Iowa Vet Warns on Livestock Shipments From South St. Paul
Dr. Peter Malcolm Iowa state veterinarian must approve all livestock entering the state. Reports show large shipments arriving from South St. Paul and Kansas City with 900 cattle from Mexico to Wayne County. The law requires inspection fumigation and a certifying certificate before unloading, with limited waivers during a rail strike only if quarantine is observed.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Peter Malcolm
South St. Paul
Kansas City
Mexico
Wayne County
Anne
Muscle Shoals Ready for 1925 Dam Construction
Muscle Shoals resumes work on the Wilson dam with $8.1 million appropriated, aiming to complete the power plant to send electricity from the Tennessee river. About 2,000 workers will be employed, with 120,000 horsepower turbines ready for installation and $5 million in construction equipment inventoried. Col. W. J. Barden leads the project as engineers recruit skilled staff and push winter operations.
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Florence
Ala
Muscle Shoals
United States Army Engineers
Tennessee
Wilson Dam
Atantedamh Mdekand Boisebee
Wadelt Tinal
Army
Congress
New Orleans
Florida
Mobile
Mississippi
Alabama
Chattanooga
Memphis
Pensacola
Col
W. J. Barden
Corps of Engineers
U.S. A
Dam Builders Targeted Pool as Power Nears Completion
The project foresees finishing the north channel foundation by January 1, then the south channel by January 1, 1024, and sealing the dam to form an eighteen mile pool by January 1, 1925. Once the pool is ready, electrical machinery will be installed and power will be available. Construction gear and cofferdams have been devaluing at about $400,000 annually after new funds were approved by Congress.
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Congress
Americans Aid 10000 Russian Students In Year Plan
American relief will feed about 10,000 Russian students in Petrograd during the coming scholastic year. With a shortage of professional men in Russia, the program aims to assist students who will graduate and fill vacant posts.
Floating School Plans by Prominent Financiers
Asa G. Chandler Jr leads financiers who bought the U S transport Logan to convert it into a floating school. Fifty schools will cooperate to select students for a world tour guided by school authorities. A staff of instructors will conduct regular classes aboard. A six weeks United States tour by special trains precedes a world tour.
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Asa G. Chandler, Jr
U. S
Logan
United States
Cows In Idaho Go Wild At “Souse” Party
Boise reports 25 cows belonging to E K Ford of Wendell went on a jog and rioted after feeding, the forage fermented into an intoxicated state. The herd clashed in a fracas leaving one cow with a badly broken leg that had to be killed.
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Boise
Idaho
EK. B. Ford
Wendell
Ford
Worms Dined on Savings of Man Afraid of Banks
Two years after Peter Pullos a railroad section foreman in Toledo Ohio withdrew his life savings of 1350 dollars and buried it in an earthen jar. He later dug up the jar and found a mass of bill fragments chewed by worms rendering them past redemption in the ruined container.
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Peter Pullos
Toledo
Pullos
Secret of Long Life from White Blood Cells
Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute outlined tissue building actions of leucocytes before the National Academy of Sciences. He cited experiments showing white blood cells defend against infection and stimulate new tissue growth, suggesting longevity may hinge on activating these cells. Hideyo Noguchi announced an antiserum for Rocky Mountain spotted fever with 70 percent mortality, usable within four days of infection.
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New York
Alexis Carrel
Rockefeller Institute
National Academy of Sciences
Doctor Carrel
Hideyo Noguchi
Rocky Mountain
Pacific Coast
Missionaries Held by Chinese Bandits Return to America
Dr and Mrs Howard Taylor of the China Inland Mission return after four years of travel in remote Chinese regions. They recount capture by a band of 4000 brigands. He says five weeks as a prisoner with death threats, saved only by a Chinese friend's intercession. she was released after five days, while he remained until the king freed him after five weeks.
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Howard Taylor
China Inland Mission
America
Doctor Taylor
Boy Burns While Imitating Fire Eating Stunts
Fourteen year old Peter Parzych of Easthampton Massachusetts was burned on the head and neck while attempting fire eating from gasoline and a lighted flame. His burns are not serious according to his parents Mr and Mrs William Parzych.
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Easthampton
Mass
Peter Parzych
William Parzych
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Morgridge
Woodward
Gibson
State Bureau of Criminal Investigation
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Webster
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Crouse
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Board of Parole
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Farm Bureau
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University of Iowa
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Lucy McMichael
Sioux City
Minnesota
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Red Cross
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Fort Dodge
Bassett
Ross Lamb
Farragut
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Ringsted
Emmet
Farmers Grain and Products Company
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Lawa
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Pauline Swasy
Newington
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P. EB. McClenahan
McClenahan
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