Uncle Jerry Moves In at the Custard Cup Loft
In a village slice, Uncle Jerry Winston moves into Mrs. Penfield’s loft as a neighbor staying close to kin. Prudence Hapgood, a designer seeking inspiration, befriends him while Mrs. Wopple and others react with mixed curiosity and humor. Continued.
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Jerry
Walt
Betsey
Mrs. Penfield
Mrs. Wopple
Mrs. Penfield Carly
Mrs. Penfleld
Carrie
Uncle Jerry
Perennia
Prue
Prudence Hapgood
Jerry Winston
Prudence
Winston
Lettie
End of Fortieth Iowa General Assembly Deadlock and Highlights
Des Moines April 24. The Fortieth General Assembly adjourned after tensing up to delay time clocks and battling over college appropriations. A final compromise set biennial funding at 30,709,413 with colleges to raise tuition to manage attendance. The session levied 10.15 mills to raise 11 million yearly and enacted highway, liquor, and tax measures, while initiating a December special session for Code revision.
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Des Moines
Senate
House
Fortieth General Assembly
Chamber
Appropriations
General Assembly
Iowa City
Ames
Cedar Falls
Iowa
Executive Council
Ways and Means
Board of Supervisors
Township Trustees
Kendall
Department of Agriculture
Raymond W. Cassidy
Whiting
State Highway Commission
State Railway Commission
Arcriculture
Ordinary Duties and Daily Bread in Life's Work
A compact reflection on tending everyday duties with steady purpose. The author urges faithful, simple effort as the true sweetness of life, valuing routine labor over grand gestures.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Halus Catarrh Medicine Promoted for Longstanding Relief
For over 40 years Halus Catarrh Medicine has been used to treat catarrh. The product includes an ointment for local relief and an internal tonic that works through the bloodstream to reduce inflammation. Sold by J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio.
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J. Cheney
Toledo
Ohio
Flynn's Daring Rescue and Quitter's Return in Sampson Camp
From Cork, Flynn arrives at a lumber camp and earns a job after a bold fight with Hagan. He rescues Mary Standish from a flood, parts with his love interest, and delivers a movie hero moment before declaring he will quit the camp.
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Flynn
Cork
Hagan
Magan
Hogan
Plynn
Mary Stardish
Mike
Mary
Fivan
Miss Mary
Old Man
Standish
Youngsman
Flynns
Swedish physicist measures voltage in storms
Norin der, a Swedish physicist, measures voltage created by air electric fields during storms. He records the potential difference between two horizontal wires 120 feet high and a yard apart, finding as much as one hundred thousand volts between the points a yard apart in a thunderstorm.
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Norinder
Storag
When Will We Get Our Education And Go Home
On the first day of school a child asks the teacher when they will receive their education and be allowed to go home. The scene shows a quiet pupil raising a hand to pose the question.
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Carline
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Fei
Florence B. Livingston
the Journal
G. L. Caswell
Board of Education
By Peter Durant
Western Newspaper Union
Roger Babson
World Statistician
Des Moines Register-Tribune
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