Iowa News Roundup Highlights Essays and Local Events
Iowa counties run a statewide essay contest on How Good Roads Benefit Farmers with free trips to the state fair for county winners. Other items report federal bird laws, rising prison parole, cattle sales, and plans to improve highways from Waterloo to Jesup, plus community efforts in Waterloo and Des Moines, and a pending endowment drive for Iowa Wesleyan College.
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Iowa State Fair Management
State Fair Board
Des Moines
Harry Barmeier
Dubuque
Iowa
United States Supreme Court
Barmeier
Burlington
Olin B. Chassell
Iowa Methodist
Methodists of
United States
Baptist
Entral Colleges
Carroll
Iowa Falls
Ellsworth College
Farmers’Cooperative Company
Grimes
N. F. Haworth
Ft. Podge
Utah State Prison
Nan
Thomas Sandell
Laytop
Utah
Haworth
Iowa Shorthorn Breeders’ Association
State Fair Grounds
Dex Moines
Munday
H Des F . A Oe
United States District Court
Keokuk
Mauro & Wilson Company
Claude R. Porter
Blackhawk
Hawkeye
Waterloo
Jesup
Board of Agriculture
Lorinda Champlin
Des Moines College
Martha KE. Wilson
Improvements in Iowa Schools Reach 2 Million Yearly
State High School Inspector P. E. McClenahan reports Iowa spends about 2 million dollars annually on school improvements over five years with no decline. High school attendance rose by 8,000 in three years as more students stay in school and rural district laws boost enrollment.
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Iowa
Des Moines
P. E. McClenahan
Mr. McClenahan
McClenahan
Farmers butter contract spans decades in Knoxville region
Mrs. David Hughes of a west Knox county farming family supplied butter to O. J. Kendig at 50 cents a pound May to November and 35 cents November to May for 24 years, delivering about 60,000 pounds and earning nearly $21,000 while expanding to two Marion county farms.
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David Hughes
Knoxville
O. J. Kendig
Knoxville Grocer
Hughes
Marion County
George Payne
St. Paul
Iowa Falls
Payne
Leavitt & Johson
Waterloo
William Wiley
Romania
Prince Carl II
Bucharest
Europe
Wiley
Ottumwa
Clarence TD
Riley
Intermountain Ridge and Construction Company
Mason City
Iowa
New York
Polk County
Iowa Leads in Consolidated Schools and Education Standards
Des Moines reports Iowa leads the nation in educational progress. A. M. Deyoe says Iowa’s consolidated school districts yield nine month terms and better facilities, teachers, and programs versus Indiana and Illinois. Over 100 Iowa representatives attended the Detroit conference.
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Des Moines
Iowa
United States
A. M. Deyoe
Detroit
National Education Association
Mr. Deyoe
Indiana
Llinois
Towa
Pay up week clears debts in Washington county
Pay up week in Washington county settled over 130000 dollars of old accounts. Debts were wiped from the books across nine towns as merchants report record cash flow and many dollars circulated to settle multiple accounts. J B Crail calls the movement nationally notable and beyond expectations.
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Washington
Washington County
J. B. Crail
Washington Business Men’s Association
Aid for Flood Victims Near Des Moines
Des Moines reports Gov Clarke authorizes Rock Island engineer W P Peterson to travel to Oska loosa to evaluate flood prevention measures. An ice gorge at Given backs up the Des Moines river, forcing residents along the river bottoms to evacuate. Authorities fear water could reach unusually high levels if the ice is not cleared.
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Des Moines
W. P. Peterson
Rock Island Railroad
Clarke
Oskaloosa
Des Moines River
Given
Capitalists plan auto number plate factory in Ackley
Local capitalists contemplate erecting a plant in Ackley to manufacture exclusively auto number plates. They argue the field is not over crowded, noting state difficulty in securing plates, and expect the plant to pay from the start.
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Ackley
Death of Iowa's oldest resident in Dubuque
Mrs. Elizabeth Healey, reportedly Iowa's oldest resident, died at 98 in Dubuque where she had lived eighty three years. She arrived on the first steamboat from St Louis to Dubuque on the Mississippi.
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Dubuque
Elizabeth Healey
Iowa
St. Louis
Hardin County Approves Road Improvements Plan
The Hardin County Board of Supervisors and County Engineer E. W. Dunn authorize 450000 over three years to gravel, grade, and drain 175 miles of roads and 200000 for steel and cement bridges and culverts. Upon completion only two U.S. counties will have as complete a system as this.
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Eldora
Hardin County
Board of Supervisors
E. W. Dunn
United States
Mardinety
Morning inside bath cleanses waste for health
An advertisement urges daily morning hot water with a spoonful of limestone phosphate to cleanse the stomach liver kidneys and bowels. It claims this inside bath prevents illness by removing indigestible waste and toxins, promising improved vitality and rosy complexion.
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Bath
California Syrup of Figs Adopts Child Friendly Health Claims
An old style physic critique contrasts harsh castor oil with modern gentle laxative. The ad promotes California Syrup of Figs as a safe, tasty laxative for children and adults, claiming it cleanses the liver and bowels. It urges a 60 cent bottle and notes full directions on the package.
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California
Dodds Kidney Pills Claim Relieve Chronic Ailments
An Olivehill Tennessee man writes of four years of back pain kidney weakness and bladder inflammation. He says a doctor diagnosed diabetes and heart involvement but Dodds Kidney Pills cured him. The ad also touts Dodds Digestive Tablets and Hanford's Balm of Myrrh with prices and dealer notes.
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J. M. Sinclair
Olivehill
Tenn
J. M. Sinclairey
Dodds
Dodds Medicine Co
Buffalo
N. Y
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Rotary Club
Iowa Wesleyan College
Mount Pleasant
Department of Agriculture
Henry County
Raccoon River
William Hall
Harry Shropshire
State Board of Control
Oakdale
Theodore Stark & Co
Cedar Rapids
Sioux Farms
Fort Madison
Board of Control
State
Henry Sampson
James Shonka
Medical College of the State University
Sampson
Independence Asylum
State Insane Hospital
Independence
Pat McGuire
Holstein
State Department of Agriculture
McGuire
Ida Grove
OWA
Tella
Sella Hanford
Hanford Mfg. Co
Suraouse
N.Y
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