State news highlights Iowa public welfare and war effort
Iowa doctors form the Iowa Mental Hygiene society to promote mental health, fund free county dispensaries, and educate the public. Farmers report 15-20 percent more potato acreage and 10-15 percent more food crops. garden contests in Iowa Falls offer substantial prizes. Des Moines creates a food commissioner to oversee supplies, inspect stores, and adjust prices. Iowa towns honor enlistments, build war-related efforts, and study grain and coal policies as farmers face weather setbacks and labor demands.
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Iowa Mental Hygiene Society
Iowa
Community Club of
Iowa Falls
Glidden
South America
Bert Brown
Adel
Ames College
Afton
Army
Navy
Morrow
Des Moines
Towa University
W. H. Klawens
Chicago
Klawens
Marine Corps
Washington
Donald Graves
Tama
Decorah
Hospital Corpa
Lake Forest
MacVicar
Equ
Iowa Defense Council Votes to Census Men 18 to 60
Des Moines reports the Iowa division of the National Council of Defense held its first meeting with Governor Harding presiding. The council adopted a plan to census all males aged 18 to 60, join a state flag project, and discuss community houses and pensions for Northern Iowa brigade veterans.
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Des Moines
Iowa
National Council of Defense
Harding
State House
W. W. Marsh
Waterloo
Martin J. Wade
Iowa City
J.T. Adams
Dubuque
Guy B. Logan
G. W. French
Davenport
Treasuerer W C Brown Dies After Illness in Des Moines
W I Brown Iowa state treasurer died at home from uraemin poisoning after a day of office work and rest. He had just reached his sixty fifth birthday April 21 and had heart trouble for two years. A former Wright county sheriff and longtime State Fair association member, he leaves a wife son Dr G B Brown of Clarion a daughter Mrs Pred Austin of Bruce Wisconsin and four grandchildren. The governor will appoint a successor to serve the remaining twenty months of the term.
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District Court
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United States
Centerville
Association of Commerce
Boone
Iowa State University
Davenport
Des Moines
State Extension Department
Iowa State College
Sutherland
Carl Mather
Army
Navy
Knoxville
Eloysa
Albert Goldiron
Dubuque
Frank Woodward
Norwood-White Company
Woodward
Betsy Ross
America
Philip F. Roan
Fort Madison
France
Kate Robinson
Grinnell
Drake University At
George A. Jewett
Drake
Shenandoah
Pocahontas
Waterloo
Mary Dickinson
Ella Rah
Brenner
Town
Law College
The
State University
Fort Snelling
University of Town
W. ©. Brown
Thomas F. Duhigg
G. B. Brown
Clarion
Brown
Pred Austin
Bruce
Wis
Bertha Brown
Robert
Lillian
Fresidie Austin
Iowa
Iowa Delegation Divided Over Taxation Bill
Washington reports split views in the Iowa delegation on the taxation bill. Representative Green defends the measure as sound economics while Representative Dowell calls it highly objectionable and says it taxes business too heavily and lets off large incomes. All members face protests from business lines amid the Roosevelt amendment fight on the conscription bill.
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Washington, D. C
Iowa
Green
Ways and Means
House
Representative Dowell
Dowell
Fontanette Proudly Hosts Flag Raising Ceremony
More than a thousand residents watched as two Fontanelle members of the I N G raised Old Glory atop a steel flagpole. Twenty two others stood at attention while the Ladies Civile club formally presented the flag and pole to the town in honor of twenty four young men who have enlisted in the I N G.
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Fontanette
Fontanelle
Old Glory
Fontenelle
Ladies’ Civile Club
Tama Raises Squadron for Tama County Cavalry
Over 100 men signed for enlistment in Tama county cavalry under Colonel Howell's regiment. General Logan dispatched an officer to inspect the squadron, with representation from every town in the county. Organizing permission granted, the enlistment was completed in three days.
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Tama
Tama County
Howell
Logan
Wanerus To Lead Iowa Hospital Unit For France
Theodore Wanerus adjutant of the intercollegiate intelligence bureau at the University of Iowa received orders to raise a hospital unit for medical corps work in France. The unit is among those to be dispatched by the government at once.
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Balge
Iowa City
Theodore Wanerus
Intercollegiate Intelligence Bureau
University of Iowa
France
Hayner Enforces Blue Laws in Iowa Counties
Attorney General Hayner enforced the Sunday closing law in Polk and Iowa counties under Code section 5040 known as the Blue law. He offered no prophecy on future department activity and stated no favoritism toward any party in the TV brouhaha.
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Hayner
Dex ‘Mojnes
Iowa
Heyner
Polk County
Iowa County
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