23 May 1917
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Newspaper
Bedford Free Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1917
Page
1
Bedford Free Press editors and publishers A C Brice Jr and A W Hamblin run the paper with a 1 50 annual price and post office registration as Bedford Iowa second class mail matter.
The April 30 1917 funeral and wake for John Barleycorn in Omaha drew a large crowd of old friends and mourners amid record liquor sales and widespread celebration of Prohibition. Saloons closed, arrests were scarce, and revelers faced a dry future as residents reflected on the change with humor and caution. This recap notes parodic Brutus allusions and local reactions from riders, editors, and the Sidney Herald.
A Princeton Post item voices support for farmers as wartime demand drives high prices for wheat corn pork and potatoes. It urges relying on proven guidance, offers to help with work or jobs, and recounts a perilous chase involving Simmons who threatened Patterson before being restrained by a sheriff.
Everett Priterson, a farmer near Coredon Iowa, rode with Donnie Simmons 19 near Centerville in a Ford car described as a dangerous, high speed vehicle. The incident is recounted as a hair raising experience in a local tale of a reckless driver and unsafe ride.
Governor Harding signed 431 of 432 new laws passed by the Thirty-seventh General Assembly and left one to become law without his signature. He vetoed two measures the nonpartisan judiciary repeal and the automobile license law amendments. The consolidated school law aims to curb consolidated districts via strict rural city voting divisions and county board review.
A two month summer course for training many to serve as war chauffeurs will be conducted at Grant vocational school Cedar Points. Organized by R L McFarland with Iowa State College engineering extension, the program is open to all state residents and provides a fully equipped garage workshop and machines.
Government forest experts label mistletoe a pest harming forests and trees by strangling and killing hosts. They warn it spreads rapidly, offers little value beyond sentimentality, and removal is necessary to protect hardwood and fruit trees from decline.
A poem recounts a burial with stark imagery and boxing of death as the old sport. The piece by J. F. Lewis notes school children reporting 27,260 bushels of seed corn in Town State college seed corn campaign. The column urges building a tank for cooling cream as a good investment.
Judd Mortimer Lewis writes in the Houston Post about a powerful figure leading crowds and a dangerous secret. The verse warns that revealing a hidden wrongdoing could ruin reputations and bring lifelong sorrow.
The comment jokes that Attorney General Havner missed a bet over blue laws. It recalls past Connecticut statutes that made kissing one’s wife on Sunday a misdemeanor and suggests Hawner should have extended similar rules to other men’s wives to ensure stricter law enforcement.
Features list women taking roles in farming industry city inspection and politics. Grace Sebastian named Edwardsville oil inspector. Clarice Margolies Braight runs for New York City magistrate. Estimates show 2 million women farming or gardening nationwide. Illinois clubwomen support mothers service for soldiers. first US railroad forewoman Roy Root at B&O in Lorain. Cora G Lewis serves on Kansas state board. Carolina Friedkamp in Cincinnati placed 4,473 flags on Union graves. 200 women labor daily in overalls and caps.
Canadian Pacific shops in Montreal are paid the same wages as men. Lindenwood near St. Louis girls abstain from meat for a week and donate $150 to the American Red Cross. Mrs Lucy Doody repaints and repairs New Jersey steeples and chimneys as a steeplejack. Groucher College designates farming as an elective with 100 girls growing vegetables on former tennis courts. Winona normal school girls enact male roles as men enlist for service.
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