Subscription Terms and Iowa Prohibition Debate
A local notice outlines subscription options and advance payment rules for Mills County papers. It reports Arthur Brisbane’s Des Moines talk on prohibition and preparedness, noting Iowa editors favor moving away from prohibition and supporting industrial military roles for national service. The piece also recalls Revivals in Clarinda and other towns, praises W. P. Hepburn, and notes limited local political campaigning.
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Mills County
Arthur Brisbane
New York Evening Journal
State Press Association of Town
Des Moines
Iowa
New York
Brisbane
Little Leaders Health Hint and Road Talk Cartoon Snippet
A fragmented local outlook mocks health prompts and road funding, urging officials to shop for cars to spur infrastructure. The piece quips about Alaska weather and Farmers avoiding road tack misuse while humorously praising car culture and civic yammering. It ends with a cynical vignette about a Ford Peace party and a note on a Confederate dollar.
Tune Up Your Town For Summer Work And Faith
Road hidey for his change and the average citizen will be pardoned for blushing at countrymen abroad. If a show troupe advertised a free performance the people would jam the hall. Yet church doors are open Sundays and services are infinitely better. Now is a good time to overhaul farm machinery for smoother summer work and better dividends. We’d like to hear a few tunes from your own lips.
Ames Winter Short Course Draws Record Attendance
More than 2200 farmers, 150 engineers, 300 youths and 101 buttermakers enrolled at Iowa State College for the Ames winter short course, with total attendance likely reaching 3000 when nonenrollees are counted. The program spurred farm progress, social welfare, and a $10,000 fund for a new women farmers association, while the dairymen course continues through February 9.
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Ames
Iowa State College
Cornell University
New York State
Permanent Buildings Association
Boys Test Offers Quick Fitness Gauge for Job Readiness
In the March American Magazine a fitness test used by Employers' Advisers Associations is shared for boys. It reports a perfect forty five second completion and outlines grading criteria: two minutes to finish with at least eighty five percent of 2s and 3s, ninety percent correct marks as ideal. The sample presents a sequence of numbers and markings to evaluate aptitude.
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Employers’ Advisers
Iowa 1915 Crop Summary Shows Big Yields Across Staples
Iowa harvest data lists corn at 303 million bushels worth 154.53 million dollars plus oats 198 million bushels, wheat 15.56 million, potatoes 15.54 million, hay 6.88 million tons, apples 3.22 million bushels and 6.446 million dollars, plus 30 million pounds of popcorn. Grain and other staples, including beef and dairy, fed a profitable year for the state, noted as unusually strong.
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Iowa
Government
Yale
Towa
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Malvern
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W. L. Summers
Sherman Jones
James J. Wilson
First National Bank OF
Charles T. Boles
I. Wilson
Sherman Jones Stockholders
Mary W. Strahan
John Dyson
H. W. Summers
W. C. Worts
Salyers
Nellie Aistrope
Jerry Maher
Anna Mulholland
John W. Glynn
Chas. T. Boles
I. J. Swain
John
Mills County Abstract Co., Inc
Glenwood
L. A. Talbott
Malvern, Iowa
P. Wortman
Board of Supervisors
Wilson
Clarinda
Evangelist Lowery
Shenandoah
Corning
Osceola
Chariton
Creston
Atlantic
Oakland
W. P. Hepburn
Clorinda
Hepburn
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Mercury
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Henry Ford
H. A. Deardorf
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Fo Mae
Eagle Laundry Company
A. Burrus
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