Illiteracy in Guilford County Stuns North Carolina
A North Carolina report notes that in Guilford County alone over one thousand men aged 21 to 31 cannot write their names. The draft test reveals broad illiteracy across ages and both races, with calls to adult education and night schools to boost literacy among workers in mills farms and common labor.
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North Carolina
Guilford County
Thomas R. Foust
Althouch
Eduucation
Cies
Osage Girls Adopt Uniform Dress for Coming School Year
Osage high school announces new uniform dress policy for the upcoming school year. The change is aimed at standardizing student attire and fostering school spirit among Osage, Iowa students.
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Osage
Osage High
New Iowa Rural School Laws Promising Standardization
Des Moines August 16 The Evans-Smith bill standardizes rural schools with 100000 appropriation to raise efficiency. Schools outside towns must be well equipped and eight months a year. teachers need high certificates and state approval. Standard schools receive six dollars per pupil with half to teachers and half to districts. Miss Mary Frances named inspector in charge, after Bremer county successes.
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Des Moines
Lona
Mary FE. Frances
Bremer County
Francis
Bloodhounds Used in Seminole War Hunt Requested by Taylor
On July 28 1838 General Zachary Taylor later president asked the government to provide bloodhounds for hunting the Seminole Indians of Florida. He received the dogs to aid the campaign.
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Zachary Taylor
United States
Florida
Hoover Urges Europe to Work or Face Hunger
Hoover declares Europe must immediately boost production to avert catastrophe and avoid economic slavery to the western hemisphere. He blames demobilized productivity, war readjustment, and labor demands for stagnation and warns a prolonged deficit could trigger chaos and renewed conflict.
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London
Europe
Herbert C. Hoover
Western Hemisphere
Mr. Hoover
Hoover
Penitentiary Club Interest Noted by Young Attendee
A Twentieth Century Club program on Joan of Arc, her tortures and imprisonment drew interest from a small boy who, riding home with his mother, requested to attend again saying he liked that Penitentiary club.
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Twentieth Century Club
Joan of Arc
Penitentiary Club
Cartoons Magazine
Sunday Results Across Leagues From Brooklyn To Detroit
In the National League, Brooklyn defeated Cincinnati 4 to 0. In the American League, Chicago edged Philadelphia 3 to 1, Boston beat St. Louis 2 to 1, Washington defeated Detroit 4 to 2, and New York won 6 to 3 against Cleveland.
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Cincinnati
Aset
New York
Seeeer Reese OS
Chicago
Ernest Amireokiyn
Louis Philadelphea
Cleveland
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
Chicago-New York
Boston
St. Louis
Washington
Detroit
Rural Iowa county to raise teacher pay above minimum wage
Cherokee county rural school directors, meeting in Cherokee, set a new wage scale 25 percent above state minimum. High school certificate teachers start at 81.25 dollars monthly, rising to 93.75 after one year and 100 after two. first grade certificate staff also reach 100 after two years. second grade start at 75, then 81.25 after one year. Consolidation momentum grows with two already, two more formed, three in progress.
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Cherokee County
Iowa
Des Moines Wins State Legion Convention Bid
The Iowa executive committee chose Des Moines for the state-wide American Legion convention on September 4 and 5, over Waterloo Cedar Rapids and Marshalltown. Attending was Lieut Col Hanford McNider of Mason City, a senior Ninth Infantry officer. Lieut Roosevelt Jr. is expected to speak during the Des Moines gathering.
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Des Moines
Iowa
The
American Legion
the Legion
Waterloo
Cedar Rapids
Marshalltown
Hanford McNider
Mason City
Ninth Infantry
France
McNider
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Executive Committee
Gypsies Rob Bank near Sioux Rapids
A band of four autos of gypsies were said to have stolen $100 from a Dickens bank and entered Sioux Rapids. Local guards and the sheriff confronted them, the leader offered to pay the money and expenses, and the group agreed to leave the town.
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Sioux Rapids
Spencer
Dickens
The Third Degree at Fox Theatre stars Alice Joyce
Vita graph presents The Third Degree directed by Tom Terriss at the Fox Theatre on Tuesday afternoon and night. Alice Joyce plays Annie Sands, exposing police torture and a wife's fight to save her innocent husband, supported by Gladden James Anders Randolf Hedda Hopper and others.
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Vitagraph
Alice Joyce
FOX Theatre
Charles Klein
Tom Terriss
Miss Joyce
Annie Sands
Gladden James
Anders Randolf
Hedda Hopper
Herbert Evans
George Backus
J. T. Wade
L. Rogers Lytton
Edward McGuire
Kenyon Urges Centre as Pack-Control Fights Go On
Washington dispatch reports Senator Kenyon pressing the Kenyon Anderson bill before the Senate agriculture committee despite protests from bankers merchants towns and other organizations in multiple states. He vows relentless war on packers and price inflators while urging access to cheaper foods.
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J. Ogden Armour
Congress
Senator Kenyon
Kendrick
Wyoming
Senate Committee On Agriculture
EB. G. Dougherty
Washington, D. C
Kenyon
Hitchcock
Poindexter
Nebraska
Washington
Kenyon-Anderson
Good
U. S
Representative Good
House Appropriations Committee
Four Divorce Suits Start in County as Nevada Records Rise
August 16 reports show A M Mc Hone seeking divorce after a quarrel over a nickname Kaiser Bill. Bertha Coan files third divorce action against William Coan since 1912 marriage in Marshalltown. Frank Algrim seeks divorce from wife who left him in 1914 after Omaha wedding.
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Nevada
A. M. McHone
Leota
Kaiser Bill
Bertha Coan
William Coan
Marshalltown
Frank Algrim
Cambridge
Omaha
Prominent Officials Endorse Tanlac in Wide Testimonial Drive
A flood of endorsements from judges mayors bankers and ministers across Georgia Texas Tennessee and beyond lauds Tanlac as a medical breakthrough. Dr J T Edwards and ex sheriff Archie R Anderson among others report dramatic personal relief and urge others to try the remedy as large drug firms order it in carload lots..advt.
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Supreme Court
Tanlac
J. T. Edwards
Fayetteville, Ga
Georgia
Archie R. Anderson
Harris County
Texas
Mr. Anderson
H. W. Hill
South Pittsburg
Tenn
Tennessee
G. W. de LaPerriere
Winder
de LaPerriers
Elmer Morris
Dover, Tenn
W. A. Woods
Central Graded Schools
Winder, Ga
C. C. Cooper
Chattahoochee
Atlanta
9Th St
Austin
Taniac
Washington
Sherman Bros
Crawfordsville
Samuel J. Stites
Brighton
G. W. Dash
Advt
Former Birmingham mayor touts Tanlac benefits
Hon. Frank V. Evans former Mayor of Birmingham and former editor of the Birmingham Age Herald endorses Tanlac. He cites relief from gastritis indigestion constipation and heart palpitations after starting the medicine noting improved appetite and reduced painful spells. He says his recovery is now the talk of Birmingham.
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Tanlac
Frank V. Evans
Birmingham
Evans
Alabama
South
Birmingham Age- Herald
State and Federal Act to Cut Iowa Produce Prices
Iowa authorities move to lower prices after a suspected overcharge in Des Moines. W B Barney of the state marketing bureau announces prices are eight to ten cents a dozen too high and urges a Des Moines boycott. Investigators report local produce agents under scrutiny as a price reduction is forecast within a week.
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Des Moines
Iowa
W. BB. Barney
State
Hoarding Probed in Des Moines Retail Food Trade
The report notes houses buy eyes near Perry for 32 cents a dozen and sell to grocers at 47 cents a dozen. BE. G. Moon says investigations are under way in Des Moines to uncover possible hoarding by wholesale food dealers. Fruit robbers and meat storehouses face close scrutiny.
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Perry
Barney
BE. G. Moon
Des Moines
Catsup word origins traced to kitsap Chinese soy
The term catsup or ketchup is traced to the Chinese word kitsap for an inferior soy product. Variants such as catehup catsup and kitehup appear as historical spellings. The note explains linguistic corruption across English usage.
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China
La France Reaches Gotham In First Transatlantic Return
New York report notes the La France of the French line arrives from Havre marking the first regular passenger service return for the giants. It carried 41 first class 253 steerage and a variety of notable passengers including the Countess of Granard Duchess of Roxburghe Prince Alanna Montereale and other titled travelers aboard.
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New York
la France
Havre
Countess of Granard
Beatrice Millis
Duchess of
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