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...there was not to be any picketing," John Farmer went out on the highways to turn back city-bound shipments of foodstuffs. Iowa, seat of the Farmers Holiday Association, was the scene of widespread picketing. A man driving a truckload of cattle into Sioux City was badly beaten. Governor Herring called out militiamen to help patrol highways in the western part of his State. Veterans of last spring's milk war in Wisconsin outdid their lowan colleagues in violence. Ten thousand pounds of milk were dumped from the vats of a Milan cheese factory; more than 100 other cheese...
Meantime to South Dakota's Governor Berry, Iowa's Herring, Montana's Cooney, Minnesota's Olson, Kansas' Landon and Nebraska's Bryan, Governor Langer dispatched invitations to join him in an effort to bottle up the Northwest's output until prices rose. Doubting the legitimacy of the measure, Governor Langer's neighbors declined to join his embargo. But Charles Wayland Bryan of Nebraska, brother of the late Great Commoner, took the Langer invitation for a text, delivered a sermon of his own on the woes of farmers. Governor Bryan dramatically declared...
...formulated a platform on Dartmouth drinking after repeal, and sponsored a vigorous scrap over the worth and meaning of Orosco's famous murals now being painted in Baker Library. These things in addition to literary material and lots of small testures like the weekly Gold Star and Weekly Red-Herring, awarded for the best and worst contributions to local intelligence respectively...
...trying to draw a red herring across the cowardly, contemptible and unjust attack that you have made and published against a great race so gloriously represented by our governor?" reported Candidate LaGuardia. "Answer that, Mr. McKee. and think twice before you send me another telegram." An article McKee wrote for Catholic World in 1915 which slurred the character of the average Jewish student in New York's schools, was thus added as fuel to the leaping fires of altercation...
...Chicago Fair's Iowa Day, with Governor Clyde Herring watching, Iowa's Quarterback Joe Laws raced 32 yd. to Northwestern's goal in the last period for Iowa's first Big Ten victory since...