Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Transcontinental, from New York to Los Angeles and San Francisco by way of Cleveland, Chicago, Iowa City, Des Moines, North Platte (Neb.), Cheyenne, Salt Lake City...
...Cherokee, Iowa, where he used to teach high school and coach a championship football team, David Wallace Stewart, recently nominated by Republicans and appointed by Governor Hammill to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Cummins (TIME, Aug. 9, THE CONGRESS), made his first political blurb at an annual homecoming. He "deplored sectionalism and provincialism"; he said, "I shall fight with all the power that I have to advance, protect and maintain the best interests of the state of Iowa." (Cheers...
...Sioux City, Iowa, Cigar-Store Manager E. H. Planalp of 1918 Jones Street boasted to newsgatherers that his was "a name in a million," being reversible. His Swiss grandfather had made it from the original, unwieldy Aubplanalp. "I've met lots of people," chuckled Mr. Planalp, "and I've been in quite a few towns and cities in the U. S., but I've never yet met anyone-with the exception of members of my own family, who can spell the surname backwards and forwards with the same result." Idlers suggested appropriate names for Mr. Planalp...
Oats. Estimated to be 1,334,260,000 bu.; was 1,501,909,000 bu. last year; sold currently at 40c to 45c a bushel. The U. S. leads the world. Canada is next with one-fourth as much. Iowa leads the U. S. Acreage was cut down from last year. Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas report excellent crops. In northern Illinois the fields are good; but smut has appeared in the southern counties...
Died. Senator Albert Baird Cummins, 76, veteran Iowa political leader; at his home in Des Moines, Iowa, of heart disease. (See THE CONGRESS...