Price Decline Skews 34 Percent In Year For Iowa
Des Moines reports a 34 percent year long drop in average wholesale prices across commodities per the Bankers' Commodity Price Index. Retail prices are already easing in many items, with some exceptions due to supply or demand. Wool consumption fell sharply in 1920, with vast idle machinery, though mills reopening may lift early 1921 figures toward prewar levels.
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Des Moines
Bankers
Iowa National Bank
Midweek football disorganizes industry in Edinburgh
Edinburgh reports mid-week matches lure over 120,000 young men from factories in two weeks, crippling work across Glasgow and Edinburgh. Industrial chiefs urge Saturday games as the week’s half-day holiday, but the Scottish Football Association ignores the appeal and keeps mid-week fixtures.
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Edinburgh
Glasgow
Scottish Football Association
McKeesport Boxer Williams Wins Ten-Round Decision
In McKeesport Pennsylvania Kid Williams former bantamweight champion outpoints Tommy Ryan in ten rounds. In Fire Pass Montana C B Morgan a local resident wins the 200 mile Hudson Bay dog derby in 32 hours 50 minutes.
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Associated Press
McKeesport
Kid Willams
Tommy “Ryan
Fire Pas
Man
C. B. Morgan
Hudson Bay
Adler i ka Cures Johnson Ad claims relief from indigestion
A testimonial advertises Adler i ka claiming rapid relief from indigestion after three years of suffering. It asserts the product cleanses both upper and lower bowels, relieves gas and sour stomach, and helps prevent appendicitis, with Wangler Bros. Co. selling it for $1.00 at 229 East Fourth.
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Adler-i-ka
Joe Johnson
Wangler Bros. Co
Watch the Symptoms Kidney Ailment Health Ad Card
A vintage style ad urges readers to monitor kidney clues and act quickly. It promotes Dr. Carey’s Marshroot No 77 as the best remedy for weak kidneys and irritated bladder, citing signs like dry skin, eye specks, foot heaviness, back pains, and facial puffiness.
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Dr. Carey
Carey
The Passlng Show at Waterloo Theatre
The Passing Show arrives Monday at the Waterloo Theatre with an extraordinary cast and lavish production. Scenic splendor, stylish costumes, and sharp variety mark this two act spectacle from the New Torrnter Garden, surpassing previous Winter Garden shows. Madge Kennedy stars in The Highest Widder at the Palace, a Goldwyn romance about love and ambition, paired with the new Tarzan serial chapter for jungle thrills.
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Meredith
Waterloo Theatre
Torrnter Garden
Winter Garden
Mars
Madge Kennedy
Wren
Goldwyn
Palace
Tarzan
Africa
Doctors Didn't Help Her Sickly Child
A mother reports her three year old recovered after using Milk's Emulsion, which she credits with restoring appetite, strength, and digestion. The ad touts the product as a tasty, palatable nutritive emulsion that aids bowel action, fights wasting diseases, and offers a money back guarantee with six bottles trial. It cites Terre Haute Indiana as the producer and notes availability from druggists nationwide.
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Willis S. Pitts
Nacogdoshes
Tex
Milks Emulsion Co
Terre Haute
Ind
The Husbands Hunter at the Plaza and more film notes
The Palace Theatre features The Husband Hunter with Eileen Percy and William Fox star power, adapted from F F Scott Fitzgerald's Myra Meets His Family, directed by Howard M. Mitchell with brisk comedy. Crystal Theatre showcases The Wonderful Chanos with Miss Mansfield, while the Strand presents Burglar Proof starring Bryant Washburn. amusing notes and screen undertakings fill the pages.
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Wisbead Marten
Eileen Percy
William Fox
Hunter
FF. Scott Witagsrald
Myra
Sosbaneh Hunter
Howard M. Mitchell
Scereen
Myron
Miss Mansfield
Crystal Teatre
Sebel John Yarlow
Bryant ‘Washburn
Strand
Martha Wachburn
John
America
Unclear tale of a romance and vowed thrift ends in flat
Fragmentary text recalls John Jost Ble and a sweetheart episode. An uncle refuses a loan of five dollars, a jilting prompts a vow to avoid being broke. Lois Wiil- appears as a fragmentary name or scene element.
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John Jost
Lois Wiil
Newspaper Advertising Tactics For Rapid Response
Capable supporting strain shows how newspaper advertising can be started or stepped overnight and separated between days to meet sudden developments and obtain immediate results in a dynamic market.
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Cures Johnson
Clark’s
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Wilbert Shallenberger
Waterloo
Shallenberger
Hotel Russell-Lamson
Wank and Lewand
Kendal
Slater
Harry Hayden & Co
Harry Ellis
Jean Jackson and
Troupe
DR. Jekyll and MR. Hyde
Son Tetas
Mestre
Lee
J. J. Shubert
New York Winter Gardens
Roclding Will Prilbrick
Klein Brotiers
Roy Cummings
Madge
Otis Skinner
Eileen
Percy
Plaza Kinogram
Madde Kennedy
Loater
Washburn
Mabelle Wagner
Shane
Herbert Rawlinson
May McAvoy
J. Stuart Blackton
Eddie Polo
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