Grandpaw Spud and the Heck Boys Travel Western Tour
Grandpaw Spud travels by Cadillac with the Heck boys from Nebraska through Kansas and Colorado to Colorado Springs. They visit Garden of the Gods, Cave of the Winds, and Broadmoor Hotel area, meeting guide and Tennessee tourists, noting drought, mining towns, and local figures while joking about costs and water.
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Grandpaw Spud
Heck
Washington
Matt White
John
Harry McCall
Harding
Nebraska
Kansas
Colorado Springs
General Palmer
Alexander Smith Cochran
Cochran
Ganna Walska
McCormick
Gen. Palmer
Colorado Spring
Colorado College
Garden of the Gods
Heck Boys
Grandpa Spud
Sentinel Rock
Martha Washington
Harry Lauder
Hubby
Bob
Williams Canon
Agate Mountains
Canopy Hall
Lovers’ Lane
Curtain Hall
Spud
Manitou
Hasty
Washington, D. C
Cripple Creek
Ivywild
Iowa
Colorado
Broadmoor Hotel
N. B
Senator Penrose
Pennsylvania
Baldwin
Samuel” White
Seven Falls
Helen Hunt Jackson
Cheyenne Canyon
Fantom Falls
Bridal Veil Falls
Helen Hunt Falls
Pat
Brookhart Heads to Camp Perry for National Rifle Matches
Col. Smith W. Brookhart will suspend his senate campaign on Sept. 16 to direct the training school for rifle teams at Camp Perry near Toledo Ohio. Teams from the national guard army navy and marines will compete under his instruction. He will resume campaign events after returning with planned stops in Garwin Pella Grundy Center Hamburg Wapello Crawfordsville Strawberry Point Woolstock and Oskaloosa between Sept 12 and Sept 18.
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Smith W. Brookhart
United States Senate
Camp Perry
Toledo
Col. Brookhart
National Guard
Army
Navy
Marines
Republican State Central Committee
B. B. Burnquist
Des Moines
Strawberry Point
Woolstock
Oskaloosa
Discharged professor opens door in lucid moment
In Syracuse the discharged professor declares this moment lets him out as he steps through a doorway, a cryptic scene framed by the phrase His Lucid Moment. The quirky line echoes the newspaper’s playful tone about a local personality.
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Syracuse
Iowa Wins Health Chore Cup For Second Consecutive Year
Iowa reclaim s the silver loving cup from Idaho with 362000 children engaged in the health chores program. The National Tuberculosis Association credits Iowa for the largest total and highest percentage of crusaders, with five first prizes and sixty eight second prizes won by Iowa schools. Theresa Denshill leads the program statewide.
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Des Moines
Towa
Iowa Tuberculosis Association
National Association
New York
Iowa
Idaho
Hawkeye
South Dakota
Theresa Denshill
Iowa Farmers Seek U S Loan To Finance Crops
Iowa farmers press for a $10,000,000 War Finance Corporation loan this fall to finance crops. Iowa officials plan direct advances to farmers rather than through banks and seek long term commodity credit legislation. Concurrently, Senate House conference action on the tariff and a bonus bill is deferred pending tariff agreement.
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Washington, Sept
War Financ Corporation
Iowa
Ed Cunningham
Iowa Farm Bureau
Andrews
Iowa Farm Credit Corporation
Mitchell
War Finance Corporation
Messrs. Cunningham
Senate
House
Representative Green
Messrs
Fordney
Longworth
Smoot
Gomer
Business Better Despite Labor War Des Moines Report
Sept 8. Financial authorities report September reviews show continued business progress despite strikes and transportation cripples. Iowa expects another strong corn crop above 400,600,000 bushels, with hogs cattle feed shipments boosting profits and livestock feeding. Roberts of National City Bank cautions confidence but notes Europe wide unrest may test long term optimism.
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Des Moines
United States
Europe
Iowa
Methanics and Metals National Bank of New York
Gas pressure and stomach distress affect musician's tune
A musician describes stomach distress halting his playing and notes a remedy, Mayr's Wonderful Remedy, that clears catarrhal mucus from the intestinal tract and reduces inflammation. The ad claims one dose proves its value with money-back guarantee from Lemon's Pharmacy and leading druggists.
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Medicing
Mayr
Heath
Air travel to transform modern transport says scientists
Washington experts forecast rapid aviation progress with upper air currents near 300 mph enabling San Francisco to New York trips in eight hours. British Air Ministry tests troop air movement, while the US Army envisions transcontinental air lanes via a blimp. The London Daily Mail offers 5000 for a motorless plane flight, as European aviators note German motorless plane records raising transoceanic talk.
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AIR
Washington
Scientific American
San Francisco
New York
London
British
Air Ministry
London Daily Mail
Weather Drives Iowa Corn Progress and Farm Updates
Des Moines reports a near record warm week with variable rainfall. Corn made good progress and most of the early crop is safe from frost. seed corn ready for harvest. fall plowing and winter wheat seeding expanding in northern counties. alfalfa seeding rising. sugar beets yield shortened by drought but quality good. onion harvest advancing in Mitchell and Harrison. cabbage cutting suspended in Mitchell due to shipping cat shortages.
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Des Moines
Lowa Crop and Weather Service
Iowa
Mitchell
Harrison
The Printer's Lament By Creede Candle
The narrator laments a printer’s life filled with constant malfunctions from alarm to dinner gong. He recalls bum presses sticky rollers and costly delays as profits shrink and the balance sheet shows a loss, prompting thoughts of leaving for a minstrel show.
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Creede Candle
Diving Victim Dies After River Incident Near Davenport
Hugh La Verne Meyer twenty two year old son of Mr and Mrs Jacob A Meyer of La Claire Iowa died at St Luke s hospital after an operation failed to save him. He had been injured Sunday when he dived from the Scott Clinton county bridge into the Wapsi river and broke his neck. Doctors Frederick Lambach Davenport and M N Percy Chicago specialist reported the spinal cord was severed and nothing could be done to save him.
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Davenport
Hugh LaVerne Meyer
Jacob A. Meyer
la Claire
Iowa
Wapsil
Scott-Clinton County
St. Luke's Hospital
Frederick Lambach
M. N. Percy
Chicago
Friends as an Expensive Luxury
A reflective note on friendship from Ibsen to Brandes in 1870. It argues that keeping friends costs more than favors, since restraint driven by regard for others suppresses potential intellectual growth and initiative.
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Ibsen
Brandes
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Stearns
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le Claire
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