Des Moines Plan and Its Broad Adoption in U S Cities
The Des Moines commission plan of city government spreads across about seventy-five communities. Originating after Galveston's disaster, Des Moines adopted the system in 1907 with changes, electing a mayor and four commissioners by vote. The first mayor under the system was A J Mathis, a long-time Des Moines resident and Democrat.
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Des Moines
Brown
Jones
Black
Galveston
McMaster
Court of Original Appeals
Court of Civil Appeals
Citizens’ Committee
Houston
Dallas
Fort Worth
el Vaso
Commission Government Contemplates Mayor By Merit Over Politics
The article describes Iowa and Buffalo experiments with a five member city commission, with mayor and four council members elected by direct primary. It explains no party references on ballots, three votes needed to pass ordinances, civil service examinations, and public access to contracts. It notes petitions by 25 percent of voters can compel ordinances or new votes, and outlines a novel at large four councilman and mayor election plan in Buffalo.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Department of Public Affairs
Department of Accounts
Department of Accounts Ad Finance
Department of Public Safety
Department of Streets and Public Improvements
Department of Parks and Public Property
Civil Service Commission
East
Buffalo
Dictograph Exhibition Promises Wide Use In Courts and Hotels
An electrical show in Philadelphia features the dictograph enabling remote dictation and listening from outside the stenographer station. Inventor Turner cites royal demonstrations, secret service adoption, Wall Street use, hotel deployments, and potential military applications including battlefield reconnaissance and presidential communications.
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Regiment
Philadelphia
United States Secret Service
Edward
Queen Alexandra
Buckingham Palace
K. M Turner
Italy
Chop Suey Without Meat Sparks City Restaurant Debate
Tribunes in Pittsburg report Chinese eateries face meat boycott pressure. Standard chop suey once used about one third pork and vegetables. due to meat restrictions, cooks substitute a fiber like wool and maintain the dish flavor.
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Pittsburg
Price of Hair Away Up
French girls refuse to cut their hair causing a 30 percent rise in the price of false tresses as American tourists continue to wear hair extensions from France.
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France
Indians Plan Wolf Kill Mission in Colorado Texas Rio Blanco
Prominent cattleman Charles Limburg proposes inviting Utes from the south and Utah cousins to kill wolves in Rio Blanco and Garfield counties Colorado. The plan, supported by the state game and fish office, aims to reduce cattle losses and deer predation by using Indigenous trappers.
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White River
Colorado
Leggnd Bartauders
Utah
Rio Blanco
Garfield
Charles T. Limburg
Leadville
Colo
State Game and Fish Commissioners
Scientific Notes on War Vessels and Agriculture
The notes state blindness links to ignorance, fog signals travel fifteen miles, China rejects phono graphs with black trumpets, taxis replace hansoms in London, US crops total valued at 5 million dollars, bees visit ten flowers per nectar load, and Great Lakes fleet status shows Canada has one unarmed war vessel while the US fields six armed ships with about fifty guns and roughly two thousand men, implying US dominance in a sudden conflict.
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London
United States
Great Lakes
Canada
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A. J. Mathis
Mathis
James G. Berryhiln
Wall Street
New York
Wilkie
Secret Service
Darere
United States Signal Corps
Inventor Turner
Napoleon
Waterloo
Blucher
Victor Emmanuel
Turner
Washington
Taft
Senate
House of Representatives
Union Pacific
Union Pacific Addition
City
Aberdeen Realty Syndicate
East Heron St
Aberdeen
R. W. Hilligoss
West Ist
A. Karjala
P.O
East Hume &J. Aberdeen Livery & Transfer Co
C.E. Murray
Aberdeen Carriage Company
Peter Ibsen
General Blacksmiths
Wishkah Street
Townsend
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