First Iowa college graduates chart a historic timeline
State News recounts Iowa's early colleges led by Iowa Wesleyan Mount Pleasant 1856 with Winfield Scott Maynes, Grinnell 1858 H H Belfield, Cornell Mount Vernon 1858, UIowa 1858 class of Mrs. C A Stephens and Mrs. E H Bradley, Central University Pella 1858, Tabor 1872 Salome Shephardson, Upper Town Fayette 1862, Iowa Agricultural Ames 1872 with 14 graduates, Simpson 1870 Louise Anderson, Penn College Oskaloosa 1875 Linda Ninde-Dorland as first graduates.
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Iowa
Iowa Wesleyan
Mount Pleasant
Winfield Scott Maynes
H. H. Belfield
Grinnell College
Matthew and
Mary Cavanaugh
Cornell
Mount Vernon
State University of
Iowa City
C. A. Stephens
E. H. Bradley
Herman L. Bousequet
Central University of Iowa
Pella
Baptist College
Central College
Salome Shephardson
Tabor College
J. J. Paine
Iowa Health Board records show 1922 deaths and births
Dr. Rodney Fagan reports 1922 saw 24,065 deaths and 50,763 births in Iowa. Among births 26,066 were boys and 24,670 girls. Male deaths totaled 12,801 vs female 11,264. Ages 70–79 had the highest death rate. pneumonia led causes with 2,582 and cancer 2,147. Fractures led accidental deaths, followed by automobile, firearms, railroad, drowning, burns. There were 122 personal crisis reports and 392 accidental deaths from unclassified causes.
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Rodney Fagan
State Board of Health
Iowa
Gannaway family to head Armenian orphanage in Beirut
Mrs. C R Gannaway sister in law of Professor J W Gannaway of Grinnell will lead an orphanage for 1000 Armenian refugee girls from Anatolia. Land for the home at the mouth of the River of Abraham was donated by the French government to American Near East Relief. Ted Gannaway, Grinnell 1921 alumnus, serves as business manager. C R Gannaway is medical supervisor for Beirut district. Mrs Gannaway runs the northern Beirut girls’ home.
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C. R. Gannaway
J. W. Gannaway
Grinnell
Near East Relief
Anatolia
Beiruit
River of Abraham
American Near East Relief
Vast Des Moines Manuscript Vault Houses 11 Million Records
In Des Moines a historical building stores eleven million manuscripts arranged in long cases. The vast collection covers state history from 1838 when Governor Lucas arrived as territorial governor to today. The ordered archives even include Lucas first speech to the Indians penned by his own hand.
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Des Moinees
Lucas
General Assembly
Truth in fabric bill targets virgin wool labeling
A senate bill by Shinn of Harrison and a house bill by Carter of Hardin requires all wool articles to carry labels identifying virgin wool content or percentage of recycled wool. Merchants with unlabelled stock must show pre 1924 inventory on labels.
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Senate
Shinn
Harrison
Carter
Hardin
County
Public Sale Prices Reported From Mt Ayr Cattle Sheep
Sam Spurrier of Mt. Ayr Ringgold County notes milch cows sold 50 to 75 dollars per head at the C Thomas sale. Three and four year old sheep brought 14.30, yearling steers 54.25, seven heifer calves 35, sixty shoats about pounds sold at 9.10 each, corn 74 to 75 cents a bushel, oats 50 cents.
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Sam Spurrier
Mt. Ayr
Ringgold County
C. Thomas Sale
Iowa towns eye highway bill passed by house
A bill passed by the house would allow primary road projects in towns with populations up to 2,500 to be funded from primary road funds and built through the town. The measure faces uncertain senate action and aims to fix roads that currently end at town lines, leaving connecting segments unimproved. Spencer in Clay county highlights three Glascow brothers, sons of the late Rev. E. M. Glascow, noted as a debating pair. The text also notes a Michigan study and a Minnesota debate related item, with three brothers mentioned as students.
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Iowa
House of Representatives
Senate
Spencer
Clay County
E. M. Glascow
University of Michigan
Priari Iy
Oe Minois
Iowa Supervisors Seek Power Over Primary Road Funds
At a meeting of the boards of supervisors in the Eleventh congressional district, covering 11 counties in northwest Iowa, supervisors urged the legislature to amend the 35 percent primary road provision. They want more control over county road funds and permission to use primary road quads for paving through towns under 2,000 population.
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Boards of Supervisors
Eleventh
Congressional District
Iowa
Historic hardin county arrests recall long-ago murder case
Capt W W Wilcox announces candidacy for grand army of Iowa commander. The piece recalls in Hardin county when as sheriff he helped arrest Nathan and Frank Rainsbarger for murdering Enoch Johnson. They were tried in Marshall county, sentenced to life, paroled after 30 years, and later pardoned. Nathan lived in Marshalltown, Frank northeast of Eldora. The narrative shifts to biologist C Blystad in Iowa Falls studying fish deaths in the Iowa river. He samples water and ice above Belmond, notes rare fish kills from pollutants, and will report to Washington. Blystad is based at Fairport, home of the west’s sole mussel hatchery. The text then discusses thinking as a high gift and Christian Science, citing lectures and services. It recounts a Clarinda asylum case of Robert W Richardson, 25, from Wayne county, who served in 1919-22, tore up his discharge, and has been involuntarily admitted to insane hospitals multiple times.
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W. W. Wilcox
Grand Army of Iowa
Hardin County
Nathan
Frank Rainsbarger
Enoch Johnson
Marshall County
Anamosa
Gov. Clarke
C. Blystad
Fairport
Bureau of Fisheries
United States Department of the Interior
Iowa Falls
Iowa River
Blystad
Belmond
Biological Department
Washington
Muscatine
Robert W. Richardson
Clarinda
Witte
Clarinda State
Wayne County
Iowa
Camp Kearney
France
Brest
Salem
Ore
Patton
Rockwell City inmate Pearl Summers linked to Toledo robbery
Miss Pearl Summers, confined at Rockwell City reformatory, is described as connected to a million dollar post office robbery in Toledo, Ohio, via associate George Rogers. While awaiting liberty she pursues painting, living in the honor cottage, with mornings on housework and gardening and afternoons on art. Iowa houses 18 federal prisoners at Rockwell City, four paroled last year.
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Woman's Reformatory
Rockwell City
Pearl Summers
Toledo
Ohio
Miss Sumers
George Rogers
Detroit
Iowa
Death and funeral of William Danford 97. Iowa snowdrift woes
Will S Beels of Hopkinton Delaware county reports the death and funeral of William Danford aged 97 born Noble county Ohio November 17 1825 came to Delaware county in 1852 and lived there until death. The piece notes his love of music and a phonograph recorded hymn God Be with You used in his funeral. Additional items describe severe Iowa blizzard snowdrifts delaying travel, human and rat population claims by Prof J E Guthrie of Iowa State College, and a crude poison method using barium carbonate.
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Will S. Beels
Hopkinton
Delaware County
William Danford
Mr. Danford
Methodist Church
God
Danford
Noble County
Ohio
J. E. Guthrie
Zoology Department
Iowa State Colege
Ames
Iowa
Guthri
Christian Science Lecture by Bicknell Young
Mrs Ida Harker introduces Bicknell Young CSB of Chicago to lecture on Christian Science The Science of Life at The Mother Church in Boston presenting the promise of abundant life health and happiness through study and belief Jesus message of life for all people
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Ida Harker
Jesus
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Boston
Mass
Bicknell Young
Chicago
Illinois
Black bass sale fines cited by state fish and game dept
The Fulton market of Des Moines was fined $55 for offering for sale forty three black bass. Black bass are out of season and cannot be sold whether caught in or out of Iowa. Only the catcher may eat a black bass in season.
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State Fish and Game Department
Fulton
Des Moines
Iowa
Christian Science promises health and world reform through study
The speaker argues that Christian Science can reform individuals and the world but requires active adoption. It contrasts material remedies with spiritual Science, credits Mary Baker Eddy as Discoverer, and urges reasoning, investigation, and daily practice to grasp life as governed by divine principles.
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Mary Baker
Eddy
Christian Science as high form of scientific study
The text defends Christian Science as a superior form of scientific inquiry into life and health, noting immediate practical results and public acknowledgement of its benefits. It cites Paul’s line about life in Christ and claims God as creator sustaining creation, arguing a new science explains this understanding.
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Paul
Christ
God
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