Ottumwa High and Grade Schools Cost per Pupil
Ottumwa reports total operating cost for the year at 120 158 82 with an average 108 69 per pupil. Grade schools used 249 272 96, about 59 86 per pupil. Overall average per pupil was 70 11. In Nevada a widow and neighbors plowed her corn four hours after her husband drowned. Twenty three neighbors assisted, each with a team and cultivator, and a picnic followed.
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Ottumwa
Ottumwa High School
J. A. Wagner
Board of Education
Nevada
Iowa
Ervin Ahrens
Story County
Ahrens
Blind readers find joy in Iowa library for the blind
Des Moines reports 551 titles available to the totally blind through the Iowa library commission. Books use raised dots, not raised letters, and readers use finger tips on the right hand. The state school for the blind at Vinton also provides access to the collection.
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Des Moines
State Library Commission
Iowa Library Commission
Commission
Iowa State School For the Blind
Vinton
Libmrians
Des Moines Pays Taxes For Pool But Has None
Des Moines residents have funded a municipal pool for seven years totaling 103,701.57 dollars, yet no pool exists. Only 29,051.93 dollars appears in city records, while 74,649.64 dollars has funded temporary projects or abandoned improvements. The natatorium fund started in 1918 with a .5 mill levy aimed at a central pool, but construction was repeatedly started and abandoned.
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Na Pal
Rabies Cases Reported in Six Months in Des Moines
During the first half of the year 52 rabies cases were reported to Dr. Don M. Griswold, commissioner of health. In 1924 a total of 248 cases were reported with four deaths. He dismisses the healings claimed by mad stones and says a bulletin will be issued to state health officers outlining diagnosis and treatment.
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Des Moines
Don M. Griswold
Australian Maoris Trace Race Ancestry to Hawaii
Honolulu reports Ratina Jakeba a leading Maori says Australian Maoris trace origins to Hawaii. He cites ancestral chieftain Hema of Hawaii who fled after defeat and voyaged south in war canoes, then returned. Legends claim voyages to New Zealand and lava gods anger at Io and Peleموضوع.
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Associated Press
Honolulu
Australia
Hawaii
Ratina Jakeba
Laie
Oahu
Jakgba
Hema
Macri
New Zealand
Puna
Jar@m
Pele
Mauma Kea
Mauna Loa
Jakoba
Fascists Buy Then Suspend Opposing Newspapers
Rome reports a new fascist tactic to influence public opinion by buying and then suspending opposition papers. Parma saw Piccolo and La Gazzetta Di Parma bought by a non political syndicate and abandoned to clear space for a fascist daily. The move draws strong criticism for press liberty.
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Rome
Parma
Li Piccolo
la Gazzeta di Parma
Gazzeta
Italy
10000 Pigeons Compete In English Homing Flight
Hitchin England hosts a massive pigeon race with forty thousand homing pigeons released for competition. The birds fly to homes across the north and northeast, organized by 15 federations of fanciers. Forty-two railway vans transport about 1600 bird hampers to Hitchin for the event.
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Hitchin
Eng
England
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Ant Stewart
David ‘Smith
James Oliver Curwood
Baree, Son of
Kazan
Lloyd Hamilton
Alfred A
Farland
Kreisler
Eugelic
New York Herald
Cincinatti
Tribune
Kassag City
E. K. Clark
W. Monte
Western Iron & Metal CO
East Union St
Creston, Ia
Store OF Fashion
the Beauty Shop
Mae Haney
Agnew Bldg
Norris-- Smith Cleaning CO
Blind OF
Langet Books
Library Commission
Chesterfield
The
Begg
Tee
Kotex
Children’s
Aberfoyle Radioux
Adam Begg
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