Des Moines Ledger Notes 1922 Mrs Roy’s Return and Iowa News
A Des Moines Bankers Life Insurance check for 10000 plus 300 interest arrives after a widow’s claim for a missing husband. Dr Harrold Roy, last seen on St Patrick’s Day 1921, surfaces in Kansas City and then Los Angeles after recalling his prior life. Iowa items include citizenship paradoxes, a Holland-descended Orange City film case, Sunday movie debates, and road issues as buses strain gravel routes.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Bankers Life Insurance Co
Des Moinees
St. Patrick’s Day
Harrold E. Roy
Hudson River
New York State
Roy
Kansas City
Dr. Roy
Kansas City Union Station
Frank Roy
New York
Banker’s Life Company
Los Angeles
Buffalo Center Builds New Consolidated School in Iowa
Buffalo Center in Winnebago County claims the first consolidated Iowa school since 1906. The historic system attracted visitors curious about its operation. The old building was plain, but the community took pride. At the recent election bonds totaling 125000 were approved for a new structure to replace the old one.
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Buffalo Center
Winnebago County
Iowa
Sparrows Nest Younker Brothers Store in Winter Surge
About a million English sparrows wintered around the Younker Brothers department store building filling exterior corners and nesting under the cornice. The firm expects cleaning costs in the hundreds. After mild weather most birds dispersed but hundreds still nest beneath the cornice. a plan to soak wheat with strychnine was considered but not carried out as the birds left.
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Younker Brothers Department Store
Department of Agriculture
Col L W Ainsworth Advocates Prison Labor For Roads
Col L W Ainsworth outlines a plan to use hundreds of prisoners from two overflowing penitentiaries to pave highways with bricks made from local clay. Prison labor would mold and burn bricks for paving while other inmates prepare the routes, aiming to relieve congestion and provide employment, citing Colorado highway improvements as precedent.
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L. W
Ainsworth
Ile
Colorado
Record Breaking Milk Yield Report From Sigourney Cow
W L Etter cites a Sigourney Holstein in Keokuk county that yielded 19 343 pounds of milk in one year ending February 20 1922 about nine and 67 100 tons with a milk analysis of .846 pounds of butter equal to 897 40 dollars at 40 cents per pound. The five year old cow belongs to LO Pollock and is described as a remarkable dairy animal in the local wet yard.
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Sigourney
Keokuk County
W. L. Etter
Sicournes
Beet Growers Sign Contracts for Sugar Beets at Beluond Factory
Farmers in Wricht and neighboring counties sign share based contracts for the upcoming beet season. Beluond factory will process the entire crop after being closed last year sending beets to Mason City previously. At $5.50 per hundred in New York, growers receive $6.55 per ton, a price many call good unless beet sugar drops. Factory provides cultivation help, largely Russian families living in shacks. workers pay the bill. Some families save, rent farms, and become local residents, stirring community protest.
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Wricht
Beluond
Mason City
New York
State agency to administer Sheppard-Towner act
Governor Kendall has assigned administration of the Sheppard-Towner maternity act to the State Board of Education which delegated duties to the Child Welfare Research Station at the State University of Iowa City. An act by the general assembly is needed to implement all requirements, with shared government funding and necessary appropriation.
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Ames
Iowa
Col Yepe
Grinnell
Cedar Falls
Orange City
Sioux County
Holland
Kendall
State Board of Education
State University
Iowa City
General Assembly
Mrs. Caroline Lisker Remembered In Poweshiek County
Mrs. Caroline Lisker, longtime Poweshiek County resident now in declining health, is noted in local records. The item highlights her years of residence, community involvement, and current condition as reported by neighbors and family.
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Caroline Lisker
Poweshiek County
Reverend Enoch Hill Reaches Fifty Years in Ministry
Reverend Enoch Hill, pastor of the Methodist church at Strahan Mills County, marks fifty years in the ministry. The anniversary drew broad community participation and thank yous from many communities he has served during his long tenure with his wife receiving congratulations.
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Enoch Hill
Methodist Church
Strahan
Mills County
Iowa Baptists prepare statewide drive for $15 million
Iowa Baptists join a national financial drive aiming to raise 15 million dollars with Iowa assigned 563062.92. Des Moines leaders Rev G W Cassidy and Rev G P Mitchel organize the state campaign while Baptist businessmen across the Northern Baptist convention unite under the Northern Baptist Laymen's Council formed in Chicago to push for a successful result.
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Iowa
United States
G. W. Cassidy
Des Moines
G. P. Mitchel
D. D
Sacred law and respect for statutes in a secure society
The text argues that violating any law erodes respect for the entire legal system and endangers stable institutions. It emphasizes the community's duty to uphold the law as sacred and supreme to prevent moral and social breakdown.
Famine in Russia Rising as Spring Melts Snow
Reports from the famine region in Russia reveal worsening conditions in the Volga valley with rising corpse discovery and spreading decompositions. Cannibalism is reported in Samara and nearby districts as survivors struggle to bury the dead. Potential epidemic danger grows while relief teams urge action and deny claims there is no longer need to feed the starving.
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Chicago
Russia
American Committee For Russian Famine Relief
Steinway Building
Volga Valley
Indi
Cate
Samara
American Friends ‘Service Committee
Quakers
Deretoire
Poland
Anna Nikiforoff
Dosnaya-Neutchica
Slavnitza
American Committee For Russian
Anonymous note thanks for apples from Barnet orchard
Mrs. Hearn of Barnet England received a stamped or unstamped letter thanking her for apples stolen from her orchard. The note claimed the writer had robbed the orchard for five years in succession and ended by praising the apples and wishing better fertilizer next year.
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Steven
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