Lawmakers kill legalized boxing measure in Iowa House
Des Moines Iowa March 21 The Lake bill to legalize professional boxing in Iowa failed 59 to 1 in the Iowa House defeating the measure for this session Ministers opposed its passage fearing relaxation of law though some army chaplains supported it Opponents said soldiers return would revive the fight. The House also defeated Senate amendments on Attorney General Havner state agent department funding and discussed school consolidation reform. A Mussels bill passed the House licensing mussel catchers and opening or closing streams, with a prior Senate approval. Cities may establish community centers in city owned buildings without voter referenda.
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Des Moines
Fla
Lake
Iowa
House of Representatives
Friends
Public Utilities Board
State Railway Commission
Senate
Iowa Senate
Havner
House
Dean Dri
Smith
Winterset
Hook
Winneshiek County
Library Boards of Trustees
Findlay
Webster
Siory
Hansen
Senator Whitmore
Mooty
Legislative notes shape city welfare and taxes in Iowa
A stream of bills from Des Moines to Polk county reshapes sewer authority for Des Moines and Valley Junction, cuts predator bounties, reins in Spanish influenza quarantines, and tightens library reporting. Other measures affect mayoral voting in special charter cities, river commissions oversight, rabbit hunting bans, and Des Moines bond authorizations.
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Weaver
Polk County
Des Moines
Valley Junction
Neff
For Sale Classified Listings in Chippewa Falls Column
A dense block of for sale and rent notices including livestock hens and eggs pork, a 5 room house with barn, farm goods, furniture, two mobile homes, and real estate. Items list phones and owners such as Loren White Ed Quillen John J. Black H. Stark Ruth Gonterman Lon H Israel A L King with locations in Chippewa Falls and surrounding areas.
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Loren White
Triumph
North Court St
Stark
Buick
North Fourth St
Holcombs
For Rent: Multiple Houses and Rooms Listed
Several rental notices appear: a four room house west of the R I depot on Broadway with furnished light housekeeping rooms, a four room house on West Stone Street with furnished rooms, and a good eight room house four blocks from the square at 203 North D Street with a large garden asking 16 dollars. Additional listings include two modern furnished light housekeeping or sleeping rooms at 410 Hempstead, phone 984-21, a six room cottage on 8th Bt in good condition via W A Magen, phone 7107.
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West Kirkwood
W. B. Holcomb
E. Burlington
Square
E. Burlington St
R. I
Broadway
West Stone Street
A. J. Boyd
North D. St
L. Spry
Hempsted
W. A. Magen
Wanted ads from the Journal classified page
A series of early 20th century classified ads seeks housing and work. Items include a couple seeking a room in a modern house, a girl and boy over 17 for steady work, two young men renting furnished rooms with piano, breeders for hens, Liberty Bonds for a South Second Street building lot, a second cook for Ballard Hall, an office worker for M, care of the Journal, sweet cream buyers at premium, plus a sales position at John Sexton & Co offering large earnings with no experience required.
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Journal Office
Liberty Bonds
South Second Street
Ballard Hall
John Sexton & Co
Illinois St
Chicago
Ill
Lost Cameo Brooch and Mark Twain Paradise Mention
Lost cameo brooch between square and C B and Q depot. Finder please leave at Journal office. Mention of Mark Twain's Hawaii trip in Roughing It. Hawaii called Mark Twain's Paradise. References to Kanaka decline and intermarriage, and to A Daughter of the Sun play at the Orpheum tonight.
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Square
C. B. & Q Depot
Journal Office
Mark Twain
Hawaiian Islands
Blessed Isles
Lorin Howard
Ralph ". Kettering
Affiliated Productions Co
Orpheum
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Messer
Johnson County
van Camp
McFarlane
Rathbun
Harding
Ball
People's Column
Ruth Gonterman
Fairfield
North Court Street
Lon H
Israel
A. L. King
Logan School
L. H. Alexander
L. Louis Vance
Doris Kenyon
the Inn of the
Blue Moon
Call Journal
Kimona
Ladies Union
Mens Mesh
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