Market Conditions Slow Despite War Demand
A 1914-1915 finance report from Leavitt & Johnson National Bank notes money scarcity in late 1918 and early 1919, with easing but still tight conditions. It covers Federal Reserve effects, war-related price stability, February financing, dividends, and bank clearings as indicators of business activity and living costs. It mentions wheat exports, flour prices, cotton consumption, and farm conditions amid wartime shocks.
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Leavitt & Johnson National Bank
Federal Reserve Banks
Hampton entertains a Vatu friends in Franklin round
March 26 and Wednesday evening Hampton business men hosted a campaign event at the Kelly Canning plant. The gathering aimed to bolster ties with farmers and support local commerce in a bid to promote the town’s prospects and trading networks.
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Hampton
Linn
Kelly Canning
Tie Fa
Franklin
Outsiders Attend Meeting including Kugh McVey
Advertising counsellor Kugh McVey of Successful Parofing was among the outsiders present at the gathering.
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Kugh McVey
Ida Grove Counts Population Rise After Births This Week
Ida Grove records show population increases to 2,086 after this week’s twin births. City Assessor T A Moorehead completed the count recently, with the tally rising from 2,085 the prior Tuesday.
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Ida Grove
T. A. Moorehead
Stork Visits Two Households. Population Up 11 Percent
Morning report notes births in two households, including a von up daughter at the Chas Parrish home. Census data show an increase of 208 people since 1910, reflecting an 11 percent rise in population.
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Chas
Parrish
Auto gift boosts pastor’s travel across St Juhian church
Davenport March 26 The St Juhian s Methodist Brotherhood presented pastor Dr Frank Cole with a 1915 five passenger auto funded by subscription. The gift, announced at a church meeting attended by about 160, follows Cole s duty route across the city enabling faster travel. Apollo club of Rock Island entertained with music and readings by Emil Hass Nellie Swanson and Edwin Johnson. He returns to the city after years away to serve the church as his parents live in South Dakota and he has sisters in Des Moines and cousins in South English.
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Frank Cole
Apollo Club
Rock Island
Emil Hass
Mise Nellie Swanson
Edwin Johnson
South Dakota
Des Moines
South English
Detroit arrests close Muscatine men in Mann Act case
Detroit police have arrested Walter Nibert of Muscatine and Warren Jud of Landram on Mann Act indictments for transporting Effie Shannon and Helen Brown to Detroit for immoral purposes. The arrests cap a federal probe that implicated a gang accused of moving twenty women and furnishings to three Detroit resorts from Peoria. Trial set in federal court next week. Joe Malcof, the alleged leader, once ran a business in Rock Island.
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Muscatine
Detroit
Walter Nibert
Warren Jud
Effie Shannon
Helen Brown
Cole
Peoria
Joe Malcof
Nin
Rock Island
Chopper Killed by Falling Tree Near Keswick
Dennis Hobbs, employed by Lon McNeal near Keswick in South English, died instantly when a tree fell on him while he was chopping. He was a local resident, born in the area.
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Chopper
Dennis Hobbs
Lon ‘McNeal
Keswick
Mr. Hobbs
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Leavitt & Johnson
Jerany
Crete Lawn Edward
Field Prainister
Jawa State College
Cepy
Thayer
Navenport
St. Juhian's Methodist Brotherhood
Waterion
Larned
THE
Waterloo Evening Courier
de Luxa
Young Coal
Waterloo
Harry Mooradian
Mr. Mooradian
Davidsons Rowasivarges
Bridge Street
Bqhsierly Woods Bros
Boston Confectionary No
West Fourth Street
Olympia Candy Kitchen
Apraras Bros
Iowa
Bueftets
Kenilworth
Jewel
Star Refrigerators
Sanitan Refrigerators
Alaska
Rohn-syphon
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