Local News Wrap and Holiday Ads From Ames Area
Walter De Wit moves from Red Ball to High Avenue in Oskaloosa as manager. Vogelaar's Hardware promotes full Holiday line including toilet sets and manicure kits. Wynberg offers attractive wall pocket calendars now American made. calendars praised as excellent gifts for the home. Citizens admire hardy winter workers outside Security State Bank. A elm tree on the road between Peterson and Linn Grove is cut after 47 years. most drivers sympathize, few approve. Capital and Chronicle subscription deal offered to Iowa readers at reduced price for one year.
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Walter de Wit
Ames
High Avenue
Oskaloosa
Emas
Vogelaar’s
Wynberg
Gremany
Peterson
Linn Grove
Clay County
Clayton County
United States
Iowa
Volga
Strawberry Point
C. F. Limbeck
Des Moines Daily Home Paper Offer for New Readers
Announcement explains a new readers program offering Des Moines daily and home paper for over a year at the price of the daily one year. It promotes value for new subscribers beginning January 1, 1926 and highlights long-term access.
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Des Moines
Peace on Earth refrain clashes with war in Crozier verse
A poem fragment contrasts angelic Christmas celestial singing of peace with a skeptical human voice predicting ongoing bloodshed. The piece attributes dramatic lines to G. W. Crozier, depicting the refrain “Peace on Earth” as a heavenward ideal challenged by earthly conflict.
Law and enforcement bound by public duty
An in formal debate on prohibition by Des Moines lawyers Hammon and McNaught highlights that law enforcement depends on citizens' respect and cooperation. Officials cannot win the battle alone, as widespread adherence and readiness to face penalties are essential to uphold statutes and suppress violators.
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Hammon
McNaught
Des Moines
Voters urged to act now in primaries to curb liquor vice
A patriotic appeal argues the law’s effectiveness rests on united citizen effort. Voters must mobilize for primaries, with the dry and wet factions urged to influence public opinion and prevent liquor backsliding. It stresses personal responsibility, reform, and the duty of Americans to enforce law.
Iowa Sale Ups High Prices and Auto Purchases Rise
Leo Peacock of Tripoli reports a Hanson Helgeson public sale with cattle selling well for 1920 levels. Grade cows reach 150 dollars, purebred stock up to 200 dollars. corn 84 cents a bushel, barley 69 cents, hay 14.50. Polk county auto sales average over 400 monthly in ten months, totaling 5,267 by November 1st. Projected year end 39,000 autos. Other counties show October leads: Woodbury 290, Scott 250, Pottawattamie 192, Lee 118, Muscatine 105, Kossuth up to a figure.
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J. W. Jarnagin
Leo Peacock
Tripoli
Bremer County
Hans Helgeson
Polk County
Woodbury
Scott
Pottawattamie
Lee
Muscatine
Kossuth
Iowa Car Registrations and Legacy Figures Highlight State News
The report shows up to November 1 with 85,449 new cars in the state, Ford leading with 36,889 and Chevrolet 17,706. Total automobile registrations reach 639,000, licenses up to October 1 total $10,097,000, and the rise over last year is $476,354.23. Obituary notes Mrs. Alice Bird Babb of Aurora, a P. E. O. founder, and mentions Mrs. G. L. Stafford of Muscatine. The P. E. O. Sisterhood began at Iowa Wesleyan in 1869, with secrecy about its meaning for 57 years.
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Ford
Chevrolet
Automobile Department
Alice Bird Babb
Aurora
Ilinois
G. L. Stafford
Muscatine
Iowa Wesley
University
Mount Pleasant
Woolson
Pleasant
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Security State Bank
Chronicle
Daily Capital
The
Judea
God
Re-ebo
Prince of Peace
Earth
Hell
G. W. Crozier
the Pella Chronicle
Des Moines Daily Register
Needlecraft Magazine
Pathfinder
Farm Mechanics
American Fruit Grower
American Poultry Advocate
Farm Journal
Chronicle and Register
Pella
Commonwealth Land Party
Hammill
Washington
Johnson
Alex Miller
Knoxville
Town
Fourteenth Cavalry
Fort Des Moines
Sybenga’s
Universal
Wettie Tron
Snore
Dasboard
White Way Auto Co
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