Legislative notes on Iowa sessions and bills underway
The Iowa legislature faced a brief special session with a punitive mood toward absentees. Senator Banta proposed a Joint Whip Committee to move bills, while the House expanded a dragnet to curb chronic absence. Bills include marital eugenics provisions, gun permit rules, juror selection reforms, and disclosures on voting rights for office holding. The Senate and House debated taxes, tuition, labor, public safety, and infrastructure with adjournment planned for March 6.
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Iowa News Highlights and Developments
Guthris county hosts two advancing debate teams reaching semifinals in state and district contests. Des Moines opens first union bus depot serving Iowa points with independent lines. Fuller farm sale near Dows reports corn 69c a bushel hay 28 a ton cows to 70, chickens 260 for 260. Tama County road spending 44,894 in 1923, 17,000 more than prior year. Short course for electric machinery at Iowa State College March 10–14. State Teachers Association meets in Des Moines April 3–5. paving petition planned for Davenport to Des Moines via Muscatine county. Art critics hail capitol ceiling in secretary of state's office as finest decorating. Polk County approves primary road 7 contract about 160,000 to Wright Construction. Anamosa Indian word meaning young fox with unopened eyes. Nashua Farmers Creamery reports 255,673 pounds butter valued 154,780. total 155,331 with 1923 rise of 10 percent. Iowa hog shipping freight relief raises minimum to 16,500 pounds. Ten cows equal returns of grain on Grundy Center land per Dieken. Des Moines P T A backs repeal of Army Law of 1920. committee to lobby for repeal and militiam reduction. Radio growth fuels market and USDA Iowa State College broadcasts WOI for farmer information. North Iowa Sugar Co. restrained from dumping into Rock River. Highway relocation lowers Primary coach 2 distance by 12.5 miles, removing 12 railroad crossings and 31 right-angle turns.
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Beards as Symbol of Glory Across Ancient Cultures
Ancient peoples linked facial hair to status and virtue while shaving signified degradation. Assyrian kings wore beards, Egyptians shaved all hair, and Greeks and Romans often shaved to deny the foe power. Alexander the Great allegedly ordered soldiers to shave, with beards later grown only in mourning.
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Largest Ocean Waves Measured by French Naval Officer
A French naval officer recorded four series of ocean wave observations across the Atlantic Pacific and Indian Oceans. The Indian Ocean yielded the largest waves with thirty instances averaging 29 feet and a maximum height of 57 feet.
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African Ruler Creates Own Language for Officials
The Foumban king Njoya in the Cameroons reportedly devised a state tongue from French English and German. A French observer found European terms coded to new meanings used by the cabinet and senior administrators.
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Swiss School Attendance Fines for Absences
A public authority issues fines to parents when a child misses school, with penalties increasing daily. If illness excuses a pupil, a doctor may be sent. in a crisis, philosophical concerns rise as discipline becomes strained.
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