City Council Eyes Drainage and Flood Prevention Efforts
The council discussed better drainage and flood prevention with a proposed plan to divert Virden creek in the north section. A new storm sewer in Home Park is authorized to curb floods on Fletcher avenue. A seven member Playground Commission will start Oct 1 to oversee Water100 Playgrounds and attendants. An ordinance curbing oil and grease dumping in public sewers after Jan 1, 1925 was read. Several blocks were ordered widened and paving projects announced for Sixth Street and other streets.
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Virden Creek
Ralph Slippy
Home Park
Fletcher Avenue
Home Park Addition
Pedicord Air Company
Westfield
R. E. Mackman
Riverside Addition
Jd Snea-Aw Eetrea
Sixth Street
Grant
Locust
Berth
Hawthorne
Grant Avenue
Fifth
Sixth
Maryland
Lovejoy
Kimball
Calumbia Girele
Kingbard
Piston
Lane
Lafayette
Fowler
Allen
Tealy's Money orulation in Italy Gains Per Capita Circulation
Rome reports money circulation in Italy now about 620 lira per person, up from 77 lira in 1914. The rise equates to over 660 percent, while the gold value of the lira depreciated roughly 40 percent.
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TEALY
Rome
Pupils give varied music program at Horton church Friday
Horton Iowa scheduled a music program by Miss Lillian Strauser and helpers at The Little White Church on the Hill Friday August 29 at 8 30 pm. The program includes piano duets solos violin and vocal pieces with performers Glenn Strateer Ruby Carpenter Viola Hall Marvin Reading Helen Hastings Cora Strauser Rachel Brinkman Norma Baker Vernon Konarske Vivian Goodsell Margis Foster and others.
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Horton
Lillian Strauser
Cora Strauser
Helen Hastings
Merle Hall
Marjorie Foster
Little White Church On the Hill
Man
Glenn Strateer
Viola Hall
Marvin G. Reading
Rachel Brinkman
Norma Baker
Lift
Lan Strauser
Vernon Konarske
Vivian Goodsell
Ruby Carpenter
Reading
Grandpa
Marie Hall
Marvin Thole
Hunter March
Margoris Foster
I Excavatan
Viola Halt
Beautiful Lands of
Glann Strauser
Widow’s will leaves estate to three sets of children
The will of Mrs. Margaret R. Jefferson directs her estate to three sets of children from former marriages. Each set includes a child or children born of those unions. The second husband was Edwin Jefferson. Kate Boons of Waadbine Indiana is listed as a daughter from the first marriage and receives $600. The remainder of the estate is to be divided.
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Margaret R. Jefferson
Jett
Flea
Mie Testatrix
Edwin Jefferson
Kate Boons
Waadbine
Jefferson
Atthan
D. B
W. KE
Edwin Jefferson Dy Tits
May Toalay
Nellie Hawk
Campbell Fa Naniet
Bulgarian soldiers open Mount Vitosha route amid praise
Bulgarian Army troops completed a road project on Mount Vitosha with new fountains and scenic overlooks. General Lazaroff praised workers for peaceful labor and urged continued service through construction rather than conflict.
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Drigaleytal
Bulgaria
Mount
Vitosha
Lazaroff
Iansky
Uighestecin
Workers of Peaces
Altho
Germany radio industry hobbled by financial strain
Berlin Aug 26 reports the German radio industry bruised by economic turmoil. After wartime restrictions on new sets were eased last fall many factories opened but only a few survive. Inflation and the tenmark crisis hinder domestic production while most patents are held by a single concern.
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Berlin
Germany
Baby Found Floating in Box Along River Inn
A healthy girl baby wearing fine clothes and a silver chain was found in a box on the River Inn near Munich. A rhymed note named Josephine and stated the mother was unknown. The infant was adopted by a waterworks employee.
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Munich
Germany
Josephine
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Horton Church
Clhe Waterloo Belmont Shop
East Fourth Street
PRAIS
Ifinanch
Frances Shop
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