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Newspaper
Creston Daily Advertiser
Location
Creston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1925
Page
5
Mrs. A P Haley of Creston reports lasting relief from backache and kidney disorders after using Doan’s Pills. She says five years later she was cured and retains faith in the remedy. Price 60c at dealers. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo NY.
Tokio authorities announce a plan to reclaim several hundred acres of flood prone land using earth from the subway project and other works. The effort aims to raise low ground at an estimated cost of 30 million yen with government assistance and 333 acres to be covered by subway earth.
Keokuk Aug 19 A memorial for Mark Twain will be included in the new building of an insurance company next to the old print shop where Twain worked as a printer in 1856. The library will house Clemens records a printer's case autographs and a copy of the city directory Orion Clemens published.
Adams County census figures report 119 tractors 107 automobile trucks 1 366 automobiles and 72 silos on area farms. There are 77 farms with light heat and bath. no farms abandoned since 1920. Crop damage from hail totaled 8 833 dollars. Hog cholera killed 2 851 hogs. other diseases 2 735. Cattle 33 849 head worth 992 155. horses 8 437 head worth 434 383.
Des Moines reports July 1925 Iowa labor conditions show a .2 percent employment rise over June 1924 based on 322 firms employing 48 859 workers. Group leather products cigar and tobacco and railway car shops kept employment essentially unchanged while other industries operated conservatively. General prospects are good and an assured corn crop should boost fall and winter trade.
Buenos Aires Aug 19. Colonel James Proctor completes Argentina tour for the League of Nations labor bureau to study settling more than 200000 displaced Russians and some Germans in South American countries. The aim is to ease European congestion and direct emigrants where labor is scarce with guarantees on labor value and morality. The memorial requests Argentine guidance on migrant selection and close cooperation with authorities.
Mr and Mrs Elmer Stapleton and son Herman and Mr and Mrs Harold Raney and baby of Chillicothe arrived Tuesday evening for a visit at the Jordan home in the Wilkins apartments.
Ottawa reports the railroad commission launches a sweeping inquiry into Canada’s rate structure aimed at equalizing tariffs across the country. Written submissions were due by Aug 15 with objections by Sept 1, hearings to follow in various regions. The investigation covers grievances from British Columbia to the Maritime provinces and adheres to the Crow's Nest Pass agreement on grain and flour rates.
At a Cork hearing on bookmakers accused of taking bets on horse races the civic guard superintendent warned the city has gone mad over betting. He said the craze touches all areas from men and women to children and even school pupils, urging decisive steps to curb it.
Brighton Aug 19 Cheaper beer urged as a remedy for unemployment in England following the war. At a brewery stockholders meeting the chairman argued tax cuts on beer would reduce prices, aid agriculture and support many industries dependent on brewing, easing job losses across the economy.
Iowa census figures show 3,289 residents in county homes in the state. Of these 2,084 are men and 1,205 are women. Five counties have no county homes and some residents are sent to neighboring counties. The article lists southwestern counties' figures.
Isidor Forlin, a Blairsville mine laborer, believed an ill wind blows nobody good after a misfortune spurred his plan to return to the Tyrolean Alps and open a tourist hotel. He had saved little by little, and the dream seemed distant until fate intervened.
A mine accident left a worker with a back injury that stopped further work. The Workmen's Compensation Board awarded him 12 dollars weekly for 500 weeks. He applied for a lump sum and received it, planning to use the money to pursue a dream.
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