Iowa News Roundup Highlights State Events And Debates
Iowa observes National Play week from April 21 to 28 and the state hosts the second annual radio short course April 20 to 24. Horace Boies, ex governor, dies in Long Beach at 96. Fire destroys Winfield consolidated school with $80,000 loss. Lions club assigns memorial trees for WWI soldiers. National League of Women Voters hosts convention in Des Moines.
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Iowa
Iowa State College
Horace Boies
Long Beach
Cal
Winfield
Lions Club of
Vinton
Iowa State Bankers’ Association
Ames
Parley Sheldon
Morris
Iowa Bonus Board
W. J. Burbank
Iowa Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court
R.S. Herrick
State Horticultural Society
Eagle Heart
Rapid City
S. C
Friends’ Church
Earlham
Harry W. Hill
Richard Hoskins
Randolph Hotel
Des Moines
Claude L. Benner
State Association of Economists and Sociologists
Iowa City
Buxton
United States
Monroe County
John Austin
Senator Buser
Muscatine
Senate
State Highway Commission
Board of Education
Board of Control
State Fair Board
Iowa to receive Rockefeller funded medical college
The Iowa legislature approved a Mead-Carter bill to match a Rockefeller Foundation and General Education Board gift of 2,250,000 for a new medical school in Iowa City. The project includes a university hospital and nurses dormitory with existing buildings repurposed for students and labs.
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Iowa
United States
Rockefeller Foundation
General Education Board
House
Iowa City
Perkins Hospital
University Hospital
Education Board
Pottawattamie County
Dental College
Rockefeller
Kendall
McIntosh
Senate
Napier
Albert B. Cummins
Department of Agriculture
Departmental Affairs Committee
Commissioner of Agriculture
Legisature
U S Steel Sets 11 Percent Wage Increase For 1923
The United States Steel corporation ordered an 11 percent raise for common labor at its subsidiaries to take effect April 16 1923. Major independents including Jones & Laughlin Republic Iron and Steel and Bethlehem follow suit or plan similar action. The move affects about 250 000 to 285 000 workers and could add up to 40 million dollars yearly to payrolls.
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New York
U. S. Steel Corporation
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation
Republic Iron and Steel Company
Bethlehem Corporation
Steel Corporation
Finance Commission of
Cunarder
Mauretania
Cherbourg
Elbert H. Gary
United States Steel Corporation
Czechoslovakia to Finance Debt to United States
Czechoslovakia notified the Department of State that its mission to fund the 106,202,205 due the United States will depart Prague April 18 and sail on the Aquitania from Cherbourg April 2. The sum was due November 20, 1922.
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Washington
Czechoslovakia
Department of State
United States
Prague
Cherbourg
Easter Riots Reported in Moscow Amid Church Attacks
A Moscow dispatch says disorders erupted during Easter as attacks on the church drew countermeasures by troops. Three Red soldiers were reported shot dead amid the suppression of unrest.
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Moscow
Riga
Farmer to Pay 7 Per Cent Interest Under New Banks
Charles E. Lobdell, chairman of the federal farm loan board, announced that 12 new intermediate banks created by the farm credits act will set a 544 per cent rediscount rate, making farmers pay 7 per cent interest on loans.
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Lobdell
Federal Board
Washington
Charles E. Lobdell
Federal Farm Loan Board
TC-1 lands at Scott Field near Belleville
The TC-1, largest nonrigid airship of the United States Army, landed at Scotfield near Belleville at 5 40 Monday evening after a 650 mile flight from Wingfoot Lake station Akron Ohio.
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Belleville
United Sates
Scotfield
Army Aviation
Here
Wingfoot Lake Station
Akron
Ohio
Italian Princess Marries Count in Rome
Princess Yolanda eldest daughter of King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Helena wed Count Calvi di Bergole a cavalry captain who holds a World War I bravery decoration in Rome on April 10.
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Rome
Life prisoner Hawkes commits suicide in Stillwater jail
Raymond Hawkes, serving a life term for first degree murder, ended his life by jumping from the fourth gallery of the cellblock in Stillwater prison. He was convicted in 1916.
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Stillwater
Minn
Raymond Hawkes
President presses tariff plan as court challenge looms
President Harding orders the tariff commission to proceed with investigations into rates on seventeen commodities, backing Chairman Marvin and urging hearings despite anticipated constitutional challenges. Opponents warn the delegation of rate-setting powers to the executive may be unconstitutional.
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William
Culbertson
Congress
Uncle Sam Eyes Paris Embassy at Hotel de Conde
The Senate approved funding to acquire a Paris site and embassy building with a total cap of 450000 for site and structures. The Hotel de Conde in rue Monsieur near Napoleon’s tomb is identified as the suitable Paris property with historic ties and art treasures.
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Sam
Paris
Senate
United States
New York
Hotel de Conde
Monsieur
Napoleon
Mademoiselle de Conde
Duke d' Enghein
Brogniart
Yorktown National Military Park Feasibility Bill Passed
Congress passed a bill directing the secretary of war to study establishing a national military park near Yorktown Virginia to commemorate the 1781 campaign and siege. A three member commission may be appointed to prepare plans and cost estimates with funding from Army contingencies.
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Oaktown
War Department
Antietam
Maryland
Chickamauga
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Gettysburg
Pennsylvania
Guilford Court House
North Carolina
National Park Service
Interior Department
Forest Service
Agricultural Department
House
Senate
Yorktown
Virginia
Congress
Secretary of War
King
Utah
Next Congress Will Tackle Passports
A discussion of U S passport fees and visa charges as a burden on travelers and the impact of visa laws since 1921. The piece notes how Americans pay higher foreign visa fees than Europeans, raising overall travel costs and government revenues.
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Harding
Congress
Treasury
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