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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1921
Page
1
The editorial pieces reflect on President Harding’s inaugural optimism and confidence in the American people, discuss prohibition and wine legalization debates, note governor Kendall’s female appointments and jury duties, and comment on Iowa land prices and postwar prospects. It also includes columns on fashion, rural-to-urban shifts, high incomes, and tax policy.
The article praises the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and its April national campaign to curb Sunday abuses such as driving, sports, movies, and dancing, with a climactic push to ban tobacco. It argues for extending bans to chewing gum, cosmetics, and fashion fads, lauding American womanhood as emancipated and pivotal in moral purification, ending with a caution that the movement should also address its own vanity.
A short fragment notes weaknesses at a single sweep described as part of a larger process. The text references a phrase little weaknesses at one and the same sweep with uncertain context and no clear entities or events.
The piece notes Yap as a small Pacific island key to US cable interests. It says the Allies promised to protect American interests there but handed Yap to Japan, provoking US protest. It claims Washington then vastly increases troops in Hawaii by 125 percent and at the Panama Canal by over 300 percent.
Down at Oskaloosa a married couples swimming class runs nightly from eight to nine. In Washington’s Olympic peninsula Roosevelt elk are abundant and larger than Wyoming elk, with about 9000 estimated. Officials credit the elk with foresight during a recent storm, sheltering in forest havens and losing no numbers. The elk celebrate Theodore Roosevelt’s legacy and bear his name.
Earlham, a north Madison county town of about eight hundred, plans a ninety thousand dollar sewer project. The mayor and most council favor the measure though two councilmen oppose, arguing sanitation is vital for health and comfort in a prospering town with water works and electric lights.
Notice states the Rolfe Auto Co firm dissolved March 1 1921 by W B Eikenberry withdrawal. Rolfe Iowa date March 8 1921. Charlton Brothers By Frank B Charlton indicates continuation by remaining partners who assume obligations and debts.
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