Harvey Ingham Accepts Invitation to Fort Defiance Monument
Harvey Ingham, editor of the Des Moines Register and Leader, accepts invitation to participate in the unveiling of the Fort Defiance monument. He recalls spending a year as a boy at the fort and expresses pleasure at preserving the historic site. Ingham’s fall unveiling remarks promise a large turnout from old settlers and the community.
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Defiance
Des Moines Register
Harvey Ingham
Ingham
Harvey
Old Ft. Defiance
The New School Law Prompts Rural Iowa Boards
The July 1 effective law requires rural Iowa boards to study the revised school act. It allows pupils from townships without a high school to attend any state high school with tuition and incidentals paid by the township based on nearby average costs. The measure aims to push consolidation and rural school protection due to added expense and inconvenience.
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Iowa
Ice cream classification and a medical update from town
The Town Experiment Station issued bulletin 123 with a uniform ice cream classification and an 8 score card for judging and inspecting ice cream, plus formulas for nearly 200 varieties. Miss Blanche Young underwent an appendectomy performed by Dr Bossingham with Dr Kenefick and Dr Logan assisting. her recovery is hoped to be rapid.
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Philadelphia
Town Experiment Station
Bulletin 123
Towa
Ames
Blanche Young
Bossingham
Kenefick
Algona
Logan
Fenton
Anna Knipe
Prodigal Returns to Iowa in Poetic Verse and Local Notes
A poem declares a prodigal’s plea to return to Iowa from California praising the Iowa prairie and rejecting the Pacific Coast. A county notices section discusses publication duties for lists of federal liquor licenses, the law changes on penalties, and procedures. Local agricultural notes mention grasshopper checks, chautauqua prospects, and a death notice for Mary Ann Donahue with funeral plans in Emmetsburg. Castor oil and Chamberlain’s remedy recommended for summer diarrhoea in children.
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Mary Ann Donahue
High Lake Township
Emmetsburg
Need Not Publish License Holders
An erroneous impression spreads that county attorneys must collect lists of federal liquor license holders under the new law. The notice clarifies that publication of license holder lists is not required by the law and urges officials to stop disseminating the mistaken interpretation. The statement emphasizes legal clarity and prudent public information practice.
Railroads in Iowa See Big Earnings Rise in 1910
State executive council reports Iowa steam railroads grossed about six million dollars more in 1910. Net earnings fell by about one million due to state expenditures. Chicago & Northwestern led gross earnings at about 16.995 million dollars, Rock Island next at 16.017 million. Net earnings favor Rock Island with a town-business profit of roughly 8.956 million dollars.
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State Executive Council
Iowa
Chicago & Northwestern
Rock Island
Chautauqua Season Opens in Red Path-Vawter Region
The Chautauqua season opens in the northern territory of the Red path Vawter system with fine success almost everywhere. Joe Bailey Chapple editor of the National Magazine was sent to Cedar Rapids to interview Mr.
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Ralph Parlette
Tyceumite and Talent
Vawter
Chautauqua
Riner Sisters
Pugh- Riner Company
Thavin
Joe Bailey Chapple
The
National Magazine
Cedar Rapids
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Republican
Minnesota
Vanter
Chamberlain
Opyright
Chautauqua News
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L. J. Bennett
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