Dr Clara L Cronk and Baby Health Movement Leader
Dr Clara L Cronk of Bloomfield Iowa, a 1892 Keokuk Medical College graduate, has led Baby Health Contests since 1893. With husband Dr C H Cronk, she promotes infant health, reducing mortality and guiding children toward sound health and citizenship. She directs Eldon Big Four Fair contests and judges at the Iowa State Fair, and belongs to multiple medical associations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clara L. Cronk
Keokuk Medical College
Bloomfield
Iowa
Eldon
Muscatine
Williamsburg
Fairfield
Waverly
Cronk
Iowa State Medical Society
The
Iowa Medical Women’s Association
Medical Women's National Association
American Medical Association
Historical Facts Concerning the Klansman
A digest of the Ku Klux Klan’s origins aims and methods as described in The Birth of a Nation. It notes a 1871 congressional inquiry, federal action, and the 1871 Force Bill, detailing disguises, leadership titles, and the group’s suppression of black political rights. Star Decorah schedules showings July 17–19 with matinee and night.
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Ku Klux Klan
Cyclops
Congressional
Grant
Congress
South
South Carolina
Decorah
Parman’s
Robbed Station Agent at Great Western Depot
Masked bandits entered the Waterloo Great Western depot at about two o'clock Monday morning and held up ticket agent O. H. Harned, taking four hundred dollars. A lady and her ten-year-old daughter witnessed the hold up but could not intervene.
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Great Western
Waterloo
O. H. Harned
Winneshiek Potatoes Decline in 1886 Harvest Figures
Winneshiek county reports 101 221 bushels of potatoes for last year rising by 1 588 from the prior tally. Wash townships led with the largest crop and Highland the smallest while 1344 acres produced about 77 bushels per acre.
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Wash— Township
Highland
Framont Township
Orleans Township
Lincoln Township
Sumner Township
Jackson Township
Burr Oak Township
Bluffton Township
Madison Township
Calmar Township
Washington Township
Hesper Township
Canoe Township
Decorah Township
Springfield Township
Military Township
Highland Township
Pleasant Township
Glenwood Township
Frankville Township
County News Briefs from Cedar Falls July 3 1916
Town notices recount visits and calls from Mrs. Ed Youmans and Miss Nora Anderson, dances at Henry Mundt and Henry Janke barns, and family visits among Daniels, Crabtree, Wiltgen, and Runkle households. Roy Richards wed Geneva Stone near Hawkeye. reception at the Richards home. attendees from Decorah and surrounding towns. Geographical notes include Castalia Ossian Decorah Frankville and Waterloo visits. several auto trips noted.
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Ed. Youmans
Fran Youmans
Hawley
Cedar Falls
Lars Nesvik
Rae Runkle
Nora Anderson
Burrows
Clarence Anderson
Nordness
Anna Daniels
Walker DeCoy
Lillie Gipp
Castalia
C. O. Daniels
Ossian
Henry Mundt
Geo, Crabtree
Waterloo
Ed. Allen
Henry Janke
Emma Heckman
Fayette
Blanche Marlowe
Near Decorah
C. C. Daniels
Bert Daniels
Decorah
John Groff
Florence Wiltgen
Nellie Daniels
Calmar
Andy Wiltgen
Minnesota
Marguerite
Lilia Jones
Marjory
Claude van Wey
Frankville
A. M. Jones
George Crabtree
L. D. Burrows
Nelle Daniels
Chas, Daniels
Claude Kirby
Henry Ginapp
Dam
Will Duff
Sioux City
Rock Falls
George
Rev. Harms
Harms
Tllinois
Fred Westphal
Chas. Ginapp
Edna Ames
Luana
H. L. Meyer
Elkader
Mary Fortcamp
Freeport
W. T. Cook
Floyd Harvey
Billa Bernhard
Burr Oak
Postville-Fayette
Postville
Geo. Crabtree
Frances Biekel
Giard
W. H. ‘Haefner
Matt Heinen
Chi Son
Tatro
Hursh
G. W. Estey
Bloomfield Township
Adolph Rekowski
Mr. Estey
Charles Hughes
Roy Richards
Geneva Stone
Hawkeye
Dr. Parker
Roy
W. L. Richards
W. F. Anderson
W. G. Bollman
Andrew Smith
Richards
Stone Homestead
Harvey Bros Expect Ford Carload Soon
Castalia report notes Harvey Bros anticipate a Ford carload arrival in a few days. Mrs. Harley Steele and her son from Elgin visit her parents Mr. and Mrs. Bernhard.
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Harvey Bros
Harley Steele
Why We Count in Tens And The Ottoman Empire
The article argues for counting in tens due to ten fingers and promotes decimals for easy reckoning. It then outlines the Ottoman realm as Turkey in Europe and Turkey in Asia with Arabia, Syria, Palestine, and outlying provinces in Samoa and Cyprus under the sultan.
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Turkey
Europe
Black Sea
Adriatic
Asia
Arabia
Syria
Palestine
Samoa
Cyprus
Corn crop worries ease as towns report varied fortunes
Tipton workers return after wartime losses thin in the courthouse. Caledonia plans Patriot's Day on July 11. Marshalltown awarded a $60,000 contract. County grain yields for Allamakee include oats 1,333,000 bushels and corn 361,946 bushels.
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Tipton
Court House
Caledonia
Marshalltown
Allamakee County
Arthur G. Miller
Charles City
Chickasaw County
West Union Rifle Club
Wm. Good
Nashua
Northwood
Cresco
Edward Reincke
Hancock
Wm. Degner
Wapsipinicon
New Hampton
Eagle Grove
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Dr. Cronk
Republican
Jas. Harlan
Interior
Browning
Illinois
New Orleans
Atlantic
Heart
England
Canoe
Peterson
Water Street
Spillville
Festina
Locust Lane
Curtin Bros
Sanford & Baker
Conover
H. 8. Weiser & Co
Jas. H. Easton
Hutchinson & Alsip
Square Dealing
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Clothcraft Co
L” System
Styleplus
Fitform
America
United States
Square
Bear's
J. G. Holland
Ridgeway
P. K. Hoffland
McClaskey
East Water
Julia Joplin
West Main Street
Bud Bros
Dewey County
Watertown
J. Bucknell
McNess Sanitary
Adatess T. H. Johnson
Towa
County News
Centennial
Paramount-Famous Players
John Barrymore
Paramount
Grand
Channing Pollock
Burton Holmes
Mae Marsh and
Robert Harron
Paris
Mae Marsh
Willie
Paramount-Lasky Pictures Presents
Marie Doro
Nora Flynn
LASKY
BIG City Company
Des Moines
Parman’s Drug Store
D. W. Griffith
Elliott & Sherman
Ford's
Washington
Peruvian
Polk County
Wis
St. Paul
College OF Saint Teresa
Winona
National Bureau of Education
Conservatory of
Saint Cecelia
Saint Claire Seminary
Northwestern
Smokey
DENT
Ames
Minnesota King
Adams Seed CO
West Water St
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