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Newspaper
Creston Daily Advertiser
Location
Creston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1925
Page
4
The 101.7 acre clear grass meadow in Washington Park, Chicago, is the nation’s largest park meadow. It can hold 280 football grids, 125 baseball fields and more than 1,800 tennis courts, surrounded by walks, lakes and gardens. Washington Park is Chicago’s second largest park after Jackson Park.
The document notes 1 580 square feet of sand courts and a cleared meadow area at the northern end measuring about 2 000 feet by 3 000 feet.
American League standings show Philadelphia leading with 53 wins and Chicago and New York near top. Yesterday results include St. Louis 11 Boston 6 and New York 9 Philadelphia 12. National League scores list New York Pittsburgh Chicago and Boston wins and upcoming games. Western League standings feature Denver Oklahoma City Wichita and Omaha with multiple matchups today.
Two fifteenth century Gobelin tapestries from the Wartburg, owned by the Grand Ducal House of Saxony, were mutilated by unknown thieves who removed matched strips to sell abroad as a single piece. The items were listed among national works of value.
The Grand Ducal House sold two Gobelin tapestries despite Wartburg Foundation protests. The Kaiser Friedrich Museum will have Dr Demmler assess their fifteenth century south German origin and the Conquest of Love's Castle series. Each piece measures about 88 cm by roughly 2.24 to 2.26 m. A 90 cm strip and a 60 cm strip were removed from the two works, enabling the missing pieces to form a single design.
Des Moines July 17 Iowa must either build hard roads or go bankrupt says Glenn Haynes secretary of the Iowa Good Roads association Statistics show Iowa spends 400000000 a year on water car expenses while the state corn crop is valued at 2700000000 leaving a 130000000 yearly deficit that transportation costs must curb He cites weekly gasoline expenditures of 1000000 and 410000000 miles traveled weekly with 90 per cent over 10 miles He notes only 9000000 of 29000000 for roads will go to reconstruction leaving the rest for maintenance and argues under present law township and county road allotments are too small to accomplish needed work
Webster City July 17. J Pitcher aged 87 who died here left his estate to St Josephs Mercy hospital to be administered by three Webster City trustees G T McCauliff Julius Bermann and J J Sayrs. The gift is estimated at 30000 or more and will be used at the trustees discretion. He left a small bequest to his sister and no immediate family.
A Des Moines man, Geo W. Rinehart, credits Karnak with curing severe stomach trouble after four bottles. He says the remedy eased indigestion, bloating, gas pains, constipation, and coated tongue, restoring health and energy. Karnak is sold in Creston by Newcomb & Matthews and by other leading druggists.
The town council of Thayer Union County Iowa will meet August 3 1925 at 8 00 P M at Holt Hardware Store. Taxpayers will be heard for or against the following expenditures at that time. Town Clerk M at Holt Hardware rep fade oe.
Shenandoah July 17. The railroad commission allowed the Chicago Burlington and Quincy to remove one train on the Keokuk and Western branch despite protests from Shenandoah Clarinda and Humeston chambers of commerce. Burlington currently runs two passenger trains daily Humeston to Shenandoah and a local freight. proposed to discontinue one passenger train and run a mixed train with freight passengers mail baggage and express. Pro testers argued mail distribution would be delayed in the branch territory.
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