Farm Bureau Reports Actions to Clean Up Trade Practices
National Live stock Reporter notes Chicago Board of Trade purging unethical and nonfunctional practices as farmers organize marketing efforts amid the Tincher bill. Mills County Farm Bureau to cull non laying hens and hold township demonstrations while planning a wool car shipment to the Iowa Fleece Wool Growers Association around July 20 from Malvern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Livestock Reporter
Chicago Board of Trade
J. P. Griffin
Mills County Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau
Mills County
Iowa Fleece Wool Growers Association
Malvern
Death of John W Gobble in Malvern area obituary
Community mourns John Wilson Gobble who died June 29 1921 at home near Silver City Iowa at 63 years 2 months and 24 days He was born April 5 1858 in New Budda Iowa and was twice married first to Eliza Kizzier with one daughter Minnie Jones then to Lillian Sharp with one daughter Ellen Walker He is survived by his wife two daughters four grandchildren and three sisters Mrs H A Kizzier Payette Idaho Mrs Will Lagle Kirksville Missouri and Mrs John Vido Iron Mountain Michigan Funeral services were held at the home seven miles northwest of Malvern and burial followed in Malvern cemetery.
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John W. Gobble
Malvern
John Wilson Gobble
Geo
Roseanna Gobble
New Budda
Iowa
Silver City
Eliza Kizzier
David City
Minnie Jones
Council Bluffs
Gobble
Lillian EB. Sharp
Ellen Walker
H. A. Kizzier
Payette
Idaho
Will Lagle
Kirksville
John Vido
Iron Mountain
Mich
Thrilling Ride Ends With Narrow Escape on Joy Street
Mrs J H Pogge narrowly escaped injury Monday evening after her automobile backed downhill on Joy Street near Seventh Street. To avoid a collision she shut off the engine, but the car gained speed, backed over a curb, toppled the 12 inch wall around the CO J Gibson lawn, and teetered off the west wall two feet high. It stopped with the rear against the wall, puncturing three tires and suffering minor damage while passing between two closely set trees. Helen Ann McAdams rode as passenger.
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J. H. Pogge
Joy St
Helen Ann McAdams
Seventh St
Sixth St
CO. J. Gibson Lawn
Wanted a Guide Peet ene en pide in McClure
A narrator recovering from nerves hires a guide in a small town. He repeatedly confuses familiar places with Alfred Poser’s home as Major the dog and Billy the cat mingle with furniture from Alfred’s father. Laughed at by Alfred’s cheerful wife, he resolves not to travel alone again, seeking a local guide instead.
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Alfred
Westgate
Billy
Major
Alfred Poser
Cousin
Brother
Cousin Tom
Tom
Congestion in Dwellings in Japan and Persia
The National Geographic Society Bulletin notes rising rents and crowded housing in Japan where bamboo and paper homes have seen fivefold rent increases over five years, and in Teheran where tenement-style rooms share doors and courts. Unskilled Persian laborers earn about 80 cents per day while rents run about $1 per room per month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Teheran
Persia
National Geographic Society Bulletin
Lessons from forests across nations urged for America
A speech notes that the young republic of Czecho Slovakia restricts cutting to mature timber, requires reforestation within five years, and staffs foresters for fire protection. It cites Switzerland's municipal forests as a model, saying Zurich kept forests at work for six centuries, never striking and ready during coal or transport disruptions.
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Republic of Ours
Czecho- Slovakia
Republic
Charles’ Lathrop Pack
American Forestry Association
Switzerland
Zurich
Weeks and Hoggs in Washington Anecdote Returns
Former Senator John W Weeks recalls days in Washington with Hirbutus Hogg a friend who spent much time near oases and bars. After a long night Hogg staggers home greeted by his wife who rebukes him. He replies that she is a Hogg by name but a hog by nature, while he is a hog by choice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Weeks
Washington
Hirbutus Hogg
Oases
Meeting Nurses and War Memories in Kansas City
Mrs D Pirie Beyea visited Kansas City last week to attend a nurses convention. Her Midwest trip rekindled ties from four years as an Overseas nurse, recalling patients from the Eighty-ninth and Thirty-fifth divisions who fought in the Argonne. At Eleventh and Main she spoke with a traffic officer, sharing wartime memories.
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Vil Bay Wael
Mra
Pirie Beyea
Kansan
Q City
Middle West
Argonne
Ben Quit
Vaux
Kansas City Star
Women in business and marriage color scheme joke
A Washington dinner quip features Mrs. Chapman Catt asserting women in business are less corrupt than men, while a senator counters with a jest about every woman having her figure. The Birmingham Age-Ferald adds a marriage color scheme joke about the Jonesby Gawker wedding with red groom white bride and blue relatives.
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Birmingham
Life insured questioned by wary Snaggs
The agent pressed Snaggs about life insurance but Snaggs rebelled at the notion, saying he preferred living to being valued dead, deeming it distasteful to consider himself more valuable dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snaggs
Vegetarian Manager Exchange Sparks Town Vegetable Showers
A dialogue between a vegetarian manager and an actor reveals tensions over local town customs as the manager confirms vegetarianism while the actor notes the cultural ritual of vegetable showers in small towns. The exchange highlights personal beliefs colliding with community practices.
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News OF the Farm Bureau
Fred Farquhar
John Gobble
McClure Newspaper Synificate
Maple Street
United States
Mr. Hogg
Dugan
Monahan
Earth
High Sea
American Legion Weekly
Mickie
Tinking
J. W. Weed Husician
Gmfire
Davis Bros
Emerson, Iowa
1. U. Parsons
A. Campbell
Malcolm S. Campbell
Dearhorff’s
Towa
J. W. Baer
D. V. Me
S. R. Skaggs & Son
D. M. Kline
Osteopathic
Offce
Iowa State Savings Bank
J.R. Scott
Malvern, Iowa
Burrus
H. A. Deardorff
Grocer
Cadwell & Salyers Farm Loans
Insurance
Cadwell & Salyers
WM. Fisher
Sargent’s
Oscar Lea
Mr. Summers
Strahan
Abel Gary
Mary Goos
Pottawattamie
Addison Bros
Malvern Maid
Parker House
Fleischman
the Malvern Bakery
F. W. Swoboda
Prop
Malven
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