Chautauqua Movement Spreads Across Iowa Towns
The Chautauqua movement expands in Iowa as towns plan seasons with high quality talent at low cost. Audubon compares costs to fair attractions, arguing Chautauqua offers education and inspiration rather than mere entertainment. Des Moines hosts tours for Prague war orphans, and the WCTU Iowa chapter plans broader hospital assistance for veterans and international care stations.
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Mid-West
Iowa
Audubon
Williams
Harness trade hires expert to track nation’s horse numbers
An Iowa based harness trade relies on a salaried expert to tally horses in the country. Reports show more horses and mules now than at America’s entry into World War I. Draft horses still command good prices, with recent sales showing teams fetching hundreds of dollars.
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America
Towa
Iowa
Paul Caswell
Woman in Osceola Shop-Lift Charged and Confesses
A woman in an Osceola store acted suspiciously while the proprietor watched from a tactful vantage. She pilfered items and hid them under a shawl. Indicted by the county attorney, she relented under threat and returned the goods, including two pairs of hose, six forks, a butcher knife, two pocket knives, four pairs of men’s hose, three brassieres, a doll head, and a purse.
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Osceola
Iowa County Jail Population Shows Decline
A county jail census for Iowa, conducted by Dev. Charles Parsons, supervisor of the Iowa Society for the Friendless, reports 561 inmates in February this year versus 669 a year ago, indicating a drop in jail population.
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State of
Iowa
Dev. Charles Parsons
Iowa Society For the Friendless
Iowa Railway to Build Cedar River Dams in Cedar County
The Iowa Railway and Light Co plans three Cedar River dams in Cedar County affecting 105 land tracts. Notices served to all landowners and interested parties, with a sheriff jury verdict granting a construction license on Feb 23. Initial dam cost estimated at 1.6 million dollars.
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Iowa Railway and Light Co
Cedar Rapids
Middle West
Iowa
Power and Light
Cedar River
Cedar County
Moffit
Strange Drive Ends in Ditch with Injured Family
Lewis Busch and family riding in a Ford with a winter top in Madison county when their collie dog leaped from the rear seat onto the steering wheel. The car veered and went into a ditch. Mrs Busch and a child suffered painful injuries.
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Lewis Busch
Madison County
Red Cross Help Arrives For Des Moines Medical Aid
Acknowledging the cooperation of Red Cross volunteers and Des Moines helpers, a new form was prepared to streamline receiving medical treatment. Officials aim to speed triage and ensure proper care for those in need.
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Eens
Red Cross Boys
Des Moines
Plans for Mississippi river freight barge line
J B Brode of Dubuque, president of River Transit Company, says a full fleet of freight barges will operate between St Louis and St Paul next season once the river opens in spring. Congress is being urged to appropriate a million dollars for upper Mississippi improvement.
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Mississippi River
St. Louis
St. Paul
J. 8. Brode
Dubuque
River Transit Company
Congress
Mississippi
Y M C A Dates Two Older Boys Conferences Set in Iowa
The State Committee of the Y M C A has scheduled two Older Boys conferences in western Iowa. Shenandoah hosts March 16 18 and Storm Lake hosts March 23 25 with about 250 boys aged 16 to 19 expected at each. Speakers include Robert B Wallace Council Bluffs president of the State Association of Commerce Hon Dwight Lewis State Railroad Commissioner Fred N Hansen and John Rudd of the State Y M C A.
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Iowa
Shenandoah
Storm Lake
Robert B. Wallace
Council Bluffs
State Association of Commerce
Dwight Lewis
Fred N. Hansen
John Rudd
Y. M. C. A. Force
Amateur song writers form nation association led by Des Moines blind writer
Joe McCool heads the Composers' Clearing House Association of America forming a publishing company to showcase good songs overlooked by big publishers. Writers from across the country join as the plan aims to bring many new tunes to the public.
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Joe McCool
Des Moines
McCool
Composers’ Clearing House Association of America
Hungarian Fund Note Marks Kossuth Visit in 1852
Grinnell College records reveal a $1 Hungarian Fund note dated February 2, 1852 from New York signed by Louis Kossuth. The note promised payment a year after an independent Hungarian government, never established, giving it historical value. The article also notes Monroe County’s large share of state education funds for mining districts, including Buxton, and the role of state aid in school construction and upkeep.
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Grinnell College
L. V. Phelps
Kossuth
New York
Louis Kossuth
Austria
America
Towa
Monroe County
Buxton
Pammel Warns Ames Club on Water Loss Threat
Prof H Pammel president of the Iowa state board of conservation warns the Ames Kiwanis club that in fifty years the state's water level fell about 12 feet and could deal a serious blow to agriculture if it drops further. He cites drained lakes and straightened streams as partly responsible.
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Ly. H. Pammel
Iowa State Board of Conservation
Ames Kiwanis Club
Pammel
Jewett Leaves for Oakland to Sign Final Drake Diploma
As Drake University secretary since 1881, George A. Jewett has signed every diploma issued to graduates with one exception. He travels to Oakland, California to complete the record and sign the last diploma.
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Drake University
George A. Jewett
Jewett
Oakland
Cal
Miss Lydis resigns Bloomer School near Creston
Miss Lydis Bloomer, teaching near Creston in Union county, resigns as of March first leaving one pupil in the district. Miss Bloomer, under a nine month contract paying about 90 dollars a month, requested cancellation to avoid operating costs for a single student. The pupil will attend school in a neighboring district. The move is noted as economy rather than marriage.
Farmers propose proof of ownership law for livestock sales
Thieves drive rampant thefts in rural areas prompting farmers to urge the general assembly to require absolute proof of ownership for selling live stock and poultry, matching the existing automobile sale identify rules to curb theft and authorized transfers.
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General Assembly
Inheritance tax revenue tops two months in 1922
Inheritance tax receipts for January and February 1922 totaled $168,873.29 with January a record month at $100,721.35 and February $68,151.94. The two month average was $84,436.64, hinting at a full year total well above $1,000,000, compared with $764,000 for all of 1922.
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Uary
Local hunter and trapper a Ma haska farmer champion
Alvin Rutherford a small farmer in eastern Ma haska county near Skunk river is cited as the state’s top hunter and trapper. A recent shipment to New York listed 6,554 pelts including 1,300 opossum 800 mink 750 civil fox 1,340 muskrat and a few ermine.
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Alvin Rutherford
Mahaska County
Skunk River
New York
Emmet County Jack Creek Local Booster Message
A letter from W. E. Reed, secretary treasurer, reviews growth since Sept 14 1922, notes 48 men 15 women initially, 20 new members signed after a January 15 visit led by J F Utz. The group now lists 73 farmers, urges continued recruitment and sharing the Union paper, and emphasizes boosting the Union's future.
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J. E. Utz
Bro. J. F. Utz
Utz
Grandview
W. E. Reed
Sec
Treas
Plucky Miss Mosse Drives Hog Car Through Iowa Rail Line
Miss Justice Mosse, daughter of Charles Mosse of Mosse & Mosse, led a freight train car of prize Chester White hogs through Centerville Iowa and Davenport show roads. Rail staff say she is the first woman to take livestock through Rock Island rails in years, with khaki attire and confident poise. Silage odors are absorbed through cattle bodies, not air, tests indicate.
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Rock Island
Centerville
Iowa
Charles Mosse
Mosse & Mosse
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Chicago Exposition
Wichita
Davenport
Justice Mosse
George Liseter
Miss Mosse
Miss Mogse
Milk milking effect on taste and odor observed
The report notes changes in taste and odor affecting milk during the next milking. It mentions an 80.0 pounds measure and describes bitey or off flavors linked to the milk, without supplying clear causes or conditions. Further details are unclear from the fragment.
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Serho Stovakin
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Knoxville
Disabled‘ Veterans Hospital
Ida B. Wise Smith
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Jack Creek
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Boon Sees
Estherville
Clarence R. Kurtz
Otto Wold
KE. Harris
Er Armstrong
Howard Smith
Wens Armstrong
Leslie Christopher
Ree Armstrong
Chas. Rosenberger
W.H. Hays
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Lewis Isakson Eale
H. G. Hanson
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Kinc & Cos
Minneapolis
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