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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1921
Page
4
A passage notes that the second group receives less than one seventh of the total and that about one fifth of the people leaving Iowa are accounted for. The text highlights shifts in population movement and partial dispersal across regions.
The piece argues that high rail wages postwar and rising carrier charges shift burden to shippers and farmers. It cites Wallace's Farmer on wages, payroll growth from 1.7 to 3.7 billion dollars, and urges railroad reform to lower rates. It frames accountability with "We pay the freight" and notes systemic mismanagement.
Poem laments professors who toil for knowledge while outsiders party and profit. It contrasts scholarly life with wealth and leisure, noting students, families, and loans tied to education as speakers mock and marvel at learned men.
Iowa City report by the University of Iowa Child Welfare Research Station finds thousands have left Iowa in twenty years. Two thirds are ages 15 to 34 who will raise families elsewhere, with 1910 census showing over 800,000 native Iowans living in other states.
The annual tobacco bill of the United States amounts to 2 110 000 000 dollars with 800 000 000 dollars spent on cigarettes.
Sociologist Hornell Hart notes from the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station that between 1900 and 1915 more than 375000 people left Iowa, while about 150000 moved in, a third of them foreign born. The 1920 census suggests emigration rises even as Iowa’s population grows due to natural increase. Most emigrants are young, with South Dakota receiving more Iowa departures than any other state, followed by California.
Advertises Hall's Catarrh Medicine claiming to cure Catarrhal Deafness by acting through the blood on mucous surfaces. Describes Eustachian tube inflammation causing deafness if not treated and guarantees up to one hundred dollars for any cure it cannot achieve.
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