Iowa Industry Output and Local School Consolidations
Iowa census shows 6 614 manufacturing establishments employing 63 113 workers with wages of 39 860 000 annually and product value of 310 760 000. Reports on county consolidations, dairy and hog industry efforts, college judging teams, raids on temperance bars, border deployment rumors, and local civic projects frame a wide snapshot of state activity.
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Iowa
Cass County
Lewis
Poweshiek County
Marshall County
Iowa Animal Industry Association
C. E. Arney
Albion
Earl Willits
Bangor
W. W. Snowles
Tama County
Iowa State College
Springfield
Mass
W. L. Henderson
Randall
Ames
United States
Nebraska
Kansas
Henderson
J. A. Sturtevant
Sioux City
L. V. Wilson
Grinnell
George Cosson
Keokuk
Second
Edwin D. Raynor
Iowa Soldiers
Kaynor
Thirty-ninth
Wisconsin Infantry
Daniel Kerr
Grundy Center
Kerr
Grundy Canter
Argus
Congress
Scotland
William Johnson
Humboldt
Andorr
Prices Advance 25 to 50 Percent in State Supplies
Des Moines reports rising costs for dry goods and suiting materials, with worsted goods up from 1.25 to 1.75 per yard leading to a switch to cassimere. A local firm won the contract to supply most state institutions, underlining how price hikes strain per capita maintenance. Ballots suffrage and public notices also loom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Harry Shropshire
State Board of Control
Cassimere
Anamosa Reformatory
General Assembly
Austrian Premier Shot in Vienna by Newspaper Publisher
London reports Austria’s premier Count Karl Stuerckh was fatally shot by Adler, a Vienna publisher. A veteran statesman born 1859 in Graz, Stuerckh served as minister of public works and held multiple high offices, with political turmoil and a looming crisis cited in Vienna and Berlin dispatches.
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London
Austria
Reuter
Amsterdam
Count Karl Stuerckh
Vienna
Adler
Berlin
Count Stuerckh
Graz
University of
Reichsrath
Windsche-Graatz
Vorsiche Zeitung
Hungary
Expect to Stay All Winter for Iowa Guard at Brownsville
Des Moines reports that most officers of the Iowa National Guard, now at Brownsville Texas, expect to remain through the winter. General Funston announced no immediate troop withdrawals, prompting plans to stay, stock lumber, board tents, install stoves, and accommodate men who prefer home leave to avoid job loss.
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Des Moines
Iowa National Guard
Brownsville
Tex
Adj
Guy J. Logan
Funston
Second Iowa Regiment
Boom of improvements hits Indianola with $285000 in new work
Indianola reports rapid progress with 285000 in improvements across business and residence districts. Twenty seven new homes added at 88550, fourteen improvements at 1000 each finished, plus sixty minor projects completed, signaling a wave of growth.
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Indianola
Big Profit From Cabbage Near Shenandoah
Les Fleming, former sidewalk and culvert laborer, runs a truck patch near Shenandoah and grows six thousand pounds of cabbage. He sells at eight cents a pound, expecting about $1,800 from the crop, finding truck farming highly profitable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shenandoah
Les Fleming
Fleming
Clement
New High School At Waterloo Contracts Awarded
The Waterloo school board let contracts totaling 291 834 for a new high school in East Waterloo. The low bid came to 285 807 for the building, with 49 450 for plumbing and painting. Over thirty contracts were issued as plumbers and others submitted bids. The structure is to be completed by April 1, 1918, and will be among the largest high school buildings in the middle West.
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Chicago
Bill. Gale
Marshalltown
Gale
Jesse A. Fonda
Fonda
Unois
Christian Science
Gales
Dean Franklin
Tama County
Toledo
John Huber
Great Western Trath
Harlan
Game Verden C. F. Wayland
Harlan Bubber
Missouri River
Council Bluffs
U. S
Iowa
Charles H. Bryant
Mason City
Soldiers
Bryant
One Hundred
New York Infantry
Iowa University
Germany
Hauser
Animal Biology
College of Medicine
Doctor McClintock
Grinnell
West Side
Guy Brent
Clarinda Trust
Savings Bank
Waterlolo
Waterloo
Scho Board
East Waterloo
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L. Bonar
Algona State
Algona, In
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Hapton & Dickinson
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Algona, Iowa
E. A. Adams
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Fice
Jobo Galbraith
Hartman
Gay
Paine
Alyona
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Walter Fraser
Elanor Seller
Mary C, Kain
Mary Dana
Ruth Lundell
Catherine Wert
L, Bist
D* E. C. Tessman
Towa
Dr. Deveraux
Langdon & Long’s
D* W.K. Kain
EB. Sayers
R J. Laird
Owers House
H. R. Gibson
Lewis BH
Smith
Theo
Chrischilles
Kossuth County State Bank
Capital
Lewis H. Smith
Theo. Chrissilles 4
E. Sayers
T. H. Wadsworth
E. J. eBvoy
H. E. Rist
Jos. W. Wadsworth
Deposita Regives
First National Bank
10Wa
Wm. K. Ferguson
B.Y V. Swetting
Leslie C. Seward
Arthur C. Ferguson
Aast
Buraten
Drocurory
MA Penana
Eave Ura
V. Swetting
Roscoe Call
Spencer E. E Bayers
Dickinson
Savings Department of
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Boat Court
Ouse Square
Algona State Bank
C.Z. Chubb
C. Adams
W. Dingley
Osah
C. H. Bourdaley
Ass’t
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Chubb, Geo. L
Galbraith EW
Dingle
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the County Savings Bank
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J. Gilmore
Andrew Peterxibe
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All Parte
Warde
Secretary of State
Allen
L. P. Anderson
State Food and Dairy Commission
Simon Miller
Ashton
Lindquist Company
Spencer
Charles Lockner
Meridan
WF. W. Stevenson
J. J. Marcuses
Maquoketa
Mall
Executive Department
Government Service
Washington, D. C
Washington
Fort Madison
Lwang
Henora
Jacksonville
Fla
Marine Corps
Preussner
Manchester
Beret
William’ Durchdenwalk
Eleut
Walter A. Meyer
Cedar Rapids
Paul Qillspie
Atlantic
Iowa Supreme Court
Clarke County District Court
Harve Deitrich
Deitrich
Dietrich
State Executive Council
Board of Railroad Commissioners
Colfax Northern Railway
Colfax
Valeria
Dallas County
Interurban Railway Company of
Woodward
Witthopt Bros
Page Center
Burlington Railroad
C. A. Robbing
Weights and Measures Department
Cherokee
Independence
W. J. Dixon
State Automobile Department
State House
Wesley Greene
State Dairy and Food Commission
WI Watch
Edward Lytton
Pennsylvania
State Fish and Game Department
Hinshaw
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