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Prominent Iowa Scholar Dead in Chicago Canal
State news and comments recount the death by suicide of C Harris, once a top Grinnell College student and interstate orator winner. He later joined Towne Harris Moor in Duluth and faced a nervous breakdown. The column also notes farm co op activity, electric hen-house alarms, and a pivotal vote by Senator Lafe Young shaping the Cedar Falls Soldiers Orphans Home into the State Teachers College.
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C. Harris
Chicago
Grinnell College
Iterstate
Robert G. Cousins
Cornell
Dick Yates
Tinois
State University
Northwest
Towne, Harris, & Moor
Duluth
Minn
Iowa
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
AL Drake
Grinéll
Drake
Mississippi
Kansas
Giinell
Marquette
Ames
Lafe Young
Senate
Soldiers’ Orphans
Cedar Falls
Enial
Young