Washington News of the Week highlights a sharp veterans bureau cut
A roundup of political and social events notes Director Hines cutting 50 percent of personnel in seven suth district offices of the veterans bureau, Prohibition moves, presidential comments on war policy, and various deaths, trials, and international developments shaping the week.
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Hines
Washington
Bureau
Federal Hospital Board
The
Veterans’ Bureau Hospital
Dwight, IL
Iowa News Roundup Reflects Local Life And Crises
A broad Iowa items list covers farm contests, school bonds, hospital plans, bankruptcy filings, cemetery vandalism, and highway concerns. Notable items include Clarinda’s corn yield event with many girls noted, Simpson College fundraising ending June 20, Linn County court actions since 1858, Rev. Bandy returning from India, Spencer city power plant purchase, Linden school bond defeat, Des Moines tuberculous meeting trip, dangers from hog attacks near Defiance, Marshalltown bankruptcy filing, Henry Kirchner’s death from mistaken acid, Iowa City hospital expansion plans, Cedar Rapids teacher Carrie Palmer’s death, Texan travel feats of Lieut. Crocker’s wife, Osteopathy building plans, cemetery veteran memorials, and a nationwide manhunt for a Des Moines parks official. The era’s mood mixes optimism in farming, talks of reform in farm bureaus, and growing industrial activity in Newton with a local washer business.
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Simpson College
Linn County
Cour Ieee
Teeen
Charles H. Bandy
Fatehard
India
Spencer Hag
Linden
Des Moines Jg
Gates
National Tubercity, Association
Jung
Santa Barbara
Cal
State Board of Education
Children’s Hospital
State University Medical College
Iowa City
Carrie M. Palmer
Washington High School
Cedar Rapids
H. G. Crocker
Kelly Fn
Texas
Detroit
Northwood
Ethel Toys
tSill College of Osteopathy
R. N. Holsaple
Des Moines
Des Moines Auton Bile Club
West Union
Group Four
Atlantic
Cass County
Winfred E. Robb
Polk County
Sherif
John Backman
Sheriff Park
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Centerville
Appanoose Eau Bureau
I State Federation
W. O. Finkbine
Moines
Newton
Indus
Gebbe Lewallen
Raf
Paunty’ Dickerson
Underworld
Ree Poultry Sales
State Farm Bureau
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New Orleans
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Michigan
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Missouri
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Tommy Milton
Indianapolis
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William M. Johnston
California
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Belgium
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Brooklyn
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Albany
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Tokyo
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Mabel Russell
Capt
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