Iowa corn making splendid showing in rain driven growth
Des Moines reports corn progress rising with above normal rainfall and temperatures. Hardin county leads in prospects, with winds and a July 1 tornado causing damage in multiple counties. Fruits and truck crops show improvement, while oat and barley yields lag.
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Des Moines
Charles D. Reed
Hardin County
Lee
Adams
Union
The
State Horticultural Society
Haska County
Henry
Mt. Pleasant
Small Evan
Keokuk
Weather Bureau
Mississippi River Power Co
van Buren
Stockport
City officials investigate dangerous Elm and Fourth street corner
Grinnell officials and visitors report a subsidence in paving at Elm and Fourth causing injuries to four people. Des Moines residents J. J. Pierson and family were jolted, Pierson unconscious and Mrs Pierson injured. Mayor White and City Clerk Harriman tested the spot, both sustaining injuries but prompting action to secure the area and prevent further harm.
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A. C. Harriman
Fireworks Swindle In Manson Bamboozles Town
People of Manson were duped by a Fort Dodge duo who staged a fake fireworks display titled The End of the World. Spectators gathered for a supposed spectacular, some pyrotechnics fired, then the swindle ended as the con artists fled with the gate receipts leaving the crowd puzzled.
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Manson
Fort Dodge
Bryan Denounces Cox as Democratic nomine e
SAN FRANCISCO July 8 William J Bryan criticized Governor Cox as the party’s presidential nominee saying his wet record and lack of progressiveness align him with Wall Street He refused to state any campaign role for Cox and failed to sway the convention on the party platform Bryan’s bid to block Cox and to steer the platform failed as Cox secured the nomination and Bryan’s influence waned
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White House
William J. Bryan
Cox
Ohio
San Francisco
Bryan
Repub
Wall Street
Buffalo herd grows in Yellowstone park scene
Yellowstone officials report a new wild buffalo group in the park's southeast, adding to a herd now numbering over 100. The sighting near a major hotel and a photographed bull mark the first such close encounter for tourists, as the wild herd appears to be expanding alongside 48 new calves in the park's tame stock of about 500.
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Yellowstone Park
Wyo
Yellowstone National Park
Westeen Plains
Park
Mammoth Hot Springs
Hounds trail burglars from Coast's clothing store raid
Bloodhounds hunted unknown burglars who robbed Coast's clothing store on July Fourth. Thieves, possibly $2,000 in silk shirts and suitcases, entered via McGruder's barber shop cellar, tried to pry the barber door, then entered the clothing shop and fled toward the Iowa river after a trail through the store, basement, and nearby yards. The hounds from Waterloo followed the scent but lost it near the river.
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Iowa City
Coast's
McGruder
Waterloo
Dubuque Street
Iowa River
Meat Packers to Confer at Atlantic on September 13
Meats industry leaders announce Jay EF. Decker of Jacob F. Decker & Son will attend the Atlantic meeting as a representative of the Institute of American Meat Packers. Officials say cattle are marketed below cost, with packers reporting beef losses and fears of reduced livestock production if the trend continues.
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Miason City
Jay EF. Decker
Jacob F. Decker & Son
Thomas E. Wilson
Institute of American Meat Packers
Atlantic
N. J
United States
Des Moines Report Proudly Frames Teachers Bureau Success
The down state teachers placement bureau run by the public instruction department cost the state 2800 in its first year ending July 1 1919 but saved teachers in enrollment fees and commissions over 50000 1258 teachers enrolled Iowa 1108 from Iowa and 150 from other states 472 school boards called for teachers 2374 nominations made with free service to teachers and boards a modest start amid broader efforts to place educators statewide.
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Des Moines
Down State
Thirty-eighth General Assembly
State Department of Public Instruction
P. E. McClenahan
Iowa
University of Chi
State report lauds placement bureaus system
A state report declares State Teachers' Placement Bureaus the best workable system of helps for both teachers and school boards among state agencies.
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Cago
Iowa Joint Resolution Proposes Suffrage Amendment
Secretary of State documents a 1920 Iowa joint resolution proposing to repeal Article Two Section One and to enact a substitute granting voting rights to United States citizens age twenty one or older who have six months residence in the state and sixty days in the county. The measure is referred to the next General Assembly and publication is ordered for three months prior to the election.
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State OF
Iowa
General Assembly
The
United States
A. D
Senate
Thirty-eighth General Assembly
Des Moines
W. C. Ramsay
Beautiful Coffin for Waterloo Bandit's Body
Stanley C. Davis, the bandit killed by a Waterloo police officer after shooting City Detective Wilbam Goodenbour, will be buried in Fitzgerald, Georgia beside his father. His mother Mrs. B. E. Davis, older brother F. N. Davis, and widow Mrs. Retta Davis accompany the body from the mortuary. A coroner's inquest is planned in the office of Dr. Sidney D. Smith with jurors A. W. Chamberlain, F. T. Bentley and Harry Pratt.
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Waterloo
Stanley C. Davia
City
Wilbam Goodenbour
Fitzgerald, Ga
BE. B. Davis
FE. N. Davis
Retta Davis
Davis
Fitzgerald
A. m
Paul
K. N. Davis
William Wilson
Sidney D. Smith
A. W. Chamberlain
F. T. Bentley
Harry Pratt
Immigrant rat aboard ships linked to country’s fauna
A common rat, not native to the country, arrived with transocean vessels. The piece notes its migration route and implications for local ecosystems.
Rent profiteers targeted by Iowa law push
Des Moines July 8 State Dairy and Food Commissioner W B Barney who headed Governor Harding's commission to probe price conditions last fall will urge the next legislature to pass a law to curb rent profiteers He cites evidence of rents rising over 50 percent in one case and says more proof exists He warns housewives against canned products with boric and salicylic acids and notes penalties for improper egg candling and saccharine in soda posters in state foods and dairy efforts.
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Des Moines
W. B. Barney
Harding
Barney
State Food and Dairy Department
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Mahaska
Oskaloosa
Pireworks
J. F. Duffy
Yellowstone
Meat Packers
Secretary of State
State of Laws
Bandit
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
Coca-Cola Company
Georgia
Park & Tilford
New York City
Loose-Wiles Biscuit Company
Chicago
Fairbanks & Company
Bunte Brothers
Delco Company
Dayton
American Glycerine Company
Dallas
Dr. Brush Kumyss Co
Mt. Vernon
N.Y
Thompson Lumber Company
Minneapolis
Board of Water Commissioners
Denver
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Akron
Mannhardt Brothers
Washington, Iowa
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