Prices of clothes rise with wages and farm prices
A historical note compares clothing costs to farm and hog prices from 1913 to 1919. It shows how, despite higher dollars for suits, producers and workers gained purchasing power via higher farm values, crop prices, and wages, with specific shifts in corn, hogs, wheat, flaxseed, cotton, butter, eggs, wool, potatoes, and urban wages across regions.
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Chicago
Northwest
United States
Buroye
Iowa
Baltimore
New Orleans
Buffalo
St. Louis
Jacksonville
Fla
San Francisco
Philadelphia
Detroit
Dallas
Birmingham
Boston
News Notes of Iowa and Iowans highlights of 1919 public works
The report by J. H. Strief details Iowa board of control dairy profits from 5.7 million pounds of milk, payrolls, and expenditures. It covers land purchases at Anamosa Fort Madison and Aldora school, parole figures, and state road spending. It notes Dan Schmolke studying dairying at Ames, discusses Marshall county farmer J. R. Howard, milk coffee usage in Clinton county schools, and other local items.
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Iowa
Board of Control
J. H. Strief
Board of Sontret
Anamosa
Fort Madison
Ildora School
Cherokee State Hospital
Clarinda State Hospital
Hidera Training School
Carl W. Schmolke
South Africa
State College
Ames
Clinton County
Dominick Gallagher
Bevington
Madison County
Winterset
Treasury Department
Washington
Post Office Department
Board of Supervisors
Boone County
Congress
Bluff
Des Moines
Boone
Townsend
Gulf of Mexico
Horder
Interesting Henderson News Briefs and Visits
Our correspondent reports Mrs Bo Harover a brief visitor in town Saturday A O Harney Omaha visitor Tuesday Dr Shriver Oakland business caller Vivian Smith Lenore Kavitt Carson visitors several from here attended the declamatory contest in Oakland Friday Herbert Buck Omaha on business in Henderson last Thursday George Warner Shenandoah visited sister Mrs Belle Hose T D Phillips and wife returned from Glenwood visit Mgr and Mrs A S Pat to Florida for winter Waldo Kilgore Burwell Neb came for a visit John Harbour North Dakota after visit with mother Mrs M B Harbour M B Sunday School elect officers at Mrs Anna Duke home next Friday evening Mrs Joe Edmundson returned from hospital in Council Bluffs Otis Farrington former meat market operator greeted friends Born to A O Harney and wife January 17 a son Lloyd Rollin Two boys in the household Albert Coppock injured finger at Harbor elevator Melvin Shippey family moved into new house Casebolts moved into Christian parsonage C W E M met at Mrs Allen Morris home large attendance Domestic Science girls entertained School Board wives and officers at six o'clock dinner Mrs Mina LaHue and son Ralph attended funeral in McClelland then Mrs LaHue fell ill at Council Bluffs Ralph returned home Thursday
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Bo Harover
A. O. Harney
Omaha
Dr. Shriver
Oakland
Vivian Smith
Lenore Kavitt
Carson
Herbert Buck
Henderson
George Warner
Shenandoah
Belle Hose
T. D. Phillips
N. G. Gook
Glenwood
A. J
O. L. Harbor
Viva Gravitt
H. F. Cool
Harris
Orlow
Amanda Bell
Lewis
James Snodgrass
Mgr
Patl
Florida
Waldo Kilgore
Burwell
Neb
John Harbour
North Dakota
M. BE. Harbour
M. B
Anna Duke
Joe Edmundson
Council Bluffs
Lloyd Rollin
Albert Coppock
Ife
Melvin Shippey
Baumgartner
Allen Morris
Mina LaHue
Ralph
McClelland
Flying Honeymoon Flew Off To Florida After Wedding
C P Olsen of Mc Gregor married Madge Colby of Clear Lake and immediately flew on a honeymoon in Olsen s airplane. He served as an expert aviator in France during the war and plans a flying trip to Colorado after visiting the south.
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C. P. Olsen
McGregor
Madge Colby
Clear Lake
Southland
Florida
Olsen
France
Colorado
Mania Riches Shaped by What Ha Ig Not by Be Raa
A cryptic historical note suggests mania or wealth measured by internal factors rather than external status. The fragment mentions ambiguous terms Ha Ig and Be Raa as framing ideas. Further context is needed to identify people, places, or events referenced.
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United States Bureau of Fisheries
Bellevue
Jackson County
Mississippi River
Prescott
Wis
Upper
Mississippi
News Notes
Mr. Schmolke
Capetown
Equator
J. R. Howard
Clemens
Marshall Peounty
National Farm Bureau Federation
Ele
State Farm Bureau Federation
Penn College
Oskaloosa
Miss Pickerell
Chicago University
Marshall County
Committee of Agriculture
National Organization
Fort Dodge
van Buren County
T Des Moines
Kansas
Waterloo
Henderson News
Otis Farrington
Nebraska
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