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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1900
Page
3
Working women are invited to write to Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham for confidential health advice about painful periods backaches or other common female ailments. Her Vegetable Compound is promoted as a trusted remedy supported by widespread endorsement and availability in English speaking regions.
Historical advertisement style notice praising Magnetic Starch and Hulls Catarrh Cure. Includes endorsements by West Truax and Walling Kinnan Marvin, Toledo wholesale druggists, with claims of cure and a one hundred dollar reward for uncurable catarrh. Also mentions Walter Baker recipes and general promotion of cleaning products.
A detailed Iowa Senate and House review covers mixed bills in March sessions. Bills discussed include funding for Mount Mensant patients, tax and education measures, liquor laws, and library commissions. Key actions include passage of tax related and educational bills, constitutional ballot separation proposals, and a library commission plan with broad duties and bipartisan leadership aims.
House actions include the Hyers bill allowing mutual insurance companies to insure against accidents and the Edwards bill increasing penalties for selling intoxicating liquor to minors or intoxicated persons, as currently attached to sale regulations.
The Iowa House advanced bills on building and loan management and consolidating the miscellaneous state library with the historical library. The measures included raises for the state librarian and historical building curator, and a plan to fund completion of the state historical building. A library tax exemption for small cities was debated. other actions included court and tax bills and a suffrage debate with a large, vocally engaged crowd.
Today’s sessions moved several measures to vote including establishing a library commission in Iowa and creating a woman’s reformatory. Reports on sales and mortgages by executors and administrators were presented as part of the day’s business.
In the Iowa legislature discussions covered bills to curb operations of lodging houses using explosive materials, raise salaries at the Soldiers Orphans Home, and restructure prison guard pay. Debates also touched on a reform for corporate voting power, a proposed woman's reformatory at Anamosa, and state aid for high schools while considering bills on bank trusts acting as executors.
Legislature moves to submit constitutional amendments on separate ballots from candidates. House judiciary panel reports a Temple bill to establish a three member appellate court to aid the state supreme court and handle minor business. The measure is reported favorable and will be drafted for passage.
A Cape Town appeal by Africander and Bond MPs urges aid to Boer widows and orphans in the war. George W. Van Siclen of New York, American Treasurer, quotes from Hancock and calls Americans to contribute through C. C. de Villiers in Cape Town. The missive cites 1776 and 1812 to justify aid and notes past donations.
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