Iowa News Items From the State Ledger
Clermont D Lopez dies at 100 in Charles City age. Spirit Lake water to be lowered about 1.5 feet. State fair commission lets contracts for cattle barn and salting at fairgrounds. Benton County livestock breeders grow. Orange township farm institute succeeds. Polk County TB hospital site chosen in Des Moines area. Johnson County Farmers Institute elects officers. membership up to 100 with state aid. Mrs John Jensen reports years of butter eggs and poultry sales near Humboldt. Sheep and wool demonstrations held in Sidney. two clubs to be formed in Davis County. Monroy area farmers plan cooperative elevator with speaker from Iowa State College. Union County Farm Bureau elects officers. 150 new members in clean up drive. Winnebago County vehicle registrations at 2,075. real estate transfers up in Polk and surrounding counties. Des Moines Evangelical ministers attend interchurch world conference. Ladora hogs too large for Chicago yards. one shipment refused. Des Moines hosts Methodist General Conference with Coliseum and open nights. Iowa poultry clubs enrollments and outcomes. 38,000 eggs set last year. state leaders urge support. Democratic State Convention delegates chosen. women delegates present. platform supports Wilson administration, League of Nations, suffrage, and universal peace efforts. Albert Reinbeck and August Strohbehn real estate moves.
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Clermont D. Lopez
Charles City
Spirit Lake
State Fair Commission
Benton County
Orange Township
Black Hawk County
Twentieth
St Joseph Streets
Des Moines
Polk County Tubercular Commission
Johnson County Farmers Institute
R. P. Adams
Solon
C. M. Fountain
Ll. F. Marford
FP. Graff
John Jensen
Arthur Road
Humboldt
Sidney
Walter Savage
Delbert Wiley
Farrigut
R. Teachout Farm
T. GC. Stone
Iowa State College
Davis County
Delaine Club
Anly
Monroy
M. K. Culver
Farm Bureau of
Union County
Pres
Colbert
McGen Secy
Leonard White
Treas
W. W. Marrow
Bureau
Winnebago County
Bisck Hawk County
Farm Bureau
J. W Cover- Cele
Ames Bureau Association
Clara M. Schar
A. A. Burger
Polk
County Recorder
Evangelical Churches of Iowa
Interchurch World Conference
Iowa
Inter Church World Movement
Evangelical Churches of
Chicago
Joe Cummings
Eadora
Stock Yard
Methodist General Conference
C. P. Parle
Poultry Club
Towa State College
Towa
Towa State Poultry Breeders’ Association
San Francisco
Wilbur W. Marsh
Waterloo
Edwin T. Meredith
Tom Steele
Sioux City
PF. Reed
Ottumwa
W. D. Jamieson
Shenandoah
W. J. Casey
Knoxville
J. W. Reynolds
Creston
Louis Murphy
Dubuque
Eiter
Wilson
League of Nations
Meredithn
Wrest White
Jawa
San Praneleco
Iawa
Cedar Falls
Otto Albert
Reinbeck
Gus Treimer
Teeinbeck
Alfred Sieh
August Strohbehn
Albert Wittum
Morrison
Heeta
Bayer Aspirin Ad Claims World Famous True Tablets
An advertisement promotes genuine Bayer Aspirin tablets with the Bayer name stamped on each pill and package. It lists approved uses from colds and headaches to neuralgia and rheumatism, noting small box sizes of 12 tablets and inexpensive prices.
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BAYER
Drugzista
Mother Gray
USA
Mathers Sor
Deuggists
Mother Gray CO
le Roy, N
Excited Young Man Seeks Company Clerk in Lunch Counter
A visibly distressed young man argues at a counter for a hamburger steak demand. He complains about not being understood and mentions a need to be a company clerk as part of a routine triplicate process in the Home Sector.
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Feller
Kidney Health Advisory Urges Salt Flush for Kidney Aid
A vintage health ad warns Americans to guard kidneys from overfed diets. It promotes Jed Salts a lemon juice and urine cleanser taken with water each morning to flush and stimulate kidneys, claim relief from back pain bladder issues and general decline.
Not Her Fault Aunty Declines Milk For Kitten
A cat owner refuses further milk after a spill on the car, arguing milk is costly to waste. The aunt and Lilly argue over whether the kitten deserves more, amid a family dispute over value and care.
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Lilly
Lily
Fragmented Dialogue from a Reading Page
The text presents a garbled dialogue between a car dealer and a customer about a car part and a device that runs longer than thirty minutes. It also includes stray lines about a person named Cordelia and a nonsensical exchange on milk origin.
World News Highlights From The Era Of Wilson Era
President Wilson nominates Charles St Grane of Chicago as minister to China to succeed Dr Paul Reineke who resigned. William Phillips of Massachusetts nominated as minister to the Netherlands. The conference report on the Cummings Wach DSM is approved by the Senate. House committee cuts appropriations for government departments. Army publicity bureau in New York suspends its syndicate service to 2,800 newspapers. Eight masked gunmen robbed 40 Tammany club members at cards in New York, about 35,000 in cash taken. Senate criticizes lobbying and League of Nations pressure. Teresa Sullivan leads move to unionize 12 000 New York telephone operators. Neenah Wisconsin reports 80 percent vote for mill union plan at Kimberly Clark. Reno establishes a cowboy union under labor council. U S customs inspectors seize 1800 worth of liquor from Genesee yacht at Key West.
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Charles St. Grane
Chicago
Wilson
Ching
Paul Reinseh
Tammany Club
Eighth Assembly District
New York
Senate backs one-cent postage and wage data committee
The senate post office committee approved one-cent local postage and a wage data committee to study the issue, while railroad executives pledged cooperation with Director General Hines. Government efforts to cut wing costs continue as labor statistics report a 2 percent price rise, and Congress passes the railroad bill conference report by 250 to 150. Franklin Murphy former New Jersey governor dies at 74 in Palm Beach Florida.
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Senate Post Office Committee
Washington, I
Hines
Washington
Wilson
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Franklin Murphy
New Jersey
Palm Beach
Fis
Petrograd Typhus and Flu Toll Rise in War-Stricken City
Reports from Prof. Hermann Zeidler of Viborg indicate Petrograd faces severe living conditions as typhus cholera and influenza spike deaths. By January 15, Petrograd deaths reached about 3 000 as the population dwindles under wartime strain.
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Petrograd
Hermann Zeidler
Viborg
Domestic Misa Anlin Whitney Sentenced in California
Domestic Misa Anlin Whitney was sentenced in Oakland to one to four teen years in the state penitentiary on a criminal syndicalism charge. She was known as a social and charity worker and lecturer.
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Misa Anlin Whitney
Oakland
Cal
Benitentliry
Woman credits Dr Pierces Goldson Recovery and Pills
Mrs N P Jenson of Bor reports five years to regain health with Dr Pierces remedies. She praises Goldson Medical Recovery Favorite Prescription and Pleasant Pellets as unmatched purgatives and tonics.
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N. P. Jenson
Bor
One and the Same Sir Horace Plunkett
A quirky anecdote attributes versatility to Sir Horace Plunkett of Ireland, noting his roles as student farmer author politician and reformer. After a Dublin lecture on helping the poor a lady joked he needed a wife and elocution, and he quips that these are only one.
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Sir Horace Plunkett
Ireland
Dublin
Gentle Cascarets Ad Teaches Sleep-Time Relief
An old ad extols Cascarets as a gentle laxative that works while you sleep. It mocks harsh pills and saluta Sighs about bloating headaches and constipation, comparing treatment to a satirical marriage vow and public jests.
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Iowa News
Florer Donald
Feiss
da Aherns
Poweshick Courty
MicDsnanht
University of Iowa
James B. Weaver
Benton County Farm Bureau
Agricultural Extension Department
Willam H. Lapp
Herrick
Torr
Mportant
Mothera
Fletcher
Elpher
Cordelia
Senate
Wiliam Ms. Phillips
Massachusetts
Netherlands
Afr. Pallips
George P. Hampton
Partners
Na- Hong Council
Congress
Senaate
House Committee On Appropriations
Beefuss
the Army At
Thomas
Colorado
New York City
Teresa Sullivan
The
Telephone Operators’ Union of
Boston
Neenah
Wis
Kimberly-Clark Chain of Paper Mills
Rill Council
Cowboys’ Union
America
Reno
Nev
Trades and Labor Council
American Federation
United States
Key West
W. Kanderlcht, Ix
Organized Labor
House
Yeas
Mathias Erzberger
Berlin
Erzberger
Karl Heifferteh
Russia
London
Diet
Tokyo
Herr Pault
Cuba
Brazi
Waffalres
Senate Commerce
Jones
Damascus
Houran
Falestine
Repubican
Mondell
St. Olaf College of
Northfield
Minn
Harold Thorsen
St Paul
Murmansk
Lingds
Varda
Norway
Noa
Rostov-on-Don
South
Bona Fida
House of Commons
Okmulgee
Oklo
Mls
Jack Dempsey
Jacek Kearna
Toulouse
France
Rabat
Morocco
Spahn
Yucatta
Esparanan
Cafe de Paris
Tron County
Marion McDonough
Tyon River
Bilel
Clean
Abenovieh Steamship Company
Buenos Aires
Bun
Vulcan
Rome
Constantinople
Bosphorus
Pierca
Advica
Mense
Florce
Buffalo
Holland
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