Scale for Machine Mining and Road Funds in Iowa
Scale for machine mining dominates Iowa mining talks at Des Moines convention as unions seek wage terms for loading and blasting with a mining machine. Iowa road funds abundance eyed with projected 19 million dollars to be raised for bridges, county, and township roads amid Bankers’ president Heinheimer’s illness in Chicago hospital.
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Goa
Iowa
Dey Moines
Laubor
Miners’ Union
Mes
Iowa Mines
Baby Left On Porch Seeks Adoptive Parents In Iowa
In Council Bluffs, a three week old baby boy was found on the Petersons porch. The couple, newly married, request information about the birth conditions but not the parents’ identities. They hope to adopt the waif. In Muscatine, a streetcar pause due to a passenger with smallpox led to vaccination of all aboard and a reminder that city schools face disruption if outbreaks continue.
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Council Bluffs
Carl Peterson
Petersons
Muscatine
Free to Farmers Seed Catalogue Offer
Special arrangement with Ratekin Seed House Shenandoah Iowa offers to mail a copy of the 1814 Illustrated Seed Catalogue and a sample of Diamond Joe's Big Early White seed corn to readers who plant farm or garden seeds. The catalogue covers seed corn oats wheat barley spelt grasses clovers alfalfa pasture and lawn mixtures potatoes and nursery stock with guidance on growing big crops and selecting varieties.
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Ratekin Seed House
Shenandoah
Iowa
Ynits
Sted Horse
Shenandonkoe
Double Track Iowa Rail Line From Des Moines to Council Bluffs
Des Moines reports on a proposal to double track the Rock Island line from Des Moines to Council Bluffs, 218 miles, at an estimated cost of 60 000 per mile. Work would start next spring, with major earthwork west of Des Moines to remove curves and raise grades, potentially shaving about 30 miles from Chicago to Omaha.
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Des Moines
Trigeutt Mate
Adak
Atlantic
Des ‘Moines
Council Bluffs
Nock Island
Chicago
Omaha
Corn Prices Over Average Rise For Iowa Farmers
Des Moines reports show Iowa farmers receive six cents more per bushel for corn than the March crop report average, with total 1913 Iowa corn output at 338,198,000 bushels and 47 percent moved from farms by March 1 leaving 126,171,000 bushels on farms. U.S. 1918 corn yield at 2,463,017,000 bushels. remaining on farms 808,992,000. Wheat price at 74 cents on March 1, oats two cents. 26 percent of wheat area remains on Iowa farms, 4,264,000 bushels yet to be moved.
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Des Moines
Iowa
United States
Beck Order Compelling City Officials to Submit Franchise Vote
Be brief summary unavailable due to fragmented OCR text. Key items include a mandamus action to force Mayor Hanna to put the Auto matic Telephone Company franchise to a city vote, with a court hearing before Judge Woo. McKenry challenges standing as proceedings mix legal and public-utility matters amid Iowa economic notes.
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Beck
Des Moines
Automatic Telephone Company
District
Hanna
Woo. Me
Unknown kiln incident in Mason City brick plant
A terse readable note reports a man suffocated in one of the dry kilns at the Mason City Brick Company tile plant. The event occurred in the city and is under local investigation with limited details available.
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Mason
Marek
Frank Senultt
Mason City
IowaParole Board Orders Sterilization Test Case
Des Moines March 7 the state parole board sent orders to Fort Madison prison authorities to sterilize certain inmates. The move tests legality of the new Iowa law and state power. convicts have funded lawyers to seek court review. An injunction is expected to restrain the prison physician and warden while courts decide legal issues.
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Des Moines
State Parole Board
Fort Madison
State Board
Missing girl from Mount Pleasant prompts search in Montana
Besgie Hilterbrand, a Wesleyan sophomore from Mount Pleasant, left with her brother two weeks ago for Montana to visit friends. After registering at a Des Moines hotel the brother briefly left, and she disappeared. Authorities fear despondency may have driven her away or harmed her. Efforts to locate her have failed. In Fort Dodge, H. Smith sues for 10,000 over an elevator accident at the Wahkonsa hotel, claiming the elevator moved and left him crushed between car and floor, causing permanent injuries.
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Mount Pleasant
Besgie Hilterbrand
Low Wesleyan University
Hillsboro
Montana
Des Moines
Fort Dodge
H. Smith
Commission Plan
Wahkonsa
Condensed News Highlights From Various Cities
Wealthy Montana man Conrad dies at Winchester amid political ties to Senator Clark. A Chicago receivership claims over 1.1 million dollars in assets for Moulton & Rickets art dealers. Fire in Syracuse damages the Cook Clock district, with losses exceeding 150 thousand. Syracuse Press plant sustains 50 thousand in damage after a pistollight incident. Three suspects wounded after a Brooklyn drug store robbery on Potnam Avenue and Broadway. they are deemed likely to die. A Western rail schedule and a wave of sports and gallery news mix in a scattered regional update.
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Conrad
Montana
Clark
Winchester
Chicago
Moulton & Rickets
Cook
Syracuse
N C
Syracuse Press
Potnam Avenue
Broadway
Brooklyn
Cis
Los Angeles
Clee
Rochester
Morvey
Iowa hog cholera scheme gains federal state support
Ames Iowa March 9 Hog cholera control gains unanimous approval at a Chicago meeting of federal and state officials. Delegates from about twenty states endorse methods by Dr C H Stange directing the state serum plant. Plan permits serum for lay use but virus treatment reserved for trained men with instruction. Strong call for strict supervision of serum and virus distribution to ensure purity potency and proper use. Emphasis on national calamity of hog losses and education of farmers in sanitary measures.
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Ames
Iowa
Chicago
C. H. Stange
Town State College
Eugenics Talk and Marital Policy Debate in Iowa
Secretary G Wy Summer spoke on Eugenics at Bridgewater Iowa urging measures to prevent marriage for those ill with diseases like tuberculosis and black plague while supporting sterilization for criminals and delinquents. Indictment of C J Rich for alleged debauchery of an eight year old Leeds girl noted amid local scandals. George Mitchell resigns as Iowa State College Farm superintendent after eight years. Twenty four miners die in a gas explosion at a coal mine in India. Leo M Brank of Brooklyn sentenced to death in Atlanta for murder on his birthday.
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G. Wy Summer
Iowa Board of Health
Bridgewater
Iowa
Sioux City
C. J. Rieh
Leeds
March Grand Jury
District Court
Rich
Meir
State College Farm
Frank
Atlanta
Leo M. Brank
Brooklyn
Mary Phagap
Chirtieth Burthday
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D. L. Heinsheimer
Iowa Bankers’ Association
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Rock Island Railroad
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State Department of Art Culture
Makel Gareta
Minnesota
Atate Board of Control
Stithhwater
Minn
Neals
Indiana
Waupon
Wis
Roe
Insane Man
Cc. H. Brown
Horace Holingaworth
Associated Charities
Ida Grove
Henry Hoeck
Griggs Township
Ida County
John Hansen
Wiliam Hansen
Humboldt
Hansen
Cy Oda Maren T.S
William Pee Ovather
Webster Campelae
Parole Board
Fort Dodge Man Sues
Ackley and Faulkner
K. DE Berg
Krene DeBerg
Kesley
Sumner
Bhatertoslay
Issia
Murel
S. ¥. Eqgert
S. S
Fred Eggert
Ass’t Cashier
First National Bank
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John Rath
U. S. Rath
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