09 Mar 1902
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Newspaper
Des Moines Daily Leader
Location
Des Moines, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1902
Page
1
Standard Fashions highlights the April Designer splendiferous issue with ideas for faster gowns. The piece notes favorites are the Standard patterns and announces April supplies ready. A fashion sheet showcases pretty, new styles at the pattern counter for the asking.
A readerable fragment describes a Monday sale featuring mercerized ginghams, silk-spot Madras fabrics, and striped or polka dot shirtwaist styles. The ad touts silkinished textiles and alterations at reduced prices as a special event for fashionable ladies.
The Iowa Senate adopted a civil service bill and backed the Nelson Corliss proposal to empower the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate railroads pending court review. Many minor measures passed including dam-related actions and river front improvements for Cedar Rapids Ottumwa and Sioux City. Some bills were indefinitely postponed or amended, with committee reports favoring reform and administration bills.
The House completed routine business including transferring traveling libraries to the Iowa Library Commission, extending library work, and authorizing a 5 000 annual joint appropriation. Bills on transcripts in condemnation proceedings, plates insurance, riverfront improvements, and public document filings moved forward. A murder case delay and several minor measures were noted amid adjournment to Monday morning.
Union sessions recap shows движения toward reform as United Mine Workers prepare for a Tuesday joint session with operators. President Mitchell is due in the city within two days to participate in deliberations. Delegates-at-large Reese White and John P. White are named, local unions to vote on headquarters and dues rules.
John Henderson of Minneapolis was found dead with a bullet wound at the Helping Hand Institute in Kansas City Missouri. Police say he committed suicide after reporting a $900 robbery by two Negro women. Two black servants were arrested and a hotel trunk contained letters to Sorgen Hanson of Otter Tail County Minnesota.
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