Iowa Horticultural State Growth Noted by Veterans Report
Six veteran Iowa horticulturists from Waverly Mount Pleasant Lenox Storm Lake Forest City and Williamsburg shared memories of evolving horticulture in Iowa at the state society meeting. Apples and fruit displays filled capitol corridors, underscoring Iowa’s budding status as a horticultural state.
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Iowa
Iowa State Horticultural Society
Elmer Reeves
Waverly
C. G. Blodgett
Mount Pleasant
G. H. van Houten
Lenox
L. A. Clemons
Storm Lake
Eugene Secor
Forest Cuy
Frank O. Harrington
Williamsburg
Capitol
Iona
James Norman Hall
A. W. Hall
Colfax
Grinnell College
America
New York
Hall
England
Jack London
France
Adam Mohr
Anna Koch
Muscatine
Mobr
Burlington
L. M. Kettlecamp
Wilbur Kentfield
Oskaloosa
Kentfield
Auto Deaths in Iowa Reach 117 for Year Ended 1915
The State Board of Health reports 117 Iowans killed by automobiles in the year ending Sept 1 1915 with Polk County accounting for 11 deaths. Total Iowa deaths 21853, with 1624 from violence. Railroads caused 215 deaths. motorcycles 2. Homicides ran close to a hundred, and the safest months for pedestrians were December through March. The mortality figures show broader patterns across months and types of death.
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Des Moines
Iowa
G. H. Sumner
State Board of Health
Polk County
Iowa report calls for electrical engineer and bigger department
The Iowa railroad commission in its thirty seventh annual report filed with Governor Clarke urges a dedicated electrical engineer for the commission and an enlarged statistical division to oversee franchise grants for electricity. It notes 49,877 railroad workers earned 37,980,057 dollars in wages, with 473,805 cars and high safety incidents including 7 deaths and 71 injuries from coupling and 15 deaths and 119 injuries from falls.
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Des Moines
Iowa Railroad Comission
Statistical Department
Clarke
General Assembly
State House
Commission
Town Railroad Commission
Iowa
Will Re- enact Stamp Act in Dubuque
Collector Murphy reports receipt of Washington's notice that the federal war revenue emergency act will be reenacted by December 31. Preparations are under way to mail stamp tax formulas to all liable, with prepaid envelopes provided and forms sent automatically once enacted.
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Dubuque
Murphy
Washington, D. C
Washington
Why Iowa Market Causes Grief in Corn Belt Meat Producers
Des Moines reports reveal frustration in the Iowa meat producers association after a meeting. Cattle from Iowa are fed in Iowa then shipped to Chicago for slaughter and the meat returns to Iowa, exposing market inefficiencies. Cedar Rapids street railway owner P. T. Hall, longtime operator, has died after selling to United Railways years ago.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Corn Belt Meat Producers’ Association of Iowa
Savery Hotel
Chicago
Towa
Cedar Rapids
P.T. Hall
Cedar - Frapids
Hig
United’ Railways and Company of
Grand Rapids
Mish
Woman Burned to Death in Cambridge-Mrg Fire
A fragmentary report states a woman was burned to death when a fire destroyed her home between Bridge and Shipley. The note mentions a pioneer woman living in Cambridge-Mrg and the date appears as August 73. Further details are unclear due to damaged text.
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Deat
Cambridge
Pioneer
Tax Sale Notice From County Reaches Many Years
Fragmentary notice indicates property in the county has been offered at a tax sale for many years. Unclear details but suggests the sale action is continuing and relates to a specific parcel or parcels under tax delinquency. The incomplete text references a sale date and local authorities overseeing the process.
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Earlville
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Song
Hasriaon County
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Heigh
Lester
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