Iowa Packer Sees Hog Prices Steady to Rising Soon
Cedar Rapids report quotes Robert Sinclair of T. M. Sinclair Packing Co as saying hog prices may rise to 12 to 13 dollars per hundred within months. He blames farmers holding hogs and lower by product values for current high retail meat costs and notes eastward pork demand is strong while supply remains tight.
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Cedar Rapids
Robert Sinclair
T. M. Sinclair Packing Company
Mr. Sinclair
Sinclair
Middlewest
Christensen Denies League Not An Issue in Campaign
Des Moines Oct 16 former labor candidate Parley P Christensen said the league of nations was not an election issue but used by financiers to force a global agreement. He asserted Cox and Harding favor a league and that the real plan is a commercial agreement supported by both parties. He urged a league of the free peoples of the earth.
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Des Moines
Parley P. Christensen
League of Nations
Harding
Cox
Mr. Wilson
League of the Free Peoples of the Earth
Christensen
United States
Postcard Travels Seventeen Years To Reach Dock Official
A postcard mailed in 1903 by Frank O Keefe while surveying the Harlem River reached him decades later after a long journey of twelve miles. O Keefe had risen through promotions to become superintendent of docks when the card arrived.
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New York
A_ postecard
Frank O'Keefe
Harlem River
Department of Docks
O'Keefe
Map of Earth Covers Two Acres at Santa Barbara School
At Boy Land in Santa Barbara California a boys school, students can view a flat earth map laid out over about two acres. Rivers lakes mountains valleys continents and oceans are depicted and the boys can paddle through the larger waterways.
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Santa Barbara
Cal
Ex-service Men Urged to Apply for War Medals in Iowa
Adjutant General Peter C Harris urged Iowa ex-service men to apply for Victory Medals through the War Department or state officers. About 8,757,624 eligible, but only 379,214 have applied. Medals issued include 77,194 for U S service and 79,092 for foreign service, with battleship and clasp totals noted.
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Iowa
Adjt
Peter C Harris
War Department
Philadelphia
Harris
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
United States
Nmo
Associated Packing Company Dissolved
Oct. 16 Des Moines reports a liquidation order wiping out the Associated Packing Company. Creditors and stockholders allege a calculated fraud aimed at stock sales rather than building a packing plant, with the judge noting weeks of hearings and a冷 fraud scheme.
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Des Moines
Deeres
Abs
Canadian Impostor Tale Stirred Border Towns in War-Torn Era
A 1840s impostor posing as patriot Bill Johnson appeared with a woman he claimed was his daughter in Buchanan county Iowa. The duo impressed settlers until a lynching, a Dubuque trial, a dramatic elopement, a pistol recapture, and Johnson’s murder followed. Evidence later showed the real Canadian patriot lived in New York.
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Forties
Bill Johnson
Thousand Islands
St. Lawrence
Quasqueton
Buchanan County
Johnson
Dubuque
Kate
Peck
New York State
Paish Urges Revision of Versailles Treaty at London Conference
Sir George Paish, economist, spoke at the London economic conference session he presided over and said the first step in Europe’s reconstruction is revising the Versailles treaty. He also urged wiping Europe’s debts to America and noted Allied obligations to Britain.
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London
George Paish
Europe
Eurape
America
Entente
Britain
Iowa News and Notes on Farm Bureau, Lawsuits, and War Service
Bremer County Farm Bureau cites need for a Home Demonstration agent with two candidates. one offered 2900 dollars annually, another 2300, plus mileage. In Clay County a suit looms over tree-cutting damages to the Lehman estate near Gillett Grove. War history features Mrs. Perry, 70, who served in France with Red Cross and earned honors. Prof. George W. Stewart credited by Navy for anti aircraft receivers at Pensacola, enabling precise plane detection and gunnery control.
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Farm Bureau
Bremer County
Jones County
Clay County
L. A. Witter
Spencer
Louis Lehman
Harmony Light and Power Company
Eleectrical Supply and Construction Company of
Lehman Farm
Gillett Grove
Electrical Supply and Construction Company
Whitter
Perry
Cantard
New York
Byrd
France
United States
Red Cross Norce
Chateau Thierry
Altho
Pershing
George W. Stewart
Department of Physics
University of Iowa
United States Navy
Credigy
Penisacola Naval Base
United State
Stewart
Long Beach Woman Learns of $20,000 Windfall
Mrs. Maude E. Perry of Long Beach visited Spencer, Iowa area resident Mrs. Ethel M. Bessie and met an elderly woman with a last dollar pinned to her hat. After eight months of hosting, the stranger vanished. A Kansas lawyer later notified Perry that the woman, Mrs. Sarah M. Russell, left her $20,000 in cash in a will.
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Maude E. Perry
Long Beach
California
Ethel M. Bessie
Spencer
Clay County
L. C. White
Governor Harding Highlights Iowa Rural School Shifts
Governor W L Harding writes in the August Review of Re viv es on Iowa rural education noting two main school types the consolidated district and the one room schoolhouse. He cites 230 consolidated schools as of July 1 1919 and 407 districts after daily votes since then noting 280 one room rural schools have closed due to consolidation.
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W. L. Harding
Iowa
Alistriets
Avmich Apve
Rural Schools Expand Access To High School Courses In Iowa
Iowa reports growth in rural education with 606000+ students transported and 10000+ in high school work. By year end 1800 four year high school graduates from consolidated districts. State funds 200000 to standardize one room schools with ten pupils a teacher with first grade cert and proper facilities. Districts receive six dollars per pupil after six months, split between teacher and district for equipment.
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Iowa
Igst
W. C. T. U. Notes on January Meeting at Mrs Fleming
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union held a regular meeting at Mrs. Fleming's home. The treasurer was absent, but the recording secretary presented a good report. New members attended, dues for the new year were noted as partly paid, and members were urged to pay promptly to fund the Cham p ion and cover subscription costs.
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Community club seeks rug donations for Benedict Home
Members vote to contribute at least ten dollars each to help Benedict Home. Those unable to attend the next meeting at Mrs. Corvette's are urged to send donations, as the secretary prepares for future monthly gatherings. Sound The Jubilee.
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Benedict
University Mails Tickets to Alumni for Two Games
Four thousand reservation applications have been mailed to University of Iowa alumni for the Iowa Northwestern game in Iowa City on November 6 and the Iowa Minnesota Homecoming game on November 13. Requests for tickets are already coming in.
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Iowa City
Iowa-Northwestern
University of Iowa
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