Iowa City merchants move to curb advertising subsidies
A workers' group within the Retail Merchants Association plans to end lodge and society contributions that fund program space and occasional publications. Merchants claim these "mulct" schemes drain thousands annually.
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Rock Island
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Council Bluffs
del Hardy
Cedar Falls
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Cedar Rapids
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Bremer County
Global News Digest Highlights Treasury Aid and World Events
The dispatch notes Treasury Secretary McAdoo saying banks restrict credit and treasury resources will aid compliance with a new currency law. It also covers British withdrawal from the Cowdray oil concession, a National Woman’s Suffrage convention in Washington, a possible health post in New York, rail rate debates, and a White House wedding of Miss Jessia Woodrow Wilson. Also mentioned are Mexican turmoil under Huerta, Villa’s rebel victories, and various international items from London to Rome.
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Mary K. Heard
Iowa City
Student Volunteers of America
Kansas City
University of Iowa
van Wagenen
Iowa
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Waverly
Hanlontown
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Treasury
Iowas Plan for Public Ownership of Railroads Gathers Support
Washington and Sioux City leaders including Smith W. Brookhart and Judge A. Van Wagenen organize a state conference to form a state and national group backing government ownership of railroads. Letters state to influential leaders as Senator Kenyon and Cummins move to place Thorne on the interstate commerce commission, signaling progress toward Brookhart’s crusade.
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Washington
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Sioux City
Dex Moines
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A. van Wagenen
United States
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Kenyon
Congress
Clifford Thorne
Iowa State Railroad Commission
FP. Ripley
Santa Fe Railroad Company
Thorne
Ripley
Cummins
Interstate Commerce Commission
Brookhart
Seventy Miles Of Road Graded In County Work
The county graded seventy miles of roads last season at 21 20 per mile. Purchases included a gasoline tractor 2700 a doble blade grader 1480 and an elevator type grader 1160. Four cement mixers at 190 each supported bridge work costing about 25000 with a steel span eighty feet and another sixty feet built plus seventy two concrete culverts under County Engineer Hanson.
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Hanson
Town State College
McGregor Fights Power Line Petition at Hearing
Preliminary hearing before the state railroad commission heard opposition to the McGregor Light and Power company seeking right of way to transmit electricity along Girard highway to Monone. Bell Telephone, Standard Telephone, and Western Union joined in protest. Final hearing planned in Des Moines on a date set by the commission.
Lone Highwayman Robs Swan-Michael Viers Near Bonnington Bridge
A lone highwayman robbed Swan-Michael Viers near the Bonnington bridge on the Des Moines river as he walked toward Swan after train travel. He was confronted with a revolver and stripped of money and watches in the incident. Waterloo report notes Carl Wurtzel died from an accidental knife wound while shingling a building on the Dungee farm in Jefferson township.
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Michael Viers
Laborer Leaps to Death in Iowa Building
Sioux City reports Charles Cassavant ended his life by climbing to the sixth floor railing of the Iowa building and leaping to the stone court floor. The act appears linked to personal woes and possible love troubles.
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Charles Cassavant
Cassavant
Iowa Building
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