Wireless hobby teen hears distant church service and city cases
Charter Oak high schooler J. W. Jarnagin reports a 16 year old boy runs a wireless station at his grandparents home and heard a Philadelphia Episcopal service and a Denver orchestra while excused from school. In Colfax a wedding and an old time chivary occur as boys gift a four cent bill illustration. Judge Bradley upholds LeMars Sunday moving picture ban. Iowa enacts vital statistics law. cigarette license nontransferability. Fort Madison Anamosa prisons see rising populations with parole delays and job scarcity.
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Toy
Vital Statistics Law—Union
Churches of State
Des Moinds
Carroll Wickmire
Charter Oak
Crawford County
First Episcopal Church
Philadelphia
Denver
Iowa
Fort Madison
Anamosa
Towa
Board of Parole
Des Moines Public Schools Budget Shows Big Building Plan
George Garton estimates city school system needs to fund 72 buildings valued at 5 million including real estate and equipment. A new program costs 2.5 million for two senior and three junior high schools. Annual operating cost runs 2.7 million with 959 teachers and a 156 000 monthly payroll for staff plus 20 maintenance workers. Enrollment last year reached 25 819, about 104.57 dollars per pupil. District age 5 to 21 totals 35 228. Parochial schools absorb part of the enrollment gap.
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George Garton
Des Moines
Consolidation Spread in Iowa Across Counties
Dubuque joins five counties in voting against consolidated schools as 166 ballots oppose the plan and no votes in favor. The Dubuque district, under a year old, has seen repeated efforts and reversals with five schools to be reestablished. In Cedar Falls Kansas educators study Iowa’s consolidated schools led by Iowa State Teachers College experts.
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Dubuque
Chickasaw
Howard
Lyon
Winneshiek
Bankston
Dubuque County
Cedar Falls
Kansas
Lucile Ewing
Olathe
Iowa State Teachers College
Macy Campbell
Jesup
Hudson
Orange Township
Iowa
United States
39Th
General Assembly
Ames
Untapped wealth in public lands eyed by government
Secretary Fall reports that at least 150 billion dollars of untapped value lie in the public domain across 400 million acres. Coal and oil dominate the reserves with potential royalties totaling billions, while phosphate potash waterpower and grazing lands add to the future revenue stream. The interior department urges an affirmative reclamation policy to spur jobs and home creation, arguing irrigation yields repay costs and lowers taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Fall of
Interior Department
Fall
Alaska
Department of Interior
Home Department
United States
Alaska Resources Need Coordinated Federal Oversight
Interior secretary highlights Alaska's vast forests, mineral and agricultural potential and argues for unified federal administration to unlock resources. Transportation is essential, with a Seward to Fairbanks railroad planned and signals of coal, metal minerals, and possible oil deposits across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alaska
Seward
Fairbanks
Point Barrow
Seward Peninsula
State and Federal Agencies Aid Veterans and Rural Church Unity
Des Moines hosts the central veterans bureau unit with a large waiting list and pension guidelines ranging from eight to eighty dollars monthly plus dependent allowances. A federated church conference near Winterset unites rural churches to pool resources and plan a statewide reform, with next year’s meeting at Urbandale. Ames runs hog cholera instruction sessions for farmers statewide to prevent outbreaks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Veterans Bureau
Corps of
Red Cross and Vocational Training Department
Des Moines
St. Louis
Hotel Colfax
Colfax
Zion
Winterset
Madison County
R. Lee Kirkland
Zion Church
Wm. H. Nolin
Bondurant
Urbandale
Federated Church
Sheriff Robb
Hog cholera ravages Iowa hog herds in 1920 losses rise
Government expert F Pinney reports 261297 hogs died from cholera in 1920, far surpassing 1913 and earlier years. Counties leading losses include Plymouth Potawattamie Sioux and others. Officials ordered to inventory public property in care custody and management with quarterly reports.
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F. Pinney
Carroll
Harding
Ida
Jasper
Keokuk
Kossuth
Mahaska
Plymouth
Pottawattamie
Sioux
General Assembly
Nitrates From Explosives Plant Near Tuein
A plant near Tuein Waly converts captured explosives into nitrites for agricultural use. The facility gathers explosives from battlefields and, with other materials, makes fertilizer. It employs 11 men and aims to produce 5000 quintals of fertilizer with 1 percent nitrogen soon, per Consul Dana C. Sycks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuein
Waly
Dana C. Sycks
Newspaper Ribbon Span Reaches Vast Distances
The Thrift: Magazine notes that if all US daily newspapers were cut into standard-width strips they would form a ribbon over 40,000,000 miles long, enough to stretch beyond half the sun’s distance, and wrap the globe 16,000 times with a strip two feet wide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Sun
Backbone Wins in Business Battle
A quote argues that true backbone distinguishes successful, respected men from weak, indecisive ones who bend to others. It contrasts aggressiveness with timidity in professional life.
Simple Rule on Fewer and Less for Numbers
The rule says use fewer for numbers and countable items, and less for bulk quantity. The example should be I have fewer than 100 bushels, not no less than 100 bushels. Use less with uncountable amounts like water or sand.
Near East Relief Advocate Seeks Aid After Turkish Persecution
Dr. George White of Grinnell Iowa returns to Des Moines to plead for famine relief in the Caucasus recounting Armenian persecutions by the Turks and praising American aid efforts including Iowa corn shipments that sustain refugees and orphanages as winter looms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Near East
George White
Grinnell
Caucasus
White
Nearea
Near
Dr. White
Iowa
No Tears Yet Marriage Advice From a Veteran Wife
A long married woman counsels a young bride on tears in marriage. She says the first tear brings remorse, the second discomfort, the third nuisance, and the fourth he will leave. The piece concludes that tears have no proper place in married life.
Life as I See It by Louisvile Courier Journal
A reflective piece asserts the learning curve between genders with women shaping men of weak character. The writer honors the feminine insight as sacred, comparing understanding to bowing in a temple and noting the near divine quality without seeking full comprehension.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
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Jasper County
Bradley
Petuies
Russell Sage Foundation
Legislative Assembly
Burbank
Gibson
Max G. Schlapp
Hale Hamilton
Herbert D Brown
Lowa
Man With
Backbone
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