Modern Ocean Liners Turn Into Cocktail and Breakfast Cafes
The Aquitania voyage contrasts ancient seafaring romance with 1927 ship life. Passengers mingle through luxury decks, perfumes, and cigarettes while cocktails flood the smoking room pools. News travels instantly, and stars like Pola Negri adorn the dining saloon as modern ships erase wheel houses and stargazing.
Farmers and funds swirl in Pocahontas county commentary
A Journal column critiques highway funding and bonds while noting limited paved progress. It urges focus on the Lincoln Highway route and reflects on farm fodder, corn silage, and dairy costs amid weather and policy pressures. It also covers editorial practices and political opinions about Hoover and Coolidge.
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Good Roads Association
State Highway Commission
Highway Commission
Lincoln Highway
Denison
Council Bluffs
Pocahontas County
Wall Street Advice Draws Iowa Bond Sale Note
Tama county sold road bonds totaling 204000 dollars at four and a half percent interest with a 2551 dollar premium. The piece cautions local Main Street readers that big financial influences govern communities and futures speculation shapes the corn sector. National Committeeman Chas Rawson notes East unsettled on the presidency, urging Western decisiveness.
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Tama County
Chas, Rawson
Quick Takes and Quips From a 1920s Column by Pickerill
A satirical column mocks public figures and issues of the era. It parodies attitudes toward prohibition, publishing, Italy, and Ford, with wry lines about Jews, Palestine, and social trends. The piece blends wordplay and topical jabs in a breezy opinion style.
No heaven inhabitants to mind in this sinful age
A reflective line questions whether any souls will be found in heaven given the sinful era, pondering spiritual outcome rather than earthly exploration.
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Mars
Heaven
Unclear fragment prompts ponderous thoughts on life and mind
The passage ponders life as a sequence of holidays and labor and asks whether tobacco dulls a brilliant mind or whether a mind would let it. It muses on death grief and mental telepathy and hints at an upcoming idea tied to a carburetor and a tank.
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Fifth Avenue
Jezebel
Racine
Primghar Bell
Sheldon Mail
Mail
Bell
The
Tribune
Barney
Bruce
Rolfe
Osceola County Tribune
Sibley
Coure
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Grant Mark Twain
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Tke Rip van Winkle
Arabia
Arcturus
Orion
Pleiades
Wmelin
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Lehman
Martin Conboy
New York
Jerome
Travers
Wall Street
Ine
Hoover
Jack Frost
Babson
Main Street
Coolidge
Winters, W. A. Farm
Mutual Telephone Company of
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Thomas E. Pickerill
Geneva
Henry Ford
Italy
Ford
Palestine
America
the State Savings Bank
Robert Bruce
James Bruce
Jos. McEwen
J. B. Kent
Chm
W. S. McEwen
R. J. Kent
Rolfe, Iowa
Labor
Goodyear
Pathfinders
Mone
Rolfe Auto Company
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