Iowa News Items of Interest Highlights State Growth
Iowa reports 236 consolidated schools and major projects across towns. Humboldt dedicates a new $136,000 school building while Dubuque suffers $50,000 in damages from a severe storm. Grinnell College graduates 101 in its seventy second commencement as Spencer builds a boom of paving and new streets.
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Fort Dodge
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America
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Matt Tinley
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16Th Infantry
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Clayton Hull
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Wellsburg
Iowa State Fair Grounds
Godon M. Shaffer
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John H. T. Main
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Young Moore Construction Company
John T. Haughey
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West Point Military Academy
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Thirty-Eighth ‘General Assembly
Liscomb Township
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Page
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Town State College
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Page County
Walters
Elizabeth Sandry
Oelwein
Nathan Rockafellow
Knoxville
Linn
Marion
Mt. Vernon
John Schild
Belle Plaine
W. A. Mall
Towa Lakeside Laboratory
Okoboji
Arline Oppendall
Stanhope
Grinnellians
Wayne Kauffman
Karl McGlothlen
Harold Rayburn
Maple
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Monona
Harrison
Interchurch World Movement
S. Earl Taylor
Taylor
Jubilee
Methodist Episcopal Church
Interchurch World Alliance
Dan Dulman
Dorchester
Dulman
Williams
Damm
Holland
Oskaloosa
Pella
Richland Township
Mahaska County
Dean & Gatton
C. K. Shedd
Agricultural Engineering Department
Iowa State College
University of Nebraska
Carlos Phai
Atlantic
Robert Janes
Janes
Phares
Federalize Today Health and accident policy promotion
An advocacy piece promoting a 10 cent a day health and accident policy from Federal, claiming $5,000 accidental death and $25 weekly indemnity, urging readers to protect families. It notes claims paid in Pella, policy numbers and sums, and reports over $4.5 million paid to policy holders since organization. E Hollebrands, District Mgr.
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What Cheer Patriot Editor Denounces Wilson Germany Clash
A What Cheer Patriot editorial derides President Wilson for meddling in European affairs comparing him to Lloyd George. The piece mocks Wilson’s handling of Germany and international boundaries, arguing Americans risk making enemies and questioning the purpose of soldiers serving overseas.
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Italy
Iowa
Japan
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the Patriot
Readership urged to peruse Corlett letter in Globe
A satirical note suggests a benighted reader examine L. E. Cor lett's letter in the Globe. It laments ignorance as bliss and implies Wilson's actions prompted German guilt, adding that the writers would apologize if they had penned such a squib.
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Grandma’s Darning Basket Ends Backyard Ball Fight
A quiet yard becomes a scene of conflict as three town boys play ball while neighborhood youths watch from the road. Grandmother witnesses taunts and shouts through a fence, and the squabble escalates until she resolves to intervene by a drastic act.
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Sonny
Charlie
Round Table
Doughnut Diplomacy in a Row Over a Ball
A grandmother warns boys to seek peace through generosity after a quarrel over a tossed ball. The trespassers eat doughnuts from a torn sack while the children conspire to resolve the dispute with light humor.
If Women Only Knew Backache and Kidney Pains Ad
A 1920s style testimonial advert claims backache and fatigue stem from weak kidneys. Mrs. C Rus of 306 E Third Ave, Pella, says Doan’s Kidney Pills relieved her back pain and irregular kidney action after buying at Keables drug store. Price 60c at dealers. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y
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Foster-Milburn Co
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Buffalo
Procrastination Quip From Pinkly Alights Street Car
Erastus Pinkly tells a street car conductor he wants to be procrastinated. The phrase is explained as a dictionary definition for procrastinate, meaning to put off.
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