New Fairport Office Frame Underway With $28000 Laboratory
J H Seldon, a local contractor, employs about twenty men to build the framework for the new $28,000 United States Fisheries Department laboratory at Fairport. Foundations are completed, brick walls enclose a cellar, and work proceeds after lumber delays. The three story, fifty by one hundred foot building will house nearly thirty rooms and serve as the main office for the fisheries office, with interior finishes in soft pine and cypress and exterior in glazed brick. Expect completion by early July if weather remains favorable.
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J. H. Seldon
United States
Asbermos
United States Fisheries Department
Middle West
Christmas Program at Lone Tree Methodist Church
A Christmas program at Lone Tree Methodist Church included songs by Sunday School and Primary classes, numerous recitations by children, piano solo, and an anthem. The event listed participants such as Dorothy Bargen, Marlon Cogenhail, Zelda Lingo, Fern Carl, Glen Wolford, Myra Haaldina, and others, with multiple classes and children named. Drury Drainage District offered a bounty of 25 for evidence against anyone digging holes or disturbing its operations, and warned that hole digging and refilling would not be tolerated.
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Lone Tree
Methodist Church
Welecome
Dorothy Bargen
Marlon Cogenhail
Zelda Lingo
Uxoraise
Fern Carl
Muale—Glen
Porn Wolford
Myra
Haaldina
Edon Werbach
Agnea Taylor
Millard Younkin
Bernice Cling
Neema Mantzer
Clea Rife
Elant Girls
Hearat Rings
Neward
Drury Drainage District
Drury Two
Chaols
Fonna Nordquiet
Iowa playground movement seeks state aid for cities
Iowa reformers spearhead a state bill to fund playgrounds and recreation on public school grounds without charging residents. Mrs. B R Johnson Cedar Rapids led the drive with support from the Cedar Rapids Women's Club and Representative-elect H W Ring, who aims to pass legislation in the Thirty third general assembly to extend playgrounds in first and second class cities under school boards and commissions oversight. The plan includes levy approval by district vote and coordinated funding through the school district treasury to maintain supervised activities and facilities.
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Towa
B. R. Johnson
Cedar Rapids
Clyie
State Federation of Women's Alubs
Iowa
Johnston Line Bean
Cedar Rapide
Commission Plan of Government
Boards of Education
Wisconsin
Ring
Wroman's Club
Mayor Koehler Urges Modern Fire Equipment Plan
Mayor Koehler signals support for auto trucks for city firemen and plans a Friday address to Champion Hose, Hook & Ladder, aiming to publicly back the truck plan. Officials emphasize need for new apparatus to boost department efficiency as discussions continue. Mr and Mrs Z A Miller of Adams returned home after a day in the city.
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Kooblar Jy
Ose, Hook & Ladder Company
Arenen
Mra. Z. A. Miller
Adams
Inta
Hundreds Leave City For Christmas Holiday Travel
Hundreds of residents departed the cityMonday and Tuesday, creating a surge at local depots as holidays spurred visits to friends and relatives in nearby towns and cities. The Firefly No 49 westbound ran late due to a wreck at Latts, delaying arrivals and forcing schedule changes into the Daovan port and Ro Island depot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh
Naking
Pearl City
Ery
Latts
Daovan
Port
Ro Island
Trade Early Slogan Boosts Christmastime Trade in Muscatine
The Do your Christmas Shopping Early campaign helped the Muscatine trade this year with steady sales through Monday and Tuesday. Merchants report mild weather aided shopper travel from rural areas and the eleventh hour rush caused less clerical hardship.
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Muncatine
Muscatine
New Child Labor Law Proposals Circulated
The national committee advocating Iowa aligned reforms urged eight hour day limits for children under sixteen and prohibited messengers under twenty one from working after 10 a m. Cannery sheds and street trades would come under general labor law, with stricter school attendance and bans on under twelve boys and under eighteen girls. Laura and Geneva Brown of Nichols visited the city before returning home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilform
National Committee
Jowa
Wasp
Pelmg
Towa
Christmas program brightens rural church services
Yuletide season celebrated with varied events at Spangler chapel and North Prairie Methodist church. Rev. A H Barker delivered a Christmas message amid songs recitations and a Santa Claus visit for children, who received candy and presents in a festive finish.
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Spangler Chapel
Qeimber
A. H. Barker
North Prairie Methodist Church
Hich
Santa Claus
Presenta Wera
St. Nicholas
Queer Showers Santa to Themselves in Muscatine Theft
A gang on the final Christmas shopping day in Muscatine allegedly played Santa to themselves by pasting higher value figures onto one and two dollar bills, netting about $100. Banks reported a surge in gold demand as shoppers sought coins and bullion.
Express Companies Under Heavy Stress In Davenport
Incoming and outgoing business overwhelms carriers as late night wagons deliver Christmas goods in Davenport. Letters and cards tell recipients to fetch packages at the express office, while some items arrive at bottom of piles. An advertisement promises Mississippi land for sale and calls for payments on $16 000 per acre plots through Snider Hynes & Watts.
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Santa Claus
Mississippi
Snider, Hynes & Watts
Davenport
Nens
Putnam Building
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Haynes & East Sucdensora
Cadla
Mast
Mira Hershey
Home Tea Co
New Fairport
John A. Robbing
Playground Movement
Koehler
City Stm
LAB
Clerks
Christinasy ‘Rede
Laura
Geneva Brown
Nichols
Peace River Country
Garden of
Western Canada
Pionder Phace River Lands Company
Rovers Bidm
Vancouver
Dr. Pierce
R. Pierce
Oregon
Invalids Hotel
Buffalo
Pierce
LA Beth Nord
Spangler’s Chapel
Day
A. H. Welch & CO
Iowa Avé
Chicago
LaSalle
Englewood Union Station
Rock Island
E. K. Ferguson
Mutentin
Hale S. Ray
Des Mones
Lows
W. W. Richards
Scranton
Dewey Ave
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