Seventeen Years in Washington an Iowa Cobbler Remembers
W. W. Morrison born 1850 in Tennessee became a long time Harwood Shoe shop cobbler in Washington. He moved from Columbus Junction seventeen years ago and stayed through family hardships, Civil War recollections, and eight siblings. Morrison endured amputation as a youth and raised five children with two marriages, preserving his grandfather’s 125 year old tools.
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Harwood
W. W. Morrison
Whit
Columbus Junction
Mr. Harwood
Mr. Morrison
Tennessee
South
Morrison
Thornburg
Andrew Johnson
United States
Harper
Prevent Diphtheria Public Health Message
A public health notice stresses that the diphtheria threat depends on parents and communities using available medical resources. It urges prompt vaccination and preventative care to protect children and reduce the disease's menace.
Immunization Drive Offers Diphtheria Toxin Antitoxin
The county health unit announces toxin-antitoxin immunization to prevent diphtheria for children over six months and adults. The program begins March 30 in Crawfordsville with a one dollar charge, waivable for those unable to pay, and promises lifelong immunity in about 95 percent of children receiving the treatment.
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County Health Unit
Crawfordsville
Harvester offers higher grain prices to ease farmer loans
International Harvester guarantees 70 cents a bushel for wheat 50 cents for corn and 80 cents a pound for cotton on notes due this year for key farm machines. George A. Ranney says higher prices will help farmers repay notes and spur price recovery.
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Chicago
International Harvester Company
New Orleans
George A. Ranney
Cattle Tuberculosis Tests Exceed One Hundred Thousand in Iowa
Dr J A Barger of the federal department of agriculture announced that February TB testing in Iowa covered 107151 cattle. Of these 2854 reactors were found. 177 veterinarians tested 5679 herds across 52 counties.
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Des Moines
Iowa
J. A. Barger
Federal
Department of Agriculture
Probing Plot to Kill Archbishop Orozco in San Francisco
Police investigated a reported plot to kill Archbishop Orozco y Jimenez of Guadalajara now staying at a Dominican priory in San Francisco. The Mexican prelate fled Guadalajara by plane due to political conditions, according to his allies. Father Edward J. Whelan, president of the University of San Francisco, reportedly alerted authorities. Dominican fathers said they had heard nothing of the plot.
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San Francisco
INS
Orozco ‘Y Jiminez
Guadalajara
Mexico
Orozco
Edward J. Whelan
University of San Francisco
Penn College Future in Oskaloosa Directors Meeting
In Oskaloosa Iowa March 25 the future of Penn College hinged on a directors meeting. The school had just been dropped from the North Central association accreditation due to financial problems. Directors planned to discuss the finances and determine the next steps.
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Penn College
Oskaloosa
Iowa
North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools
Clarence Darrow Sick in Honolulu Amid Massie Case
Clarence Darrow, defending four Americans in the Massie case, was recovering from two days of illness in Honolulu. He hoped to resume work on the defense of Grace Fortescue, her son-in-law Thomas Massie, and two naval enlisted men charged in the Joseph Kahahawai killing. Parkersburg Girls Win State Championship in Iowa.
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Honolulu
T. H
INS
Clarence Darrow
Darrow
Grace Fortescue
Thomas H Massie
Joseph Kahahawai
Thalia Massie
Fortescue
Lieut
Massie
Parkersburg
Des Moines
Iowa
Butler County
Centerville
Geneva
Josephine Langerman
Larahn Walbaum
W C T U Conference Plans Dry Planks and Candidates
The National W C T U organizes a March 29 30 Chicago meeting with delegates from Illinois Wisconsin Iowa Indiana and Michigan to discuss dry plank candidates and the 18th amendment. Speakers include Dr Charles L Stewart Alonzo E Wilson and Senator James Barbour with national and state officers in attendance. The event targets anti beer bloc Volstead Act repeal and resubmission debates.
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Morrison Hotel
Chicago
Illinois
Wisconsin
Iowa
Indiana
Michigan
Ella Boole
D. B. Whitney
Benton Harbor
Mich
Stella Stinson
Christian Citizenship
Charles L. Stewart
University of Illinois
Alonzo E. Wilson
American Business Men's Prohibition Foundation
Stella Brummitt
Wm. Gourley
Oliver Aspegren
Sylvester
Schiele
Arthur Barnhart
James Barbour
Beer Bloc
Chicago Association of Commerce
Olympic Racketeering Boom Reported Ahead of Games
Los Angeles officials say racketeers have taken about 1.8 million dollars in the last 18 months through flim flam schemes tied to the Olympic games set for July to August. Florian de Donato Jr of the California Intelligence Service said nearly 970,000 people were victims, with tactics ranging widely though few aimed at selling city hall or the Colorado Street Bridge.
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Los Angeles
INS
Florian de Dgnato, Jr
California Intelligence Service
de Donato
City Hall
Colorado Street
To the map who himself strives earnestly God also lends a hoping band
A terse elegy-like line from Aeschylus is rendered here as a compact, reflective quote about human effort and divine support. It frames striving as paired with heavenly backing, suggesting resilience through faith and perseverance.
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Aeschylus
Iowa High School Pupils Enter State Academic Contest
The University of Iowa reports 319 high schools entering the fourth annual every pupil contest with nearly half of Iowa students involved on May 10. Class breakdown shows 122 Class D, 95 Class C, 81 Class B, and 21 Class A schools, plus 54 schools entering non competitive. The event also selects about 1,000 pupils for the state scholarship meet in June.
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Iowa
Iowa City
Everet I. Lindquist
College of Education
Lindquist
Schoors
Inquest to Probe Muscatine Auto Crash Kills Couple
An inquest was ordered to investigate the automobile crash that killed C. M. Worley a 48 year old private detective from Cedar Rapids and his wife. The collision occurred on a hill near Muscatine as their car struck a truck driven by Claude Cartwright.
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Muscatine
Towa
INS
C. M. Worley
Cedar Rapids
Worley
Claude Cartwright
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