Gasoline tractors transform American farming scenes
An optimistic feature extols the tractor as a superior, versatile farmhand enriching fields across the nation. It praises efficiency, power, and endurance over horses, noting benefits from California rice paddies to northern plowing, hauling, and lighting fields.
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Ndt
Banda
Farmer van
Ile Shade
Old Sol
Jupiter Phyius
Palmer
Jack ‘Frost
Traetor
California
Rat
Drowning Tragedy Strikes Iowa River Trip
In Iowa near Camanche Ray Batehelder aged 20 and Millard Thompson 21 drown while swimming with Gerald Thompson 8. The women bodies were recovered quickly but post mortem tests failed. An alleged coal combine inquiry moves forward in Council Bluffs with Attorney General Travner urging county attorneys and sheriffs to investigate possible price fixing and shipment halts.
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Ray Batehelder
Millard C. Thompson
Gerald Thompson
Yaers
Prothers-I Law
Mississippi River
Nca
Batehelder
Millard
Thompson
Goutiell Bluffs
Thayner
Lhe
Lea
Hurangea
Travner
Council Bluffs
Council
Feil
Trade Secrets and Priceless Formulas Across History
A survey into the value and loss of trade secrets cites historic examples from Chartreuse liqueurs to Maraschino Cordial, noting how private families and governments guarded recipes, the high prices paid, and the lasting impact when secrets perished with inventors. It highlights hidden processes for dyes and gutta percha, plus a note on monastic and royal secrecy and the quest to reproduce vanished formulas.
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Oxford Press
England
Gurateliglel
Lon Angeles Times
Ly Geanile
Finney
Uneda
Maraschina
Bryan to Tour Iowa Campaign Tour Details
A garbled report notes Bryan planning a tour of Iowa with stops in Des Moines and Asheville. It mentions dates October 11 to 14 and a statewide election on October 18. It references speeches on prohibition and ethics, with planned meetings at various venues including a camp and division events.
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Bryan
Lowa
Des Moines
Willan Jennings
Ima
Gemer
Ashavlle
Ivan Sote
Hla
Geyan Wil
Hata
Camp Lorie
Jewy
Maloes
Tryan
Aid Conservation of Meat Nationwide Committee Appointed
Secretary Slouston named townsmen to a nationwide committee to promote raising beef and to encourage slaughtering of broad stock for national meat supply conservation. Members include T. G. Was Wilbar W W. Marsh Waterloo Arioss J KY Isell Mal Monry GC Wallace Des Moines Shermloach Rev W Cas cady Whiling and George W French Davenport.
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Slouston
T. G
Wilbar
W. Marsh
Waterloo
C. Think
Arioss J. KY
Isell
Mal Monry
Potatoes Grower from California Junction Claims Record Yield
W A Smith of California Junction reports a potato harvest from a single eye cut and planted. He dug the crop and weighed it a bushel and one pound per plant, claiming a higher yield would have occurred with timely rain.
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Missouri Valley
California Junction
Large Scale Harvest Prospects Reported Across Regions
Fragmentary notes describe expected bumper yields with reports of 85 bushels per acre and substantial gains in overall production. Observers caution that some figures remain unclear while optimism grows for a strong harvest season nationwide.
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CIA
Severe Electrical Storm Hits Ames Area
A severe electrical storm struck Ames causing many injuries and fires in several houses. Telegraph and telephone wires were damaged and trees toppled. North of Ames the corn suffered slight damage from heavy rain and wind. The storm brought torrential rain for nearly thirty minutes.
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Ames
Bather Electrocuted Near Rock Valley
A 17 year old, Alpheus Roorda, son of Mr and Mrs H Roorda, died instantly after contacting a toe wire on a hydraulic sand dredge while swimming near a sand pit west of Rock Valley.
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Rock Valley
Alpheus Roorda
H. Roorda
Hawarden City Hall Plan Receives Corner Purchase
Hawarden city council closed a deal to buy the George Luckey corner for the new city hall project, signaling the site selection and purchase finalized for the municipal building.
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New Hawarden City Hall
Hawarden
George Luckey
Road funds split across counties under federal aid plan
Des Moines reports Treasurer J H Voyt will distribute counties’ share of the motor vehicle road fund for April to August. A $408,538.80 federal aid allocation is set aside for Serletal aid roads, matching a similar federal amount. counties receive $479,050 from the distribution with $240 per township. Also notes Iowa to host conferences on winter wheat and rye acreage with ISU President Raymond A Pearson and others attending in multiple cities. Nevada reports Ben Knight sues his mother in law for $1,000 alleging alienation of his wife’s affections born of a January 1905 marriage and escalating tensions through 191?
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Des Moines
Statea
J. H. Voyt
Conttiets
Ames
Iowa
Raymond A. Pearson
Iowa State College
Atlanta
Washington
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Spokane
Minnesota
Missouri
Arkansas
Texas
Okahoma
Kansas
Nebraska
South Dakota
Wyoming
Colorado
New Mexico
Arizona
Mia Deparchmett
Nyriculture
Nevada
Ben Knight
Elie Ruby
Ethel Knight
Allen Ruby
Woman Near Electrocution At Local Carnival
Dubuque report says Mrs Frank Wilson 32 narrowly escaped death when she touched a live wire at the dismantling carnival merry go round. She remains in a precarious condition. Carnival management posted a surety bond for damages.
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Dubuque
Frank Wilson
Carnival Company
Child Plague In Davenport Reported
Davenport reports two infantile paralysis cases in the first stage. Health authorities have established a strict quarantine and will take measures to prevent spread across the city. Only one case was previously recorded in Davenport last year.
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Davenport
Denison Official Resigns from Exemption Board
Portz Denison County Auditor quits the exemption board after tendering resignation to the governor. He says serving on the board cripples his efficiency as a writer and that others could serve without sacrificing another public office.
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Denison
Portz
Parte
Advertising as wartime business solution keynote event
Advertising, the solution of business wartime problems, will be the keynote of the business men's institute held October 9 and 10. It marks the annual convention of the Associated Advertising Clubs of Iowa in Mevada. Cambridge Canning Co opens for business contracting 1000 acres of sweet corn for a pack of about 5 carloads.
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Business Men's Institute
Associated Advertising Clubs of
Iowa
Mevada
Cambridge Canning Company
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Claus Aistuwery
Euler
India
Gondon
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Buena
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Moroni
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Wright
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