Iowa General Assembly Moves Faster After Recess
Des Moines reports rapid progress by the Iowa legislature after March 1 recess, aiming to adjourn around April 7. Key items include soldier bonus, various appropriations, taxation, and blue sky laws. In the Senate no test of sentiment. Shaffter bill on grade crossing safety passes 28 to 20 but faces doubt in further progress. Railroads push the measure with added safeguards, while whistleblower and plank crossing amendments are debated.
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Des Moines
General Assembly
Senate
Brookhart
Washington County
United States
Tax measures dominate debate as senate weighs options
Senator M B Pitt pushes sweeping plan to create a state tax commission to take taxation powers from the executive council. The senate faces a key decision on the statewide amusement tax bill, which was postponed then saved and placed on the calendar by Senator Whitmore. The inheritance tax faces amendments after crossing the house, while the proposed state income tax draws strong opposition as burdens from federal taxes loom.
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M. B. Pitt
State Executive Council
Senate
Whitmore
House
Investigations Fizzle Amid Slow Senate Activity
Investigations initiated at the session produced no major results and no impeachment or sensational outcomes. The committee on departmental affairs is expected to report soon with recommendations on consolidating departments, but has not yet acted.
Fight over Lake boxing bill faces senate opposition
The Lake boxing bill, after passing the house, meets strong senate resistance though backed by the state federation of labor and the American Legion. Bills setting a maximum hour and minimum wage for women workers appear headed for defeat. Over 200 Des Moines women protested the maximum hour law, calling it unworkable as manufacturers and business leaders criticize the bills as too broad for Iowa. Any passage would require very awkward amendments.
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Lake
House
Senate
State Federation of Labor
The
American Legion
Des Moines
Iowa
Moore Eyes 1922 Gubernatorial Bid in Iowa
Statehouse chatter centers on former Lieutenant Governor Dr. Moore seeking the Republican nomination for governor in 1922. The piece notes anticipated intra party opposition, potential challenges to W. C. Burbank and McClenahan, and a campaign shaped by postwar issues including quail and other game laws, a soldier bonus proposal, and a proposed public utility rates court.
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Moore
State House
Dr. Moore
Des Moines
Senate
W. C. Burbank
McClenahan
Elixir of Life Found For Flat Worms Says Huxley
Oxford professor Julian Huxley argues aging may be altered through growth rate control. He cites experiments on planarian flatworms showing extended lifespans and stable aging, noting mental regression in some trauma cases and mammals living about forty percent longer under observation through experimental methods.
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London
Julian Huxley
Oxford
Ju-lan
Huxley
Prof
Chaucer
Ous
Prof. Huxley
Judge Denies Mercy to Women Razor Crime Leaders
Washington Justice Ashley M Gould of the District of Columbia Supreme Court refused probation for two women who used a razor in crime. She called such offenses a cause of Washington’s notoriety and said penitentiary sentence is the only cure. Both women received 18 months.
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Washington
Ashley M. Gould
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Negro man dives from dentist’s window after tooth removal
Dr. A R Gafney in the Temple Bar building Brooklyn pulled a tooth for Burton Skeete of 160 Third avenue. Skeete shrieked and leaped head first from three stories up, landing on his head in the Court and Joralemon subway entrance. He sat up on arrival to Brooklyn hospital and then went home claiming a hurt shin.
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Brooklyn
A R. Gafney
Temple Bar
Burton Skeete
Third Avenue
Skeete
Court and
Joralemon Streets
Baby Cab a Rum Cache Arrest Near Port Huron
John Hammond of Sarnia was arrested by customs officials while wheeling a baby cab from a ferry boat. A quilt in the cab held 12 pockets each containing a bottle of liquor. Hammond, his wife, and two children were aboard. he says he smuggled alcohol to raise funds for buying a house. He is employed by the Grand Trunk in Sarnia and was jailed.
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Cache
Port Huron
Mich
John Hammond
Sarnia
Hammond
Grand Trunk
Jall
Polynesian origins traced by Mongoloid-European mix
Louis Sullivan of the American Museum of Natural History presented measurements from 2000 Hawaiian natives supporting a Mongoloid European Melanesian mix. He argues Polynesians originated in Asia and notes ongoing expeditions by Bishop Museum to expand findings. The piece cautions that Polynesian peoples are rapidly diminishing while research proceeds.
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Honolulu
T. H
Pan-Pacific Scientific Congress
Louis R. Sullivan
American Museum of Natural History
New York
Sullivan
Hawaiian Islands
Europe
Naphtha From Wrecked Train Sinks Town to Sleep
The Trenton inquiry links widespread sleep and illness in Roelofs Pa to a leaking 8000 gallon naphtha tank from a wrecked railroad freight car. Deaths and livestock illnesses are reported as residents and cattle succumb to fumes while awakening only late mornings. Investigators in Trenton note unexplained unconscious periods across the town.
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Trenton
Roelofs
Stove warming baptistry gas incident at First Baptist
Gas escaped from a gag heater used to warm baptistry water during Sunday school services at the First Baptist Church in Council Bluffs Iowa. Eighteen children three women and one man were overcome while preparations were under way for three children to be baptized by immersion.
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Council Bluffs
First Baptist
Council
Bluffs
Woman Slayer Fleeing Scene Report From Toledo
A fragmented report notes a woman described as a suspect in a fleeing incident in Toledo. The text mentions names Myrtle and Sonny and references a pursuit, but details are unclear due to the damaged OCR. The item signals a crime-related case with limited readable facts.
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iSlayer
Kiligd
Dall
Toledo
County seat move and tragic farm deaths across Iowa
The article reports a proposed move of Worth county seat from Northwood to Kensett or Manly, and details multiple Iowa incidents: a husband killed on a farm near Oxford, a fire destroying Len Hemmings barn near Waukon with cows and hay burned, Mrs. Allen F Haynes of Winterset dying from truck injuries, theft from a Raymond Catholic church, and a Long Beach telegram noting S H Thompson’s death. It also mentions Dennis Rice arriving in Osage, B H F Cheney killed on a Hamburg farm, a driver found after a Missouri River plunge near Sioux City, a Kiwanis congratulatory telegram to Warren G Harding, and various local legal and civic notes.
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Northwood
Allen F. Haynes
Winterset
Raymond
Long Beach
Cal
S. H. Thomp
Iowa City
Dennis Rice
Osage
Texas
Riceville
Cheney
Hamburg
Burlington
Missouri River
Sioux City
Wea
Kiwanis Club
Clinton
Warren G. Harding
United States
Dikhart
Ingalls Swisher
Goldenson
Frank
Mike Pratt
Ankeny
James R. Rhodes
Newton Daily News
Inland Press Association
Oscar
Rock
Logan
Iowa
Washington, D. C
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