Coe College Allows Campus Dances Amid Social Shift
Coe College announces campus dances organized by a student committee to concentrate social activities on campus and curb costs. The policy allows attending external dances in the city but prioritizes on campus events, reversing a long period without dancing except during wartime.
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Webster City
Hamilton County Fair Association
Tramilton
Home Insurance Company
Fort Dodge
Raiv
Jazz heritage linked to Peru and Peruvian dance
Mrs. Anne Obendorfer of the National Federation of Women’s Clubs traces jazz to Inca culture in Peru and calls the shimmy a pan American tradition. The Evanston club class hears history as William Burgess of the Illinois Dancing Association promotes a state campaign to curb what he terms immoral dancing.
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Chicago
Peru
Pizarro
Cuzco
Obendorfer
William Burgess
Illinois Dancing Association
State Officials Move To Buy Three Natural Beauty Parks
Negotiations are under way for the purchase of three state parks near Eldora Farmingeton and Meankoketa. The 90 acre Eldora tract includes a 60 acre lake island bluffs and woods. The 160 acre Farmingeton site features a lily pond. The 16 acre Meankoketa tract contains the Moore head Caves and a natural bridge.
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Des Moines
Eldora
Farmingeton
Meanoketa
Moorehead
Eats More Meat Called For in Iowa Corn Campaign
Iowa editor notes Dean Curtiva of Ames urges increased meat consumption to boost corn use and freight relief. He backs freight-rate relief, Great Lakes canal projects, and Mississippi barge system, while town jail costs and indigent care spark debate among sheriff and county boards.
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Great Lakes-St. Lawrence
Mississippi River
Charles D. Reed
Iowa Weather and Crop Service
Armenian Relief
Iowa
Polk County
Armenia
Cedar Rapids
Reed
Newton Boys Win Relay Bicycle Race
Thirty five Newton youths around 15 along with Des Moines peers competed in a relay bicycle race. Newton riders started from the state capitol and Des Moines riders from the Newton courthouse, moving toward each other a mile apart. Newton won the honors amid cheering spectators.
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Newton Lads
Newton
Boone
Ames
State House
State Capitol
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Posthumous Caruso songs revealed as composer’s
New York reports mournful world learns that Enrico Caruso left a priceless legacy of songs he wrote in secret. Among titles are The Forsaken Window Olden Times The Song of Spite and Dreams of Long Ago. He sketched a self portrait for a cover and shared the humor with friends.
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New York
Musea
Caruso
Raoul
Rodolfo
Don Jose
Iowa War Era Citizenship Clash and Local Industry Rise
A Sioux City case sees a man denied citizenship after claiming Sweden as his homeland during wartime while Iowa court proceedings address bonds and fugitive trials. Separately Muscatine authorities push a frog farming venture near Delhi Minnesota, with 2400 live frogs to populate a Mississippi river fed tank inside a button factory for year round production.
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DeLand
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Delhi
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Jarcks
Mississippi River
Fairport
Button Factory
Des Moines
Yellowstone memory of nature’s untouched grandeur and buffalo herd
Kenny Van Dyke chronicles three weeks in Yellowstone and surrounding regions, praising the park’s untouched beauty and protective mission. He recalls the Washburn expedition origins, the act of dedication in 1872, and vivid encounters with geysers, Grand Canyon of the Colorado, Yellowstone Canyon, and a buffalo ranch visit with keeper Bob McComb.
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New York Times
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Yellowstone
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Cornelius Hedges
Montana
Erestie
Department of War
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Mammoth
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Colorado
Yellowstone Canyon
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Yellowstone Lake
Buffalo Ranch
Bob McComb
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Veterans gainful occupation program aids Des Moines trainees
Several hundred disabled soldiers attend a Des Moines vocational training school under the Gainful Occupation Act. The government pays monthly stipends ranging from 80 to 200 dollars based on family size, plus free tuition and instruction. After completing the course, trainees are expected to support themselves and relatives without further allowance.
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Des Moines
Calico Conflict Sparks Early Kansas Indian War Tale
A remembered frontier incident in Kansas recounts a conflict arising when an agent sold Native Americans a piece of calico whose striped pattern ran the wrong way. The tale highlights tensions between traders and tribes during the era of early state history.
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Kansas
Release to Pick Corn Two Women Freed in Court
In Sioux City on October 15 two women Iris Bowers and Goldie East aged 24 and 23 were granted suspended sentences after pleading necessity to be in the country shucking corn. They faced $100 fines or thirty days in jail for petit larceny after being caught shoplifting at Davidson Bros. store with goods valued near $659.
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Sioux City
Iris Bowers
Goldie East
Kansas Street
Davidson Bros
Waterloo Ministers Campaign to Bar Sunday Movies
Ministers of Waterloo seeking to close theatres on Sundays. Backed by about 6000 congregation supporters they presented a petition to the city council urging a moratorium on Sunday showings to improve the city’s morality.
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