Iowa Guards Show High Efficiency in Militia Tests
Browns ville district reports 18 regiments from Iowa and other states competed in regimental battalion and company tests. Sioux City’s Company L rated 93 percent, Des Moines’ Company B 91 percent, and other Iowa units posted solid marks amid a broad mobilization of state troops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownsville
James H. Parker
Iowa
Virginia
Oklahoma
South Dakota
Texas
Indiana
Minnesota
North Dakota
Nebraska
Sioux City
Des Moines
Des ‘Moines
Fairfield
Waterloo
Dubuque
Frank
Crowch
Woodward
Havner
Crouch
Boone
Zakir “Abdullin
Ames Agronomy
Ames
France
Abdulin
Canada
Ufa
Russia
Sonia Retail
Fort Dodge
Davenport
Jacob Fried
Dyersville
O. R. McDonald
E. J. Miles
Newton
Polk County
Carl N. Kennedy
Ames College
State Agricultural Colleges of Texas
Ore
Farm Improvement Association of
Kennedy
Oregon
Agricultural College
Corvallis
Quaker Data Company
Cedar Rapids
George Laird
G. P. Brodder
Iowa State Veterinarian Assoociation
Grinnell College
Iowa Eyes Prohibition Power After Webb Kenyon Ruling
Des Moines Iowa seeks to use a 2419 code section to stop liquor shipments into the state except to permit holders and druggists if interstate commerce is curtailed. Attorney General Havner says the Webb Kenyon decision restores state power to block shipments for personal use and authorizes prosecutions of railroads and carriers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
H. M. Havner
Supreme Court
Chester W. Whitmore
Senate
Whitmore
Woldendale
Iowa Legislature Opens With Battle Lines Drawn
Des Moines reports the 37th general assembly organized under Speaker M. B. Pitt as sessions resume. Prohibitory constitutional amendment and road question dominate expectations while woman suffrage leader Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt returns to push a new vote on suffrage.
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General Assembly
Des Moines
M. B.' Pitt
House
Thirty-seventh
M. B. Pitt
State Highway Commission
Senate
Highways Committee
Conrie Chapman Catt
New York City
National Suffrage Association
Iowa
Electrify Iowa & Southwestern line eyed by Waterloo firm
Prospects rise that the Iowa & Southwestern railroad from Clarinda to Blanchard may be rebuilt as an electric line. Waterloo Cedar Falls & Northern Electric officials visited Clarinda to assess, with local financial help possible. Wabash traffic ties, capital gaps, and past discontinuation left College Springs and Page Center without rail service.
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Clarinda
Iowa & Southwestern Railroad
Blanchard
College Springs
Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern, Electric Railroad
Waterloo
St. Louis
Wabash Railroad
Iowa & Southwestern
Page Center
McAdoo Named In Leak Scandal
Washington report states Thomas W. Lawson, testifying before a congressional committee, accused a cabinet officer, a New York banker, and a senator of involvement in a stock gambling pool linked to a Wilson peace note leak. He identified the cabinet officer as Secretary McAdoo and the banker as H Pliney Fiske with the senator only as initial "O."
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McAdoo
Washington
D. C
Thomas W. Lawson
House Males Committee
Wilson
Henry
Lawson
H. Pliney Fiske
New York
Water contamination in Iowa City due to valve neglect
About three to four hundred Iowa City residents and State University students fell ill after river water contaminated the city mains for five hours. An employee at the pumping station failed to turn a valve allowing impure water to flow into the system. Symptoms indicated a widespread stomach illness with fever and dehydration.
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Congress
Iowa
Steele
F. G. Peterson
Des Moines
Verdun
Dardanelles
Bélgium
Peterson
American Legion
Ottawa
Isville
Dubuque
Reinfred
Thomas R. Williamson
State University
The
Alethia
Boston
Williamson
Harvard
Doris Byrnes
Peggy Reid
Chicago
Franklin Junkermann
Cedar Rapids
Taylor
Smith
H. W. Jirka
George E. Gillaspy
Oscar Lawson
Oakland
W. A. Groneweg
Richard Barbee
Barbee
Lawson
Fred Folkerts
Kesley
Hampton
Folkerts
McQuaid Grocery and Market
Regal Hotel
Fy Negreace
Iowa City
Uy Mains
10 Cent Cascarets Ad For Headache Relief
An advertisement touts Cascarets as a remedy for headaches bilious feelings coated tongue and foul taste from a torpid liver and sour stomach. It promises cleansing of the stomach removing undigested food and bile to clear the head and regulate bowels by morning with a 10 cent box.
A Cynical Mies and the Money Myth
A witty exchange from the Boston Evening Transcript contrasts cynicism about arranged marriages with the notion that money dictated unions in ancient times. The dialogue playfully debates whether love or wealth drove matrimony in history.
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Mies
Boston Evening Transcript
Fourteen Years of Swamp Root Kidney Remedy Endorsement
A Diagonal Drug & Jewelry Co. letter from J. R. Book, Ph. G. dated April 19, 1916, extols Dr Kilmer’s Swamp Root after fourteen years of sales. It claims universal relief for kidney and bladder diseases and urges readers to send ten cents for a sample bottle plus an informational booklet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Applying Physics II Street Car Lesson
A concise note explains that riders lean in the opposite direction of street car movement to counteract inertia. When the car stops, lean toward the rear. when it starts, lean toward the front. This user friendly tip cites Newton's third law to reduce being jolted by motion.
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Ib. W. Newberry
Clayton County
Senate
Refscock Tegty
When Men Fought Hand to Hand
The article describes the ancient Russian battle ax as the fiercest weapon. It notes broad blades varying in type, mounted on long poles, with blades curving above the haft and the lower portion bending toward the pole, secured by wire lashings.
Local Gazette Snippet Delivers Jests On Fatherhood
In a quirky exchange, a speaker tells Mr Thickwitz his baby resembles him, prompting pleased but mixed reactions. A whispered jab about the infant’s fortune follows as a dry aside. A note on American preserved fruit peels finds favor in Canada.
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Corn Belt Meat Producers’ Association
R. A. Pearson
Iowa Agricultural College
Charles Holman
Madison
Wis
National Agricultural Organization Society
L. D. Hall
United States Department of Agriculture
Clifford Thorne
Charles G. Cockerill
Jefferson
E. A. Kepford
Prof
C. F. Curtiss
Steward Baxter
Charles Cessna
Poweshiek County
Damon Whaley
Waukon
Frontenac
United States
James Monroe
Napoleon Bonaparte
George TV
England
Adams
Abraham Lincoln
Queen Victoria
Frank Oertel
Keokuk
Gate City
Dale R. Andre
Burlington
Drake Law School
Oertel
National Guard
United States Army
Child Welfare Association
Guarde
Uncle Sam
Fort Des Moines
Iowa National Guard
Coldhel Bartley
War Department
Adjt
Guy E. Logan
Thirty-seventh General Assembly
B. W. Garrett
Drys
Committee On Federal Relations
Moore
Pitt
Iowa State Grange
United Taxpayers, League
Harding
E. T. Meredith
Frank Glasner
Down Senate
Hinton
Gazette
Glasner
Germany
Peter J. Kilner
Crawford County
Iowa General Assembly
Denison
Kiiner
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