Housing boom fuels Fairfield building plan despite costs
The piece notes rising housing demand in Fairfield with a proposed three stock plans of four to six rooms priced from 3400 to 3800 dollars. It recalls wartime postponements and current price hikes, urging immediate construction of about one hundred houses as materials stay expensive.
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Fairfield
Dakota Gold Mine
Reid
Rhode Island
Deering
Idea Nisco
Emerson
Rock Island
Mmerson
Janesville
Peterstorm
Thayes
Peter Schuttler
Weber
Fairbanks
Mellers
Detroit
O. Ws
Gedge
Going Right Ahead Despite Weddings Says Older Women
In the Oskaloosa Herald, a comment notes that married women weep at weddings, yet young women continue to marry. The column suggests persistence in marriage choices amid shared emotions.
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Oskaloosa Herald
Pay Inequity Faces Fort Dodge Teachers Ads
Fifty Fort Dodge teachers use advertising to call attention to pay that fails to cover basic needs. The Crawfordsville Imprint notes the public may see ads as a remedy, while the Times-Republican quotes the slogan that advertising pays in highlighting labor pay issues.
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Fort Dodge
Marshalltown Times-Republican
Portugal Said to Be Most Illiterate in Europe
The Fairfield Tribune notes Portugal is described as the most illiterate nation in Europe with over sixty percent unable to write. Editors lament lack of reader poems and citizen contributions.
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Portugal
Europe
Fairfield Tribune
Rippling Rhymes Of Walking To Riding In A Car
A nostalgic poem contrasts walking with car travel after LT buys a car. The speaker recalls happy foot journeys past fields, orchards, and cheerful companions, but now rides in a car with danger and longing to return to walking and simple sights. The tone blends humor and wistful reflection.
Demand Women in Missionary Work Demand Women in Missionary Work
Pittsburgh February reports growing foreign mission service demand with 120 women to reach field after January group arrives. Details cover roles from Bible teacher to nurse and teacher training, age health criteria, language study, and furlough rules in United Presbyterian Foreign Missions.
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Pittsburgh
Foreign Mission Service
Evangelical Christ‘Nan
New ‘World Movement
United Presbyterian Church
Egypt
India
Sudan
United Presbyterian
Cairo
Sialkot
Board of Foreign Missions
Fighting Cressy at Fox Theatre Two Day Run
Blanche Sweet stars in a Bret Harte adaptation titled Fighting Cressy. The Jesse D. Hampton-Pathé production plays at the Fox Theatre for two days, set in the pioneer West with Cressy daughter of Hiram McKinstry amid a boundary feud with Old Man Harrison.
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Cressy
Blanche Sweet
Jesse D. Hampton
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Advertisement Claim
There is more catarrh in this section than other diseases. clinicians once deemed it incurable. Hall's Catarrh Medicine from F J Cheney Co Toledo is a constitutional remedy taken internally to affect mucous surfaces via the blood. A one hundred dollar reward is offered for any case not cured.
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Poe
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
FP. J, Cheney & CO
Ingenious treadmill for chickens linked to growth
An inventor patents a feed box with a revolving platform that chickens must scramble over to access food, turning exercise into a required activity for growth.
Washington Iowa Ordinance on Gas Water and Sewer Connections
Ordinance 148 requires permanent connections to gas water and sewer lines before street improvements in Washington Iowa. It sets specifications for water pipes gas pipes and sewers and outlines assessment of costs to fronting property and repeal of prior ordinances with an effective date after publication.
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Washington
Iowa
City of
Te Council
Water & Light
Doan's Kidney Pills Backed By Washington Woman
Mrs. T. A. Jones of 312 W Morroe St records two endorsements of Doan's Kidney Pills from 1915 and 1919. She credits relief from kidney trouble backaches and dizziness after using Doan's, praising the remedy and stating continued health benefits. Foster M'bar Co Buffalo NY manufactures.
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Washington
Dean
Foster-M' Bar Co
Mfrs
Buffalo
N. Y
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Ine
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AU Deuce
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New York
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