Horseshoes Return to Popularity Says White House Pitcher
The piece notes President Harding enjoys horseshoe pitching and may use the White House yard for recuperation. It traces the game’s American roots, contrasts it with auots and urban life, and explains basic Grand League rules and scoring for a potential revival.
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Harding
White House
Roosevelt
England
Scotland
United State
America
Horsheshoe
Abe Lincoln
New York
Chicago
Broadway
Main Street
Russia
Heaven
Grand League of America
Iowa Again Stands High in Literacy Tests Among States
A Census Bureau release notes in 1920 Iowa has 20 680 illiterate persons aged 10 and over. Illiteracy totals 1.1 percent nationally, 8.1 percent among Negroes, 0.5 percent for natives of native parentage. Rural illiteracy 0.9 percent, urban 1.4 percent, with Mills County at 6.5 percent and Pocahontas at 0.3 percent.
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Iowa
Bureau of the Census
Washington
Mills County
Pochahontas
Odd little animal traces ancestry back 3 million years
In Venezuela in 1912 Dr. Wilfrid H. Osgood found Caenolestes a six inch marsupial like a sharp-nosed rat. Living in South America its closest relatives are Australian bandicoots, informing theories of ancient land connections between continents.
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South America
Wilfrid H. Osgood
Chicago
Venezuela
America
Australia
Glotfelty Clan Enjoys Reunion at Libertyville
Descendants of Michael and Anna Glotfelty gathered at Frank Glotfelty home near Libertyville for a Friday reunion. About 55 of 130 descendants attended a noon picnic and social hour with horseshoes croquet and visiting. Officers elected included Frank Glotfelty president W N Glotfelty vice president and J A Glotfelty secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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
W. C .Hunt
S. S. Glotfelty
Ottumwa
Lizzie Glotfelty
M. E. Glotfelty
M. D. Rodibaugh
L. E. Clinkinbeard
Fairfield
Armada Glotfelty
Charles Glotfelty
Walter Morrell
Will Shott
Birmingham
Martha Romane Beulah Cook
Frederic and
E. Rodibaugh
Narb
Blind Gardeners Demonstrated by London Guild Founder
Mrs Duncombe of London, founder of the Guild of Blind Gardeners, praises blind people as skilled gardeners. She says she could distinguish flowers by touch and cites a blind worker who could identify roses by touch alone, illustrating heightened senses when sight fails.
North West Mounted Police Goes 10 The Arctic S for Slavers
In May 1915 Corporal Cornelius left Edmonton for Herschel Island and spent over six years in the Arctic wilderness with two Eskimo murderers who were sentenced in 1914 and later freed. They served as guides and interpreters. The patrols covered thousands of miles by dogsled, establishing Fort Epworth and returning home after lengthy polar journeys.
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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
Komak
Phillips
Howeer
Clay Cornelius
Brockie
Komuk
Coppermine River
Ndt
Constable Brockie
Halifax
Winnipeg
Sunday School Social at Rich Woods Honors Contest
The Rich woods Sunday School held a social 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 enrolled and a friendly blue and orange badge rivalry.
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Richwoods Sunday School
Herbert Lynn
Admits Having 23 Wives In Sing Sing
Ossining prison guards report L A Schaeffer convict serving five year term for bigamy amuses himself by playing hearts with 23 cards, each card bearing a former spouse's name. He says he has had twenty three wives.
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Ossining
N. Y
Schaeffer
Manhattan
Rural mail carriers picnic planned in two counties
Rural mail carriers from Jette and Washington counties will hold a joint Labor Day picnic at Brinton Bridge on Skunk River, featuring a 12:00 basket dinner and 3:00 activities. The program includes addresses by Postmasters, songs, an invocation, elections, and contests such as a horseshoe match and tug of war between counties.
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Jette
Washington
Brinton Brid
Ten
Skur
Town Rural Letter Carriers Association
Frank D. Clark
Wayland
Lewis Wahl
Wellman
Prody A. Borkoski
Brighton
T. B. Short
Fairfield
A. R. Miller
Mr. Sims
Sec
Treas
Washington County
Jefferson County
Workmen Unearth $800 Hidden On Maurice Farm
On a Maurice area farm Nicholas Roghair’s workers digging a well three feet deep found a glass jar containing 800 dollars in bills and 70 dollars in gold. The money, buried years ago, was sent to Washington for replacement and returned. The diggers may keep the funds under law.
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Nicholas Reghair
Maurice
Sioux
County
Treasury Department
Washington
Roghair
Wise Provision of Nature Says Jud Tunkins
Jud Tunkins cites a grim rule that a man who never errs must die young to keep his perfect record, in a wizened quip about human flaws and fate.
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Jud Tunkins
Texas jailer makes county jail a fine place for inmates
Breckenridge Texas. Jailer James B. Harrison lives with his prisoners and treats them as guests. Prisoners cook their meals and eat at a table with cloth and napkins while magazines and music enhance daily life. Harrison planned to enter the ministry before eyesight failed.
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Texas
Breckenbridge
Tex
James B. Harrison
Harrison
Cattle Die by Thousands in Texas Poison Suspected
In Houston Texas authorities report a disease in cattle called back and loin disease killing thousands. A sample from a cow that died of aaeonite shows poison not found in local range plants. The illness killed about 10 000 cattle last year and is rising with risk to humans if tainted meat enters markets.
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Houston
Texas
Be a sport and rise above irritants says Grit
The piece advises not letting irritants get under your skin. It urges training yourself to endure minor offenses and suggests some irritation may come from within. It closes with encouragement to buck up and be sportful.
World Gold Production and Loss in History
The Argonaut notes that about 17 billion dollars worth of gold has been mined in world history and about 5 billion dollars of that sum is lost. The statistic highlights long term gold accumulation and loss across civilizations.
Understanding Nautical Tonnage Metrics
The passage explains gross tonnage as the ship’s total cubic capacity divided by ten, yielding English cubic feet per ton. Net tonnage subtracts spaces not used for passengers or cargo. Dead weight tonnage is the payload at load water line, while displacement tonnage equals the weight of seawater displaced when fully loaded.
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Glotfelty Clan
Northwest Mounted Police
The
Arctics
Corporal
Tribune
Ladies’ Home Journal
Maisonette
the Leader Department Store
Pandora
Roth & Co
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