Iowa News and Comment by J W Jarnag 1923
A long Iowa chronicle notes Harold Quarton Iowa links to Esthonia Russia dispatches and a Quar ton family background. It catalogs Iowa rail mileage and tax valuations led by Chicago Rock Island and Pacific, Milwaukee and St Paul, Chicago Northwestern and Burlington and Quincy. Interurbans at Fort Dodge Des Moines Southern and Waterloo Cedar Falls Northern are listed with totals. Also covered are rattlesnake finds near Creston, a barge rail proposal on Missouri River, a teen aviation accident in Fairfield, fire incidents in Winneshiek county and a big 1923 farm and livestock movement across Iowa with veterinary notes and stock feeding trends.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Hughes
Coolidge
United States
Harold B. Quarton
Revel
Esthenia
U. S
Russia
Quarton
Reval
W. B. Quarton
Algona
Kossuth County
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Chicago & Northwestern
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern
Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern
American Express Co
Genoa Millionaire Lived Poor Despite Vast Estate
Giovanni Battista Devoto, eighty three, owner of 100 Genoa apartment houses, died recently. Known as a millionaire who lived as a pauper, he left no local relatives, though kin in America are said to be wealthy. The death scene showed a cluttered house with furniture and antiques piled in the rooms.
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Genoa
Italy
Giovanni Battista Devoto
America
Devoto
Reader Upholds Ku Klux Klan
A reader lauds the Ku Klux Klan, detailing their claimed nationwide organization, secret meetings, political influence aims, and a Muskegon cleanup driven by Klan pressure. The letter pledges Americanism and urges continued information sharing with The Chronicle.
District Court News Iowa defendants plead guilty
State of Iowa v Chris van Nieuwenhuizen pled guilty to conspiracy and received a three year term in the Anamosa reformatory, with parole by December 21. State of Iowa v Peter Slegh pled guilty to liquor nuisance. sentence pending.
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Knoxville Express
State of Iowa
Chris van Nieuwenhuizen
W. H. Lyon
Cooper
Reformatory
Anamosa
Board of Parole
Peter Slegh
Johnson & Teter
Post Office Hours New Year's Day 1924
January 1st 1924 hours include Money Order Stamp General Delivery and Carrier windows from 11 00 to 11 30 am No City or Rural delivery Collections from street letter boxes at 10 00 am Bousquet Postmaster.
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Bousquet
Bible translations reach vast global spread in recent decade
The Bible now exists in 159 full languages and the New Testament in 138 additional languages. Portions with at least one book number 416. The British and Foreign Bible Society leads production, with the American Bible Society following. In the past decade some complete Bible books have appeared in new languages.
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British and Foreign Bible Society
American Bible Society
Bible print runs reach millions yearly in 1919 era
The text notes massive Bible production by Bible Societies and publishers, estimating at least 30 million volumes issued in 1919 and a total of about 600 million prints since printing began. It claims the American Bible Society averaged eight Bible volumes per minute over 67 years, and mentions six formats for the blind.
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American Bible Society
Mail Robbery Loot Found in Refrigerator Car
Post Office Inspector W Pfaffenberger discovered in an ice bunker of a refrigerator car two hundred thousand dollars in canceled checks and other mail including money orders. Most checks were drawn on the National Bank of San Antonio. Loot believed from a mail pouch stolen at Seguin in September and left in the ice bunker after the thief took valuables. Found by a car Inspector at La Veta.
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Refrigerator Pueblo
Post Office
W. Pfaffenberger
National Bank of
San Antonio
Tex
Seguin
la Veta
Dover War Harbor to Be Used for Commerce
Dover harbor, built 1901 to 1908 at 25 million, once a wartime HQ for the Dover patrol, covers 610 acres and housed destroyers and cruisers that convoyed troops and munitions to France during 1914 to 1918, now handed to the Dover harbor board for commercial use.
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Big War Harbor
Dover
Admiralty Harbor
Dover Patrol
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Guthrie County
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Riceville
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