Iowa House votes to consolidate state police agencies
The Iowa House approved 56 to 50 a plan to merge the highway patrol with other police and inspection bureaus under a public safety commissioner. The measure aims to save about 500000 dollars yearly and leaves the 53-man patrol intact under new supervision. A bill setting up the safety department and its leadership was scheduled for a Monday House vote.
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Iowa
House
DES Moines
Iowa Highway Patrol
Highway Patrol
State Fish and Game Department
Commissioner of Public Safety
Department of Public Safety
Dean W. Peisen
Eldora
Peisen
The Good Influence Exhibition Spotlight for Grant Wood
Grant Wood’s water color The Good Influence is featured at the Chicago Art Institute Sixteenth International Show of water colors, attracting critics as a companion to American Gothic. Adeline Lobdell Pynchon praises Wood’s imaginative transposition and hints at his influence on American art.
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Grant Wood
Chicago Art Institute
Art Institute
Chicago Journal of Commerce
Adeline Lobdell Pynchon
Anamosa
Cedar Rapids
America
Sinclair Lewis
Fayette county obituary and town briefs from Eastern Iowa
Mrs. Mary Jane Lockwood 79 dies at Fayette home after coming to Fayette county in 1864. Funeral held at Fayette Methodist church. Also notes on subdistrict music contest in Lost Nation and other local items in To- ledo, Garrison, Aurora, Anamosa, Clutier, and Ryan with deaths, marriages, school events, and bond sales.
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Fayette
Mary Jane Lockwood
Fayette County
H. “Lockwood
Fairbank
Lockwood
Eastern Star
Congregational Church
John H. Green
Shelton
Edward Keily
Riceton
Tipton
David Dake Ruth Eleanor Myatt
Phyllis Story
Lila Machande
Lowell Sievers
Lawrence Ales
Jeanette Stoner
Anne Frazier
Carl Wazac
Alice Cressey
David Dahe
Robert Rutebeck
Washington
Toddville
Barbara Ann Heefner
Darwin Heefner
Emily Waterbury
Jack Bowers
Katheryn Waterbury
Helen Andrews
Charles Bowers
George Scott
Des Moines
Garrison
John Neve
England
Artman
Garrison Cemetery
Edward Neve
Kent County
Ann Bryant
Big Grove Township
Neve
Lilly McNeal
Vinton
Bessie Blank
Milford Neve
Wallie Neve
Aurora
Ralph Payne
Velma Herst
Golden Eagle
Rockland
Texas
Payne
Cliff Payne
Aurora High School
Weaver Construction Company
Ill
Toledo
Christina Fedderson
Gladbrook
Elma Feddersen
Kate Stoner
Therese McTurk
Anamosa
Daniel Otoole
William S. Kuhner
United Brethren Church
J. H. Yaggy
Woodlawn
Mr. Kuhner
Sebastian
Sarah Kuhner
Tama County
Minerva McCraith
Cedar Rapids
Howard Rogers
Wilderado
Ryan
Stanley Smith
Christina Smith
Scotland
Guy Smith
T M_ Haight
Winthrop
Francis H Smith
Fort Scott
Kan
Insurance tax guesses match Iowa job relief costs
Des Moines reports show 4 047 employers filed by March 21 with 60 more by Monday raising 2 289 292 87 in contributions. Officials estimate 4 100 employers would pay about 2 750 000 for 1936. a further one tenth of one percent goes to the federal government. A third commissioner remains pending as the senate debates appointees.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Garritt E. Rocloff
Rocloff
Claude M Stanley
Corning
Peter J. Kies
Dubuque
Commission
Stanley
Kies
State Senate
Senate
Kraschel
McGregor Voters Meet March 29 With One New Candidate
McGregor officials seek reelection with no opposition. L. P. Bickel replaces late F. S. Richards as treasurer. City officers include Mayor J. F. Walter. councilmen George Pilkington John Heilman Ben Tayek Richard O'Brien and Harry Gerndt. Bond issue of 7000 for a municipal pool faces voter decision aided by a 17000 federal grant.
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Gadette
Mcgregor
L. P. Bickel
F. S. Richards
J. F. Walter
George Pilkington
John Heilman
Ben Tayek
Richard O'Brien
Harry Gerndt
Leroy P. Bickel
Fred Bergman
Iowa City News Briefs Highlights Local Events
Funeral services were held for Virginia H. Sweeney 82 in Iowa City. Town City Holy Week services opened with Dr Ilion T Jones speaking at Englert theater. A new runway project at the Iowa City airport is set for April 8 with WPA grant support. Wilton Junction confirms five at Zion Lutheran church and features a pageant The Way of Life with Rosetta and Emily Wacker singing.
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Iowa City
Virginia H. Sweeney
Daughters
The
State University of Iowa Society
Sweeney
Town City
Englert Theater
Ilion T. Jones
First
Wilton Junction
Zion Lutheran Church
Anita Wacker
Marjorie Blocker
Delores
Dorothy Ketelsen
Wilbert Petersen
Walther League
Rosetta
Emily Wacker
P. W. Happel
Asthma relief ad touts NACOR capsules for miners
A letter from a wife credits NACOR with ending her 58 year old miner husband's asthma paroxysms allowing him to sleep and work. The ad promotes NACOR KAPS from NACOR Medicine Co. Indianapolis as a remedy amid increasing asthma relief letters.
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Realife
Nacor Medicine Co
Ind
Anapols
Kepler Settles Damages In Fatal 1936 Crash
Homer Kepler agreed to four settlements totaling 4 3600 with the estates of Mildred Kosnar and Milo Konicek and guardians of Roger Hober and June Hushak after the 1936 Tama county line crash north of Belle Plaine. A coroner had blamed Kepler. he was acquitted of manslaughter in January. Upon receipt of the sums, Kepler will be released from all liability.
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Toledo
Homer Kepler
Elberan
Roger Hober
June Hushak
Mildred Kosnar
Milo Konicek
Clutter
Tama-Benton County
Belle Plaine
Mildred Kos~nar
Kepler
Konicek
Harry A. Kosnar
J. C. Konicek
Fred L. Hober
Fred J. Hushak
Tama County District Court
B. O Tankersley
Iowa State graduates land jobs after winter commencement
More than 67 percent of Iowa State college winter quarter graduates have secured positions. Engineering leads with 91 percent employed from 22 graduates, agriculture follows with 48 of 68, industrial science at 10 of 17, and home economics five of ten. Overall placement exceeds prior falls and winters.
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Ames
Iowa State College
Waukon Men Sentenced In Chicken Theft Case
AP reports Judge T H Goheen sentenced Spence Spores 21 and James Spores 27 to one year in county jail after they pled guilty to stealing chickens.
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Waukon
T. H. Goheen
Spence Spores
James Spores
Dorothy Holland 13 Dies After Surgery at Council Bluffs
What Cheer Iowa Dorothy Holland age 13 daughter of Mr and Mrs Ed Holland died Friday night in a hospital at Council Bluffs after an operation for sinus trouble She attended the state school for the deaf as a student for several years She is survived by her parents and two brothers Robert and Edward
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Dorothy Holland
Ed Holland
Council Bluffs
State School For the Deaf
Robert
Edward
Iowa City Printer and Ex-Legislator Dies After Fall
John Springer aged 85 a prominent Iowa City printer and former state legislator died after a fall at the Masonic building Monday. He served twenty years as secretary of the local Masonic chapter and co owned the Iowa State Press from 1882 to 1934. Survived by two sisters Ida Weber and Cressa Hancock with his wife pre deceased. funeral arrangements not yet made.
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Iowa City
John Springer
Springer
Ohio
Iowa State Press
Iowa City Public Schools
University of Iowa
Ida M. Weber
Plankington
S. D
Cressa B. Hancock
Las Vegas
N. M
George F. G Gale, Vinton Pioneer, Is Found Dead
VINTON believed to have died from apoplexy Sunday night while preparing to retire. George F. Gale, 77, longtime Vinton hardware dealer and pioneer resident, was found dead in his apartment at the Vinton hotel Monday. Survived by two sisters and three nieces, with no children. His wife Addin Joyce died four years after their marriage.
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the Gazette
Vinton
George F. Gale
Vinton Hotel
Addin
Joyce
Gale
Florence George
Clara Scribner
Maude Scribner
Lois Gale
Delbert Cox
Polk County Lawyers Oppose Roosevelt Court Plan
In Des Moines AP report Polk County lawyers voted 150 against and 11 for President Roosevelt's proposal to expand the Supreme Court. The vote reflects local opposition to increasing the court size.
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Polk County
Des Moines
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Button Cutters Sit Down At Columbus Jct
Iowa Pearl Button company workers at Muscatine staged a sitdown strike Monday at the Columbus Junction plant demanding higher wages. The factory, with sixty six men employed five days weekly, saw workers bring baskets, pillows and blankets to the building.
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Gazett
Columbus Junction
Iowa Pearl Button Company
Muscatine
Don’t dally with a cold Grove’s Bromo Quinine remedy
An old style advertisement urges quick cold treatment with Grove's Laxative Bromo Quinine. It claims fourfold internal effects opening bowels stopping infection relieving headache and fever and fortifying against future attacks. Sugar coated tablets available at drug stores with immediate two tablets dosing.
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Grove
West Union Bank Pays 50 Per Cent To Stockholders
Fay ette County National Bank closed by 1933 crisis repaid stockholders in four installments. Trustees B D Chandler Fred W Schneider and Frank Camp oversaw the liquidation after H W Hall’s death in 1935. Final payout totals 25 000 to stockholders on original 50 000 investment.
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West Union
Fayette County National Bank
First National Bank of West Union
B. D. Chandler
Fred W. Schneider
Frank Camp
H. W. Hall
Camp
State Debate Finals Qualifiers Named for April Meet
Iowa City officials announced thirty-six high schools qualified for the state championship debate to be held April 1 and 2. teams will debate government ownership of all electric utilities with two speakers per team. Fort Dodge is the sole Class A finalist from last year.
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Iowa City
A. C. Baird
Iowa High School Forensic League
Fort Dodge
Central
Sioux City
Spencer
Ames
Cedar Falls
Clarion
Oelwein
Roosevelt
Cedar Rapids
Boone
Jefferson
Council Bluffs
Dowling
Des Moines
Davenport
Burlington
Newton
Rockwell City
Laurens
Pocahontas
Manchester
High of
High of Cedar: Falls, ‘West ’Union, St.Angela of Carroll
Mapleton
University Hospital Workers Demand Wage Increase
More than 300 University of Iowa hospital staff petitioned the Iowa Legislature for raises up to 50 percent with a minimum 25 percent, citing prior 1931 32 cuts and rising living costs. Nurses report 100 graduate departures since June for higher pay elsewhere as doctors and other staff also leave for better salaries.
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Iowa City
George T. Baker
Iowa State Board of Education
University Hospital
Will J. Hayek
Hayek
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Marathon
Peison Amendment
J. P. Gallagher
Williamsburg
F. S. Lovrien
Humboldt
J. R. Irwin
Keokuk
Lovrein
Nee Lea Ea An
CES
Presbyterian Church
Grand ‘View Cemetery
Town Daily Press Bureau
Asthma News
Miner
Iowa State
George F. G Gale
Columbus Jct
West Union Bank
State Institution
Doherty
Star Jewelry CO
Second St
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L. C. Kaiser
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