Iowa News Tells Of Growth And Crime Across State
Iowa population growth reported for Sioux City. Lafayette township coal plans discussed. Robbers loot Rossie Savings Bank of 1000 cash and 5000 in bonds. Des Moines hosts drygoods association formation. Iowa State College grants 334 degrees amid centennial events. Hog shipments rise in 1920 cooperatives. desertion case in Council Bluffs. wool marketing expansion. land values survey across 60 counties. deaf garden model planned for Iowa State Fair exhibits.
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Lafayette Township
Gilbert
Jasper County
Sioux City
Cengus Bureau
Rossie Savings Bank
Spencer
Rossie
Iowa
A. A. Cooper
Dubuque
Cooper
Iowa Retail Drygoods and Aprarel Association
Des Moines
Iowa State College
M. E
Ogden Hotel
Council Bluffs
Osceola
James Dailey
Iowa Association
Towa
Sign Talk for Motor Drivers Sign Talk for Motor Drivers
A 1910 article reports 1,287 crash deaths last year from road ignorance and urges a motorist signaling code. Dr Theron Kilmer proposes a five finger semaphore style signals to warn, query, or request aid for safer driving and to prevent flats or misdirection.
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Robert W. Skerrett
Scientific American
Theron W. Kilmer
New York City
Kilmer
Preserve Paint On Surface In Washing For Early Months
Universal car care guidance warns that varnish needs time to harden and advises careful washing. Readers are instructed to clean one panel at a time, use two separate sponges, avoid hot water, and choose mild soaps to protect the varnish during the initial months of a new car’s use.
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Hie
Regulating Battery Charge During Long Trips
Advice suggests burning the Nights occasionally to lower the charging rate and prevent overcharged batteries on long trips.
Advice on car maintenance and safety practices
Practical tips cover engine cooling water, piston lapping materials, ammonia as fire extinguisher, annual speedometer checks, heat resistant pipe cement, keeping battery connections tight, priming the carburetor after flooding, ignition checks, caution with unfamiliar rims, dangers of loose wheel locking, and daily regular car care equated to feeding a horse for longevity and service.
Teutons Seek War Levy and Brussels Conference
Reports from Paris and London outline German demand for reparations policy and a July 23 Brussels financial conference under League of Nations auspices. The Spa talks aim to shape indemnity terms while preparing an international loan plan. Germany to participate in Brussels talks.
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Paris
Spa
Echo de Paris
Therfore
Brussels
Council of the
League of Nations
Germany
Council of the League
Supreme Council
Leon Bourgeois
M. Bourgeois
League Council
League
London
Boulogne
Lloyd George
House of Commons
Mesopotamia
Berlin
Konstantine Fehrenbach
Simons
Wirth
Bavaria Refuses to Disarm Amid Allied Demands
Bavaria declines to disarm despite Berlin government proposals in response to allied demands from the Bologna conference. Berlin receives a note outlining the Bavarian stance as newspapers denounce disarmament, warning it could provoke civil war or bolshevism. The Deutsche Tages Zeitung prints the allied demands under the banner Want! Revenge.
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Berlin
Bavaria
Germany
Deutsche Tages Zeitung
Ernst Zu Reventlow
OUST GERMANS FROM SAMOA
It is understood that Germans in Samoa are to be deported with Po Nee aiding. New Zealand authorities plan to take over German plantations in Samoa valued around $5,000,000 marking a major transfer of assets. A murder charge is filed against Frank H. Dohany in the Dwyer case.
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Wellington
New Zealand
Samoa
Po- Nee
Dominion
Dohany
Netroft
Mici
Frank ‘H. Dohany
August Dwyer
United Mine Workers
Heston
Population figures released by census bureau
The census bureau reported Birmingham Alabama with 178,270 residents, an increase of 45,585 or 84.4 percent. Red Bluff California shows a decline to 8,109 residents, down 426 from previous figures, a 12 percent decrease.
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Birmingham
Washington
Census Bureau
Ala
Red ‘Bluff
Cal
National Public Works Association backs Jones Reavis plan
The National Public Works Department Association with 185000 engineers architects and contractors urges creation of a department of public works to replace the interior department consolidating engineering construction and related federal activities from 39 agencies. The plan would move offices and bureaus across many departments provoking anticipated resistance from most cabinet agencies.
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WsBineron
National Public Works Department Association
Department of Public
Congress
Interior Department
Patent Office
Department of Commerce
Bureau of Pensions
Treasury
Bureau of Education
Department of Labor
Freedman’s Hospital
Public Health Service
Department of Public Works
Supervising Architect
Treasury Department
Corps of Engineers, Buyers and Harvers
War Department
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Bureaus of Good Roads and
of Forest Service
Agricultural Department
Interior
Platt National Park Faces Stay Of Execution And Aid
The Platt National Park in Oklahoma, created in 1902 and sized at 848 acres with sulfur springs, drew 25 000 visitors from Sulphur last year. Lawmakers debated funding, with Good proposing transfer to Oklahoma and disposal if rejected. Harreld and McKeown pushed for higher appropriations, while a Mann point of order blocked the transfer. The measure yielded a stay of sentence and an increased appropriation.
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Dlatt National Park
Oklahoma
Platt
Harreld
McKeown
Good
Iowa
Appropriations Committee
Treasury
Mann
Illinois
Holman
Indian Territory
Platt National Park
Fields of Honor to Be Established in France for U S Dead
Secretary Baker announces plans for three permanent American fields of honor in France at Romagne Belleau and Suresnes where American World War dead will be interred or concentrated. A war memorials council will advise on care graves marking and beautification with uniform headstones and memorial trees.
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Ecretary of
Baker
France
War Memorials Council
Fol
National Fine Arts Commission
The
American Institute of Architects
American Forestry Association
American Legion
Navy Department
Quartermaster’s Corps
War Plans Division
General Staff
War Department
America
Romagne
Belleau
Suresnes
Wilson to Fill Near 200 Recess Appointments
President Wilson begins rapid recess appointments to fill close to 200 executive posts and diplomatic vacancies before adjournment. Key picks include Henry Jones Ford, Mark W. Potter, and James Duncan for the Interstate Commerce Commission, and Dogert and McCall named to the tariff commission.
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Pamlcre
Congress
Diplomatic Service
Wilson
Senate
Henry Jones Ford
New Jersey
Mark W. Potter
New York
James Duncan
Massachusetts
Interstate Commerce Commission
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Castile
Altomobile & Gossifs
Milton
Tommy Milton
Daytona
Fla
DePalma
American Auto Association
Anaphas
American Automobile’ Association
Teutons
Allied Council
National Department of Public Works
Fields of Honor
U. S
Bullerang
Greece
Houdures
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