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Newspaper
Creston Daily Advertiser
Location
Creston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1923
Page
8
Jacksonville Alabama reports that Mayor Edward Crabtree and the city commission serve without salaries. Once financially broken, the city now boasts improved credit due to disciplined administration. Crabtree, elected three times, aims to build Jacksonville into a premier business city.
After two years in liberty bond drives, Mr. Crabtree returns to Jacksonville Illinois where residents urge him to run for mayor. He vows to accept only if paid no salary and if allies run for council on the same platform. Jacksonville, population 16004, taxable property 12 million, early dry town and among first to adopt a commission form government.
Bertha E Shapleigh of Columbia University provides a pie filling method for six apples with brown sugar salt butter and water. Bake until tender then fill rounds with sauce, seal edges, and bake twenty minutes with a ten minute color check. Great for car lunches and picnics.
In New Orleans on June 25 a report notes Polly Alex a parrot who stopped shouting in 30 years yet grew feathers so fast they must be trimmed twice yearly. He died in 1893 and Mrs. George Spellman, his former mistress, preserves a box of tail and wing clippings. Louisiana ornithologists call it a unique case where nutrients remained in quills long after death.
Mexican laborers brought under contract from Houston, Texas are working in Northwestern Ohio sugar beet fields near Findlay after a shortage of American workers. The move follows difficulties in securing local help for the harvest.
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