Tornado tallies and other Iowa notices from 1923
J W Jarnag reports Iowa Weather and Crop Service director C D Reed disputes claims of 30 tornadoes in 1922. averages for 1918-1922 show ten tornadoes per year with 125 miles of paths, 43 injured, seven killed, and $8,465,976 in damage. Other items cover court suits, a confidence crook case in Phoenix, elk horns found near Bailey’s Ford, dam contracts, tobacco and sugar beet farming, ferries across the Mississippi, wage data for teachers, Shiloh battlefield revisits, and assorted Iowa local news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
C. D. Reed
Iowa Weather and Crop Service
Northern Sugar Corporation
Mason City
Waverly
Belmond
Also Mentioned on This Page
Stunning
Rainny
L. F. van Zelmestern Newspaper Union Union
Felix
Willt
J. W. Jarnag
Muscatine
Blanche Varney
Paul Bruno
District Court
Muscatine County
Joel Clark
Madison County
Phoenix
Arizona
Clark
Mr. Clark
Delbert Clark
Winterset
Delbert
Los Angeles
Telegraph Company
Clarks
Bailey’s Ford
Delaware County
Fred Pettlon
H. O. Pettlon
Pinhook
Maquoketa River
Jackson County
Price Bros., Inc
Dayton
Ohio
Lansing
Hydro- Electric Co
Maquoketa
Palisades
Ruth Emerson
Roy Ismerson
Creston
Denver
Pittsburgh
Charles Emerson
Kate Emerson
Ray Emerson
Roy
Mount Ayr
Kellerton
Fayette County
S. B. Carter
West Union
Viroqua
Wis
Wisconsin
Carter
Walter C. Allen
Mabel Kenea
Clarinda
Page County
J. C. Glasgow
McClearnand
Shiloh
Mazie Glasgow
J. F. Martin
Orlando
Florida
Mississippi
la Crosse
Dubuque
McGregor
Prairie du Chien
Joseph Zimmerman
Wanamingo
George F. Freeman
Paul Olson
Story City
Story County
Milwaukee Railway
Williamsburg
Leon
Decatur County
C. B. & Q. Company
Missouri
American Ballast Company
George Schaller
Storm Lake
G. B. McDonald
Forestry Department
Ames
Washington
United States
Illinois
Galifornia
East Lake Okoboji
Council Bluffs
Sioux City
Hi-Y
William Goodell
University of Iowa
Iowa Federation of Women’s Clubs
W. H. Snider
State
Washington, D. C
J. Cummingham
Keokuk
Tve
Anamosa
John Baum
West Virginia
Riverside Cemetery
Cecil Scott
War Department
Baum
State Board of Health
Riverside
Carl L. Collier
Pliny, West Virginia
Pratt
Hill
Blair
Wolverina
Champion
WM. E. Pratt Mfg. Co
West Lake St
Chicago
Pella
Farmers Co-operative Exchange
Pella Produce Co
Mater
Brussels
Waite
West High Ave
Oskaloosa
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