Iowa High Schools See Rise in French and Spanish
Iowa teachers highlight a major shift in secondary language instruction with 71 high schools teaching French and 4 teaching Spanish while German nearly vanishes from curricula. Seven schools teach both languages, including Cedar Rapids Des Moines Fort Dodge Newton Sioux City and East Waterloo, as a 1920 outline for year one and two classes was developed by the Modern Language Round Table of the Iowa State Teachers Association.
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Corning
Fort Dodge
Newton
Sioux City
East Waterloo
Centerville
Dunkerton
Hiteman
Keokuk
Marion
Muscatine
Washington
University of Iowa
Louise Cotman
Sue Goltman
Will Beels
Hopkinton
Delaware County
Mr. Lux
State Board of Health
Iowa City
Journal
Charlene
Gladys Scheele
Fred Scheele
Scheele
Falls City
Nebraska
Verden
Merritt
Neb
Jont
Harry) Inskeep
Fullerton
Calif
Hoe
Charles Christensen
East Marion Street
Walter Cooper
Los Angeles
W. R. Garretson
Walter Raymond
Clarence Phillips
Milwaukee
Wis
Manuel Phillips
East Main Street
Clarence
Knoxville
Rainbow Division
Rees
Joseph Horsman
Jasper County
Monroe
Manato
Minn
Mra. M. P. Fobes
Northfield
J. L. Clark
Cobb Clark
R. C. Nace
Sherman Shields
Jesse Hendrix
Jasper Nye
Charles Brennan
Lillian
Marysville
W. W. Gwinn
Hartford
Tacoma
Wash
W. A. Amsberry
Crouch
Ansberry
B. B. Burton
iCalif
A Pioneer Remembrance From Mrs Nossaman
A reminiscence marking seventy five years since Pella’s founding recalls William Welch and family fleeing Black Hawk's War in 1832, early Iowa settlement near Bonaparte and Iowaville, Black Hawk’s skull tale, and the Wel lington Nossaman marriage. The narrative notes Indian interactions, hardships, and later settlement life leading to a Baptist church formation in 1844.
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Pella
Wellington Nossaman
Mary Todd
John de Cook
Nossaman
John Welch
Jacksonville
Iowa
Bonaparte
Black Hawk
Fortress Monroe
Jackson
Lberty
Keokuk
Mahaska
Iowaville
Des Moines
James Turner
William
Turner
St. Louis
Marion County
Elder Post
Fort Des Moines Admission Caps Set at Nine Hundred
Four thousand applications were filed for admission to the local Fort Des Moines camp but government funds would only allow 900 to be accepted. Twelve applicants failed the strict physical exam and were sent home. The Fort Des Moines civilian camp drew youths from South Dakota Nebraska Kansas and Iowa. Kogg went to Fort Snelling Minnesota.
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Fort Des Moines
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Iowa
Kogg
Fort Snelling
Minn
Westward Trials and Faith Through Fifteen Years
The speaker reflects on long westward hardships spanning fifteen years, noting steadfast faith and God’s abundant mercy toward the family during their journey. Strong emphasis on endurance, providence, and gratitude amid continual challenges.
Knoxville News notes many distant kin visits and arrests
Knoxville area residents are cataloged visiting relatives across Nebraska Missouri and Iowa with shows of wartime service and family ties. A raid at Andersonville nets John Perry known as Nigger Pete along with Pink Howard. Pete pleads guilty to liquor charges, pays a $50 fine and is released after a temperance speech by Judge Hays.
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Cynthia Mathews
J. M. Weaver
Burton
Norton
Kansas
James
Gillis de Hamer
Harvey
Dynamics
Mabray
C. S. Cornell
Knoxville
Cornell
de Hamer
Misa Ellen Fitzpatrick
James Fitzpatrick
Larkspur
Colo
Frank Clark
Clarks
Fitzpatricks
Geddes Banta
Dalles
Oregon
Frank Banta
Geddes
Eva Mintzer
Hop Peterive
New York City
Des Moines
John Perry
Pete
Andersonville
Pink Howard
A. B. Brobst
Hays
Turpentining Pine Study Shows No Strength Loss
Wisconsin forest products laboratory reports that successive turpentine seasons do not reduce pine strength or resin content. Crude turpentine stems from wound-stimulated living sapwood cells. heartwood is dead and contains no resin.
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Forest Products Laboratory of
Wisconsin
Tay Bore
Light and Dark of Moon Phases
The dark of the moon is the lunar period when the moon is not visible. It spans about four days, two before and two after the new moon, while the rest of the month is called the light of the moon. These terms are popular but not precisely defined.
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Astern Newspaper Union
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TRE
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Lucas County
W. J. Mitchell
Presbyterian Church
Hamburg
Fremont County
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Kansas City
Field Marshal Foch
France
Admiral Beatty
Mitchell
Weather Bureau
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Capitol Building
Mississippi River
United States
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Amana Society
S. R. Bryant
Marena Som
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Boone
State Railway Commission
E. & Taylor
Traer
Tama County
Taylor
Sioux City Journal
John C. Knutson
Grundy Center
Herbert Quick
Vrandemark
Worth Eugene Nelson
S. Nelson
Albia
Auto Theft Bureau
Detective Department
Camp Dodge
Poteteee
Fort
Col
R. A. Brown
Robert J. Halpin
B. §. Walker
Halpin
John G. Hanlen
West
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