The Crime of the Times and Thrifty Advice
A Marshalltown Times-Republican report recounts a boy fined for driving without lights as he owed $35 on a jitney purchased for 75 dollars with weekly 10 dollar installments. The judge questions his finances, and an attorney offers sympathy and a moratorium. The piece argues thrift over car installments and hints at broader lessons about saving and responsibility. It closes with a brief note on early chemistry and aluminum's value.
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Marshalltown Times-Republican
Candlepower Standard for Testing Brightness
The term one candlepower is defined as the light from a sperm-oil candle seven-eighths inch in diameter weighing six to the pound and burning 120 grams of wax per hour. It serves as a standard for testing brilliance of light.
California Fruit Growers Model for Co operative Marketing
The piece argues agriculture lags in distribution and sales, urging farmer co operatives to unite for market control. It cites California Fruit Growers as a model showing hourly in transit car tracking and supply matching to meet demand, reducing gluts. It emphasizes finance, storage, and leadership, noting the American Farm Bureau Federation promotes cooperative marketing to strengthen group action and social readjustment.
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America
California
American Farm Bureau Federation
First Vita Gold butter shipment exports from US co op creamery
The Vita Gold butter packed in tins by Stephen son County Mill Marketing Co of Freeport HL shipped to Cuba marks the first cooperative creamery in the United States to export its butter. The text urges judging people by merit over salary in all appointments.
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Cuba
Vita
Stephenson County Mill, Marketing Company of
Freeport
United States
Conditions Of Bok Peace Award Open To All Americans
Announcement outlines the Edward W Bok hundred thousand dollar Peace Award with conditions. Plans from U S citizens or organizations may be submitted with a five hundred word summary and five thousand word total limit. Manuscripts must be typed without author name and sent to the American Peace Award by November 16 with sealed envelopes bearing the author’s name. The jury will announce names by early September and may award additional five thousand dollar subsidiary prizes for composites.
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Edward W. Bok
United States
League of Nations
Bok
Plan conditions and will notice from 1928 Iowa notices
Summary outlines that payment to an author depends on Senate approval or jury finding sufficient popular support for a plan, with full conditions available after July 25 at the American Peace Award office in New York. Also includes notice of Bertha C. Tusseling's last will on file in Marion County District Court, hearing set for October 2, 1928, in Knoxville Iowa.
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United States Senate
Madison Avenue
New York City
District Court of
Iowa
Marion County
Bertha C. Tusseling
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Crime OF the Times
Red Crown
Standard Oil
Broadway
Franklin Main
Elm St
Carl Byers
Pete van Zanta
Pella Motor Company
Auto Service Co
A.F. Rouze & Co
Harvey, Ia
Renaud
Main St
Offey
Coffey & Coker
Reasner
Pella
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
Pella, Iowa
Walton
American Bureau Federation
Knoxville
USCO
Usco’s
Star Auto CO
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