Iowa News Highlights From Hawkeye State
Orson Brown, 98, recalls his first airplane ride as a Cass county pioneer. Oral Erickson drowned while swimming near Leans. Trixie Barnes, 23, dies of peritonitis after lockjaw attack. Audubon county awards for a $250000 road grading project. Des Moines mourns pioneer Mrs. K C Allen who settled Norwalk in 1856. Seven men escape from Council Bluffs jail. Juvenile accident in Lowell injures seven year old girl. Samuel Collins, Ida county farmer, dies of sun stroke. Multiple drownings and accidents. wheat yield near Council Bluffs 1120 bushels/40 acres. Cedar Rapids poster contest yields seven awards. Garner proclaims near complete paving density citywide.
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Waterloo
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Theodore Maresh
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Charles Urban
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Bath
John Farrington
Bluff Road
Edwin Loeffers
Garner
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Testimony and politics move through Washington headlines
Mrs. Bergdoll testified she paid Maj. Bruce Campbell five thousand dollars in a court martial matter. Rep Madden becomes House appropriations chair, replacing Good. Budget operations promise saving of over eleven billion dollars. Dawes reports to Harding. Government spending fell by nine billion year over year. Free list defeated on asphalt. German diplomacy opens.
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Advertising Use by Churches Promoted by Episcopal Officials
The Protestant Episcopal church in New York announced plans to use domestic advertising columns of daily newspapers for general church notices and evangelical purposes. Separate from this, reports describe severe wind damage in Richland County North Dakota with fatalities and property loss, a rock slide near Golden Colorado, prison fires in Pittsburgh, and various accidents and thefts.
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Global unrest and political turmoil flash across fronts
Reports from Russia, Greece, Japan, and Britain sketch a world convulsed by pogroms, famine, and political strife. Jewish persecution in Russia endangers 6 million. 20 million Russians flee starvation. Japanese diplomacy hints at Far East talks. coal miners face wage cut amid unemployment. a bomb in Buenos Aires wounds a policeman. Hoelz is jailed. Derby winner Mars 1 shines in London circuits.
Instrument Witt Warn Car Owners of Disturbances
A historical note describes a DIY stethoscope style device to locate knocks in machinery. It features a cylindrical chamber four inches long and four inches in diameter with a long rod touching the tested part, rubber tubes to ears, and a shim steel rod end riveted to the chamber. Operation is simple: place tubes in ears and rest the rod on the engine part to listen for sounds.
Stethoscope for cars warns of engine trouble
A device described as a car stethoscope transfers motor vibrations through a rod to a steel diaphragm to reveal engine trouble early. It helps prevent costly repairs by signaling impending issues, as noted by Ernest Schwartz in Popular Science Monthly.
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Popular Science Monthly
Don’t Try to Beat Trains at Crossings
Public safety notice explains a train at 50 mph covers 750 feet in ten seconds and needs about 700 feet to stop after braking. It warns that many trains travel at 50 mph in open territory and urges motorists not to attempt crossing ahead of trains. It also advises watching from a safe distance, about 100 feet from crossings.
Automotive carburetor trouble and fixes from Stewart
Stewart explains how water in gasoline settles at the bottom causing carburetor flooding. He details checks: float valve seat, grinding rough seats, straightening bent spindles, ensuring ignition and fuel feed pipes are clear, cleaning gas strainers, and tightening set screws to prevent throttle response issues.
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Automobile School
Global Automobile Facts in Early 20th Century Context
The passage notes women as garage keepers in England, Ontario as Canada’s auto hub, Spain with 26 million people owning 20 thousand cars, and state fleets in the U S operating 80 thousand motor vehicles. It cites Holland with 10 thousand cars, one per 700 inhabitants, and that most English motor trucks use solid tires. It adds Holland’s annual car production at 200, a 14 year old may operate in Kansas and West Virginia, and Denmark’s speed limit at 500 kilometers per hour.
Postmasters and milk study cited from 18th century acts
An article recounts colonial postmaster appointments by the crown, noting Andrew Hamilton in Philadelphia and Franklin’s 1737 appointment. It also describes a USDA exhibit showing milk’s dietary value using two rats, one fed milk showing strong growth and bones versus a milk-deprived rat.
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New York
America
America and Also To Appoint Allsdeputy
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Philadelphia
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Market Street
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Newport
Virginia
Kansas
City
Star
United States Department of Agriculture
Marconi Hails Mars Messages in Wireless Era
Marconi, the famed wireless pioneer, says that messages received from Mars may be genuine. He notes global discussion on interplanetary communication and believes a new era of long distance contact between planets could be beginning despite some scientists doubting the signals as atmospheric tricks.
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Inventor claims European music typewriter called kromarographe
The article describes a European invention named the kromaro graphe a music typewriter that records keyboard play as regular musical characters. The device sits at the piano keys and uses electric contacts to register each stroke, enabling distant removal of discordant sounds with the recording apparatus placed in another room.
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Gize
Get Rid of Dying Trees Threatens Two Men
Two men warned that diseased trees could topple, urging caution as crews work to remove a dangerous tree. Authorities say the risk remains high until the work is completed.
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