Amateur baseball league forms in Iowa towns
The Beacon reports a Six Team League formed with Clermont Elgin Maynard Fredericksburg Sumner Hawk Eye and West Union planning games starting June 5. Rules emphasize all home players eligibility integrity and discouraging betting. Capacity to add Westgate could make eight teams for 72 games.
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Beacon
Clermont
Elgin Maynard Fredericksburg
Sumner
Hawkeye
West Union
L.L. Carr
L. H. Hauth
Maynard
Elgin
Fredericksburg
Westgate
Hawkeye Beacon
Forrest DeSart Shines in What Happened to Jones Play
Forrest DeSart, son of Dr. Roy DeSart, delivered the lead in What Happened to Jones, a junior class play in Mason City. The article highlights his easy going, adventurous, vivacious portrayal as the central figure, a book agent who becomes a bishop in a series of comic situations opposite Cassy, the flirtatious ward.
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Mason City Globe-Gazette
Forrest DeSart
Roy DeSart
Jones
de Sart
Cassy
Why every selfrespective man should swear often
The excerpt argues that swearing is an elegant, tasteful, and beneficial habit for men. It claims swearing expresses thoughts, signals good breeding, helps social ease, trains boys, pleases mothers, and boosts self-respect, virtue, and future prospects. Harold Greenley assists at the mill during A M Weibel's absence in Cedar Rapids this week.
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Harold Greenley
A. M. Weibel
Celdar Rapids
Falb's home made bologna and bargains
A jumble of local ads and notes lists Falb's offerings including bologna and sausage fresh produce at Falb's with 2 lbs for 26, new neckties, Bolling beef per pound, and other bargains. It also includes social blurbs about Henry Topp's house foundation and remarks on rural economy and a note on a Shenandoah resident John W. Maine famed for his eight foot two inch beard and Iowa day at the 1893 world fair.
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Falb
Falb's
Banmang
Des Moines Register
Henry Topp
Pleasant Street
Topp
Chas, Holzer
Northwood
Iowa
Department of Agriculture
Missouri
Gibson
John W. Maine
Shenandoah
Page County
Chicago
Col George Davenport House Associa tion formed in Rock Island arsenal
A new Col George Davenport House Association was organized Tuesday at the Rock Island arsenal to preserve the old Davenport home. One room will be set aside for the Davenport family, while three rooms, halls and Davenport’s office will house patriotic societies and be furnished by them. The house will serve as a meeting place and museum for the public, with a custodian and his family housed nearby to maintain and guide visitors.
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Col
George Davenport
Davenport
Col. George Davenport
Tri-City
Rock Island Arsenal
Colonel Davenport
Manchester teacher sued for liquidated damages over contract breach
A Manchester public school teacher left for a higher paying post and the school board sues for 200 damages citing a liquidated damages clause in the contract. The item notes Ed Bander family visit with Ern Bander.
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Manchester
Waterloo Times-Tribune
Ed Bander
Ern Bander
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