Foster of Cedar Sponsors Urgent Adjournment Move
Rep La Mar Foster of Cedar County gave notice that he planned to call up a resolution setting March 2 as the date of final adjournment of the session. The debate touched on efficiency and public patience with the legislature, with supporters urged to proceed and end the session soon.
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Cedar County
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Speidel
Washington
J H Boyce Fayette's Oldest Merchant Dies at 83
J H Boyce, Fayette's oldest merchant, dies at age 83 after a long career in business. He was the father of Mrs. Moris and left a son, Robert, and other relatives. Funeral services are scheduled for Saturday afternoon.
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Fayette
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Holehood
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Reid
La Follettes to Attend Iowa U Play Premiere
Former Wisconsin Governor Philip La Follette and other La Follette family members will attend the University of Iowa premiere of a midwestern comedy being rehearsed by university actors. The production honors the La Follette lineage of senators and features scenes from the play adapted by a New York publisher.
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Iowa City
Philip la Foulette
Wisconsin
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University of Iowa
Mite @veeder
Universad Feeas
Ne Bhysoane
United Saes
Robert M la Folsoe
Eral
Estes Tomas
de Satsce
New York
Oeen
U S Agents Check Up On Records of Bench Candidates
DOJ investigators in town review records for judges in the Eighth Circuit with Judge John W. Anderson noting the inquiry. President Roosevelt favors a Towns candidate if unified support emerges among local Democrats and party figures discuss several named contenders.
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Washington
Tual
Raepresenati
Jasonsen
Howe
Murae
Dave
Nair
Pre
Crete
FE Ole Pee
Soldiers Home in Marshalltown Sees $38402 Operating Cost Cut
Iowa Auditor reports the Marshalltown Soldiers Home saved 383,?02 dollars in the year ending June 30 1933 as inmate numbers rose from 438 to 461. Operating costs fell from 251443 to 213041 with a 20000 reduction in salaries. Virtually all support comes from the state treasury.
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Des Moines
Iowa Soldiers Home
Marshalltown
CW_3
Liquor Control Bill Headed to Conference
Iowa house votes 93 to 3 against accepting senate amendments to the liquor control bill. Return to senate, which will likely stand by its amendments, then a conference committee will be formed to resolve differences and report back to both chambers.
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Senate
Dubuque Leads In Total Home Loans
Dubuque County tops the Iowa northeastern HOLC district in home loans. Through Feb. 19, the district reports 123 loans totaling 304 419.26 for Dubuque, with Black Hawk and Linn counties following in loan counts and totals.
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Chickasaw
Clayton
Delaware
Dubuque Fayette
Floyd Grundy
Howard Jackson Jones
Linn
Judge Burnham Celebrates Birthday in Vinton
Judge George Washington Burnham, dean of Benton county lawyers, marked his eighty fourth birthday with a family dinner in Vinton and resumed duties at the courthouse Friday. He has practiced law here since 1875 except for twelve years as district judge from 1896 to 1908. Burnham was born in 1850 near Columbus Ohio and came to Iowa in 1857. His son Thuel Burnham, a celebrated pianist, lives in New York. Mrs Burnham died last year.
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Fayette
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Ames
Ohio University
London Ohio
Justice of the Peace
Thuel Burnham
New York
Coal chute fire destroys Des Moines coal chute
A Friday fire in Des Moines destroyed the Chicago Great Western railroad coal chute at SW Thirteenth Street. Assistant superintendent C. J. Foster estimated the loss at 15000 dollars. About eighty tons of coal were in the chute bins when the blaze started, believed due to defective wiring.
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Chicago, Great Western Railroad
Thirteenth Street
C. J Foster
Road
Foster
OWA COLD WAVE TO CONTINUE SATURDAY
The weather bureau forecast a continued cold spell in Iowa with temperatures near zero Friday night and subzero readings in the northeast. Readings ranged from 2 below at Charles City to 14 in Keokuk, with Council Bluffs at 30 and light snow reported in Keokuk and Council Bluffs.
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Keokuk
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Counceil Bluits
Appeals To Private Employers To Hire Ex CWA Men
Des Moines reports Hans Pfund state re employment director calls on private employers to absorb about 7500 Towans displaced from CWA payrolls as the program trims workers nationwide. He foresees a spring pickup in industry construction building repairs farming and urges employers to provide local jobs. He says private industry can help ease the transition by offering work to unemployed in their communities.
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Cedar Rapids Students Cast In Iowa U Plays
Three Cedar Rapids and four Iowa City students join freshman speech casts for two University of Iowa theater productions next week. Cedar Rapids trio Donald Wilson Howard Madera and Norman MacCormac appear in Wings Over Europe Monday evening. Girls in Uniform on March 1 features Emily Corbin West Branch Margaret Maplethorpe Toledo Helen Rohrbacher Virginia Eichler Elaine Murray and Mildred Redman Iowa City.
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Gazette
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Cedar Rapids
University of Iowa
University Theater
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Norman MacCormac
Europe
Knutson Expected to Enter G O P Governor Candidacy
Clarence Knutson former mayor and Town Association for tax justice president is seen as a likely candidate for the Republican nomination for governor in the June primary. He backs a gross income tax as the state’s sole revenue source and may announce later today. Knutson, a longtime general assembly figure and sponsor of the gross income tax, was a major player in the good roads movement.
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General Assembly
Democratic Rally Set for Oelwein on March 3
A northeast Iowa Democratic rally is planned in Oelwein March 3 with a governor's dinner at 6 30 p m at the Mealey hotel led by O P Larson and Mrs J A Dahl. Prominent Democrats including Gov Herring Matt L Cooney and State Chairman E J Fueling are expected to attend.
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Mealey Hotel
O. P. Larson
J. A. Dahl
Herring
Matt L. Cooney
Dusbuque
E. J. Fueling
New Hampton
Sioux City Business Sees Five Decade Growth
A scrambled text describes rapid gains in Sioux City businesses with a claim of 50 percent growth. Despite garbled OCR, the piece hints at expanding commerce and financial improvement in the local economy.
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Sioux City
Rea Viekes
S. A. Swisher Funeral Services Held Friday
Srey A Sw tet TR former cent the Iowa State H me were bee at the MMe in ITowa City Burial was ine Oak. The widow and three children survive. One of the organizers of the Railway at the Iowa City street railway. The family includes Royal, John C Swisher, Des Moines, and Stephen A Swisher Jr.
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Iowa City
VE Royal
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Stephen A. Swisher, Jr. de Moires
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