Printing Firm Weighs Diversion Into Prunes and Ads
In Rolfe Iowa a local printer laments rivals selling advertising while he Invests about 10000 in printing. He contemplates selling prunes to stay afloat and urges support for his paper The Arrow amid heated Iowa Senate race chatter between Brookhart and Herring. He notes backlash from political factions and hints at relocation if support wanes.
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Uncle Sam
Rolfe
The
Register
Nonpartisan League of
Wall Street
Senate
Clyde Herring
Herring
Ford
Tin Lizzy
Robin
Brookhart
America
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Promises Internal and External Relief
An OCRed advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures catarrh or deafness caused by catarrh. It describes an ointment for external use and an internal tonic that acts through the blood to restore mucous membranes. Sold by druggists for over 40 years by I. J. Cheney & Co.
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Hall
I. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Deliberation and votes in the party split over Herring
The piece argues against voting for a Democrat, says Republican opposition could harm the party more than many so-called Republicans, and predicts Brookhart’s likely election while allowing free speech. It likens the stance to a man slamming a door when home affairs fail.
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Clyde Herring
Senate
Herring
Brookhart
Going Nature One Better: Humans Alter Domestic Animals and Bees
The article notes humans have long modified domestic animals from dogs to birds and now fish and insects. It cites studies of pigeons producing red and blue colors through feeding chemicals, bee breeding for longer tongues to aid fertilization, and University of Chicago experiments on fish modification begun about five years ago.
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Ceylon
University of Chicago
Never Lincoln's Real Love
The article portrays Mary Todd as capable and upright and says Lincoln never deeply loved her before or after marriage. Biographers claim his heart lay with a former love, and he proposed to a second woman. Lincoln met Todd at sixteen as she courted Stephen Douglas, and their courtship endured bumps before a marriage that grew from necessity rather than romance.
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Mary Todd
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Mary
Miss Todd
Stephen Douglas
White House
Kidnaping Camera Explained By Pittsburgh Dispatch
The Pittsburgh Dispatch quotes a station photographer describing a six exposure camera used to take street photos of children. After developing the pictures they show them to the mother at the child’s home to obtain consent, calling this process kidnaping. The piece presents the definition with humor and satire.
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Pittsburgh Dispatch
Furs Drive North Auction Prices Amid Record Trapping
The Winnipeg Fur Auction Sales manager says trapping is up this season, with an abnormal catch. Economic laws push prices up as supply grows and slump when production rises and falls, a cycle he calls the eternal merry-go-round.
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Winnipeg Fur Auction Sales Company
County Health Work Report Encourages School Improvement
The 1921 22 County Public Health Nurse table compares schools in the county on health work. It urges parents to correct defects before the next inspection and notes plans to publish monthly nurse reports in all county papers. The best school and rural school will receive a pennant from local women’s clubs.
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Ediahontas
Town
Pocahontas County
J. W. Phillips
Iowa
Lena Phillips
Imitation Leaf Made of Fine Leather Heard in Conversation
In a park I showed an autumn leaf to a man with the wonderful relatives. He examined the leather leaf and recalled his uncle making imitation leaves. He sneered that theirs were much better.
Weather Forecast Breaks Records in England
The British meteorological office predicts ten days of fair weather possibly setting a record for long range forecasts in England. Wireless technology aided the advance, which would aid agriculture and others if reliable, according to Scientific American.
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British Meteorological Office
England
Wireless
Scientific American
Roman Relics Unearthed in Grace Church Street
Workmen uncover a late Roman wall at Grace Church Street London part of an inner chamber with painted wall decorations. Officials believe the walls once formed the forum of Taman Londen as a long buried relic emerges during cable laying.
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London
Grace Church Street
Museum Oficials
Taman Londen
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Kowa Press Sociatio
Redshell
Chicago
Towa
W. O. Payne
Representative
Nevada
Des Moines
Forum
Ag Senate
Payne
Petey
Kellogg’s
Kellogg
W. K. Kellogg
W. E H. Henderson
District Court of
State of
Ary, McClure
Timates
W. C. Shall
Rolfe, Iowa
Rolfe Auto CO
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