Fatal horse run injures King Perty and Shan
Horses started to run dragging King Perty some distance causing severe injuries. Shan sustained torn fingernails on the right hand and extensive bruising.
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King Perty
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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1923
Page
2
Iowa highway spending study for 1922 totals large sum
The State Highway Commission bulletin for early 1923 summarizes 1922 expenditures for highways. Primary system spent about 13.86 million on 6,615 miles. county roads 4.26 million on 10,889 miles. town roads 6.05 million on 86,595 miles. Bridges and culverts accounted for 7.88 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa ‘State Highway Commission
Towa
Hog tops Osceola market at 1000 pounds in Clarke County
C. Coller claims the largest hog shipped from Osceola weighing about 1000 pounds. The Poland China stag was three years old on February 26 and brought 6 cents a pound, totaling $60. Automobile deaths rose in 1923 over 1921, with Iowa 61 per 100000 in 1922 and 6.2 percent of deaths by autos in 1922 nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Coller
Osceola
Clarke County
United States
Iowa
Towa
Tas Gest
Butter Car Load Shipping Boosts Northwestern Iowa Creameries
Northwestern Iowa creameries in Sheldon Maspers Orange City and Sibley ship 415 tubs totaling 26 145 pounds by fast freight to New York once weekly, with hopes to double to two cars weekly at peak season. Y M C A and Y WCA in Des Moines expand out-of-town employment for girls, noting 1829 applicants and 1092 placements since August. Bloomfield Normal and Scientific Institute closes, ending a century of Davis county education. other regional academies like Denmark Mt Pleasant and Bentonport fade into memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Sheldon
Maspers
Orange City
Sibley
New York
New York City
Des Moines
Y. W. GA
S Clellan
Myr
Landes
Keosauqua
van Bauren
Rowa
Bloomfield Normal and Scientificstitute
Davis County
Bloomfield Normal School
Student Earns Diploma After Five-Year Perfect Attendance
A 17 year old achieved a diploma after meeting the board of education conditions and maintaining perfect attendance for five years without missing a day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wan Tay
Board of Education
Tragic Car Crash Sinks Gas Pipe Connection
Ralph Padget aged 19 suffocated by gas after a late night crash between Cedar Falls and Waterloo. His auto left the road when a steering problem caused a plunge over an embankment, crashing onto a gas pipe that serves Cedar Heights from Waterloo plant. He telephoned his father, waited in the car overnight, and died as the vehicle rested over the broken line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Padget
Cedar Falls
Waterloo
Cedar Heights
Young Padget
Padget
Mrs Esther Taylor 90 Dies in Des Moines Interred at Little Brown Church
Mrs. Esther Taylor aged 90 died recently in Des Moines and was interred in the churchyard of the Little Brown Church in the Vale in Bradford Chickasaw county. An original charter member, she helped organize the church in 1852 at age 19 after moving from Pennsylvania before railways reached the region. She knew Dr. Pitts, composer of the world famous song. Her resting place was chosen in the church she loved since girlhood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Esther Taylor
Des Moines
Little Brown
the Vale
Bradford
Chicksaw County
Taylor
Chickasaw County
Pennsylvania
Mississippi River
Pitts
Ford plant in Des Moines runs three shifts daily
The Ford assembling plant in Des Moines now employs 1900 men and operates three shifts around the clock, including Sundays for cleanup. About 300 automobiles are produced each day, and at that rate the demand cannot be met.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ford
Des Moines
Rural teacher marks 39 years in Iowa schools
George O Johnston of Decatur county retires after 39 years as a rural school teacher in Iowa. He recounts his closing day at Holden in Hamilton township on May 1. Neighbors arrive with baskets of food, and the day includes games singing and photographs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George O. Johnston
Decatur County
W. F. Linsey
Leon
Iowa
Holden
Hamilton Township
Des Moines River Elevation and Related Facts
A fragmented report notes civil engineer Frank Wet Ducey’s studies in Des Moines. It compares the Des Moines River height to the Mississippi at St Paul, cites a 90 foot greater drop between Des Moines and Keokuk, and records elevations such as 778 feet at a certain point and Union Station at 808 feet above sea level.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Wet ‘Ducey
Ieee
Des ‘Moines
Des Moines
Mississippi
St.Paul
Keokuk
Capital Grounds
Capital Building
Bee stingproofed gardener dies before aid arrives
Mrs Herman Grieme a 45 year old gardener from Maple Valley township Buena Vista county was stung on the finger by a bee and died within an hour before a physician could reach her home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman Grieme
Maple Valley Township
Buena Vista County
Iowa hog slaughter figures on farms in 1922
A 1922 report by Leslie M. Carl of the U S Bureau of Agricultural Economics states Iowa farmers slaughtered about 768000 hogs that year. The average per farm was 3.6 hogs, based on 2131,439 farms in Iowa per the 1920 census.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Leslie M. Carl
Division of Crop and Livestock Estimates
United States Bureau of Agricultural Economics
United States
Quaker Hill Woman Saves Farmer From Lightning Blaze
In Muscatine area, Mrs. Schwalm heroically entered a burning barn after Wesley Schwalm was knocked unconscious by a lightning bolt. She dragged him to safety, then rescued seven horses and drove a car from the blaze as the barn burned. A mule was killed and the barn equipment and pigs were lost. Schwalm has recovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Schwalm
Muscatine
Schwalm
Divorce rise noted in Iowa statistics for 1922
Dr. Roodney P. Fagan reports divorces climbed from 2 245 in 1909 to 4 681 in 1922 in Iowa. The state’s marriages grew from 19 760 in 1909 to 21 736 in 1922 with divorces per 3 000 persons rising from 1.0 to 1.9. Separately, Tom and Mrs. Smith of Maquoketa have spent 14 years with World Brothers circus featuring a dog and pony show and forty trained dogs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Roodney P. Fagan
Bureau of Vital Statistics
Tom Smith
Maquoketa
Jackson County
World Brothers Circus
Mr. Smith
Indicted figures named in southern Iowa civic cases
A fragment lists individuals including Dr H C Young Cary Ben Clark Milt Harris Warbil Be Dr WerG Stone and John Colliver as prominent in business and civic affairs in southern Iowa. It references charges and indictments in connection with violations and world events, noting involvement of notable local men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H.C. Young
C Taylor
Cary
Ben . Clark
Ates
Milt. Harris
Werg. Stone
John Hn ‘Colliver
Iowa
Radio fanfare from California station thrills local townsman
C F Crow of Massena recounts the radio moment when Ne al Yarger heard a Long Beach California station announce Delpha Comer as piano performer. Comer, granddaughter of Charles and Mrs Comer of Victoria township and daughter of Roy Comer, undertaker in Long Beach, was visiting Cass county when local fans heard her on air.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. F. Crow
Massena
Neal Yarger
Long Beach
California
Delpha Comer
Miss Comer
Charles Comer
Victoria ‘Township
Roy Comer
Cass County
Farm Union
West Riverside Legal No 855 Plans July 4 Union Picnic
West Riverside Legal No 855 met May 9 at the home of Alpha and Jake Jacobson with a good turnout. They favored holding the Union County picnic on July 4 at the Estherville grounds to ease equipment transport. A binding twine order was placed and a $1,500 fund was being raised to cover car load shipments from Union Exchange. The April meeting at Ben Nelson’s home discussed the county meeting planned for May 2 at the K P hall. Farmers urged unity and activity within a pure farmers organization without disparaging others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Riverside Legal No. 855
Alpha
Jake Jacobson
Union County
Estherville
Union Exchange
Ben Nelson
K. P. Hall
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Rexall Drug Store
Jo A. Cummings
Aa Og
Gorda
Masters Hills
Chandler
Pikes Peak
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