Building Activity for Iowa This Year Surges
Iowa anticipates a busy building year with 218 projects studied by the federal Labor Department. Public works dominate with $19.8 million spent, private projects total $6.6 million, and overall value reaches $26.29 million as materials costs stay high and labor scarce.
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Iowa
Division of Public Works and Construction Development
United States Department of Labor
Irving Fisher
Yale University
Information and Education Service
Misssissippi River
Ohio River
Maewmh
ST Tel EE
Ta Instagetech Qi Teniverat
Aswe
Seeeoress Care
Department of Labor
Maple Grove Community News and Easter Services
Maple Grove notes show fundraising progress with Victory Lean totals and bond purchases. Charley Faulkner and wife visited The Homestead Farm. Easter program at Kalona Baptist Church featured strong choir music and well drilled Sunday school children, with lilies tulips ferns and festive flowers on the pulpit and platform.
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Maple Grove
Homestead
Mr. Mason
Mr.Mason
Illustrated Weekly
Sam
Evening Journal
Charley Faulkner
Homestead Farm
Kalona Baptist Church
Anderson
Educational and public works funds itemization
An OCR readout lists budget categories with large totals. It cites Education, Hospitals and homes, Canals and levees, Fire and police stations, Street improvements, Water works, and Miscellaneous items with amounts in hundreds of thousands to millions. The text lacks coherent narrative.
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Nuneko
Worth Trying to Beat Sleeplessness with Diet Advice
If you are troubled with sleepless ness look to your diet. Drink no tea or coffee for a few days and take one of Chamberlain's Tablets immedi ately after supper to improve your digestion. These tablets also cause a gentle movement of the bowels. They are unsurpassed for constipa tion. Lemmon's Drug Store.
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Lemmon's Drug Store
Advt
Death of Katheryn Porter at age 3 after scarlet fever
Laura Katheryn Porter died April 22 after weeks of illness starting with scarlet fever. Born September 25, 1917 to Glenn B. Porter and Elizabeth Huffman Porter, she was a cheerful child with a love of flowers. Her funeral was led by Rev. Riddington, interment at Ainsworth Cemetery, and neighbors sent many floral offerings.
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Laura Katheryn Porter
Katheryn Porter
Glenn BE
Elizabeth (Huffman) Porter
Katheryn
Papa
Mamma
Litte
Steter
Job
Kennedy
Riddington
The
Baptist Church
Ainsworth Cemetery
Iowans to Meet Heroes in New York Parade Welcome
Rainbow reception committee and Iowa town committees depart for New York to greet One Hundred Sixty eighth infantrymen homeward bound. Delegates from Des Moines Creston Council Bluffs Fontanelle Waterloo Webster City Eagle Grove Cherokee Ottumwa travel in units to join in New York and return to Des Moines by May 3 for a grand homecoming review on capitol grounds. Col Juenemann and Gen Ballou will review troops with Rainbow and Shrine aid aiding wounded veterans to witness parade. Rainbow finance committee discusses Rainbow ball ticket sales.
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Washington
Register
New York
Des Moines
Creston
Council Bluffs
Fontanelle
Waterloo
Webster City
Eagle Grove
Cherokee
Ottumwa
Iowa
Old Town Guards
Juenemann
Fort Des Moines
Co. C. Ballou
Camp Dodge
Capitol Grounds
Shrine Auto Club
Rainbow Committee
Rainbow
Victory buttons to be issued to WWI veterans
United States soldiers who served at least 15 days between April 6, 1917 and November 11, 1918 will receive a Victory button. Silver badges go to those wounded in action, bronze to all others. future issuance to those remaining in service.
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Army of the
SASS
Ottumwa Library to Benefit From Hackworth Will
The Ottumwa public library is named beneficiary of life estate income from the Hackworth estate filed for probate. Estimated at 500000 to 750000, the estate could be worth 600000 for the library yielding about 26000 yearly at 6 percent. Specific bequests total 77000 to relatives and institutions including Fire M. E church Ottumwa and YWCA.
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Ottumwa
J.T. Hackworth
Hackworth
M. E. Church
Heal Skin Diseases with Zemo for Quick Relief
Remove itching and soothe skin with Zemo available at drug stores for 35 cents or a dollar for a large bottle. The liquid cleanses and heals eczema blotches ringworm rashes and other skin troubles quickly and effectively. Zemo is non greasy easy to apply and affordable. The E. W. Rose Co. Cleveland Q.
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E. W. Rose Co
Cleveland, Q
Prisoners Escape By Digging Hole In Jail Wall
Three inmates Harry Wilson Robert Ferguson and Russel Vogel escaped Waterloo county jail by digging a wall hole with metal fragments from a bed. The escape was aided by a threatening guard and occurred from 9 15 p m to 4 50 a m. Wilson and Ferguson facing forgery charges. Vogel to serve remaining days for petty larceny.
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Waterloo
Harry Wilson
Robert Ferguson
Russel Vogel
Wilson
Ferguson
Vogel
Seven Days Married Ends in Desertion Seeks Divorce
Arthur H Bargles of Greenville Iowa seeks a divorce from Elsie Barglof after seven days of marriage from March 6 to March 13 1917. He alleges she deserted him and has not returned to the home or bed since March 13 1917. The petition filed in C S Weaver office requests a divorce and equitable relief through the District court.
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Greenville
Arthur H. Bargles
C. S. Weaver
Elsie Barglof
Barglof
Child Strangled by Nightdress Band in Odd Death
New York police report 18 month old Robert E. Frietz son of Mr and Mrs Henry E Frietz of Thompkineville strangled accidentally while attempting to break thumb sucking habities mother sewed sleeve of nightdress shut child freed arm partly up into neckband band tightened and choked him death medical examiner Dr George Mord announced.
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New York
Rob't
EB. Frietz
Henry E. Frietz
Thompkineville
S. N
George Mord
Friendship Shows Worth in Thackeray Quote
A brief quotation reflects on the value of lasting friendship, citing Darwin and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. The note discusses measuring a man's worth by the duration of his friendships and enduring connections.
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Darwin
Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Reporters Discuss Proposed Protests in Paris
Paris April 24 American newspaper correspondents in Paris will hold a meeting tomorrow to decide whether to mount a formal protest against a plan to exclude press representatives from the delegation. The discussion centers on preserving access to events and ensuring free reporting standards.
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Paris
Versailles Deliberations Move to Bar Contact with German Delegates
The record notes meetings of the delegates at Versailles and the plan to forbid any contact with the German delegates, outlining strict separation and safeguarding measures during negotiations.
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Versailles
Sound Proof Council Room at Downing Street
Description of a quiet meeting space in the British cabinet rooms at 10 Downing Street. The apartment is 15 feet by 20 feet, solid and plainly furnished, with double doors designed to block sound from outside observers.
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Downing Street
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J. T. Hackworth
Iowa Wesleyan College
Mount Pleasant
Lowe Brothers
J. E. Lemmon
Washington, Iowa
Drug Sherman’s Store
Nash
Kenoahe
White Way
Washington County
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Ray
Prince Albert
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R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
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