Business minds shape Cedar Rapids school funding reform
Former Cedar Rapids school board member Ern est F. Moore pushed for business methods in school disbursements. He backed higher assessments for Quaker Oats Penick & Ford and Sinclair Packing, with total tax increases of about 147,000 dollars annually after a new assessment board review.
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Linn County
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Penick & Ford
Sinclair Packing Company
Quaker Oats
Penick & Ford Company
Sinclair Company
Housewife Colyum on Cozy Fall Soups and Stock Basics
A fall food column explains making inexpensive soups from stored vegetables and meat scraps. It covers brown stock methods with beef and bones, simmering times, and flavoring ideas, plus Turkish and pea soups using meat stock as a base. The piece previews more soup tips next week.
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Winter
Auto travel unites nation era in wartime reflection
A brief remark credits the automobile with linking all sections of the country and suggests that greater familiarity between the north and south might have altered the course of the Civil War, reflecting on improved understanding amid the war era.
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Royal Hovey
Frank Barker
Independence
Illinois
Ohio River
Tennessee Mountains
Chattanooga
Atlanta
Carolinas
Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains
West Virginia
Commander Raymond Thomas Defends The Needs Of The Navy
Commander Raymond Thomas surveys postwar Philippine life noting Moros and Sabanos cooperate with Americans in coconut farming and fencing. He highlights Building and Loan groups, seedling costs, and securing crops from wild hogs. He argues U.S. protection fosters peace and progress in Mindanao and predicts continued loyalty if Philippines gains freedom.
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Navy
Building and Loan Association
Philippines
Islands
Luzon
United States
Mindanao
R. G. Thomas
U. S. Navy
The Two Wives Ghost Ring Mystery
A widow dies under suspicious circumstances as Jonathan Moulton remarries while his first wife’s ring appears on the new bride. At midnight the new wife awakens to a cold voice demanding the dead’s ring, and the ring vanishes in candlelight.
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Dakota City
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Humboldt
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Lee
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Kent Mason
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Ralph M. Fogleman
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Marshalltown
Spencer
Waterloo
Fogleman
Bert Safley
Safley
Jonathan Moulton
Jonathan
Daniel Henderson
Funeral tapers and dairy cows in harvest time
A fragment notes the idea that sorrowful acts may be divine signs and urges attention to dairy cows during corn picking time, linking rural life and moral reflection.
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