Iowa Wartime Dispatches Highlight Food Prices and Inspections
A long Iowa roundup reports wartime measures and local concerns. It notes county food administration price caps for flour and sugar, ongoing registration drives, desertions of crime in Sioux City, and patrols against hooliganism. It also mentions educators and police actions, local industry updates, and community efforts amid the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa County
Marengo
Freda Mitcean
Aaw
Sioux City
Chist
Hareman
Wolal
Civiliense
Home Guard
Uncle Sam's
Camp Dodge
J. N. Baumel
State Reformatory
Anamosa
State Board of Control
Charles C. McClaughry
Como Connecticut
F. H. Buelow
Waterloo
Red Cross
Army Y. M. C. A
G. H. Gendell
Acouts
Leonard Christiani
Walsh
Galva
Christiant
Germany
United States Army
Denmark
Dubuque High School
J. H. Metcalf
United States
Public Reseaue
Washington
Paris
Time wasting ad prompts store lawsuit claim
A fragmented notice urges timely action and hints at a potential legal action over delayed advertisement placement and lost earnings at a grocery or food store. It emphasizes punctuality and opportunity while warning about monetary losses from lateness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E Food
Liszt and Chopin in Modern Stage Adulation and Farm Bureau Note
The text contrasts Liszt's fame driven by adulation with Chopin's more withdrawn nature. It then shifts to a Farm Bureau letter arguing for organizing a county farm bureau, praising a natural farmer adviser, and detailing how a breeder’s association and county agent could boost cattle breeding, beef quality, prices, and overall agricultural production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liszt
Chopin
Paul Rosenfield
Seven Arts Magazine
T. M. Simonson
Few Birds Sing in August
The Terre Haute Star notes August as a quiet month for birds due to molting, with song sparrows and others rarely singing. It marks late summer to early fall, blending summer beauty with hints of autumn, as rose blossoms fade and goldenrod appears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terre Haute
Coffee in Verse Aired By Poets And Philosophers
Henry Dwight Sedgwick notes in the Yale Review that poets overlook coffee for rhymes and tradition. He jokes philosophers ignore breakfast and Kant enjoys a morning pipe. He laments poets neglect coffee while Pope referenced it only in afternoon company.
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Shakespeare
Pope
Henry Dwight Sedgwick
Yale Review
Reading Life Through Authors Fielding Zola And Tom Jones
The writer contrasts Fielding and Zola's causes and effects in fiction. He argues Fielding portrays life filtered by experience, while Zola treats life as tabulations. Tom Jones may have lasting vitality as a life sketch rather than a mere tabulation. The piece notes readers seek curiosity and knowledge in novels.
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Fielding
Zola
L’assommoir
Tom Jones
Lfe
Fragmentary quote fuels debate on mysterious patient
A garbled transcription presents characters discussing a patient. The scene shows confusion over the individual's condition with odd phrasing and uncertain descriptors, highlighting the difficulty of understanding the reported event. No clear names or locations emerge.
Bird Believed to Cause Barn Fire in Minnesota
Middle River Minnesota reports a barn owned by farmer William Huff burned after a bird allegedly carried a twig with a glowing end into the hay loft. A nearby brush fire burned as a nesting bird traveled from it to the barn. Two fine horses died in the blaze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Webster City
General Pershing
Harlan F. Parker
Creston
George W. Hanna
Luverne
Hanna
Charles Hall
Coin
State of Washington
Seattle
Clinton County
Red Cross
Adair County
State Council of Defense
Sioux City
Germany
State Federal Employment Bureau
Des Moines
Carl N. Kennedy
Garden Commission
John MacVicar
Dick Aukes
Wellsburg
Aukes
Julia A. Robinson
State Library
Commuigaton
State Commission
State Historical Building
Johnson Brigham
Woodbury County
William Ehlera
Ehlers
John Mushman
Deep River
George Heitshuden
Son Autom
Williamsburg
Hoitshuden
Harlan
G. Kersey
Harvey
Kersey
Denison
T. J. Morgan
Wallace
Farragut
Vene Com
Harry Field
Shenandoah
Middle River
Minn
William Huff
Here
Huff
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State Department of Gible
Suger
Pwest
Iowa
Per
B. Hollenbeck
Santa Clara
Jaros
C. M. Patterson
Jane Dillion
Rolfe Opera House
America
Jane Dilson
A Farm Bureau
Int & Son
Rolfe, Lowa
Bird Burns Farmer's
Thomas A. Edison
Edison
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