OWA Retrieves Her Fair Name At State Meeting
At a Des Moines gathering of county food administrators J F Figley reported Iowa’s fair name is being wiped clean of hoarding. State administrator Deems urged strict enforcement of food regulations with counties empowered to cite violators for punishment.
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National Food Administration
Iowa
J. F. Figley
Spear
Es Moines
W. F. Parrott
Black Hawk
Mr. Figley
Deems
Red Cross
Figley
Ines
Spiendia
Food ‘Administration
Pigley
Europe
Burlington
Table d Hote Meals May Be Abolished
Reports from Waterloo hotel men indicate restaurateurs urge the food administration to end table d hote dinners. The service is viewed as bait with large portions causing waste. A majority of Waterloo hotel men and restaurant owners are said to favor abolition.
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The
Food Administration
Waterloo Hotel
Waterloo Hotel Jmen
Duty unrest as exemption clerk begins hiring drive
On a brief pause in business, the local exemption clerk launches a housing tirage process. Only Mr and Miss May Shull assist and brighten the offices on the seventh floor of the Black building. Three other assistants have temporarily ceased duties.
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LG TY
Miss May Shull
iBlack
Railroad Conference Opens on Passenger Traffic
W J Williams general superintendent of Illinois Central Western lines presides over a passenger traffic conference today. H J Phelps and I S Gray attendance from Chicago and Dubuque. G E Dunlop passenger train auditor also in town to confer with Williams.
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Williams
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Ilinois Central
H. J. Phelps
Chicago
I. S. Gray
Dubuque
G. E. Dunlop
Farmer Gives Up Portion of Flour Supply
Cedar Falls March 1 Phil Neuman a farmer near Cedar Falls drove to the mill yesterday and returned 150 pounds of flour from a fall purchase He had been buying 500 pounds each autumn and this year released 150 pounds while keeping 104 pounds as his ration He says he did not hoard but chose to ration to meet the need in the present situation.
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Cedar Falls
Phil Neuiman
Neuman
Bernard Murphy Newspaperman of Vinton Dies After Long Career
Bernard Murphy longtime Vinton newspaperman and publisher of the Eagle for fifty years died after a life centered on family, politics, and education. Survived by wife Luella and three children, he served as postmaster and state printer and was famed for his editorial influence and work for Iowa schools. He helped found and guide the Clipper and Eagle papers and remained active in the Knights of Pythias and Republican politics.
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Denver
Rocky Mountain News
EAGLE
Hanford & Rich
The
Clipper
Traer
Hanford
Rich & Murphy
Murphy
Edward A. Murphy
B. Murphy & Son
Movement For Better Schools For
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Knights of Pythias Lodge
Mr. Murphy
Des Moines
Luella Baird
John Baird
Ft. Des Moines
Louise M. Traer
Grinnell
Marion
Helen Murphy
Vinton
Minneapolis
Better Schools Commission
Third Waterloo clean-up targets liquor and crime
Sheriff and State Agents report seventeen arrests over three days in Waterloo. Raids on trains and locals yielded liquor, with searches of a north Waterloo flat-iron building and its occupants. White and colored suspects face charges for illegal sale, soliciting, and bootlegging as grand jury evidence is prepared for March term.
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J. W. Terrill
L. F. Fisher
Waterloo
North
Charles Smith
William Madison
Pearl Willis
Rose Walton
Henry Timeon
Willis
Sheriff's Office
Mother s Friend Promotes Easy Childbirth and Skin Comfort
Advert says expectant mothers should prepare for delivery with Mothers Friend external preparation. Claims three generations used it, softens abdominal skin, relaxes muscles, soothes breast inflammation, and eases the strain of childbirth. Invites readers to request free book Motherhood and the Baby from Bradfield Regulator Co. Atlanta Georgia.
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Bradfield Regulator Co
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Lamar Building
Atlanta
Man Uses Rifle At Shooting Gallery To Kill Self
Chicago report states John Sylvester Hardy shot and killed himself at a shooting gallery last night after purchasing a dime’s worth of revolver cartridges. Found on him were 69 cents and his mother lived in Mattoon Illinois. Also noted are March 1 temperatures and a First Baptist revival starting Sunday led by Rev Clyde J Askins and Rev Harold Philpotts assisting.
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Chicago
John Sylvester Hardy
Hardy
Lves
Mattoon
Ill
First Baptist Revival
First Baptist Church
Clyde J. Askins
Harold Philpotts
Riley
Focal
Notable Iowa lodge leader and civic booster obituary
The article honors a longtime Vinton resident active in Fidelity Lodge No. 47 and the Grand Lodge of Iowa, elected grand chancellor in 1901 and representative to the supreme lodge in 1912, with steady insurance committee work. He supported the Town College for the Blind and championed courthouse construction, striving to improve civic life. An ad for Wang & Miller Shoe Ch follows.
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Fidelity Lodge
Vinton
Grand Lodge of Iowa
Supreme Lodge of the Order
Supreme Lodge
Insurance Department
Town College For the
Near Beer Makers Hit by Carbon Grain Use
Washington March 1 Near beer and temperance drinks within qualiquor limits will not benefit from the president's proclamation. The food administration ruled that the 70 percent grain limit applies to so called temperance beers as well as beers and ales. Although prohibition beverages are not affected by alcohol limits they are affected by the foodstuffs used.
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Washington, D. C
Food Administration
Pneumatic Mail Tubes Approved By Congress Body
Government ownership and operation of pneumatic postal tubes in New York Brooklyn Philadelphia Boston Chicago and St Louis is recommended by a joint congressional investigating commission. The panel favors purchase at a total cost not exceeding 4 million 432 thousand 622 dollars, despite Postmaster General Burleson’s urging to abandon the tubes except in New York’s busiest district.
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Washington, D. C
New York
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Boston
Chicago
St. Louis
Joint
Congressional Investigating Commission
Congress
Burleson
N E A Plans Drive of Americanization in Education Program
Atlantic City March 1 A nationwide campaign for Americanization of immigrants will feature prominently in the war program of the National Education Association. Educators say the effort is the most important scheduled for the coming period. Documents show 33 million foreign origin residents, with 12 million born abroad. 5 million do not speak English. 2 million illiterate. 2,000,000 alien males of voting age. and 3,000,000 alien males of military age.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Suspect Flour as Epidemic Cause in Chicago
A mild gastro intestinal illness prompts the health department to deploy 30 food inspectors to sample bulk and packaged flour in affected districts. Physicians are asked to assist as investigators test flour for a deleterious substance found in blended flour submitted for analysis.
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Chicago
Health Department
Booze Troubles Show Two Men in Liquor Case
John Groumbos appeared before Justice F F Knapp arraigned on illegal sale of intoxicating liquor. He waived preliminary hearing and was bound over to the grand jury on a 150 dollar bond. Theodore Lambros pleaded guilty to transporting liquor illegally and was fined 100 dollars and costs.
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John Groumbos
F. F. Knapp
Theodore Lambros
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