Ancient history tale links Black Hawk to Pella family
In 1893 a Pella writer recalls an elder sharing a Black Hawk encounter with Mrs. Goodall’s family. Black Hawk traded a beaver skin for a child, then returned the infant after distress. The tale ties local memory to Iowa frontier history and notes the deaths of Black Hawk and several family members.
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Huber
Black Hawk
Pella
Glasgow
William B. Goodall
van Buren County
Iowa
Iowaville
Selma
Eldon
Lfe
Goodall
Mrs. Goodall
Cynthia Goodall
Oakwood
Fry
Cynthia
Draws the Line at Chinamen
A census man visited a working man famed for reading statistics and asked how many children he had. He replied three, and that will be all, since statistics say every fourth child born in the world is a Chinaman.
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Rocky Mountain Mirror
Geese Packed City Streets In Dense Fog Night
In Lemoore California thousands of wild geese sheltered under street lights in thick fog. Residents heard constant cries while cleaners retrieved guns and killed many birds. Dowtown dwellers reported hundreds perched on pavements as late revelers added hunting to the scene.
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Lemoore
Cal
FIRST GERMAN SKYSCAPER IN HAMBURG PLANNED
The first skyscraper in Germany is planned in Hamburg's old business district. It will rise sixteen stories, five higher than Germany's tallest building currently. Architects foresee an era of similar towers, though water supply, fire risk, and insurance pose challenges for offices on upper floors. Promoters have permission if architectural symmetry remains intact.
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Hamburg
Germany
Peet
Taking baby for airing in Bolivian city scene
A caption depicts an Indian servant girl carrying a baby in the popular Indian fashion as the baby carriage remains unfamiliar in La Paz Bolivia.
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la Paz
Bollivia
Indian Terror Now Tamed on Creek Reservation
Ben Perryman, a full-blood Creek woman and former Creek Snake uprising leader, met with Indian agency officers at Muskogee to discuss buying a silver. She has dropped animosity toward agency people and greeted them with a kiss, while her husband accompanied her. Ellen now lives on a farm in McIntosh county and is said to be content and peaceful.
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Kufala
Okla
Ben Perryman
Indian Agency
Muskogee
Ellen
McIntosh County
Harvard Entrants Seen Free of Serious Physical Defects
Cambridge informs that Harvard entrants were notably free from serious defects in a report by Dr. Rogers I. Lee professor of hygiene. Fewer than 1 percent showed neglected teeth poor eyesight or enlarged diseased tonsils due to thorough school examinations and caretakers' health concern. About 48 percent of freshmen and 54 percent of new business school entrants report smoking.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
Rogers I. Lee
Lee
Business
Causes Of Unemployment In Industry Drawn By Board
The national industrial conference board surveys unemployment causes, distinguishing idleness from unemployment. Internal factors include strikes, management faults, costs, and machinery displacement, while external factors cover seasonal variations, depressions, distribution inefficiencies, immigration, and tariffs. In 1920 about 41 million workers were employed in the U S, with roughly 1.8 million out of work in normal times, about 14 percent of annual working time, averaging 42 days lost per wage earner.
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New York
National Industrial Conference Board
United States
Students Hear Foreign Views At Barnard Meeting
About two thousand college students from twelve colleges attended under the National Student Committee on the Limitation of Armaments at Barnard College. Speakers included Maurice Casenave, Giuseppe Gentile, Dr John Mez, and Dr John Foster Dulles. They urged disarmament, economic cooperation, and a future conference involving many nations to resolve postwar issues.
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Italy
National Student Committee
Barnard
Maurice Casenave
Giuseppe Gentile
John Mez
John Foster Dulles
Harding
M. Casenave
France
Sig. Gentile
Mez
Washington
Russia
Germany
Europe
United States
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Pella Markets
Farmers Co-operative Exchange
Pella Produce Co
America
Supreme Council of Europe
Economic Council
Oppenheimer-Alsop CO. Baldaufs - Frankels - Oppenheimers
the Golden Eagle
Oskaloosa, Iowa
Coats
Gay Millinery
New Oxfords
Arizona
Df, & P. Coats
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