Irrigation Promise Boosts Idaho Prosperity Say Idaho Soils Reward Farmers
An ex private letter extols Snake River valley irrigation in Idaho as a model for farming west of the Mississippi. It claims drought proof crops, high yields of wheat and barley, superior fruits, and rapid land takeup under irrigation. The writer cites 3,000,000 arable acres, canals, and Oregon Short Line efforts to recruit eastern farmers, urging relocation to the West for certainty and wealth.
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Iowa Senate and House Adjoin Over Farm Bills Action
The Iowa Senate and House adjourned amid debate on rural mail extension and school site bonds. Bills advanced covered agriculture department creation, defense of land for depots, venue changes for nonresidents, and library funding while amendments shaped tax and school book funding.
Stormy House Session Fails to Quorum and Adjourns
House records a forenoon stalemate as a roll call prompts a pages search and arrival of four new members, yielding a bare quorum but no business. A motion to adjourn passes while measures on storm windows, surety bonds, maternal beneficiary society laws, and tax warrants face minimal action. Carr moves a bill for Australian ballot use in school elections.
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Finch
State Board of Health
Harriman
Department of Agriculture
Milliman
Naton
Mitchell
Hughes
Stallcop
Prentty
State House Passes Long List of Civil and Library Bills
Committees vote unanimously on Buchanan and Chan an bills. Buchanan’s library reform consolidates the miscellaneous state library with the State Historical Library and raises the state librarian salary to 2000 while the historical building curator earns 1600. Other measures include tax authority for small-city libraries, court-approval bills, safeguards on gas in lodging houses, raises for Soldiers Orphans Home superintendent, and pay raises and grading for penitentiary guards with a vacation allotment. Cheshire’s bill to curb city gambling passes. Ward relief bill indefinitely postponed. Bussey legalizing act.
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Cheshire
James P. Ward
Bussey
Marion County
Legislative Notes on Senate Action and Bills
The senate committee on cities and towns favors the Hayward bill letting taxpayers sit as jurors in damages suits against public corporations. A companion measure would raise the governor’s salary from 4100 to 6100. No joint convention is planned before committees finish their printing and binding work. The Will by Cowles passed, clarifying presidential electors are elected from the state at large. The Penrose railroads bill gains rights to condemn property for right of way and depots. Attorney General Remley argues voting machines yield ballot votes. a writt en report is sought. Three insurance bills pass House committee, led by Prentis on regulation of stipulated premium companies. A sub-committee drafts a bill to liquidate building and loan companies. Healy, Mullan, Bachman, and Mardis on the sub committee. Wilding and loan bills sent to sub-committees. expect radical building and loan legislation.
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Waukegan church spire banned by court decree
An old church in Waukegan Wisconsin lacks a steeple after a court order forbade construction. In 182 a severe storm wrecked a neighboring house and the injunction against adding a spire has stood for thirty eight years.
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Wiks
Actress Attalie Claire Objects to Secret Divorce Trial
In Goshen Indiana a divorce suit by her husband Wind is set for trial. Attalie Claire objects claiming she does not know the town, doubts there is a daily paper, and insists on publicity to value advertising for the case.
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Parisian Paint Renown Sparks Society Acknowledgment
Fresh Valu notes Parisian papers applaud a perpetual rouge pot tradition. The public acknowledgment marks a shift in fashion and society’s view of a long standing dye trend in metropolitan circles.
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Society of the Prenel Metropolis
Enormous 2 Million Dollar Diamond to Star at Paris Exposition
A 2,000,000 Plymouts diamond from Miiim berley will be displayed in the Paris exposition jewelry section. Found shortly before the war began, it is insured for $2,000,000 and approved for exhibit beside famed rulers such as the Regent, the Shah, the Grand Mogul, and the Kuh-l-uoor.
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Miiimberley
Shah
Immigration Pamphlets Promote Western Canada Settlement
The Canadian Pacific Railway Company markets two 1900 pamphlets, Western Canada and British Columbia, detailing information about the country west of Lake Superior for prospective settlers in the Northwest or British Columbia. Large editions are distributed gratis in Great Britain, the United States, and the Dominion, with readers seeking a new home. For copies contact J Francia Lee Gent Agt Pass Dept 228 S Clark St Chicago Ill.
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British Columbia
Lake Superior
Canadian Northwest
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United States
Dominion
J. Francia Lee
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Chicago
Ill
War foresight praised and urged farm buys in Wisconsin
The piece extolls Boer wartime prudence and urges readers to imitate it by securing farms in Marinette County Wisconsin near the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul line. It touts rich crops, plentiful work, markets, climate, soft water, and cheap long term land with a leaselike purchase. Address O B Rollins Land Agent Chicago IL.
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Chicago, Milwaukee
O. B. Rollins
la Salle St
Chicago
Train Consists of Thirty Three Steel Cars and Thirty Seven Wooden Cars
The Pittsburg Post reports a Le high Valley Railroad train drawn by a single engine earlier this week carried thirty three steel cars at 100 600 pounds capacity and thirty seven wooden cars at 80 000 pounds capacity. Fully loaded, the seventy cars weighed 4 567 net tons.
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