England needs to curb tariff talk and resume world market drive
A dated editorial urges the United States to ditch protective tariffs as a long run boon to farmers and industry, arguing Britain’s postwar farmer subsidies collapsed and tariffs harm global trade. It contrasts U.S. needs with European competition and calls for renewed hard work to compete abroad. It also notes typhoid concerns in Waterloo and Jefferson tied to river bathing habits and water sources.
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Senate
Congress
Abe
America
Moher
U.S.A
United States
Canada
States
North Dakota
Kansas
Europe
Republican Party
England
Iowa
Germany
British Isles
Waterloo
Jefferson
Raccoon River
Chief danger spots in the human body for disease
Health Talks by Dr. John B. Huber outlines infection centers from the middle ear to the stomach. He warns padres about running ears in children, adenoids, nasal throat catarrhs causing deafness, diseased tonsils, mouth germs, and apex of the lung in tuberculosis. He advises not to ignore symptoms and to send questions with self addressed stamped envelopes.
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Bright
Hirber
Myra Stone's Secondhand Craze Ends in Marriage
Imogene reveals Myra Stone, a former domestic economy enthusiast, diverted wealth and time to charity through secondhand clothes, books, furniture, and a neighborhood library project. Her passion culminates in marriage to a widower, leaving Andrew astonished by the turn of events.
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Imogene
Andrew
Myra
Myra Stone
Neighborhood House
Jou
The Piece Box Reminisces on Old Garment Scraps
Ruth Cameron recalls organizing a piece box and finding relics from family clothing. She reflects on covert cloth suits, pink crepe de chine, a heavy bicycle skirt, and children's dress scraps that chart memories of marriage, fashion trends, and evolving wardrobes.
Entaxing the Family and Tax Exemption Shifts Stir Iowa
Davenport Times reports the house committee backed a $2,500 head of family income tax exemption down from $2,900, while unmarried individuals keep $1,000. The piece notes potential federal tax effects and debates whether relief comes with higher purchases. Charles City Press argues Turks deserve no sympathy for wartime conduct and condemns Turkey’s past actions.
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Davenport
House Committee
Charles City
Greece
Afterthoughts on jobs women and city life
A collection of quick takes from the era. Topics include veterans seeking work, women in diplomacy, whether women should attend prize-fights, neighbors in Des Moines and peace, Suzanne Lenglen’s rise and fall, money printing, Henry Ford, bobbed hair romances, Des Moines police, a Burnside pioneer, and other pockmarked snippets from daily life.
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Sam
Wall Street
Des Moines
Henry Ford
Burnside
A Love Note Amid Lone Reflections
A fragmented poem expresses longing for a past lover and a home imagined as a thatched cottage. The speaker recalls welled memories of kissing and shared moments, then declares resolve to love no more, framing love as both tyrant and solace in life’s dwelling.
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Piace
Torandom
Burroughs Nature Club Notes Question Column
A 1921 nature questions page asks readers about Boston ivy effects on walls bird egg colors of kingfishers crows hawks thrushes goldfinches and woodpeckers and features a lively Q A section. It notes a Canadian woman's height marriage quip and a morbid line about death at dances with light reflections on fate and love.
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Boston
Tojimai
Birds of Maryland and silkworms in cocoons from old notes
A barnyard of questions covers a starling bird seen in Maryland with winter plumage and iridescent summer color, how silk is reeled from cocoons, and whether squirrels live in tree hollows or twig nests, noting nest use and vermin in warm weather.
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Maryland
Europe
New York City
Eee
Abe Martin Miss Eloise Moots Resigns from Monarch
Miss Eloise Moots resigns from the Monarch while Abe Martin notes devotion to her hair. Ivy Bentley, cashier at the Acme filling station, has been reduced to rear admiral in a humorous regional notice.
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Eloise Moots
Ivy Bentley
Likely outcome of election discussed in editorial
The piece argues it seems likely the candidate will win. It notes the probability but avoids certainty and frames the result as a probable outcome rather than a definite victory.
The Sandman Story: Old Fashioned Threads Come Alive
Betty stays in a guest room of Aunt Polly and discovers a silk quilt that awakens as old fashioned gowns speak. A flowered dress defends its status, a silver blue gown recalls a grand ball, and a spinet laments its lost soul as the garments argue in a ghostly room. The tale ends with a cliffhanger as scenes shift to war-torn nature.
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Aunt Polly
Betty
Peter
France
Spinet
Brain Tests Puzzle by Sam Loyd
A word puzzle asks to spell two words from a sketch, then perform letter algebra with fish and numbers to yield a furbearing animal. It walks through operations such as MADCAP minus CAP plus FEE plus TAME minus FE and adds CURRANT PLUM PIE and PLUMP to form CURIE.
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iStory, Brooks & Finney
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Pyramid of Cheops
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Roe Fulkerson
Ruth Cameron
Jone
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Cadar Rapids
Mlle
Suzanne Lengren
Frank L. Stanton
Burroughs Nature Club
Houghton Mifflin Ca
Nature Notes
Okoboji
Abe Martin
Sandman
Sam Loyd
Bayer
Ifoe
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Wangler Bros
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