Why Not More Electroliers In Fairfield Streets
Editorial urges Fairfield to adopt city council led street lighting using electroliers. It notes past failures when property owners funded partial installs and praises other cities like Washington for brighter, well lit streets. The piece highlights North Main Street and Broad Street corridors as priorities.
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Fairfield
Washington
Fairfeld
North Main Street
Broadway
Burlington Station
West Broadway
Rock Island Station
Railroads face critique over high salaries and waste
A Railway Age analysis argues that high general officer pay is overstated as a factor in rail costs. It cites 1920 averages up 20 to 66 percent since 1916, claims waste from wartime agreements, and notes back pay and misclassified labor boosting expenses.
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Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
Railway Age
Charlie Chaplin
America
Senate
Railway
Pere Marquette Railway
Director General of Railways
Southern Pacific
Tucson
Watchman
Carmen
Salt Lake Division
McAdoo
Iowa booming state despite western business slump
A visitor to the Tama County Democrat office says Iowa outperforms western states with booming business. He claims the coast is dead, and Iowa remains prosperous while others suffer, noting crops never fail and Iowa is the best place to live.
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Iowa
Tama County
Democrat
The Home Town Merchant
The home town merchant has long offered town residents prices comparable to city shops. Now more people will learn this, as many cannot afford the high railroad fare for average purchases.
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Storm Lake
Who's Who in Old Jefferson History
A compact sketch of notable locals and their deeds from Jefferson's past. Profiles draw on intimate recollections, detailing figures who shaped the town's social and civic life with concise anecdotes and remembered episodes.
James Ellert Cohagen a steady, shrewd modern man
A humorous portrait of James Ellert Cohagen recounts his stubborn humor and savvy nature. The piece notes his early farming days around Blakesburg, a failed hardware stint, and a knack for city politics. It highlights his fame for wild derisive tales about automobiles and his role on local committees.
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James Ellert
Blakesburg
James Ellert Cohagen
Hedrick
Still More Wit and Wry Observations From H.N.B.-His Column
A collection of satirical quips and anecdotes comment on politics Prohibition bootlegging and small town life. It jokes about famous leaders shows local color from Des Moines and Albia and includes a ribbing tale about a Memphis lawyer and a river Irishman.
Friday milestones in American history
Friday marks key events in U S history including Columbus's first voyage landing in the Americas, the Mayflower’s arrival at Provincetown, Richard Henry Lee's motion for independence, and Cornwallis’ surrender near the end of the War for Independence.
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Columbus
America
Provincetown
Richard Henry Lee
Cornwallis
Bride's Mother Eaten at Tibetan Wedding Feast
Article reports in Tibet some wedding feasts involve consuming the bride's mother as a severe custom. The piece notes the practice as part of ritual tradition and food customs amid regional variations.
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The
Miami Herald
Tibet
Brick business ad promises top quality poured concrete brick
An old classified style ad offers a brick business opportunity to build a top quality poured concrete brick with options for common or faced bricks and inexpensive outfits. It invites readers to write for particulars from Merrill Moore in Cres ton Iowa. Also promotes pure bred Duroc Jersey gifts bred for early fall litters at farmer prices from John Wheatley near the northeast city limits.
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Merrill Moore
Creston
John Wheatley
Northeast
Decline of the Parlor in New Factory Homes
A major U S manufacturing company builds numerous worker houses with many conveniences. The most striking change is the total absence of the parlor, the space being allocated to other rooms, suggesting the parlor is out of fashion.
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United States
Principle of Territorial Waters and High Seas
The rule states coastal states have exclusive sovereignty over sea up to three miles from shore. Beyond three miles lies open to all nations as high seas, not the exclusive property of any country.
Public sale of G. W. Johnson estate farm northwest of Fairfield
On May 26 1921 at 1 30 p m public sale will offer all personal property belonging to the G W Johnson estate located at a farm eight miles northwest of Fairfield. W C BRAWNER administrator conducts the sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. W. Johnson
Fairfield
W. C. Brawner
Ice Cone Rises From Water Pipe in New York North
A pressure pipe in northern New York spilled water that gradually froze, creating a natural ice cone about thirty feet tall above ground.
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New York State
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Harry N. Bra
H. Seifert
G. Walker
Mgr
Old
Jefferson
Parmer
Sam Hill
Cohagen
H.N.B
Wilson
Civil Service
Des Moines
Foch
Pershing
Stillmans
Hamans
Montana
Rhodes Tribune
Clark Capron
Nichols
Wis
Tribune
Clark
Jack
Jill
Memphis
Albia
Patsi
Joshua
4Th and
Walnut Sts
Philadelphia
Lick Creek
North Third St
High Seas
Chuck
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