What Ails The World From A Modern Home
A reflective ode to modern conveniences that shape daily life. The narrator sits in a well equipped house with a typewriter radio telephone thermostat lamp and electric devices delivering news education and comfort. He imagines travel by automobile and the era’s technological reach shaping society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamin Prantlett
Q. Henry
Guy de Maupassant
Rucvard Kipling
Marx
Twain
Herbert Spencer
Gibbon
Ordinary Citizen Reflects on Life and Civilization
A Jayhawker quotes a contemplative citizen lamenting the ease of modern pleasures. He notes he is an average person with an ordinary income and questions whether life’s simple joys were ever so accessible and worries about undermining civilization.
Nuisance Abatement Ordinance for Titonka Iowa Slaughterhouses
An ordinance defines nuisances from slaughterhouses and filth to abatement procedures and fines up to twenty thousand dollars for first offenses. It mandates removal within set times, authority of the Marshall, and penalties for neglect, plus provisions for notices and court costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Titonka
Iowa
State of
Mar
Board of Health
Titonka Ordinance Proclaims Immediate Enforcement
The document cites provisions on nuisance abatement and charges to owners or agents, plus repeal of conflicting ordinances. It names H. A. French as mayor and Wm Boyken as city clerk, with the ordinance to take effect upon publication as required by law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. A. French
Noxiou
Titonka
Boyken
Prairie Land and Timber in Iowa Counties Study
A census study shows Kossuth County leading in uncultivated prairie land with 10 000 acres. Northeastern Iowa counties Allamakee Clayton and Winneshiek report large timber holdings, notably Allamakee with 173 000 acres of timber from 411 274 total acres and Winneshiek with 6 000 timber acres from about 442 000 total.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Kossuth
Clayton
Allamakee
Winnesheik
Better Times Ahead Urged Thrift and Work Ethic
A column argues for thrift and self reliance during hard times. It warns against debt, urges saving, and asserts that recovery comes through work, frugality, and personal responsibility. The text promotes watching expenses and maintaining employment to weather economic swings.
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Lee
Wolfe
OWA Press
Eyee
THE
American Press Association
W. J. Denton
Harding
Taarinera
Admiral Ling
State Street
New York
N.Y
Matson Navigation Company
Gay Street
Laltimore
Munson Steam Ship Line
Beavertreet
New
York
Broadway
U. S
Cbs Mall
New Yor
Ny. Y
Shipping Board
Mouyner
Fl. Lane
Information Bureau
Washington
D.C
Alito
Washington, D.C
Titanka
ATEST
Wm. Boyken
Bee
Pete
Kossuth County
Pierre ,Bartor
Fitonka
Roy C. Bas
the Farmers' Co-Operative Society OF Wesley
Leeds
Wm. Spangler
Harringson & Dickinson
First National Bank
Algona
Lowe
G J. Clapsaddle
Gus Fredrickson
Bank of
Kem Titonka
Towa
NY Debre
Calla
Woden
M. P. Haggard
First Nat'l
Bank Bldg
W. B. Quarton
D. Quarton Kossuth County State Bank
John Deere
Lindsay
John Holtorf
U.S
Prinsees Supplies
Kodak
Bowen's Photo Finishing Co
Marshalltown
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