Iowa News Highlights From Cedar Falls to Council Bluffs
A 1882 Danish patent brought the first centrifugal cream separator to an Iowa farmer near Cedar Falls. Mayor Potter of Mason City works to secure jobs for national guardsmen returning home. Sibley gardener O Burton grows large vegetable crops on city lots. Sioux City wireless operators intercept Berlin money traffic and a British request for Key West time. Judge Horace Deemer dies at 59. B F Whitney funeral delayed for missing daughter. Scott county farmers hold potatoes as prices rise. John H Strobelin stores 15,067 bushels. Oil prospecting near Bonaparte. Dubuque frost depths reported. University of Iowa conducts health survey in Wapello. Coe College adds $100,000 Voorhees addition. Grinnell named home station for Iowa cavalry. Oskaloosa to build a $125,000 three story high school addition. Cedar Rapids aids Belgian children relief. a clay mine collapse kills one, likely injures another. Council Bluffs grows as grain center after new elevators. Grinnell uses local ash for road surfaces.
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Jeppe Slijsgaard
Blackhawk County
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Sibley
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Howard White
Berlin
Nestlerode
Key West
Atlantic Ocean
Horace Deemer
Iowa Supreme Court
Red Oak
Horace E. Deemer
B. F. Whitney
Osceola
Augusta Whitney
Scott County
John H. Strobelin
Walcott
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Mississippi
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Elizabeth Voorhees
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Iowa Cavalry
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Edar Rapids
McKissick Brick and Tile Company
Carlisle
Burlington and Northwestern
Council Bluffs
Middle West
Grinnall
Iowa Topics Show Broad Agenda From Creamery to Citizenship
The Iowa Buttermakers move toward a national meeting in Des Moines next year while reelecting officers. Public protest against Sunday closing laws expands in Atlantic Cass county ministers urge signatures. Davenport and Des Moines area firms plan wartime munition surveys and factory output. Varied items include Funston relatives in Iowa, a Sioux City railroad builder's death, first Iowa creamery founder Mathew Van Deusen, Ames as 1918 Drainage meeting site, a new camp cookery class, Poland China sow sales, Berlin residents pledge loyalty, Cherokee county bridge contracts, Des Moines citizenship through May 21, liquor shipment injunctions, Dubuque factory building, Webster county agent push, Shenandoah church contract, Iowa suffrage efforts, Holstein grade school dedication, and Des Moines hotel plans.
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Iowa Buttermakers
National Creamery Buttermakers’ Association
Des Moines
M. EB. Ma Murray
Jesup
Guy Thomas
Clear Lake
A W. Rudnick
Ames
G. J. Gudknecht
Brighton
Ministerial Association of
Atlantic
Cass County
Davenport
State Manufacturers’ Association
George Wrightman
Frederick Funston
Iowa
Clay Townships
Linn
Johnson
Berlin
Germany
United States
Uncle Sam
Cherokee County
Martin J. Wade
Brewing Companies
Havner
Rock Island
Carpenter
Consignees
Dubuque
Fort Dodge
Webster County
Shenandoah
Mothers of
Congressional Union
Wilson
Iowa State Dairy Special
E. Q. Estall
Waterloo
Holstein
Miller Hotel Company
Blackhawk and
Kimball
Street Railway Company
Marshalltown
Straat Cornee
Iowa Senate Approves Primary Bill Limiting Ballot State Officers
The Iowa Senate voted 38 to 10 to remove state officers under governor from the primary ballot and leave their nominations to a state convention. The Foster amendment allows writing in delegates to county conventions. Kimball argues voters are not well acquainted with state candidates, while knowledge of U S senator and governor contenders remains high.
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Des Moines
Senate
Iowa
Foster
Kae Ae
Emory H. English
Moore
Senate Election Committee
Helmer
Iowa Senate
Whitmore
Lytle
Mutuals
Taylor
Buchanan County
Thirty-fifth General Assembly
J. L. Bleakly
State Insurance Department
English
Laconia Sinking Claims Two Americans and Sends Survivors Ashore
Two Americans are confirmed lost aboard the Laconia after a German submarine torpedoed the Cunard liner as it sailed from New York to Liverpool. Twenty six Americans were aboard including cabin passenger Floyd P. Gibbons and Rev. James Wareing. survivors reached Queenstown with exposure injuries while officials fear diplomatic mail carried on the ship may be lost.
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Queenstown
Miss Hoy
Joseph Warring
Baltimore
United States
New York
Liverpool
Floyd P. Gibbons
The
Chicago Tribune
Col McConlogue Dies After Illness in Des Moines
Col James H McConlogue longtime Mason City lawyer and state board of control member died in Des Moines after a prolonged illness. He previously rested in Colfax after illness and suffered a stroke later in Des Moines. He served on the temporary tax commission and the state board of control, with ties to Governor Clarke and Boies era.
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James H. McConlogue
State Board of Control
McConlogue
Colfax
Mason City
Carroll
Clarke
State Board of Control of
John F. Wade
Iowa Militia
Boies
Farmers Hold Potatoes in Anticipation of Price Rise
Davenport reports Scott county farmers store large potato supplies awaiting a price surge to five dollars a bushel. One holder of 15,000 bushels is John H. Strobelin of Walcott. Current bids for carload lots run about 3.80 dollars per bushel.
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Davenport
Scott County
John H. Strobelin
Walcott
Judge Deemer Dead at 58 in Red Oak Iowa
Justice Horace E. Deemer oldest serving Iowa Supreme Court member died at his home after weeks of illness. He was 58 and suffered a general nervous breakdown blamed on overwork and worry over his wife’s illness. Deemer served on the bench since 1894, the longest continuous service record on the court.
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Deemer
Red Oak
Horace E. Deemer
Iowa Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Juda¢’ Deemer
California Syrup of Figs Ad Warns Mothers About Constipation
A vintage advertisement extols California Syrup of Figs as a harmless remedy for children’s constipation. It claims rapid relief for feverish, cross, and ailing kids, urging mothers to buy a 50 cent bottle with full directions for all ages. A brief railway exchange follows, noting a 13 percent tunnel completion in Switzerland.
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California
Fletcher
Sufferers From Kidney Ailments Should Remember This
A 1916 advertisement extols Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a kidney liver and bladder remedy. Druggist GEO P Shiley of Missouri Valley Iowa endorses it with a testimonial and urges readers to order a sample bottle for ten cents from Kilmer Co Binghamton NY.
Strong Material Question in Class on Building Steel
A professor asks what is the strongest material for a house. A student quips Limburger cheese as the answer, speaking from his experience in class.
Two Thousand Nine Hundred Ninety Eight Dollars Profit Farmed in Clover Land
Escanaba Mich Feb 28 Kelly Johnson of Delta county reports total receipts of 2988 75 for crops from his fifty acre Clover Land farm with a net profit of 2638 75 after 350 labor cost He lists potatoes onions cucumbers tomatoes cabbage beans and other produce with gains and notes grains and hay also produced high rents and interest in Clover Land are avoided by farming on Clover Land via the Upper Peninsula Development Bureau Marquette Michigan 100 Bacon Block.
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Mich
Kelly Johnson
Delta County
Clover Land
Johnson
K .S
Upper Peninsula
Michigan
Sarcasm of the Rejected in Boston Tran Script
A witty exchange mocks editors as one writer claims to publish while another says the work is for escalation among editors. The dialogue highlights tension between aspiring authors and newsroom gatekeepers.
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Boston Transcript
Garfield Tea Purifies Blood Said to Heal Ailments
Purported Garfield Tea claims to purify the blood and eradicate rheumatism and many chronic ailments. The advertisement notes health benefits without scientific backing and urges readers to try the product.
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Garfield
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