New Iowa Laws Take Effect After Independence Day
The Thirty third general assembly enacts sweeping changes. Primary ballots rotate candidate names. judges and clerks are exempt from jury lists. dentists avoid service. Jurors earn 2.50 daily. No minor smoking after Independence Day. search warrants for contraband cigarettes allowed. End of public school fraternities and secret societies. first cousins cannot wed. Police and fire pension bureaus permitted. Compulsory education for deaf and blind children begins. Dependent soldier and sailor tax rises to one mill. Counties may fund hospitals. county funds must earn interest. Employers must verify minor age. age over 14 required. Drinking on trains banned. Saloons limited to one per 1000 inhabitants in multi city areas. Hotel inspections require sanitary and safety standards. Optometrists noted in text.
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Iowa
Thirty-third General Assembly
Mills County National Bank Charter and 1909 Report
Mills County National Bank of Glenwood Iowa closes its June 23 1909 report of condition. Figures list resources including loans and discounts real estate owned and deposits with state and national banks. Cashier A D French swears the statement true. notarization by E H Herrick dated June 24 1908.
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Charter Nuamber
Mills County National Bank
AL Glenweed
Iowa
U.S
Nat'l
LiApinasins
Burpine Fund
State of
County of Mills
D. French
A.D. French
H. Herrick
Rural laws and state college name changes noted
The text lists requirements for professional certificates and rural laws. It defines a lawful fence as three rails not less than six inches wide and three-quarters of an inch thick. The Cedar Falls Normal School is renamed State Teachers' College and old county poor farms become County Homes.
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State Normal School
Cedar Falls
State Teachers’ College
Iowa Hunters Must Carry State Licenses Next Week
Iowa hunters will need a state license starting next Monday with fees set at one dollar for residents and ten dollars for nonresidents. Licenses are non transferrable and printed on durable paper backed with cloth. The back lists open seasons for many game species and warns of prohibited actions such as hunting quail on highways, shooting from watercraft at night, hunting on cultivated lands without owner permission, and killing song birds.
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Iowa
Criswell
Real estate transfers in Pacific Junction and Glenwood
Transfers show CF Reisterer and D Zerger trading lot 384 Pacific Junction and a reverse swap on another Pacific Junction parcel. Glenwood deeds move Lot 6 Block 74 to M E Calendeyham and Lot 10 Block 76 to M E Roland. Hastings and Emerson parcels involve Hutchings and J R Jones transferring shares and lots.
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Reisterer
Zerger
Pacific Junction
F_ Reisterer
Pacific Junctioon
Stillwagon
Calendeyham
Lord
Glenwood
Marshall
Roland
Glenawoaé
Hutching
S B Hutchings
Hastings
J R Jones
Ida Steen
Emerson
The Fourth of July and the Boy’s Rising Shine
The poem celebrates a boy in charge of the Fourth of July festivities. It traces Liberty’s bell, rebellion’s refrain, and the nation’s birthday spirit through a youthful, riotous, age old tradition. The piece honors the younger generation as the stage is set for a day of no restraint and national pride.
Valley Forge Restored in 1909 Public Park
Valley Forge is being restored as a public park with Fort Washington and Fort Huntington rebuilt, a 105 foot observation tower on Mount Joy, an Episcopal chapel where Washington prayed, the Isaac Potts house turned into a revolutionary museum, and new roads, lawns, and a guard house enhancing the historic site above the Schuylkill. The work, led by the Valley Forge Park commission, transforms years of neglect into a national monument shared by Pennsylvanians and the nation.
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Valley Forge
Penn
Sylvania
Pennsylvania
Valley Forge Park Commission
Schuylkill
Washington
Germantown
Fort Washington
Fort Huntington
Mount Joy
Philadelphia
Episcopal Church
Isaac Potts
Confederate Memorials Proposed by United Daughters
The United Daughters of the Confederacy plan two projects a Shiloh battlefield monument to Confederate soldiers and a memorial in the Confederate section of Arlington National Cemetery to honor Southern soldiers buried there.
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United Daughters of the Confederacy
Shiloh
National Cemetery
Arlington
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Mills County
Nat'l, Bank
C. W. Rathre
H. H. Caeyney
L. Herxs Heimen
Shirley Gillilland
Prest
E. R. Herrick
Secy
Louis Roenfeld
Mineola
Theodore Schoeninog
Ferdinand Miller
J. B. Jackson's
Cain
Sasseen
Young South
Young North
Kellogg
United States
B. W. Crossley
Iowa State Agricultural College
Ames
P. G. Holden
Iowa State College, and Associates
Holden
Iowa State College
Kellogg's
Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake CO
Battle Creek, Mich
Glenwoo
Elebrates
Court House Park
Sargents Family Shoe
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