Iowa General Assembly Debates Language in Public Schools
Debates in the Iowa House over the Dean bill aiming at English instruction in all secular subjects. Mayne amendment removes religious instruction. foreign languages allowed as cultural study above eighth grade. Also covers penalties and transfers of the state auto department, and various education and public-safety measures with votes and key speeches.
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Committee On Schools
Iowa
L. H. Mayne
Palo Alto
Will L. King
Hardin County
House of Representatives
Germany
King
Secretary of State
State Treasury
Bales
State Executive Council
State Automobile Department
Hutt
State Automobile
Auto Department
Hoyt
Senator Whitmore
Senate Committee On Elections
Price
Monroe County
Whitmore
Garber
Decatur County
Senate
Acts of
City Park Commission
House
Hansen
Greater of Lesser Import Includes What’s Going On
Australia appropriated 2 500 000 for public works to provide work for returned soldiers. Tornadoes and floods cause deaths and damage across Mississippi Louisiana and Kansas. The victory liberty loan opens April 21 and runs to May 10 with large expected attendance. Citizens in Nebraska Missouri and other states face political and military news from Europe and Asia.
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Australia
Iowa urges nation league and state parks program
Dr J C Orth of Guthrie Center named Iowa state organizer for the League to Enforce Peace. Iowa counties to be organized for the proposed league. Miss Anna Lawther laments senate primary failure. Local scams in Sioux City report. Iowa to establish state parks. Black Hawk county seeks two sites. Germain Verein in Manila to become Americanized in English. Cedar Rapids brothers raise guinea pigs as a new industry. Des Moines notes aviator Lieut Don Rigg and deputy state insurance chief Lieut Clarence Young. Attendance on farm labor concerns raised by WWI veterans. Various gifts, routes for Pershing highway, and smallpox cases in Dubuque schools.
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37Th Assembly
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Senate
House of the 38Th Assembly
Thirty-Eighth General Assembly
Parker
Des Moines
Hauge
Polk County
J. Hook
Winneshiek County
Senator Price
Albia
Iowa
Ratcliff
State Board of Education
Red Oak
Thirty-ninth General Assembly
Foskett
Thirty Eighth General Assembly
State
Anti-Saloon League
W. J. Greenel
Clinton
Greenell
Messer
Johnson County
Lyn George J. Kelly
Villiscaux
Havner
Capitol
Supreme Court
Rogers
Carroll County
Moora
Guthrie County
Holdoegel
Wapelle County
Webster County
Whitmore
Wapello County
Byington
United States
Clem B. Kinebal
Council Bluffs
Infanta
J. C. Orth
Guthrie Center
The
League To Enforce Peace
League of Nations
Anna B. Lawther
Dubuque
Iowa Equal Suffrage Association
Miss Lawther
Hayner
Henry Hop
Sioux City
Hop
Towa
Black Hawk
Cadar
Germain Verein Society of
Manila
Manilla
L. L. Ballantine
Cedar ‘Rapids
H.W. Wells
United States Boys Working Reserve
Atlantic
France
Don ‘Rigg
St. Mihiel
Clarence Young
Des ‘Molines
Yale Law School
Clark
Ida Grove
Ernest Rathbun
W. C. Rathbun
Tlowa
State University
Eastern Iowa
Southern Iowa
Texas
Winnipeg
New Orleans
Cedar Falls
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
North Liberty
Riverside
Dubu
Pape's Diapepsin Advertises Quick Digestion Relief
Lumps of undigested food cause pain and indigestion. The ad claims instant relief after taking four tablets or two doses, saying the pleasant harmless tablets end dyspepsia and upset stomachs immediately and cost little at drug stores.
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Pape
Sylvia Receives Surprise Twin Brothers
A father tells his lonely daughter Sylvia that her mother will bring two little brothers, twins, when she returns from a visit. Sylvia asks why not a sister, and the father explains the bundle as twins.
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Sylvia
Sylvian
Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root Kidney Remedy Ad Card
An advertisement promotes Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root kidney liver and bladder remedy as pure vegetable based not a stimulant and safe in teaspoonful doses. It claims uniform quality in every bottle with a sworn purity statement and offers samples from Binghamton New York via mail order.
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Dr. Kilmer
Howe
Adv
Richmond Boy Cautiously Requests Christmas Toys
A Richmond youngster accompanies his mother to a downtown display of toys to choose gifts. Distressed by the display, he tells his mother she can buy him all the items now and he will think up more ideas for Christmas later.
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Richmond
Indianapolis
Don’t Drag Kidneys Rub Backache Away
Ad promoting St. Jacobs Liniment claims kidneys do not cause backache and urges readers to rub in the liniment for instant relief from lumbago sciatica neuralgia rheumatism sprains and strains. It emphasizes quick, harmless action and a trial bottle from a druggist.
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St. Jacobs
Public servant comment and patent medicine ad snippets
A fragmentary page includes a dialogue about public service and a local patent medicine promotion. The ad for Cole’s Carbellaaive claims quick relief for burns and skin diseases with 25c or 6c packages, while Garfield Tea is advertised as a laxative and blood purifier. The tone echoes era editorial and advertising copy.
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Cole
J.W. Cole Co
Rockford, T
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