Local Timetable From Mt. and 8T. P. RY Through Rock Valley
Daily and weekly passenger and freight schedules listed for east and west routes. Includes No 4 to Spencer Des Moines Mason City Marquette Savanas Clinton Sioux Flyer to Chicago and Milwaukee. Sioux Flyer to Sheldon Spencer Madison Chicago details. Local to Mitchell Canton and Troiz No 4 east. Coupon tickets, baggage checks advised.
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C. Mt
Rock Valley
Spencer
Canton
Sioux Falls
Mitchell
Black Hills
Troiz No. 4
Gerrit Klay Announces Iowa Congressional Run
Gerrit Klay of Orange City Iowa announces candidacy for Congress on the Republican ticket subject to approval by Republican voters in Iowa's Eleventh District at the next primary. He seeks election to represent the district in Washington and urges party support.
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Congress
Eleventh
Iowa
Gerrit Klay
Orengs City
France to England Plant Gift Inspires Royal Decor
A tale recounts a Frenchman sending a plant to a French estate in youth, presenting a tree to the King of France, and later introducing it to the royal English garden. As news of a Spanish girl spreads, flowers gain use in bridal wear and decor, though costs kept the luxury beyond most budgets for a long period.
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Spain
Bylle
Dawehton
France
Royal Garden
England
How East Indian Holy Men Make the Grade
A fragmentary description notes how aspiring holy men in India become Sadhus by enduring extreme practices. It mentions growing hair, nudity with ash, meditative stares, long seclusion, and sleep deprivation. A recent report claims a Sadhu sat on a bed of nails for seven years, traveling rivers in Odia while in a mobile carrier.
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India
Ann
Odia
How to Control Floods For Memphis Commercial Appeal
The article argues floods must be controlled by establishing a maximum water height and safety outlets to prevent overflow. It defers to expert engineers to decide spillways reservoirs and reforestation needs, insisting measures ensure net waters stay under a fixed limit to prevent foodborne flood risk.
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Memphis
Rivers Reversed in Brazil Hydro Plant Project
Engineers near Sao Paulo reshaped west flowing rivers to run east through a system of dams and siphons driving over a mountain range. The plant now yields a head of 78 meters and 100000 horsepower, with a potential output of 800000. Flooding of thousands of acres has been halted by the new barrage.
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Sao Palo
Brazil
Anesthesia Term Emerges From Medical History
A passage recounts how anesthesia was once unnamed science after 1840. Anas thetists at an American College of Surgeons meeting were unable to describe the process. Ten years after discovery physicians appealed to Oliver Wendell Holmes to coin the term anesthetic from Greek roots.
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American College of Surgeons
Olver Wendell Holmes
Hin Fair
Cleaning Photos With Gelled or Pebbled Glue
The article describes a method to clean photos that have become unpecked or gelled by lightly moistening absorbent cotton with pure alcohol and gently rubbing the surface to remove residues while avoiding damage to the image.
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Northrup King & Cas
Farmers Elevator Company
Rock Valley Grain CO
John -Coert
Idwa
Sena
Steck & Walpole
ACME
John Vander Poel
C. W. Jacobs
Asses
Fargo
John Kersbergen
Herne
Peter Spruyt
Phang Mo
Chevrolet
Chevrolet Motor Company
Omer
Siena Property
Svsgert I
California
Henry Blankespoor
Iowa Public Service Co
Farmers Lumber Company
Jay Bee
WM. Schouten
Farmers Lumber
Rock Valley, Iowa
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