Red Oak school shortage leads to secretary's ouster
Red Oak Independent School District secretary W C Montgomery faces removal after auditors report $13,892.17 missing from 1910 to 1914. He paid $2,852.87 interest on the deficit and turned over notes totaling $16,745.04. State Auditor Shaw urges legislative power to audit public funds.
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J. J. Wilson
Desi Moines Register
Ncwaunts
W. W. Montgomery
Red Oak Independent
Shaw
Mont-gomery
Montgomery
Iowa
Jay
Red Oak
Nagle
George.e. Wood
George M. Kernhard
Lee Nagle
W. G. Ratcliffe
R. T. Will
O.F. Emmers
A School Board
A. B. Rosenkrana
J. F. Wall
Monere
Red Oak Bank
12000 Tractors in Iowa Yet Horses Remain Needed
Ames Feb 20 There are about 12000 farm tractors in Iowa with one tractor for every 16 farms according to EH V Collins assistant professor at Iowa State college. He says 5 to 90 percent of tractors studied are considered paying investments and notes tractors will not fully replace horses as some tasks like hauling bundles to the thresher and corn husking require horse labor. Under average conditions two horses are needed per 40 acres of corn.
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Ames
Iowa
EH. V. Collins
Iowa State College
Collins
Mr. Collins
Hair-Tonic Fatal in Omaha Case of Booze Mixing
Percival A. Johns Williams 45 and Charles Ingraham 40 drank hair tonic labeled for booze. They bought the preparation from an Omaha barber supply house. Williams is dead and Ingraham near death. Others fell ill as the substance caused poisoning.
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Percival
Johns Williams
Charles Ingraham
Omaha
P Williams
Ingraham
Horse buyer sued for heart balm by hotel waitress
Des Moines reports Stella Kegley a Savery hotel waitress sues Frank Bellairs a horse buyer famed for WWI service for breach of promise seeking 5090 dollars. She says he promised to marry on June 1 and she remained single while relying on him. He now refuses contact.
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Des Moines
Lrank Bellairs
France
England
Stella Kegley
Savery Hotel
Bellairs
Bremer Pioneer of 1857 Dead at 76
Henry Harmening senior, a long time Bremer county settler who arrived in 1867, died in Tripoli at age 76 after a long illness. He lived on a farm near Tripoli before moving to town thirteen years ago. Survived by his widow and nine children including H. C. Harmening of Waverly.
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Waverly
Tripoli
Henry Harmening
Farmening
Bremer County
H.C. Harmening
Wayjerly
Trial of format Marion Proceeds in IWW case scrutiny
In Marion Iowa on February 20 the Henry Toon case saw a clash as Lawrence L. McDonough head of the Chicago police anarchist squad testified. Prosecutor H K Lockwood aims to connect I W W to Town and to alleged sabotage while defense attorney Harold G Mulls challenged McDonough and sought to limit his role as witness. Witnesses included Linn county farmer Peter J Henderson who recounted radical remarks at the Royal hotel in Mar ion and L B Sigfred and M W Courtney who spoke of Tom attempting to cash an I W W issued check.
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Cedar Rapids
Henry Toon
Milo. P. Smith
Marion
Lawrence L.mcdonough
Chicago
McDonough
H. K. Lockwood
Industrial Workers of the World
Peter J. Henderson
Linn
Mariow
Royal Hotel
Marston
Tonn
Henderson
Attorney Marks
I. W.W
L. B. Sigfred
Land M.W. Courtney
Tom
The
Farmers Seek Six Percent Profit Guarantee for Farmers
Des Moines February 20 Farmers urge a six per cent railroad profit guarantee be mirrored for farmers if Congress passes the railroad profit guarantee. The Corn Belt Meat Producers association adopted resolutions calling for immediate legislation to assure farmers receive a similar return. Similar resolutions were previously adopted by Wisconsin grain growers and Illinois farmers.
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Des Moines
Congress
Corn Belt Meat Producers’ Association
Wisconsin
Pin Money Totals Near Four Thousand Dollars
Humboldt Indiana February 20 nearly 3850 dollars worth of butter eggs and chickens have been marketed by Mrs John Jensen of the Arthur road during the past two years she has kept poultry and dairy figures for record purposes and says the amount will likely exceed the yearly pin money goal of two thousand dollars.
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Humboldt, In
John Jensen
Arthur Road
Jensen
Unclear historical note on farm work and family roles
Fragmentary description mentions years, large totals of farm work, and Mrs Jensen with her daughters performing delivery of produce amid regular life. details are garbled and names/titles are uncertain.
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Aighway
Bremer
Scott & Zowne
Margaret Romaine
Columbia Records
New York Metropolitan Opera Company
Columbia
London
Paris
New York
la Boheme
Musetca
Mardones
the Sea
Tocky Snore
Ponselle
Sicily
Columba
Columbia Deater
Columbia Resorda
Columbia Graphophone Company
Columbia Grafonolas
W.C. Kohl & Son’s
Paner Shoe Co
East Fourth Street
East Waterloo
Mike Ficarella
Shoe Repair Dept
Mike
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