Highway Bill Up Thursday in Des Moines Iowa
In Des Moines the Iowa legislature sets Thursday afternoon as the moment to act on the bill to repeal the state highway commission. Insurgents claim they hold sixty votes to pass, threatening to deadlock until the measure becomes law. They argue the current system wastes funds and demand a state engineer and proper construction standards.
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Des Moines
Iowa
State Highway Commission
Johnston
Lucas
Senate
Highway Commission
Real Estate Transfers March 8 1915 Overview
Real estate transfers listing multiple deeds dated March 8 1915. Oscar Hunt and wife to John Baler pears lot, Orin A. Chase to J C Voorhees, A J Wright to P L Arra Smith, Grace E Coomes to John F Engle, Dr Love to John F Engle, Flora A Misner to Charles W Harrin, E B Marquis to Sarah A Coker, H E Marquis to Sarah A Coker, Harry C Faulimer to O A Chase, James Callanan to Helena Dunn, EB Hyde to Finis B Perry, Whitney add Anita, E Wheeler to B M Kelloge. Totals shown various amounts up to $14,000 with scattered parcels and subdivisions listed in Wiota and Highland Place SD areas.
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Oscar Hunt
John Baler Pears
Orin A. Chase
J. C. Voorhees
A. J. Wright
P. L. Arrasmith
Grace E. Coomes
John F.engle
Wijota
DR. Love
John F. Engle
Wiota
Flora A. Misner
Charles W.harrin
E. B. Marquis
Sarah A. Coker
Highland Flace
H. E.marquis
Highland Place
O. A Chase
Jamés
Callanan
Helena
Dunn
Creek
Lyiia EB. Hyde
Finis B. Perry
Whitney
Dubuque Board Fight Triggers Legislature Bill
Representative Horodem of Dubuque today introduced a bill designed to settle a long running dispute over the city’s seven member board of supervisors. The electorate previously elected seven supervisors and then voted to reduce the board, causing ongoing dissension over who should retire. The proposed bill would reconstitute the board with members whose terms would expire next under their election.
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Des “Moines
Horedem
Dubuque
Milxup
Horchém
Much Wheat On Farms Reported In Monthly Crop Stats
Washington March. Owing to high prices and exports, the agriculture department reports remaining on farms March 1 1915 include wheat about 152 903 000 bushels or 17.2 percent of the 1914 crop versus 151 809 000 bushels or 19.9 percent of the 1913 crop in 1914. Corn remaining about 91 089 400 bushels or 34.1 percent of the 1914 crop vs 86 649 000 bushels or 85.4 percent of the 1913 crop in 1914. About 69.7 percent of the 1914 wheat crop will be shipped from counties where grown, against 53.9 percent of the 1913 crop.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
German Reservists Plead Guilty in Passport Conspiracy Trial
New York March 9 Carl Ruroude a German American and four German reservists faced federal indictments for conspiring to obtain false American passports. They withdrew pleas of not guilty and pled guilty. Ruroude sentenced to three years in Atlanta federal penitentiary others fined 200 dollars. A sixth man Hans Adam von Wendel fled and was captured in Scotland with extradition negotiations under way. The court noted risk to national safety if the scheme had succeeded.
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New York
Carl Ruroude
United States
Auroude
Atlanta
Arthur Wilhelm
William Sacheser
Walter Muller
August Meyers
Herman Wegener
Hans Adam von Wendel
Scotland
Marshall
Burovde
Germany
Drug Fiend Kills Himself in Logansport
In Logansport Indiana on March 9 Frank Sullivan a morphine addict died by suicide after being refused drugs at multiple stores. He spoke to his father in law just before firing a pistol. The case follows a fatal pattern of drug deprivation turns.
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Logansport
Ind
Frank Sullivan
C. B. Kearns
Sullivan
Wreck Causes and Censorship Battles Across the World
A state report cites poor ties and heavy spillage as factors in a Denver to Grand River Valley derailment near Fountain Colorado on February 22 killing two enginemen and injuring others. Separately London debates censorship of American mails with opposition in the House of Commons led by Reginald McKenna. In Dallas a dentist, G N Duncan, dies after a snowbank fall along the Northwestern road two miles west of the city, his skull crushed and neck broken.
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Denver
Fountain
Colo
State Public Utilities Commission
London
House' of ‘Commons
Home Secretary
Reginald McKenna
Henry “Craik
New, York
Pamiphlete
Dallas
G. Ni. Duncan
Wyoming Pioneer Kuyken Dies at Ninety End of Era
Denver dispatch reports W. La Kuyken, aged eighty, a Wyoming pioneer and former grand sire of the United Odd Fellows, died at his Denver home. The obituary notes his longtime residence in Wyoming and his prominent role in local fraternal circles.
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Wyoming
Denver
W. la
Kuykenfall
Odd
United States
Bal Bap Wemien
Kuyke
Cheyenne
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Deering
Hedges Bros. the Cleaners
Simmons
Harry L. Purcell Jeweler
Solons
Grason
Taylor
Kimball
Ring
State University
Nordyke
Doran
Heald
Parole Board
Frailey
Whitmore
Towa
Samaritan Army
Yankton
S. C
Richard Smith
Smith
News-Telegraph
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