Changes in Iowa auto laws enacted by Fortieth General Assembly
The Fortieth General Assembly set new automobile rules including half refunds of license fees for stolen, fire damaged, or sold vehicles and refunds due after January 1 following loss. Fees may drop if car prices fall and manufacturers must notify the department to adjust registrations. A section on stolen or abandoned cars requires officer notification and owner claims within forty days before sale.
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Fortieth General Assembly
Walter Ramsay
Motor Vehicle Department
Six Month Claim to Funds and Drastic DUI Penalty
A legal notice discusses a six month window for reclaiming a fund with proof of ownership and a tightened DUI penalty allowing fines up to 1000 dollars or a year in jail or both. It notes a bus and freight truck tax administered by railway authorities, taking effect July 4. The piece shifts to a poetic tribute describing a village paper's arrival and the broadening world inside its pages.
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Neral Fund
Secretary of State
Board of Railway Commissioners
Dad The Silent Partner in the Home
A reflective portrait of fathers as steady providers who bear the costs and duties of family life from furnishing and cooking to paying bills. The piece notes dads’ faults yet underlines their quiet reliability, likening them to a hay wagon and a cherished, even musical, presence at home.
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Dad
AT MY SHOE REPAIR CONVENTION CITY SHOES SHOP
By Paul Larkin the shoe repairer narrator attends a convention in Beau Town May and notes humorous and sharp social observations. He mentions fights with cigarette smokers, hints of marital tension over Mary and her cigarette brother Jim Froglegs, and plans to hire a glamorous helper to boost business while joking about authority and future changes at the shop.
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Paul Larkin
Beau Town
Wantasket Beach
Mary
Jim Froglegs
Maury
Deacon Smith
Times Reporter Buys Car On A Note In Graettinger
The Times reporter met Calvin Gammon in Graettinger and said he paid for a new Goverland car with a note to Jensen Auto Company. The roads between Graettinger and Emmetsburg were poor last spring delaying travel for county court business. A couple and their three children sought a marriage license from E M Thompson, clerk of court, who approved it after hearing the road conditions.
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Tracy
Minnesota
McBride
Osborne
Lamour Bros
Fairbaull
Sherburn
Fens
Thirtln
Finnie & Duff ‘Times
the Times
Graettinger
Calvin Gammon
Emmetsburg
Emmetsbuisg
E. M. Thompson
Thompson
Quaint Ad Reveals A Century Of Change In Prices And Habits
A Denver Leichhardt Fruit Co price list recalls "Thirty Years Ago" with 10 cent butter and 3 dozen eggs for 25 cents, plus notes on liver giveaways, child wages, and public morals then contrasts with modern habits such as cars, golf, cinema, and nightly drinking. The piece satirically contrasts past frugality and Victorian norms with present excess and social debates.
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Leichhardt Fruit Company
Denver
Butler
Teer
Volks
Republitans
1 200 In Amies Summer School At Tows State College
More than 1,200 students join the summer session at Town State College according to figures soon after opening. Registrations will push the total higher and exceed last year’s. Also reported are agricultural notes on late seeding of legumes, rose slug infestation, and general farming tips from Ames extension staff.
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Amies-Summer School
Tows State College
Farm Cropa Department
Town State College
Iowa State College
Thistle Control By Two Week Cutting And Salt Use
The farm crops department at Iowa State College endorses cutting thistles every two weeks as an effective eradication method. They also recommend applying salt around each plant when sheep are available, as sheep will target the roots and effectively destroy the thistles.
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Frum Crops Department
Iowa State College
Digest of odd quotes and stray notes from an older era
A string of satirical, fragmentary lines covers diverse topics: Egypt’s path to a constitution after ill health linked to Cleopatra, archeologists digging Hittite remains, jokes about car owners and language, claims about types of people, a cryptic discussion on lying in groups, debate over insanity discourse in jail, a 102-year-old Mexican woman quitting smoking, a dubious machine diagnosis, skewed statistics about women, magazine covers and a Danish actress on wedding rings becoming obsolete.
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Europe
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the Graetyinger Times
John J. Sullivan
Fox Lake Park
Sherburn, Minn
City Shoes Shop
Emmetsboro
Tay
Fame
Humboldt Republican
Ames
Egypt
Cleopatra
Caesar
America
Seilan
Toledo
Jensen Auto Company
Blue Earth, Minn. Vs
Arrmstrong
Hand’s Park
AL Gabel
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
E. R. Hand
Prop
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