Iowa News Items From Cedar Rapids 1920 Highlights
In Cedar Rapids 1920 arrests for intoxication reached 897 vs 286 in 1919. Forest City bans cigarettes as mayor and county attorney clamp down. Iowa bankers press for state control to refuse charters to new banks. Cedar Rapids opens a $5 million Penick and Ford plant for corn starch and oil products. A three day Pisgah farm fair is planned. Charges of assault with intent to murder filed against Jefferson Barnett at Clarinda State Hospital. Deaths and accidents include a boy run over in Council Bluffs and a Spencer AmEx agent shot and recovering. A Muscatine farm trade involves 1400 acres for 175000 dollars. Burned gravity Miss Jane Otis dies. 158 acre Iowa farm average size reported with 208120 farms statewide. Horses and autos remain common on farms. Co op exchanges formed in Jasper County at Sully and Prairie City. Public sale near Garwin draws large attendance with farm values around 250 per acre. State senate officers listed with names and positions.
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Cedar Rapids
Forest City
Iowa
General Assembly
Penick and Ford Company
Pisgah
Fair Association
Jefferson Barnett
State Hospital For the Insane
Clarinda
Barnett
Peter Leiman
Joseph Faslo
Council Bluffs
W. A. Zack
Sidney
Zack
F. E. Baughn
Fred Richter
Clinton
San Francisco
Cal
Marama
Australia
Richter
Iowa Synod
New Guinea
J. W. Varnes
Missouri Valley
Lizzie Casey
Varnes
To & Lodge
Order
Casey
Charles J. Phillips
American Express Company
Spencer
Muscatine
Muscae
Scott Counties
William Bohnsack
Blue Grass
Rock Island
Charles Searle
Hazel
Frank Hargin
Clearfield
Kleanall Sanatorium
J. B. Falk
Secretary of State
General, Assembly
Taylor County
Bascom Huddleston
Huddleston
Webster City Elevator Company
Jane Otis
Fie
Otis
Iowa Department of ‘Agriculture
Jasper County
Sully
Prairie City
Sully Exchange
Mike Berger
Garwin
Hiple
Page
Uridil
Mahlon Berger
Homer Berger
A. C. Chizek
Berger
Green Mountain
Launder & Jenkins of
State of
Byron W Newberry
Strawberry Point
Perry C. Holdoegel
Rockwell City
Col
L. W. Ainsworth
Des Moines
Will J. Price
Walter H. Beam
Irene Belle
Mason City
May McClean
Mayme Hanna
Florence EB
Nelson
Journal
Lois Garrett
Bill
O. F. Matteson
Des Moin
George W. Morris
Captain Wilcox
Jack Heffelfinger
Waterloo
C. Correll
Adair
H.C. Foss
Andrew Wesack
Red soldier recounts Minsk captivity and trek to Warsaw
Sergeant William Cook of Fay Oklahoma recounts capture by Bolshevists in Minsk and release through Vilna and Riga. He observes Soviet troops well supplied yet undisciplined, compares march to an American farm picnic, notes planes massing for Warsaw drive, and recalls battles from Cantigny to the Argonne. He met Louis Jennings in Minsk amid store seizures and black bread life.
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Warsaw
William Cook
Fay, Okla
Minsk
Vilna
Riga
Red Cross
Conk
Cook
Cantigny
Marne-Aisne
Aso
the Argonne
Lieut
Arthur Fox
Philadelphia
American Joint Distribution Committee
Unionville
Fay
Oklo
Louis Jennings
Jennings
Naval Plans Aid to Chesapeake Fishermen
Washington reports naval sea plane patrols over Chesapeake Bay assist fishermen and protect the harvest, according to the Navy Department and the naval air station commandant.
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Chesapeake
Washington
Chesapeake Bay
Fisher
Navy Department
Naval Air
Ithe
Fate of Albion Drake and Myrtle in Dover Tale
Albion Drake, a one armed WWI veteran, seeks work after returning home to find postwar neglect. Myrtle Farr travels 200 miles to share news of a new business chance and a memento from Verdun, including a prayer rug and an idol from a Persian survivor.
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Albion
Drake
Albion Drake
Argonne
Myrtle Fritr
Allion
Myrtle
Dover
Verdun
Alice
Eigner
Teheran
Ess
Ang
Lesson on Greatness Through Service and Sacrifice
The January 23 lesson outlines Jesus predicting his death and resurrection, teaching that true greatness comes through selfless service. It contrasts worldly ambition with Christ’s kingdom values and cites James and John’s plea, the disciples' indignation, and Jesus’ call to humble leadership.
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Jesus
Jerusalem
Christ
Judas Iscariot
Pontius Pilate
James
John
Earth
Christ's Kingdom
Fragmentary Note on Christian Talk and Dialogue
A garbled transcription fragment references Christianity and speaking about faith, with stray phrases about talk and dialogue. No clear event, date, or identifiable persons are readable to establish a concrete news item.
Wabash Time Table Shows Rock Island Lines Schedules
Local and passenger trains listed for Rock Island East and Westbound service with numbers 470 472 474 475 473 471 and local freight 82. Freight deadlines require shipment by 5 00 p m the evening before. Howell Iowa timetable notes fast and westbound times 7 50 a m 9 20 p m 5 59 a m 7 39 p m.
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Howell
Iowa
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Iowa News
Oklahoma
Minak
Augustus. G. Sherwin
Western Newspaper Union
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PS. Pitzwater
Mc Bible Institute of Chicago
Union
Pella Markets
Farmers Co-operative Exchange
C. Dieleman
Mgr
Pella Produce Co
Hess
Rock Island Train Service
West
A. m
W. C.verploeg
Ames Graduate Veterinarian
Farmer's Produce Building
DE Reus & van Zante
Chamber of Commerce
DR. C. 1. Fox
Main and Liberty Lte
Puritan Drug
Steve
A. J. Visser
Franklin St
Romptly
Aschenbrenner
Geeshead
P. A. Edmund Dentis
Wagner’s
A. P. Fankhauser Chiropractor
F. G. Fultz
Main Street
Vander Zyl’ Bros
Rain
F. F. Carpenter
Georgia
Chalfont
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