Legislative actions enacted by the Thirty-fifth assembly
A summary of laws signed by the governor includes direct election of U S senators, Carroll election legalization, debts rule for spouses, three park commissioners, extending corporate limits by notices, civilian as officer at Old Soldiers home, park tax levy, library land taxation, sheriff fees abolished for prisoner feeding, vacancy filling by city councils, real lease and mortgage satisfaction, special charter city taxes for city halls, flood protection ordinances in Des Moines, Otter Island donation to Burlington, and Jewell Junction election legalization.
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General Assembly
Congress
United States
Carroll
Old Soldiers
Marshalltown
Des Moines
Otter Island
Burlington
Mississippi River
Jewell Junction
New Parcel Post Feature Lets Collect on Delivery
On July 1 next, the parcel post adds collect on delivery with a 10 cent fee in parcel post stamps. An order signed by Postmaster General Hitchcock last Thursday authorizes sending parcels nationwide with COD up to 100 dollars and COD amount remitted by the post office. Parcels must show amount due to addressee and may include a special delivery stamp for same as letter delivery.
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Parcel Post
Hitchcock
Post Office Department
Auto Passes Over Girl in Marshalltown Incident
May Watters, 16, was run down by an auto patrol in Marshalltown. Two wheels passed over her body, rolling her beneath the machine, yet she escaped with only bruises and cuts.
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May Watters
Miss Watters
Marshalltown
Children in Des Moines Home Rescue After Neglect
Five children aged two to twelve were removed from a bare riverbank shanty between McGregor and Clayton by Miss Ingersoll of the Home Finders Society. They were barefoot and ragged, living on raw flour and cast off potatoes while the father is described as a "no account" and the mother earned by chopping wood. The group was taken to the Children's Home in Des Moines.
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McGregor
Des Moines
Miss Ingersoll
Home Finders’ Society
Clayton
Engineer Dies in Cab North of Fairfax
A Chicago Northwestern engineer, age 54, died while driving an extra freight two miles west of Fairfax. He became ill at Beverly with abdominal cramps, stopped for medicine, then slid from his seat and died before the fireman could help. He lived in Clinton and left a family.
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North
Fairfax
West
Beverly
Tie
Clinton
Supervisors under scrutiny after grand jury order
The grand jury ordered hiring of an expert accountant to audit Kossuth county board records. Officials state the action aimed to address distrust that the county accountant would avoid the board’s records. An expert has worked on the county books for nearly two months.
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Grand Jury
Board of Supervisors
Kossuth
Champion Cook Dominates New Hampton Domestic Science Contest
Miss Mame Tiernan tops 100 women in domestic science class at the New Hampton short course. She wins first prize in white bread graham bread angel food cake sugar cookies and two crust pie and receives trophies including a Perfection heater a trunk silver a pail of lard and a casserole.
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Mame Tiernan
New Hampton
Miss Tiernan
Brooklyn Call Reaches Pastor Larsen
Rev. Lauritz Larsen, pastor of the First Lutheran church for almost five years, has received a call from Zion Lutheran church in Brooklyn New York a large flourishing congregation in a fine residential district. He has not decided whether to accept.
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Cresco Plain Dealer
Lauritz Larsen
First Lutheran Church
Zion Lutheran Church of
Brooklyn
N. Y
Larson
Benson to play with Columbus club this season
Elmer Benson, famed in town baseball lore as one of the state’s best, will play this year with the Columbus club of the American Association. He left Tuesday for Knoxville, Tennessee, to begin training for the season.
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Elmer Benson
Columbus Club
American Association
Knoxville
Tenn
Wealth Recovered From Estate Of Loner Smedsrud
Ed Lynne administrator of Ole Smedsrud estate found four banks hold cash totaling 4000 along with additional cash and 80 acres of land at the mouth of the Canoe. Smedsrud, a lifelong woodcutter who lived frugally, often vanished to live alone on the farm, fishing and growing vegetables.
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Lynne
Ole Smedsrud
Smedsrud
Murder Rumors Surround Fatal Nashua Runaway
Rumors of foul play surround a Nashua fatal runaway that killed Miss Ruth Miller and injured her sister who never fully recovered. It was learned the girls' father phoned from Nashua claiming he would deposit $400 if they brought it home, a claim that spread via a rural line with many listeners.
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Nashua
Ruth Miller
Miller
Jessie
Some Lamb Raising Sees Ewes Produce Triplets in One Drove
Sardus Sutton reports eight ewes yielding 19 lambs with one loss. Three ewes each produced triplets, totaling nine lambs from the five remaining ewes. The surviving lambs are healthy and ready for their tea.
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Cresco Plain Dealer
Sardus Sutton
Sardus
Burglary at Maynard Targeted Masters Jewelry Store
Thieves burglarized the Ches L ER Masters jewelry and drug store in Maynard, taking about 350 dollars in jewelry and safety razors. The crime was found on Tuesday morning, Sheriff Clark alerted, bloodhounds from Waterloo tracked the trail for nearly fourteen miles. Dean's Regulars advertised.
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Ches. L, ER
Maynard
Clark
Waterloo
Tremendous 75000 Pound Fishermen Haul Below Waukon
A large catch near Paint Creek below Waukon Junction last week yielded an estimated 75,000 pounds of fish. Fred Worth’s son and partner Larson netted the haul, selling on the spot for about $6000 as crews work through ice to ship from Prairie du Chien. It is believed to be the largest single haul on the upper Mississippi.
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Waukon Junction
Fred Worth
Larson
Paint Creek
Prairie du Chien
Mississippi
Veteran Frozen to Death near Marshalltown on M&StL Tracks
The body of 76 year old Joseph Ellison was found on the Minneapolis and St. Louis tracks three miles from Marshalltown last Friday morning. He had been an inmate of the Iowa Soldiers Home and wandered away while temporarily insane. Ellison enlisted in the Minnesota Infantry in 1863 at Fort Snelling. He later moved to Fredericksburg Town.
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Joseph Ellison
Minneapolis & St. Louis
Marshalltown
Ellison
Soldiers’ Home
Iowa Soldiers Home
Minnesota Infantry
Fort Snelling
Fredericksburg
Money Hidden Across House Found After Death
A Caledonia Journal note reports an elderly man near Spring Grove left cash hidden throughout his house. So far investigators have recovered about $500 in gold from an iron kettle and another $500 in a wallet inside a coat pocket, with smaller sums tucked here and there.
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Caledonia Journal
Spring Grove
Free Beer in Ossian Sparks Municipal Feud
A fragment describes residents able to obtain beer freely by challenging Mayer Schmitz or damaging property at the Ossian Bee. The city marshal, nicknamed Beer, is invoked as the enforcement figure amid a clash over alcohol control.
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Ossian
Mayer Schmitz
Brieck
Deafness Cure Offered by Constitutional Remedies
An article explains deafness stems from inflammation of the Eustachian tube mucous lining and can only be remedied constitutionally. Nine of ten cases arise from catarrhal conditions, with a promise of a free sample of a remedy from F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio.
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F.J Cheney, & CO
Toledo
Obie
Druggists
Tic
All's Family Pil
Senator Kenyon Attacks Free Seed Distribution
Senator Kenyon charged the congressional free seed distribution as a political farce costing the government a million dollars over four years. He cited 48 million packages shipped, read farmers’ protests, and proposed amendments to limit distribution to rare seeds and seeds for dry areas.
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Kenyon
Congressional
Congress
Senate
Spring Blue Serge Suits From Clothcraft at $15
Among Our Suits for Spring we offer blue serge suits made for us by Clothcraft priced at $15. We compare favorably to other makes at $20 or $22, and our price remains $15 at BEAR'S.
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Columbus
Decorah
Dean’s
Vic
Take li
Ingvoldstad & CO
Pittsburgh
Gary Pousultry
Pittsburgh Steel Co
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Secon da Tener
Powers
Chicago
J. M. Welch
Mgr
Thos. W. Ross
Winchell Smith
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