Posters Warn Iowa Girls Against White Slavery
Des Moines reports posters issued by the Iowa Public Welfare League warn young girls about white slave traffic. Rev. Baxter says evidence suggests trafficking exists in Iowa and posters urge caution at stations, in schools, churches, hotels, and depots. Readers urged to have friends meet travelers and avoid accepting offers from strangers.
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Des Moines
Rockefeller Bureau of Social Hygiene
Iowa
Co. L. Baxter
Iowa Public Welfare League
League
Iowa League
Man Who Posed As Woman Was Iowan
James Arthur Baker, arrested in Kansas City, confesses a life spent posing as a woman. A former Harlan Ia schoolteacher, he taught in Idaho as Miss Alice Baker and later married a young attorney in Los Angeles after adopting the disguise.
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Council Bluffs
James Arthur Baker
Kansas City
Harlan
Pacific Coast
Idaho
Alice Baker
Los Angeles
Baker
Health and success linked to regular bowels
The piece argues health is the key to a man’s success noting that regular bowels prevent sickness. For constipation it praises Chamberlain's Tablets, claiming they move the bowels improve appetite and strengthen digestion. Sold by all dealers.
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Chamberlain
United Doctors Specialists Treatment Claim Campaign
United Doctors Specialists Dr John White consulting physician advertises treatment for chronic nervous and sexual ailments in men and women. Claims large practice from honest dealings and offers electric vitalizer home use, free consults, exams, and visits, with a Marsh Place building address and phone number 336.
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John White
Niles
White
Marsh-Place
Merital Pile Remedy Promoted for Piles of Every Form
An advertising notice touts Merital Pile Remedy as a superior treatment for internal and external piles. It claims unique efficacy and urges readers to inquire for full details and advantages, credited to Honder Avo Drug Co and Red Cross Drug Co.
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Honderavo Drug Co
Red Cross Drug Co
Iowa West faculty dominated by Iowa and Ames graduates
University of Iowa leads West faculty representation with six graduates among sixteen teachers. Ames State Agricultural College follows with two, while others supply one or none. Next year all faculty plan to return except one Waterloo-bound instructor. list shows each teacher’s college of graduation and subject.
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University of Iowa At
Iowa City
West High School
Lows State Agricultural College
Ames
West High
Waterloo
S. M. Wallace
University of Chicago
Fred McClain
Monmouth College
Ill
Opal Gillete
Iowa State College
Nell Jones
University of Iowa
Ruth Dyer
State College At
Lina H. Moore
Lulu E. Bryan
Drake University
Ruby Clare Wade
Cornell College
Marie Humble
Coe Eallere
Jessie McArthur
Bess Ballantyne
Maude Merritt
G. Mellory
North Dakota Manual
Mary R. Starr
Cumnock
School of Oratory
Northwestern University
Rheumatism Quickly Cured by Liniment Claim
A Newton Iowa resident reports his sister’s husband cured of rheumatism in the arm after using Chamberlain’s Liniment. The note claims the next morning the rheumatism was gone and recommends the product for chronic muscular rheumatism, noting it is sold by all dealers.
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Newton
Iowa
Chamberlain
Palm
Wm. O'Conner
Lilian
O'Conner
St. Mary's High School
Waterloo
C. A. Mills
Lynn Smith
Petition Against the Whitney Road Faces Remonstrance
A delegation of ten Waterloo township freeholders visited Auditor Rainbow to prepare a remonstrance petition opposing adding the old Cedar Falls road to the county road system. They seek to keep the road out of the system amid the Whitneys proposal.
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Waterloo Township
Cedar Falls
Office of
Rainbow
Wat Stores Of Road Material In Waterloo Yard
La Porte City Progress Review notes the Waterloo Cedar Falls Northern yard buildup for the extension toward Brandon and Urbana. The site holds about 50 000 ties worth roughly 15000 dollars, 1600 tons of rails 85 pound steel eleven yards square piles totaling over 336 tons per stack, and hundreds of tons of track plates. Work begins soon with water lines, watchmen, and multiple carloads of poles at about ten dollars each. Cement bridge work starts east of Brandon.
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la Porte City
Waterloo, Cedar Falls
Iowa
Brandon
Brar
Bridge to cross Lime Creek on line to Crbana large project
Raymond May 22 reports on regional activity. Notes state the Lime Creek bridge will be among the largest on the line to Crbana, second only to the Cedar River bridge now nearly finished. Local residents and visitors, farms, and business moves are listed with greetings and small events across Raymond and Waterloo.
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Don
Lime Creek
Here
Crbana
Cedar River
Robber Tries to Take Girl's Hair in Shenandoah
In Shenandoah Indiana Miss Jennie Dittner a 12 year old girl lost a braid while sleeping beside a sister. The braid was found on the sidewalk. The house door was left open and the screen broken allowing a thief to enter unseen. The family recalls a stranger sighting near the home in recent nights. A younger sister Hazel 14 is noted for very beautiful hair and may have been the thiefs intended target.
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Shenandoah
Jennie Dittner
L. A. Dittner
Miss Dittner
Miss Hazel
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Owa
Welfare League
People’s Furniture Co
Lafayette St
United Doctors Specialists
WEST
Whitney Road
Wat
LA Porte
Rumford
Memory
Riley
Friendship
Wallace Nutting
James L. Henderson
Bridge Street
Ofc
Kodaks
Parker Fountain Pens
Badger
Alues
Hamilton's Camera Shop
Raymond
Geo. W. Fowler
Ben Waterfield
Frank Traidi
Tom Barker
Mr. Stickley
Cooper Wagon Company
Dubuque
Mesdames Etringer
Saddler
Frank Weber
Matt Demuth
Matt Schmltz
P. J. O'Conner and Sons
Lena Duster
John O'Conner
John
P. J. O'Conner
Mabel Galinveaux
Fowler Company
Rob Reuter
People's Furniture Co
Uneeda
National Biscuit Company
Klggn
Altstadt & Langlas
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