Iowa State News highlights local officials and incidents
The Iowa Sunday School association outlines education work led by Miss Grace Jones and Miss Florence Poland. New Iowa postmasters are named including W. McCarty Ottumwa and C. H. Woodward Gowrie. Reports cover crime, storms, school openings, rail/road projects, and civic appointments across Iowa with numerous named towns and individuals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Sunday School Association
Grace Jones
T. R. Spray
Frankfort
Ind
Bedford
W. Harris
Coin
T. BR
McCale
Corwith
B. B. Hopkins
Porest City
C. H. Woodward
Gowrie
C. Maynard
Grand Junction
T. Mannatt, Jr
Kalona
J. J. Herbeter
Milford
H. C. Fox
Monona
F. Glau
Charter Oak
J. &. Forgrave
Warmington
DBD
Darby
Hamburg
Iowa State’ Sportsmen’s Association
G. C. Hinshaw
Okohol
Sam Foster
Maxon City
N. Schmidt
Storm Lake
Jon Kautzey
Ft. Dodge
Mason City
Madrid
Charles L. Calvert
Rock Falls
Lewis Prescott
Clyio League
Harald Traver
Hahion Mart
Dex Moines
Marion County
Dorpham
Knoxville
W. B. Kibbey
D. A. BR
Marshalltown
National Committee of the Children and Sons of the Republic
National
George Skinner
Silver City
Frank Fiala
Mort Dodge
Paxton
Omaha
J. Niemack
Charles City
James Quick
Clearfield
Tari Shafer
Ottumwa
Farmers’ Savings ‘Bank
Clermont
CG. &. Somers
Cerro Gordo
Ed Rider
Homer
Salvation Army
Lehigh
Iowa Road Dragging Plan and Prohibition Campaign
Des Moines reports the state highway commission may force township trustees and city officials to drag roads, using notices and court orders if needed. The same issue details an attorney general opinion granting broad rights to appear before grand juries, a statewide prohibition campaign led by Eugene Chafin, and various Iowa gov ernment actions including royalty on capital property and blue sky law questions. The piece also covers adjutant general camp dates, incorporations, and federal grand jury plans.
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Clarke
Council Bluffs
Max K. Witte
Ingane
Clarida
Warren EB. Cottrall
M. CG
Anderson
St. Joseph
Sidney
Riverton
Hamburg
Iowa
Kansas City
Excelsior Springs
Urey Payne
Princeton
Northwestern
Harlan
Ticona
Story Counties
Cedar River
Cedar Rapids
Breigels
Pure Ice Company
Centerville
Guat Samoggi
Iowa Portland Cement Company
Des Moines
Congregational Church
Oskaloosa
Ira
Keokuk
Mississippi River
E. E. Birney
Nora Springs
Winfield
Lee Council
Knights of Columbus
Boone
Ames
Nevada
Gilbert and
Cole
Percy W. Hall
Iowa Bankers
Chas, Waite
West Liberty
Shenandoah
State Highway Commission
Thirty-fourth General Assembly
Frank R. Gaynor
Supreme Court
B. Bradshaw
Marshall County District
John Fletcher
Deemer
Eugene W. Chafn
Michigan
James H. Wavertendyke
California
M.S. Larimore
Indiana
Chafin
Elmwood United
Supreme Court of
Workola
Texas
Colorado
House
Senate
Iowa Supreme Court
Bis
Cosson
Towa AntiSaloon League
Japs Anxious to Fight Says Mil ton Clemens
Reverend Milton L. Clemens of Marshall Missouri a distant relative of Mark Twain told journalists aboard the liner liner Hiner Perala in San Francisco that Japanese leaders believe war with the United States would bring Philippines and Hawaii with little effort He said officials doubt Japan can sustain a war and predicts no serious trouble He described Japan as having centralized power in Tokyo and criticized misunderstandings of their government by outsiders
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San Francisco
Cal
Milton L. Clemens
Marshall
Mark Twain
Nagaomki
Japan
United States
Philippines
Hawaii
Clemens
Kagoshima
Nagashi
Tokyo
Noted Log Cabin Hotel Hit in Grand Forks
A two room log cabin hotel razed in Grand Forks North Dakota once housed James J. Hill in 1873 while prospecting for the Great Northern railroad. It served as Grand Forks first hotel and refuge for Hill, acting as post office stagecoach station town hall and church in its three year life.
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Grand Forks
N. D
James J. Hill
Hill
Great Northern Railroad
Paira
Frontier
Ta Fiat
Small Boy Seeks Wealth in Bloom Raid on Pearls
New York five year old Charles Frederick von Glahn, son of Berlin parents, showed floriculture ideas by planting his mother’s eight thousand dollar string of forty pearls in a Broadway hotel roof garden flower box after seeing workers plant large round seeds. The nurse interrupted, digging up the pearls before any fortune could sprout.
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New York
Charles Frederick von Glahn
Berlin
Germany
Luther Durbank
Broadway
Charles
Cresson Medal Awarded to American Recipients in Philadelphia
In Philadelphia the Frankens Institute awarded the Cresson gold medals and diplomas for distinguished science achievement to Emile Berliner of Washington Dr Isham Randolph of Chicago and Dr Charles P Bremmetz of Schenectady New York The honors mark the highest recognition from the institute with prominent European recipients also noted.
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Cresson
Philadelphia
Hisiott Cresson
Franken Institute
Alx
Europe
Institute
Emile Berliner
Washington
Isham Randolph
Chicago
Charles P. Bremmetz
Schenectady, N. Y
Trout Catch Rate Surges Along Delaware Bay Shore
Milford Delaware fishermen report abundant trout along the bay shore with buyers paying 60 cents a bushel at Bowers bench. Catches are larger at Big Stone Blathers and Cedar beaches, making sales easy for local fishers this late season.
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Milford
Del
Delaware Bay
Bower's Bench
Big Stone
Blaughters
Cedar Beaches
Thene Revised Versions and a Peoria Mayor Quip
The passage quotes a Peoria mayor reacting to rain and a "Mother Goose" reading. It notes a joke about revised versions of classics like Hans Andersen and Grimmel, followed by a wife’s complaint after marriage and a husband's calm reply about changing times.
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Woodiug
Peoria
Hans Andersen
Griman
Peter
Demure girls' public posture shifts in a memory
A middle aged woman recalls thirty years ago when demure girls crossed silk gloved wrists in public conveyances. She contrasts it with today when demure girls cross silk stockinged ankles in public. The remark appears in the New York Sun quote.
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New York Sun
Experience of Motherhood in Period Voice
The article extols motherhood as transformative yet challenging for many women. It urges preparation, proper self care, and notes nerves and health suffer after childbirth. It praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a tonic aiding normal healthy outcomes and offers confidential advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Mass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
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