Balloon Flight Endures Harsh Canadian Wilderness
Lieut. Farrell recalls a December balloon voyage from Rockaway to Moose Factory, with Hinton and Kloor. They faced cold, hunger, and deteriorating gas, landing after multiple tries and surviving a trek through forests and snow to reach Cree trapper Tom Marks.
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Lieut
Farrell
Rockaway Naval Air Station
Moose Factory
Hinton
Hunton
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Wells
N. XY
Kloor
Canada
Tom Marks
James Bay
Marks
Booths Tribute to Lincoln Reveals Honest Grief Felt
A Chicago memory recalls Edwin Booth visiting Lincoln Park to honor Lincoln after performing Hamlet. He paused before Saint Gaudens statue, laid a rose at its base and departed, unseen by a boy who would keep the moment. The tale underscores Booths deep personal grief linked to Lincoln’s assassination.
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Edwin Booth
Abraham Lincoln
Chicago
Lincoln Park
Saint Gaudens
Lincoln
Hapber
Iowa General Assembly Opens With Focus on Citizens’ Pocketbooks
Des Moines reports Iowa's 38th General Assembly convened January 10 with little factional fighting and plans for far reaching acts affecting taxpayers. Governor-elect Kendall was inaugurated in the opening week, praised for economy and clear state facts, urging veterans’ compensation and administrative revamps.
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Des Moines
Iowa
General Assembly
Kendall
Code Revision Likely Delayed Until Summer Session
A special session may address code revision and a constitutional convention, but routine business will precede action. Legislators plan to curb state expenditures and find ways to raise revenue, with the 5.4 mill tax levy insufficient if education expansion proceeds and a soldier bonus law is considered.
Pass Bonus Law Favored by Legion and Public
The article indicates a soldier bonus bill likely approved by the American Legion, possibly a $15 monthly grant funded by a bond issue of at least $20 million via a voter referendum. It notes expected legislative focus on blue sky laws, industrial courts, and public utilities reform under railway commission expansion or a separate rates commission.
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American Legion
Railway Commission
Iowa Officials Change Hands In State Offices
Havner retires after notifying sheriff to gather in Ray O'Meara now serving life sentence linked to the Rathbun case. Glenn C. Haynes becomes state auditor, W W C Burbank takes state treasurer role, Fred P Woodruff joins the railway commission. New officials promise many changes in the offices while maintaining some old guard.
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Ben Gibson
Corning
Mr. Havner
Ida Grove
Ray O'Meara
Rathbun
Supreme Court
O'Meara
Glenn C. Haynes
Mason City
Frank Shaw
Ww. C. Burbank
Waterloo
Ned Hoyt
Manchester
Fred P. Woodruff
Knoxville
John Gusher
Winterset
State Railway Commission
Remalgg
McFarlane Elected Speaker as Iowa Assembly Opens
McFarlane of Black Hawk County is chosen as speaker for the session with E A Larson of Red Oak as speaker pro tem. The Iowa Assembly is largely Republican with only two of fifty senators and five of 108 house members Democrats. First weeks focus on organizing and setting up laws. Efforts include committee organization and preliminary reports.
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McFarlane
Aroh Wn
Blackhawk
House
E. A. Larson
Red- Oak
Assembly
Sena
B. J. Horchem
Dubuque
Harry White
Garrison
State House
Hammill to reduce senate committees for new session
Lieutenant Governor Hammill plans to cut the number of senate committees, keeping departmental affairs. The earlier department committee, created by Moore, investigated inefficiencies leading to Secretary of State W. S. Allen's resignation on July 1, 1919. The move aims to streamline work and extend oversight of governor and executive council over state departments.
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Hammill
Senate
Moore
State House
W. S. Allen
Executive Council
State House Notes on taxes parks and education
Robert Henderson, once state printer, serves as a deputy to Auditor Elect Glenn Haynes. Proposals include a direct inheritance tax and a soldier bonus bill costing at least 500000 dollars annually. A 200000 dollar yearly park purchase fund is sought for 60 counties. Education funding remains protected. Legislature to begin with emergency printing bill. Governor Harding stays in Des Moines, leads a life insurance company, may practice law, and could seek a federal post.
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Robert ‘Henderson
Glenn Haynes
Iowa
Ames
Weaver
Des Moines
Smith
Winterset
Harding
Iowa Guard unit resurges under Major Brandt leadership
The revived Company L of Iowa’s guard, the state’s oldest unit, will be mustered again led by Major Brandt. Comprised largely of veterans from overseas service, its captain during most of World War I was Percy Jainson. The lineage dates to 1856 and Gen Grenville M. Dodge, with early service offered to Iowa’s governor after frontier conflicts and Spirit Lake incidents. The unit saw Civil War, Spanish American War, and World War I action.
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Iowa
Brandt
Percy Jainson
G. M
Grenville M. Dodge
Nebraska
Spirit Lake
Dodge
Geneseo Township Votes for School Bonding and Tax Plan
In Geneseo township Tama county residents back a second plan for a consolidated school building and dormitory. Voters approved $28,000 in bonds to complete and equip the new building and a 10 mill tax for future needs, following a prior 1919 vote that favored consolidation by a large margin.
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Towa
Geneseo Township
Tama County
Genesiie
Prairie State News Briefs From Des Moines Area
A mixed Iowa roundup reports Kinney near Knoxville in grave condition from corn infection and gangrene removal. Waterloo seizes 300 gallons alcohol from two men bound for Austin Minnesota. Widening items note bailiff appointment for Miss Wiley of Muscatine, a divorce awarded Olive Halleck, and a barber shop gas death in Council Bluffs.
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John M. Kinney
Knoxville
Waterloo
Chicago
Austin
Minn
Miss Wiley
R. J. Wiley
Muscatine
Olive Halleck
K. Halleck
Audubon County
Charles ‘W. Huff
Council Bluffs
Huff
W. Marble Hart
Chariton
Trail
British Columbia
Dan Gaines
Omaha
Mt. Ayr
Lenox
A. J. Mitchell
Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
Brazil
S. A
Rio Janeiro
Iowa
Internal Revenue
Harry McIntosh
John Paulis
Paulis
Marble Rock
Riverside
Riverside Association
F. J. Atkins
Bondurant
Milas Marie Dray
Marshalltown
Dray
A. G. Goss
Boyson Drug Store
Anamosa Reformatory
Towa
Walter
C. Ramsey
Joanna
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Wiil
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