New Nursing Regulations Adopted by State Board of Health
The Iowa State Board of Health enacted strict rules for graduate nurses requiring examination and a certificate to practice. Certificates may be issued to long-time nurses without exam for a $5 fee, while new entrants face tests in hygiene, anatomy, physiology, materia medica, dietetics, nursing practice, obstetrics, pediatrics, and regulations. Certificates must be registered with the county recorder and can be revoked for violation. fines apply.
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State Board of Health
Des Moines
Cummins Vows to Enforce Law in Davenport Address
Governor Albert B. Cummins spoke to large audiences in Davenport urging officials to uphold laws, punish wrongdoing, and suppress noncompliant saloons. He defended his stance against press misrepresentation and said the state must use lawful methods to enforce order. He noted he ordered the National Guard to halt a prize fight, awaiting tribunal review of conduct.
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Cummins
Davenport
Albert B. Cummins
Curtis Opera House
Order of Elks
First Presbyterian Church
National Guard
Wireless vision fuels future tech promises
A clipped editorial note argues wireless telegraphy excites, yet true progress awaits a broader wireless system to usher in a new millennium. The piece underscores optimism about emerging communications while hinting at longer-term breakthroughs.
Roosevelt's Annual Message Read In Congress
The president's annual message was read in both houses with little other business. The galleries filled at the start and thinned as the reading went on, lasting about two and a quarter hours in each chamber. The speech urged sound money and an emergency currency with government guarantees.
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Roosevelt
Washington, D. C
Congress
Senate
House
Railways may need national charter or licensing law
The speaker argues for a national corporation act or a law licensing railways to engage in interstate commerce under defined conditions. This position emphasizes regulatory oversight to govern railroad operations across state lines.
Government control of railroads and justice in commerce
The national government asserts it must fully control interstate commerce to ensure just treatment by railroads. Without that authority, delivering or obtaining full justice remains impossible under current powers.
Call for Federal Legislation on Interstate Commerce Control
The speaker argues for added legislation to regulate large interstate commerce enterprises. The aim is to benefit these businesses, investors, and the public by establishing proper controls and safeguards.
Immorality in Statute Law on Public Morality
A critic argues it is profoundly immoral to keep on the statute books a law framed as public morality yet penalizing honest men who must act under modern business conditions. The quote frames law as restricting necessary conduct for legitimate commerce.
Pro-Trust Reform Urges Efficiency and Public Benefit Alignment
A historic stance calls for keeping anti-trust laws intact while reforming to boost efficiency. It argues that prohibitions should target only actions that injure the public and allow combinations that overall benefit society.
Proposes Aims in Anti-Trust Legislation
The draft outlines targets to curb unhealthy competition including selling at a loss to crush rivals, inflation of capital, and prohibiting a corporation from conditioning any trade on exclusive dealings with itself.
Risky speculation endangers citizens and economy
The text warns that mortgaging homes to buy autos and reckless speculation by aspirants to wealth jeopardizes honest neighbors and unsettles the entire business community, risking widespread panic and distress.
No Sympathy for Socialist Ideas Challenging Private Property
A speaker decries socialist notions that equate laziness with industry arguing it would destroy private property and the home, the core support of civilization. The remarks frame the home as vital to social order and economic success.
Reforming Criminal Justice Aims At Balance Between Law and Public Opinion
A columnist argues that past complaints about prosecuting wealthy offenders have faded. He cites sentimentality and technicality as the two main evils in modern criminal law. The remedy lies with legislatures courts and lawyers for technicality and with growing sound public opinion for sentimentality.
Protection and Tariffs in a Growing Nation
The speaker asserts firm commitment to the protective tariff system while urging periodic scrutiny to prevent excessive or improper benefits, ensure revenue, and encourage foreign trade amid the country’s phenomenal growth.
The Currency Question Message to Congress
The message discusses the currency question and calls attention to currency laws. It notes the national bank has ably served a great purpose in aiding the enormous business development of the nation.
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Congress
Currency reform urged to prevent business disaster
A long review calls for immediate currency elasticity and a safe, automatic banking system. It argues for emergency currency backed by securities and heavy taxation, plus tighter supervision of national banks and trust companies. The piece notes disparities in rates across regions and warns against speculative folly.
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Secretary of the Treasury
New York
United States
Treasury
Canada
Chicago
Congress
District of Columbia
Territories
Railroads Slow Under Two-Cent Law Slugging Mail Speeds
The two-cent-a-mile law slows lightning trains across two-cent states. Omaha businessmen now wait two days for Chicago replies. The government plans mail contracts testing five railroads between Chicago and Omaha, with a one million dollar award to the winner.
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Omaha
Chicago
Miss Ward to speak on child life at Fairfield event
Miss Florence E. Ward supervisor of the kindergarten department at State Normal Cedar Falls will speak in Fairfield Wednesday December 11 at 2 30 p m in the Franklin building kindergarten room on children and child life. Admission is free and all interested are invited.
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Florence E. Ward
State Normal
Cedar Falls
Fairfield
Franklin Building
Chorus Girl Fends Off Peeping Intruder In Harlan Hotel
A night-time peek by a man at a chorus girl from the transom led her to grab a revolver and pursue him. The man vanished through a two story window as hotel patrons aided the pursuit, leaving his identity unresolved.
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Harlan
Harlan, Ia
Babes In Toyland
Double Wedding at Glasgow Iowa in 1907
In Glasgow Iowa on Wednesday evening November 27 1907 a double wedding was held at the home of Mr and Mrs Foster Harter. Ralph Harter wed Minnie Peck and Royal Stanley wed Ethel Harter with Rev J Lee performing the ceremony at four o'clock. The brides wore pink chrysanthemums and received congratulations as the couples began their new lives together.
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Glasgow
Foster Harter
Ralph Harter
Minnie Peck
Royal Stanley
Ethel Harter
Rev. J. Lee
Wedding Dinner Serves Life Ditching Co Groom
Mr and Mrs Harter hosted a wedding dinner for the couple at the dining room and the groom is employed by Life Ditching Company. The newlyweds will reside on a farm near Stockport with their families nearby.
City Health Board Orders End To Public Cup For Children
The Des Moines City Board of Health ordered discontinuation of the public cup and required a separate towel for each person. Drinking must be from individual cups kept clean between uses. The order takes effect immediately.
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City Board of Health
Des Moines
Blind banker’s cashier vows to fight fate in Des Moines
NovaM Flanagan, cashier at the First National Bank of Will Be Blind, Iowa, has attempted suicide, leaving him completely blind. Doctors in Des Moines report blindness is permanent, though he hopes to endure life’s struggle and regain some function.
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Ke Peasantville
Novam Flanagan
Firstional Bank
Merritt
Des Moines
Flanagan
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