Riverside Teams to Meet Durant in Basketball Games
Riverside high school boys and girls travel to Durant for return basketball games after Durant teams visited Riverside weeks earlier. The report also notes local obituaries and social visits including Mrs. J J Reha’s relative's death, and visits by Mr. and Mrs. Earl Letts and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ball. Teresa Walsh of Mercy nurse training Davenport spent the weekend with her parents.
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Durant
Pestelle Cruz
Riverside High School
Durant High School
J. J. Reha
Frank Stransky
Earl Letts
Iowa City
St. Mary's Hall
Charles Ball
George Deutsch
Teresa Walsh
Mercy Nurse's Training School
Davenport
C. W. Walsh
Names burned for the beheaded in Peiping temple
A Collier's Weekly writer notes that Chinese tradition held a criminal’s name not dead until its destruction. Each year the names of those executed were written on papers and burned in a Peiping temple to erase their memory.
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China
Collier's Weekly
Peiping
Use of Sales-Use Tax For Iowa Secondary Roads
The Iowa state planning board recommended using motor vehicle sales tax revenue to finance secondary roads. The plan argues the tax yields about 1.2 million annually and should fund road projects with county cost shares and highway commission contracts, while preserving federal aid. Do A Norman of New Providence chairs the subcommittee.
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State Planning Board
George A. Wilson
State Highway Commission
The
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Planning Board
State General Fund
Do. A. Norman
New Providence
Army Officer Describes Tanks Guns and Rifle Programs
An army officer discusses World War II era arsenal expansion and current production. The Rock Island and five other arsenals employ about 2,800 workers, produce artillery carriages, anti aircraft mounts, tanks, combat cars, and machine gun tripods, with standby facilities for rifles and ammo. The arsenals serve as centers for development and training, though major emergency mobilization would still rely on civilian industry.
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Middle West
Ordnance Department
United States Army
Rock Island
Birthday greetings and small town notes from Washington
The column lists birthday acknowledgments for Mrs. B. A. Maas and others, family visits in Wellman and Gibson, hometown social calls, meals with relatives, and local chatter. It ends with a feature on seed weights comparing strep tocarpus and coco de mar, noting Collier's Weekly figures.
Veterans in Iowa politics reach zeniths as many serve in elective roles
Frank Miles of the Iowa Legionnaire cites an average veteran age around 45 and says 89 000 to 85 000 World War I veterans live in Iowa with about 30 000 in the Iowa American Legion. He notes retirement and relocation affect counts. bonuses once paid in 1924 reached 114 900. The Legion emphasizes voluntary political service rather than guarantees, while veteran turnover continues. A note on horticulture mentions the purple beech tree, Fagus sylvatica atropuncea, an ornamental species widely planted.
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Robert DD
William Johannes
Frank Miles
The
Iowa Legionnaire
Iowa
Miles
Legion
Justice Kept Peace by Stopping Duel with Knife Threat
A newly appointed justice of the peace intervened as a fight loomed. He drew a foot long knife and warned death to anyone who violated public peace, demonstrating resolve to enforce law and restore order.
Linotype Inventor Ottmar Mergenthaler and first use
The linotype, a type casting device used in American newspapers, was invented in 1885 by Ottmar Mergenthaler, a German-born Baltimore citizen. It was first deployed in a newspaper office soon after its invention.
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United States
Baltimore
Ottmar Mergenthaler
Humboldt Veteran Hubbard to Celebrate 90th Birthday
In Humboldt Iowa on January 18, Harry C Hubbard a longtime druggist since 1884 and recent life member of the Masonic lodge will mark his sister’s birthday on January 26 He began his career at De Witt and has served as a Rotarian and pulpit speaker at the Unitarian church An earlier item from Anita notes Russell Butler six year old son of Mr and Mrs R K Butler hoping for a kind 1939 He endured a string of illnesses in 1938 including whooping cough chicken pox mumps pneumonia ear ache mastoid operation tonsillectomy and a broken arm The Toronto Indians origin meaning a meeting place is cited as context for the city’s historic rendezvous long before white settlement
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Iowa
Harry C. Hubbard
Dewitt
Hubbard
Masonic Lodge
Unitarian Church
Anita
Russell Butler
R. K. Butler
Home of Copernicus at Torun Opens to Visitors
The old city of Torun in Poland honors Nicolaus Copernicus with a statue and the house he lived in around 400 years ago open for visitors to explore.
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Poland
Copernicus
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