Iowa City Injury Marks First Big Football Setback
The Journal notes Iowa's first football injury of the season as Leonard Spratt Jr. suffers a fractured ankle in Iowa City Monday. Other items cover Des Moines coast guard fire at Iowa Cooperage, a governor’s wife medical update, tornado damage across five counties, and regional incidents from missing salesmen to airport dedications.
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Iowa
Iowa City
Leonard Spratt, Jr
Iowa Cooperage Company
Des Moines
South Centre
Towa
Albia
World Flight Set for Graf Zeppelin Nonstop Route
Reports from Friedrichshafen indicate the Graf Zeppelin will attempt a nonstop round the world flight in 14 days. Other items note a tornado near Norman Oklahoma, Manchurian fighting, and various political and economic developments across the globe.
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Friedrichshafen
Rooster Club Delays Meeting Until Tuesday
The Rooster club will not meet until Tuesday September 294 due to missing material for the farm bureau lesson. Samah Le notes the delay and asks members to await further instructions.
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Rooster Club
Farm Bureau
Washington 1909 social notes and local events collage
Washington items report Miss Doll Buckley’s farewell banquet by the Labato Maids and a September 1909 wedding between Otto P. Dede and Doll Buckley. Includes school enrollments, marriages, relocations, business changes, dog bites, and reunion planning with mentions of Muscatine, Parker South Dakota, and local churches.
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Centennial School
Heights
Lincoln
Wallace
Laura B. Noyes
Vere Alberson
Carol Forgey
Floyd William Murdoch
Cecelia Anne Philips
M. E. Church
Muscatine
Arthur Mace
D. QO. Davison
W. H. Richey General
Gladwin
Davison
M. O. Miller
New York
West Main Street
Otto PL Dede
Oskaloosa
Doll Buckley
St. James
Mary Masson
Brighton
Nena Wilson
Endicott
Manton Hebner
Will Shearer
Clyde
Pioneer Tale Through Years Of Westward Journey And Iowa Growth
A longtime resident recounts a pioneer's life from eastern origins to westward trek in 1839. He describes boot making, marriage to Jane Sloan, land purchases in Slaughter County, and early Washington County settlement events including old mills, trading posts, and the first schools and births. The narrative blends personal memory with local founding milestones and notable settlers.
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Mansfield
Ohio
Buffalo
New York
Cleveland
State
Flint Hills
Burlington
Iowa
Jackson Township
Slaughter County
Wathtiian County
Inok Rover
T Ford
Red
Jane Sloan
Haysville
Oliver
Jennie Harris Sloan
Slaughter Eanty
Blackhawk
Caue
Adam Ritchey
John Black
Ilinois
Ritchey
Matthew
Thomas
Humphrey
Mississippi
Burbetes
Oliver Sweet
John Js. Bullock
Milo Holcomb
Daria Goble Ona
Richard Moore
Bullock
Holcomb
Crasted
Crosk
Washington City
Mrt
Monmouth
Pitneis
Rachnal Jeckson
The
Wildernes
Enoch Ross
City of
Washington
John Gilliland
Louisa County
Thomas_ Ritchey
Henry County
Joseph Wattercon
Orier
Cassnap
Hom
Lemmon
Thomas Biker
Joseph Adams
Iowa Avenue
Jefferson Street
Adams
John Farrar Sigourney
Isabella Ritchey
Chicago
Illinois
John Bullock
Nan Gotie
Daniel Powers
Mr. Adams
Farage
John Daugherty
OpThs
John Morton
Miss Ashley
Thomas Bakes
Donovan Affair and Noahs Ark Dominate Graham Theatre Week
The Graham Theatre screens The Donovan Affair a mystery of a dinner table killing and a subsequent death with a knife. Also featured are Innocents of Paris Leatherneck and Noahs Ark with lavish production values and a star cast including Maurice Chevalier Coleen Moore and James Hall.
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Will Rogers
Charlie Chaplin
al Jolson
France
Russia
China
Jack Holt
Vorothy Revier
William Collier, Jr
Manurice Chevalier
William Boyd
Alan Hale
Robert Armstrong
Fred Kohler
Warner Bros
Coleen Moore
James Hall
Killarney
Colleen
New York
Noah's Ark
Dolores Costelo
George O’brien
Cole Een Moore
Early Crawfordsville Iowa Tales of Churches and Rails
An elder recounts Crawfordsville history with Martha J. Crawford sharing memories of the first courthouse built in 1840, the 1847 replacement, the Methodist church founded in 1839, the Associate Reformed split into Presbyterian and Seceder, and the arrival of the railroad on September 1 1858. He notes a park feast for 2000 visitors, family milestones, and a life near its end.
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Agsent
H.W. Russel
John Miller
St. Joe
Rock Island
Far West
Tie
San Francisco
Frank L. Wilson
C. H. Wilson
Wake Neal
Winfield
Bishop Spellmeyer
The
Heights Card Club
Charles Hebner
East Second Street
First
Second United Presbyterian Churches
W. W. Orr
Charlotte, N
Crawfordsville
Iowa
Martha J. Crawford
Pioneer Drug Store
Associate Reformed
First Presbyterian
Washington
Jane
Clara
Charles J.wilson
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the Journal
State News Review
John Hammill
Wilkins Priest
Ottumwa
D. L. Nordyke
Shenandoah Clothing
Nelson H. Shere
Decatur, Ill
Review
Iowa State College
Whiting
Supt
W. P. Aghton
Carroll's
Bettendorf Company
Daveport
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Kenneth Deaton
Charles D. Reed
Federal Crops
Iowa-Des Moines National Bank and Trust Company
Northwest Bancorporation Group
James “Speed” Murphy
University Hospital
United States
Cedar Rapids
Des Moines University
Washington County
Town
Norman
Okla
Manchurian
Palestine
Ware
Senate
Norris
Nebraska
Emmerce Department
Westphalia
Ohio State University
L. W. St. John
Ohio State
Tia
Mrcolm Morrow
Oregon
Marion, N. Y
Clinchfield and
Jamsay MacDonald
Charles Wagooner
Telluride
Col. Swindle
O. J. Kvale
Fergus Falls
Minn
Congress
Andrew J. Volstead
Senate Naval Affairs Committee
Navy
William B. Shearer
Benito Mussolini
Pacific Northwest
Mussolini
Rome
Orange Free State
South Africa
London Morning Post
Willaim F. Kenny
International Barbers Union Convention
Fot Indianapolis
U. S
London
Federal Prohibition Bureau
Doran
Cyrenus Cole
Federal Farm Board
Pat
League of Nations
Great Britain
Rhineland
Samah
Knupp’s
Caner
McCreedy
Royal Market
J. H. McCreedy
Stuart and McCreedy
Maria Rouse
J. I. Titterington
West Washington Street
W. W Bowers
Methodist Church
Ferey V. Pennybacker
Austin
Texas
Victor Westphal
al Baldrige
Wastlington County Hospital
Oscar Davis
Claire Dewey
Mrs. G. Cantoni
Nell Hebner
John Altenhofen
County Teachers’ Institute
Washington High School
Hattie Grecian
Charles A. Johnson
Rotary Club
Riverside
St. Mary's Church
Ainsworth
Ainsworth Street
R. J. Catlett
Washington Storage Company
Phil Crail
American Legion
Auxiliary
Clarence
Bernice Brown
South Second Avenue
Washington Baptist
Holy Name Society
St. Piel Church
Russel Jennings
Guarntee
Violet Hough
West Chester
Francis Romine
Keota
St. James Church
Walter Eastwood
Princ@ton «university
Hig
S. S. Buser
J. A. Work
FE. D. Morrison
FON Theatre
Will Harvey
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