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Wages and events across Iowa in historic notes
News Notes of Iowa and Iowans reports on teacher wages averaging $15 a month in towns, a $37.40 monthly local grade pay, and Iowa school property valued at $63,329,554. It covers a gray horse sold near Earlham for about $500, a Ringling circus bid, the Golden Rule Show founder Samuel Wallace’s death, and life as a hired girl in Deep River. Also notes citizenship grants in Monroe County, corn yields, a transstate highway plan to Portland 1924, and career paths of Illinois Central figures amid a storm-related promotion.
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Iowa
HE. M. Thomas
Earlham
Madison County
Ringling Show People
Baraboo
Wiis
Samuel P. Wallace
Elliott
Montgomery County
Red Oak
P. B. Burgett
Deep River
Poweshiek County
Iowa City
Harry G. Phelps
Illinois Central Railway
Chi
Ackley
Ilordin County
Tually
Chicago
Cubu
A. H. Hanson
Great Illinois Central
Omaha
Sioux City
New Orleans
Mr. Phelps
Phelps
Mr. Hanson
I. C