Iowa News Highlights in Farm Lands Army Camps and Accidents
Mason City appoints Dr W G Egloff to northern Iowa exemption board as land sales reach 115000 with Mundy Scott selling 401 acres of Cartwright property. Camp Dodge expands with thousands at work and lumber arriving weekly. A Cherokee crossing accident kills Mrs Earl Johnson and her child. Combines civic actions from Denison picnics to Keokuk restrictions on poison plaster. Keokuk death in Fort Miley field meet honours and a raft of local stories on crops, land sales, and wartime efforts across Iowa.
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W. G. Egloff
Mason City
Harding
Iowa
Mundy
Scott
Henry Propp
Cartwright
B. M. Raben
Davenport
Texas
Wardway
Fort Madison
Camp Dodge
Keokuk
Carl Wright
Perry
Army
Fort Miley
Cal
Navy
Cherokee
Earl Johnson
Baby
Johnson
Storm Lake
Walker
Corning
Wilkerson
Boiler
Boone
Ford
Red Cross
Linn
Deniison
Denison
Goard
Ida Grove
Denison Boys
A. J. Calderwood
Traer
North Pole
Africa
Jerome Allen
Maquoketa
Radio
Clinton Selford
Charter Oak
KE. L. Towne
Jamaica
Guthrie County
Towne
Barry
Western Union College
LeMara
Thomas Koch
Board of Trustees
Apecis
Charles B. Simons
Bismarck
St. Louis
Simons
Fort City
National Army
James R. Biery
J. C. Osmundson
Forest City
State University
Howard H. Buchanan
Eighth U. S. Cavalry
France
Buchanan
Cavalry
Jefferson Barracks
David Malone
Highland Park College
Des Moines
War Department
Magill
Iowa City Knights of Columbus
Kenneth E. Gaynor
Lake Okoboji
Edward Kimball
Waterloo
Kimball
Clarkaville
Marble Rock
C. A. Whitmore
Independence
Herbert Hoover
MacVicar
H. Walters
Charles City
London
England
Belgium
New National Army
Fort Snelling
Des Moines Wholesale Drug Company
W. C.barber
Anti-Saloon League
Griffin
Polk County
Attorney General's Office
Coméema
Plan to emphasize industrial studies in public schools
An Iowa educator proposes a national shift in schooling to focus on industrial processes, with experiments led by Prof. Ernest Horn in Scarborough New York. The plan begins in early grades and continues through high school, balancing geography civics and manual arts with new subjects like paper making metal work and dairying.
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America
Ernest Horn
Iowa
Horn
Scarborough
N. Y
New York
Frank Sangster
Kansas City
Amana Colony Sets Example in Food Production
Amana colony in Iowa did not increase output but already maximizes farming and conservation. Crops grow co operatively in 16 kitchens with extensive drying storing and canning methods. The colony ships 35 carloads of onions and relies on intercropping and arbors for grape production.
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Iowa
Amana
F. L. Overly
Iowa State College
Amana Colony
American efficiency proves democracy can excel in war
The United States declared war on Germany and seized 91 German ships, with early actions shaping the home front. Congress approved a war fund of 7 000 000 000 dollars and allocated 9600 000 000 for merchant shipping programs, signaling rapid mobilization and production effort.
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United States
American Red Cross
Young Men's Christian Association
America
Germany
Stomach and Liver Troubles Treatment Promoted
An advertisement urges sufferers of stomach and liver disorders to try Chamberlain's Tablets, claiming they relieve misery. The note cites a low price of a quarter and is signed by F D Stubenrauch.
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F. D. Stubenrauch
Lincoln’s Early Life Faith and Hard Choices
A fragment from a historical account recalls Lincoln’s mother in a log cabin near Indiana. She speaks softly to nine-year-old Abe about faith, love, and honest living, giving rules to keep Christ in his heart. The father notes Lincoln’s lack of singing, and the mother answers that the heart sings in many ways as Lincoln later frees 3,895,172 enslaved people.
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Indiana
Lincoln
Abe
Christ
God
Nancy
United States
Hall's Catarrh Medicine seeking case testimonials Ohio
Frank J. Cheney sworn as senior partner of Cheney & Co. in Toledo Ohio to pay one hundred dollars for each case of catarrh not cured. Sworn before a notary on December 6. The ad promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine taken internally with claims it acts through the blood on mucous surfaces. Also mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation and product pricing.
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State of Ohio
Toledo
Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney
Cheney & Co
Hall
Frank J. Cheiney
F. J. Cheney & CO
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