Horsebeck Riding Gains in Des Moines Area
Des Moines area horsemanship grows with Wakonda country club hosting a 150-horse barn and spring drills. Fort Des Moines school spurs contests and riding classes with officers and wives among participants. John Brown memories surface as Cedar County house linked to the abolitionist, while Tolles, a Brown friend, hosted him in Fabor. Federal gift for Iowa College of Medicine eyed with $450,000 annual state support for five years to build a new medical unit. Board of Education to oversee. Grounded in Iowa, bonus applications climb to 78,000 with 45,000 acknowledged. 22 million promised may fall short by 2 million. Descriptions of officer candidates, tent city, and canal provisions for budget. Shallow Des Moines river waters blamed for winter fish deaths after ice suffocation.
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Des Moines
Wakonda
School of Instruction
Fort Des Moines
Col
H. B. Cavenaugh
E. A. Williams
J. C. Mullenix
J. Yuditeky
C. L. Miller
John Brown
Harper’s Ferry
Washington
Cedar County
Red Cedar River
Charles W. Tolles
Washington, Town
Fabor
Brown
Tabor
Iowa College of Medicine
Iowa City
State Board of Education
State
Iowa
Iowa proposals seek three new normal schools
Two bills before the general assembly propose establishing three additional normal schools at Storm Lake Red Oak and Washington with annual funding of 100 000 per school The house bill sets 275 000 per school while the senate bill 250 000 per school funding a building each biennium for six years The house bill allows donated sites or buildings to cut state costs and may spark gifts from rival cities Newton in Jasper county hosts Mary Lyday returned missionary from India honored at a Newton Lutheran luncheon she spoke on Fifty years in the work.
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General Assembly
Storm Lake
Red Oak
Washington
Senate
Board of Education
Newton
Jasper County
India
Mary Lyday
Newton Lutherans
City Seeks Flag Policy Across Spencer and Polk County
Spencer Clay county proposes using many flag poles on business houses with a Washington's Birthday display of Old Glory. A pending bill would require flags to fly daily over public buildings and schools both town and county. In Polk county a township painted flags on school house fronts, but cheap imitations spoil the effect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spencer
Clay County
Commercial Club
Washington
Polk County
Ft Des Moines Camp to Expand Training for Seventh Corps
Fort Des Moines will be the largest civilian officer training camp in the Seventh corps area and among the nation’s largest. Under the new plan the camp here will be doubled in size and enroll between 2,000 and 2,500 trainees, according to C. S. Walker civilian aide to the secretary of war.
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Ft. Des Moines
Seventh Corps
C. S. Walker
Secretary of War For
Infant mortality in Des Moines climbs in 1922 reports
Miss Adah Hershey cites Des Moines infant death rate rising from 59 per 1000 in 1921 to 70.9 in 1922. Public health nurses cared for 430 babies last year and their infants showed a rate of only .9 of 1 percent, about one eighth of the era’s rate. Elizabeth Phillips of Burlington dies at 11 from hydrophobia after a small dog bite. Hobart F. Lemon, 25, of Sibley, is arrested in Omaha for a unique mail fraud scheme using the United States Radio company front, mailing empties then demanding charges, with funds later reimbursed.
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Des Moines
Adah Hershey
Miss Hershey
America
Elizabeth Phillips
Burlington
Hobart F. Lemon
Sibley
Omaha
Postoffice
W. Coble
Lemon
Army Air Service
United States Radio Company
State issues bids for long list of supplies and assets
The state board of control seeks bids for six months of supplies including 7000 barrels flour and 250000 pounds sugar while $195648.26 is paid for the old inebriate sanitarium at Knoxville, now to be a major rehabilitation hospital. Contracts on 16 buildings near one million dollars. Colfax sanitarium to close, saving $45000 yearly rent. Des Moines Bible association to push bills to ban teaching challenges to biblical authenticity. Seward seeks $3500 for injuries from state service. Pigeons flourish on farms, prairie chickens return, Chinese pheasants spreading, and five new one room schools dedicated in Liberty township, Cherokee county.
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State Board of Control
Knoxville
America
Colfax Sanitarium
Colfax
Liberty Township
Cherokee County
Justin Barry
Cherokee
Lovenee
Center School House
Superintendent Campaigns Against Imitation Condensed Milk
The Iowa League of Women Voters urges the 40th General Assembly to pass a filled milk bill similar to one before Congress. The campaign targets butter fat reduced dairy products replaced with coconut oil or vegetable fat. Current Iowa law allows sale if properly labeled, though the league argues no defense exists for such a product in an agricultural state.
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Congress
40Th
General Assembly
Iowa League of Women Voters
League
Iowa
Educational exhibit plan for state fair building
At a meeting of prominent educators in Des Moines plans were made for a permanent well-equipped exhibit building on the fair grounds. The goal is to display the development of Iowa education year by year and secure legislative support for appropriation.
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Ben
College Exibite
Iowa
Winter Too Mild for Skating in Rimk
A Chamber of Commerce committee asked the City Council to flood the School Athletic Field to create a skating rink this winter with approval from the School Board. Weather prevented flooding and ice formation, leaving the plan unrealized as January stayed warm and forecasters noted forestry policy research by the Fortt Service of the U S Department of Agriculture.
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Te Chamber of Commerce
Connelly
Chamber of Commerce
Butter statistics and annual stockholders meeting report
The report lists total butterfat 167,770 lbs and butter sold 202,583 lbs with 158,657 lbs in New York and 30,565 lbs in local markets, average price 42 cents, over-run 3,481.30 lbs, cost per lb 4.2 cents, receipts 540.29, and interest 43.50 plus other income 220.79. At the Feb 3 1923 stockholders meeting directors elected S. T. Shiley Oscar Peterson John C. Larson N. O. Osher and L. A. Larsen. officers: S. T. Shiley president Oscar Peterson vice president O. O. Refsell secretary and treasurer.
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N. Y
T. Shiley
Oscar Peterson
John C. Larson
N. O. Osher
L. A. Larsen
S. T.shiley
O. O. Refsell
Sec
Treas
Oo. O
Refsell
Sec’y
Ee Ee
Ae Tea
Wee
PH Rick Hah
Iowa Dairy Council
Tee Etme Swan
Doan's Kidney Pills Featured In Estherville Ad
Estherville residents endorse Doan's Kidney Pills as a remedy for backaches and kidney trouble. S. B. Cole of 215 Washington St. credits quick relief after exposure and heavy lifting, noting Rexall Drug Store as his source. Foster Milling Co. manufactures Doan's in Buffalo, N.Y.
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Dean
Estherville
S. B. Cole
Washington St
Rexall Drug Store
Doan
Mr. Cole
Foster-Milburn Co., Mfrs
Bualo, N.Y
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Noah Davis
Des Moines Bible Association
Ross Seward
Ft. Madison
Goodwin
Seward
Indianola
Liberty Center
Rimk
Howe
Forttt Service
United States Department Agriculture
First Church of Christ, ‘Scierit Arene EE
Bicknell Young, C. S. B. OF
Chicago, Ill
South 8Th Street
Young
First Church of Christ
Boston
A. R. Markley
Michaelson Blacksmith Shop
Swift
M. L. Hausner
Mer
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