Des Moines to Ocean Route Named Columbia Highway
At the White Way 7 annual meeting in Des Moines the group voted to rename the highway as the Columbia Highway, uniting with the Oregon Trail and extending east from Chicago to Washington to form a continuous ocean to ocean route. The river to river road passes through Des Moines Newton Grinnell Marengo Iowa City and Davenport.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Denver
Chicago
Washington
Ocean
Columbia
Newton
Grinnell
Marengo
Iowa City
Davenport
Monroe
Pella
Oska Vosa
Muscatine
Johnson County
Scott County
Polk County
World’s Simple Automation Monitors Seven Machines
An article describes a seven-lamp panel at What the World Is Doing to show each machine’s status, with a switch to control power. It also covers quieting squeaky auto doors by cleaning bumpers and using talc, plus future radio room and printing ticker ideas, snow shovel maintenance with wax, and a vented kitchen box that can double as a refrigerator.
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General Assembly
America
London
Franklin County
Dairy Cattle Congress
Waterloo
Milwaukee
Iowa Lads
Raymond Monahan
Lester Olson
Harland Leonard
Iowa
Maryland
Europe
Wisconsin
Kendall
J. G. Harbord
Radio Corporation of America
Eye injury at Otley school prompts caution on games
At Otley school Connie Vanden Baard was struck in the eye by a wood block during play. The injury looked serious but was not as dire as feared. The incident follows a spring with more closing out sales locally noting nearby Van Zante estate safe and Arie Kool listings.
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W. E. Albert
Wees
Keosauqua van Buren County
Hamburg
Fremont County
Keosauqua
Fort Madison
Lee County
Connie Vanden Baard
van Zante Estate Safe
Arie Kool
Kemp's Balsam Cures Cough Quick at Low Cost
An old medicine Kemp's Balsam is advertised as quieting a terrible cough. The ad claims it reduces phlegm soothes inflamed membranes and ends the incessant coughing with a simple swallow. Priced at 30 cents at all stores.
Painful beauty rites of Tibetan women described
The text explains that Tibetan women pursue beauty through pain similar to Western standards. A fashionable Tibetan lady rubs her face and neck with clarified butter before bed, then dusts her face with finely powdered ashes at dawn to whiten the complexion.
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Tibet
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J. W. Jarnagin
United States
Martha Meacham
Sac City
State University
Washington, Jefferson
Hardin
Ida Counties
What Cheer
Correctionville
Iowa Department of Agriculture
Cedar Rapids
Marshalltown
Cedar Falls
Alumni Association
H. H. Seerley
Teachers College
Iowa State Teachers College
WHAA
John Peterson
Storm Lake
Philadelphia
Mississippi River
Iowa Bank
Winneshiek Bottoms
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
Department ‘of Commerce
Rock Rapids
Lyon County
Drake
Greater Des Moinies Committee
Census Bureau
Frank M. Beymer
Avoca
Pottawattamie County
Carson
Studebakers
Robert S. Herrick
The
State Horticultural Society
Bevington
Madison County
L. A. Merillat
American Veterinary Medical Association
England
Merillat
Shenandoah
A. S. Bailey
Page County
Galesburg
Ill
Will Ver Dught
J. H. P. van Zee
O. van Speren
Mr. Kool
Knoxville
Connie
Albert van Zante
Morris van Hemert
Henry van Zee
Pete Dop
Prairie City
Will-Klein
Abram van Houweling
Brownie Frazer of
Otley
Joe Muilenburg
Gerrit Zaandstra
Vern Frazer
Prairie
Frazer
Henry Kaldenberg
Fairmount
J. B. Vriezelaar
Otley News
Hicks Almanac
Pella, Iowa
H. C. Payne
Broadway
Georgia Chalfont
Fowler Telephone
Main Street
Dr. C. I. Fox
Main and
Liberty Streets
J. J. Sybenga
Puritan Drug Store
J. M. Cook
Bell Clothing
H. O. Wormhoudt
Jaarsma Bakery
T. G. Fultz
F. F. Carpenter
Jaarsma’s Bakery
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