Farm Bureau Members Seek Membership Slogan in Iowa Contest
Des Moines reports counties will join a nationwide Farm Bureau slogan search with prizes up to ten dollars for first place and five prizes of one dollar. Slogans must be original, under 20 words, legible, and mailed by June 15, 1922 to Chicago. County bureaus also plan state contests for orchestra quartette and 4-H club travel awards.
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Des Moines
Farm Bureau
National Farm Bureau
Chas. E. Hearst
Iowa Federation
American Farm Bureau Federation
East Washington Street
Chicago
Hearst
Iowa
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
J. S. Russell
Des Moines Register
Farmers
O. W. Beeler
E. F. Graff
Alson Secor
Valley National Bank Bldg
Ill
National Committee On Boys and Girls Club Work
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
Rickets in Children and Vitamin D Link
Public health report notes children rarely die from rickets but the disease increases susceptibility to infections. It attributes rickets to lack of lime and phosphorus and points to vitamin D as the key enabling factor for proper utilization.
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The
Public Health Service
Family and social news from Kalona area
A Kalona area note recounts Sunday meals and visits on June 5 with families from Sioux Rapids Kinross South English and Washington. Community members attended children’s day at the M. E. church in Kalona as fruit picking and canning of strawberries and cherries continue.
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Washington R
Eli Holmes
Sioux Rapids
Henry Rust Bolt
Kinross
Charles Kiser
Harold
South English
Milton Maas
B. J. Holmes
Washington
Dorothy
Oresta
Erma
Mariella
Denny
Jarden
Miller
Morris Jay
Roger
Joyce
Andrew Rogers
Dr. Miller
Iowa City
M. BE. Church of
Kalona
Grace Hill Community Notes Brief Update
Grace Hill notes Mary Sherlock reports. Lucille Robert son returned home after completing school. Rev. Seems delivers farewell sermon and resigns to teach in Pennsylvania this fall. Sunday school remains at 10. Beulah Miksech visits Ottumwa. Nora McKinstry visits Douds. Anna Springer Eloise and Yordy accompany. Anna Sankey family visited J W Meyer Sunday.
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Grace Hill
Lucille Robertson
B. F. Beitel
Beulah Miksech
Ottumwa
Nora McKinstry
Douds
Anna Springer
Eloise
Miss Yordy
Rev. Seems
Pennsyyvania
If the Wolf Keeps Howling at My Door
A reported private remark in a tongue in cheek fashion warns the wolf lingering at the door will be shut in the pantry and left to starve. The quote is presented as overheard comic exaggeration rather than a formal statement.
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Army of the Unemployed
Thrift and Love Clash in Small Town Romance
Martha Endicott faces two suitors, Giles Harrington the thrifty lawyer and Dick Winters the generous physician. Both vie for her hand amid business booms, property deals, and a hospital bazaar, leading to a decisive confession at the town’s annual event.
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Giles Harrington
Doc Winters
Martha Endicott
Martha
Giles
Chance
Dick Winters
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
WNU
Old clocks tell tales from ages past in town feature
The piece highlights clocks aged from twenty seven to two hundred fifty five years. Mrs. Marek brings a Bohemian clock fixed at Westphals, Mrs. Cook’s eighty year Seth Thomas keeps time with town clock, and the Squire clock travels by wagon. Fort family owns a seven day time piece and Adams clock from Seneca Falls stands as a historic piece.
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Ed Squire
Seth Thomas
Ohio
Squire
Little Everette Squire
United States
Fort
Sherman
Fort Sherman Clock Marks 160 Years Of Service
A historic clock at Fort Sherman celebrates roughly 160 years since installation. its reliable chimes and antique mechanism reflect the fort’s long military heritage and preservation efforts.
Clock of Dr Stewart Bought in Nantwich England
Dr C W Stewart possesses the old and largest clock seen today a large hall clock given by Golburne Hise. The Hise family kept it for years before it was purchased in Nantwich England and brought to the region.
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C. W. Stewart
Golburne Hise
Hise
Nantwich
Old England
Old Clock Keeps Time in Seventeen Century Mystery
The item is described as an eight day clock spanning about eight feet tall with no hinges, claimed to have remained accurate since 1878 in the United States. It is noted as about two hundred fifty five years old, suggesting it predates the current era.
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United States
Community Notes From White Oak Region
Mrs Lloyd Luers and family visited Carl Daerings while Mr and Mrs Oz Gowey and son Donald spent Sunday there. Mrs George Augustine and Orlena Mae attended a club gathering at Arvin Henrys. Audience from here went to Rubio for a Friday night picture show. Fred Waltmans harvest a big strawberry crop priced 30 cents a gallon. The Lloyd Luers family joined a Richland High School 1922 reunion picnic at Car Colletts in Richland.
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White Oak
Oz Gowey
Donald
Carl Daerings
George Augustine
Orlena Mae
Arvin Henry
Rubio
Fred Waltmans
Lloyd Luers
Richland High School
Collett
Richland
Mrs Herbert Hoover Visits Brooklyn Sunday School Parade
Mrs Herbert Hoover wife of the president arrived in New York by train from Washington to review the 103rd annual Brooklyn Sunday School Union parade in which about 100000 children were expected to participate.
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Hoover
New York
Herbert Hoover
Washington
Brooklyn Sunday School Union
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and Tribune
Iowa State College
Washington, R
Bernice Maas
Mary Sherlock
Anna Sankey
J. W. Meyer
Journal
Lemmon’'s
Phar
Macy
Nail
the Evening Journal of Lemmon’s Pharmacy
Washington, Iowa
Thrift
H. Louis Raybold
Joe Marek
Bohemia
D. J. Palmer
Stephen
T. T. Keeley
Henderson Wallace
Seneca Falls
Fort Sherman
Gov’t
Westinghouse
NORGE
General Electric
Frigidaire
Iowa Southern Utilities CO
Scott Furniture CO
Oetjen Bros. Seed Store
Gho. W. Stewart
A. J. Franzen
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