Iowa Outlook and national policy mixed in editor’s view
A long reader’s column weighs Harding’s cabinet and Iowa governance, urging lower prices, wage cuts paired with living costs relief, and skepticism of prohibition, the League of Nations, and cigarettes. It notes local banks, Eastern politics, and the need for accountable highway spending amid economic stress.
March showers spark early blooms and local notes
The item notes April showers arriving in March and Count Cucumber appearing earlier this season. Edwin Burkhart returns from Mexico to tend peach possessions. Dandelions promise abundant yields for sow-belly eaters. Pottawattamie county issues 300000 bonds for bridges and roads. Nearby towns report various illnesses. The Maine Free Press suspends publication due to low patronage. A town risks regression when merchants let their paper fail. Snow totals reach eighteen inches in Golden Valley North Dakota. towns discuss old Kansas vigilance days. A coal train of eighty four cars passes westbound. A public highway fire prompts mention of George Smither for fire response.
Former Anita Man Injured In Gristmill Car Crash
Dan S Umbenhauer a former Anita resident and Grint nel Glove salesman was seriously injured when the Ford he rode in with S H Orcutt Philadelphia driver lost control and overturned between Griswold and Elliott. Umbenhauer unconscious with facial bruising in critical condition. Orcutt and the driver bruised. He was taken to Elliott then home of E D Hully. wife and daughter notified.
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Dan S. Umbenhauer
Anita
Grintnel Glove Company
Ford
S. H. Orcutt
Philadelphia
Griswold and
Eliott
Griswold
E. D. Hully
Grinnel
Soldier Boy's Body Enroute for Burial
Mr and Mrs C L D Miller of this city received a War Department message that their son Samuel A Miller, a Private in Company C 23rd Infantry 2nd Division, would be shipped from New York City today and expected to arrive in Anita Saturday or Sunday for burial. He enlisted July 23 1918 sailed for France Sept 23 1918 was wounded in both legs November 4 1918 in the Argonne Meuse campaign and died the same day.
The Battle of the Skeleton and Society's Scandals
The piece railed at stage chorus girls and a powerful financier facing divorce scandal in New York. It rails against wealth, marriage, and claims, then shifts to fashion, seeds, and rising prices. It notes wage and living-cost tensions, gambling imagery, and local population trivia.
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