Eyewitness of Tragedy Which Set the World on Fire
A 20 year old St Louis woman recalls witnessing the Sarajevo assassination that sparked World War I. She details the flower girl role, the nine bridges, Neddie Gabrinovitch, Prinz ip, and the later Serbian honoring of the twelve conspirators. Also notes current Pasteur treatment dispatches for mad dog bites in Iowa.
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St. Louis
Francis Ferdinand
Austria
Duchess of
Adela Gallish
Miss Gallish
America
Sarajevo
Milyatska
Gabrinowitch
Nedjeliko
Nedjelike Gabrinowitch
Neddie
Serbia
Bosnia
Neddie Gabrinovitch
Prinzip
Pasteur
Hampton
State Board of Health
Iowa
Electrified farming claims rapid growth and higher yields
The article reports electricity treated crops showing 30 to 40 percent higher grain production and over 10 feet tall corn yielding about 60 bushels per acre. It describes a high frequency electrical system coating seeds, distributing charges via soil plates, reducing operating costs and boosting germination and early growth.
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Popular Science Monthly
Iowa church bell’s perilous journey from Hummer to Utah
Ruth Galla her describes the tale of a Iowa City Presbyterian bell brought in 1841 by Michael Hummer. He tried to reclaim it, but a crowd seized it and dumped it in the Iowa River bed. It was later dug up, shipped in a hogshead to Utah, and sold to the Mormons, with further recovery attempts failing.
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Archduke
Gabrilovitch Prinzip
Prinzip
State Historical Society of
Iowa
Ruth Gallaher
Michael Hummer
Iowa City
Presbyterian Church
Hummer
Iowa River
Utah
Ames Elder recounts Fremont vote and prairie days
Fremont Henry McCarthy of Ames recalls voting for Gen John C Fremont 66 years ago. He once owned land where Iowa's agricultural college now sits and remembers Story County and nearby areas as vast prairie in early days.
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Henry McCarthy
Ames
Iowa
John C. Fremont
United States
Mr. McCarthy
Great Agricultural College
Story
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