Ford's Spring Rescue and Rise in High Finance Romance
A retrospective romance portrays Henry Ford as a hero who weathered a credit crunch. It notes Durant's earlier GM troubles and Morgan DuPont rescues, then Ford's cash squeeze and tax bills. In February approvals teased, and March sales hit 80 000 machines, easing debts and taxes.
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Henry Ford
Durant
General Motors Company
Morgan
DuPont
Ford
New York
Henry
Michigan
A Great American David Lubin and His World Wide Vision
David Lubin, once a Sacramento shopkeeper, conceived a global information bureau on markets and crops. His plan grew into a nationwide and then world wide International Institute of Agriculture. He died in Rome leading a worldwide information enterprise praised by governments and producers alike.
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Italy
Rome
David Lubin
Sacramento
California
Lubin
International Institute of Agriculture
Shoats Averaged 267 Pounds In Seven Months
E R Besco delivered twenty head of seven month old shoats in town Tuesday averaging a fraction over 267 pounds each. The hogs were half blood Yorkshire and grew fast toward market weight. They came from two Yorkshire brood sows producing twenty three pigs last spring and twenty pigs this spring. The twenty shoats were shipped out Tuesday evening with other hogs by Robert Campbell.
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E. R. Besco
Yorkshire
Robert Campbell
Blockton News
The Cowardly Dollar
Hurd's Corner argues against fear driven predictions and argues that America progresses through decisive action. The piece stresses that cautious speculation harms growth and that prosperity comes from the live dollar and hard work rather than pessimism or hiding money.
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America
Iowa
Gun duel among farmers near Grant City reported
Worth county papers say Newton Wilson and Bid Drummins, farmers northwest of Grant City, staged a revolver duel Monday afternoon. Wilson is hospitalized in St. Joseph with gunshot wounds to the right side. The score in the cave man stunt was alleged as 1 of 6 and 0 of 6.
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Worth County
Newton Wilson
Bid Drummins
Grant City
Wilson
St. Joseph
Blockton News
Platteville error prompts school event notice correction
The Blockton News reports a correction regarding a Platteville Platte River schoolhouse event listing. A telephone transmission led to misheard words and confusion with unrelated phrases, prompting the published erratum and clarification about the correct location and organizers.
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Platteville
Platte River School
Blockton News
Armistice Day as a Iowa holiday debated by editor
The Clearfield Enterprise questions making Armistice Day a legal Iowa holiday noting already many observances. The editor recalls 1918 reactions to Armistice news and suggests the day could become a major national holiday rather than a local concern.
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Iowa
Clearfield Enterprise
Tayor Shreck Hit by Flying Engine Part
Saturday afternoon while starting the engine the crank flew off and struck His Honor Tayor Shreck in the nose and upper lip. The blow floored him but did not render him unconscious. No bones were broken or teeth loosened, though his mug would be swollen for days.
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Tayor Shreck
New Market Herald
Advertising and trade in small towns
A reader notes that advertising pays when paired with fair service and value, while mail order catalogs threaten local trade. Local potato sale offered by P. C. Miller of Conway Iowa at $1.00 to $1.25 a bag, with conclusive lines about checking The Free Press for printing services.
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Hurd’s Corner
P. C. Miller
Conway, Ia
Adopt National Marketing Plan by Farmer Co operatives
Robert Fuller reports the American Farm Bureau Federation adopts a National Grain Growers’ Co operative Sales Agency plan to market wheat and corn. It outlines a $100 million, non profit structure with warehouse, finance, and export arms. Membership centers on local grower associations, with control through farming voting stock and contracts for delivery or pooling.
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Chicago
American Farm Bureau Federation
Barmers’ ‘Grain Committee
C. H. Gustafson
Lincoln
Neb
Board of Trade
Bernard M. Baruch
Herbert Hoover
National Sales Agency
National
Grain Growers’ Association
Grain Producers’ Association
Remark on Cut Flowers and Friendship After Death
A reflective verse notes that true value lies in the living company that walks with you when you are weary, not in cut flowers placed on a coffin. It contrasts the comfort of blooms in the sick room with their lesser meaning after death.
Iowa Man Gains Twenty Pounds on Tanlac Say Local Ad
David A. Kinkaid of Clinton Iowa reports dramatic health improvement after taking Tanlac three bottles He described prior suffering from weakness breathlessness kidney pain back stiffness loss of appetite and catarrh He now weighs twenty pounds heavier reports solid energy and full days of farm work with restored sleep and appetite
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David A. Kinkaid
Clinton
Iowa
Johns Drug Store
Adv
Bedford Iowa Waterworks Bond Election Proclamation
Notice of election in Bedford Iowa on April 18 1921 from 8 am to 7 pm to decide on extending the municipal waterworks system and issuing bonds of 20000 dollars. Ballot form details shown. polling places listed in ward locations follow ordinance 102 and city clerks notice from Mayor M S Sawyer dated March 16 1921.
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Bedford
Iowa
J. BE. Lovell
City Hall
A. J. Bridges Tin
Towa
Sawyer
Administrator's Notice of Mary E Briggs Estate
On March 24, 1921 Kay Wills was appointed Administrator of the Mary E Briggs estate in Taylor County Iowa by the District Court. Creditors must present claims legally authenticated to the court. debtors should pay the administrator. Dated March 24, 1921. 12-3
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District Court
Taylor County
Towa
Mary E. Briggs
Gaid County
Kay Wills
Sewing Machine Cleaning at Your Home
Repairman John Swap offers at home sewing machine cleaning and servicing. Reasonable prices and convenient service by request. Call B29 Green for appointments and details.
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