Iowa News Highlights Commerce, Roads and Labor in 1925
Iowa farmers invest heavily in imported dairy cattle while Des Moines posts a large annual postal total. Several counties report road funding plans, wage levels, and new building activity. a welfare center is planned in Africa by a University of Iowa graduate student. The eight hour day anniversary and a teachers’ hiring shift are noted amid weather and ice harvest updates.
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Iowa
Iowa State Bank
Onceola
Niehna River
Sidney
Board of Supervisors
Marion County
Benton County
Des Moines
Shelby County
Williama
United Mine Workers of America
Irvington
Simpson
Boone County Board
Des Molins
Lizard D. Lenoir
University of Iewa
Africa
Iowa State College
Grundy County Board of Supervisors
State Highway Commission
Atresta
Kingman Boulevard
Ica
Cedar Rapids
Railroad Commission
Iowa House kills income tax bill after heated debate
The Iowa House voted 34 to 72 to kill the Patterson Johnson income tax bill after a long debate. Few votes were in doubt and the defeat closed a bid to revive the issue this session. Farmers from five counties backed a deposit guaranty and a reform tax plan while rail and road measures also moved through the chamber.
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Iowa
Iowa House of Representatives
Patterson-Johnson
House
Ah Town
Palo Alto
Pochahontag
Emmet
Koseuth
Hancock
Sunday School Lesson for March 29 Closing Period of Christ's Ministry
The text outlines a church class review of Jesus life and lessons from the quarter. It covers triumphal entry judgment memorial supper trials abiding in Christ the true vine submission to authority and the crucifixion and resurrection as central events. It emphasizes the need for believers to remain connected to Christ and to witness in the world.
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Jesus of Nazareth
Jesus
Christ
Gethsemane
Jeaus Christ
Jesus Christ
Pilate
Susan Xi
Awana KDOW On Chicago Train Ends With Giant Referee
A Chicago L train scene ends in a punchy scuffle as a towering Black passenger is dragged off by a German guard after a tense encounter with a belligerent man. Bystanders react with stunned silence before two smaller Black riders exchange a tense glance and comment on the moment.
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Awana
Darky
Tras
Urge Standardization of School Textbooks in Iowa
Representative Williams proposes state compulsory use of uniform textbooks and a new state commission on textbook standardization. Other notes include a 46 to 0 senate vote banning canned heat, a defeated beauty bill, Shenandoah city manager move, postal pay raise effects, Wickham death, and potato stock estimates in Iowa for March 1 1925.
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Board of Railroad Commissioners
House of the ‘Legislative
Railroad Commission
State Farm Bureau
Bitamen
State Railroad Commission
Motor Vehicle Department
Secretary of State's Office
Towa Senate
Iowa
State Highway Commission
Williams
Wayne County
State Commission On
Senate
Shenandoah
Torm
Congress
Des Moines
Ed Wickham
Cornell Bluffa
Wickham
Council Bluffs
Jeopardy, a Test of Syntax Fails to Stop Hopeful
An examiner evaluates aspirants for a principal post at a colored grade school in Louisville. A sharp candidate answers a word meaning with a bravado misstep, declaring jeopardy refers to any act by jeopara. The moment ends with the quirky reply sealing his hire.
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Princikpal
Louleville
Sma Pellow
Jeopara
Suburbanite Fights to Move Ancient Grandfather Clock
A New Jersey resident moving houses struggles to transport a century-old grandfather clock. The heavy antique proved unwieldy as he paused every few feet, cursing its weight while the clock’s motion drew a spectator’s crude inquiry about assistance.
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New Jersey
Alea
Goodness Outshines Ganius in Virtue and Duty
A quoted sermon reflects on virtue as humanity's supreme endowment and obedience to God. It contrasts goodness with genius and stresses that true value comes from living nobly and following duty, citing Emerson and Rev. R. P. Downes.
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Emerson
Rev. R. PB. Downes
Ll, D
God’s Best Messages for Faithful Busy People
A brief Presbyterian perspective notes that God sends His best messages to those who are faithful and busy, emphasizing steadfast service and attentiveness to spiritual guidance. The excerpt reflects a religious exhortation style from a Southern Presbyterian context.
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Presbyterian of the
South
Song of the Stars and Bethlehem Faith Ad voice excerpt
A fragmentary entry quotes a religious note from the Western Christian Advocate praising modesty and humility as mental virtues and temperance and chastity as bodily sobriety, attributed to Winchcote. The language reflects period religious prose and didactic tone.
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Bethlehem
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