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Newspaper
Iowa Citizen
Location
Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1903
Page
2
The Iowa Citizen is identified as published by the Iowa Citizen Publishing Company and notes its status as a second class entry with post office registration in Iowa City.
A Chicago rail rate advocate lectures Iowa City editors on freight costs and government controls. The piece flags bias, questions the educator’s motives, and argues railway self regulation undermines public trust while urging caution against railroad led education schemes.
The notice mandates that all stops starts and irregularities of delivery be reported directly to the office. Reports to carriers are often overlooked by the messenger, so all business must be transacted at the office.
The city council reporter notes the finance and buildings committee urged an immediate move to create a public park and the Commercial Club petition. A resolution was approved to prepare a bond election for purchasing a park, with work to begin promptly if established this summer.
The sewer committee recommended accepting J L Berry’s bid for the College Street sewer and rejecting Wm Horrabin’s. Resolutions authorize plans for a sewer south of the railroad and north of Kirkwood, plus purchase of storm water inlets. Ordinances establish grades on Court Street and College Street as needed for new conditions from the interurban. Bid advertising for I Madison Street sewer is approved.
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