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Iowa News and Comment by J N Jarnagin Yearend Items
Seth F Shenton of Indianola describes a large eight and a half ton surface grader sent to Warren county for the Jefferson highway. The machine uses a built in McCormick Deering engine with rubber tires and heavy rear wheels, a one man operation improving efficiency. Also news on WOW radio, a property gas spill, a wine spill at Rock Island wreck, Gov. Hamlet urged poor farm reform, Harriet Poston Smith’s 102 year life, marine guards for mail at Council Bluffs and other Iowa notes.
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Seth F. Shenton
Indianola
Warren County
State Highway Commission
Jefferson Highway
McCormick- Deering
Standard Oil Company
Rock Island Railway
Grinnell
California
K. D. Melcher
Bloomfield
Davis County
Harriet Poston Smith
Marshalltown
Mr. Melcher
Harriett
Relief Corps
Middle West
Council Bluffs
Towa
Union Pacific
Davenport
Dubuque
Burlington
Cedar Rapids
Sioux City
Des Moines
Fort Dodge
Mason City
Waterloo
Ottumwa
Clinton
Muscatine