Political Orphan Offered Asylum to Farm Labor Platform
A Farmer-Labor Party of Iowa letter to editor Marion Bruce proposes Marion Bruce run as their candidate for Pocahontas county. The platform urged government banking, pensions, tax shifts, public works, six hour day, and public utilities ownership. The author endorses independence and declines joining the Farmer-Labor ticket citing financial and political concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackass
Farmer-Labor Union of America
Executive Council
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Marion Bruce
The
Rolfe Arrow
Rolfe
Bruce
Associated Press
Pocahontas County
Farmer-Labor Party of Iowa
Farmer-Labor Party
Roy Marion Harrop
Chin
Lum
Friend of Ours
Independent Candidacy Declared for 77th District
Barney Bruce announces as an independent candidate for the office of representative in the 77th District Pocahontas County subject to voter decision in November. He states his run is irrespective of party alignment.
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Pocahontas County
Barney Bruce
Independent Senator Norris praised amid Nebraska race
The piece discusses Norris as a principled but conflicting independent figure, Nixon like political dynamics in Nebraska with Hitchcock and Morris, and how party loyalties may split voter support. It also touches on Hoover drought talks, farm prices, and a light dig at aviation records and ladies' allowances.
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Senator Norris
Nebraska
Norris
Morris
Hitchcock
Washington
Ford claims autos lift public intelligence
Bay City Times reports Henry Ford argues the automobile raises average intelligence though he concedes not to tell traffic cops. The item reflects an era view on cars and social perception without broader context.
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Bay City Times
Henry Ford
Rolfe Public School Textbooks Over Several Grades
The article lists extensive textbook titles and authors used at Rolfe Public School from Primer through Grade XII and beyond. It includes readers, arithmetic, geography, language, literature, science, civics, Latin, and business courses with authors such as Gordy Beard and Bagley, Brigham, McTurnan, and Wells Hart, among others. The piece ends with a quotation about Robert Quillen describing a rare type of wealthy person.
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Young and Field
Aldine
Brigham and McFarlane
Ritchie
Europe
Gordy
Horn-Ashbaugh
Palmer
L. Engleman McTurnan
H. Brigham and
McFarlane
Beard and Bagley
Horn-Ashbaugh Speller
Engleman
McTurnan
Potter
Jeschke
Gillet
Broome and Adams
Winslow
Caldwell and Meier
Lewis and Hosie
Wells Hart
Smith-Reeve
Hunter
Whitbeck
Waters
Trilling and Williams
Halleck
Bourne
Benton
Knapp
Virgil
Ovid
Barnes
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J. J. Bruce
J. H. Lighter
Preehens
Roger Babson
Babson
St. Louis
West
America
Kry
al Smith
South
North
Hoover
Drouth
Brookharts
Oo - Dallas News
Minneapolis
Clarence Darrow
Tom and Betty
Animal Friends
Bookland
Knowlton
Ritchie Caldwell
Brigham
Newcomer
Fuller, Brownlee and Baker
Ritter Wilmarth
Williamson
Magruder
Ellwood
Robert Quillen
Jolliffe’s Bake Shop
General Electric
Monitor
GENERAL @ ALL*STEEL
B.C
Central States Electric Co
Rolfe, Iowa
State Savings Bank
Robert Bruce
James Bruce
Jos. McEwen
J.B. Kent
Chm
W.S
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