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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1923
Page
1
Early fall narrative recalls a pioneer style wagon trip from Audubon toward California, highlighting faster modern transport. Iowa rural schools in Page county praised by superintendent Agnes Samuelson as best in memory with better teachers and libraries. Iowa tax total nears 150 million with real estate, personal property, and other levies up fivefold in fifteen years.
Mount Pleasant and New London in Henry county host hundreds of strike breakers from the C B & Q shops at West Burlington. About 329 live in Mount Pleasant and 150 in New London, with others in box cars. A special train is proposed to recover lost business, while shopmen prefer small towns and save their money. A passenger coach doubles as a meeting place and Sunday school for the group.
Cc G Pugh of Des Moines advocates winter suet feeding for hairy and downey woodpeckers and other birds, advising keep feeding through snow and cold and to pound suet into bark to deter English sparrows. J T Jones, an attorney, maintains a long friendship with Woodrow Wilson and promotes Wilson Foundation campaigns as a key issue for the next presidential race.
Miss Glee Hastings of Spencer Iowa has led relief work in the Near East supervising fund and supply distribution for Greek refugees with Athens headquarters. She is succeeded in Constantinople by another Iowa woman a Grinnell College graduate. An Associated Press dispatch from Christmas details American warships in the Bosphorus aiding thousands of refugees with Turkey dinners gifts and a decorated waterfront tree as relief workers led by Mrs Else White of Grinnell distributed aid.
Johnson Brigham, state librarian, filed a biennial report noting Iowa’s state library holds 177,864 volumes excluding the historical department. Over the past two years 15,906 volumes were added across general, law, legislative reference, and medical libraries.
Town Marshal Taylor and Constable Piper of Ogden were sued by Fred Folson for stolen tires from two cars. They arrested suspects after finding a craps game. the cars were then stripped while they were away. The district court ruled for Folson, but the state Supreme Court, in an opinion by Fayville, found the officers not liable. Ross Lamb of Farmers Elevator Co reports state record grain shipments from January to December 20, 1922, totaling 125,553 bushels of wheat and 381,480 bushels of corn, plus 338 carloads of grain and 180 carloads of hogs.
Hampton Franklin county reports show water transport value with a canned corn shipment from Hampton-Kelley Canning Co to San Diego by rail to St Louis and water via Panama Canal, illustrating freight savings. Henry county hospital reports 300 patients in first year with daily rates from 2.50 to 4.50 including meals and nursing, doctors extra.
President Jessup of the State University at Iowa City announces a major hospital and medical laboratories expansion as 20 000 patients have been admitted under Perkins and Haskell Klaus laws. A Rockefeller Foundation gift of 2 250 000 is offered if IA funds 450 000 annually for five years to match the grant. European advisers rate the Iowa College of Medicine among the top three in America.
An Indiana editor vows to tell the truth in his columns and prints a string of punishing notices. Items include John Bonin mocked as the laziest merchant, John Cople accused of poor business, a sharp putdown of Rev Stu’s charity sermon, and oblique, scathing notices on Dave Caakey’s death, wedding of Miss Sylvia Rhodes and James Pollins, and a biting obituary for Abraham Cattrel with taunting details and a joke about his asbestos coffin.
An Iowa State College home economics guide classifies faces as angular, turned up, hooked, receding, stout, or flat. It prescribes hat shapes and hair arrangements to best suit each type, advising soft materials, brim positions, and tailored details to balance features.
At the annual Denmark Farm Bureau meeting on December 20 J H Thompson was reelected director for 1923 Bonicksen as vice president and C C Christen sen as secretary Cooperators named J Rasmussen Peter Haahs Louis Reries Henry Meyre John C Schultz J H Neilson Jens P Larson Henry Larson N J Nelson It was decided officers and cooperators would meet in early January to map the 1923 work.
At the Swan Lake township Maple Aill meeting on December 18 Henry Hall was elected director again with Ed. McKean as secretary. Plans were set for February with Swan Lake Farm Bureau to lead at Lincoln Township and Lincoln Township to host at Swan Lake, exchanging programs to foster leadership and cross-township acquaintance.
The Ellsworth town ship girls sang to launch a meeting where club work was planned for Ellsworth two. The girls club and the boys and girls poultry and pig club were set as main lines of effort. They proposed a program at Emmet township in February if Emmet township would host it.
Prof William Kunerth of Iowa State College conducted tests comparing direct and indirect lighting. Using a white painted room 18.5 by 30 by 13 feet and 26 participants, he found indirect systems demand about 50 percent greater light.
The text notes that indirect lighting demands more foot candles to achieve the same results as direct lighting because the entire field of vision is evenly illuminated. Pupils contract less under indirect lighting, expanding to admit more light, allowing comfortable reaction even when actual light intensity is lower.
Beekeeping in Iowa represents an investment of more than 2 500 000 and returns 500 000 in honey plus another 500 000 in fertilization of crops. O W Parks assistant chief of apiculture at Iowa State College says crops could rise with more bees. Iowa ranks high in total honey but eighteenth in yield per colony. breeding a high producing strain and introducing Carniolana and Caucasians could boost yields.
The text lists national public holidays by country, noting Turkey with 28 and Scotland with five, then naming Italy 23, Germany 20, France 18, Great Britain 16, Japan 15, and Portugal eight. It contrasts thrifty Scotland with Turkey’s numerous holidays and references a discussion in a work about incandescence gas mantles.
An Estherville resident testifies Doan's Kidney Pills relieve backache and kidney discomfort. F L Ellis, a mason, endorses the remedy after trying many kidney products. Price 60 cents. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N Y, manufacturers.
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