Iowa Legion targets auto crash deaths with safety push
The Iowa department of the American Legion will lead a year long safety campaign to reduce automobile accidents. A state safety chairman will appoint chairmen in 572 posts and promote warning signs and stricter traffic law observance, citing a 49 percent rise in crashes and that many deaths are children.
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Iowa Department of the American Legion
Iowa
Colfiesd
Legion Executive Committee
American Legion
Calflesh
Cities Seek Highway Route Changes In Iowa
Cedar Rapids and Des Moines move to redirect major highways to ease city traffic. The plan would shift No 32 off West Grand avenue through Hickman Beaver For est and Keosauqua Way to East Grand. John Ullrich irrigates a 50 acre potato patch with a six horsepower pump and hoses aided by Waterloo and Charles City fire departments.
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Cedar Rapids
Chamber of Commerce
Des Moines
West Grand Avenue
Hickman, Beaver and Forest Avenues
Keosauqua Way
East Grand
John Ullrich
Chickasaw County
Cedar River
Waterloo Fire Department
Charles City Department
Depositors’ Lawsuits Against Farmers Bank Dismissed
Sixty nine depositors filed actions in Shelby county district court at Marion to recover about 425000 from the Farmers Bank of Elk Horn. Judge K R Cook dismissed the cases citing withdrawal of claims from the receiver and sued partners individually. Costs and copy fees were around 11000. The matter was continued.
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Farmers Bank of
Elk Horn
Shelby County
Marian
K. R. Cook
Cook
Many Dead Fish in the Big Sioux River
After a recent freshet the Big Sioux River near the Iowa South Dakota boundary left thousands of fish gasping as waters receded. Residents waded in with pitch forks and hands to cull them, hauling the catch away for hogs and chickens. The haul included catfish and buffalo, belts of carp and sucker up to 22 pounds. Nearby Grundy Center notes a paving fund surplus of 70 000 to 75 000 dollars due to lower cement costs under a contractual clause.
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Cement Trust
J. Vanderwicken
Grundy Center
Grundy County
The
Highway Commission
Iowa
Big Sioux
South Dakota
Plentiful fruit yields eyed across state crops
Farmers anticipate 60 bushels harvest with plentiful southern trees. Households plan peach canning later in fall as pears are plentiful where care has been given. Grapes yield averages, apples show only a half crop promise. Adjoining-state peaches sell in Des Moines as Iowa apples fetch higher prices.
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Des Moines
The Horn Book Among Early Reading Aids
A horn book described as a small wooden tablet with a paper page showing the alphabet and simple syllables, bearing the Lord s Prayer, protected by a horn sheet. Colonial chronicle notes its crosses and practical role in religious instruction, with horn books now rare and in complete supply rarely seen.
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Horne
Mentor “Magazine
Tlen
Marte
Thoee
Da Vinci’s Early Flight Vision Spans 15th Century Plans
Washington Star recounts Leonardo da Vinci as painter engineer and pioneer of mechanical flight. It notes his parachute concept, wings with arms and legs powered flapping strokes, tail surface, and a design period between 1487 and 1499.
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Leonardo da Vinci
da Vinci
Eivil
Thia
Washington Star
Ladies in Parliament and Fashioned Attendants
The Detroit News notes 19th century debates over women in Parliament. mentions Lord Shaftesbury and the crowd’s laughter when the speaker claimed to spot petticoats. Describes how ladies attended parliament in droves over two centuries, sometimes in disguise.
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London
Lord Shaftesbury
Detroit News
Relics Claim Ties to Josiah Henson Heritage
Angland says he owns unique Josiah Henson relics including two plaster busts one at Windsor Castle and one owned by A Josland Lobb whose father hosted Henson and introduced him to Queen Victoria. A third item is an oil painting of Henson also held by Lobb. The Hartford Courant notes Henson’s life mirrored Uncle Tom’s Cabin with Canada escape and later England lectures.
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Josiah Henson
Uncle Tom
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Henson
Windsor Castle
A. Josland Lobb
Queen Victoria
Nenson
Lobb
Canada
England
The
Christian Age
Siberian Meteorite Field Reveals Ancient Impact
In Siberia on July 30 1908 natives witnessed a fiery meteor and a thunderous detonation. A Russian scientist located a vast blast area in the Yeniselsk district where forests were blown down over 380 miles in diameter. Centered destruction hints at multiple meteorites and tomb-like pits, yet none match Meteor Crater.
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Siberia
Yeniselsk
Church Services at Sea on Great Ocean Liners
Passenger ships routinely offer religious services led by priests and crew. When clergy are unavailable, the shipmaster or staff captain conducts the service with officers assisting. Services include candles and flower banks. on a major liner 1453 masses have been celebrated by 200 priests and 2850 communions taken by passengers over five years.
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Pasenger Ust
Tlowera
Depew on Long Service in Business
Chauncey M. Depew praises long service noting his private secretary served forty years and is more efficient now. He argues that the longer a person holds a job the better they become at it.
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Chauncey M. Depew
Midsummer Portrait in Baltimore Sun Verse
A reflective poem traces a woman from youthful light to a mature, somber grace. The speaker notes her golden hair, deep blue eyes, and a garden scene where harvest ripens. Though sadness and wrinkles appear, her richness endures and love and time are celebrated in imagery of waves and dancing feet on a September dawn.
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Hill
Hell
Bentztown
Baltimore Sun
Hick Towns Defined By The Pathfinder
A humorous moralizing piece defines small towns as places where no one watches the game after team recruitment. It notes a whisker contest ignored, strict dining etiquette limiting dogs, a catcher colliding with bicycles chasing a foul, persistent druggist orders for horse liniment, and postgame baseball fights continuing.
J G Thede assigns assets as debts rise in Martello
J G Thede a Martello hardware merchant assigns assets for creditors. Liabilities total 1082.80. Sheriff Frazer has led a jail repaint project funded by the board and sheriff labor. The grounds and building show marked improvements.
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J. G. Thede
Martello
Real Estate Transfers in Jones County Week Ending August 20
Deeds filed record in Jones county for the week ending August 20 show Helen J L Shaw transferring to Chris Dircks Lot 1 and 2 Block 5 Subdivision A of Scott and Skinner’s Add to Anamosa for 400 dollars. George W Beaman and wife and Clifford L Niles and wife transfer to J August Pearson and Helen Frances Pearson a west half of lot 18 and a south half of lot 19 in Walworth’s Add to Anamosa for 500 dollars. Helen L Shaw transfers w d to Continental Oil Company a plot of ground in the northeast quarter of southwest quarter section 2-84-4 in Anamosa, with a description starting at Main Street.
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Jones County
Helen JL. Shaw
Chris Dircks
Scott & Skinner
Anamosa
George W. Beaman
Clifford L. Niles
J. August Pearson
Helen Frances Pearson
Wis
Walworth
Helen L
Main Street
Shaw
Property transfers and an old note referenced in Anamosa area
The record lists land conveyances including R. C. Walters to Anamosa National Bank with a south rail distance description in section 23 and 22 of township 84 range 4 for $1.00, J Aug Pearson and wife to Geo W Beaman for parcels in Walworths addition to Anamosa for $1.00, and a historical note that crews were once letter carriers.
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R. C. Walters
Anamosa National Bank
Do Nw
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