Horseshoe Pitching Origin and Its Comeback
The piece traces horseshoe pitching as an American, rural pastime linked to early American virtues. It notes President Harding’s fondness and a push toward revival, contrasts with urban life, and outlines Grand League rules, noting the sport’s accessibility and social appeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harding
Horseeshoe
White House
Roosevelt
England
Scotland
United State
America
Horsheshoe
Earnests
Abe Lincoln
New York
Chicago
Broadway
Main Street
Russia
Heaven
Grand League of America
Iowa Maintains High Literacy Percent in 1920 Census
A Census Bureau release notes Iowa's 1920 illiteracy totals 20 680 persons aged 10 or older. Illiteracy declines since 1910 from 1.7 to 1.1 percent overall, with Negroes at 8.1 and native whites at 0.5. Rural illiteracy 0.9 versus urban 1.4, county rates from 0.3 to 6.5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of the Census
Washington
Iowa
Mills County
Pochahontas
Odd Little Animal Traces Ancestry 3 Million Years Back
A six inch fossil survivor Caenolestes lives in South America’s fastnesses. Discovered by Dr. Wilfrid H. Osgood in Venezuela in 1912, the creature resembles a sharp nosed rat. It is a marsupial with Australian bandicoot relatives, shedding light on ancient land connections between continents.
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South America
Wilfrid H. Osgood
Chicago
Venezuela
America
Australia
Glotfelty Clan Enjoyable Reunion at Libertyville
Descendants of Michael and Anna Glotfelty gathered for a family reunion at the Frank Glotfelty home near Libertyville on Friday August 26. A noon picnic, horseshoes and croquet followed, with 55 of 130 descendants in attendance and five of nine original children present. Officers elected: Frank Glotfelty president, W N Glotfelty vice president, J A Glotfelty secretary. The gathering listed many Glotfelty relatives and visitors from Libertyville and Muscatine.
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Michael
Anna Glotfelty
Frank Glotfelty
Libertyville
Anne Glotfelty
Iowa
Somerset
Pennsylvania
W. N. Glotfely
J. A. Glotfelty
J A Glotfelty
Jacob Glotfelty
D E Rodibaugh
J. I Glotfelty
W. N. Glotfelty
Floyd Glotfelty
H. B. Johnston
Roy Johnston
Narbone
Mary Rollette
Dorothy Rollette
Mildred Kemble
Muscatine
Blind Gardeners Shine in Guild of Blind Gardeners
Mrs Duncombe of London, founder of the Guild of Blind Gardeners, says blind men make good gardeners. She notes one blind gardener can tell different roses by touch, with sense of touch guiding work more than sight for others.
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Mrs. Duncombe
London
Guild of
Blind Gardeners
Ian
D. Brows
North West Mounted Police Goes 10 The Arctic Slavers
In May 1915 Corporal Cornelius of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police left Edmonton for Herschel Island and spent years in Arctic isolation with two Eskimo murderers who later joined the police. Their patrols covered thousands of miles by dogsled, with new Fort Epworth headquarters and several notable arrests.
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Montreal
Que
Canada
Cornelius
Royal Northwest Mounted Police
Edmonton
Herschel Island
Fort McPherson
Cornelieus
Brockle
Wilds
Coronation Gulf
Bathurst Inlet
Kent Peninsula
Victoria Island
Victoria Land
Prince Albert Sound
Bear Lake
Mackenzie River
Fort Epworth
Clay
Conway
Kayugawa
Komuk
Phillips
Howeer
Clay Cornelius
Brockie
Coppermine River
Ndt
Halifax
Winnipeg
Sunday School Social at Richwoods Near Town
The Richwoods Sunday School held a social Thursday evening at Herbert Lynn's home nine miles northeast of town. About a hundred attended, enjoying chicken sandwiches coffee pie and watermelons. The event closed a four month Sunday School contest with ninety enrollments and a friendly blue and orange badge rivalry.
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Richwoods Sunday School
Herbert Lynn
Man in Sing Sing Admits Twenty Three Wives
Ossining New York prisoners at Sing Sing report L A Schaeffer serving five years for bigamy amuses himself by playing hearts with twenty three cards. Each card bears the first name of a spouse. He admits having had twenty three wives.
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Ossining
N. Y
Schaeffer
Manhattan
Rural Mail Carriers Picnic in Two Iowa Counties
Rural mail carriers of Jefferson and Washington counties plan a joint picnic at Brinton bridge near Brighton on the Skunk River for Labor Day. The program includes a basket dinner, speeches by local officials, reports, officer elections, and games such as a wellman versus county horseshoe contest and tug of war between Washington and Jefferson counties.
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Jefferso
Washingto Counties
Brinton Bridge
Brighton
Skur River
Iowa Rural Letter Carriers Association
Frank D. Clark
Wayland
Song “America
Lewis Wehl
Wellman
Prody A. Borkoski
T. B. Short
Fairfield
A. R. Miller
Washington
Mr. Sims
Sec.Treas
Washington County
Jefferson County
Workmen Find $800 Buried on Farm Near Maurice Sioux
On a farm owned by Nicholas Roghair near Maurice in Sioux County, workmen digging a well three feet deep found a glass jar containing $800 in bills and $70 in gold. The currency was buried long ago and sent to Washington for replacement. the diggers may keep the money under local law.
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Nicholas Reghair
Maurice
Sioux
County
Treasury Department
Washington
Wise Provision of Nature Quote Sparks Reflection
Jud Tunkins laments a flawless record as impossible, noting a man who never errs must die young to keep a spotless life from spoiling it. The remark frames a meditation on human fallibility and virtue.
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Jud Tunkins
Texas jailer makes county jail a fine place for inmates
Breckenridge Texas reports jailer James B Harrison has transformed the county jail into a homelike environment. Inmates cook their own meals and eat at a table with cloth and napkins while Harrison dines with them, shares magazines, music, and movies, and treats detainees as respectable companions. He hoped to pursue ministry but defective eyesight prevented study.
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Breckenbridge
Tex
James B. Harrison
Harrison
Cattle Die By Thousands In Texas Poison Found
In Houston Texas authorities report a deadly cattle disease killing thousands. A toxin found in a cow that died implicates a poison not in local plants. The back and loin disease has killed about 10 000 cattle last year and rising with danger to humans if diseased meat enters markets.
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Houston
Texas
Be a sport and rise above irritants
The piece urges readers to endure irritants with training and patience. It suggests irritation often arises from the self and encourages buckling up to respond with good sportsmanship rather than simple annoyance.
Gold mined and lost in world history totals
The Argonaut reports that civilization has extracted about 17 billion dollars in gold over history, with roughly 5 billion dollars worth of that gold lost or unaccounted for. This reflects vast historical mining activity and gaps in recordkeeping across eras and regions.
Nautical tonnage terms explained in brief guide
The article defines gross tonnage as the ship's cubic capacity divided by ten, with each ton corresponding to a set volume of space. Net tonnage subtracts machinery and non cargo spaces, while dead weight tonnage measures cargo capacity at load water line and displacement tonnage equals the vessel's weight of displaced seawater when fully loaded.
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Glotfelty Clan
Northwest Mounted Police
The
Arctics
Corporal
Ladies’ Home Journal
Maisonette
the Tribune
C Zeta Eol
Pandora
Roth & Co
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