Iowa wireless news service boosts Cedar Falls coverage
Muscatine and Iowa neighbors note a unique wireless link to New York with Fred erick Arthur Hill of Mexico City operating a daily wireless intercepts Atlantic seaboard messages. Dairymen report Butter production gains with Benson Cow Testing Association leading output jump.
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Muscatine
Iowa
New York City
Atlantic Seaboard
Frederick Arthur ‘Hill
Mexico City
Bensoi
Cedar Falls
Natividad Dustin
Frank Navarro
Marion
Havana
Mra. Butler
Bagley
Iowa Colleges Seek Millage Increase For 1916 17
The Iowa State Board of Education releases a biennial report urging continuation and partial reduction of the college millage tax. Proposals call for $580 875 yearly for three institutions, with planned building projects at Iowa State College Ames and the State University Iowa City and Cedar Falls Teachers College. Total requested increase amounts to $530 875 after earmarked expenditures. The board recommends five year continuance of the millage beginning 1927 and notes potential new buildings including science, botany geology, home economics, and animal husbandry facilities.
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Hugh R. Owen
Hilton Creek
Inet Fall
Lews County
Ta Agente
Board of Supervisors
Joe Henton
Corning
Alvah D. Henton
Henton
Frank Henton
Cormack Mallee
Decorah
Ireland
Waterloo
Winneshiek County
Bluffton Township
State Department
Isaac Matthewson
Muscatine
Mexico
Macondo
Iowa Falla
Fort Dodge
Owen Ball
G. Graalman
Artift
Proeechoeld
St. Paul’s German Lutheran Church
Alice Granger
Ringland
Lorenzo Dutton
West Union
Mr. Dutton
Fayette County
A. J. Heeley
Fayette
Plymouth
Hills Lodge
Sioux City
Anamosa Reformatory
Ames Road
State Reformatory
Plymouth County
la Mars
Tom Turner
Portsmouth
Tom
Wad & Darrow
Walnut Street
Albert Ruba
le Mars
Davenport
Marie Petersen
Adolph and
Gerhardt Peterson
Town Reform
Albert Petersen
George L. Thorpe
Christian Church
Wapello
Dan Graham
Graham
Iowa Educational
Iowa State College
State Board of Education
State University
Iowa City
Towa State College
Ames
State Teachers’ College
Cedar Fade
State Board
Iowa
Maintenanes
Cedar Falls
College For the Blind
Heiress Tracked Down After Ten Year Search
Chicago policewoman Mrs. Alice Clement ends a decade long chase to locate Lillian Coyne a fourteen year old heiress who left for Ireland to claim a legacy. The Morrises who raised her moved between Key West Chicago and Rosedale Indiana before reuniting with the girl in Illinois.
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Chicago
Alice Clement
Lillian Coyne
Ireland
Policewoman
Lilian Coyne
Isaac Meisner
Bishop Coyne
Father Cody
Newark
N. J
J. J. Morrissey
Church of the Blessed Sacrament
Ald
Father Morrisey
John J. Halpin
Rosedale
Ind
Morrises
Lillian At Heart of Irish Bishop's Visit Plans
After much pleading the Morrises gained custody of Lillian who grew to love them as parents. Bishop Coyne will travel from Ireland to decide her future residence. She may go to Ireland and Hye with him until she reaches the age to claim the legacy.
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State Department
A. C. Gustafson
District Court
Awear
Washington
Morrises
Bishop Coyne
Ireland
Lillian
Hye
Eagle Caught With Lasso After Chickens Vanish
Buckingham Colorado reports Old Baldy, an eight foot seven inch, 79 pound eagle, captured by Harry Radcliffe with a lasso near a chicken house after eight hours of waiting. Farmers had lost hundreds of chickens over six months. The eagle resisted capture and Radcliffe was forced to shoot it to prevent escape.
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Warren Blossom
Citizens’ National Bank
Benton County
Belle Plaine
Decorah
Henry Running
William Headington
Ollie Reynolds
Des Moines
Audubon County
Tee Harvest Ia
Council Bluffs
H. H. Hainline
Edward Hoffman
Davenport
Fritz Erps
Fort Madison
Kate McCormack
Roy Ormsby
Bedford
Honey Creek
Albert Ruba
la Mara
Roba
Clair P
Danville
George Wilkie
Cherokee County
Keystone
Vinton
A. M. Devos
Public Instruction
Crescent
Harry McMullen
Ray
Iowa
Buckingham
Colo
Old Baldy
Harry Radcliffe
Radcliffe
His Own Fault Poem Snippet From Houston Post
A brief humorous exchange quotes a suitor claiming a daughter’s promise of marriage and the father warning him away while noting the suitor’s persistent visits five nights a week. The item reflects a newspaper tradition of light verse and social observation from the Houston Post.
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Houston Poat
Grandma Uses Sage Tea To Darken Gray Hair
An old remedy for gray hair, Sage and Sulphur, is sold as Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy. The ad claims it darkens hair naturally, removes dandruff and itching, and thickens and glistens hair after regular use.
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Almont
Wyeth
Ins and Outa. Smith In for Ya with Our Club
A slangy exchange notes Smith is feuding with the club and facing trouble from a rich friend leaving many fellows broke due to such finances and social pressure.
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Ins
Outa
Wanted butternut and black walnut meats ad
Wanted butternut and black walnut meats write stating price per pound and number of pounds you can furnish. Address P Q Box 898 Omaha Nebraska Adv.
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Omaha
Neb
Adv
Whispered Question of Master in Philadelphia House
In a Philadelphia Ledger snippet a speaker demands to know who runs the house, while another character warns the seeker to remain ignorant for happiness, framing a domestic power dynamic.
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Philadelphia Ledger
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