Western Union to Relocate to New Sycamore Street Block
Rapid progress on a three story brick business block by Hope Martin on Sycamore Street rear of the Commercial National Bank. Western Union Telegraph Co. will occupy the 20 by 90 foot room next to the bank with Ray Carey as manager and hopes to move by September first. The bank will remodel the Commercial Building first floor to expand bank work.
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Hope Martin
Sycamore Street
Commercial National Bank
Western Union Telegraph Co
Ray Carey
Carey
Western Union
Telegraph Company
Martin
Iowans Win Patents Barred in 1913 Week Ending July 8
The office of patent attorney Wilfred C. Lane reports grants to Iowa residents for the week ending July 8 1913. Recipients include Charles E Harrow Marshalltown electrical regulation for motors and Benjamin McInerney Council Bluffs for electrical device. Other inventors gain patents on road graders ditching machines signaling devices movable partitions and various hardware from Des Moines Sioux City Sumner Mason City Waterloo Shenandoah Davenport Akron and Lake View.
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Wilfred C. Lane
Crocker Building
Des ‘Moines
Iowa
Harrow
Charles E. Forkner
Marshalltown
Benjamin McInerney
Council Bluffs
John P. Owens
Lawler
Axel T. Smith
Sioux City
Harvey
Thomas
Sumner
Virgil W. Creech
Mason City
John James
Waterloo
William H. Morenus
Lake View
Frank Jaynes
Des Moines
Arthur R. Mutton
O. P. Higdon
Theodore Anthorn
Waterloo Cement Machinery Corporation
John A. Cheney
Shenandoah
Willis Coy
Council ‘Bluffs
Cigarette Question Put Up To Cosson
Des Moines July 13. The Town Humane Society will ask Attorney General Cosson to define when a cigarette is a cigarette. Fourteen boys arrested for smoking tobacco rolled in cigarette paper claim they used tissue paper as makeshift cigarettes.
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Des Moinés
Aigarette
Town Humane Society
Cosson
C. M. Young
Down Humane Society
KC Crailers Fried Cakes Recipe Ad
A vintage recipe advert promotes KC Crailers fried cakes. It details sifting flour baking powder mace and salt three times, mixing sugar butter milk with eggs, kneading into a stiff dough, cutting with a fried cake cutter, frying until light, and rolling in powdered sugar. It invites readers to request the KC Cook's Book and to send for a colored certificate pack with name and address to a Chicago company.
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Jaguar Mra. Co
Chicago
Waterloo Iowa Pharmaceutical meeting sets attendance record
The Iowa Pharmaceutical Association convention in Waterloo broke all prior attendance marks with 1,152 registrants, surpassing New York's 1,105. The event featured record entertainment and prizes for oldest pharmacists, along with a charity chocolate handout and various social functions. A resolution of respect was adopted by the Waterloo Rescue Mission board for Mrs. M. R. Hughes.
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Waterloo
Iowa Pharmaceutical Association
New York State
Iowa
Robert C. Forsythe
Domestie
R. E. Wick
New Hartford
Red Cross
Elk Run
Leach
Ackley
Olney
Charles City
Pythian Hall
Waterloo Rescue Mission
M. R. Hughes
Mr. Hughes
A. B. Lane
L. Survey
Scott Clark
E. M. Close
M. Sherrill
Daniel Scholl
Mission Board
Cholera Fighters in Iowa Battle Outbreaks
Adel Iowa July 11 hot weather boosts hog cholera cases. Dr Hess and team at work using serum prepared by the U S government Ames station. Serum alone in infected herds while both serum and virus used in nearby herds as a preventive demonstration in Dallas County.
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Adel
Iowa
Dallas County
Apple Blight Threatens Iowa Crops
Ames Iowa July 11 special Reports from the state horticulturist office show apple blight or twig blight is abundant this year. Unless prompt measures are taken fruit growers will suffer damage to their orchards. Twig blight is a dying back of branch ends leaves and wood. The remedy is to cut off diseased portions at least four or five inches past infection and burn the cuttings. The disease is spread by bees and other insects.
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Ames
Herrick
Extension Horticulturisl
Town State College
Coddling moth spray guidance issued by Iowa State College
Iowa State College horticulturists advise spraying between July 28 and August 5 to combat the abundant coddling moths. Use lead arsenate or Bordeaux mixture or lime sulfur, mixing two pounds per 50 gallons. Spraying now helps kill moths and control fungal diseases and pests moving between trees.
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Iowa
Iowa State College
Honey Apiary Produces 5000 Pounds at Local Market
M. D. Flater, 75, known as a bee man, runs seventy-five apiary stands near Logan Avenue. He reports 5,000 pounds of honey from twenty racks per hive, with each hive weighing 250 pounds. Prices range from a dime to 50 cents per section, and he defends weights of pails and honey at three pounds each amid few local bee men.
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M. D. Flater
Plater
Mc Combs Nearing Discharge After Appendicitis Operation
Paris July 11 reports Wm F Mc Combs chairman of the Democratic national committee is recovering well after appendicitis surgery. Doctors believe he may leave the hospital at a comparatively early date due to satisfactory progress and convalescence.
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M’combs
Paris
Wm. F. McCombs
Democratic National Committee
Easy way to get rid of pimples
A skimming promotional note urges using Resinol Soap and Ointment to treat pimples and blackheads. It claims quick healing, suggests a routine of cleansing with hot water, applying ointment, then cold rinse, and promises soothing relief for itching eczema and skin humors. Products priced at 60 cents to $1.00 with a free trial offer.
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Resinol
Baltimore
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