Marengo Area Booms as New Churches and Homes Rise
Longtime eastern Iowa town Marengo sees a housing and business upswing with a $25,000 Methodist church nearing completion and a $30,400 hospital rising. Mountain Bros of Illinois buy a Polk county 160 acre farm for $300 per acre, a record for farm land. Yeggmen rob Adel post office but escape with little. Fort Dodge votes to issue $100,000 for a Des Moines river dam, passing by a wide margin.
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Marengo
Iowa
Methodist Episcopal Church
Mountain Bros
Illinois
P. I. Wilson
Des Moines
Polk County
Wilson
Adel
Fort Dodge
Ray Morgan
Wells Fargo Express Company
Morgan
J. A. Bradley
Centerville
Towa
Bast
Oskaloosa
Mahaska County Agricultural Society
Scranton
State Fish Commission
Raccoon
Sac City
Mississippi
Sabula
Howard Sawyers
Sioux Rapids
Buena Vista County
T. P. Layman
Newell
H. D. Hughes
Iowa State Agricultural College
Amen
Hughes
Washington
Honolulu
Reno
Nev
California
Lowe
Canton
Scholl Hutchinson Candy Company
T. M. Gobble
Clinton Grocery Company
Fernald
Story County
Appanoose
Iona
Sheen
Muscartine
Anna McDonough
Meindert Bloom
Pella
Wade
Bloom
Jasper County
Mingo
Manchester
Roger Paine
Eagle Grove
Wright County
Ryan
Creayvery
Atlantic
Waukon Iron Mines
Iron Hill U
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St. Louis
Iowa Capitol Extension Cost Far Below Estimate
Final figures show Iowa paid about $1,125,000 for 247 lots in the capitol extension, about $75,000 under the original $1.2 million estimate. Two remaining properties will be bought later. Salvage and rents turned into the treasury by T. E. McCurdy total around $80,000 and may reach $100,000.
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Des Moines
Clarke
State Executive Council
Governor's Square
Capitol
T.E. McCurdy
Capitol Grounds
Treasury
McCurdy
Capitol Extension
L.A. Jester
Increases in Iowa state institutions and inmates rise
Des Moines reports show a twelve month inmate gain of 298 across fourteen state institutions under the state board of control. On November 1, 1914 there were 9,788 inmates. by November 1, 1915 the total reached 10,086. Anamosa holds 742 convicts, Fort Madison 645 inmates, with the total convict rise at 127. Insane patients in state hospitals increased from 4,623 to 4,658, despite earlier county withdrawals. Seventeen institutions are under control, with fourteen housing inmates. Woodward epileptic colony under construction and Rockwell City reformatory planned. Oakdale sanatorium gains due to new building.
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Des Moines
State Board of Control
Anamosa
Fort Madison
Cherokee
Clarinda
Mount Pleasant
Independence
Woodward
Rockwell City
Oakdale
Boy Champion Corn Grower Ames
Wade Hauser, 17, of Hardin county is Iowa’s champion boy corn grower. His 150 110 bushels per acre on Hardin soil set a new record in a state contest conducted by Iowa State College. The Bidora Commercial Club will fund his San Francisco exposition trip, and a national title may follow from his profitable low-cost acre.
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Ames
Towa
J. W. Wooters
Ames College
Wade Hauser
Hardin County
Iowa
Hauser
Earle Zeller
Greene County
Bidora Commercial Club
Ionatas
Twilight anaesthesia adopted by local surgeon
Dr Joseph A. Jerger, a general surgeon in Waterloo, reports successful use of twilight anaesthesia in major operations. The method avoids toxemia, severe vomiting, and other complications and is being closely followed by medical men.
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Lowan
Waterloo
Joseph A. Jerger
Ito
Recovery Seen After Des Moines Driver Shot
Des Moines Wells Fargo express driver Ray Morgan was accidentally shot through the lungs with his own revolver. An operation to remove the bullet succeeded, and the attending physician says he has a fighting chance to recover, though initial reports suggested a fatal outcome.
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Des -Moines
Ray Morgan
Wells Fargo Express
Morgan
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