High Living Costs and Reform Proposals Stir Community
Ranting editorial argues profiteers are not sole cause of high living costs, urging consumer restraint and warning against government action. It mentions disbarment proceedings against lawyer George H. Clark over Rathbun pardon fraud and outlines the state court setup. Also reports on Benton county water-borne illness fears from Henkle creek, mining district relief tours, and Y M C A speaker Reginald D Acheson returning from France with plans for the local church and upcoming church activities and picnics.
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George H. Clark
Ida Grove
M. FE. Hutchinson
W. L. Harding
Clark
Hutchinson
Rathbun
Iowa
37Th General Assembly
Linn
Cedar
Jones Counties
Henkle Creek
Benton County
Curle
Garrison
Board of Health
Dievtor
Among the Churches Norwegians hold services and notices
Norwegian Lutheran Church will conduct services Sunday August 17 at 10 30 A M led by Rev Svene Strand A Bee Methodist prayer meeting Thursday evening Episcopal Church The Estherville pastor plans a short vacation with wife and son to Roueau Minnesota The pastor's eldest son H C Torhet accompanies him Morning worship next Sabbath to be led by Rev
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Reginald D. Acheson
France
YY. M. A
Herbert Clegg
Algona
Charce
Bypworth League
Neds
Orivans
Metber
Javt Srning
Avternet
Norwegian Lutheran Church
Svene Strand
Bee Methodist. Episcopal Church
Estherville
John
Roueau
Minnesota
H. C
Torhet
Ponafarin
Union Baptist Church Plans Rejected After Meeting
Last Thursday evening at 2 30 velock the Union Baptist Church in Arthur Wurley pastor held a called business meeting to accept or reject plans for a new church building. The group adopted the plan and the vote was unanimous with no dissent. Services are announced for next Sunday at the usual hours and prayer meeting Thursday at 7 0. Please be prompt.
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Union Baptist Church
Arthur, Wurley
Presbyterian Services Next Sunday at Local Churches
Presbyterian Church schedules union and separate services for next Sunday August 17. Sunday School at 10 and preaching at 11 at the Presbyterian church. Union services will be held at the Baptist church at 87.
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Presbyterian Church
The
Baptist Church
War trophies at the Iowa State Fair display relics from France
Uncle Sam will again cooperate with the Iowa State Fair by sending a large collection of war trophies and relics from the battlefields of France. The exhibit aims to educate both laypersons and fighters about the various implements of war that helped defeat Germany.
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Sam
France
Iowa
Germany
Milk goats to be at state fair in Iowa
An Iowa State Fair segment notes a milk goat show expanding this year with amplified classifications and more prize money. The feature, newly added to the luxury class, signals growing dairy interest as more entries pour in. The goats will be exhibited in the Sheep Pavilion.
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Iowa
No Change in Admission Prices At Town Suite
The UT Lo notes admission remains at 60 cents per bushel for entry to the Town Suite Pate terai, with outside gate prices set at 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children. General admissions vary by day from 10 to 25 cents, including 25 cents on Preparation Days and Music Day, plus applicable war tax.
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Pate Terai
Ceadrat
Prosperous In Flax And Linen Bedding Luxury
The article notes linen bedding as a great luxury for American housewives content with cotton sheets while in Lithuania flax thrives with factories scarce. Lithuanian households reportedly possess chests full of linen bedding, described as beautiful and durable for any bed.
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Lithucnia
Noted aviators engaged for Iowa state fair display
The Iowa State Fair hires two famed aviators, Touts Gettson and Lieut. Walter A. Pack of Chicago, to perform dramatic daytime and nightly air displays from August 22 for seven days. They promise sensational, low altitude stunts, aerial battles, and barrel rolls, offering a vaudeville style show unseen at prior fairs.
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Iowa State Fair Management
Touts
Gettson
Walter A. Pack
Ith
Chicago
Ranernibers
Lincoln Beachy
Art Smith
Audeville
Iowan
Messrs
Gertson
Pack
Wilson & Co's Big Six at Iowa Falls Horse Show
Wilson & Co will bring their all-horse team to the Iowa Falls horse shows, featuring Hug the monster wagon and silver-mounted trappings. The 1918 Iowa State Fair act drew praise, and patrons expect strong display of raft horses and fine breeds from Iowa.
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Wilson & Co
Hug
Iowa
Iowa Falls
Musings of Martha on working women and mornings
A reader writes that the so called wonderful businesswomen may be fine but prefers seeing one rise early and prepare breakfast for ten before night, praising practical homemaking over bustling business life.
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Martha
Stickingness and the Yelling Stone’s Odd Metaphor
A fragmented passage compares stubbornness to a stone that “gathers no moss” yet collects much, as flora fail to find its place and cling like a dog to a root, illustrating stubborn attachment and nature’s attempt to adapt.
Public quarrel over bonnet purchase ends in bill dispute
In a tense exchange Uncle Eben praises a bonnet given to his wife while Daclena and others debate who should pay. The dialogue centers on gratitude, ownership, and the obligation to foot the bill, revealing household tensions over a gift.
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Eben
Daclena
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Tuifen
Port Dodge
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