Epidemics Hinted Safe for Iowa Cities in 1917
Dr Mark F Boyd Iowa University argues Iowa towns face little typhus danger due to clean dress and habits He aided Fort Madison cleanup and urged Santa Fe railroad to sterilize Mexican bank cars Also reports on tractor race at Ames St Patrick s day celebration and other state notes including bond issuance plans and farm loan bank actions
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Towa
Mark F. Boyd
University of Iowa
Fort Madison
Iowa
Boyd
Santa Fe Railroad Company
Iowa State College
Ames
I. L. Morris
Wallace
J. L. Ahart
Dow City
J. J. Cake
Federal Loan Bank
Omaha
Federal Farm Loan Banks
Iowa Wholesale Egg, Butter and Poultry
Des Moines
Hugh Baird
Lohrville
Charles B. Bowen
Rolfe
P. A. Casey
Atlantic
W. W. Wertz
Grand Junction
M. A. Hagansick
John Bauck
Iowa City
Waterloo
Mary Miley
Creston
Ora B. Ray
United States Monitor
Halsey W. Wakeman
Otho
Wakeman
State University
Carson Brothers
Board of Supervisors
Lyon County
Court House
Penn Building and Investment Asociation
Oskaloosa
Penn College
Grinnell College
Clinton
Mississippi
New Road Bill Retains Powers of Commission Six-Year Term Proposed
Des Moines report on a senate bill by Rep. Cady Chase revises highway governance to keep the current powers, move the commission to Des Moines, and appoint an engineer for six years with the dean of engineering earning 4500 annually. The measure aims to compromise with progressives while preserving the present board and title.
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Cady Chase
Highway Commission
Powara
Johnston DII
Healdton Torpedoed Off Terschelling Killing 21 Crew
The steamship Healdton, a Standard Oil tanker from Philadelphia to Rotterdam with 2,187,711 gallons of refined petroleum valued at about 106,880 dollars, was torpedoed without warning 25 miles north of Terschelling in the North Sea. Twenty crewmen drowned. eight survivors were later landed at Terschelling and damages are reported as an act of war to the United States. The incident, tied to German submarines, is documented by American Consul Mabin in Amsterdam and reported from London.
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Dubuqde
Iowa Telephona Association
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Des Moines
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Belle Plaine
W. H. Fowler
Pella
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Omaha
J. B.T, Johnson
Gowrie
Charlton Commercial Club
Hardin County
Eldora
Iowa Falls
Clinton
St. Louis
Navy Committee
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Admiral Fletcher
North McGregor
Citizens’ Association
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Good Roads
L. W. Stanton
Davenport
Capitol
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State House
Polk County
Marion County
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Tracey
Knoxville
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Williamsburg
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Dyersville
C. Deering
Dea Moines
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Sioux City
C. Bishop
Ames College
Missiasippi
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Red Cross
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War Department
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Benton
Mount Ayr
Ringgold County
H. E. Case
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Wellman
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Erschelling
Ymulden
Holland
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Hague
Philadelphia
Healdton
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey
Chester
Rotterdam
Mabin
State Department
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Tolland
Stotterdam
Tersehelling
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Netherlands
Zuider Zee
Sland
Germany
British Isles
United States
Genmany
New York
Standard
Spain to Arm Her Ships Decree Aims Trade Safety
Madrid reports King Alfonsa will sign a decree to insure the safety of Spanish maritime commerce. The measure follows a foreign practice, with alignment to international steps. In London, Andrew Bonar Law announced the government would again attempt to settle the Irish question on its own responsibility.
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Spain
Madrid
Alfonsa
sLondon
Andrew Bonar Law
Exchequer
House of Commons
California Syrup of Figs Ady Promotes Laxative Use
Mothers recognize California Syrup of Figs as an ideal laxative for children due to its pleasant taste and gentle cleansing action on the stomach liver and bowels. It helps when a child is irritable feverish sour tongue or stomach ache and can prevent sickness by removing foul waste and undigested food. A 60 cent bottle is sold with directions for all ages and even grownups.
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California
Ady
The Cause of Gladys’s Hair Change
The remark ponders Gladys losing her golden hair and asks for the reason. The reply suggests the high cost of dyeing as the likely explanation.
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Gladys
Clear Complexion Ad Promotes Cuticura Ointment
An advertisement urges readers to retire to use Cuticura Ointment for skin cleansing, followed by Cuticura Soap washes, promising pore improvement overnight. Free samples offered by mail with a booklet from Cuticura, Dept. Boston.
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Cuticura
Dept. Boston
Indigo, a Fading Crop and Lost Profits for Deep South
The Demopolis Times recalls indigo as once the money crop of Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia before the cotton gin. A hundred acres would be highly profitable today, as indigo remains essential to scarce high priced dyestuffs. The piece laments soil remains but crops shifted to cotton.
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South
Alabama
Mississippi
Georgia
Demopolis
Ala
King Alfonso Portrayed as Wax Figure by Proxy Painter
Senor Vasquez solved the delay in painting King Alfonso of Spain by proxy. The king appears in uniform as a colonel of infantry, always motionless in Vasquez studio, a wax figure accurately copied in posture, leaving only the face and hands to be painted.
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Spain
Cario
Vasquez
Senor Vasquez
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