Des Moines Letter on State Printing Inquiry and Code Bills
The Des Moines letter reports two partisan House committees on state printer and binder findings. The majority faults officers for excessive, unwarranted charges and urges contract work. the minority accuses incomplete inquiry and misdated cost figures. Also noted: progress on code bills, physicians act, fish and game law, railroad and banking measures, and other passed bills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
State Printer
State Binder
House
Lambert
Jay
Smith
Temple
Brant
State Printing Office
Messrs. Temple and
General Assembly
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Geological Survey
State Board of Health
Department of Public Instruction
State University
Agricultural College
Normal School
Orphans’ Home
Institute For Feeble Minded
College For Blind
Industrial Home For Blind
School Fund
State Historical Society
Senate
Dairy Commission
Educational Board of Examiners
Iowa
Jackson
Executive Council
District Court
Polk County
Building and Loan Association
State Board of Medical Examiners
Fish and Game Law
Insomnia Cure Told By Wise Doctor And Brutus Reply
A humorous moral mix links insomnia remedies from a doctor who attributes it to excess brain blood and Brutus explaining the assassination aid as a political surgical operation. The exchange underscores health advice and a dramatic historical allusion in a single page snippet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cresar
Boswell
Brutus
Harper's Bazar
Balaam’s Journey to Curse Israel Endangers Seer’s Path
In a dramatic biblical episode Balak asks Balaam to curse Israel after Balak’s fear of a vast encamped people. God forbids the curse, Balak offers gold, and Balaam initially resists until God permits him to speak only what is commanded. An angel confronts Balaam on the road as his donkey speaks and Balaam receives divine sight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Temple
Railway Committee
Senate
Berry
Relief Department
Garst
Hobart
Moab
Jericho
Balak
Aseer
Pethor
Balaam
Israel
Egypt
Buid
Balam
Lord
Colic Cure and Teething Remedies Promote Quick Baby Relief
Advertisement style brief highlights Dr Hand's Colic Cure for immediate baby relief by removing wind and calming nerves, plus Dr Hand's Teething Lotion for sore gums. Mentions honey olive oil wine remedy for cough and DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve for piles and skin diseases, plus a Croup cure and ocean salt fact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turner
Compton
DeWitt
J. H. Bacher & Co
Dr Hand's Colic Cure Praised By Happy Mother
Navoneon C Hand Medicine Co promotes Dr Hand's Colic Cure with a testimonial from Mrs Arthur Simmons praising relief for her three week old baby's colic after using nearly three bottles. The ad notes Dr Hand's remedies for children sold by druggists at 25 cents. Also cites DeWitts Little Early Risers and One Minute Cough Cure for grippe and cough. It mentions a Wisconsin county workhouse reduced tramp population from 1500 to 75 per month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navoneon, C
Dr. Hand
J. H. Bacher & Co
Humorous Snippets and Patented Cures From Old Newspapers
A collage of quips and medical ads shows quick wits about child medicine, a weather joke, a cough cure tout, and DeWitt’s remedies. Names like J. H. Bacher & Co and Miss Junta Camp appear with brief endorsements for patent medicines and small pills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DeWitt
J. H. Bacher & Co
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Moxie State Bank
National Bank
Farwell
B. M. Hicks
H. M. Carpenter
D. E. Pond
North America
Hartford
North British and Mercantile
Pennsylvania
New York
Eagle Drug Store
A. Kempf
Deutsche Apotheke
Our News Depot
West First Street
Bateman & Millholen
Addeed RN & CO
Attor- Heyd
Washington, D. C
Henry C. Boulken
Hicks & Eilers’ Dry Goods
Bees
Monticellos
Chicago and
Bast
Omaha
Sioux City
Cedar Rapids
St.Paul
Minneapolis
Davenport
Farley
Oxford Junction
Temple Amendment
Senate Committee On Printing
Hotchkiss
Julien Richards
Moses
Rev
E. G. Waith
Nile
Augustus
Europe
United States
Detroit Free Press
Winnebago County
Wisconsin
Castoria
Nature
Lowell
The
Inter Ocean
West
Chicago
Alleghany Mountains
Monroe Street
IS Evoc
Undertakers
D. J. Drewer
Justice
U. 8. Supreme Court
Gov't Printing Office
Supreme Courts
Wormuily
International
Globe
Chicago Times-Herald
G. & C. Merriam Co
Springfield
Mass
U.S.A
Chicago Tribune
New York Press
Watts
Alabama
Miss Junta Camp
Monticello, Towa
Life Insurance
Register Life
State
O. R. Ricker
Illinois Central
R. R
Homeseekers
Ulinois
Iowa Falls
Cairo
Illinois
Wenona
Ill
Centralia
Indiana
Cedar Falls
Ilinois
Iowan Falls
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