Consolidation in Iowa Bridges Rural Schools to New Era
Article reports on J Hi McCoy promoting consolidated schools in Iowa townships led by Randalin. It cites 1916 reports showing 14 700 pupils in consolidated systems, higher attendance, longer terms, high school access, and rising per-school resources. notes county surveys, salaries, and expansion plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Hi, McCoy
Towd
Randalin
Iowa
Randalla
Colinsworth
Mondamin
Grant Township
Kossuth County
Lloyd Township
Webb
Consolidated Rural School Building Plans and Grounds Description
A bond issue of 45 000 passes by 122 to 11. Buildings include heating lighting ventilation and indoor toilets plus a large gymnasium and community supper space. A lecture hall social center, library, manual training domestic science rooms, and an agricultural science laboratory are provided. Arnolds Park adds a conservatory. four acre grounds are standard with ten acres in some districts. playgrounds and four divisions for age groups are noted. Consolidation is no longer experimental and is urged for rural education.
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Arnolds Park
New Providence
Greenville
How to Give Good Advice and Cough Remedy Insight
The piece promotes giving good advice by setting a strong example. It notes that observing quick recovery from a cold with Chamberlain's Cough Remedy encourages others to imitate the behavior. The remedy has a long-standing reputation and is sold by R. W. Muehlenthaler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
USA
W. Muehlenthaler
Clermont News Briefs Highlight Local Lives and Projects
Frank Frisbee remains ill as Dr. G. M. Berry and visiting Dr. F. Becker and relatives in Atlantic Anita Hawkeye and West Union are noted. John Junk leases his farm to Herman Weildo with possession soon. Local families visit Arthur Ferguson’s Hawkeye home. Wiliam Haas and Miss Ora White visit Manchester and nearby towns tied to the Turkey River Power Co. Chauncy Hills crews work on Clermont brick Dr Butler and Ray Conner houses. Clermont Product Co. shifts toward 1916. Dr. R. P. Barry from West Union attends Clermont State Bank directors meeting where he serves as president. Cashier John Erickson expects a premier dwelling. Lt. Gov. W. L Harding, GOP candidate for governor, speaks to a large audience. Meredith urged. E. H. Appleman completes a fine well and dairy house using Clermont white cement brick, with gasoline engine pump and separator. Third such building by Appleman on three farms. Home farm cement work extensive. more planned in Clermont township.
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Frank Frisbee
G. M. Berry
West Union
F. Becker
Fred Becker
Atlantic
Roy Becker
Anita
John Junk
Anderson Price
Herman Weildo
Fayette Ferguson
Carpenter
Arthur Ferguson
Hawkeye
Wiliam Haas
Ora White
Manchester
Turkey River Power Company
Chauncy Hills
Dr. Butler
Ray Conner
Clermont Product Company
R. P. Barry
Clermont State Bank
John Erickson
Clermont
John
W. L. Harding
H. Appleman
Mr Appleman
Clermont Township
Constipation the Father of Many Ills in Humans
A dental of the text says constipation leads to many ills and that regular bowels help, with a recommendation to use Chamberlain’s Tablets when a laxative is needed. They claim to move the bowels improve appetite and strengthen digestion, sold by TR. W. Muehlenthater.
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TR. W. Muehlenthater
Gipsy the Helio shop dog remembered in verse
Tuesday evening the Helio office mourns Gipsy the old dog who lived about fifteen years. The piece by Frank Blickheln describes her faithful presence, gentle eyes, and devotion, ending with her death after a long bond with the shop and its patrons.
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Joan
Gipsy
Helio Office
Nate
Frank Blickheln
Anil
Chamberlains Cole Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy Ad
Chamberlains Cole Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy praised for quick relief during sudden colic and diarrhoea. Emphasizes family use and prompt treatment until a physician arrives. Sold by R W Muehlenthaler.
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Chamberlain's
Chamberslain
R. W. Muehlenthaler
Bookshop Guides and a Rail Terminal Style Guide
A columnist imagines guiding readers through a vast bookshop as if at a railway terminal. An announcer would shout directions toward Amy Lowell, Joseph Conrad, Béla Balázs, Spoon River, Vachel Lindsay, and Chicago slum poets, guiding to shelves for Brontes and modernist poets.
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Formerson
Amy Lowell
Pointe Pee Boston
Brneat 'Pe
Joseph Conrad
Spoon River
Vachel Lindsay
Chicago
Fleming town notes and local oddities.
Uncle Mose eyed the justice of the peace post though he could neither read nor write. A crowd surprised Mrs Hugh Conner as they bid farewell before the family leaves for Minnesota. Charles Hayder returns from Iowa City after appendix removal and recovery. Winneshiek County paid 2263 bounty dollars for wild animals, including about 7000 woodchucks at ten cents each. Borg & Kehler move to a new room with a fine shop. A local ad touts a stylish clothing plot and a church meal invitation.
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Mose
Justice of the Peace
Black Bottom
Commissioner of Elections
Asyk
Argonaut
Winneskick County
Borg & Kehler
How Editor caivED word gave birth to gerrymander
The piece recounts Major Benjamin Russell of the Massachusetts Centinel and the 1784 founding of the paper. It explains how a 1811 Essex district map colored by Russell inspired the term gerrymander when painter Gilbert Stuart noted the shape resembled a dragon and shouted Gerrymander. An engraving popularized the term.
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Maj
Benjamin Russell
Massachusetts
Centinel
Warden
Gerry
Essex
Russell
Gilbert Stuart
The Widows Mite nickname of Lord Russell
John Russell earned several nicknames including the Widows Mite. A frail child, he faced harsh schooldays, left Westminster due to fagging and bad food, and recalled a Sunbury private school where he was forced to eat mutton off the dusty floor.
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John Russell
Johnny
Creevey
Lord Ribbles
Westminster
Sunbury
Nfe
London Chronicle
Sterilized Pencils: New Device To Stop Germs
Public schools may require sterilized pencils after BH. Mathing patented a pencil sterilizer. Pencils are placed in a rack and dipped in formalin gas to kill germs, preventing throat nose and lung infections from chewing pencils.
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Mathing
Praise of the Past in a Reverent Tone
The excerpt extols the Past over novelty, likening it to primeval forest life. It argues that old things awaken deeper reverence and lasting vitality, contrasting new things to a suburban tree against wild nature and timeless forest sounds.
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Rivera
Don't Gossip on Crime and Repentance in Ba varia
A reflective piece argues against speaking of a man's crimes after punishment. It questions whether repentant individuals should be forever judged and denied opportunities. It frames silence as a moral duty and warns that public chatter punishes the penitent twice.
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Bavaria
Wonderful Electric Signs on Market Street
Electric signs along Market street in San Francisco are praised as the continent’s most gorgeous and intricate. City ordinance requires signs to fold up or lie against buildings by day, making their sudden night emergence startling to visitors.
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Market Street
San Francisco
No Movies There in Fragmented Narrative
Fragmented OCR text shows a dialogue about a cottage, a request to accompany someone, and a preference for working locally rather than moving. The passage is garbled and lacks clear events or identifiable entities to report.
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Gopa
Y. Figarga
A Thing of Surprise at the Museum
A museum guide and a critic quarrel over an extinct animal’s period. The guide says it is surprising and unclear, while the critic argues the animal does not belong to any period. The exchange ends with a quip about exclamation.
Noted tale of hardship and old regime authority
In a fragment from Atlantic Monthly, a narrator recalls seeking relief under Turkish officers, describing endurement in barracks and a retired official who dismisses hardship. The exchange leads to temporary lodging at a modest inn run by a Jewish widow as a humane solution amid scarce comforts.
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Latakieh
Atlantic Monthly
Odd Places to Hide Cash in Old Cemeteries and Cannons
A historical column notes unusual hiding spots for money such as valuables left under a gravemother’s grave in Forest Hill and in old military ordnance. It cites discoveries of jewelry in a fort cannon at Shoreham and a bag with seventy severes found in Peet Park Bradford, alongside other curious finds from Crimean-era cannons and discharge papers.
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Forest Hill
Qld
Shoreham
Peet Park
Bradford
London Chronicle
Denouncement of the Topper Cited by Lemon
The London Chronicle quotes Mark Lemon deriding the Topper as impractical and ugly. The fiery appraisal notes its uselessness in sun and rain, its obstruction in a railway carriage and drawing room, and its vulnerability to damage and rust, labeling it a flawed, costly item.
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Purch
Mark Lemon
London Chronicle
Tithe Esquire And The Right To A Title
The Esquire title stems from the French ecuyer meaning shield bearer though it has shed military significance. Traditionally it applied to younger sons of nobility officers of the king’s household counselors of law peace officers sheriffs and military officers and university graduates. By courtesy it is now extended to solicitors bankers landed gentry and men of independent means.
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New York Morning Telegraph
War’s Grim Toll on Life and Moral Value
The piece argues war dulls the value of human life as mass destruction becomes commonplace. It notes society’s evolving, less paralyzed response to tragedies like ship sinkings, comparing current reactions to the Titanic era and reflecting on war's harsh impact on humanity.
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Mifiutentes
Insect World Reveals Vast Species Richness
Insect life forms a vast portion of Earth's living diversity with more species than all other animals combined. Although over 900,000 species have been described, scientists estimate twice that many await examination, as insects feed many other life forms across ecosystems.
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Indianapolis Nowe
West Union Promotes Its Parks and Growth Prospects
The piece extols West Union as a well kept center of four county roads with strong park spaces near the courthouse. It touts a thriving religious community, valued property, a robust hospital, and an active social scene powered by local residents. promotes land, abstract, and loan services to attract buyers and investors.
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Chu
Samme Splendid
Weat
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