Campaign to Reform Iowa Schools Faces New Push
Des Moines reformer Mrs. Taylor Cherdron plans a renewed effort before the next Iowa legislature to centralize school control. She proposes abolishing current boards and adding a sixth city council member to oversee schools, aiming for uniform reform and progressive ideas. In Lake City Morris Piper sustains burns after stepping in two custard pies cooled on the floor by his wife.
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Taylor Cherdron
Des Moines
Iowa
Cherdron
Morris Piper
Lake City
Morris
New Post Cards at The Fair
Local items note visitors and travels across towns including Lawrence Wilson in S U S, Carl Blanchard from Chillicothe visiting Chas Mercer, Frank Stewart and Giesler in Muscatine, and others. Milwaukee section crew work reported, church board meeting set, births announced, and local notable trips to Des Moines and Burlington.
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Lawrence Wilson
Frank Giesler
Muscatine
R. M. Wilson
Eldon
Carl Blanchard
Chillicothe
Chas. Mercer
Harry Ward
Chicago
Wayland
Edna Cross
Grandview
Frank Steiwart
Chariton
Milwaukee Section
Rubio
Chas. Benz
Everett Shearer
Ainsworth
The
Baptist Church
Helen Buckmaster
Centerville
Laura Ingham
Lou Hardy
H. N. Shaw
Winterset
Bowman
Sanborn
Iowa
Roy
Hain
A. D. Craig
Riverside
Craig
Iowa Township
Jack Westphal
Des Moines
Iowa Woman Wields Gaves at Burlington Meeting
At Burlington a combined convention of the Degree of Honor and A O U W heard Mrs. Etta A Branson of Sheradoah themed as grand chief and E B Evans of Des Moines preside as master workman.
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Iowa
Burlington
Etta A. Branson
Sheradoah
E. B. Evans
Des Moines
Presid
Burlington Hosts Large Degree of Honor Convention
Over five hundred delegates attended two conventions representing over seventeen thousand members in Iowa. Degree of Honor has 152 lodges and more than 8,000 members. Burlington hosted the delegates, marking one of the order’s biggest successes.
Plan to start day earlier sparks national hours shift
Prominent Cincinnatians including Julius Fleischmann ex mayor C W M Atkins and Charles J Christie discuss a proposed national summer time change. The plan would advance United States standard time two hours from May 1 to October 1 so workers start at 5 am in summer and finish two hours earlier. Kentucky furniture styles rise as artful splint pieces gain vogue in mountain homes with handwoven bark seats.
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Kentucky
Elopement Rumor Ties Ashton to Missing Couple
Ashton suspects elopement as Mrs. George Ennaga vanishes and drayman Joseph Death cannot be found. Mrs Ennaga and six children search. pair met at a dance recently and friends say it was love at first sight. Ennaga packed a trunk for his wife and addressed it, but it did not reach relatives, and Death is believed to have altered the address while hauling the trunk to the depot.
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Ashton
George Ennaga
Joseph Death
Ennaga
Death
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Mrs. Taylor Cherdron
Jeannette Robertson
W. J. Southwell
St. Paul
Geo. H. Paul Land Co
Frank Stewart
Fred Giesler
Matt Gillispie
Benton County
Clyde Matson
Xenia
Ohio
J. W. Dunham
Arch McCune
Waterloo
Milwaukee
Here
Titus
Rock Island
Ottumwa
Will Kuhn
Mt. Pleasant
A. Kuhn
West Chester
W. Blain Asher
W. H. Asher
Mrs. Etta A. Branson
A&w
N. E. Corner
Washington
FOX & Dewey North Side Shoe Store
Wells, Fargo Express Company
Dr. King
Lemmon's
cEthfaney Drug
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