Iowa News Items Of Interest From Across The State
A mixed batch of 1923 Iowa items covers Oskaloosa fair plans, deaths including Mrs Mery Campbell and veteran Timothy Hardiman, aid to soldiers bonuses for about 650 Iowa women, Des Moines graft probe costs, and broader state news. Highlights include Boone and Linn county tax sales, county and state officials, highway paving bids, school teacher certifications, and emerging economic signals from holiday buying across cities and rural areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oskaloosa
Mery Campbell
Sac City
Iowa
Bonus Board
American Legion Post
Nevada
Kaiser
Story County
Chamber of Commerce
Des Moines
Wallace Samuelson
Boone County
Timothy Hardiman
Rock Island Railroad
Nevada County
Samuel L. Mantz
Audubon
Frank W. Eiott
Davenport
Board of Supervisors
Cedar Rapids
Elks Club
State Executive Council
Fortieth
Rockwell City
Lewis Brothers
Frank Haller
Estherville
Eleanor Moore County Hospital
Boone
Henry Goeppinger
William R. C. Kendrick
State House
Arthur C. Bavage
Ridge
Recorder’s Office
Butler County
A. J. Barkley
Boone County Bank
Twenty-eighth
Twenty-ninth General Assembly
Linn County
Fred Ream
Decorah
State Examinera
Vernon Youel
Vinton
Near East
State Board of Educational Examiners
H. H. Blackmar
Ottumwa
P. ¥. McClenahan
Arthur Runtt
Reinbeck
Runtt
W. G. Haskell
William C. Adsit
Glen Griswold
Chicago Journal of Commerce
Orange Township Farm Bureau of
Waterloo
Joe Hernandez
Mason City
B. T. Meredith
Chicago
Henry C. Wallace
Corn Belt Meat Producers’ Association
Iowa Federation of Cooperative Shippers
Town Weather and Crop Service
Department of Agriculture
House
Fortieth General Assembly
Republican Caucus of Representatives
Legacy of Col Morris Bequest to Friends in New York
A Surrogate's Court search uncovers a 1691 will of Col Lewis Morris bequeathing six pounds yearly to the Society of Friends in New York from Bronxland. The legacy, valued at about $6,468 without interest after 230 years, shows no trace today in Friends records and prompts planned investigations into past and possible future payments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Lewis Morris
Society of Friends
Friends
Twentieth Street
Fifteenth Street
John Cox, Jr
Inga
Morris
Col
Capt
Richard Morris
Cromwell
Lewis Morris I
New Jersey
Robert Morris
Pennsylvania
Morris III
Gouverneur
France
United States
George Fox
Quakers
West Indies
Barbados
Colonel Morris
Richard
William Penn
Yaff
Penn
America
Meeting of Friends
Harlem
General Meetings of Friends
Shrewsbury
Bronxland
Harlem River
Friends Meeting
Jonas Bronck
Dutch West India Company
Fletcher
Morrisania
Two eggs for German shave in Bavarian town
In Ochenfurt Bavaria barbers adopt a quirky tariff to balance rising costs and the falling mark. The sign reads shave two eggs haircut four with no mention of shampoo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bavaria
Ochenfurt
Ochsenfurt
Hgg
German Furnishings For Foe In Rhine Occupation
A Soviet union of figures shows Germany furnished 1,400 parlors 2,600 sitting rooms 5,000 dining rooms 10,800 bedrooms and 4,600 kitchens for occupying forces in the Rhine between 1921 and last summer. Items included leather lounges 2800 chairs wicker sets 6800 wicker chairs upholstered seating and 8000 chaise longues. The socialist deputy said much furniture served occupied castles and private homes and noted 207 Rhineland communities were occupied by Entente troops versus 86 German garrisons before the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Rhineland
Reichstag Committee of Ways and Means
Harness Deer to Flee Snow in Sierra
Six California mountaineers at Gold Lake during a sudden heavy storm captured 12 wild deer, harnessed them with ropes and belts, and hitched them to an improvised drag to blaze a trail back to civilization. Led by Steve Pezzola, the crew guided the animals through deep snow, then released them after reaching the tableland edge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quincy
Cal
California
High
Sierras
Gold Lake
Steve Pezzola
Can't Go to Bear so Brain Comes to Be Shot
Hazelton Pennsylvania tale of 15 year old George Shaffer unable to join his father hunting. While his father tramps the mountains a bear enters the Shaffer orchard. The boy crouches at the fence and fires, killing the bear, then awaits his father's home with triumph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazelton
George Shaffer
Shaffer
George
Cherokees Try to Save Race in Oklahoma
Oklahoma lawyer Eugene L. Graves leads the Nighthawk Keetoowah and represents 8,700 full-blood Cherokees. He urged pooling lands and resources to oppose government land division and help 40,000 tribe members, with Cherokees prospering under his guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
Ing Lande
Graves
Nighthawk Keetoowah
United States
Nighthawk Keetoowah Society
Mr. Graves
Israel
Cherokee Commission
Redbird Smith
The
Keetoowah
Labor costs in Berlin raise alarms over wages and closures
In Berlin labor bears the heaviest weight as ordinary workers average about 100 marks per hour, with eight hour day wages from 400 to 1,200 marks. Newspaper editors earn 15 to 21.5 thousand marks yearly, while reporters and critics receive varied sums. The press faces unemployment pressure and potential publisher funds to aid workers. Theaters warn closures as stage hands push for higher minimums amid wage surges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Germany
Capri
Dons Robes for Americans Visit Queen Marie of Romania
Mrs B Frank Mebane of Spray New York and Mrs Kemble White of Fairmont West Virginia visited Queen Marie of Romania at the summer palace Sanaln in the Carpathians. The queen donned coronation robes and crown for the two Americans who could not stay for the ceremony. Princess Elizabeth, now queen of Greece, attended and wore her court dress at the same time, according to Mrs Mebane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Eugene L. Graves
Oklahoma
South
Middle West
Rhode Island
Marie
Rumania
B. Frank Me Bane
Spray
N. Y
Kemble White
Fairmont
W. Va
Mebane
France
White
Queen Marie
Sanaln
Carpathian Mountains
Romania
Mzabeth
Greece
Mra
Clerk Accused of Sniffing Cash at Manchester Post Office
Postal inspectors say Edlund P. Donnelly a Manchester New Hampshire clerk tampered with money in envelopes by tearing a small edge slit smelling the cash and removing bills in two test letters authorities filed charges based on the scent based scheme.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post Office
Edlund P. Donnelly
Manchester
N. H
Donnelly
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Iowa News
Col. Lewis
Bronx
Race
Arctic Circle
Queen of
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