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Newspaper
Creston Daily Advertiser
Location
Creston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1925
Page
3
An Iowa editorial urges lawmakers to shift the primary road fund to the highway commission to accelerate concrete and gravel road projects through 1926 and beyond. It argues the move would not raise taxes and questions how a partyless system would nominate and organize candidates and platforms.
Nebraska senator urges listeners in Washington to abandon blind party loyalty and cast ballots with independent judgment. He warns that partisan politics hinder national progress and calls for more principled debate and leadership.
The Oklahoma City Times reports on a house-to-house selling practice exposing manipulation tactics used by direct selling operatives. The piece features a reporter who joined a direct selling house to document methods including rudeness, persistence, and tricks to gain entry.
A Hamburg Iowa farmer sowed fall wheat in 1924 and added oats per acre in spring after the wheat looked weak. He also planted sweet clover. Harvest produced a strong combined oats and wheat crop with similar yields, though the shock resembled oats at first glance.
A short ad style line promising relief from sleeplessness anxiety and indigestion caused by coffee caffeine. The text emphasizes ending nerves and digestive discomfort.
The note describes threshing oats at a lower rate, selling grain to an elevator as wheat at 1.75 per 100 pounds, and a tenant harvesting a big sweet clover hay crop. It questions what a motorist would do with brief intervals, suggesting amusement or waste rather than productive use.
A locomotive engineer notes motorists resist stopping for trains as brief as 10 seconds for passenger runs and even the slowest freight trains, about a half mile long, can take longer to pass a point.
A law library once holding about 180 volumes of decisions and 60 of statutes a century ago would today total 18 500 volumes of decisions and 5 500 volumes of statutes. If growth continues, a century from now the library would require 1 850 000 volumes of decisions and 550 000 volumes of statutes.
Advertising reduces selling time across the chain from manufacturer to consumer. It speeds wholesaler to retailer and retailer to consumer, oiling the wheels of distribution. It smooths buyer hesitation and removes obstacles in the mind of every purchaser, according to A. B. Butler.
In public notices from St Joseph Gazette and Tokio, debate over liability for stolen property if thieves escape rises as a hypothetical legal reform. Meanwhile Japanese officials plan city relief stations to combat infant mortality, with Home Ministry budgeting over 3 million and stations staffed by doctors nurses.
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