Chautauqua Three Day Program Announces Tickets and Shows
International Chautauquas present a three day series featuring bands lectures and performances to entertain merchants farmers and children with a season ticket granting access to all events. July 31 to August 2 include Morrow Bros Quartet Chicago Lady Entertainers Ewing’s Zouave Band and lectures by James H. McLaren Samuel Justin Sparks and others with officers Lee C. Wolfe E L Hansen and A. Schram.
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International Chautauquas
Morrow Bros
James H. McLaren
Morrowphone
Chicago Lady Entertainers
Kentucky Mountaineers
Samuel Justin Sparks
Chicago
Ewing
Titonka Topic Local Humor and Weather Note
The Titonka Topic notes a warm afternoon in Iowa and recalls a rare past July frost, referencing nearby Britt and Emmetsburg. It compares old weather memories with recent heat and mentions a Palo Alto Reporter retrospective. Local advertising rates are listed for the Titonka issue.
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World
Emmetsburg
Britt
Iowa
Ledyard
Palo Alto
Fourth of July Cold in Bailey Town
The Britt Tribune notes a cold disagreeable Fourth of July with few residents remaining in Bailey. It was the coldest Fourth in forty years, while some early celebrants gathered elsewhere.
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Bailey
Britt Tribune
Brother Bailey
Cost of Producing an Acre of Corn in War Times
An Iowa farming analysis compares prewar and wartime costs to grow thirty bushels per acre. Labor and feed costs have risen sharply while corn prices outpace expenses, suggesting profits but warning of long term soil and rust risks and the need for community insurance or monitoring to sustain fertility.
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Starmer
Wallace
Should League to Fight Wheat Rust In Iowa
Prof Hohamil Shimek of the State University urges a mutual insurance group to protect farmers from rust and crop blights. He argues such organizations can stamp out rust by early containment, even destroying initial infected grain to save the wider crop. Under current practice a rust outbreak risks spreading before harvest profits are secured.
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Ted Country
Iowa
Shimek
Towa
Hohamil Shimek
State University
Algona Fire Department Receives Lungmotor for Lifesaving
The Algona City Fire Department now has a lungmotor to revive asphyxiation victims from electric shock drowning or suspended animation. The device replaces the pulmotor as the best respiration restoration tool and will be kept at the city electric light and Power house for 24 hour access.
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Algona City
A.F. Dalley
Iowa
Algona
Fire Department
City Electric Light and Power House
Upper Des Moinea Republican
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Ewings
America
Chautauqua
People’s University
Lee C. Wolfe
E. L. Hansen
A. Schram
Lee
Wolfe
C. B. Wolfe
Frank Foster
Postoffice
Titonka
Henningsen Glo. CO
J. J. Budlong & Sons
Farmers’ Elevator CO
Anton, G. Holcomb
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