Many Bills Passed By Iowa General Assembly
The Iowa General Assembly adjourned on April 9 after passing a broad slate of acts. Highlights include establishing a state board of education, a 3,000 dollar finance panel, an optometry board, public accountability measures for corporations, hotel and hotel inspector roles, weathering public works and taxes, primary election changes, road and safety laws, and extensive revisions across county, municipal, and state institutions plus thousands in appropriations.
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Des Moines
General Assembly
State Board of Education
Iowa
Normal School
State Teachers’ College
General Drainage and Waterways Commission
Board of Supervisors
Railroad Commission
Pame
Board of Control
Utilities Commission
Board of Education
Executive Council
Cedar Rapids
Davenport
Ottumwa
Mametsburg
Medium Lake
Dubuque
Glenwood Hospital
Anamosa
Soldier's Home
Fathers of Veterans
Department of Agriculture
Board of Medical Examiners
Board of Health
Board of Parole
Secretary of State
Pura
Vota
Grief That Kills and the Bohemian Misadventure
A clipped comedic vignette from The Bohemian Magazine recounts a street scene where a sobbing youth explains a past escapade of stealing dried apples and peaches with a gang, being chased by a dog, and getting struck by a delivery boy. The tale shifts to a clerical vacation misfit who refuses to read in church, saying he is on vacation, per Ladies' Home Journal.
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Naif
Kazzozicks
Schwarz’ Grocery
Schwarz
Schmitt
Bohemian Magazine
Tor
Fee
Ladies’ Home Journal
Quack Remedies and Medley of Advertisements
A collage of midcentury medical ads and quack cures tout tonics and salves. Claims promise head pain relief back pain stomach comfort and teething relief with prices like 25c. Included are testimonials fragmentary jokes and misdirected health rhetoric from various vendors and periodicals.
Peruna helped Brooklyn woman overcome throat catarrh
Mrs W Pray of 260 Twelfth Street Brooklyn reports two years of throat catarrh beginning mildly after a cold. After following directions she improved quickly, took one bottle then a second, now says throat and head are cleared. She continues a spring tonic dose with no better remedy found.
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Mrs. W. Pray
Twelfth St
Brooklyn
Potato boasts and claims its many uses
A humorous monologue extols the potato’s versatility, asserting it contributes to packaging glue, starch in collars, vegetable ivory buttons, smokeable leaves, pure alcohol in potato spirit, and sweetness in foods. It jokes that even headache culprits may be caused by the potato and ends with a boast of its all-purpose nature.
Dance Prompt Triggers Unequal Turns in Mock Conversation
In a playful exchange, Clarence asks for a dance from Miss Sharply who declines. The banter highlights social etiquette and flirtation dynamics as the two perform a staged, lighthearted interaction.
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Clarence Dubb
Miss Sharply
One Thing She Was Sure Of Grace-Really
Grace tells her mother she is unsure about her morning, noting not as often as he has kissed her. The dialogue hints at tension and uncertainty in a family scene with strained affections.
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Grace
Mother
Ross
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Ad Claims Wide Benefit
An old remedy touted as produced from roots and herbs helps women for over thirty years. The advertisement urges women to try Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a standard cure for female ills with thousands of cures, inviting inquiries from those with even slight trouble.
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United States
W. P. Valentine
Lincoln Ave
Camden
N. J. Erle
Lydia
Pinkham
J. P. Endlich
B.F, D
Erie
Lydia TE. Pinkham
Peek Fein
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Lee County
Supreme Court
Perry
Oaceola County
Mills County
Universalist Church
Town City
Sioux
Osceola
W. F. Werner
C. J. Pelton
Sioux City
New Hampton
Manchester
Callender
Norwalk
Monticello
Pocahontas
Oto
Merrill
Corwith
Oelwein
Deep River
Anantosa
Packwood
Maynard
Oxford Junction
Farmington
Linton
Enerin
Cemetery
Laurens
Iowa National Guard
Soldier’s Home
Brigg
Omaha
Jackson County
T. H. Rattenbury
Fay
Fish and Game Commission
John Jones
State Hospital
State Veterinary Department
Mahaska County
Okoboji
Town Dairy Association
Pocahontas Farmers Institute
Anamoga
Clinton
The
Foreign Missionary Societies of the
Methodist Episcopal Church of
Frank Clifford Rahford
Paris
Hirtatees
Gakikeb Dy Qd Fiyet
Lee Dang
Whale
Jonah
Allen
Allan
W. J. Walker
N. J
Yodges
Undertaker
Peruna
Dia E. Pinkham
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