a 29 foot embankment. The booms, made from heavy pipe and iron cross members, were anchored to a tree and the car to pull the truck back onto the road. Archle Richardson, Decatur, Ga., notes the feat in Popular Mechanics Magazine.
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Alabama
Archle Richardson
Decatur
Popular Mechanics
First Discoverers of America From Asia Foretold
An evocative essay credits prehistoric Asian navigators as the true discoverers of America, preceding Columbus by centuries. It praises their bronze age empires, art, laws, and architecture while lamenting their erasure by modern civilization and official veneration of Columbus.
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Asia
Columbus
America
Spain
A Blind Man Describes Ears as Eyes and Expert Listening
A speaker extols a blind man whose ears reveal people and truth others miss. He explains hearing voice, gait, and quirks as a guide to character. He notes voters’ assurances are detectable by voice, not gesture or appearance, from a poker table to public life.
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Schall
Puritanical governance mirrored in modern lawmaking
The piece warns against a wave of new laws and moral guardianship, arguing that strict statutes breed rebellion and hypocrisy. It argues religious freedom was used to enforce conformity and predicts laws lacking alignment with divine law will be violated and repealed.
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America
Massachusetts
To Be Broke and to Be Turned Down by His Girl
The education of the dramatist should be life and experience over books. A real dramatist must have tasted being broke and rejected by his girl at once. Such trials outweigh even extensive study of Euripides and current theatre fashion.
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Euripides
Conditions favoring the success of motion pictures
The article argues motion pictures succeed not just from promotion but from modern life conditions that meet urban and rural recreational needs. It notes city workers seek swift escape from daily grind and business stress, with visions of wealth and adventure, while industrial society stimulates rural desire for city luxuries.
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Hawkeye
State News
Connecticut
Dog
Manuel Gamio
Thomas D. Schall
Minnesota
John J. Blaine
Wisconsin
James L. Ford
Theatre Magazine
Louis Weinberg
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