Iowa firms win most state contract awards in Des Moines
Iowa contractors secured the bulk of supplies for state institutions, with a Chicago firm only winning plumbers and engineers for one institution. The report also notes widespread weather damage near Iowa City and Clayton County, several local deaths, and community notes including weddings, a major road project at Ames, and a longtime Osceola Y M C A secretary resigning to take a Bridgeport post.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Board of Control
Mount Pleasant Hospital
Chicago
Iowa City
Clayton County
Ames College
Helen Stevens
Springville
Hay Wowler
Muscatine
J. Dawson
Marshalltown
Primghar
Alex Alexander
Arthur Brigham
Marion
Fort
Dodge
Joe G. Oppenheimer
Golden Eagle
Oskaloosa
aAwenstana Synod
Swedish Lutheran Church
Stanton
Western Union
Newton
Clarton Hurley
Hurley
William Sullivan
Laton Colton
Perry
Colton
Harvey Tubbs
Charles City
Tubbs
Munterville
Ottumwa
John Nelson
Nelson
Mose” Arquette
Iowa Central
Mason City
Ackley
Faulkner
Mase
Towa
Horton
Will S. Lacey
Association
Bridgeport
Conn
Lacey
West
Washington Dispatch
National Banks of
China
Edwin H. Conger
Manchester
Waukon
Nathan G. Roosa
Border Plains
Lincoln
Roosevelt
Dubuque
Sioux City
Hall of Archives Proposed to Protect Iowa’s Old Records
Des Moines curator Charles Aldrich urges next legislature to establish a hall of archives in the historical building to preserve the state's most valuable documents. He notes the lack of space at the capitol and the poor handling of papers, with scarce territorial governor records and dusty vaults hindering access.
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Des Moines
Charles Aldrich
State House
Washington
Congress
Capitol
Mr. Aldrich
Great Western Planing Extension Promised Route
State capitol reports Great Western plans an extension west from Clarion through Humboldt Pocahontas and Storm Lake then south of Cherokee to LeMars along the Floyd river to Sioux City crossing the Sioux river at Akron and continuing west into South Dakota. The proposed course traverses fertile level country.
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State Capitol
The
Great Western
Clarion
Humboldt
Pocahontas
Storm Lake
Cherokee
LeMars
Floyd River
Sioux City
Sioux River
Akron
South Dakota
Brakeman May Get Fortune in Drake Inheritance
Council Bluffs man F. S. Drake, descendant of Sir Francis Drake, stands to inherit about $40,000 from the English estate. After two centuries under a peculiar British law, the property now heads to heirs, mostly in America, with Drake a former printer and railroad brakeman awaiting the division.
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Council Bluffs
Sir Francis Drake
F. S. Drake
England
Sir Francis
America
Board bars substitutes for butter in state schools
The board of control refused to allow superintendents of state institutions to buy butterine or substitutes. Superintendent Horton of the Soldiers' Home at Marshalltown had proposed annexing a supply of buttering to tide over a local blockade, but the board promptly dissented.
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Board of Control
Horton
Soldiers
Marshalltown
Telephone Company to Separate at Mills Fremont Line
YABOR stockholders met to divide the company property along the Mills Fremont county line and form two county based organizations. On counsel advice they will transfer stock rather than dissolve and plan a July 23 meeting to finalize the action.
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YABOR
City Telephone Company
Mills-Fremont
Docket Prepared for September Supreme Court Term
The docket for the September term, covering cases filed up to March 1, is prepared by the clerk and will be printed and ready for distribution in a few days.
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Supreme Court
Farm Land Brings High Prices In Grun dy Center Area
Grundy Center farmland commands good prices. Jurke Hansen with a 12 acre parcel in Colfax township near Holland recently refused 135 dollars per acre.
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Grundy Center
Jurke Hansen
Colfax Township
Holland
Not an Up-to-Date Fairy Tale Wedding Fashion
A satirical collection of snippets notes marriage and divorce, with a modern society quip on fairy tale endings and a humorous exchange about language and immigration. The piece riffs on social norms, marriage economics, and a tramp's quip about language skills in a humorous tone.
Misunderstood Her Debates Marriage for Property
A dialogue from the Detroit Tribune features a woman insisting a suitor should marry for more than wealth while he touts his store and four properties plus a claim of $400 in the bank. The exchange centers on motives in wedlock and financial leverage in a bygone era.
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Hiram
Detroit Tribune
Humorous Conservatory Visit and Pie Insults
In a playful scene a visitor is shown through a conservatory and jokes about a royal palm of India. The exchange shifts to a boastful remark about a pumpkin pie, deemed insulting by the landlady who recalls a critic’s remark about adding paint to the filling.
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India
As Long as That. A Comic Exchange About Marriage
A light dialogue finds Robby and a chorus debating marriage as the source of comfort happiness and companionship. Robby reveals he has been married nearly two weeks while doctors hold a consultation and cannot find any change, prompting a chorus remark that they might as well give him up.
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Robby
Cheerful Prospect Market Caption
A cheerful prospect notes automobiles becoming cheaper and sewing machines improving. The dialogue adds a light remark linking cheaper goods to better funerals, reflecting a playful take on everyday improvements and affordability.
Science in the Jungle and Telegraph Tactics
Sergt Buohl describes how Wigwagging and heliograph signals guided American troops during Panama landings. Telegraph lines, searchlights, and mounted signals kept units coordinated as they pushed through dense jungle. A lost exploring party later reestablished contact with a heliograph message reporting all well.
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Panama
Sergt. Buohl
Marine Recruiting Station
Philadelphia Ledger
Golon
Patchwork Hospitality and the Sofa Patch of Mr Page
A Virginian recounts how Thomas Nelson Page's father kept up Southern hospitality after the Civil War. To impress guests, the Page family refurbished furniture, especially a worn sofa. When the host stepped away to tend to his horse, he admitted he could no longer act as a patch for that sofa.
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Thomas Nelson Page
New York Times
Sunlit Gallop and Fateful Firing Squad Tale
A poem fragment by Charles Mulford Robinson contrasts carefree horseplay with a reflective ride as clouds dance and meadows beckon Then a separate San Francisco Chronicle excerpt recounts Maj Barchard recalling a firing squad in South Africa The ten men executed a Boer officer who faked parole and wore British uniform Each man faced fatal or serious grief since that dawn, with a soldier showing a splinted arm from a streetcar wreck.
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Eruss
Charles Mulford Robinson
South Africa
Maj
Barchard
Secret legacy shocks Kansas laborer wife’s hidden gift
The wife of a Kansas laborer left him a legacy of 44000 dollars he did not know she had when she died. The tale underscores the old saying that a woman can keep a secret.
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Kansas
Dr Miles New Heart Cure Promises Cure for Many
The ad lists seven heart disease features and claims thousands cured by Dr Miles New Heart Cure. It cites symptoms like shortness of breath, chest pain, palpitations, and dropsy, with testimonials from S. D. Young and others. Free trial package offered and a form to request diagnosis.
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Miles
S. D. Young
J. D
North E St. Nutehen
Dr. Miles
DM. Miles Medical Co
Ratorles
Elkhart
Ind
English bench wisdom on motors and liability
The City of London court heard a man whose car damaged a bridge parapet at Hendon and toppled three into the water. Judge Lumley Smith quipped that he once saw motor cars as nuisances but now weighs blame by behavior on foot or wheel.
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Lumley Smith
City of London
Hendon
Swamp Root Kidney Remedy Ad Promises Relief
Advertisement claiming thousands suffer kidney trouble and may not know it. Promotes Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a cure for kidney, bladder, and rheumatic issues with a free sample and book offer. Mentions 50c and 1 sizes and mail offer from Binghamton New York.
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Swamp Root. Co
Binghamton, N. Y
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Great Western Planing Extension
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Smith
Science
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Foley
Atttasville
N.C
Mt. Devers
Rayon Rock
W. Va
B.D. Mudill
Clarksburg
Tent
Sears
Martin Rudy
Lancarte
Bedford
H.b.rhoads&co
Norman J. Bates
Cetain
U.S
Foley Shoney
Pires
Parise Medicine Co
St. Louis
Mor Foleyshoney
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Foley’s
Foley & Company
Marcus A. Griffith
Bedford Free Press
Conway
Illinois
Mapte City
NYAE
C. Alrowree
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