Iowa State News Highlights Build Up In 1924 Iowa
Iowa reports a flurry of local projects and policy moves across Cedar Rapids Dubuque Des Moines and other cities. Plans for a new Riceville high school a $70 000 project an expansion of streets in Dubuque and a 1 000 000 Cedar Rapids bank building are noted along with road work contracts 651 835 98 and a bridge project in Des Moines. Helen Keller visits Des Moines in February 1925 and public exposure of tax exemptions for veterans is mentioned.
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Audubon
Riceville
Dubuque
Iowa
Stratford
Webster City
Indianola
Webb
Palo Alto County
Society of Friends
Philadelphia
Penn College
Oskaloosa
Ames
Friends of the Child Labor Amendment
Iowa Committee On Public Utility Information
Des Moines
Polk County
Helen Keller
Hoyt Sherman Place
Merchants’ National Bank of
Cedar Rapids
Board of Supervisors
Des Mones
Des Moines Real Estate Board
Iowa State’ Highway Commission
Mitchell County
Coon River
First
Henry C. Wallace
R. T. Edwards
U. S
WHQO
Bankers Life Building
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Huds
Burlington
Anna Drake
Public Health Nursing Bureau
State Board of Health
Iowa Forty-First Legislature Opens With Edson as Speaker
The Iowa State House in Des Moines gathers the forty-first general assembly with W. C. Edson of Storm Lake unanimously chosen speaker. He vows a steady, constructive session focusing on continuing current work rather than dramatic new laws.
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Forty-First
Iowa General Assembly
State House
Des Moines
House
Senate
W. C. Edson
Storm Lake
Edson
Iowa
Campbell is Iowa Senate president pro tem amidst vote race
Senator Ed H Campbell of Ida Grove was elected president pro tem of the Iowa senate defeating Senator J L Brookhart of Washington. Walter Beam of Martensdale is installed as secretary, succeeding Col Leon Ainsworth, after years as assistant secretary. Miss Elsie Dachroth becomes private secretary to Governor Hammill, previously serving Hammill and Mrs T P Hollowell.
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State House
Ed. H. Campbell
Ida Grove
Senate
Campbell
J. L. Brookhart
Washington
Col
Smith W. Brookhart
Walter Beam
Martensdale
Iowa Senate
Leon Ainsworth
Beam
Elsie Dachroth
Hammill
T. P. Hollowell
Republican National Committee
Kendall’s Farewell Address Extracts and Iowa Policy Deltas
Excerpts show calls for fiscal restraint and fair taxation in Iowa politics. Emphasizes citizen soldiery, railroads as government risk, women’s equal stake in government honors, and public school pride. Notes proposed budget cuts, levy changes, and legislative formalities plus welfare bureau expenditures and gas heating trends.
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Kendall
Towa
Camp Dodge
Iowa
Inauguration of Iowa Governor Hammill Acknowledges State
The ceremony in Des Moines marked Hammill's entry as Iowa's 24th governor. Chief Justice Faville administered the oath to Kimball, and the inaugural address urged unity, road building, tax reform, child welfare, and stronger state institutions. The program outlined proposed legislation on banking, labor, education, and governance.
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Iowa
John Hammill
Senate
House
Supreme Court
Robinson
Willis ©. Edson
House Chamber
Lasher
Kendall
Hammill
Kimball
Faville
Joint Legislative ‘Committee
Forty-first
Iowa General Assembly
N. B. Kendall
Wiiter
Lewes
Iowa ‘Child Welfare Commission
Board of Control
Board of Parole
Highway Commission
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Maccabees
Bankerso
Iowa Bankers Association
Public Welfare Bureau
Cisabver of Commerce
Bureau
Ekeke Ee
Golden Gate Bridge
San Francisco
Cal
United States War Department
Lime Point
Presidio
Marin
Jerusalem
King George Avenue
Herbert Samuel
Samuel
Chang
Chang Tso-lin
Chang Yu-hsiang
Connor
China
Tientsin
Agnes Swick
B. L. Swick
Pasadena
McRaes
Thomas Chipman Mele
Arkansas
Prescott
Baltimore
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