Revival of Ku Klux Klan in Iowa Described by Editor
An Iowa article warns against renewed Ku Klux Klan activity in Des Moines and other towns, detailing the group's 100 percent American creed, exclusion of Catholics Jews and foreigners, and its attempt to operate as an invisible government violating constitutional rights. It urges residents to avoid joining and to oppose such a movement.
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Ku Klux Klan
Zation
Invisible Empire
Towa
Des Moines
Atlanta
Georgia
Kul ‘Klux Klans
South
Kig
America
United States
Iowa
German slogan and wartime myths rise in 1921 Germany
Readers glimpse a period piece claiming the slogan Never again drives a motion-wide effort by about twenty groups to spread a Germany shaped by war memory. The piece argues Prussianism and aggressive teaching reflect a national mood, recalling rapid wins over Denmark and Austria as background.
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Germany
Denmark
Austria
War as a holiday ends with heavy terms on defeat
The article reflects on the Paris siege and Metz as decisive, portraying war as a holiday that yields new provinces yet enforces costly sacrifices. It argues Germany seeks no more war, while Allied victory imposes drastic disarmament terms, a dramatic and hopeful outcome for restraint.
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France
Napoleon
Paris
Metz
Germany
Frye
Obituary of a towel in a printing house memory
A fragmented verse laments a well used towel hung in a printing house door once worn by ink and toil. It describes grime and hardship as workers, foremen, and editors interacted with it before it finally fell, broke, and faded.
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Qlur
Edi
Tor
Bible Questions Answered at Baptist Church Class
The Everybody's Bible class meets Friday at 7 30 p m in the Baptist church to study The Age of Con science. Questions cover the conscience fall Eve Cain Abel and civilization. A Wednesday devotional from Hebrews chapters 9 and 10 will follow.
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Baptist Church
Eve
Cain
Osin
Abel
Christ
Motion Picture Comedian Faces First Degree Murder Charge
Roscoe Arbuckle, the film comedian, is expected to be formally charged today with first degree murder in San Francisco over the death of Miss Virginia Rappe. Rappe died following a party in Arbuckle’s hotel suite. District Attorney Matthew Brady and authorities say the injuries caused her death were inflicted by Arbuckle. He is jailed without bail in Hall of Justice cell number 12 after being arrested last Saturday from Los Angeles.
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San Francisco
Roscoe
Patty
Hall of Justice
Los Angeles
Questions to Maquoketa on Deans Kidney Pills
Maquoketa readers are asked to consider Deans Kidney Pills based on long term experiences. John Orr of Maquoketa testifies the pills relieved kidney and joint pain after years of irregular secretions and lameness. Orr confirms his praise from 1915 and endorses the remedy as a reliable standard kidney medicine. Price 60 cents at dealers.
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Maquoketa
Deans
Carey
John Orr
Carpenter
Platt St
Dean
Staack &Luckiesh
Orr
Dwan
Foster-Millarm Co. Mis
Buffalo
N. X
Elwood News Ties To Local Visits And School Opening
Elwood hosts a stream of visitors from Britt Maquoketa Davenport and Cedar Rapids while Elwood Consolidated School opens September 5 with 160 enrolled The roster lists staff including Supt Bowersox Miss Allen Miss Dasher and Miss Brown plus bus drivers and a recent patient Floren ce Galloway who underwent surgery at St Luke's Davenport.
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Lee Nutty
Britt, Ia
John Galloway
Norma
Raymond Wirth
Davenport
Ruth Cook
Mo W. Kenzie
Cedar Rapids
Martha Irwin
J. W. Anderson
Ruth Helbs
Near Lost Nation
J. 1. Snyder
Dewitt
Florence
Elwood Consolidated School
Bowersox
Brandson
Miss Allen
Miss Dasher
Anita Te
Winizar
Brandon
Miss Brown
Owatonna
Minn
Hamlin
Manches
Ter
Potter
Lee Cressey
Waldo Hukelman
Walter Hartvigsen
Myr
N. J. Torrance
Rock Island
Ed Schoenthaler
Florence Galloway
St. Luke's Hospital
Sidney Brayn
Ed Schoenthaler, Jr
Protest Against Tariff Bill Targets Fordrey Proposals
The largest retailing firm condemns the tariff bill and the American valuation plan it adds. It argues the measure burdens business and consumers, serves manufacturing interests, and fails to assist farmers. The retailer warns the bill will harm retailers and raise prices for the general public.
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America
Fial
Opposition to Fordney act and its American valuation
Business men and consumers should urge their congressmen to reject the Fordney act as proposed. It fixes tariffs on wholesale price rather than purchase price abroad, lifting taxes and inviting price manipulation. With relief from taxation desired, passing the Fordney plan in its current form would worsen burdens.
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Fordney
Autos on farms in Davenport and Iowa reflect growth
A reader of the Iowa census notes 2ESIS farms in Iowa with 35,880 lacking automobiles while Iowa leads in farm autos with 177, R58. Ohio and Kansas follow. Pennsylvania tops tractor farming with 9,372 tractors, Iowa at 910. Illinois shows higher tractor farming at 23,102 but Iowa at 20,270. The piece argues autos and tractors will boost farm sales as the revival continues.
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Davenport Dames
Iowa
Huis
Ohio
Kansas
Pennsylvania
Towa
Minois
Ancient women rights unearthed in early city colony
Fragments from clay tablets in Baoyton province reveal a university in a suburb named Bunn and indicate women held equal rights with men in commerce property and political affairs during a period dated around OLWU.
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Baoyton
Oman
Bunn
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