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...have a Texas. The pilot house is built on top of the Texas. The members of the crew are quartered in the Texas on the large packets, leaving the cabin entirely for passengers. On small packets and tow boats the crew are quartered in the cabin. . . . E. CARROLL TABER Keokuk...
...Arthur Gustav Sorlie. From New Orleans came enormously rotund Mayor Arthur J. O'Keefe. Governor Len Small of Illinois was there and Senators James Enos Watson of Indiana and Pat Harrison of Mississippi. There were business boosters from St. Louis, Vicksburg, Natchez, Baton Rouge; rooster-boosters from Cairo, Keokuk, Dubuque and Quincy. There were a policemen's octet, a quartet of Pullman porters, an Italian band dressed as sailors. One and all wore huge bullseye badges inscribed "America First," "Farm Relief," "Inland Waterways to Double Exports," "National Flood Control to Prevent Disasters." Singing, grinning, shouting, backslapping, this horde...
Smaller cities: South Hadley, Mass., Montclair, Morristown, N. J.; Amsterdam, Oswego, N. Y.; Mansfield, Ohio; Appleton, Ripon. Green Bay, Wis.; Keokuk, Iowa City, Iowa; Hutchinson, Winfield, Kan.; Chickasha, Norman, Okla.; Denton, Austin. Tex.; Fairmont, Clarksburg...
Quack Coffee, now 67 years old, has been "practicing" for 44 years. The Keokuk (Iowa) College of Physicians & Surgeons gave him his diploma in 1881. He was licensed to practice medicine in 1897, 29 years ago. His first "game" was the curing of eye diseases by mail. At Des Moines, he built himself a $100,000 stone home with turrets, porte-cochère and all conveniences. This established business Samuel Hopkins Adams wrecked for him by the "Great American Fraud" articles in Collier's of 1905-07. Exposer Adams called Quack Coffee "an Eminent Thief and Pre-eminent...
...Muscle Shoals, Ala., the world's largest hydro-electric plant -600,000 h. p. in spring floods, 100,000 h. p. minimum-is now being built. Its construction is under the astute eye of Colonel Hugh L. Cooper, one of the two brothers responsible for the Keokuk and Niagara plants, not to mention various South American projects of great magnitude which they have designed, separately and together...