Byers Urges Broad Reorganization of Iowa AG’s Office
In his annual report to Governor Garst Attorney General Byers calls for sweeping changes to Iowa’s attorney general department. He proposes governor removal powers for peace officers mayors and prosecutors a model like the federal justice department closer county attorney ties reporting duties to the AG and authority to handle state cases in district court and before grand juries. He also pushes expanded oil and food inspector powers funding for a stronger office and a full criminal procedure revision.
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Byers
Des Moines
Garst
Attorney General’s Department
Department of Justice
Supreme Court
State board buys Holstein cattle for Independence insti tution
The state board of control recently bought a large herd of Holstein cows from New York to replace cattle killed due to tuberculosis. They secured a disease-free certificate before moving the cattle to Iowa. Mr John Cownle stated no cattle would be bought without such certification.
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State Board of Control
New York
Independence
Iowa
Energy machine tests promise exact body energy and nutrition
Boston reports on Francis Gano Benedict leading the Carnegie nutrition laboratory experiments in Roxbury. The "energy machine" measures all body energy, pulse, respiration, and temperature to predict work capacity and optimal food. Diabetic patients from Deaconess Hospital are cited as examples for future treatment shifts.
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Boston
Carnegie Nutrition Laboratory
Villa Street
Roxbury
Medicine
Francis Gano Benedict
Wesleyan University
W. O. Atwater
Benedict
Deaconess
Brookline
Carnegie Uutition Laboratory
Energy machines to study typhoid patients in Boston clinical trials
Typhoid patients will undergo experiments with energy machines. The work machine lets a subject perform daily tasks while energy use is recorded. A larger form aims to track an entire family’s food intake and energy, with tests lasting four days and nights in a chamber.
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Boston
Paris plan to bury Tetrazzini voice for a century
In Paris an underground opera house passage will hold a phonographic record of Mme Tetrazzini’s voice for 100 years. After three generations the recording will be opened and the voice revived for observers. Alfred Clark, a wealthy American in Paris, funds such preserves and has received government honors for his gifts of many historic phonographic records from Patti to Caruso and Kubelik.
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Paris
Mme
Tetrazzini
Alfred Clark
Clark
Caruso
Scotti
Planecon
Jan Kubelik
Liquid Air Miners Safety System Unveiled in Prague
Joseph I. Brittain reports a new mining safety method using aerolith from engineer Otto Suess. A knapsack reservoir holds liquid air for two hours feeding a mouth mask, with an alarm to signal refill. Early trials show promising results and new laboratories are planned to produce liquid air.
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Washington
Joseph I. Brittain
Prague
Otto Suess
Suitor Must Pay the Bills in Court Ruling
In Los Angeles Justice Selph ruled that a woman who financed a young man’s courtship expenses can recover the full amount if he fails to marry her. Mrs. Albert A. Jones was awarded 87.50 from Hmil Fernholtz after diary records showed multiple outings and purchases.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Selph
Albert A. Jones
Bessia May
Hmil Fernholtz
Fernholtz
Denver
Hinckley
Kan
Dog with a Wooden Leg Captures Germantown Laughter
A Germantown dog, injured when a trolley severed its leg, wears a home made wooden prosthesis. The five year old owner mourned, her father bandaged the stump, the dog learned to walk again, and now the sight draws amused smiles from neighbors.
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Philadelphia
Germantown
Paris Stockings Priced At Two Hundred Ten Dollars A Pair
An authority on dress explains that 210 dollar stockings reflect material value and skilled hand weaving. A Paris hand loom weaver crafts such exquisite pieces with hand-made lace panels covering almost the front. Lace uses needle-point and Chantilly techniques with intricate patterns. The finest stockings owe merit to weaving precision, not always lace.
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Paris
Chantilly
Renewing Youth Theme Prompts 65 Year Retirement
An elderly professor resists retirement as the university plans to retire faculty at 65. He urges perseverance and jokes that the years will fade away with time. The scene highlights a lighthearted clash between policy and personal resolve.
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Tl Dye
Baby Arms and Gentle Riddles in a Rawhide Verse
A collage of verse and quips sourced from a late paper page includes a lullaby about a baby with a sky blue gaze and rosy cheeks, interspersed with lighthearted jests about editors, domestic life, and social mores. It also features snippets on courtship, marriages, and small town humor from Kan., Mont., and surrounding regions.
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Board of Parole
Reformatory
Board of Control
State Conference of Charities and Corrections
Boards of Control and Parole
George Mogridge
Glenwood Institution
Iowa Horticultural Society
Friends
Pratt
Adair-Madison
Democratic Party
Brennan
North American Accident Company of
Chicago
Carroll
Gremaén’s Association
Mme. Steinheil
Adolphe Steinheil
Mme. Japy
Tetrazzini’s
Onecess Ae
Sweetheart
Anthony
Eve
Garden of Eden
Ww & An
Marie
Englewood
Belgrade
Mont
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