Iowa employment survey shows 2.4 percent February gain
Des Moines reports from the Iowa employment survey indicate a 2.4 percent rise in employment in Iowa industries for February 1927 over January, driven by inventory returns and adjusted operating schedules. Textiles and clothing firms lead gains, with notable increases in pearl button, brass and bronze, and washing machine sectors.
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Courier Special Service
Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Bureau of Labor
French Professor Explains Cause Of Old Age
A Paris medicine professor links aging to gland failure and poison buildup. The ad promotes ARIUM Tablets claiming radium rejuvenates glands, with testimonials from US users and guarantees from Associated Radium Chemistry Inc. to ensure results or refunds.
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Edouard Retterer
Academy of Medicine of
Paris
William HE
Kleist
Washington
Associated
Radium Chemistry Inc
New York
ARIUM
Progressive Ag
Manufacturing resumes full operation after shutdown gains noted
Large mills resume full operation after a temporary shutdown. Truck body manufacturers report a 41 percent employment gain, printing and publishing up 1.4 percent, medicines up 3.2 percent, tobacco up 15 percent, railroad car shops up 6.4 percent with normal activity and increased car movements amid a coal strike. Overall, most industries show less than one percent loss from January with building permits down 19 and value of improvements down from December 1926, while 24 of 100 businesses rate the outlook good or encouraging.
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Planing Mills
Saya
Declamation Contest to Be Held in Three Iowa Cities
Hampton Mason City and Iowa Falls high schools will send declamation entrants to a unique tri city event. Each school will present three contestants at each location Tuesday evening, totaling nine speakers per meeting across the three sites.
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Ampton
Hampton
Mason City
Iowa Falls
McCoy's Cod Liver Oil Tablets Offer Child Health Boost
Parent notice touts McCoy's Cod Liver Oil Compound Tablets as a sugar coated supplement for frail children. Box of 60 tablets priced at 60 cents claims to supply essential vitamins to improve strength and health, with a 30 day trial and money back guarantee if not satisfied.
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Wanegler’ Bros. Co
Robert. Drug Co
C.J. Miller
McCoy
Oratorical and Dramatic Contest Leaders Named
Three schools compete in oratorical dramatic and humorous classes. Hampton won last year with a large margin and Iowa Falls took second. Mason City led the event in 1925. All three schools have recent high county and sub district showings.
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Jeg
Hampton
Iowa Falla
Mason City
Ackley Critically Ill at Marble Rock Home
Marble Rock Iowa March 17 Special Russell J Ackley is critically ill at his home on South Main Street. Owing to his advanced age no hopes are held for his recovery. Al Ackley is in his ninety second year and for over 70 years has been a prominent citizen of Marble Rock.
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Marble Rock
Russell
J. Ackley
South Main Street
al. Ackley
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