Iowa News Highlights Paving Plans and Birth Records
A petition seeks paving for 26 miles of highway between Davenport and Muscatine while Manchester plans 48 blocks of paving next summer. Des Moines reports 3097 births last year and a major auto show set for late February. Local judgments, state education bids, and farming courses fill the docket along with notes on skunk farming, radio, and road funding.
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Davenport
Muscatine
Manchester
Hamilton County
Iowa Supreme Court
Riverside
Des Moines
Liberty Building
Bankers Life
J. E. Anderson
Lamoa
First Methodist Church
Mt. Pleasant
Iowa State College
Iowa
N. E
Sixth and Mulberry Streets
Southern Surety Company
Gale Pickett
Shenandoah
Chaplin
Norma Talmadge
West Point
Chicago
The
Iowa Board of Railroad Commissioners
Polk County
Board of Control
Anamosa
Ames
State of
United States
Sioux City
Carlos W. Goltz
General Assembly
LeGrand
Farmers’ Institute
Vinton
P. G. Holden
Agricultural Extension Department
Farm Machinery
France
Marquette and
Joliet
Hennepin
Spain
Louisiana Purchase
Francia F. Jager
University of Minnesota
Sklaware County Institute
Thrift Week
Washington News Briefs From Coolidge to Rail Rates
Washington reports span tax cuts, nitrate rate challenges, and Mexico arms deals. Claims mount over Mexican abuses, wheat acreage drops, and ICC rates deemed unreasonable. Senate ratifies extradition pacts with Estonia Latvia and Siam amid labor and tax policy debates in Washington.
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Mexico
Washington
Robbers kill patrolman and wound partner in Chicago
A trio of black robbers killed Patrolman Vincent Skiba and wounded Patrolman Joseph Lamb at Seventy ninth Street and Merrill Avenue before escaping. The incident adds to a string of violent crime amid a harsh winter era in Chicago.
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Vincent Skiba
Chicago
Joseph C. Lamb
Seventy-ninth Street
Merrill Avenue
Greece names Stoussos premier and Venizelos foreign minister
In Athens the new Greek cabinet is announced with George Stoussos set as premier and M Venizelos as foreign minister. Most ministers chosen. Archbishop Tiklon rearrested in Moscow amid charges of counterrevolutionary activity.
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George Stoussos
United States
M. Venizelos
Athens
Tiklon
Russia
Moscow
Obituary notices for W. A. Winburn, Ashton Harvey, and John F. Cramer
W. A. Winburn of Savannah and president of the Central of Georgia Trailway and Ocean Steamship company died in Rochester at sixty. Ashton Harvey, seventy, of New York, died suddenly on the Ormond Beach golf links while playing with John D. Rockefeller Sr. John F. Cramer, ninety-two, veteran publisher and former vice president of the Western Newspaper Union, died in Milwaukee. He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Eugene R. Pike, Chicago.
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W. A. Winburn
Savannah
Central of Georgia Trailway
The
Ocean Steamship Company
Rochester, Minn
Ashton Harvey
New York
Ormond Beach
Fla
John D. Rockefeller
John F. Cramer
Western Newspaper Union
Milwaukee
Wis
Cramer i
Eugene R. Pike
Chicago
Iowa's Industry Growth and Plant Network Highlight
Iowa shows a 9914 percent literacy figure, a manufacturing investment of 745000000 dollars, and a vast plant network including 18 packing plants, 366 butter and cheese plants, 565 canning plants, 95 tile plants, 48 poultry plants, and 8 gypsum plants.
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Iowa
Towa
Origin of Dancing Pumps Across Fashion History
Before the French Revolution the French dictated world fashions for men and women. Indoor ceremonial shoes worn by the wealthy evolved from court dress, with ordinary men using them indoors and out. The French term pompe, meaning great ceremony, became pompe and later pumps for the special indoor shoe.
Plant Structure and Nourishment Basics
A plant consists of three essential parts roots stem and leaf Nourishment is taken from the earth through the roots to the stem then digested at the leaves waste is removed and the rest becomes plant constituents The stem stands erect while sap nourishes cells collapse if nourishment fails causing the stem to droop and wilt
Origin of bulls and bears terms traced to 1720 play
The Detroit News notes the stock exchange terms bulls and bears trace back to an early 18th century play from 1720. It mentions theories linking bear to selling skins before the kill and bull to buyers hoping for upward price movement, with related financial terms from postponement charges and the Spuntat word cinengo meaning I check.
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Stock Exchange
Cibber
Detroit News
Mrs Young Praises Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
Charleston woman Annie Young states she was exhausted and unable to work before using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports energy return after first bottle and ongoing improvement, and notes a nationwide canvass found 98 of 100 users benefited. Sold by druggists nationwide.
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Charleston
S. C
Lydia &, Pinkpana Veporadis Mpounayour
E. Pinkham
Annie Young
Amherst St
8.C
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van, Kim
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Kansas
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Kansas Agricultural Council
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Mahon
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Houston
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American Bible Society
Frank H. Mann
Myra Strauss Freiberg
Wellesley College
BE. B. Tauber
Cincinnati
Western Pine Manufacturers’ Association
Portland
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People’s Progressive Party
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University of Iowa
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Berkeley
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National Committee
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