Iowa Law Changes and Agricultural Reorganization
The Iowa legislature enacts 217 laws with many taking effect after July 4. A new Building and Loan law faces constitutional challenges while agriculture is reorganized under a State Board of Agriculture to oversee fairs, weather services, dairy, and veterinary work. An annual $2000 appropriation funds the department and state fair insurance.
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Lowa
Des Moines
Iowa
Twenty-eighth
State Board of Control
State Agricultural Society
State Bureau of Agriculture
Weather and Crop Service
Dairy Commission
State Veterinary Department
State Board of Agriculture
State College of Agriculture
State Farmers’ Institute
Bureau
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station
Agricultural Bureau
Sennett
Boone
Board of Supervisors
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Sourcing Iowa Rail Link and City Dump Plans Stated
The Times notes potential sale of the Iowa Central railway to the M and St L would connect the Story City branch toward Ft. Dodge, boosting local rail links. It urges Ames to prepare a river bottom dumping ground as garbage needs a proper disposal site, warning the city to act before costs rise.
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Iowa Central Railway
Story City
Ft. Dodge
Post Office Ruling on Mail Classifications for Printed Matter
The Post Office issues guidance clarifying mail class for manuscripts and typewritten matter as first class. Fac simile copies produced mechanically must be mailed in at least twenty identical copies to qualify for third class. fewer copies pay first class rates.
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Postoffic Department
War taxes lash citizens in long list of penalties
The Arkansas Gazette laments heavy wartime levies, listing fines on telegrams, checks, corporate memberships, life and fire insurance, insurance assignments, money orders, leases, paid telephones, indemnity bonds, financial instruments, sales documents, freight, vessel clearances, manifests, international travel, power of attorney, medicines, cosmetics, and other routine actions. It recalls a blissful prewar era in 1893 and 1894 amid business failures.
Echoes of Hard Times and War Taxes Debate
A militant reflection contrasts past hardships under tariff reform and tax cuts with current wartime prosperity. It condemns critics as hypocritical while noting memory and experience temper opinion. The piece then cites late news of German minister Von Ketteler's murder in Pekin, signaling a crisis in the Chinese affair.
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Party of
Party For Calamity
von Ketteler
Pekin
It Saved His Leg Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cures leg sore in five days
P A Danforth of LaGrange Georgia suffered six months with a running sore on his leg. The salve cured it in five days. It is advertised as the best salve for ulcers wounds and piles with a cure guaranteed. Available from L M Bosworth druggist. Also Pure Lustre Mineral cleaner offered by C F Lerrs for tinware and woodwork.
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LaGrange
Bucklen
L. M. Bosworth
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