Iowa and regional notes span banks to schools
Shenandoah National Bank takes Farmers National Bank, depositors paid in full. Cedar Falls educates two hundred fifty-two teachers. University of Iowa plans a Kirkwood statue. Iowa coal mine eyed near Colfax. Grinnell adopts weekday religious instruction in public schools. Des Moines market recalls Keokuk safety engine. Fort Dodge bonds for streets sold to Davenport. Penn College hosts Iowa Yearly Meeting. Birth control condemned by Missouri Synod Lutherans. Northwestern Bell plans a $1,000,000 U shaped building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shenandoah National Bank
Farmers National Bank
Men’s Association of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Fairfield
Tama
Fort Dodge
Teachers College
Cedar Falls
Samuel J. Kirkwood
University of Iowa
Ralph Henderson
Oskaloosa Stockman
Monroe
Iowa
Wisconsin
Illinois
Kansas
O. K
Colfax
Mary Pfeiffer
Council Bluffs
Dells
Glen Avenue
Grinnell
Capitol Extension
Grand Avenue
State Capitol
Rock Island
Keokuk & Des Moines Railroad
Des Moines
Keokuk
Penn College
Oskaloosa
Iowa Yearly Meeting of Friends
United States
United States Civil Service
Missouri Synod Lutherans
Williamsburg
Lowa
Pan American highway delegates form confederation in Washington
Delegates from 19 Latin American nations organized the Pan American Confederation of Highway Education in Washington and drafted a tentative program for the first Pan American highway congress to be held in Buenos Aires next spring. The tour covered over 4,000 miles across ten states, ending with conferences and wide praise from U S and Latin officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pan-American Confederation
Organization of the Confederation
Leon S. Rowe
Eral
Pan-American Union
Doctor Rowe
Thomas H. MacDonald
United States Bureau of Public Roads
J. Walter Drake
Department of Commerce
Washington
North Carolina
Kentucky
Illinois
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
Ohio
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Highway Education Board
J. J. Vigert
Heroes Await Awards Still Undelivered from WWI Service
War department lists 18 decorations awarded to former U S Army members for World War I service, ten undelivered due to unknown locations, and three posthumous awards undelivered for lack of known relatives. The document names include Carlin, Cartona, Cline, Dobes, Irons, Lunsford, O Connor, Pollan, Ruhl, West, and others with ranks, units, and emergency addresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Anit States Army
Carlin
Harry
Fourth Avenue
Detroit
Mich
Cartona
Charles
One Hundred and Second Infantry
Orange Street
Waterbury
Conn
Cline
Floyd
Seventh Infantry
Third Division
Louisa Cline
Una
W. Va
Dobes
Otka Peter
Variety Publishing Company
New York
Elity, Irons
John K
Marines Stage Fourth Annual Land Maneuvers Near Antietam
More than 3000 Marines from the Marine Corps Expeditionary Forces under Brig. Gen. Dion Williams depart Quantico for a ten day march and ten days of camp and battle exercises across Washington Gaithersburg Ridgeville Frederick and Sharpsburg to rehearse offensive land warfare and defend a naval base. The exercise features modern weapons including artillery anti aircraft guns tanks and communications units with a chemical company engineers and field problems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marine Corps Expeditionary Forces
Dion Williams
Quantico
Antietam
Sharpsburg
Washington
Gaithersburg
Ridgeville
Frederick
Navy
Marine Corps
Corps
Wilderness
Virginia
Gettysburg
New Yark
Culebra
Virgin Islands
National Clinic on Divorce Causes Considered by Washington
Washington contemplates a national clinic to determine the true causes of divorce amid lack of expert agreement. Lawmakers face 48 states with 35 grounds for divorce while real causes are often hidden in court filings. Experts seek coordinated study to inform Congress and state legislatures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S&s
Washington
South Carolina
Congress
Brakes Need Care and Regular Adjustment
Advice from Erwin Greer stresses brake safety for car owners and repairers. He outlines checks: jack rear wheels, rotate them, listen for rubbing, ensure neutral gears, free external bands, and verify internal brakes drag free. Replace worn linings promptly to avoid road danger and high costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erwin Greer
Greer College of Automotive Engineering
Chicago
Call for an Expert on Repairing Broken Spring Plates
A broken spring plate should be repaired or replaced by a skilled spring maker not a blacksmith. If the center bolt breaks, tighten the spring clips until repair is possible. Rebound clips are often loose or broken and missing clips may cause broken main plates.
Tip for loosening hard nuts with two wrenches
A method using two wrenches and a monkey or pipe wrench tightens or loosens nuts in inaccessible places. The end wrenches join, one grips the nut while the monkey wrench clamps to the other end wrench, then twisting the nut adjusts tension.
Rich and Lean Gasoline Mixtures
This explains rich and lean fuel air mixtures. A rich mix has too much gasoline, causing overheating and carbon buildup, while a lean mix has too little fuel, leading to misfiring and uneven running at high speed. Problems often trace to incorrect mixture rather than other causes.
Novel Door and Step Combination for Speedster Cars
A Popular Mechanics description details a speedster door that combines with the lower step. The aluminum step drops when the door opens and retracts flush when closed, using two small chains for support. This design reduces visible projections and simplifies construction versus separate door and step units.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Locking the Car by Removing the Distributor Arm
The article explains battery ignition systems in modern cars and how removing the distributor arm can allow vehicle theft. By unclasping the distributor cover the owner can detach the arm, and often only one correct fit remains for replacement, enabling theft by towing or arm swap.
Night driving gap bias leads to risky passes
Drivers tend to leave too much room at night when passing, while daytime behavior of driving too close is echoed after dark. The habit stems from assuming the other car extends toward the center beyond what headlights reveal.
Cabbage Elevated in Dietetics Through History and Science
The article cites Prof Ruggles Gates tracing the cabbage origin to wild cabbage in England and explains how cauliflower and sprouts diverged. It quotes Dr Royal Copeland on cabbage as long a staple used by kings, stressing roughage and calcium, with notes on cooking methods to preserve nutrients.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruggles Gates
England
Royal S. Copeland
New York City
Pompey
Scotland
Thrift Man Buries Quarter in Snow to Mark Car
A man stops at a filling station during a snowstorm to get gausolone. He drops a quarter in the snow and cannot find it. He leaves his car, returns three days later to recover the coin, explaining he marked the spot to locate the car.
Gifts to Bronx Zoo Highlight Private Donations From Citizens
The Bronx Zoo in New York receives most animals as gifts from private citizens. Last year offerings included opossums, two canaries, a partly albinistic Texas rattlesnake, a horned grebe from Astoria, 40 birds from around the world, a gift from Emory W. Clark, and a large supply of 3700 white rats and 1600 white mice from Crocker Laboratory for reptile food.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bronx Park Zoo
New York
Zoo
Astoria
L. L
Emory W. Clark
Canandaigua
Crocker Laboratory
Columbia University
Duval the Highwayman A Glimpse of the 17th Century Thief
Claude Duval a famed 17th century highwayman born in Domfront Normandy 1648 followed the duke of Richmond during the Reformation then chose crime over loyalty He became notorious for gallantry and bold robberies and was captured while intoxicated and executed in 1670 at Tyburn His tomb inscription in Covent Garden recalls his perilous era and warnings to readers and women alike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude Duval
Domfront
Normandy
Duke of Richmond
Tyburn
Covent Garden
Biography and physician scene quoted from Philadelphia Record
A humorous exchange features an eminent figure as an invalid asking who wishes to see him. The butler replies a physician is present, prompting the remark that the physician is also at work on the life of the personage, mirroring the biographer’s role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Record
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Hawkeye
State News
National Capital Affairs
Eleventh Infantry
Harry Crawley
Sixteenth Street
Monaca
Lunsford
Emmet E
Thirty-first Infantry
Siberia
William Lunsford
Claremore
Okla
O'Connor
James
One Hundred and Sixty-fifth Infantry
Manville
N. J
Pollan
Clayton R
N. R. Pollan
Fort Smith
Ark
Ruhl
Luther
Sixteenth Infantry
Gladys Dean
Cooper
Texas
West
Chester HS
Poso Pare
Flirebaugh
Preston County
Cal
Table of King
Thrift
Duval
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