Birth of a Nation details stir nationwide talk
Feature review lauds David W Griffiths monumental film for its pantomimic screen spectacle and orchestral score. It covers 160 years of American life with 18 000 workers and 3000 horsemen, depicting Civil War deeds and Reconstruction horrors as the nation is reborn. Also notes a Monticello inspection tour and Christmas shopping hours.
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David W. Griffith
Griffith
Ku Klux Klan
Thomas Dixon
Adv
Kehoe’s Fox Terrier Bisto Dies at Fifteen in Monticello
Kehoe family’s fox terrier Bisto, aged fifteen, died after being struck by a car last Tuesday on the road in front of the family home in Monticello. The Christmas tree season memory ends with the pet’s passing.
Old men give way as youth rises in Rogland cabinet
The article notes Lloyd George in the cabinet and Beatty at sea while Rogland shifts to younger leadership. It mentions early returns showing Jeannette Rankein with near parity in votes, signaling a changing political scene.
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Chicago Evening Post
Rogland
Lloyd George
Beatty
High Seas
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Mies Jeannette Rankein
Farmers Week promises practical lessons at Anamosa
The week of January 16 to 20 marks Farmers Week in Anamosa with a Short Course from the Agricultural Extension department at Ames. Aims include farm and home improvements through lectures demonstrations and addresses for farmers housewives business and professional people and youth.
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Anamosa
Agricultural Extension Department
Ames
Iowa
World's Largest Clock Tops Timepiece Gallery
A New Jersey side tower houses the world's largest clock with a forty foot dial and a twenty foot minute hand. Built in Waterbury Connecticut, its heavy parts were transported by flat and box cars. The clock's dial dwarfs other famous clocks and is a prominent timepiece for commuters and ferries.
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Colgate Building
Jersey
New York
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Manhattan
New Jersey
Staten Island
New York City
Waterbury
Conn
Metropolitan Tower
Philadelphia
City Hall
London
Pictures in the Home Have Them Appropriate to the Rooms
The piece advises selecting wall art by room and meaning not expense. It suggests living rooms suit landscapes still lifes and master reproductions while avoiding family photos so intimate images stay in bedrooms or dens. It also links music rooms to photos of composers and libraries to literary figures.
Seneca Snakeroot and the Indian Medicine Heritage
A Philadelphia North American article recounts how Seneca snakeroot entered medical practice via an Indian medicine man who tested herbs for illness and named successful plants. The piece notes modern pharmacology uses snakeroot in tonics to boost appetite and cites a Life aphorism on procrastination.
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New England
Philadelphia
Probate Notice of A. L. Fairbanks Will in Jones County
The District Court of Jones County Iowa issues probate steps for A L Fairbanks last will and codicil. The date for final proof and probate is set for December 23 1916 at the November term. All interested persons may appear to show cause why the will should not be admitted to probate.
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State OF Iowa
Songa County
Jones County
A.L. Fairbanks
A. L. Fairbanks
Fisher
Clerk District Court
Iowa
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Seneca Snakeroot
L. G. Stabler
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McNeill Bros
John Heyen
Langworthy
Mary Altman
Dell Meay
Inquire Jones Co. Trust &Savings Bank
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South Fork Township
Delaware County
J. T. Conlin
Cascade
A. W. Adams
Sitter & Son
L. Miner
Taffetta Petticoats
Simmons
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Everwear
Dubuque Home Hospital
Mt. Pleasant Ave
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Mary M. Coy
Telephone
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