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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1926
Page
4
Rural communities endure a months long mud blockade with horse drawn wagons and carts filling streets in Burlington as authors note traffic stagnation and prospect paving. Officials push for road improvements while legislators debate funding and law changes across northwestern Iowa amid public welfare, nurse registrations, and circus shows drawing crowds near Des Moines.
Dr Charles Keyes of Carnell college Mount Vernon leads an Iowa State Historical Society study on aboriginal settlements predating white occupation. He investigates mounds near Independence Buchanan county, noting they lie on long cultivated land with few traces remaining. The project reveals no prior recorded findings in the county.
An Iowa note lists craft wage rates from laborers to engineers, with journeyman figures. Ed Waterbury of Charles City plans a world tour promoting his Floyd county corn via car corn from his farm. Town history and Iowa education statistics appear, noting military service in the Civil War and Des Moines factory data. American football spreads to Russia as a cultural note.
Rudolph Gull of Anheuser Busch, Inc. stated in St. Louis on April 2 that there is no danger to the new 3.75 per cent malt tonic, despite talk of forcing its removal from the market. He argued the tonic would not be used to make beer, which contains about six per cent malt extract.
The text discusses a tonic described as containing 25 percent malt and being diluted five times. It notes that after dilution the tonic would have less alcohol than a beverage and could be used as a near beer. The fragment references alcohol content, dilution, and potential beverage use.
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