Iowa News Digest Highlights Jorgerson Jail Plot and State Affairs
The report recounts two Jorgensen brothers jailed in Story County for breaking and entering plotting to attack Sheriff Ricketts and a companion. It also covers a large Iowa Teachers Association convention in Des Moines, local discoveries, and various state notices, with details on road safety, land values, and civic projects in multiple counties.
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Jorgensen
Nevada
Story County
Ricketts
Jorgensons
Des Moines
Iowa State Teachers’ Association
Clarke County
The
State University
Iowa
United States Department of Agriculture
Thle
Buck Grove
Crawford County
Million Dollar Memorial Building Drive Led by Toledo Engineer
M. J. Riggs, Toledo steel engineer, heads a million dollar alumni drive to build a memorial building honoring World War I service members. He organizes faculty and student groups to push the project forward. Gold was found in Adobe Walla and the Mesas city of Ciapaiuate hall near its old gold mines, built from mine refuse.
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M. J. Riggs
Toledo
Ohio
Walla
Ciapaiuate
Coronation Height Record Noted in Obscure History
Historians cite Napitesn'd Heght with notes on the coronation era. The figure stood under five feet three inches at his peak yet was recorded as taller than five feet at death, reflecting fluctuating estimates in historical accounts.
Truly Superior. Princeton's Unkissed Senior Remark
A Pittsburgh Dispatch joke notes Princeton boasts an unkissed senior who has never seen a woman worthy of his lips, quipping that not every man can be a hermit.
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Princeton
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Mud skippers with mobile eyes in mangrove roots
A fragment describes mud skippers living in tropical Africa Asia and northwest Australia. They are thin mud skippers that leap using their tails and strong bases of their fins. They breathe by gills and by water, sometimes resting on stones or mangrove roots with protruding mobile eyes.
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Africa
Asia
Northwest
Australia
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Code of
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Davenport
United States
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Bellevue
Jackson County
America
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New York City
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Red” Faber
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H. W. Byers
Supreme Court
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Ames
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the Auto Supply Co
GEO
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