Local Notes From Ames Area And Surroundings
Local items report brief travels and visits including G W Frain going to Centerville on business. Margaret Brookhart on vacation from Ames summer school. Olive Virginia McConnell funeral in progress in Ainsworth. Elmer Hess family visiting Keota. Ed Willits visiting Cranson. Marguerite and king visiting J A Walker home in West Chester. Elsie Wallace leaving Ainsworth for Monmouth to attend Y M C A convention. Clarince McCreedy, Gage Clark, and Forrest City Arkansas posting updates on employment and travel.
Local notices from Washington and surrounding areas
Names of residents and visitors in Washington on business include Phil Weldin from Oskaloosa Rh Wells Crawfordsville and C Crawfordsville area, E B V Simons and L M Shryeck and Forrest Adams, plus various car trips, tents for the chautauqua and sales on clothing and shoes.
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Phil Weldin
Oskaloosa
Rh. C. Wells
Crawfordsville
Washington
L. M. Shryeck
Forrest Adams
Brighton
Heirloom Plate Listed by Stephen's Jeweler
Brighton man R Reichen spent today in Washington. Mrs Lou Reynolds of Clinton visited Mrs Paulie Brown. F L Ellis returned to Ft Madison after a short stay. A want ad promotes a silverware heirloom sale and a sale on women’s low heel pumps at 1.95 a pair. Widmer family home from Wayland visit. Chautauqua tents must be ordered by August first. Frank Stewart to assist campers.
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Frank Stewart
The Hope of the World and a Health Ad for Mothers
The piece links the wartime era to the future generation and emphasizes restoring homes and industries. It promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as an aid for motherhood, claiming fifty years of use in non surgical women’s diseases.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Alcoholic Deaths Rise in New York This Year
New York reports nearly 89 percent more alcoholic deaths in the current year than 1920 and 27 percent more than 1921, according to the chief medical examiner. The 1923 total stands at 127.
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New York
Ukulele Inventor Manuel Nunes Dies in Honolulu
Manuel Nunes, inventor of the ukulele, dies in Honolulu of heart disease. The death reveals that Hawaiians did not know the instrument before white contact.
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Honolulu
T. H
Manuel Nunes
Hawaii
Fairfield youth held in grandmother robbery case
Smil Em onin, 20, is held at Jefferson county jail suspected of being one of two men who beat and robbed the Palm family eight miles southeast of Fairfield on Friday night. He is the grandson of elderly Mrs Palm.
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Fairfield
Smil Emonin
Jefferson County
Palm
Young Emonin
Editor’s Inquiry and Blundering Blanks in Punch Line
An alien filing for naturalization fills a clerk’s form with Name Jacob Levinsky Born Yes Business Rotten while jokes about Peggy and a Whistler Twain anecdote appear. The piece reflects light humor and satirical lines from Ladies’ Home Journal.
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Jacob Levinsky
Dialogue on a social scale and mistaken identities
The passage depicts a humorous exchange about a social scale as a place to weigh money. A joking bystander challenges a name, leading to a misidentification about a pew and introducing a running gag with Yale humor magazines.
Society Notes Highlight July Weddings and Receptions
Mrs J A Work and Mrs M R Meeks hosted a reception at Mrs Work’s home in honor of guests including Mrs W J M Scott of New York City and Mrs O M Cavin of Columbus Junction. Out of town guests and marriage plans for Miss Marjorie Antionetti Nelson to John Calloway Park were announced for July in Berkeley California.
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J. A. Work
M. R. Meeks
W. J. M. Scott
New York City
O. M. Cavin
Columbus Junction
Frank Shinnabarger
Muscatine
M. R. Meek
Marjorie Antionetti Nelson
John Calloway Park
Berkeley
California
Park
Nelson
Washington
Presbyterian Church
Loren KR. Nelson
Prescott
Arizona
W. S. Duncan
East Washington Street
Fred Duncan
Allerton
Ainsworth
Alcorn
Cal Richards
Columbus City
Glen Duncan
Adda Wood
States study Illinois road inspection visit
Fifty good roads supporters from Missouri Michigan and Wisconsin arrived in Springfield to inspect the Bates experimental highway tested by Pines. led by Cel 8 Bo Wald ron president of the beta Auto club and Frank Rogers Michigan highway commissioner the visitors were joined by A R Hirst Wisconsin highway superintendent.
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Springfield
Missouri
Michigan
Wisconsin
Bates
Pines
Bo Waldron
Betta Auto Club
Frank Rogers
Michigan Visitors
A. R. Hirst
Wiscortin
New York Garment Workers Stage Quiet Mass Exodus
Nearly all workers in New York's cloak and suit trade, about 50 000, left their jobs in a general stoppage aimed at smaller sweat shops. Some 800 large shops will resume work after agreeing to a 44 hour week and holiday pay plus overtime rates.
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New York
Elonk
Benjamin Schlesinger
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union
Students Fight with Reds at Klausthal
Berlin reports a revolver clash between communists and students at Klausthal. One communist was killed by a student as a crowd attacked the student who died en route to hospital. Later disorders left two more students injured and hospitalized.
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Berlin
Klausthal
Vorwserts
Miners reject Sterling plea for settlement support
Springfield July 26 President Frank Farrington of the Illinois miners union replied to Acting Gov. Fred Sterling that he knew of no measure the governor could bring to settle the strike. The message notes the labor conflict and a lack of a clear path to resolution.
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Springfield
Fred Sterling
Frank Farrington
The
Illinois Union
Lost in Manchester Storm Destroys Fish Hatchery Stock
A July cloud burst flooded Manchester and surrounding areas causing extensive damage. The United States fish hatcheries suffered complete loss of stock including 25,000 rainbow trout with repairs estimated at three to four years and 35 000 to 40 000 dollars in losses. The Iowa Electric company also lost all false work for a hydro electric plant.
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Manchester
United States
Iowa Electric Company
Ten Billion Buttons a Year Industry Stats Cited
A National City Bank bulletin notes U S button usage costs about 100 million dollars annually with 16 million dollars exported since the war began. It cites 1919 census data showing 69,323,000 gross producing about 10 billion buttons and 48 million dollars in output while domestic consumers paid around 100 million dollars.
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United States
National City Bank of New York
Germany
Austria-Hungary
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She
South Sea Isle
International News
Eugene O’brien
Northwest Mounted Police
Channing
Flander
Jacobs
Buick
Schulty Motor Car Co
B. Lupton Monuments
A. D. Sanders
John Shields & Sons
Arch Best
Oxfords
Wilson's
G. W. Frain
Centerville
Margaret Brookhart
Ames
Lelia Rhodes
Olive Virginia McConnell
Elmer Hess
Keota
Bert Willits
Cranston
Ed Willits
Mixx
Helen Shaw
Sigourney
BE. BE. Adams
Marguerite
West Chester
J. A. Walker
Neal Toillenaar
Des Moines
Lola Winga
Mise Elsie Wallace
Monmouth
Y. PC. U
Lyon's
Merc
Will Bucker
Mia
Clarince McCreedy
Gage Clark
Grier
Forrest City
Ark
Willis Todd
Jno, Palmateer
Fred Weeks
Geo. McAvoy
Bert Booth
Milo Roberts
Glenn Schwartz
Iowa City
McElhinney Drug Co
EB. V. Simons
Wapello
Farmers Co-Operative Exchange
Chautauqua
R. J. Rowan
Roy McAdams
Victor
Lee R. Sands
Aineworth
Bethechild
Chiago
McCall Bros
Joe Linabury
Linabury
Henry Wagner
David McCartney
H. M. Shellabarger
Atchison
North Side
Amos Norton
Daryl
W. E. Wasson
Louise Jane
New London
Harvey Burham
Mrs
Jacob Lambert
Hewitt
South Iowa Ave
Ruth George
Myrtle Boice
Beaevrice Baird
Martha McCreedy
Carolyn Hamilton
Margaret Holmes
West Allis
Wis
Maurine B McLaughlin
Louise Livingston
Elizabeth Campbell
Chicago
United Presbyterian Church
North Ide
A. & Putnam Co
Stephen's
R. Reichen
Lou Reynolds
Clinton
Paulie Brown
F. L. Ellis
Ft. Madison
Atchison, North Side
P. G. Widmer
Mery Katherine
Wayland
N. Y
Peggy
Dead Sea
Whistler
Mark Twain
Mark
Ladies’ Home Journal
Duff
Gordon
Yale Record
Mrs. Pillington-Haycock
A. J. Dawson
Etha
Elizabeth
Anna Dawson
Oscar Tedford
Tedford
A. E. Atchison
Dawson Home
Illinois
Good Roads
Farrington
Little
North Carolina
Washington Cleaners
Opera House
Bert Olson
Dailey’s Taxi
Vthonke
Local and Country Service
Washington, Iowa
Rissskhll Conner
Johnny Wright
Kalona
Brown’s Tire Shop
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