Marshalltown Bank ER Praises Dows Reed Smith Co
A letter from Chas G Trine cashier of the Marshalltown State Bank backs the Dows Reed Smith & Co power and light venture for gas and electric franchises. The writer notes steel poles along Main Street, double tracked lines, extended service beyond park months, competitive rates, strong public support and charity involvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Br. J. Fred Clarke
Chas. G. Trine
Marshalltown State Bank
Thena
J. F. Clarke
Fairfield
Town
Marshalltown
Dows, Reed Smith & Co
Main Street
Tritown
Dog guards headlines on Chicago street papers
Nellie the dog guards a street corner newspaper stand in Chicago. She growls when passersby read war news for too long and will block access to the headlines if readers linger without buying.
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Chicago
Nellie
Europe
Mexico
New York Man Defends Bathing Five Pigs
Neighbors in North Bergen New Jersey complain to the health board about Louis Tracassa and his five pigs left in lean sanitary condition. He testifies he bathes them daily and his wife bathes them nightly by using a tub. The board takes the case under advisement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Health Board
North Bergen
N. J
Louis ‘Tracassa
Board of Health
Tracassa
PULLED STUMPS TO MUSIC IN CANADA CAMP
Brass bands played as four battalions uprooted pine stumps in a Canadian Army camp to ease labor. About a thousand stumps removed in the gimp area. ground sandy, stumps pulled by stumping machine, bonfires formed from piles at night. Seven hurt in Wabash collision on Indiana Union Traction line. two cars destroyed.
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Canada
Egimp
Wabash
Ind
Indiana Union Vraction
Sterilization Bill Placed Before Oregon Assembly
In Salem Oregon on January 22 a bill introduces a state board of experts to report on all persons who in behalf should be examined with a view to sterilization.
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Oregon
Salem
Ore
Board of
Mediapolis Chapel notes prepare for second semester
Rev. Palmer of the Presbyterian church gave a pleasing address at Chapel. No Chapel services this week due to semester examinations. Second semester opens Tuesday January 23 with many new students and returning boys planning to enroll.
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Palmer
Presbyterian Church
Mediapolis
Cure for insomnia by bed headboard exercise
Vienna based physician Dr Ebstein announces a new insomnia cure in the Physical and Diet Therapeutics Journal. The method involves grasping the headboard or foot of the bed with both hands and straining upward until arm and shoulder fatigue. He says irregular brain blood flow on lying down causes sleeplessness and that this exercise increases head blood flow while inducing fatigue to aid sleep.
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Vienna
Ebstein
Diet Therapeutics
Rookies Question If Citizen Marines Are Submarines
In Lansdowne Pennsylvania trainee marines ask if citizen volunteers trained to replace regular Marines in war can be called submarines. They argue Noah Webster missed the issue and seek sports editors to settle the knotty term.
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Philadelphia
United States Marine Corps
Marine Corps Training Camp
Lansdowne
Noah Webster
Velvet Paw at the Orpheum Tonight
William A. Brady promotes The Velvet Paw a Brady made World picture starring House Peters and Gail Kane. The drama centers on a woman lobbyist as Congress debates child labor fixes while audiences flock to see the film at the Orpheum this afternoon and tonight.
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William A. Brady
Paul West
House Peters
Gail Kane
Brady
Congress
Orpheum
Stolen Mexican Shield Recovered After Three Years
A rawhide shield bearing Mexico’s national emblem, taken during the 1911 downfall of Francisco I Madero, was seized from a Mexican attempting to cross into the United States at Nogales. It is now in the possession of Mexican consul Ives G. Selmer in Douglas Arizona, who seeks authorization to keep it.
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Douglas
Ariz
Mexico
Mexico City
Francisco 1
Madero
Ives G. Selmer
Carranza
Nogales
Sonora
Hall of Ambassadors
Diaz
Huerta
Greensburg Men Plan New Club to Bar Women
Greensburg men at the Greensburg Country Club plan a new golf club just for men. They claim women players at Greensburg are talkative and hinder performance. A male expert says chatter spoils shots, while a woman counters that old men organize a rival if they wish.
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Greensburg, I A
Greensburg
Greensburg Country Club
Help Wanted and Real Estate Notices From Peop les Column
Classified column items show job requests for general housework addressing and handwriting, land speculative inquiry in Kansas or Colorado, rental needs for unfurnished rooms, furnished light housekeeping rooms, and property listings in Marshall Missouri and other locations. Also several sale offers including a Wisconsin land magazine subscription and a seven year old mare with buggy harness. Additional real estate offerings include Coffin property opposite The Orpheum and a four lot residence at 900 West Burlington Street.
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West Kirkwood Street
Orpheum
Harry Smith
Wisconsin Farm Lands Landology
Landology
Skidmore Land Co
Skidmore Building
Marinette
Wisconsin
Bugsy and Harness
North Main Street
Ode
West
Burlington Street
J. Morris
Marshall, Mo
Eastwood
Lost gold glasses between Court Hotel and bank
Reward offered for return of a pair of gold glasses missing between the Court Hotel and Fairfield National Bank. Please return to Mrs. A. K. Harper at 205 W. Grimes Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court Hotel
Fairfield National Bank
A. K. Harper
W. Grimes Street
Also Mentioned on This Page
Dows, Smith & Reed
Yours Very Truly, Chase, Trine
DOG Guards Newspapers
Calumet
the Orpheum
Greensburg, Pa
Iowa
Kansas
Colorado
John Harper
World Pictures
Pallas Pictures
Presents
Dustin Farnum
Erin
Peerless
Mme. Petrova
Metro
O. J. Simons
Ledger Office
Fairfield Steam Laundry
William Fox
Valeska Suratt
Daniel Frohman
Louise Huff
Jack Pickford
Booth Tarkington
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