Our Modern Highways Reach Across the Nation
E V Goad extols modern highways praising concrete routes from Ottumwa to the Illinois line and a hoped for Omaha Burlington road. He recalls past rough roads, praises city traffic order, warns of hit and run drivers, and urges continued funding for economical travel.
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Pella
Burlington
J. F. Deems
Ottumwa
Illinois Line
Omaha
Mt. Pleasant
Jefferson County
Blue Grass Trail
Peoria
East
Engine Invention On Patent List
Des Moines Iowa March 13 Ernest A Putnam of Iowa City received patent papers for a rotating sleeve valve internal combustion engine with automatic spark adjustment. Six other Iowans were granted patents for butter composition tests electric bench shapers door closers gravel pack forming methods and continuous tank age presses.
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Des Moines
Ernest A. Putnam
Iowa City
Barr, Freeman & Sinclair
Patent and Trademark Attorneys
Putnam
Rock Island Pensions Reported But Incomplete
Information prepared by D. C. Rees shows that Rock Island Lines paid pensions totaling three million dollars. Details on beneficiaries and distribution were not fully disclosed in the available excerpt.
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D. C. Rees
Board of Pensions, Rock Island Lines
Rock Island Railroad Pays Retired Employees Since 1910
The railroad has paid in the pension fund since 1910 a total of 607,885 dollars. Over 500,000 dollars was paid to retired employees last year. In 1920 Rock Island placed 180 employees on its Roll of Honor including 42 engineers 18 conductors 24 foremen 18 agents and operators 12 linemen and others. Over 1,600 employees have retired on pensions in the last 20 years after reaching age 70, many with 50 years of service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Syn
Uring
Rock Island
Knoxville Fire Doused After Two Simultaneous Blazes
In Knoxville Iowa on March 12 the fire department ran two calls in quick succession. At A J May home off Washington Street the roof caught fire from a chimney and shingles burned before detection. Moments later Mrs Ramona Rolf’s home had a twelve inch square hole burned in the roof. both fires were checked and firefighters returned to finish extinguishing the May fire. Also noted: a nearby ad lists adding machine paper typewriter ribbons and carbon paper for sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knoxville
Knoxville Fire Department
A. J. May
Washington Street
Ramona Rolf
Mayhom
May
City Library Notes Promotes World Book and New Reference Sets
City library announces purchase of the World Book edition In 12 values, ranked top by the American Library Association. Monthly Service Bulletins aid teachers with monthly lookups, plus three new regional view sets Canada Scotland Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Library Association
Canada
Scotland
Mexico
Tales and Stories in a Young Readers List
A mixed catalog of juvenile titles and authors including Serl Work a Day Winchester Tales of Lincoln Faris Standard Bible Story Primer Chance Little Folks of Many Lands Aspinwall Short Stories for Short People Stoddart Our Friends at the Zoo Baker Dinty the Porcupine Terry Lord and Vassal Benezek Young People's History of the World War Grover Kittens and Cats Dunn In Field and Forest Bailey Forest Field and Stream Stories Alden Why the Chimes Rang.
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Serl
Winchester
Oterala
Lincoln
Faris
Chance
Aspinwall
Stoddart
Zoo
Baker—Dinty
the Porcupine
Terry—Lord and Vassal
Benezek
Grover
Dunn
Bailey—Forest
Alden
Census Enumerator Named for Marion County
Mr Gray Anderson has been appointed an enumerator for the Industrial Census of Distribution and Manufacturing in Marion County.
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Gray Anderson
Marion County
Census Work Begins in Marion County for All Sectors
The Industrial Census starts immediately collecting data on retail wholesale and manufacturing in Marion county. Population census work begins April 1 with enumerators to be announced later.
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Marion County
Pella Markets Quotation Sheet
Quotations from the Co operative Exchange in Pella Iowa list wheat at 1.00 oats at .83 corn at 0. useless squinting and farm talk provide little more than price references with hogs quoted at 8.40 to 310.00.
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Farmer’s Co-operative Exchange
Pella
Iowa
Ee Co-operative Exchange
Also Mentioned on This Page
E. V. Goad
Steen
Calumet Ports
Plastured and Calumet Steel Co
LaSalle St
Chicaso
Chronicle
City Library Notes
Hutchinson
Pet
Locke
Stella Maris
Corelli
Payne—Hedges
Hill
Blair
Sarborough
McCutcheon
Merivales
Marsh
Birney
Porter
Be Suckow
Cora
Mulford
Loring
Swift Water
Weston
James—Sand
Bower
Jean
The
Raine
Texas Ranger
Gregory
Sabatina
Bellarion
Lovelace
Hauck
Edginton
Binkley
Boreham
Crystal Pointers
Lyman—World Almanac
Marquis
America
Carpenter
British Isles
Baltic States
Lawton
Schumann-Heink
Perkins—Trails
Sandburg
Oliver—Foursquare
Jenkins
Pier
Sterrett
Rusty
Edgeworth
Simple Susan
Whiteman
Jane
Jerry
Gilkison
Montgomery
Billy Whiskers
Horne
Italy
LaMere
Smith
Hans
Hilda
Holland
Dopp
Bobby
Betty
Depp
Wildman
Oak Grove Nursery
Oak Grove
A. P. Verploegh
Pella, Iowa
Reasnor-Pella
Monroe
Reasnor
W. J. van
Wely
Monrose
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