Free Iowa road map in two colors by Mississippi Motor Club
The Mississippi Motor Club of Davenport offers 100,000 copies of a new official Iowa road map free to motorists for two cents. The map shows paved, gravel, graded and ungraded roads, county seats, and main cities. It includes mileages between principal points and details on the proposed $85,000,000 bond issue with planned improvements in red.
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State Highway Commission
Iowa
Highway Commission
Ames
Mississippi Motor Club of
Davenport
Mississippi Motor Club
Listening In on Night Migrants Across August Sky
The article explains how keen listeners can hear and identify night migrants from the North as they travel southward. It describes calm nights as best for hearing calls from warblers and sparrows, notes specific bird sounds like chink bobolink and chick Lapland longspur, and discusses the mystery of nocturnal navigation and the limits of human perception.
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Southland
Bobolink
Lapland
Youth in Scotland Complains Over Bal loon-Trousers Laughter
A Scottish youth reports to police after townspeople laugh whenever he walks the street wearing balloon-bottomed trousers. The incident highlights social teasing and local response to dress.
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Scotland
Firm Presents Style Exhibit at McColm Store
An exhibition of women's and girls fashion at the Mc Colm and Company store drew a large crowd despite bad weather. The two hour program featured Muscatine musicians and vocal solos by Mrs Grace Schmalz Caple Mrs Mona Brimm Curtiss with Miss Marion Galpin and Miss Eda Critz at the piano. Highlights included coats suits dresses and fur pieces plus children's garments modeled by Stephenie Edmondson and others.
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McColm & Company
Muscatine
Grace Schmalz Caple
Mona Brimm Curtiss
Marion Galpin
Eda Critz
Otto Michels
Jury Clears Cop for Shooting of Moline Ex-Convict
Floyd Taylor a Moline policeman was exonerated by a coroner's jury after firing at Jimmy Burns an ex convict and central figure in a robbery conspiracy trial Burns resisted arrest and Burns was wanted by Chicago police Taylor acted in the discharge of his duty according to the verdict delivered last evening.
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Moline
Ill
Floyd Taylor
Jimmy Burns
Taylor
Burns
Chicago
Institute Planned for Teachers Here
County Superintendent E D Bradley announced an institute for teachers of one and two room schools to be held Thursday and Friday Oct 8 and 9 Two instructors from Iowa State Teachers College Cedar Falls Prof H E Eells and Prof H H Fullerton will lecture Local high school pupils in the teachers training course will be invited to attend.
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E. D. Bradley
Iowa State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
H. E. Eells
H. H. Fullerton
Doubting Thomas No Longer Thanks Mayr Remedy
Stomach trouble sufferers had tried many doctors and medicines with no success until Mayr's Wonderful Remedy was praised in St Louis. After one bottle the speaker claims relief from catarrhal mucus and inflammation causing stomach liver and intestinal ailments including appendicitis. Money back guarantee. Available at all druggists.
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Thomas
St. Louis
Mayr
Havana Drivers Will Not Be Forced to Wear Uniforms
Traffic protests from last spring led to no mandatory uniform for service automobile drivers in Havana, while Americans in India teach locals to build hydroelectric plants and develop power projects.
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Havana
India
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