Money for Schools Iowa Board to Manage Special Tax Funds
The Iowa Legislature advanced a bill to allocate a $728,950 package for three state institutions. Iowa State University receives $330,000 for educational and library support, building and grounds, and equipment. Iowa State College at Ames gets $242,600 for multiple programs and facilities, while the State Teachers College at Cedar Falls is allotted $6,250 for various funds. A five-year one fifth of a mill levy for the college and universitys and a tenth of a mill for the teachers college fund the levies. The state board of education will oversee the funds with restrictions on new building spending without general assembly or executive council approval.
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Des Moines
Iowa
State University
Iowa State College
Iowa State Teachers’ College
House
Senate
Benster Mattes
Moore
Iowa State University
Et Ames
State Teachers’ College
State College
Ames
Iowa City
Cadar Walls
Francis
O'Connor
Chickasaw
General Assembly
Executive Council
State Board of Education
State Highway Department Bill Aims Road Control
A bill introduced in the Iowa House by Representative Court of Allamakee proposes creating a state highway department and commission, appointing a state highway engineer, and funding road work with a one quarter mill property levy. The commission would include the deans of engineering and agriculture and a governor appointee. the engineer could hire assistants and issue permits for digging up highways. State reformatories workers may aid on roads at no county cost.
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Des Moines
State Highway Commission
Representative Court
Allamakee County
Menaura
Iowa State Colege
Iowa State College
State Reformatory
Seasonable Dishes and Cereal Cooking Tips Roundup
A handy guide highlights seasonable dishes such as Macedoine Salad Appledore Bean Soup and Swedish Meat Balls with tomato sauce. It emphasizes long, slow cooking of cereals, benefits of a double boiler, and the fireless cooker for better flavor and digestibility, with practical notes on rice oats and corn preparation.
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Rica
Eggs in Salads and Dressings Highlight Simple Cures
The article extols eggs as versatile for Lenten meals and salads. It describes serving ideas with hard boiled eggs, lettuce, sardines, and various dressings. It also lists egg based dishes such as Eggs a’ la Livingstone and multiple dressing options including English, sour cream, East Indian, and a cream sauce, with preparation notes.
Roast Ham with Cider Sauce and Delicacy Notes
A historical recipe segment outlines Bank a 32 pound ham in water overnight, simmer four hours with cider added later, then skin removal and sugar crumb coating. Includes cider sauce with ham liquor, Touraine Cabbage with watercress and French dressing, Oyster Stew with mace and hot milk, and Salted Pecans fried in olive oil with cayenne.
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Touraine
London horse bus driver jokes with passenger
The conductor tells the driver a man wants to be dropped at a yellow domed house after the fourth lamp post. The driver replies in a broad London accent to ask the passenger which part of the house he’d like to enter with his family or up to his room in the attic.
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London
Ike
Appropriate Treatment for Youths Cited in Court
A judge notes criticisms that the youths are merely children and argues for careful, humane handling. The remarks emphasize restraint and protective measures in juvenile proceedings.
Tragedy of Gold and Sharon’s Empire Across San Francisco
A sweeping, lurid review links four murders three suicides and two disappearances to William Sharon and his vast San Francisco wealth. It traces Sharon’s rise from Nevada mines to senator, the El Dorado chase, and the deadly intrigues of allies and rivals including Ralston Terry Broderick and the Palace Hotel era. The piece notes fires after a Pacific coast earthquake consuming Sharon property and ends implicating Sharon’s heirs and connections.
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San Francisco
Frederick Iermor- Hesketh
Quasnstews
Ireland
Sharon
Hesketh
William Sharon
Crown Point
Bolcher
Nevada
William C. Ralston
Ralston
Samuel
Elberia
Fortyminer
Mia
Sarah Althea Hill
Enery
Zeal
David S. Terry
Terry
Musnce
California Supreme Court
David C. Broderick
Broderick
Stephan J. Weld
Sarah Alfhea TI
Justice Wield
Justice Meld
Field
Charles Livingston
Sharon’s
Palace Hotel
Livingston
Sarah Mitchell
Miss Mitchell
Senator Newlands
Florence Mily Sharon
Thomas George Fermory Heaketh
Leutenant
Lanelers
Pacific Coast
Spoke After Fifty Years and Dies in Indiana
Philip Burkhart of Indiana died at ninety after fifty years of silence. A Civil War era mental decline left him superstitious and he kept a gun with needles to ward off witches. Three days before his death he spoke once more, predicting he would die and did so within an hour.
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Ind
Philip Burkhart
Canada Leads at National Corn Exposition With $1500 Trophy
Canada dominated at the National Corn Exposition in Columbus Ohio winning the $4500 Colorado silver trophy for the best peck of oats grown by Hill & Son of Lingdminster Saskatchewan. Canadian entries earned multiple awards in wheat oats and barley with Alberta and Saskatchewan exhibits drawing notable prizes and diplomas.
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Columbus
Ohio
Canada
Colorado
Messrs. Hill & Son
Lingdminster
Saskatchewan
Spokane
Inet
Alberta
Hay
Cananda
Department of the Interiora
Tri-State Board of Examiners
Cincinpat
Surveyor-General of Canada
Domineian Lands Branch
North Dakota
Minnesota
South Dakota
Wisconsin
Washington
Michigan
Town
Delaware
District of Columbia
Indiana Territory
United States
Norman Cherry
Davia
G. HH. Hutton
Lacombe
J. C. Hnl & Sons
G. H. Hutton
Pompey’s Pearls and Teas Advertise Remedies in 19th Century Boston
A Boston Transcript excerpt markets Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets as a cure for constipation and Garfield Tea as a blood purifier. It promotes Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething with claims of soothing pain, reducing inflammation, and easing wind colic. The ad echoes period tone with moral quips and proverbs.
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Iowa State Board of Education
Linn County
Grout
Black Hawk
Bill Smith
Decatur
Constitutional Amendments Committee
State Highway Department
Representative Fourt
Allamakee
Malmberg
Railway Commission
Taylor
Appanoose
Sullivan
Sanunders
Mort. Bagees
S. BP
Francis—estabishing Public Utilities Commission
Webber
Notaries Public
Allen
Jefferson
State Board of Health
Limecountry
Towa Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home
College For the Blind
School For the
Institute
Fraley
Polk County
Jnc
Stone
John Y. Stone
Fulton
Genera Assembly
Lounsberry
Marshall
Goodykoontz
Fourt
Cowles
Burlington
Stephenson
Ringgold
Walth
Goomie
California
Boston Transcript
Pierce
Seneca
Are. Winslow
Garfield Tom
Iettaon On Corp
Deaye
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