Activities of county nurse report and rural welfare notes
A county nurse’s report describes home visits, Red Cross collaborations, and nursing actions including infants, prenatal care, and clothing aid after a house fire. It notes school absences, rural health deficits, and analyses from Iowa Health Bulletins on child welfare and disease prevention. It ends with humorous yet cautionary lines about behavior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H.C
Red Cross
Board of Supervisors
Sioux City
Ehphange
Woman's Progressive Club of
Laurens
Iowa
Iowa Health Bulletin
Uncommon Sense on Golf and Life by Sam Blake
The piece argues that winning is not everything in golf or life. It praises sportsmanship over cheating and warns that extreme pursuit of victory can harm health happiness and fulfillment. It cites John Burroughs as an example of balancing success with enjoyment and contribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Burroughs
John Blake
Something to Think About by F. A. Walker
A 1922 column urges self discipline to avoid bad habits that ruin ambition. It warns dangers within habits, moods, and lack of faith, likening life paths to a ship needing a rudder. The piece ends noting an inventor’s small caliber pistol with an electric flashlight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. A. Walker
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Farmers' Week Opens at Ames With Low Fares Lineup
Ames hosts Farmers Week opening January 29 with classes daily through February 3. Program highlights include Hessian fly control and pig rations, plus meetings of Ayrshire breeders and cattle clubs. Admission is free. visitors pay rail fare and maintenance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Ames
Iowa Ayrshire Breeder’s' Association
Iowa Guernsey Cattle Club
Iowa Holstein-Friesian Breeders’ Association
Iowa- Jersey Cattle Club
State Corn and Small Grain Growers’ Association
Iowa State Dairy Association
Iowa Cow Test Supervisors’ Association
Epworth League Devotional Meeting in Plover
Epworth League hosts Sunday evening devotional on January 14 with topic Personal Conducted Travel in the Indies led by Flossie Roberts. Woman's Community Club members invited to County Federation meeting January 16 at Laurens Masonic hall with noon covered dish luncheon. Mr and Mrs Elmer Allbee mourn loss of their infant son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rolfe
Plover Drug Store
Lee Hess
Fort Dodge
C. M. Daniels
Battle Creek
H. Mann
Lake City
Iowa
Plover High
Varina High
Plover
H. H. Grove
F. R. Eggspuehler
Order of Eastern Star
Masonic
W. W. Wheeler
Wes
Joyce
Ray Ferguson
Rodman
Presbyterian Church
J. Hughes
Antine
J. J. Hughes
Jas. Webb
Elmer Allbee
Baby
Mallard
Webb
Plover and
West Bend High School
Epworth League
Indies
Flossie Roberts
Woman's Community Club of
County Federation
Laurens
El Whitney develops the first model of the cotton gin
In 1792 Yale graduate El Whitney faced poverty in Georgia after losing a tutoring post. Mrs. Greene hosted him and a visiting Augusta group discussed cotton processing. Inspired by their need to separate seed from fiber Whit ney built a working model of a cotton gin in Savannah using local resources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yale College
el Whitney
Westboro
Mass
Georgia
Greene
Savannah
Whitney
Augusta
General Greene
South
Seatelands
Southern visitor cares for city children on Bronx park day trip
A southern woman helps supervise 56 tenement children on a day outing to Bronx Park and the zoo. She finds reward in giving the kids a view of sky and grass. A teen girl reveals she has been to Bronx Park many times and will visit Coney Island next Sunday. A wise man notes women’s minds in matters of kisses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bronx Park
Zoo
Coney Island
Everybody's_ Magazine
Plover Edges Grinnell In Extra Period Tilt
In a tight ball game Rolfe Logic Tuesday night Plover and Grinnell battled to a 14 14 tie at regulation. In the five minute overtime Bradgate edged ahead 18 16 as Pollock Ferguson Tellier and Jeffries led the scoring for their teams with Hess and Handher subbing in.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rolfe
Plover
Grinnell
Pollock A Ferguson
Tellier
Jeffries
Hess
Handher
West Bend
Bradgate
Association
Dodge
Presbytery Meetings Continue This Week and Next
Public notice outlines continuing meetings at the Presbytery church with varied speakers. Also appears to advertise a public sale of the late Wayfield Campbell estate including livestock and farm equipment to be held on the farm near Plover, bids to the highest bidder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Powhatan ‘Township
Pocahontas County
Presbytery Church
I.t. Will
Pilot Faction
Wayfield Campbell
Plover
Chas. E. Watts
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Woman's Rescue Home
Des Moines
American Assny
Roosevelt
Sacred Heart
D.M. T
Havelock
Eee
Vaal
Sam Blake
People's Savings Bank
Pocahontas
Busine
Erie
State OF Iowa
CG. A. Garlock
Co. A. Garlock
C. A. Garlock
Chas
Watts
Shaw
C. E. Miller
L. G. Garlock
George H. Wasson & Company
Rakite
Geo. H. Wasson & Company
Geo. H. Wasson & Co
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