Rubio News Briefs Highlight Voting Day and Local Happenings
Rubio reports describe a stormy election day with women casting ballots for the first time amid light flurries. Local business moves include Jacob Rudolph and son sawing lumber, sawmill strain, and multiple properties changing hands. Community events feature dances, social gatherings, and a Halloween cautious tone with little mischief.
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Rubio
Jacob Rudolph
Peter
Jacob
Richland
Ichland
Glenn Singleton
van Gabby
Andrew Miller
Lemuel Re
Walter Nordyke
Ottumwa
Clayton Dickinson
Jade Dickinson
William Snider
Augustine
William Morrow
Jim Gatten
Ralph Beliel
Clarence Hyzer
Tinnis
Kbnoch Cox
Joe Auruestine
L. B. Luithig
Clay Township
Hallowe
Scribes
Arthur Laithly
Excelsior Springs
Halloween Party Highlights at Dun Moines Hosts
Mrs. Frank Dunshee and Mrs. Mela Shalia entertained the east rock club at a Halloween party. Visitors included Mr. and Mrs. Sam Schulty and Johnny Bloom families in Cedar Center. Cedar Center school closed for election. Box supper proceeds totaled about forty dollars.
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Lexington
Frank Dunshee
Mela Shalia
East Rock Club
Dun- Moines
Henry Mathes
Sam Schulty
Johnny
John Bloom
Jim Sehulty
Cedar Center
Everett Smith
Lissa Timmons
Hazel Mathess
Howard Wagoner
Des Moines
Irene Oldfield Mart
H. Benn
Sigourney
Frank Wilson
John Oldfield
Missouri
Willing Workers of Prabheranrtan Church Meet for Comfort
Crawfordsville reports that the Willing Workers of the Prabheranrtan church gathered yesterday afternoon at the church to knot comfort and share support amid difficulties.
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Crawfordsville
Prabheranrtan Church
Election winds down in Haskins and local notes
Haskins residents discuss Harding victory with five women voting. A Halloween party at West Chester, school social, and church activities are noted. Local families deal with illness and travel, Eva Ebner’s Washington trip, and Mrs. Boyd’s health challenges shaping week events.
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Haskins
Harding
Vivian
Hazel Booth
Hallowe'en
West Chester
Ral Leppert
Ladies' Missionary Society
Kindlechurch
Home Mission Board
Muscatine
Boyd
Eva Ebner
Opal Godlove
Washington
Sands
Ebner
Eva
J. C. Foster
Cary Brown
Mrs. Foster
Washington County Farmers Union Meeting Notice
Regular monthly meeting in Washington at Woodman Hall on Wednesday at 1 30 PM sharp. Break from husking corn for a half day. Good attendance expected for an interesting session. Wm Sutherland President I B Rabenold Secretary-Treasurer.
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Washington
Woodman Hall
Navy
Wm. Sutherland
Pres
I. B. Rabenold
Secy-Treas
Eureka Halloween Program At School House
Eureka community held a Halloween program Friday evening October 29 at the school house six miles south of town. Miss Vera Walton led the children with autumn decorations and a Jack o lantern fortune telling game. A pumpkin seed guess yielded 275 seeds with Joseph Walter and Mrs Chas Nicola near the mark. ghosts served popcorn balls and candy to all attendees.
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Hallowe’en
Eureka
Hallowe'en
Vera Walton
Joseph Walter
Chas
Nicola
Iowa Farms Increase in Census Figures Across States
Washington dispatch notes the 1920 census shows changes in farm counts by state with Iowa listed at 213 312 farms, up from 217 044 in 1910 and 228 622 in 1900. Farmers discuss holding crops for better prices, aiming to cover production costs and secure a modest profit amid rising costs.
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Iowa
Washington
Bureau of the Census
United States
Bureau
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Mexico
North Carolina
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Oregon
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Virginia
West Virginia
Wyoming
Farmers Holding Grain in Linn County Delays Market
Linn County farmers listening to Iowa Farm Bureau Federation advice to hold grain for better prices. County Agent M A Lindsay reports farmers near Coggan Center Point and Walker favor delaying sale to avoid current stock price losses. Hogs and cattle must be sold soon, but grains can wait for improved returns.
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Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
M. A. Lindsay
Lindsay
Coggan
Center Point
Walker
Nervous Voter Signs Ballot in Des Moines Ward
A Des Moines resident casts her first ballot at East High School in the Sixth ward precinct. She recalls nervously signing her name and worrying the judges could not read it as she headed home with a neighbor.
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Des Moines
East High School
Famous Dwarf Count Primo Magri Dies in Massachusetts
Primo Magri, 71, famed dwarf and second husband of Mrs. Tom Thumb, died at a hospital after a two week illness in Middleboro Massachusetts. Born in Bologna in 1849 he rose to fame on stage in Italy before joining Barnum’s troupe. He married the widow in New York in 1885 after Tom Thumb’s death.
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Count Magri
Tom Thumb
Middleboro
Mass
Primo Magri
Italy
Bologna
Pope Pious IX Primo
Ernest
United States
Trinity Church
New York
Three Die in Auto Mishap Near Minneapolis Viaduct
Three young people are dead and a fourth injured after a car driven by Harlan Huston crashed through a viaduct railing and fell thirty feet onto the Minneapolis and St. Louis tracks on the Fairview road between Excelsior and Deephaven. Mercedes Nolan age 22, Helen McGee age 23, and Harlan Huston 24, all of Minneapolis, perished. James Walker 21 of St. Paul was hospitalized unconscious. Mercedes Nolan was the daughter of W. L. Nolan, speaker of Minnesota house of representatives.
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Minnesota House
Minneapolis
Fairview Road
Excelsior
Deephaven
Mercedes Nolan
W. L. Nolan
Minnesota
House of Representatives
Helen McGee
Harlan Huston
James Walker
St. Paul
Huston
St. Louis
Iowa Supreme Court reduces Gibson sedition sentence
In Des Moines on November 4 the Iowa Supreme Court modified George Gibson of Union County sentencing in a sedition conviction. The court annulled six months in jail and reduced the fine from 1000 to 200 dollars.
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George Gibson
Des Moines
Lowal Supreme Court
Union County
High Court
Warren G Harding a Portrait of the Next President
A portrait of Warren G. Harding, Ohio native and Marion Star publisher, outlining his early life as a farmer boy and printer. It covers his rise from local editor to U.S. senator, his 1914 landslide win, and his roles in Ohio politics and business.
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Warren G. Harding
Ohio
United States
Eines
Marion
Star
Blooming Grove
Morrow County
George T. Harding
Scotland
Hardings
Pennsylvania
Warren
Phoebe Dickerson
van Kirks
Warren Harding
Ohio Central College of Iberia
Dr. Harding
Harding
Trinity Baptist Church
Root beer and champagne seized in Chicago under pure food laws
Department of agriculture officers confiscated seventy three cases and ten drums of champagne and 103 barrels of root beer in Chicago for false non alcoholic labeling. Additional seizures included fifty cases of extra dry champagne at General Forwarding Company and 23 cases plus root beer at McNeill Higgins. Experts found about 10 percent alcohol in the samples.
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Chicago
Department of Agriculture
General Forwarding Company
McNeill & Higgins
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