Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enjoy your magazine TIME very much. I am 12 years old and live in Davenport, Iowa. I find in your issue of TIME, Feb. 22, 1926, that an item entitled "Shrewd," the second item under the head of "Miscellany," is sort of funny. It is about a man that cheats a store proprietor out of a lot of money on a telephone call. As you will find if you read the item, the call was given at Union City, N. J. to Charleston, S. C. The man talked 41 minutes and told the proprietor it cost $1.75. In reality...
Davenport, Iowa...
After Booth was "dead," Bessie Hale did not take Bob Lincoln. He himself took some one else, long before Bessie married. He chose Mary, daughter of Senator Harlan of Iowa. They were married in 1868. And as the years went on, the inadequacy of a remark attributed to a guest at the ball described, became increasingly apparent. The guest had referred to Bob Lincoln as "a young man who will be known as the son of a president, if posterity remembers...
...Walker, for the last two years professor of accounting at the University of Iowa, has been appointed assistant professor of accounting in the Graduate School of Business Administration...
...Iowa 17 years ago started a movement for them. Its legislature realized that maternity and infant mortality was far greater than need be, passed a law permitting counties to levy taxes for county hospitals. Since then 16 other states have followed this excellent example...