Provocative Stage Language and Economic Notes
The article contends profanity in drama reflects modern trends, cites The White Carg o's excess as example, and argues English can emphasize without vulgarity. It also surveys 1920 Jones county farm rents, returns on land, and suggests share rents prosper. mentions Col W J Bryan's memoir plans and President's calls for fiscal restraint. England's swift sanction after an Egyptian assassination is praised. finally notes Liam C Brown, Iowa-born former leader of the New Lines, age 71.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anderson
van Vechten
Hfe
Tropics
Jones County
Kinsfolk
Liam
C. Brown
el cles--an-Iowa
Coolidge addresses farm audience amid lean years and calls for workable farm measures
In Chicago at the International Livestock Show President Coolidge speaks to cattlemen and farmers, acknowledging the lean years from 1919 to 1924. He urges market-oriented relief, notes large farm aid through the War Finance Corporation, and argues tariffs and immigration laws protect workers and farmers alike while warning against price fixing and compulsory subsidies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Chicago
Calvin Coolidge
Vermont
Coolidge
Washington
War Finance Corporation
White House
Plain Talk Is Best and Plain Speaking
The Sioux City Journal notes President Coolidge’s message to Congress shows plain language can convey opinions clearly. It says his style is direct and unornate, preferring a straight hard blow over flourishes, and contrasts rhetoric with simple, understood phrasing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Lime Springs Portrait Reflects A Life Devoted To Home
The text sketches a man connected to Lime Springs Iowa and his late father a minister. It notes his wish to be buried beside his parents in his birth town and reflects on party politics with hints of McAdoo and Smith shaping future elections and intra party clashes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lime Springs
Iowa
Round-the-world fliers urged for promotion and pay
The Sioux City Journal argues for congressional recognition of six aviators who completed a historic round-the-world flight. It urges President Coolidge and Rep Rathbone to back a bill providing promotion, compensation, and retirement, despite military politics and seniority rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City Journal
Coolidge
Congress
Representative Rathbone
Unois
House Military Affairs Committee
Harding
Ogden
Wade
Smith
Arnold
Nelson
America
Uncle Sam
Board of supervisors votes settlement with banks on stock assessment
The Cedar Rapids board of supervisors unanimously approves a settlement with county banks in tax suits over stock assessment. They set for taxes at fifty percent of par value plus surplus and undivided profits minus real estate investment, and base payments on the $67,000 already paid. The settlement argues appeals tied up funds and that bank stock and real estate valuations are too high or low compared with actual values.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Board of Supervisors
Supreme Court of
Towa
Supreme Court of the
United States
University students chase sports over studies across states
Cedar Rapids Gazette notes college students neglect classes for frequent road trips to Illinois Wisconsin and Michigan games. The piece argues education could wait until after graduation as young students prioritize athletics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
State University
Illinois
Wisconsin
Michigan
U. 1
President Coolidge Faces Stronger Influence in Congress
The article argues Coolidge's landslide re election increases his leadership and leverage with Congress, predicting greater respect and stronger influence over lawmakers than before.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport Democrat
Coolidge
Congress
Opposition to state control of primary roads in Iowa
Davenport Times notes some county politicians may oppose state control of primary roads while arguing a state program reduces costs. The piece contrasts Iowa’s "mud" conditions with sister states’ highway systems and warns that clean straw is better than using manure around a cellar wall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport
Iowa
Moral Lessons From a Sausage Shop Scuffle
A humorous tale set around a little old woman with a puppy and a sausage shop. A fast moving thief chases the pup through the street, the shop owner shoots, the pup escapes, and the crowd loses meat to the melee. The moral warns to mind your own business during trouble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Thomas Brown
Local Page Notes include Weddings, Deaths and Accidents
Obituaries honor Miss Anna Meloy 33 years at Washington Mills and Mr Lafe Matthews Sr golden wedding with 75 relatives. Reports cover Mae Custrom’s auto crash charge, Miss Viola Barnes wedding to William Helmrichs, and Ellis Cutting last survivor of the Light Brigade dies at 87. Also notes on perjury in liquor cases, Clarence tax rates, school consolidations, and a Lincoln highway crash with injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Meloy
Washington Mills
Lafe Matthews
Manchester
Tme
Mr. Matthews
Bia
Mae Custrom
Cascade
Dubuque
Viola Barnes
Ryan
Charles Barnts
Monticello
William Helmrichs
J. F. Helmrichs
Golden Parsonage
Lewis
Milo Township
Delaware County
Ellis HW. Cutting
Light Brigade
Bellakalava
Cedar Rapids
Cutting
Lord Raglan
Anton Toula
Marlon
Clarence Herr
Toula
Herr
Clarence
Cedar County
Lowden
Mechanicsville
Bennett
Stanwood
Durant
West Branch
Ipton
Springdale
Tipton
Diat Iitle
Lincoln Highway
Dunghee
Church Plans Christmas Musical Service with Congregational Church
The church outlines next Sunday's services including Sunday School Morning Worship and Evening Worship with Christian Endeavor at 6 45 p m and 7 30 p m and a Mid-Week Service on Wednesday 7 30 p m. On December 21 the church unites with the Congregational church for a Christmas musical service at the Congregational church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stunday School
N. Christian Endeavor
Sunday Church Schedule and Christmas Concert Plan
Morning services at 10:00 and 11:00 with Sunday School Epworth League and evening programs. A lecture on Java the Garden of the Hast highlights Sunday evening. A Christmas concert is planned for December 21 following the Sunday service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epworth League
Java
Dutch East Indies
Christmas Concert Planned by Presbyterian and Congregational Churches
Services listed for Sunday December 14 include Sunday School at 10 a.m. Morning Worship at 11 a.m. and Evening Service at 7 30 p.m. A midweek online service is scheduled for 7 30 p.m. The two congregations will unite for a Christmas concert at the Congregational church on Sunday evening December 21.
Castle Grove Lutheran Church Dedication December 14
The congregation invites attendance at the Castle Grove Lutheran church dedication on December 14. Sunday services are dropped this week. German service 10 00 a m English 2 00 p m and Evening service 7 30. Next Sunday 2 00 pm Sunday school and Christmas program practice in Luther hall. Children must attend if they join the program. December 21 English services at the usual hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Castle Grove Lutheran Church
Castle Grove
Luther Hall
Advent Sermons Urge Hearts Toward Christmas Tide
Pastor Paul T Gutknecht invites all children to Sunday school at 10 and the English service at 10 45 to hear sermons themed Jesus Christ the prophet foretold by Moses. The Advent messages aim to glorify Christ in hearts and reaffirm God's promises.
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Jesus Christ
Moses
Christ
Local Dec 1899 Jones County Notices Summary
December 1899 entries note multiple move ins and outs in Jones county, including Cartano family to Monticello and Hildreth family to Cresswell Oregon. Several weddings, such as Gesina Volkers and John Siebels, Miss Mary Winner and Henry Elessey, and Miss Nellie Chapman and Robert Henderson. Local deaths include Peter Jecklin, Mrs. Christie Ann Stevenson, Mrs. Rudolph Kasner, Alfred S. Miller, and Flora Deischer. Also mentions Rev J W Innes’s church call, rural mail route start, and Drake dental student Arthur Maurice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
College of Medicine
State University
Town City
John Hines
Richland Township
Gesina Volkers
Sand Spring
John Siebels
Langworthy
J. W. Innes
Reinbeck
Presbyterian Church of
David Mundell
Marie Harris
Walker
M. S. Murphy
Castle Grove Township
Murphy
Mary Wilkens
John Dirks
Mardoff
Fred Schweitzer
Chris Balsiger
Switzerland
Elmer Arthur Hubbard
Elmer CG. Hubbard
Mary Winner
Henry Elessey
D. S. Staebler
Methodist Episcopal Church
Mary Fairbanks
Cass Township
Grant Gill
Peter Jecklin
Martin Guyan
Malachi Cashen
Cashen
Cascade
David Heisey
Chicago
Bertha Gilroy
Ana Et Teachers College
Cedar Falls
J. F. Petoina
Petokia
Tafmosa
John A. Miller
Ed Schoen
Jessie Byerly
Hans Matthiessen
Peter Byerly
Joseph King Sr
Christie Ann Stevenson
Jones County
Red River
Manitoba
S. C
Rudolph Kasneri
M. Prader
Alfred S. Miller
Flora Deischer
Daniel Deischer
John McCormick
Sacred Heart Church
Arthur M. Maurice
Drake University
Des Moines
Maggie Monk
Henry Ivell
von Strohe
Prult
Rearick
Daniel Magee
Scotch Grove Township
Caldwell Farm
C. G. Jacobs
Seld Radio Sets and Hog Sale Notes
An advertisement offers new radio receiving sets from Thompson Neuhrodyne Grimes Inverse Duplex and Elsemann, with Philca A and B batte ries and chargers from Mercer Electric Co Dubuque Iowa. A second item lists a thoroughbred hog sale in Monti cello Factory building Monti cello Iowa on Saturday December 13 at 1:00 PM featuring prize stock from Helgens ir os Mike Breen Ed LBehrends and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thompson Neuhrodyne
Grimes
Elsemann
Philca
Mercer Electric Co
West 8Th Street
Dubuque
Iowa
Monticello Re
Monticello
Helgens Isros
Poland
Mike Breen
Chester
Ed Lbehrends
Hampshire
W. H. Null
Jones County Trust & Savings Bank
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W. J. Bryan
Champ Clark
Bryan
Wilson
England
Hgyptian -Assistina
Cairo
Egypt
Hgypt
Great Britain
McAdoo
Linn County
Butchmadn
Herr Schneider
Doug
Ho Barkit
der Schneider
Det Schneider
Neighborhood News
Presbyterian Church
Leonard Duckett
Congregational Church
Albert &, Coe
First Congregational Church
George W. McNary
St. Matthew’s Ey
Lutheran Church
St. John’s Ey
Paul T. Gutknecht
Jock
London
India
Jim
Bessie Morgan
J. G. Schoon
C. L. van Meter
Oriental Rug Co
LaCrosse, Wis
Richard Lang
F. G. Matthiessen
A. G. Hanken
David Winang
Duroe Jersey
Hoag & Petersen
China
G. H. Gerdes
Duroc Jersey
Shover & Nagel
Wilson Burkett
Barbara Dondelinger
Fred Shover
Town
South Cedr Street
F. G. Matthiessen, Jr
Rose Comb R. I
Mayme Harms
Hereford
McNeill Bros
Hopkinton
W. A. Storm
E. A. Hubbard
Chestnut and
Third Streets
Monticello State Bank
W. J. Cochrane
J. L.,weber & Sons
Cascade, Iowa
Wayne Township
Tobiason Bros
Onslow
Nidecaret Thompson
George Rickels
Barney Hartman
Jackson Township
Carl Ketelsen
Cecil Curtis
Anamosa
Cedar Rapids Rendering Co
John Wroblewski
Andrew Kasper
City Park
Riverside Poultry Farm
Andrew Bajasch
Peptomist
Helgens Bros
R. W. Brady
H. Stewart
Fast Court Street
Iowa City
H. J. Heeren
J. W. Callahan
Thomas J. Shafer
FL. Stimson
T. J Shafer
Hudson Super
Essex
Matthiessen Auto & Supply Co
Ey Puta
Rede Y el
Jones County Trust &? Savings Bank
Eclipse
Eplinthrs
Eclipse Service Dept
Peggy
Polly
Harry J. Rodman
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