Century Old Chinese New Testament Bought for Fifty Cents
Dr Y Y Tsu, head of religious work at Peking Union Medical College, owns a Chinese New Testament dated 1813. Morrison translated much of it, with gospels and Hebrews onward done by him. Found in a New York second hand shop in 1911 for fifty cents, bound in cloth, worm-eaten title page and index, rare in China.
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New York
Peking Union Medical College
Robert Morrison
British Museum
China
Wright
England
America
State Bankers Group Meets in Council Bluffs
Group five of the State Bankers association convened in Council Bluffs Iowa this morning for an all day session with discussions likely on banking issues and cooperation among banks.
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Council Bluffs
Ila
State Bankers’ Association
Hornaday Friend of the Birds at Ames College
George Benney recounts Hornaday visiting Iowa to promote wild bird protection. The piece notes his early Iowa ties, leadership in conservation, and a 1927 Iowa Conservation Association meeting at Iowa State College where a Mid Western Wildlife Federation was proposed to push for stronger legislation to protect bird life.
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Iowa
1Ddyville
Iowa State College
Ames
Hornaday
Iowa Conservation Association
Ane
Wild Life Federation
Congress
Women Now Work Far More Occupations Across Nation
Fifty years ago women faced few jobs beyond teaching housework or nursing. Today women and girls fill roles in large factories and in professions such as architecture law dentistry and politics. Elizabeth Chamberlain of Trenton credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with health benefits from factory work and invites letters from women seeking guidance on better health along the Sunlit Road.
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Grent
Elizabeth Chamberlain
Unionall
Lydia E. Pinkham
Conservation plea to form Midwestern bird protection federation
A call to unite state conservation groups across the middle west to create a federation aimed at immediate energetic measures to rescue wild birds from extinction. Iowa officials Dr. J. W. Darling Ernest W. Brown G B E Mac Donald H S Conrad and T C Stephens named as leaders. The text urges cross-state cooperation to raise standards, protect game birds, and prevent further decline of species nearing extinction.
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Middle West
Iowa Conservation Association
The
J. W. Darling
Ernest W. Brown
Des Moines
G. BE. MacDonald
Ames
H. S. Conrad
Grinnell
T. C. Stephens
Sioux City
Middlewest
Trepid Leader of the Eave Campaign Praised
A dubious tribute extols a western origin leader, praising Morna Day as the world’s first man in a crusade inviting bird lovers. The piece lauds his knowledge, integrity, long life record, and devotion to a grand cause, urging wholehearted support.
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Mornaday
Nu Tone touted as health booster by Waterloo man
George S Royse a machinist apprentice at 322 West Ninth Street Waterloo Ta extols Stock's Nu Tone as the cure for indigestion loss of appetite and general weakness. He claims rapid relief after use and urges others to try the tonic available at local drug stores with bottles priced at one dollar or six for five dollars.
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George S. Royse
West Ninth Street
Waterloo
Royse
Stock
C. d. Miller Drug
Robert Drug Company
Sigerley
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