Iowa House Approves Prohibition Measure and Miscellany
The Iowa House approved submission of the constitutional prohibition to voters by 100 to 5 with three absent. The measure's amendments head back to the Senate for concurrence. Iowa topics include a Panora normal school bill, the Southeastern Retail Lumbermen's convention in Burlington, and various local developments from Grinnell to Mason City. Multiple briefs note railroad, fire, and public works events across the state, with crop yields and industrial notes adding to the period’s statewide update.
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Iowa House
Senate
J. M. Wilson
House
Towa State Pair Association
Iowa
Easay
Foster
Guthrie Center
Panora
State of Iowa
Buch & Schools
Southeastern
Rock Island
Cerro Gordo County
Board of Supervisors
Cedar Lake
Lowa
Civil Service Commission
Green
Annapolis Naval Academy
Nixon
The
University
Decatur County
Ontario
Story County
Algona
Creston
Viva
Morrison
T. J. Johnson
Webster City
Union Chicago & Northwestern
Fort Dodge, Des Moines& Sogatra
Snyder Bros
Walden
Lockwood & Ashby
Auto Tax System Changes Sought by Iowa Officials
Iowa officials urge returning to annual license plates after three year tags raised revenue losses by 276423 dollars between 1914 and 1917. Secretary of State Allen notes many delinquent owners evading fees until April 1. Adjacent items discuss national policy backing President Wilson, state budget tweaks, and highway tax proposals.
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Dea Moines
W. S. ‘Allen
Stats
Allen
Fes
Poyer
Pres. Wilson
Moore
Byington
Ganate
Iowa
Iowa Bs
United States
Adj
Guy E. Logan
Excellent Returns From the Canadian Wheat Crop
The article highlights prosperous settlers in Western Canada such as Mr. CG Lacy and WJ Winstead as examples of profitable farming. It cites large yields, livestock, and improvements, with profits from wheat, oats, and flax, including figures like 7,000 bushels of No 1 Northern wheat and a claimed $6,000 clear profit from crops and stock. It attributes success to intelligent farming and provides additional anecdotes and earnings benchmarks.
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Canada
Cg, Lacy
Winconski
Alberta
Lacy
J. Winstead
Brooks
J. Iuive
Darley
Alex. Wattle
Wattie
Most Powerful Drug of All Is Happiness
The Christian Register notes happiness as the strongest drug, highly contagious and purchasable in many forms. Some distrust its gentleness, but properly disguised with duty it can be administered widely, affecting the giver more than the receiver.
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Christian Register
Glass surfaces and stress under polarized light study
The article discusses welded glass and related processes, detailing polarized light tests to reveal internal stresses. It describes temperature control to avoid distortion, stress indicators, and the behavior of different glass types under heating and pressure.
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Wit Bs
Tarker
Duthie
Faraday Society of London
Pleasantest Things Parade in Thought and Art
A reflective note exploring the idea that the finest joys arise from pleasant thoughts and the best art lies in leaving things untouched by excess. The author muses on restraint and simplicity as sources of enduring beauty.
Those Awful Gramps Point to Lydia Pinkham’s Remedy
Marysville Pennsylvania woman writes of twelve years of terrible cramps and monthly bed rest, credits Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with relief, praising its effects and recommending it to others, citing healing for irregular periods backache and indigestion. Letters offer free advice from Lydia Pinkham Medicine Co. Only women may write.
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Lydia Pinkham
Lothera
Lydia BL. Pinkham
Lydia Pinkham Medicine Co
Mass
Temple sermon forecasts US president win and world peace
In a London Temple Church sermon at the Law Court area, the master urged prayers for a probable US president and for divine guidance over the coming four years. He referenced Lord George as chosen to heal England’s wounds, strengthen the realm, and win a lasting peace, leaving Brethren to reflect in prayer.
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Iis
Doeter Wilyon Tuid
United States
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Batteret
Welahiman
Its Nature and a Lens Camera in a Family Tale
A witty exchange questions whether the sugar industry is an orderly occupation as one character jokes that “people engaged In It are always raising cane.” The piece notes a recent invention permits a single lens camera to lure a stereoscopic picture, while comments on a wife’s output to the family exchequer and its importance to the husband’s moment.
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