Interesting Iowa Events Highlight Nationwide Farm Honors
Iowa tops national counts at Chicago International Live Stock Exposition with 32 championships and 89 ribbons. Fred Christensen of Page county named best physically developed lad. Iowa wins fresh butter contest at Minneapolis National Creamery Butter Makers. Apple Grove Orchards manager Robert M. Clark wins Central States Horticultural exposition grand sweepstakes. Mahaska renters refuse farms not on primary highways or graveled roads, delaying marketing and causing losses in hog prices.
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J.W. Jarnagin
Iowa
Chicago
Fred Christensen
Page County
America
National Creamery Butter Makers Association
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Wisconsin
South Dakota
Kansas City
Robert M. Clark
Mitchellville
Mahaska County
Red Rock line honored and Iowa highway progress noted
Gov John Hammill dedicates a large boulder in Knoxville marking the Red Rock line once central to Iowa homestead claims. The piece recalls the line from Agency City to far south, and notes highway contracts expanding routes toward New Orleans and Winnipeg, with continued development of the Jefferson and Custer Battlefield highways. In Farragut area, 150 men with 60 teams harvested 140 acres, yielding 6000 bushels as neighbors host a communal dinner for the Palm family.
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John Hammill
Court House Square
Knoxville
Marion County
Red Rock
Iowa
Daughters of the American Revolution
Whitebreast
Des Moines River
Agency City
Wapello County
John Chambers
Board of Supervisors
Powesheik County
State Highway Commission
White Man’s Ad- Gilman
Grinnell
Poweshiek County
Davis County
New Orleans
Winnipeg
Missouri Line
Indianola
Decatur
Des Moines
St. Louis
Farragut
Fremont County
P. C. Palm
Palm
Four Thompson Brothers Lead Guthrie Greene Stock Feeds
In Guthrie and Greene counties the four Thompson brothers earned $99,101.78 from cattle and hog sales in the past year. Chicago market price reached 18.65 per hundred, the highest since the war, the Farmers' State bank at Yale reports.
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Chicago
Thompson Brothers
Guthrie
Greene
Farmers’ State Bank
Yale
Newlyweds Pay Standard Charivari Fee in Washington Township
Roy Miller of Riverside notes in a Washington county town new couples must contribute twenty dollars as the established charivari charge. The fee is rarely evaded and may be paid in advance to avoid noise. Velda Vanderham of Sioux county husked 105 bushels of corn in ten hours despite damp conditions, a day's work for a 20 year old farm hand with kitchen and social talents.
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Washington County
Roy @. Miller
Riverside
Velda Vanderham
Sioux County
Roy Stacey
Guthrie Center
Harry Branson
Montleth
Mr. Branson
Montieth
Guthrie County
Labor fights chain stores and bridge plans emerge in Iowa towns
Union groups in Iowa push back on chain stores in Sioux City, Dubuque, and Rock Island Illinois, while Des Moines hosts a hard stopping campaign and merchants face curb competition. A Mississippi bridge plan linking McGregor or Marquette to Prairie du Chien seeks federal support and local financing. Safely brothers near Bedford report record corn yields from alfalfa sod, and a Red Oak farmer harvests high yields.
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Iowa
Sioux City
Dubuque
Des Moines
Rock Island
Til
Eastern
Congress
Mississippi River
McGregor
Marquette
Prairie du Chien
Wisconsin
Harry L. Polk & Co
la Crosse
Safely Brothers
Bedford
Taylor County
C.W. Hoops
Iowa cement plant upgrades as highway program expands
The Hawkeye cement plant between Des Moines and Valley Junction replaced old equipment with a 6000 kW turbine generator and converted DC motors to AC. Most power comes from waste heat from kilns. The plant uses about 500 tons of coal daily to burn cement, with a round trip quarry supply from Earlham and continuous day and night work by many workers. Iowa cattle feeders also benefit from high market prices as James H. Thompson of Greene County sells two carloads of prime steers.
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Iowa
Hawkeye
Des Moines
Valley Junction
Earlham
James H. Thompson
Greene County
Importing Feeders From Canada and City Prayer Start
Prominent stockmen F. E. Cowden and Oscar Gruber near Farragut Fremont county imported six feeding steers from Winnipeg Canada. Freight 79 cents per hundredweight duty 1.50 per hundred weight. Animals placed on Fremont county farms cheaper than Nebraska or Dakotas. Steers rode five days to market. Duty collected at Farragut port of entry. City Council Opens with Prayer Mason City Iowa adopts city manager and council form five council members meet Edward Selby as mayor opens with prayer H M Knudson offers brief prayer noting Selby not church member significance of prayer in new government form.
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Canada
F. E. Cowden
Oscar Gruber
Farragut
Fremont County
Winnipeg
Nebraska
Dakotas
Entry
Northwestern Christian Advocate
Chicago
Mason City
Iowa
Edward 8. Selby
H. M. Knudson
Selby
Favor Compulsory Military Training Urged by Des Moines Vets
Des Moines veterans of the world and Spanish-American wars through the veterans' council call for halting compulsory military training by faculty at state institutions. They send a resolution to Gov. Hammill President Jessup University of Iowa R. M. Hughes Iowa State College and the state board of education urging immediate action. They warn nations abroad are preparing for war and insist training enough trained men is needed for any emergency.
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Des Moines Veterans of the
Charles A Bennett on Biography's Evolution from Exposition to Exposure
In Harper's, Charles A Bennett argues that biography has shifted from explaining to revealing personal details. He traces how modern profiles favor intimate exposure over measured exposition, reshaping the art of telling a life story.
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Charles A. Bennett
Harper's
Shaw and wife celebrate golden wedding in Washington
Leslie M. Shaw and his wife marked fifty years of marriage with a dinner at Wardman Park hotel. The guests included former officials such as Hubert Work and William G. McAdoo. The couple, living in Washington in winter and California in summer, remain socially prominent and content.
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Cyrenus Cole
Cedar Rapids
Leslie M. Shaw
Shaw
Hubert Work
Interior Department
William G. McAdoo
Iowa
Mellon
Canada
White House
Mr. McAdoo
McAdoo
Wilson
Mrs. McAdoo
Shaws
Washington
California
Mrs. Shaw
Maryland and New York governors lead list of 48
Gov. Ritchie of Maryland asserts Gov. Smith of New York is the foremost of 48 governors, while noting the author may have qualified the claim by saying he is just as wet as his brother executive.
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Sioux City
Ritchie
Maryland
Smith
New York
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