Telephone lines and companies in Marion County 1907
An official 1907 Marion County Iowa assessment lists telephone line lengths and per mile values by township city and district. It enumerates dozens of companies such as Attica Barham Attica Bunker Hill Cedar Valley Prairie College and White Breast among others with miles totals and assessed values, followed by detailed road and school district allocations and totals for each township and district.
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28Th General Assembly of
Iowa
Marion County
Attica & Barham Telephone Co
Attica & Bunker Hill Telephone Co
Attica & Columbia Telephone Co
Attica & Prairie College Telephone Co
Brush College Telephone Co
Burr Oak Telephone Co
Bussey Mutual Telephone Co
Cedar Valley & Columbia Telephone Co
Chariton & Newbern Telephone Co
Clear Creek Mutual Telephone Co
Coal Glenn Mutual Telephone Co
Columbia Mutual Telephone Co
Dallas & Bauer Mutual Telephone Co
Eldorado Mutual Telephone Co
Eureka Farmers Mutual Telephone Co
Franklin Center Mutual Telephone Co
Fowler Telephone Exchange
Harvey Mutual Telephone Co
Iowa Telephone Co
Knoxville Electric Telephone Co
Louilia & Northwestern Telephone Co
Marysville Independent Telephone Co
Lucas County
Farmers Mutual Telephone Co
Monroe Telephone Co
Motor Telephone Co
Motor Telephone Co. A Motor & Pleasantville Telephone Co
Southwestern Telephone Co
Stringtown Mutual Telephone Co
Tracy Telephone Co
Union Telephone Co
U. S. Mutual Telephone Co
Sully Mutual Telephone Co
Valley Mutual Telephone Co
Victor Mutual Telephone Co
White Breast Telephone Co
West Pella Telephone Co
Otley Telephone Co
Plymouth Farmers Mutual Telephone Co
Zion & Attica Telephone Co
Oro Dell Mutual Telephone Co
Reeves Broz. Telephone Co
Road Telephone Co
Public Question on Forest Preservation and Public Land Graft
An editorial urges reading Stewart Raward White’s American Magazine article on forest conservation embracing soil protection water supply grazing and mining. It warns that public forests should be preserved against private privilege and political obstruction, stressing national welfare and fair public land use.
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Stewart lRaward White
Forest Service
Congress
Inside a giant food factory and its clean groceries
The February Woman's Home Companion tours a major food factory, boasting twenty three acres of floor space and a cellar stack of seventy two thousand flour sacks for a single cracker brand. It notes the impressive scale and cleanliness, countering fears of mould and highlighting industrial efficiency.
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Woman's Home Companion
Hoss and Hoss Marriage Ends After 24 Hours
An eastern newlywed left her husband after only a day of marriage and returned to her $25 weekly job. The piece notes that few wives have such spending power and that husbands similarly lack excess funds for themselves.
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Hoss
Farmer uncovers black corn in Memphis mound dig
Last spring a farmer near Memphis, Tennessee, unearthed a vessel with corn while digging near a mound builder fort. He planted some kernels and reaped a harvest. The kernels were small and sooty black in color.
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Memphis
Tenn
Organic Man Remark Sparks Classroom Wordplay
A Norwich Connecticut primary class was given a language lesson where the term organic guided sentence sense. One pupil wrote with unintended accuracy, declaring The Italian is the most organic man on the face of the earth.
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Norwich
Conn
Vermont Man Edits Korean Sheet in Seoul
Henry Hurlburt, editor of the Korean Review published in Seoul, formerly lived in Bennington Vermont and once attended its high school.
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Vermont
Henry Hurlburt
Korean Review
Seoul
Korea
Bennington
Offer to Obtain Items and Save You Money
A shopper suggests that if you want anything not in the list, it can be obtained and delivered at a lower cost. The claim emphasizes shopping efficiency and savings through direct access to items.
Women Teachers, Operators, and Arts in U S
The Pella Chronicle notes that in the United States many women work as music and art teachers, with tens of thousands in each field and around a quarter of a million women teachers overall. It mentions 11,000 women telegraph operators and includes a library catalog quip. It also reflects on time as healing and a Navy report about abandoning cotton powder cases for artillery to reduce powder ignition risks on battleships.
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United States
Georgia
Fertilizer Use Cautions For Pot Plants And Cleaning Artificial Flowers
Fertilizers can spur rapid growth which often weakens pot plants health. Clean artificial flowers by gently wiping with soft flannel and dipping in gasoline, then sponging ribbons and dress goods with the same care.
Lord fed the Israelites in the desert tale
An Irishman shows an ash-receiver bought at a church fair and explains it is lava. His friend Billy asks what it is and the Irishman answers that the Lord fed the Israelites when they wandered forty years in the desert.
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Knoxville
McMillan
Clay
Des Moines Valley
Center
Eureka
Knoxville Chay
Reeves Bros, Telephone Co
Swan
Reeves Bros. Telephone Co
Swan Township
Swan City
Reeves Bros Telephone Co
Clay Bethel
Fairview ‘Tracy
Union Township
Knoxville Bunker Hill
Scott Springfield - Brownlee
ENE
Victor Mutual Tele
Clay McMillen
Fairview
Knoxville Rising Star
Liberty Victory
Victor Mutual
Length of Motor & Pleasantvill Co
Pleasantville
Franklin
Dallas
Franklin Hazel Ridge
Caloma
Dallas Dallas
Horstman
Chicago Center
Toal
Zion & Attica Mutual Telephone Co
Indiana
Lam
Attica
Buoker
Knoxvil
Franklin Were
Dale
Franklin Sprin
Motor & Pleasantville Telephone Co
Asenss
Pleasant Grove
Total
Union
Knoxville Fairview
West Pella Mutual Telephone Co
Swan Two
Pleasant Grove Two
Sgathyventern
Mutual Telephone Co
Southwestern Mutual Telephone Co
Casthannet
Rood Telephone Co
Dallas Center
Chicago
Ore Dell Mutual Telephone Co
Union Two Dist
Ore Dell Mutual ‘Telephone Co
Pleasant
Sully Telephone Co
Lake Prairie
Sully
Hone
Poses
Tribune Farmer
Chronicle
Goodall's Farmer Chronicle
New Idea Magazine Chronicle
Des Moines
da Farm Magazine
Farmer's Wife Chronicle
Harpers Bazar Chronicle
Aal Daily
Chicago Evening Post
Chronicle Chronicle
McClures Magazine
Ily News
Chronicle Des Moines Capital
Success Magazine
Spare Moments
Chronicle the Mother's Magazine
I Chronicle
Mapa
Toledo Blade
Chicago Tribune
Youths Companion
Chronicle Ay
Rover
Alume
Pella
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