Iowa News in Brief From Across The State
A wide array of happenings across Iowa includes new school and church buildings in Sheldon and Pella, deaths of local notables like Lafayette Lamb and Governor Harding, mass Blue Laws arrests in Sioux City, multiple traffic and farm accidents, high school graduations looming in Des Moines, and community notices on sales, banking, and local events.
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Sheldon
Pella
Lafayette Lamb
Clinton
W. L. Harding
Marcus
Edward Collins
Scott
Davenport
Charles Simpson
Shenandoah
Sioux City
John Peiken
Atlantic
Rock Island
Scott Reeder
Madrid
West Des Moines
John Mason
Emmetsburg
Will Carlson
Ft. Dodge
Louie Lincoln
Brooks
Sigonur
Beans as Second Crop for Iowa Potatoes
An Iowa State College experiment suggests planting beans as a second crop after potatoes is beneficial. If not used as a second crop, beans should be planted by June 7. Recommend peas or soup beans for better maturity in Iowa. Use light sandy soil, newly turned sod is favorable. Prepare ground, harrow to kill weeds, plant two pecks per acre in rows 28 inches apart, 1.5 inches between seeds, two inches deep.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lond State College
Iowa
Wunderlich Missionary to Speak at Local Churches
Miss G. H. Wunderlich, a missionary from India, will present a stereopticon lecture at the Congregational church on Wednesday evening, June 18, with all invited. On Thursday afternoon she addresses the Lutheran Ladies Aid at Mrs. Chas. Huebner's home.
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G. H. Wunderlich
India
Congregational Church
Lutheran Ladies Aid Society
Chas. Huebner
Notice to subscribe with obituary pricing warning
The Nehawka News warns that obituary notices for business men who do not advertise will cost ten cents straight and fifteen cents per line for delinquent subscribers. It urges immediate subscriptions, noting hog cholera is abroad in the land and offering free shop goods to advertisers and cash subscribers who pass away.
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Nehawka News
Cholera Morbus Advised Home Remedy Use
A Huntington Indiana reader endorses Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy for cholera morbus in 1911, noting quick relief for two sick children. The advertisement from Douglass Pharmacy urges keeping the bottle at home to be prepared for illness.
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Chamberlain
Charles Enyeart
Huntington
Ind
Douglass Pharmacy
Advt
Pay Last Respects to Furnace Cleanup Advice
The head of Iowa State College engineering extension department at Ames urges immediate on site cleaning of furnaces after use. Sweep smoke passages, remove soot, and cap chimney if possible. Store furnace in a dry place with doors left slightly ajar to aid summer ventilation.
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Iowa State College
Ames
Blue laws wont halt Sunday newspaper sale says AG
Attorney General Havner ruled that Iowa blue laws do not affect newspaper distribution. Citing precedents including a Missouri Supreme Court decision noting the four great American institutions are home church schools and the press the ruling calls newspapers the poor man's library and says denial would harm readers.
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Iowa
Havner
Missouri
Mary Pickford at Postville Theater in The Girl of Yesterday
In Peru Indiana Mrs. P. H. Martin reports Chamberlain's Cough Remedy eased her daughters whooping cough. Doug lass Pharmacy endorses the product. Mary Pickford returns to Postville Theater on Saturday June 9 in The Girl of Yesterday.
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Chamberlain
P. H. Martin
Peru
Ind
Douglass
Mary Pickford
Postville Theater
Tax Deed Application Notice for Allamakee County Iowa
Notice to James Seeley that Lot 116 in New Albin Allamakee County Iowa was sold for taxes to L H Gaarder. Certificate of sale issued but not assigned. Redemption must occur within 90 days of service or tax deed will be issued to Gaarder as owner of certificate of purchase.
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Aint
Toot
Shenandoah
Iowa Farmers
New Farmers’ Non- Partisan Association
Centerville
George E. Hughes
Davenport
Artillery Corps
Otto C. Schultz
St. Louis
Otto
Valley Falls
Kansas
J.J. Harman
Lowa
Citizens State Bank
Thoma Bros
Fisk
Pettit Bros
Saxon Motor Car Co
Consumers Independent Lumber Co
Peastville State Bank
State Agricultural College At
Ames
William S. Hart
Boatil
James Seeley
Allamakee County
Iowa
Towit
New Albin
L. H. Gaarder
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Sawyer
Germany
State Department
Washington, D.C
Mississippi River
Lake Keokuk
Keokuk
Grace Carr
Lamont
H. W. Seegar
Mills County
Elias Hoxsie
McGreeer
Mason City
Sanborn
Ralph Bolton
Greater
Uncle Sam
Hians Johnson
Waukon
Nelly Elizabeth Penny
Deniron
Ft. Dodge High School
Roy Withee
Lansing
J. P. Ellis
Leslie Pettit
Paul
Alexis
Ill
D. E. Harrington
Bonnie Harrington
Maresalltown
KOR Sale
Business Center
Burling & Burling
F. Broadgate
Washington, Iowa
A. L. Peterson
The
Citizens Bank
Bank
Dan McNeil Sr
Dan McNeil Jr
John McNeil
Jim Howard
K. C
Cresco
J. M. Harris
Henry Harris
Rollo, Mo
N. Webster
Waucoma
Godfrey Nicolay
Chas
Krumim
A.J Patterson
Menver
Burhans
Rockford
Farmers Creamery
Erin Churchill
Monroe
Wis
Wm. Harris
H.T. Huebner
Monona
Henry
Stella VanGorder
Minneapolis
A. M. Candee
Postville
Barnum & Baley
Ita
I. N. Taylor
Mahaska County
Penn College
Oskaloosa
United
Des Moines
B. H. Norby
Parkersburg
Henry Hayward
Albia
Hocking
Plath Bros
Malvern Miller
Cedar Rapids
I. C
Ernest Chaney
Gladys Gail Sprague
Villisca
Red Oak
Jesse Morey
Herbert Hoover
United States
West Branch
Cedar County
Frank McMahan
Dougherty
M. J. Frost
Kingsley
Ellers and Kaufman
Kindig
Abraham Noe
Big Amana
Amana Society
Will Albee
Kellogg
Alvin Bates
David Oleson
Battery A National Guard
Nicholas Martini
Chicago
Council Bluffs
John Squires
Osage
Theodore Robinson
Harry L. Krantz
Detroit
Mich
Denver
Colo
T Manning
South Anama
Bernice Bornell
Dubuque
S. M. Corrie
Ida Grove
Rock Island Railway
Muscatine
Montezuma
Gebhardt
Cp. A. R
Jefferson
Greene County
Clara Bush Call
Alva Bush
Cedar Valley Seminary
Clarence McMann
McGregor
R. D. Bush
Katherine Ohlson
Mlewchhool
Osither
Langbein
Packard
Milwaukee
North McGregor
Ahyone
M.el
Gardner
Rapl
Wolf
REO
Brenner
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