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Newspaper
Creston Daily Advertiser
Location
Creston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1925
Page
5
Fragmentary quotation contrasts toys and clothes not spoiling a girl with Mr Browning’s belief that education should let a child do as she pleases. The text presents a critical view of autonomy in childrearing and schooling.
Dr V Alton Moody has been named assistant professor of history at Iowa State College to replace Dr C H Nixon who resigns for a Vanderbilt position. Moody comes from Albion College Michigan where he authored Slavery on Louisiana Sugar Plantations. Nixon completed The Populist Movement in Iowa to be published by the State Historical Society of Iowa soon.
William Myers Jr returns to his Omaha home after visiting his parents for the Fourth of July. He is accompanied by his brother Paul who will stay a few days there.
Des Moines officials report February tops the year for book checkouts across nearly 250 Iowa libraries. January and March follow, with June the slowest month as teachers and students finish the school year. Fiction dominates requests, led by The Little French Gin and Passage to India, while Mark Twain’s biography leads non fiction.
Manila reports Major Crispulo Patajo Filipino who helped the U S Army in early occupation days is dead He earned a lieutenant’s commission for his intelligence work credit from General J Frankin Bell who valued his data as equivalent to a regiment He retired with 20 years service and later held extensive agricultural interests in Central Luzon.
Des Moines July 8 The kite method of gathering weather data is being replaced by airplane use. Meteorologist Charles D Reed notes planes speed data collection by avoiding kite setups and emphasises the need to forecast conditions for air travel. Daily reports compile from 125 stations plus Des Moines observations.
John D. Rockefeller Jr. gifts the largest carillon, 53 bells, weighing over 50 tons, to Park Avenue Baptist Church in memory of his mother. The bells, made by Gillett & Johnston, were tested in Croydon with King George and Queen Mary watching, and are tuned by the Simpson five tone method to achieve rich harmonies.
Zion National Park Utah July 7 Three Pirate Indian braves closed out the devils at the 1925 season opening celebration of this new national playground. Makuntuweap is Zion Canyon’s Indian name and Tom Parachont Piute medicine man spoke of legends. Chief Many Horses is dead.
Clarence C. Hamilton of Boston urged modern advertising methods to reshape the Ten Commandments from stern prohibitions to factors of happiness at the International Christian Endeavor convention in Portland. He argued positive framing would show they are not prohibitions and that their observance supports individual and community happiness.
A Reichstag bill proposes banning children under three from appearing in films and restricts those aged three to twelve to only with police and school authorities permits. The measure cites the nervous and physical strain of bright studio lights as harmful to infants.
Iowa Farm Bureau president Charles E Hearst says the federation will fight any railroad attempt to raise freight rates by 11 percent. He warns farmers have borne high costs too long and will not stand for more, pledging action before the Interstate Commerce Commission or in federal court. He criticizes railroad leaders for pressuring higher charges and urges a change of approach from engineers, not merely rate increases.
Commander Donald B. MacMillan maintains strict silence to avoid morale problems on his Arctic voyage. He limits daytime and dinner conversations to curb personal disclosures and borrows radio to ease isolation, though it did not lessen tensions. A notable radio moment occurred when he heard an unannounced greeting from his sister Latitia Fogg.
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