Newspaper notes on Iowa politics and rail rates
The Des Moines papers discuss Kendall Brookhart and Rawson in a looming Senate race, accusing conspiratorial manipulation of Iowa Republican seats. Also reported is a Cass County good will movement where farmers and merchants back Rock Island to preserve rail service, promising joint efforts to protect rail revenues.
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Des Moines
Charlie Rawson
Kendall
Rawson
Bagt
Brookhart
Sher
Cummins
Senate
la Follette
Brockhart
Towa
Pos Havas Rae
Lewis and Grisawld
Farm Bureau
Casas County
Rock Island
Rock Island Road
Everson
Pleasant Township
Griswold
Cass County
Iowa Farm Survey By Roscoe Macy In Burroughs Clearing House
A banker narrator vents about nationwide distress, noting farm mortgage burdens and insolvent farmers. He describes driving past Adrian Whiffleberry, hailed as a top mortgagor, while musing on political loyalties and primaries and the weight of economic woes on rural lenders.
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Iowa
Roscoe Macy
First State Bank
Lynville
Burroughs Clearing House
Detroit
Henry
G. M. Acceptance Corporation
Adrian Whiffleberry
Foretelling Earthquakes And Ocean Depth Changes
Charles P. Stewart discusses the accuracy limits of predictions versus weather forecasts. He cites advances in geophysics and sonar depth sounding by Dr. Harvey C. Hayes, noting rapid ocean depth changes imply submarine faults. Investigators search for downward pressure points to locate rising areas along fault lines.
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Charles P. Stewart
NEA
Wester
Ashington
Weather Bureau
Harvey C. Hayes
Naval Research Laboratory
Washington
Fiata
Ayes
Santa Bar
The Debt Placed Our Farms Under Heavy Encumbrance
A narrator recalls a rural scene showing mortgage burdens on farms. He notes two adjoining farms free of liens, then analyzes a county atlas, revealing 81 clear of encumbrance and 62 mortgaged across 19,119% acres of land with total encumbrances about 725,200 dollars and a landscape of average debt per acre.
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Adrian
Tmon
Simy Gelf
Joe
Henry
Albert Dink- Jebell
Albert
Cassius Sourdoe
Old Cash
Sourdoe
Cassius
Clayberg
Ernest Sourdue
Iykd
Alice
Steve
Jamain
Iowa
Une
Ancestry and Ambition in a Groaning World
The verse muses on ancestry from apes to humans, asserting pride in ordinary labors like milking cows and planting trees. The speaker rejects despair over lineage while wrestling with modern woes such as broken springs, a failing chair, and high living costs. It ends noting copyright by George Matthew Adams in 1926.
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George Matthew Adams
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