Iowa News Briefs Highlight Deaths and Developments
A Sioux City youth Benjamin Fish aged 9 died instantly when struck by a truck. Iowa reports improved money conditions and ongoing highway, vaccination, and public works plans. A Davenport arson rear-end wreck injured eighteen at the Rock Island arsenal. Bell Plaine to start free mail with civil service exam for carriers. Polk County vaccinators train as farmers gain examination access. A Davenport coroner inquest reveals a wife sold for 1500 dollars, death from chloroform. Poems by Earle Sloan Smith issued. pig losses cut Hog production by five percent. Dubuque reallocates 700 acres from Lake Peosta. city debt may be paid by reclaimed land. Iowa rail rates push intrastate increases. mutual insurance reinstatement rules loosened. Town University enrollment up to 4916. liberal arts 3186, graduate 432. New cross-state auto freight route links Omaha, Davenport, Oskaloosa, Des Moines with daily trips. Trailers to follow as needed.
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Benjamin, Fish
Sioux City
Ron
Iowa
W. H. Cooper
Hedrick
Cooper
Iowa State Highway Commission
Belle Plaine
Rock Island Arsenal
Arsenal
Davenport
Animal Husbandry Department
Ames
Polk County
Raymond Dawes
Leota Dawes
Earle Sloan Smith
Fort Madison
Illolo
Japan
Lake Peosta
Dubuque
Town General Assembly
State Board of Railroad Commissioners
Army
Navy
University of Town
College of Iberal Arts
Applied Uefence
Denabee
New Cross State Auto
Omaha Davenport
Oskaloosa
Des Moines
Trucka
Oskalooga
National Interest Seeps Through World Tangles In 1920 Race
National discussion focuses on the forthcoming Democratic convention in San Francisco with McAdoo Palmer Cox and Davis among likely nominees while a possible Harding echo looms. Bolshevism in Russia probes for a major victory as Wrangel’s forces gain in Crimea and League of Nations struggles to aid Persia. Journals note brewing third party talk, Italy Poland Hungary Austria reshuffles, and American Legion convenes in Cleveland.
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San Francisco
Bolsheviam
Crisia
League of Nations
Chicago
Wiliam G. McAdoo
New York
James M. Cox
Ohio
A. Mitchell Palmer
United States
Pennsylvania
Robert L. Owen
Oklahoma
Edward J. Beware
New Jersey
Gilbert M. Hitchcock
Nebraska
Hoke Smith
Georgia
John W. Davis
Virginia
Great Britain
Marshall
William J. Bryaty
Harding
Cox
McAdoo
Treasury Department
Railronda
Palmer
Record
Bryan
Bolshevism
Russia
Trotzky
Erstsehile
Kolchak
Semonoff
Denikine
Poland
Europe
Pripet
Beresina
Czarlatic
Wew
Caucasus
Holshevist
England
France
India
Halishevik Porson
London
Kryssia
Holshevist Civiissary
Yoland
Wrangel
Crimean
Crimea
Sea of Azov
The
American Legion
Cleveland
Dr Kilmer Swamp Root kidney liver bladder remedy
Advertisement for Dr Kilmer Swamp Root claiming pure, non stimulant herbal formula. Seeks sample by mail with ten cent price and notes distribution in drug stores in medium and large bottle sizes. Mentions guaranteed purity in every bottle and urges readers to mention the paper when writing.
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Dr. Kilmer
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton
Getting Back at Hubby Bacon Joke Panel
A humorous exchange about marriage and appearances. A woman says she does not care how she looks prompting the doctor’s enlistment. Mrs Bacon counters that if the doctor is married, he may not care either implying a comical conflict.
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Japan
China
Shantung Peninsula
Shantung
Ching
Chinn Fa
Bacon
Cuticura Toilet Trio Promises Clear, Purified Skin
The Cuticura Toilet Trio offers soap to cleanse, ointment to soothe, and talcum to powder with perfume, promoted as a complete daily toilet regimen for 25 cents. An ad notes eggs and birds and a crow as a thief in a playful aside.
Triner's Bitter Wine Endures in Local Drug Store
A Hazleton pharmacy encounter centers on a customer insisting on Triner's Bitter Wine, praising its long history of efficacy and urging the clerk to stock only the genuine Triner remedies from the Joseph Tuiner Company of Chicago. The ad-like exchange touts multiple Triner products and warns against inferior substitutes.
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Hazleton
Triner
Trineer
Joseph Tuiner Company
Ashland Ave
Chicago
Well Placed. The Renter-Say Scene A light shaft view
A terse exchange describes a rental room with a view opening onto a light shaft where a couple across the shaft stage rough battles, noted as some of the best. The agent confirms the setup and directs attention to a specific seat.
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Scrap Toigh
Unclear Language Prompt Sparks Brief Gracious Conversation
A fragmentary exchange shows a speaker labeling a young Smith as a con man and the other noting his notable progress. The text reads as a partial dialogue with distorted words and unclear context, offering little verifiable action or event.
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Smith
Major Moses at the Western Camp Seeks Commandments
A fragment from the American Legion Weekly describes a recruit mocked at a western camp where a toll figure frightened him on guard. The intruder identifies as Major Moses and asks the recruit to advance and give the Ten Commandments, reflecting wartime humor and camp life.
History of Petroleum Industry in the United States
The rise begins with the Drake well of 1859 in Titusville, Pennsylvania, launching a booming oil era. Early output climbs from tens to hundreds of millions of barrels yearly, culminating in 1918 with about 856 million barrels and a production surge beyond the 1918 peak.
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Petroleum Industry
United States
Drake
Titusville
Pennsylvania
Charity and Bookbinders Cover a Multitude of Sins
A reflective note on charitable acts and bookbinders as guardians of moral and social integrity, suggesting mercy and craft can redeem flaws in communities.
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E. F. Clipson
Kenyon
Lenroot
Wisconsin
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Leonard Wood
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Naire
Robert Mi-LaPollette
Bolshevists
Lenine
Council of the
League
Persia
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Council
House of Commons
Andrew Konar Law
Mesopotamia
Germany
Mexico
Chihuahua
Villa
Vitrimont
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Little Jimmy
Marie
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