Four Causes of Housing Shortage Cited in Iowa and Nation
The Dubuque Telegraph-Herald outlines four main causes of housing scarcity: high materials costs, high labor costs, high money costs, and difficulty securing adequate financing. It notes materials costs easing, wage adjustments pending for 1921, and banks gradually expanding loan availability through private channels and Chicago investors offering 50 percent loans at 6 percent for fifteen years, with flexible retirement.
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Dubuque
Chambers of Commerce
Down River
Chicago
Cleanliness and character in public life
A St Louis Globe Democrat reflection cites a socialist quip about bolshevism and bath tubs to argue that external cleanliness does not prove inner virtue. It links soap and water to moral integrity, noting that true cleanliness starts with a clean heart before a tidy exterior.
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St. Louis
New Mammoth Cave Found in Kentucky’s Hart County
Floyd Collins reports a new cave at his Hart county farm near Green River eleven miles from Cave City. Explorers uncovered a human skeleton on a terraced ledge beneath a drift pile and a vast natural cathedral with a 200 foot dome. Dr J D Turner of Cave City identified the skeleton as an aborigine or an earlier Kentucky race.
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Great Crystal Cave
Hart County
Kentucky
Mammoth Cave
Floyd Collins
J. D. Turner
Cave City
Lee Collins
Green River
Canadian border fortified to deter foreign invasion
The Yankton Press suggests supporters of naval armament should also strengthen the Canadian border to guard against a British or Japanese invasion of the United States from that region.
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Yankton Press
Dakotan
United States
Preacher Quips About School Fire Century Error
In a witty remark, an Omaha preacher claims the school building burned due to Sunday work but notes he forgot the century number. The Seattle paper jests that New Year resolutions should focus on planting potatoes instead of sowing wild oats.
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Omaha World-Herald
Omaha
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Notice of road establishment in township 86 district
The commissioner locating a road from the northeast corner of section 4 to the northeast corner of section 6 in township 86 range 3 west has reported in favor. Objections or claims for damages must be filed in the auditor’s office by noon April 5, 1921, or the road will be established. Lee Van Kirk, County Auditor.
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Township
C. E. & Rhoda Clark
Michael Breen, Jr
Sarah Jane Bennett
Em. M. Smyth Lawrence
Lee van Kirk
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Scales Hitching Yard
Assoaade
Hunt
Fred J. Kay
I. V. Dautremont
Geo. K. Meyer
Burrichter’s
F. D. Sutherland Auctioneer
Center Junction
Thomas Stimpson
HOG Life Insurance
George Albery
Cedar Street
First Street
Balster Brothers
Scotch Grove
Roy D. Cooley
Jones County
Board of Supervisors
Wyoming
R. Buyer
Mr. Buyer
J. A. Waddick
Monticello, Iowa
Zea
Cedar Valley
J. L. Webber
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Cascade
J. W. Doxsee
Citas, A. Doxsee
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Lowell Block
Bently Clark
John Deere
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R. D. Cooley, Auctioneer
F. F. Becker
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