Thanksgiving travel and local notices across Iowa
Reis Stuhler traveled 175 miles from Madison Wisconsin to his father George Stuhler's home for Thanksgiving describing the muddy drive as no joy ride. Numerous local residents spend Thanksgiving with relatives. a Cedar Rapids wedding is reported. Davenport residents and Monticello natives are noted. Manchester endures a smallpox epidemic with school cases and quarantine cards. A wedding took place November 17 at the Dunlap home with Rev Coleman and Dr Ensign assisting.
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Reis Stuhler
George Stuhler
Madison
Wisconsin
Wisconsin State University
Chicago
H. 18 Parr
Anna Pearl Dunlap
George William Williamson
Williamson
Frank H. Dunlap
George S. Coleman
Covenanter Church
Wm. H. Ensign
Manchester
Board of Health
Plow Draft Mostly For Turning Soil Not Cutting
Agricultural researchers at Iowa State College found that about one third of plow draft is required to cut and two thirds to turn the soil on stubble fields. Tests with sharp versus dull cutters and mold boards showed no clear advantage for edge shape or board design on typical field work. Further plow trials are conducted by E V Collins in the farm machinery department.
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Agricultural Engineering Department
Iowa State College
E. V. Collins
Farm Machinery Department
College
Winter uses for the electric fan on farms and in homes
Iowa State College engineers advise placing the winter electricity fan in living rooms to distribute warm air or in the basement to force draft into the furnace. It can deodorize after illness, but attic storage requires a dust cover. Proper lubrication and blade protection are urged. do not bend blades.
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Engineering Department
Iowa State College
Tax Evasion Dream Dimmed by Reality
In a commentary from the Juincoin Journal, patriots seeking a tax free South Sea Eden are dismissed as chasing a wild goose. The piece warns that even if such an island were found, a protected tax funded society would be required, since death and taxes persist as unavoidable evils.
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Juincoin Journal
South Sea
Henry Carlson Declines County Auditor Vacancy
Anamosa Journal notes Henry Carlson earned a certificate of election to fill a county vacancy but chooses not to take the post. He could recoup about double his campaign expenses in six weeks yet doubts a fair chance to do good work. BR Howe Monthly comments on profits of abundance.
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Anamosa
Henry Carlson
Population drop hides county prosperity in Jones Iowa
The Jones county census shows a 2.3 percent decrease in population yet the county remains a leading area for agriculture and animal husbandry with well kept farms and homes, reflecting wealth and culture in the corn belt. The piece notes broader newspaper editor frustrations and a political reference to an election as a landslide.
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Mt. Vernon Hawkeye
Iowa
Jones County
Federal Census Bureau
Baliwick
Married Life and Moral Warnings From a Georgia Minister
A Georgia minister says men need biscuits as well as love in a sermon on married life. A churchwoman notes that women require husbands with table manners to keep biscuits from falling. An Iowa executor notice from 1920 requests final settlement and payment of debts. The excerpt includes verse by Mary Alicia Owen praising humble homes over grand houses.
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Sioux City Journal
Georgia
Bryan Achieves the Impossible Returns Silent Four Months
Sioux Walls Argus Leader notes William J. Bryan kept silent for four months, a surprising turn cited as the campaign’s compensation. Columbus Dispatch references a return to the 5-cent piece of pie as a sign of normalcy and public preference.
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Bryan
Sioux Walls Argus
William J. Bryan
Columbus Dispatch
Leonard Duckett Church Weekend Services
Leonard Duckett pastor for regular Sunday services with Sunday school at 10:00 a.m. and preaching at 11:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Visitors welcome. Next Sunday Floyd Smith M D medical missionary to Turkey will speak on Experiences in Turkey. In the evening the Woman's Missionary society marks Pilgrims tercentenary with music and annual thank offering.
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Congregational Church
William Porter Ames
Young Peoples
Israel
Mt. Horeb
Leonard Duckett
Floyd 0. Smith
Turkey
Philippine Islands
Woman’s Missionary Society
Roland P. Kuentzel
Sacred Heart Church Masses and Services Schedule
Sacred Heart Church announces Father George A. Hauck presides with the first Mass at 8:00 a.m. and a second at 10:00 a.m. Sunday school instructions follow at 2:16 p.m. with devotions at 3:00 p.m.
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Sacred Heart Church
George A. Hauck
Ex-kaiser fears kidnaping as curio hunters roam Ameron
The Western News reports the ex-kaiser lives in daily fear of kidnapping because an enterprising party of American curio hunters is present at Ameron gen. The note frames the danger as a byproduct of curiosity and wartime relics.
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Punch
London
Western News
Amerongen
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Clayton Palmer
John McKeever
Clara Martin
Cedar Rapids
Monticello
Lillian Hogan
Mrs. M. J. Hogan
Emma Stadtmuller
Wyoming
Elizabeth Hauss
Abe Adams
Thomas Warner
A. Th Johnson
Ottumwa
Laura Koop
Harry Stuhler
Anamos
Kate Stuhler
Moline
Illinois
M. F. Hogan
Hopkinton Leader News
Tama Herald
Dog Hater
Sioux City
BR. W. Howe
A. J. A. McNeill
Ooore
Serge
Toile du Nord
Coat’s
Cyothebauton
Coats
Pat
E. L. Himebaugh & Son
Center Junction, Iowa
Kansas City Star
Landises
District Court
State of
Conrad Pfeil
Paeuel C. Prett Dia
Doxsee
Mary Alicia Owen
Twilight Hour
Towa’s Largest Clothiers
Monticello, Iowa
Cedar Valley
J. L. Webber
Cascade
George J. Wenzlick
W. A. Mirick
Methodist Episcopal Church
William Hayes Mitchell
Methodist Church
Jacob
Presbyterian Church
St. Matthews Lutheran Church
Sigmund Ide
Luther League
Reformed Church
Wilhelm
Edison
Frank Locher
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