Bloody Kansas Recalled In Letter From J F Klingaman
J F Klingaman, an early county settler, writes from Kansas City about Bloody Kansas, Civil War depredations by Quantrill, Ingalls freighters slain by Indians, and local weather and agriculture. He notes Kansas City’s vast railroad, stockyards, and flood impacts, and recalls prairie schooners’ inscriptions like Kansas or Bust.
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J. F. Klingaman
Kansas City
California
Courier
Kansas
Waterloo
Westport Landing
Lawrences
Kan
Lawrence
Free State Party
Quantrill
Ingalls
J. J. Ingalls
Hutchinson
Missouri City
United States
New York
America
Odd Fellows Plan Large Degree Work and Parade
Waterloo lodge No 716 will hold an initiation and banquet next Tuesday evening with about 40 candidates. Grand Master Irwin is expected to attend. a street parade will escort him into Waterloo. Delegations from Ta Porte City Hudson Cedar Falls and Canton Crescent are invited. About 300 banquet reservations with potential doubling. A program of entertainment and addresses by lodge members and Grand Master Irwin will follow at Black Hawk lodge.
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Waterloo
Canton Crescent
Lynn J. Ire Win
Logan
Ta Porte City
Hudson
Cedar Falls
Canton-Crescent
B. H. Lang
West Waterloo Lodge
Black Hawk Lodge
Irwin
Traer School to suspend pupils for tobacco use
Traer school officials led by Superintendent C W Bangs vow strict action against smoking pupils. Two week suspensions for first offenses and potential semester expulsion for second offenses are authorized. The move follows rising tobacco use among Traer high school boys and at least one recent two week suspension.
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Traer
School Board of
C. W. Bangs
Making a Policeman Star and Tin Whistle
A 1922 guide by Associated Editors teaches boys to craft a policeman's star and tin whistle from an oyster can. It covers tin preparation, cutting, bending, and soldering basics, plus making a simple soldering kit, heating methods, flux use, and final assembly with a safety pin for the star.
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Associated Ettttors
Tuning a Crystal Receiver With a Simple Buzzing Test
Fred Woodward outlines a basic method for aligning a crystal receiving set using a doorbell buzzer, a dry cell, and a single wire. By generating own signals and adjusting the detector for maximum audio, the set reaches resonance with distant transmitters and becomes ready for reception.
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Fred Woodward
Questioned Radio Answers and Orchard Birds
A collection of Q A on radio amplification using a small power transmitting tube with notes on detector tubes and regeneration. The text also includes a cottage scene with cuckoo birds in an orchard and banter between Jennie Wren and Mrs Sparrow, ending with an advertisement image claim about the world’s most beautiful woman.
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Chicgo
The Sandman Story by Mrs F A Walker
Jennie Wren scolds the nests of Mrs Cuckoo and Mrs Cowbird in a village tale. Mr Wren jokes about risky construction while Mrs Sparrow chimes in to explain cuckoos.
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Jennie Wren
Cuckoo
Mr. Wren
Mrs. Wren
Mrs. Cowbird
Mrs. Sparrow
Questions on future energy supply from Uncle Harrys Talks
In a dialogue about energy, Uncle Harry explains that science anticipates long term needs and that petroleum demand rises with cars planes and trains. He notes international resource dependence, cites geologist expeditions abroad, and discusses Russia as a petroleum rich, strategic partner for trade.
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Dlarry
Lima
Sali
Jimmy
Harry
Joe
Mexico
Great Britain
France
South America
Persia
Russia
Czecho- Slovakia
Philippines
Municipal Light Plant Builds Coal Stock in Traer
The Traer Iowa municipal electric plant reported March earnings were invested in coal to cover a potential miners strike. Over the past two months more than 4000 dollars was spent for coal freight and drayage, with coal on hand totaling 685 tons as of April 1, enough to cover two and a half to three months.
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Traer, Is
Municipal Electric Plant
Traer
Cheaper Radiophone Receivers Effective 10 to 25 Miles Range
A period piece explains why low priced radiophone sets under $20 are practical only within 10 to 25 miles of a broadcasting station. It covers detector types, two stage amplification, and the use of amplifying transformers to boost weak signals for listening. It notes costs for headphones, detector tubes, and amplifiers, and compares radio frequency and audio frequency amplification for long distance reception. It also mentions General Electric transformers covering 200 to 26 900 meters and detector tube voltage ranges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abere
General Electric Company
Scout Exposition at Fayette Sets June Dates
Ray L. Short Waterloo Scout executive announces the third annual Boy Scout exposition at Fayette from June 21 to 24. Expected attendance runs around seven to eight hundred, with 1,500 district Scouts to be mailed program details by April 15 for prep. Delegates from Waterloo honors scouts will be named. the program committee includes several named scoutmasters and Fayette leaders. The court of honor meeting scheduled for last night was postponed due to absence of members.
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Ray L. Short
Waterloo
Fayette
Mr. Short
Dawson
Rowley
John D. Clinton
Waverly
O. H. Lohman
Court of Honor
A Friend in Need a Friend in Deed
Mrs Grones Hardee of Los Angeles credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with turning her weak health into strength after years of illness and monthly doctor visits. She says eight bottles and the Sanative Wash improved her condition and helped others, including her sister.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Lydia E. Pinkham
Akien
Paina
Guthrie
Oklahoma
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Bloody Kansas
Black Hawk County
Odd Fellows
Traer School
Black Hawk
Aoc
Eugene N. Braper
Herman H. Qstrin
Brown ' Be
W. W.south
John A. Rauch
Virden
la Torre City
James Faulkner
Rey
Herman Heinemann
Herman Webner
Calyerises
Watérlan
Forelda Lansing
Lydia
Bare 'Reth
Gallav
McIntyre
Bares Holm
Mith
Ane A. Merene If
Gonehnour
Erat
Baste Sents
Tinner
P. D
Ans
W.E
Audi
Fon
MG. L
Man
Kurtz-Reinhart Co
Bybank Transfer Ter Co
Fuel & Transfer
West Mullan Ave
Phorea
L. E. Glaza Phoes
Ruby Thomas
R. R
Somerville
Ohio
Mt Ever
Tatum Bie
Wien Arog
Uncle Harry
Municipal Light Plant
Karl C, von Lackum
Salch
Slmer
Reed
Manchester Creamery Co
Manchester
Iowa
W. A. Abbott Co
Lamont
Jaws
Wangsler Bros. Co
Landgraf & Co
Clark Drag Co
Parkersburg
Herg Prog Co
H. P. Blanchaine & Co
Porto, Se
BR. A. Longergan Drag Co
Waterton
Iowa Warehouse Company
Mulberry Bt
Mrs.Hardee
Phelps
Jefferson St
Chalmers
Chalmers Organization
Waterloo Motor Sales CO
Franklin Street
Clhe Chalmers
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