Whipple Bill Creates A Single Board Of Education In Iowa
In Des Moines the Whipple measure to unify state education under a nine member board passed the senate with only nine opposing votes. The plan consolidates the regents, agricultural and normal school boards, trims members from 32 to 12, and adds a three member finance committee. Prohibition was endorsed by the House with Meredith’s amendment to ban alcohol. The session also addressed road districts, lard labeling, soldiers home access, King road drag use, and library funding, while rural school legislation was killed.
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Won't Call Special Election in Seventh District
Governor Carroll will not order a special election to fill the vacancy caused by W D Jamieson resigning to become a congressman. Attorney General Byers says the statute is not mandatory. There is overwhelming opinion against calling an election. If held, the winner would serve only ten days or two weeks before adjournment. Estimated cost around $2000.
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Old Enemies Reunite On St Patrick's Day Tale
A Cleveland Leader item recounts a two year cycle starting on St Patrick's Day 1907 when an Irishman and a German, both drunk, clashed. After a year of quarrels they met again next year and chose forgiveness, ending with a refrain about mirth and auld times. No moral beyond oddities of celebration.
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St. Patrick’s Day
Herman
Begorra
Mike
Vonting
Cleveland
The true shamrock and the elusive mayflower
The true shamrock as named by an Irish man refers to the plant born near his homeland. Botanists struggle to identify it just as they stumble over the mayflower of New England, a name applied to trailing arbutus, saxifrage, hepatica, and other plants. Though trailing arbutus is the mayflower in New England literature, saxifrage is the more popular association.
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George Washington
St. Patrick
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Patrick
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Europe
Rome
Darrow
Arragh
New England
Four Sided Iron Hand Bell Linked to Saint Patrick
A four sided iron hand bell preserved in Dublin’s national museum is linked to Saint Patrick. It may have been used at Armagh a century after his death, suggesting limited surviving memorials as time passes.
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National Museum
Dublin
Armagh
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