Iowa News Highlights From La Mont to Cedar County
A survey of Iowa notes several items across counties and cities. Twelve cadets will attend the Salvation Army officers training in Chicago. Pocahontas County dedicates a new courthouse. Omaha automotive group meets in Des Moines. an Iowa fish hatchery site near Spirit Lake to become a state park. oats and corn crops forecasts. hogging down prep and new harvest methods. a price on baskets and seeds. railroads expect normal car supply. Linn County courthouse decision ends decades-long dispute. Agnes Samuelson joins state teachers college extension staff. playgrounds law promotes recreation centers. potato yield record in Cedar county. 1923 State Fair exhibitors send prize crops east. dairy and food inspectors prosecute. penitentiary aims for self-support via on-site industries.
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Wild Life
Lamont
Iowa
Salvation Army Officers Training School
Chicago
Cherokee
Pocahontas County
Court House
Iowa Automotive Merchants Association
Des Moines
Edmund Dilibenda
Denison
East Okoboji
Spirit Lake
Herrick Chapel
Grinnell College
St. Paul’s College
Episcopal Institution
Tokio
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Iowa Fruit Growers Association
Association
Federal Reserve Board
C. W. Hunt
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Linn County Supervisors
Cedar River
Agnes Samuelson
Page County
State Teachers’ College
Iowa State Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
Elwood Rhoads
Cedar County
State Department of Agriculture
Atlantic
Dairy and Food Division
Iowa Department of Agriculture
Barber and cash register caper ends with shave
Jacob Hoffman of Hastings on Hudson catches two robbers attempting to bolt with a cash register. He talks with them during the pursuit and they leave without the prize, warning him to stay quiet. The register reportedly held more than $100.
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Hastings-on-Hudson
N. Y
Jacob Hoffman
Hoffman
Boy Killed by Dog as Crowds Looked On
North Bergen New Jersey nine year old Joseph Genatt died after two Great Dane dogs mauled him at Floral park picnic grounds. His brothers Albert and John, ten, were stoned by onlookers while a crowd of about a hundred watched. Joseph died from a ruptured jugular vein.
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North Bergen
N. J
Joseph Genatt
Albert
John Simoneoni
West Hoboken
Floral Park
Joseph
John
Aged Watchman Known as Old Man Schmidt Dies in Elevator Tragedy
Charles Schmidt known as Old Man by neighborhood children and longtime Hippodrome warehouse watchman killed himself by reversing an elevator cable after the death of his cat Rusty. He leaves nine years of service and a life of disappointments, with local children mourning his loss.
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New York
Smith
Charles Schmidt
Hippodrome
Schmidt
Rusty
Baby Floats to Safety After River Plunge in Wisconsin
Marylin Jean Anderson, 3 1/2 months old, slipped from her mother on a Chippewa Falls bridge and plunged into the Chippewa river from 25 feet. She kicked on her back using bathrub tactics, stayed afloat, and was rescued uninjured by 15 year old Leonard Girard who waded in at shore.
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Chippewa Falls
Wis
Chippewa River
Marylin Jean Anderson
Earl Anderson
Marylin
Leonard Girard
Burglary Ends in Slaying at Pittsburgh Grocer Shop
A burglar shot and killed Charles W. Riley in his Pittsburgh store after Riley surprised him behind the counter. Riley had been sleeping there to catch thieves who had struck the shop several times in recent weeks.
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Pittsburgh
Charles W. Riley
Riley
Grandfather Betts Ill With Whooping Cough
Greenwood Delaware M B Betts is eighty eight and seriously ill at home with whooping cough after telling bedtime stories to his seven year old grandchild.
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Hasg
Greenwood
Del
M. B. Betts
Thief Chase Costly as Man Loses Leg in Train Incident
Willis Preston of South Bend Indiana gave a hobo twenty dollars to change. The hobo boarded a freight train with the money and fled. Preston chased the train but slipped and lost a leg under the wheels. The hobo departed.
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South Bend
Ind
Willis Preston
Preston
Right Estimate of Steep Grade
By Erwin Greer. Explains how grade percentages are measured as rise in feet per 100 horizontal feet. Warns that driver estimates are often double the true steepness and notes the steepest traction grade is 45 percent.
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Erwin Greer
Greer Or
Automotive Engineering
Chicago
Driving strain relief through angled gaze technique
A method to ease neck and head strain from rough car travel suggests turning the head to one side and watching the road at an angle. Do not keep the head tilted constantly. use the stance only as a relief from strain when the vehicle jostles.
Cause of irregular firing in an engine
The irregular firing is caused by timer trouble from defective contact points or improper movement of the interrupter. The small arm bearing the points can become dry at its hinge, preventing free or fast action, and may stick open.
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Altogther
Means of Starting Car on Low Battery
When a storage battery cell fails the starter cannot operate and the engine may be hard to start due to high dead-cell resistance. A temporary fix uses a metal contact across the cell posts to allow current from remaining cells, then remove once started. Ensure only a truly dead cell is shorted to avoid damage.
Garage designed by R H Irwin aims to maximize space
The Scientific American describes an invention by R H Irwin of Medford Connecticut for a garage building that uses wasted space efficiently. Vehicles enter, are placed on a turntable, and moved directly to the needed compartment to eliminate backing.
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The
Scientific American
R. H. Irwin
Medford, Conn
Automoe News and Car Maintenance Tips From ILE
Don’t beat a railroad engineer to a crossing. Slow down at hill crests and stay right. Leaks around the car waste power and may signal water oil or fuel. Rusting fenders come from not washing the underside. Spark plugs should seat with a light finger pressure against a copper asbestos gasket.
Relief Administration Report Pictures U S Aid In Russia
Colonel William N. Haskell declares American relief in Russia saved millions, aided recovery, and left a goodwill heritage for the United States. He notes nearly a million tons of goods, 250 voyages, 85 000 distribution stations, inoculations for 7 million, and 2 million derelict children fed, with 90 percent of relief funds from American sources.
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Haskell
Relief Administration
United States
American Relief Administration
Prom
America
Russia
Congress
Co operative Movement Gains in Europe Survey
OUSTON THOMPSON of the federal trade commission reports a three months European survey on co operative marketing societies. He visited Britain Denmark Sweden Finland Estonia Latvia Czechoslovakia Lithuania Poland Germany Italy and France. He notes free access to books and plants and sees a back to the soil trend and reliance on farmers co operatives to aid reconstruction while governments avoid direct aid. He adds co operatives stimulate competition and international cooperation persists.
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Ouston Thompson
Federal Trade Commission
Europe
Thompson
British Isles
Denmark
Sweden
Finland
Esthonia
Latvia
Czechoslovakia
Lithuania
Poland
Germany
Italy
France
Esthenia
Institute of Economics studies Germany's capacity to pay
The Carnegie funded Institute outlines Germany's reparations payments, arguing the total differs by inclusion or exclusion of Versailles terms. Director Moulton and C H McGuire estimate 6.25 billion in cash and kind by Germany versus 2.6 billion by France, with Germany claiming 10 billion. Premier Poincare questions the institute's scope.
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Germany
Carnegie Corporation of New York
HE Institute of Economics
Moulton
C. H. McGuire
France
Commission
Institute
Premier Poincare
Institute of Economics
Robert S. Brookings
St. Louis
Arthur T. Hadley
Yale
David F. Houston
Agriculture
Harold G. Moulton
Chicago
University of Chicago
Edwin A. Alderman
University of Virginia
Whiteford R. Cole
Nashville
Charles D. Walcott
The
National Museum
Smithsonian Institution of
Washington, D. C
Europe Remains Our Greatest Market Trade Warning
The secretary of Commerce reports Europe remains the United States’ largest customer and warns overemphasis on South American and Asiatic trade may slow Europe exports. The piece notes Europe buys mainly raw materials and staples, while manufacturing goods drive non European sales, and highlights direct interest by manufacturers in European trade.
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Europe
South America
Asia
Department of Commerce
United States
Latin America
Far East
United Kingdom
Bremen
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